I’m away sick today, so here are the plans for the day…
8:45am: Come in, get organised and catch up
9am: Team Meeting
9:35am: Visual Arts
11:05am: Recess
11:30am: Silent Reading
11:50am: Maths – Reflections, Rotations and Translations
In pairs, design a logo for our class room using reflections, rotations and/or translations. Think about the words, colours and images that would represent our class. You can use graph paper.
Google “reflections maths”, “rotations maths” and “translations maths” if you are not sure what any term means. I’m sure your teacher or other people in the class could help you as well.
12:50pm: Eating – in your seats
1pm: Lunch
1:30pm: History
In pairs or groups of three, research some other inventions that were created by the Ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese and Indians. ‘Ancient’ means 60000BCE – 650CE. When you are using Google, search for key words rather than questions, such as, “Ancient Rome inventions” or “Ancient China discoveries”. Record what the invention was, which civilisation/s invented or discovered it and how we use it today. Find at least one invention / discovery from each civilisation.
The Sunflower Group worked with Miss Emma in the garden on Wednesday. We added pea straw to some of our garden beds, watered the plants and worked on the compost bin.
Cooking
This week, the Basil and Cabbage Groups made Indian Flatbread and an Asian Coleslaw. Recipes can be found on the Recipe page.
What is the central problem on your hexagon sheet?
In groups, create a question using the same format as your personal learning topic: “How might I ACTION THAT for WHOM in order to / so that CHANGE SOMETHING?”
100 ideas in 10 minutes: Record as many ideas as possible (aim for 100) to answer your question.
9:35am: Buddy Class with Ms Binder / Mother Tongue
10:20am: Continue with Failure = Success / Jason L & Rose go to Guitar lessons
11:30am: Silent Reading
11:50am: Maths
Continue with pattern work from last two days.
How many 9s and how many 10s? Is there a pattern? Could you work out how many 20s?
12:30pm: Fitness
1:30pm: Civics & Citizenship
Use this time to complete your assignment. It’s due TOMORROW!
** The following people must complete a Literacy Pro Test today: Que Anh, Quyen, Blake, Jason L and Riley.
Year 6s will work on the Civics and Citizenship Assignment – Who Represents Me? Some links to help you with this are at the end of this post.
Year 7s will complete the Referencing task that I have left with Mr Uzelac. Once you have completed this and glued it into your ‘Learning to Learn’ book, continue writing your Butterphant text. My, Riley and Praban need to complete a LitPro test.
11:05am: Recess
11:30am: Reading / Reading Reflections – your Reading Reflection is due on Friday
11:50am: Maths
Challenge Group can continue working on Challenge in common area
Remainder of class can investigate Fibonacci. Watch the video below about Fibonacci in nature. Go outside and see if you can find any plants in the garden that contain the Fibonacci sequence. Ask Mrs Lewis if you can borrow an iPad to take a photograph of it, download it on to a computer and print. Create a piece of art that is based on Fibonacci. You might like to use some of the links below as starting points or you might like to create your own.
12:45pm: Pack up for home except for Writing book and pencil.
12:50pm: Lunch Eating – in your seats!
1:30pm: Literacy with Ms Martin
2:15pm: Music with Mr Monger
Wednesday
** P.E. will be on Friday **
8:45am: Unpack and go to Buddy Reading with Ms Nektaria’s and Mrs Cedar’s classes.
9am: Watch Behind the News
9:35am: Cooking – Sunflower and Basil groups / Gardening – Cabbage group. If there is time, write a reflection on your session – What did you do? What did you learn? What did you enjoy doing? What did you not enjoy doing? Did you like the food? Why / why not?
11:05am: Recess
11:30am: Reading / Reading Reflections – your Reading Reflection is due on Friday
11:50am: Maths
Challenge Group can continue working on Challenge in common area
Remainder of class to continue working on Fibonacci art
Year 6s will work on the Referencing task that I have left with Mr Uzelac. Once you have completed this and glued it into your ‘Learning to Learn’ book, continue writing your Butterphant text. Blake, Que Anh, Quyen and Jason L need to complete a LitPro test.
Year 7s will complete the Civics and Citizenship Assignment – Who Represents Me? Some links to help you with this are at the end of this post.
2:30pm: Pack up for home / Fitness
Civics and Citizenship Links
Attached is a copy of the assignment in case you have not received a copy of the assignment (or you have lost it). Below are some links to help you with each part of the assignment. You are not limited to using these. Make sure you reference every site you use.
Identify the roles and responsibilities of each level of government: Parliament of Australia (federal), Parliament of South Australia (state), City of Port Adelaide Enfield for most of you (local):
We have started working on your big question for your personal learning topic. Brainstorm a few questions before Thursday and record them on your blog under the title, ‘Personal Learning’. In the Comments section of this post, provide us with a link to your blog post. You can have a look at other people’s questions.
To help you with your question, think about what it is that you want to change. This might help you to decide what action you need to take.
Use the below to select a verb for your ACTION WHAT.
Both images are based on work from www.notosh.com
I look forward to seeing 28 comments on this post by Wednesday night 🙂
Today’s recipe was Fettuccine with Basil Pesto. We made some dough and ran it through the pasta maker in order to make our own pasta. We used the basil from our garden to make the basil pesto. I’ll add a recipe section to our blog, so that you can make these meals at home for your families!
Yesterday, Niko and Jason, along with Tarik, Lazar and Jake (1007), attended a RoboCup Junior Rescue Workshop. We learned a lot about programming. Below is a video of their final program – the robot is programmed to follow the line using two colour sensors, stop at the silver strip, move into the centre of the spill zone (green area), turn until it located the can using an ultrasonic sensor, push the can out of the spill zone and stop once it reached the edge of the zone.
I will be taking five students from the Blue Building to the next RoboCup Junior workshop today, so Mr Uzelac will be with you. Keep up the great work you have been doing with relief teachers!
8:45am: Unpack and catch up with everyone from the weekend
9am: Team Meeting
9:30am: Creative Writing
Use the below prompt to write a creative piece of writing. Aim to write at least 100 words.
Before you begin writing, I want you to consider the following things:
What is the purpose of your text? To entertain, to describe, to inform, to instruct….
Who is your audience? Young children, teenagers, adults, boys, girls… your text will be different depending on who you are writing for.
What form of writing will you use? Short story, interview, journal, poetry, fable, newspaper article, letter, etc. You are not restricted to any of these.
Brainstorm your ideas. Spend about 5-10 minutes on this.
After you have completed the pre-writing tasks, you can start your first draft. Focus on doing the things that we have talked about: punctuation (capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, full stop / question mark / exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, quotation marks for dialogue); simple, compound and complex sentences; descriptive writing, word choice.
Whilst on a walk, you discover a mouse-sized elephant with butterfly ears flitting among some flowers. You could write a story about your encounter with this creature, you could write a poem about it, you could write a (fictional) information text about this new species… and so on.
We’ll be editing tomorrow, so you must have it completed by the end of this lesson or it becomes Monday’s homework.
10:10am: Fitness
10:35am: Science – How Does Electricity Flow?
Read through the text, “How Does Electricity Flow” and then answer the set questions. Mr Uzelac will give the the sheet.
11:30am: Building Maths
12:50pm: Eat lunch in your seats
1:30pm: Spelling / Literacy Pro Test
Mr Uzelac will give you your words. Get together with people in your group to discuss what word feature/s you are looking at this week. Mr Uzelac will help you if you need him.
The following people need to complete a Literacy Pro test: Judy, Emma, Blake, Que Anh, Quyen, Trang, David, Tien, Jason L, Praban, My, Riley, Zulfikar and Tiana.
Homework for this week – you MUST record it in your diary.
Spelling – 100 points need to be completed and handed in on Friday morning.
Reading / Reading Reflections – 20mins. Complete one Reading Reflection (in detail) every fortnight. Use the reading reflection sheet from last term. Next one is due Friday 5 June.
Creative Writing – make sure that the first draft of your Creative Writing piece is finished for Tuesday’s lesson.
As you know, Mrs Potter, Mrs Lewis, Mr Featherby, Mr Foale and I are all at a conference today. This conference is going to help us with implementing some of the changes that we want to do next term. I’m sure Miss Jasmin will leave me a note saying how wonderful you have been 🙂
Your tasks for today:
8:50am: Buddy Reading with Ms Nektaria’s and Mrs Cedar’s classes
9:35am: Cooking – Basil and Cabbage Groups / Gardening – Sunflower Group
Tiana, Jordan, Jason T, Judy and Jess – work with Miss Emma in the garden 9:35am-10:20am and then complete research project on blog (Garden Lesson: The Garden’s Most Wanted) 10:20am-11:05am.
Sam, David, Cornas and Jarrod – complete research project on blog (Garden Lesson: The Garden’s Most Wanted) 9:35am-10:20am and then work with Miss Emma in the garden 10:20am-11:05am.
Watch video tours of Parliament House – Inside the Senate, Inside the House of Representatives, Inside Parliament House and Parliament House Exterior
Think of at least five questions about Parliament House in Canberra
Partner up and research the answers to your questions – make sure you are looking at Australia rather than other countries!). Some websites that might be useful:
