Monday 7 April 2014

Activity group J's Presentation

WALT  Present what we know and what we learnt.

Task: We had to make a presentation that showed what we learnt and what we know.

Self Assesment: I think I did well at working as a team & in the end our groups presentation looked great. Next time we could make the writing a little neater.

Here's our groups presentation....




How many Counters In the pot?

I think there are 5 Blues, 3 Reds & 2 Greens becasue it only has 10 counters. I was counting how many of each colour came out and that's how many I counted.

How many do you think there is of each colour???

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Team Tactics

Wednesday 2 April 2014

Camp Writing



Caving Draft 1

Where here. Nervous, But it was once in a life time opportunity. James started to talk and my heart started to bounce. Up. Down. Up. Down. "There's a spider."  I said firmly trying to be brave. " Oh No!!!" A Parent said sarcastically. I creeped in to the deep dark spooky cave. Ba Boom, Ba Boom. My heart sung to me as I got deeper into the cave it got loader & Loader & loader.

I sharply shone my bright light up at the roof. There was something on the roof. Was it a spider? No. It was a weta. Eww. How many are there?? Like, 5? " Cooooool" shouts one of the boys. They are a bit smaller than a i-pod touch. 

I stopped to search for crayfish. I saw one. " Look" I say fearlessly. 

I calmly turned of my torch with everyone else to see the glow worms. "They are so cool."

Next minute I found myself crawling on my tummy, Squeezing down into the tight spaces. "I wanna go back" Zara says. "It's ok." Me & Maia say, Trying to encourage her to keep going. " I can't do it, I want to go back." She Says. Maia starts to crawl back with Zara & I am now left alone. In a, Dark, Pitch Black cave with only a torch. I see something what is that? I think   to myself.   It's bright. It's a light. I finished going thought that squishy cave. Me, Maia & Zara are finally Finished. We rose up from the cave with disbelief." Wow, I can't believe we did that." I Mumbled. We came back to all the boys eating biscuits. James kindly offers us all a biscuits. " Yes Please" We all say. 

Caving Draft 3 

Caving is our last activity & I have heard so much about it. Some people went a little Over the top, They said the Small space is as small as your albow to your hand. But it's not that small!

We're here. Nervous, But it was once in a life time opportunity. James started to talk and my heart started to bounce. Up. Down. Up. Down. "There's a spider."  I said firmly trying to be brave. " Oh No!!!" A Parent said sarcastically. I creeped in to the deep dark spooky cave. Ba Boom, Ba Boom. My heart sang to me as I got deeper into the cave it got loader & Loader & loader.

I sharply shone my bright light up at the roof. There was something on the roof. Was it a spider? No. It was a weta. Eww. How many are there?? Like, 5? " Cooooool" shouts one of the boys. They are a bit smaller than a i-pod touch. 

I stopped to search for crayfish. I saw one. " Look" I say fearlessly.  They are grey now, But how come when you cook them they turn red???

I calmly turned of my torch with everyone else to see the glow worms. "They are so cool." I stated. They are as small as the tip of a pen.

All of a sudden I found myself crawling on my tummy, Squeezing down into the tight spaces. "I wanna go back" Zara says. "It's ok." Maia & I say, Trying to in courage her to keep going. " I can't do it, I want to go back." She Says. Maia starts to crawl back with Zara & I am now left alone. In a Dark, Pitch Black cave with only a torch. What is that? I think to myself.x It's bright. It's a light. I finished going thought that squishy cave. Maia, Zara & I are finally Finished. We rose up from the cave in disbelief. " WOW, We just went through a cave with no adults." I mumbled. We came back to all the boys eating biscuits. James kindly offers us all a biscuits. " Yes Please" We all say. 


Self Assesment: I think I did well at having a first average draft to a pretty cool 2nd draft. Next time I could work a bit faster and do some work at home.


“Camp”


Purpose: To tell about an experience from camp, using short sentences to create suspense.

WALT: Entertain (recount)Task: To write a recount based on something scary or suspenseful that happened to you.


Criteria: I canSelf Assessment

Peer Comment 

Descriptive vocabulary (words that help to SHOW the reader)

  • use a range of verbs 

  • use a variety of adverbs

Language features (phrases that help paint a picture)

  • select 2 - 3 similes 

  • select 2 - 3 metaphors or personification 

  • choose onomatopoeia to show sounds (crash!)

  • select words that start with the same sound (alliteration)

Sentences

  • use short sentences to create suspense 

Structure

  • use 3 - 5 paragraphs.

Name: Maia B

Overall, how well do you think your learning partner has done?







Comment: Awesome story Georgia. I like how you used lots of speech marks. 


Tuesday 1 April 2014

Math's Broken Calculator

WALT use appropriate strategies to solve problems.

 Draft 1

  Draft 2