Week 6 Term 2

This week we have done a lot of writing. We have handed in our reports on penguins and we had to highlight the topic sentences, full stops, sentence starters, capital letters then fanboys and awubus words. We did that from notes that the teacher gave us, so we had to draw an animal or an insect from the box, you then take notes about that animal from the book and then write a report about it. I got a... pray mantis. Did you know if the male is not careful the female will eat him! Yuck!

On Tuesday was our first real lesson for tech arts in wood work and we have it again today. Our actual first lesson was on Friday but we just learnt about safety. Today we are going to finish our spinning tops. On Wednesday it was first response, and you could dress up as a fireman, or a police, or a doctor. If you didn't want to you could just come in your everyday clothes. I signed up for the gym sport team. It's when you have a routine and everybody does it, then the person with the most points overall on the beam, floor and vault.
Gotta go, bye!!

Week 5 Term 2

This week we have learnt a lot! I know, I know, I say that every week but its true. We have started new reading, writing, tech arts, maths and french tasks. For reading we read a short story about an animal that we had to guess what it was through the story. It was about a intelligent rat, called Barney, who had a plan to get rid of his owner and take over the world. He was kept in a cage so when he was let out he grabbed the key and threw it down a well. His owner, of course, went down to fetch it but the rat nibbled threw the rope ladder and killed the man. At the end of the story he was pretending to be the man and he said that Barney was dead and he was asking people to bring female rats onto the island so he could make more intelligent baby rats. For writing we are doing my favorite part, information reports! We have been given a sheet of notes about penguins and we have to write a draft information report about penguins. The paragraphs we need to write about are types, description, habitat, food, life cycle, growing up, special features, general, movement, enemies, predators and threats. At tech arts Tuesday was our very last art lesson. I finished my jandal and water color. For my jandal I beaded the straps and for my water color I finished outlining it with vivid and then cut it out. Our next tech art subject is design, so we get to make all sorts of things with wood. In class, for maths, we learnt about how to find a whole number from a given fraction, for example. If the question is two sixths is eight you would divide eight by the numerator, two, so that equals four, then you would multiply four with six so the answer is 24. In french we learnt how to spell our own name and how to ask how do you spell that. Bonjour, tu tapell comment? Jem a pell Arden, Comment ca s' ecrit, Ca s' ecrit A- ah R-rrk D-de E-er N-en. 

A bientot, see you soon.

Week 4 Term 2

Wow! Time has flied by sooo fast. It is week 3, no week 4, I'm just confusing myself. This week we learnt how to write fractions in simplest form by dividing both numbers. I also learnt how to use improper fractions and mixed number together both ways. If it is an improper fraction you need to work out how many of that number is in the other number. For example, 11/3, how many threes are in 11? 3, 6, 9, so the whole number is 3. You have two numbers left over so you would turn that into 2/3, the answer three and two thirds. If you're doing it the other way you need to turn a proper fraction with a whole number into an improper fraction. You multiply the whole number with the denominator and that onto the numerator. Use the same denominator but the added sun as the numerator. For example, five times three equals 15, plus two equals 17 so the answer is 17/3. I've just finished my memoir and handed it in. The due date is tomorrow but I'm not going to be here because I have a dance competition. Wish me luck!!!

Week 3 Term 2

This week we have had a crazy week. On Monday guess what... I finally got my first shine band! YAY!!! I got 10 signatures for respect so now I have a yellow shine band that says,

I show respect. We have learnt about fractions and how to convert them in to decimals. 

8 45/100 = 8.45, eight and fourty five hundreths equals eight point four five. I have also completed my reading task. You have to read two elocated short stories and answer questions about the story in similarites and differences like the plot, setting, dialogue, theme, resolution, etc. We started writing a memoir about an event that happened in the past, like going to the dentist, doctors or nearly drowning in a wave and it has to be in a moment when you were frightened or happy. Me and my friend Caitlin are learning about an app called wevideo, and it's when you make a video out of photos and little clips. This is our test clip...