Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Olympic Artwork

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This term we have been doing an olympic art piece with two similes and two metaphors.  For the people that don’t know what a simile and a metaphor is i will explain


A simile is a comparison using like or as example Hiss Hills was as angry as a dragon.  


A metaphor is a direct comparison not using like or as bout you can us was example Miss Hills is a dragon.


Around the border is olympic vocabulary like the  3 olympic values excellence, friendship and respect.


For the math side of it we tessellated  (for people that don't know what a tessellation is a tessellation is a repeating pattern that has no gaps and is  coloured in a pattern.)

To make this we had to choose an athlete and take a photo of our head cut the athlete heads off. No i did not kill them and stick my head on the athlete's body and then stick it onto the tessellation art then I glued the tessellation onto the A3 bit of paper that a few inches had been cut off and then Miss Hills laminated it and then it was done,  now is hanging in room 10.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Hong Kong STEM Challenge No. 2



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Materials we had access to:

6 x long sticks
1 x wooden square
2 x pipe cleaners
2 x straws
1 x 1m ruler
11 x plastic cubes
1 x bunch of popsicle sticks
4 x wooden small flat pieces


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Challenge #1
Build a structure with a cube as the base:

In challenge 1 was quite hard because we had to have steady hands or we would knock it over and we would have to rebuild it.





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Challenge #2
Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size:

Challenge #2 was two was easier than challenge 1 because we got to use any bottom base and make the tallest building.  But the building would always fall over so I will get angry at it.





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Challenge #3
Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it:

Challenge 3 was really easy because we were building it a little safe.  It didn’t turn out that impressive but it still to us was the best thing we have ever sore.



By : Kaleb, Jipsy and Daisy
               

Monday, September 5, 2016

Moment In Time Week 7


.  Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader Today our teacher asked us to write a ‘Moment In Time’ piece using a picture of a boy in the water.  We planned as a class to make sure we had the 5 W’s and the 6 Senses.  

Before we began our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct.with more of an experience.

Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end.  We had so much fun working together!

If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.  



Boy Overboard!


Jack and uncle Cakey were looking over the side of boat trying to catch a glimpse at the great white shark, suddenly he tripped over the anchor rope that his uncle told him to put away and he fell into the water like a polar bear diving for its food. “HELP!” cried Jack but uncle Cakey could not hear him because   he was deaf.  Jack was gasping for air as he was slowly drowning, he thought he would die.

The teeth chattering water was rising above his head,he could see sharks that had eyes of steal.  They were surrounding him like they had not eaten in months. He was as scared as a kid in a haunted house and he was missing his mum and his Uncle Cakey,he was fading into the darkness just him and his lonely soul.

He decided to lie on his back, say his prayers and let nature do what nature needed to do.  The goosebumps on his arms were  slowly going away, the waves were pushing up and down.  He was now in the power of nature. He knew the right thing would happen and he might not die a painful death.


Written by Memphis, Jipsy, Daisy and Mereana.



Memphis:
I think me and my team done really well on working together and finding where we needed to put full stops and capitals letters.

Jipsy:
I think that me and my crew done really well for this moment in time, cause we had a lot of ideas in our mind that we shared.

Mereana:
I think that me and my group did really well.  I liked that everyone put all their great ideas together and made a good piece of writing.  I also learnt some new words from my group.

Daisy:
I think me and my group did well on this piece of writing because we all put all our ideas together and made a really good piece of writing that is really descriptive and has a simile that decrided the sentence that it was used  really well. But in this piece of writing we still needed to go back and change same words and read it for sense