My first Consequence Wheel - The rising seas

WALA: to compare and contrast information from the story to help us analyse our new learning

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Brain teasers

WALA: Thinking outside the square and using word clues.

Try to re-arrange the letters of New Door to make one word


                      Can you figure it out?
Comment with all your ideas

Narratives

WALA: writing stories that other people want to read

Hare and Tortise’s race

In the middle of the day in the local park. Hare and Tortise were having a race. The small solitary Tortise was plodding along around the bend.”I might have a chance” Thought Tortise with a little smile.

In the distance, the thin little figure of an orangey hare speed around the corner.

Because Hare was so far in the lead and Tortise was so far behind, hare decided to have a nap, so that's what he did beside a cozy tree trunk.”I have time for a nap” thought Hare with a yawn. Little did he know that out

of the blue...Tortise ran past Hare with a little chuckle.”I’m gonna win”whispered Tortise with a little laugh. Hare woke with a yawn and started to pick up his pace. At his surprise around the corner Hare sore a figure… Tortise!!!

Tortise just smiled as he leaned on the finish post watching Hare’s face drop.”I won, I won, I won” though Tortise happlie.”Noooo” yelled Hare

By Jess B

My first think board

Riddle me this

                      What is the answer

• What is the longest word.
•  There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?
• When is homework not homework?
• Skinny I am fast,
  fat I am slow,
  but I'll still delight you from your eyes to your nose.

Weather Facts

Weather Ideas

WALA: Make connections between their prior knowledge and the concrete examples in a text in order to understand abstract ideas in the text
When it was the end of the book (nature's extremes wild weather) there was a list of things that we could look up on google. You could also look up some facts. These are some of the thing that you could look up.
Idea 1.Clouds can contain millions of tons of water.

Idea 2.Liquid can be changed into snow,sleet or ice by the temperature and humidity.

Idea 3.Hurricanes need cold and warm air and wind to keep them moving. Sometimes they never make it to land because they die at sea

Idea 4.Young children and adults over the age of 65 are most likely to experience heat exhaustion or other heat-related illnesses.

Idea 5.The majority of these tornadoes occur in a geographically unique area nicknamed ‘Tornado Alley’.

Angles

My class have been working on angles in maths. For angles we use pool tables.We have to make it hit the edge and hit the ball. Click the link to get to a website. Pool Practice

My Riddles

Kids Riddles are fun. Can you guess them?


Mr. Smith has two children. If the older child is a boy, what are the odds that the other child is also a boy?

What building has the most stories? 


What is Bruce Lee's favorite drink?


                                   Can You figure it out?                                       

Nature's Extremes Questions.

We have been making connections between their prior knowledge and the concrete examples in a text in order to understand abstract ideas in the text.

1.What was the major thing that needed to happen in 2003?

The government needed to plan for a heat wave.

2. What were 2 other problems that were evident?

(1) There wasn't much water so all all the plants and foods were running out.

(2) There were no cooling centres available so they could not cool off.          

3. Why is it important to plan for a heat wave?

So you are prepared to get everything sorted.   

4.What do cities need to lessen the heat?

(1)Use less darkness (black).

(2)Wear hats and loose clothes.                 

(3)Have white roofs.

What does the last sentence on page 24 mean?

It is serious and  cannot be ignored.

Do you know the answer?

                          DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?
What has a single eye but cannot see?

I'm as light as a feather, yet the strongest man in the world can hold me for 5 minutes. What am I?

My Art

                                                                     My Art

Our teacher has been reading us books after lunch and we (students)  get to make art so I made a paper tent and stuck paper flowers on. I sometimes play with my dolls and I make little beds for the dolls. Maybe you could make one yourself.

What kind of mindset do you have?

                                  What kind of mindset do you have?
There are two types of mindsets.There are growth and fixed mindsets.A growth mindset is when your frustrated, you persevere and when you want to learn and try and do your best.A fixed mindset is when you think your good but your not and when I'm frustrated and give up.

                                                The pit of learning.
THE PIT OF LEARNING is when you work on something and get stuck.There are some rules that you will need to know about THE PIT OF LEARNING. 1.When you are in the pit of learning you are not allowed back up. 2.You can not give up.That is all the rules for THE PIT OF LEARNING.
                                                       HAVE FUN

fun

please feed my frog

Reading

In my reading group before we read our group have to pick two faces each.They are different colors and the one you pick means you are the leader.This is the order you do when you are the leader.

1.Predict
Say to your group "I think this is going to be about"
You can use these things to help you
predict:
photographs
captions
headings
what you all ready know


2.Clarify
When your group has finished reading you ask"Is there
anything anyone doesn't understand"
It could be: A word
                  Something someone said

3.Ask Questions
Ask your group "Does anyone has any questions"

4.Summarise
Tell your group what the main ideas on this page are.
Say: "I think this page is about..."

Predicting, Clarifying, Asking Questions and Summarising helps me because I know what things mean
and hearing other ideas helps give me a bit more ideas.

Turtle

Doggy

Hamster

What does this mean?

                                     What do these things mean?

             Hazard: Threat to your life
             Pelting: Run
            Worst in history: Bad thing that happened in the past
            Devastating: Damage
         
              Thank-you for reading if you want to know more go onto google.
                       

Nature's Extremes Wild Weather

We are reading a book in our reading group about nature's extremes wild weather.Here are some fun facts: 

• Heat waves can kill you.
• Hail stones can be as big as a basketball.
• Dust storms can cover your whole house.
• Dust storms can cause plankton to grow.                                                                                                                                                                
  
                                                                                     
   

                               

feed my fish

E,J,J's song

Me,Emily and Jack made a song about our experiment called "dancing raisins".

My first blog post

Hi I'm Jessica and this is my first blog post : )