Hi everyone!
In Ruru this week, our tasks have been a bit different than usual. Currently, Ruru and Kereru have been going to kings swim school to do some swimming, so we don’t work in our normal groups. As of now, the teacher has made us a task board that everyone has been completing in the time that we’re not swimming. It has a task for each subject ( reading, cybersmart, writing, math and PB4L ). Or maybe the only thing missing is inquiry. Anyways for these tasks, we had to have at least 3 completed and blogged before the week ends. Each of the tasks don’t really have a certain topic or theme, they’re more related to what we’re currently working on. So reading is about designing our own school. Cybersmart is kind of just continuing what we’ve been doing. Writing is another persuasive writing we get to choose the topic of. Math is about tessellations ( which is kind of different to what my group is learning ). Finally PB4L is about empathy, actually we’ve already gone through some of it throughout the year. There was only 1 task per subject, 5 in total.
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Reading
WALT: Design our own school as if we were to be the owner
As I already mentioned, for reading we are working on designing our own school. This was done on a google slideshow. On the first slide it has the learn part. On the learn, it has a thing for only year 6’s and only year 4’s and 5’s. Obviously, I did the year 6 one. Since we are all going to be moving schools next year, the teachers have put a link for every single one we are going to. I’ll be going to Hornby High. It’s a website where you can check out everything there is. I took a look at the virtual tour. Then there were ” think about ” questions which I actually wrote in a text box. What stands out to you? What do I like? What would I like to see? Next, we had to either use google drawing or paper to design what our school would look like. I used google drawing and kind of just searched the building, cafeteria, etc. After that, there were some things we had to answer about the school. How much students were in each classroom? Why? What subjects are taught? What grades does it go from? The furniture that will be used for each classroom. Following on, we had to write 10 rules that will be applied to our school. Last but not least, we designed the uniform. If we think there shouldn’t be a uniform, we had to write a paragraph on why that’s what we think.
Here is my school:
For this task, I enjoyed making the google drawing for my design. I think the images I found were really cool and pictured to how I would want my school to be. Honestly, I think I did pretty well within this whole slideshow, but I’d say the ” in the classroom slide. I feel like I added more detail to it which is what made it good. The only thing I could have worked on was maybe actually using shapes to design my school. Or using paper, I don’t mind drawing.
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Cybersmart
WALT: Create an escape room related to hoaxes, fakes and media
This week for cybersmart, we are just continuing on what we did last time. Recently, we have been learning about hoaxes and fakes and about the different types of media. We’re learning about how a lot of things found online or even just in a magazine can be fake. Related to this, we created escape rooms on a google slideshow. Well, we made a copy of either the inside out, trolls, minecraft, peter pan, or finding nemo one. I decided to use inside out. We basically had everything the same except, for the questions. So before making the escape rooms, we came up with 10 questions that relate to fakes and media. For example for fake you could write “which of these examples given is most likely a fake?” A. Newspaper | B. Videos from YouTube | C. Ad | ( The answer is videos from YouTube. ) It could also be questions that include images. For example: Which of these images are real? That was all done on a google doc. So those questions, we had to transfer onto our escape room. ( The inside out only had 9 questions available so I didn’t add one of them )
Here is my escape room: ( feedback if one of the questions are too easy would be gladly accepted )
For this cybersmart task, I enjoyed making the whole thing. I think that making an escape room is really fun, and I really like how it turned out. I think what I did well on the most was the questions. Although some of my questions were quite easy, I still think I did great. The best question was probably the last one. In my opinion, you can’t really tell which is fake! I think for next time, I should have added some sounds. Whenever there is a speech bubble, I could have also added my pixton character.
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Math
WALT: Create our own tessellation and understand what they are
Alright so for this task, it actually doesn’t have anything to do with what we were doing. It’s about tessellation. If you don’t know what Tessellation is, it’s when you use a shape to kind of create a pattern. The only thing is that it can’t just be any type of shape. It has to be a shape that can be placed exactly the same each time. So there shouldn’t be a gap and neither should there be a part where it’s perfect and a part where it covers another shape. Each shape should also either surround a point or it could be that the angle are all 360 degrees. The shapes that would actually make a tessellation are squares, triangles and regular hexagons. Otherwise you might need to use 2 shapes. For example: For this activity, we had to watch a video in order to clearly know what tessellation is. Then once we fully understood what a tessellation is, we had to use this website thing to make them. One of them had to be an actual tessellation, and the other had to be fake. To prove we really know and understand what tessellations are, we had to explain why one is fake and why one is real.
Here are my tessellations:
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Can you tell which one isn’t really tessellation?
1. As you can see, this is a real tessellation. Why? It’s a real tessellation because the shapes are all placed evenly and the sides are all surrounding a point. You’ll easily be able to tell that the hexagon shape is tessellate.
2. This is definitely not a tessellation. Why? It’s obviously not a tessellation because the sides are not surrounding a point and neither is the point all 360 degrees. The shapes are also overlapping with each other which shouldn’t happen.
I enjoyed learning about tessellations, because I didn’t really know what they were. I’m glad that I got to learn something new in math! I think what I did well was the tessellations. Both of them were pretty good, well at least one of them. Maybe next time I should add more color, or use a different shape, they’re a little bit similar even tho the amount of size is completely different.
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PB4L
WALT: Describe how empathy looks, sounds and feels.
The PB4L task was very simple. First things first, we had to watch a story called you, me and empathy. It’s a story about how others show empathy to this girl, and how she shows empathy to others too. It includes many many situations. Stuff like when you’re sick, when you fall over, and really anything that could make you feel not the best. Anyways, for this task, we had to make a copy of a y chart. It has a section for looks like, sounds like and feels like. So we had to fill it out base on empathy. Like what would empathy look like, it could look like when someone helps someone get up when they fall over. Or someone standing up to a bully. Sounds like there could be someone crying and another trying to cheer them up. Feels like could be what the person is feeling after being empathized.
Here is my empathy y chart:
After finishing this task, I overall enjoyed the story. It was like 4 minutes long but I think it really shows what empathy is. What I did well is my answers. I believe that they were quite detailed and I think they’re pretty good. Maybe next time I could add a little more to the looks like, the other 2 I think are good enough.
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