Newspaper Reports!

Over the last two weeks in class, we have been learning how to write Newspaper Reports. We started off by learning how to understand what goes into a Newspaper Report and we looked at two different reports and we identified which one was better with a checklist. We did different activities to learn more about Newspapers and then eventually we got to write one. I wrote mine about Little Red Riding Hood, but not like the fairytale. I would really like to get some feedback on the piece of writing I have written below and if it looks like a newspaper and how I could improve the newspaper:

Just so you know, they don't line up because they are 3 different screenshots.

Again I would like some feedback on the writing that I have done and if it looks like a newspaper and how I could improve the newspaper. Here is the link to the website.

Super Maths Work

This week in maths we have been doing measurements, and my group have been working on slides and they gradually got harder. Today I am making a chart to help people learn how to do measurements.
Here it is:



I hope you enjoy it!

Life Education

Last week on Tuesday, Wednesday and thursday the year 7&8's got to do some life education with harold who comes in every two years and people who are the educators come in. This year we did it while the year 5/6's were at camp. We Learnt about what empathy and how to show it, we also learnt about what the differences between peer pressure and bullying. Someone in our class called Chloe got her body scanned, we got to see her brain, he intestines, lungs, heart, brain stem and we also got to see how quickly the brain sends messages to moving your fingers or touching something.

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The Pop Art Movement

This week while the year 5/6's have been on camp we have had Mrs Stratton in as our teacher. She had assigned to us to do pop art work around Roy Lichtenstein. We had to find out about his art work, what styles he used and how he used onomatopoeia words. I learnt that Roy Lichtenstein's artwork was at first thought to be sort of bad  but that overtime people learnt to love it. We had to look at some of his artwork and figure out different things. here is a piece of his artwork -  and here is my artwork -

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Week 5

This week for our maths investigation we were doing skip counting and I know it sound easy but it isn't. we had to pick a number below 20 and not 5 and 10. I chose 16 but we also had to answer a question. I enjoyed it but it took me a long time and I am sure I got it wrong but please don't say.

Here is what I did.

I hope you enjoyed this.

Rimu Class - Hooked on Books!

This weeks in Yalhurst we have been having a Hooked on Books Week. We had this so that we could expand our reading genres and different authors and the books we read get us hooked but we don't read all oth ebook so we have to put our name down  on a list if we want to read the rest of the book. So everyday we get a new book and we don't know what it is until we find out, each day in a different way and creative activity.

On day one it was simple - the teachers pulled a name out of our stick box, The book was called The Honest Truth and it is about a boy who has cancer and runs away. We had to create a recount of what it would be like if we were Mark (mark is the one who has cancer). We also had to make a slide about routes and I found it quite easy because it was a simple task.

 On day two (Tuesday) we played pass the parcel and on the first round it stopped where Gracie and I sat and Gracie opened it, and it went until the last layer (it went forever) and the book was called Space adventure and it is where you get to choose your outcomes and decisions, and it is really fun, we then had to create a persuasive piece of writing about which planet we thought that the person should live on. We also made a pick - a path about it.

 On day three (Wednesday) we had to put together a digital puzzle to learn what the book was called and it was called 'The first hippo on the moon' and before we say the books pictures we got a piece of writing and buddy up with someone and create batik artwork, at the end of the day we got to see the real pictures in the book. We also had to do some optical Maths work where we try creating optical art where it is an illusion.

On day four (Thursday) We had a treasure hunt to find the book and it was wrapped. The person who found it got to open it and it was called ' A Fish In A Tree' it is about a girl who has trouble reading but won't admit to it. We had to read what it was like for someone with dyslexia and how hard it is to read. It is very hard to read and understand words. Here is a link to that. Did you find that Dyslexia sit hard to read? - I know I did.

Today (Friday) we had a vote what book it was but we didn't know which one won and then names got called out and we had choose what box (A, B or C) and we had to choose until it was the correct one. It was called 'The Person Controller' and I have already read this at home and it is fantastic. We haven't done activities on this one yet.

Overall book week has taught me a lot to do with genres and authors and other literacy and maths activities. Some activities were hard and some were slightly easier. But overall this week has been fun. sometimes you think a book won't be good and it ends up being great. This book week in our School has been amazing, you should try it.

Here are some photos:

Maths - Fractions of Amounts

LO: Learning Fractions of Amounts, how to solve the problems.

This week my maths group has been learning Fractions of amounts, this skill is still new to me so if I do something wrong, I am sorry. Today for maths we were told to create a DLO (digital learning object) about what we learnt. Now I am going to be showing you how to work a problem.

Here it is:




I hope that you enjoyed watching/reading what I was learning about. Please say if I did anything wrong or what I could change in the way that I present this.