Maths Grid

My journal recount.

Boom! went the old door as it slammed shut, the whole house shook violently.
It was one late evening in the crumbling house by the sea, the waves crashed hard against the side of

Rap unzel

Today all the school watched a show called Rapunzel. First they showed it to the year 0-3 then to the year 4-6. It was a musical  with lots of singing and raping. 
The story:
It is about a girl called Rupunzel who won the land far away x-factor idol. The girl doesn't want to have the money because there is lots of conditions. The judge (Simon cow) is unhappy so he locks her up in the tower and takes her voice.Then a raping prince comes and helps her get out of the tower. THE END!    
The actors names were Ben, Jack and Jane.
It was quite funny and they involved the audience alot!

The actors looked like this:

Kids news article Reading

We read a news article on Iceland issues volcano alert
Click HERE to see the news report.
We had to answer some questions which we found at the bottom of the page.

Use the article above to answer the following questions. Write both the questions and answers down in your book.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

This means that there is the potential of eruption.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

That people in Iceland think that one of the biggest volcanoes Bardarbunga, is might erupt.If it erupts there might be flooding and lots of smoke. Last week in the area around Bardarbunga has the biggest and strongest earthquake in 18 years.

3.Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

• This volcano might be erupting in Iceland.
• Ice land is a place in Europe.
• The volcano is called Bardarbunga.
• That this volcano is very big.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

It happened in Iceland and the article was written on Monday 25 of august 2014. In the future this volcano might erupt and there might be flooding and lots of ash.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

It took place because the volcano was awake and it is going to erupt. The scientists know because of the big earthquake that happened a week ago

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

1.Potential

2.Effect

3. Produced

Thrill seekers

We are learning about thrill seekers.
What is a thrill seeker:
A thrill seeker is a person which likes doing daring things like Evel Knievel a real daredevil. A thrill seeker likes doing things like jumping off bridges and dangerous stunts.


Who is Evel Knievel?

Evel Knievel was a big dare devil, as well as an painter, 

entertainer, and international icon. In his life he tried more 

than 75 ramp to ramp jumps on his motorcycle between 1965 

and 1980. In his career he fractured about 433 bones by doing 

daring things! He got in to the famous Guinness Book of 

World Records because he had the most "most bones broken in a 

life time. 

Have you ever done a thrill seeking stunt?

I have never done a thrilling stunt because I am not much of a dare devil and more of a girly girl.

Why are thrill seeking stunts so dangerous?

They are dangerous because you can get badly hurt and you 

could even break a bone or Like Evel Knievel.

Math week challenge

Math week challenge
Today as part of maths week we did a math challenges, in groups of four.
Three activities we did were: Find the way to the middle of the maze, which shapes are witch and work out the code.
The most difficult challenge was the prime numbers sheet.
I enjoyed working out the mazes because we worked as a team.
What is a prime number?
A prime number is a number that can only be divided by 2 numbers itself and one. Exp: 13 1,13 1 Prime.

This is one of the mazes we had to find out.
The Hampton Garden was built 325 years ago!

   

Wearable arts

We did a vimeo about our wearable arts outfit

Click HERE to see it 

Monday

9am

Here is the start of our wearable art journey. This morning we are going to work on the skirt. Today my group is going to cut up strips of bubble wrap and glue it strip by strip on to Katy's dress. Then we are going to add a long piece of bubble wrap flowing from the back of the dress like the train the bride wears at weddings.

Afternoon

Today we made the dress and pretty things for the hair like the veil.

I found out that you can not glue plastic or fabric with a cold glue gun.

I wondered how hard it would be to glue the bubble wrap skirt on to Katy's old dress.

The most challenging part was to make the head band because it was not staying in place.

Now I need to bring a coat hanger for tomorrow to hang my dress so it does not get ruined.

Tomorrow my group and I will make the top part of our recyclable dress.

The most fun part was making the skirt because we worked as a team!

This is our design.

This is my design so far.

Tuesday

10:55

Today I need to work on:

• Add bottle caps/plastic bags.
• Add a bit of bubble wrap flowing off the bow.
• Add scrunched up plastic bags to the sleeves.
• Add bows and sparkly things to the long train at the back of the skirt.  

9:35

Yesterday we completed the front of the shirt by adding bottle caps to it.

We had difficulty gluing on the black sparkly fabric under the layers of bubble wrap dress because the hot glue gun was hot so it was hard to press it in place.

We found out that putting holes in the middle of the bottle caps makes it easier to thread it on to the string to make a necklace.

Working as a team is easier because we can give each other good ideas for the dress.

Does my outfit reflect my element, AIR? It does because the bow is puffy like clouds, my skirt is kind of puffy and the long bit of bubble wrap flies out behind me like AIR.

The Torbay School Learning Model helps us because in the word DO it tells us when we DO stuff how to make it better.

The Final Result 

Final result 

Thursday 

9:23

Overall I feel extremely proud of our wearable art piece because it looks awesome.

The biggest success was the layered bubble wrap skirt on the dress.

My most enjoyable part was making the bubble wrap skirt on the dress.

The hardest art was making the scrunched up plastic bags stay together with the hot glue gun.

If I had to do this again I would make the bubble wrap dress puff up because it will make it look more like a ballet tutu.

I have learnt how to make the skirt of the dress layered.
We did a vimeo about our wearable arts outfit
Click HERE to see it 

Narrative writing Term 3

Narrative
This term we have been learning about narrative writing.
The purpose of writing a narrative is to tell other people made up stories/fairy tails and to get your imagination flowing!
Click here for a narrative I wrote last term.

Here is a checklist for how to do a good narrative.

I need to develop my narrative by adding more descriptive words