Reflections Week 9

Reading:

Benny


The story is about a kid and his friend Benny.They were opposite. He was skinny, Benny was muscular and a bit of fat. He was short and Benny was tall. He would go to Benny's house and they would go to the beach and cause trouble. But one day, they went to cause trouble and they saw a nervous kid on a kayake with his mum. But the kid looked like his cousin so he told Benny to not do it. But then Benny pushes him in and he flips the kids kayake over. Benny tries to help the kid but it looked like he was trying to drown him. So his friend takes the kid to shore and the mum starts saying bad words to Benny and him. Then they hear sirens from the police and they thought it was coming for them. So they ran up the hills. Then he sees Benny crying and Benny pushes him away and says it's over. They seperated and went different college's. But deep inside he misses Benny.



Maths:

WALT find the perimeter of a shape

SC:

• Identify the measurements of the side of a shape
• Add all the measurements together

This task was about finding the perimeter of a shape. My favorite part of the task was Identifying the measurements of the side of a shape cause all I had to do was add all of the numbers together. My least was number nine and ten cause I had to add measure the lines and add it then divide it and that was the answer.

Shoe Tower

WALT: Cooperate with our teammates to build a strong tall tower.

SC: 
1. Use shoes only 
2. Collaborate on how to build the tower
3. Only use one pair of shoes per person

The task was to build the tallest tower possible and has to hold by itself for at least 5 seconds. Our team lost but built a pretty tall tower, not as tall as the opposing team though. My favorite part of the task was collaborating  with people I hardly work with. The part I didn't like about the task was that it stunk up the whole room, which wasn't good.... But either that, the task was fun and improved our bonding with people we didn't know and also the people we always work with.

WALT identify the author’s purpose in a text

SC:

• Read the text
• Notice the author’s language
• Make a judgement whether it is:
• To Persuade
• To Inform
• To Entertain

Today we identified the authors purpose about the text. The hard part of the task was finding the clues and proving it was that answer. The easiest and fun part was checking if we were right about our answers.

AWS Worksheet

WALT convert weight measurements

SC:

• Identify suitable measurements involving weight
• Understand the differences between weights
• Convert weights between each other

Today we did Task 9 for measurement Level 4. The easiest part of the task was identifying suitable measurements involving weight. The hard part was Understanding the difference between weight and converting weights between each other.

Collaboration

Junior and I made a google doc about collaboration. The hard part of the task was making rules about collaborating. The fun part about the task was finding a video on Youtube. We can use this for google docs and we will learn how to finish tasks peacefully and quickly. You can visit Juniors blog at http://wisjuniorf.blogspot.co.nz/

Market Day

On Thursday 7th of September at Wesley Intermediate School we had Market Day, there were great stores opened, great food and brilliant art work and more, people were selling and customers bought nearly most of their stuff! The most success team in our class was Stan, Salati, Owen and Junior.They made nice juicy and beautiful burgers. They made $184, The thing I loved about Market day was the popcorn. The girls gave me free popcorn with chocolate swirl and m&m's. We had one mistake about our store, we forgot the butter and accidentally burnt our chocolate. But market day was awesome, I wish we could do it again!

Reciprocal Reading

WALT comprehend adventure novels

SC:

• Read the text
• Activate knowledge about the text
• Skim and scan for key information

This story was about a family that went on a camping trip with their family and their annoying cousin. My favourite part of the book was when the little cousin shines the light off and his uncle trips over a rock and falls. Skimming and scanning got to activate my knowledge about the text and connecting it to what happened in my world.

AWS Worksheet

WALT: Convert cm, mm, km and m.

My favourite part of the task was converting cm to mm because it was easy. The hard part was converting cm to m because 657cm is 6.57m.

Reciprocal Reading

• Predict what the story is about by using headings/pictures
• Ask questions about the text
• Clarify anything you have read that you don’t understand
• Summarise what the text was about

On Thursday we did reciprocal reading. My favourite part of reading was recapping and being "the boss" and also summarising what happened in the story. My least was (asking questions about the story) because I didn't remember the story well.

AWS Worksheet

Today I learnt how to find the maximum and minimum to decimal equations etc. 1.3(+-)1.4= 
Hardest part of the task was ± means ‘plus or minus’ because I thought it meant either take away or plus I choose.
The easiest part of the task was measuring and estimating the right measurement for mm.