Touch Rugby

Last week Wednesday I got to participate in the Inter-school touch rugby competition. I was in the Maroon team. We won twice , lost twice and drew twice which was a big surprise.  I thought our games were really hard and easy because you had teams that didn't really use the whole team and others that worked together and that's why they won. I really enjoyed it I would like to thank Mr Ogilivie, Miss Colenbrander and Mr M that looked after us and helped us with some skills. 

Narrow your search

Since our class has been learning how to narrow our search down so we can get the right information we made a DLO about it. Our learning intention was How to narrow a search. I made my layout into a method because if I did this it would help the audience understand how you could narrow a your search and I also added in some images to see what it would come up with.  

3D Sketching

Today at Tech we have been learning how to draw 3D cubes with Miss Ferguson and look at the different ways and perspectives of it. I have taken two pictures of how it turned out for me. So we started off with Oblique this shows the sides of the shape. Then we moved on to vanishing point this will help us were to write it and different perspectives of the shape.  It also has parallel lines towards it I guess when it's lining up to draw the shape. Next we got given a piece of Isometric grid lines we put it behind a piece of see through paper. A trick to draw the 3D shaped cubes was to count up to 3 or 2 this would be 3 by 3 or 2 by 2. This makes it even and the shape to become more of the same.  Using the same shapes we drew with the Isometric grid lines we had to colour a different shade or tone. I coloured the top square light but I had to remember to colour one way because it would look messy if we had to colour it different ways. Then I coloured the other square a medium kind of tone then a darker kind of tone. I thought this was fun and I can't wait to start designing my 3D printing. 

Read 20

This year we have been using this site called read 20. Well first you test yourself and they adjust what grade would fit you perfectly. I first was on grade 6 now my normal grade is grade 7 but I just had to remember that they were marking it based on american levels. When you find your grade they will give you a passage and you will have to answer multi choice questions. Our teacher usually gives us ladders to help us answer the questions.  The ladder will give us steps to answer it properly. I really enjoy this site because it helps me answer multi choice questions properly and I get to understand the text more also I get to find out what grade reading at. 

How do birds fly?

Have you ever wondered how birds fly or questioned yourself why can't us humans fly? Well I have made a DLO on how some birds fly with the piece of information from online.  They flap in a circle kind of motion this will help them balance and go more higher. Balance and control , they balance by gliding from side to side and actually the air sort of controls and balances them while they are in the air. I can't wait to learn more because my interest level on birds have gone higher and higher. 

Summarizing

Yesterday we had to learn how to summarize stories. This skill we already knew but we just had to come back to it so we can get a clear idea of what to do. This task that I had done was that we had to play a game. So first you had to read the passage that it had given you then you had to highlight the main points of the text. After doing this you would make a handbook and summarize all three chapters of the passage. I thought this really helped me with my reading skills because now I know some tips to summarize properly. If you would like to give you are reading challenge click here.

Solving multiplications word problems

In maths we have been working on multiplication problems. We had to work collaboratively with a partner I worked with Zahra.   This asked us multiplication word problems in everyday contexts. This problem I have taken a screenshot out of is one of the problems that I had to solve.  I thought this would really help me with my assessment because most of the maths problems are word problems.