The lonely man

Kia ora bloggers, This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell. When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences. We want to show them - not tell them. For example, Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realized he had just missed the bus. But instead, I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away. Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realized that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now” You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated. Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man. We used Adobe Spark to do this. Have a look at my video and see if you can make some inferences about what I have written. Do you think the elderly man is happy?

My birthday grid reference

Hi Bloggers,

For numeracy this week, we have been learning about grid references and we have been working on 4 and 6 digit grid references.

We learned that we read across the bottom of the grid first (Easterlings) and then up the side second (Northings).  

Our task today was to look at an aerial map of our school, write down the 6 digit grid references for the letters that our teacher had put on it, and then go in hunt of those points.  At each point, there were 1 or 2 letters.  Once we had them all, we had to come back into the hub and unscramble the letters to figure out what it spelled.  The secret sentence was ‘Happy Birthday Zoe’ because it was my birthday today on the 28 of May.

I really enjoyed the task.  Have you ever had to use grid references before in real life?  What was it for?

See you next time, 

My bee bot

For Numeracy this week we have been looking at compass directions.  We have worked on reading maps using the 8 main directions - North, South, East, West, North-East, South-East, North-West and South-West and then we moved onto using Beebots and our knowledge of compass directions to get a Beebot through the grid to various locations.

We had to program the Beebot with our own algorithm, using forward's, backward's, turn right, turn left and N, S, E, W.  It was important that we regularly tested our algorithm to check we didn’t need to debug (find a problem and fix it).

Question time: have you ever written an algorithm for something?  Have you ever had to use a compass for something?

The cruel twits

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something. 

An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and
add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference.  For example,
  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that

this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair
nets and this is required in all food factories.


The text that we read a snippet out of ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.
Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr. and Mrs. Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr. and Mrs. Twit. 

 Question time: have you read the Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!

Capacity

For this week's maths, we had to learn about the capacity in milliliters and liters. This is a way of measuring the liquid inside of bottles,  in question b, mum had three 2-liter bottles of juice and had 250-milliliter glass cups, how many cups would she fill, I got 24 cups. Anyways I hope you have been enjoying my blog, and... we go back to school on Monday yay!
Question time: what is your favorite drink?       

The Brave Survivor

       
In literacy, we have been reading Going Solo by Roald Dahl.

It's about all the adventures he goes on. He went to Africa to work for The Shell Company and he has many adventures there. Some of these are really funny. 

He then joined the RAF to fly in WW2. I have recreated a part of the story where his plane crashes in the desert.

He manages to survive although he is blinded by the crash and badly injured. He does get his sight back eventually. Going Solo is a great novel that I would recommend you read
Question time: what is your favorite book that Ronald Dahl wrote. 

DIY heat pack

For technology, we had to reuse an old piece of fabric and make it into something new. I made a heat pack out of an old top, first me and my mum carefully chopped the bottom of the top,  after we had done that we started ruling out some lines. Then, we chopped the top where the lines were. after that we started stitching the top inside, so we could get a better finish.larst but not least we put in a lot of rice into the top, and we seld it all off.
Question time: what have you aver reused an old pease of fabric?
   

My dream house

For maths, we got to make our dream house, we had to design our house on a grid fist. After we have finished our house, we got to design one room, I choose my bedroom. We had to use a website that I have never used before, The app was very hard for me to use so I used https://planner5d.com/.

Anyways  I will be working on doing my hole dream house.

Question time: what would your dream house be made of?      

🍕homemade pizza🍕

For technology, I made homemade pizza for the first time, and it turned out amazing! for making the dough, I searched up homemade pizza dough on youtube, this is the video that I used  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCvzWav828. When I started to make the dough, I did the wrong measurement of yeast, it said one tsp but I did one Tbsp. Anyway, after I let the dough rest, we shaped our pizza and put toppings on it. Tips for making a pizza, knead the dough for about 10 minutes or until soft,  when rolling your dough make it very thin because it will double in size,  the pizza will be ready when golden brown.

Question time: have you ever made your own pizza dough before?