This week I chose a book called "Fantastic Mr Fox." This is a fiction book which means it's a made up story. It's based on Fantastic Mr Fox.
I had to write down 3 events that happened in the story. The first event I wrote down was "Fantastic Mr Fox steals a chicken." This always makes the farmers mad.
This week I took the speed demon. I decided to do both multiplication and division because I wanted to challenge myself.
Once I was finished answering the equations my time at was 6 minutes and 33 seconds. My time was faster than last weeks time but I think I can do better.
I found answering the question easy because I know my time tables which makes easier to answer them but I just need to concertrate more on the questions.
This week we learnt two different things that other people learnt during the past two weeks. The two things I learnt from other people was converting measurments and geometry.
First, Chisa taught me coverting measurments. Convering measurments is to divided or multiply the height, width, and the length of something. When the number has been multiplyed the decimal point moves to right once (if multiplying by 10). If the number has been divided the decimal point moves to the left once (if dividing by 10).
Next, I taught Chisa about statistics and interpreting data. Interpreting data is the process of reveiwing data through some process. When collecting data you need to ask a question. Example: What is the likely hood of rolling a six. Then roll a dice about 100 times then make the recordings into a grapgh so people can understand the data.
Then, I explained what money is to David. Money is an item that is accepted as payment for good, services, and etc. NZ money works on a place value system. NZ money currently works on our 100's place value system.
Lastly, David explained to me about geometry. This topic includeds shapes, the relationship between shapes and the movements the shapes do. 2d and 3d. 2d shapes are flat that have faces and corners. 3d shape has many faces, vertices, and edges. Vertices are where the edges or side meet and edges are lines that help form a side.
I enjoyed this task because I was able to learn from others understandings, and I also learnt new skills and knowledge. I thought I did a good job at teaching because the people I taught was able to understand what I learnt.
LI:To share and discuss our understandings
The Twits is a fiction book writen by Roald Dahl. From the chapter 12-15 it tells how Mr Twit's prank backfires and what their house and backyard looks like.
Mr Twit was waiting for birds to sit on the tree so he can have bird pie. While Mr Twit is waiting the monkeys are trying to warn the birds so they don't get cooked. The problem was the birds couldn't understand them because the monkeys speak a different language.
The monkeys thought the birds are going to get eaten and thats when they saw their friend the Roly-poly bird fkew down. The monkeys asked him if he can warn the birds so the Roly-poly bird went around warning the birds. When Mr Twit cam out he saw all the birds were on the monkey cage insted of the tree.
This book is funny and interesting book that lots of children can read.
LI:To study novel
This week for I commented on Fotu's reading blog post. She was doing novel studys.
The first question I asked was, "Why did you decide to read the Twits?"
During this task I learnt how to ask an open question that will make the person think more about it.
Go on this link to see Leon's blog post.
LI:To learn how to comment on other people's blog
This week for inquiry we were creating our own emergency shelter. An emergency shelter is a place that protects people from natural disasters.
First we looked at different types of shelters that are different shapes. We had to figure out if they were a good or bad shelter.
Next we thought and discussed what the shape of our shelter would be. My group decided that the shape should be a triangle. We thought this would be a good shelter against strong wind.
Then we created our own shelter on sketch up. This app is used to create 3d models.
Lastly we discussed which material would do best if this shelter was going to be created in real life. The best material we could think of was tungsten. Tungsten is a type of metal that is extremely rare to find. It cannot be broken either.
If we could change specific things in our shelter, the things we would change are adding windows to see, another entrance to our shelter and probably taking out the legs and ropes.
We found this task difficult because it was hard trying to design our shelter but it was still fun learning how to create a shelter.
LI:To digitally model an emergency structure
This week was our third session of touch rugby. Our coach (Mark) taught us a new skill.
The skill we learnt was a two and a three man settle. We played a listening game for a warm up before we started.
To do a two man settle one person would run up to take the touch and then plant the ball. Dummy half would pick up the ball and then pass it back to the first peraon. We did this drill in groups.
To do a threeman settle one person would run up to take the touch and then plant the ball. Dummy half would pick up the ball and then pass it to the third person. We did this drill in the same groups but we named ourself so we don't get confused.
Lastly we played a game of touch but insted of running we walked through the game. The couch wanted us to walk so it would be easier to explain to the kids that didn't know the rules. This game included our new skill.
I enjoyed this session. I also found the three man settle kind of confusing.
LI:To practise the basic skills of touch rugby
