Five Senses Personification Narrative

LI: to use the five senses and personification to help us paint a picture with words. 

Our focus for this activity was based around using the five senses and personification to describe a pair of shoes. The five senses are: see, hear, touch, smell and taste. A personification is when an object is given an attribute of a human. We used a plan to structure our narritive properly. The structure of a narrative is: TOPES. TOPES stand for: title, orientation, problem, explain and solution. In our orientation, we wrote a hook, introduced the characters, the settings and hinted the problem. We talked mainly on the problem of the story in the paragraph after. We then explained the events leading to the solution in our explaining structure. After this, we talked about our solution and if there was a solution. In our story, there was never a solution. I enjoyed this activity because I found it fun and interesting. 

Story Web

LI: to practise oral language.

LS2 has been practicing their oral language skills and to do this, we created a story web. We picked a story and choose the seven main scenes that would tell the story. I chose to draw scenes from 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. This story is about a boy who got bored while keeping track of his sheep so then he shouted "WOLF" down to his village. A man from the village came to look for the wolf but there was no wolf in sight. The man got angry and ran back to his village telling everyone what happened. The boy got bored again and decided to repeat the same process by shouting "WOLF". Another man came up to the boy and didn't see any wolves around. He went back to the village and told people again. While keeping track of the sheep, a wolf appeared. The boy shouted "WOLF" down to his village but no one came due to the fact that he tricked the men in the village. The moral of the story is to not lie out of boredom because if your lie becomes true, no one will believe you. The purpose for this activity was to look at your drawings and explain it without any wors. I really enjoyed this activity and it helped me explain more things in better detail.

Topic 4 | Floating & Sinking

LI: to test the buoyancy of different materials.

Our focus for this week at science was about testing the buoyancy of different materials. First we discussed why some things float/sink/semi-float. Floating is the action of an object staying above water. Sinking is when something is unable to stay above water due to the density of it. Semi-float is when an object has the ability to both float and sink at the same time. We watched a video that explained what buoyancy/buoyant is. Buoyancy is the tendency of something that can float in water or a substance. 

After this, we gathered our materials and looked at the size of it, weight of it and what the object is made out of. We also made predictions on whether each object would sink or not. A prediction is an educated guess of something. Some of our objects were: cube, marble, tennis ball, rectangle block, plastic block and etc

We filled up our buckets up to 2/3 and started our experiment. My parnter and I started from the smallest objects up to the largest objects. Some of our predictions were correct. We noticed that the wood materials had the ability to semi-float. The plastic materials had the ability to float and the rubber materials could float/sink. 

I really enjoyed this experiment because it gave us the opportunity to learn about new things to do with buoyancy and sinking. One thing that I learned was that some objects have the ability to semi-float. I found this fact very interesting and cool. 

Simple Machines

LI: to find information about simple machines.

Our focus for inquiry was about making labelled diagrams (information pictures) in order to understand what each simple machines are. The six simple machines are: pulley, lever, wedge, inclined plane, wheel and axle and screw. The pulley is a simple machine that is able to lift objects by pulling the rope that is attached to it. A lever can lift heavy-weight objects when someone pushes the beam down from the opposite side. The wedge can stop objects from moving. An inclined plane is a surface that has an angle on it and can make objects go up or down easily. The wheel and axle helps transfer things. A screw has the ability to pull its surroundings in as it goes into a material and stay put in it. We made an information picture for each simple machines and get a good understanding of each of them. At the end of this activity, we were able to give a breif description of each simple machine. I enjoyed this activity because I have researched about simple machines before and found it pretty easy.

Dialogue

LI: to undestand how to use and correctly punctuate dialogue when writing.

Dialogue's are conversations between people. When writing a conversation, there are things to remember. In order to seperate what the speaker says to how they say it, we need to use punctuation marks. Puncuation marks look like: ("") some people call them quotation marks. 

First, we created a conversation on ifaketext.com between characters from The Three Little Pigs. We choose one out of four scenarios to create a conversation about. Our scenario is with the pig's mum telling the pigs to move out of the house because she is annoyed with them never helping her. 

After making a conversation, we changed what the characters said into writing. We added punctuation, speech marks and said words in order to do this. For each character speaking, we added a different line. 

We then wrote about what we know about the requirements of writing a conversation. I found this activity easy because I knew a lot about how to write a conversation and use them in a lot of my recounts. 

Science Exploration Topic 3 (Tech)

LI: to test how long it can take for sugar to dissolve in hot or cold water.

This week for our technology session, we looked at the amount of time it takes for sugar to dissolve in different tempatures of water. Our first experiment required cold water. We measured 100 ml of cold water into the beaker then looked at the tempature of the water which was 20°C. After this, we weighed 10 grams of sugar. To do this, we needed to place some sugar onto the Petri dish and transport that onto our weighing scale. We then poured our exact measurement of sugar into the cold water and mixed while looking at the amount of time it takes to dissolve with a stopwatch. It took the sugar 59.66 seconds for it to dissolve into the water making a solution. We did the same thing all over again but with hot water. The tempature was 75°C and the time it took to dissolve was 17.10 seconds. 

I enjoyed this activity very much because I am familiar with measuring water and weighing different types of materials/things. I learned that a solution is when a solid is mixed in with a liquid. I really enjoyed the part where we needed to measure 10 grams of sugar.

PB4L Expectations

LI: To follow the rules and expectations, expected from teachers.

Our topic for PB4L this week was focused around the expectations and rules set for us, and we should know how to understand and carry them out because we are the role models of the school. As a class, we talked about the expectations of a wet day monitor, the common rules inside of the classroom and what is expected from the teachers.

Some students showed us an example of how we can show respect in other classrooms as well as our own. They roleplayed an example of what they should do if a class was acting up during a wet-day and including other students during a casual conversation. More topics that we talked about was the necessary noise volume in different situations.

I found this lesson interesting but easy to understand because I am familiar with respecting the classroom rules and following expectations to a high standard.