Sustainable Art

Miss Kay asked some of the fast finishers to do an extra job/art and wrap wool around and around a tree. Miss Kay helped us start off and then left Ethan and I to finish the job. We wrapped the tree in different colours of wool. The colour order from the top is red, orange, yellow, blue and then darker blue. This is what we have done so far:

Sustainable Art

Room 12B have been doing art for our curriculum. I did the art at home and used swan plants as the trees growing on the roof. Sadly I had forgotten about them in the weekend and they slowly started to die because they didn't have any water. On the first floor is a couch, carpet, t.v., windows, stool, cutlery, table, glass of water, food, and a ladder going up into the next floor. On the next floor there is a hallway, bath, toilet, toothbrushes, sink, bed, pillow, book and another ladder leading to the top. On the top there is a bookshelf, bed, book, computer, chair, pillow, picture, seeds and a skylight leading into the 2nd floor. Here are some pictures of the design that I have made out of recyclable materials.

Maths - Lotto

For extension maths, we have been learning about lotto and how to figure out the chance of winning. After we had figured out the chance of winning lotto we were acquired a task. We had to make our own game with or without a partner. James and I decided to work together, and we came up with the name and idea of dicey. We had to explain how to play the lotto game, and work out the probability. Here is the link to the slide show down below:
https://docs.google.com/a/hni.school.nz/presentation/d/1BOU9xQhVIUwgjAlOdUv0IFRVcVmS4djZOfipbpnR5K0/edit?usp=sharing

Narrative Writing

For term 4 Room 12B have been learning about narrative writing. For narrative writing we have wrote about four different topics. We have been writing down our own examples for narrative writing  and have basically been writing a portfolio of narrative writing. For some of our examples, for narrative writing, We watched a video and either described the characters or changed the ending of the video. This narrative writing piece is a quick and short narrative writing example. There are 6 sentences, the 1st sentence begins with 'Once upon a time' and introduces the main character. The second sentence describes where the character lived. The third sentence describes the character's special talent. The fourth sentence describes the character's problem. The fifth sentence tells why the character felt that way. The final sentence tells how the character solved the problem. Here is what I wrote:

Quick Write Narrative

1	Once a upon a time Jack, an outlander, was farming his grain.
2	He lived out West in a dirty stink’n ants hole.
3	Jack had an amazing memory but when he was sad he couldn't remember anything.
4	Whenever Jack woke up he was always getting chewed and eaten off by ants.
5	When Jack ran away he always wanted to go back to his mother but had forgotten the way back.
6	Suddenly he had a burst of happiness and remembered so he set off for the last time...

Maths, Reading & Visualisation

In reading we have been working on our comprehension strategies. Last week we focused on visualisation - we can create mental images when we read to deepen our understanding of the text. We read a short passage that explained how to measure a very tall object without having to climb it and we visualised how we would do this.

Yesterday we went out and put this knowledge into practice.

Flynn and I went out and measured the soccer goal post and this is how we did it. First we got a friend, tape measure and a pencil. We asked one of the friends to stand in front of the goal post's leg. Next we held our pencil arm lengths vertically to the ground and walked backwards. After the top of the pencil was at the top and the bottom was on the ground. Then we turned the pencil horizontal and asked the friend to walk sideways after reaching the end of the pencil we asked them to stop and then measured how far out they were from the post. We then measured how high the goal post was and compared our answers. Our answer using the method was 241.5cm but the real height was 240cm. Then we tried the rugby post we used the same method. Here is a photo of Flynn and I attempting to use the method.