Curious reading

Kia ora bloggers,

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open-ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adult's intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next, we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Ours create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Google Drawing and it was about a book called ‘endurance.

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realize how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Question time: Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding? 

(PS Could not put the video on for some reason sorry)

Endurance

For reading we had to read a book of our choice, I  chose a book about a boat on frosty water, and some people to get stuck and have to get their spear canoe, and find a way to get back on land( true story). Anyways after we had read the story, we had to write some opened-ended questions, and answer the questions.

Question time: do you like boats, why or why not?

Bye have a great day, see you soon:)

  

Beep bop

For maths, we had to make a robot out of angels, we used google drawings. After we had made our robot, the teacher printed it out for us. Then we had to find 8 angels, here are the angels we had to find, a reflex, right, acute and obtuse.

Question time: do you like robots? what should I name my robot?

Bye have a great day:)

Rich VS Poor

For inquiry, we had to sketch a drawing of something we think is bad in the world I chose Rich VS Poor, and we are going to use different materials to make our art. What does my sketch mean: I chose an eye because they are looking at what is happening, the bildings are 100 dollar notes because those people have hundreds of dollars and on the other side are tiny houses on a hill with people with only cents, not bills.

Question time: What sort of art do you like?

Hope you have a great day, see you next week bye:) 

 

ZE

For maths we had to draw are name in angels, after we had done that we had to least find one reflex angle,  one straight angle, one obtuse angle, one right angle, and one acute angle. After we had done could decorate it if you wanted but I did not. Anyways hope you like my blog post and come back later, have a nice day bye.

WE CAN'T FEED THE POOR BUT WE CAN FUND A WAR

For inquiry, we had to choose one photo that we like the most or one that catches us more, I chose this one. We had to write at least three paragraphs of what we think it means, and what you think they are doing, I also put in a fact in just because I can. Most of the art are graffiti or just art on walls, concrete or anywhere you can imagine, just mabey not the bathroom. I hope you come back soon on my blog and have a great day. 

Question time: What do you think this photo means to you?

Z for Zoe

Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have started to learn about angles.  

We learned about 3 different angles today - acute (less than 90°), right angle (90°), and obtuse (larger than 90° but smaller than 180°).  We also learned how to use a protractor to measure angles.  We know that we need to measure an angle from a vertice (a corner where two straight lines meet).

For our create a task, we had to measure three different angles on the first letter of our name - can you figure out if they are acute, right angle, or obtuse?