Flatting Assignment!

Inquiry Project!

I did my inquiry on the Bermuda triangle.

Narrative!

My narrative was called 'The Mirror in the Attic'. It was about a girl called Lilac who finds a mirror and steps through it. When she gets through she realises that she can't get back to her own land. She meets a white rabbit called Bandit that can talk. They go through all the different lands in search for the key that will get Lilac home.

Pick-A-Path!

We each did a Pick-A-Path about anything we wanted. Mine was called 'Death on Your Doorstep'. 

Novel Study!

My Novel Study was about a book called The Dog, Ray. We had to do 6 or more activities for it.

P.E. Game Invention - Tennis Tag!

Caitlin, Taylor Bridget and I made a game up. The goal was to make up a game that does not exist. We made a game called:

Tennis Tag!

Instructions:                           

You start with two people in.

They have to go around tagging people. If you get tagged then you get a ball and stay still. If there is someone running past you can throw the ball at them. If the ball hits them, they sit down and you stand up. If you miss, you retrieve the ball and keep trying to get others.

Rules:

1.There is going to be two safe places inside hula hoops. You can go in there if you think that you are going to get tagged

2.There is a maximum of 2 people allowed in the hula hoop at a time.

3. You have to have 2 feet in the hula hoop otherwise you can get tagged

4.You have to get out of the hula hoop when the taggers ask for the next people to run

5. If you get tagged you must sit down and use the tennis ball to tag other people who aren’t in yet.

6. You must be honest or know one will want to play with you

Equipment:

• 2 Hula Hoops
• 30 tennis balls
• Cones
• Individual but need 2 taggers

Science Tech!

Probability Snail Game

Maths: Snail Race 

Results: When we played the game 7 came 1st, 6 came 2nd and 5 came 3rd. 

4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 are more likely to win than 1,2,3,11 and 12. 

 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 are the best to get because they can get rolled with doubles or other combinations of numbers. 1,2,3,11 and 12 are the worst because you have 2 dice so 1 is impossible to get and 2 is really hard to get because you have to roll a 1-1 which is really hard(number 2 only went up one space in our game) and it is hard because it is also hard to get 12 because you need to get a 6-6 which is also hard to get. 3 and 11 are also hard because you have to get 1 equation to get it.

 How to play: 

1. Set up your board with 12 'snails'   
2. Make sure someone is in charge of moving each snail 
3. Take turns rolling two dice and add the numbers together 
4. Move that number snail one place along the board 
5. Keep playing until 3 snails have crossed the finish line 
6. Record the 1st(5 pts), 2nd (3 pts) and 3rd(1 pt) 
7. Play the game at least 5 more times to see which number wins the most  

Fractions: 1-0/21 2-1/21 3-1/21 4-2/21 5-2/21 6-3/21 7-3/21 8-3/21 9-2/21 10-2/21 11-1/21 12-1/21

This is the table the class made together for which dice is the most likely to win a 
game. We all thought that 6,7 and 8 would be the most but it turned out that it was just 7.

Cross-country!

On Tuesday, we did cross-country. The year 7 girls went first. The track was 2.7km and we ran on the road, through the reserve and across the field. I got the stitch just after I finished going through the reserve. I came 39th. After training for 4 weeks, I expected to at least come in the top 35. But I am happy that I came 39th because it was out of at least 100 girls.

Electronics!

Mandarin!

Today we learnt about our family tree. We learnt how to say our family's names and how to say other things. Here is my family tree:

Ovenless Awesomeness!

Today in Ovenless Awesomeness we made rocky road.

Rocky Road 

Ingredients
70g butter
1 1/2 Tbsp golden syrup
100g dark chocolate
50g marshmallows
100g biscuits
handful of cranberries

Method
Chop up the marshmallows and cranberries, crush the biscuits and add them together. Melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup and mix it with the other mixture. Roll it into a log and then put it into the fridge. Yum!😀

No.1 Pet (Snake!)

Persuasive Writing! 

The Number 1 Pet (Snakes!)

Intro: Snakes are evil, wild beasts. No one wants one of them. They are poisonous and deadly! Well what if I told you that most snakes aren't deadly or poisonous and that snakes are actually a common pet to have? Hear us out and you will like snakes after all.

Reason 1: Did you know if you go to special places overseas you can hold snakes? When they are tamed of course! Once they are tamed you could play with them and even dress up your snake. (If your snake likes being dressed up.) Heaps of people hold snakes all the time without having the snake's mouth taped or strapped incase of it biting. Believe it or not people even try teaching snakes tricks. So snakes aren't actually as vicious as you think they are.

Reason 2: Small snakes like the Thread Snake eats the eggs of ants and centipedes. A medium snake like the Tree Boa, eats mostly all insects. Yellow Rat snakes eat rats and mice. All snakes swallow their food whole so forget seeing half a rat left in your house by cat or dog, and say hello to a snake.

Reason 3: Surely you understand the slight annoyance of having chew toys around the place, animal fur over clothing or furniture, but Snakes don't make messes. Snakes are really neat. All you need to do is leave them in their cages or tanks.

Reason 4: Sure snakes need special heating and other things to keep them alive and all, but after you have those things you don't need to worry about them. Just make sure they have water and food - and the cage door shut - and then you're fine.

Conclusion:  You don’t want to spend heaps of money on food, or clean up after your pets when they are finished eating. You want a nice animal that you can dress up and pat, if you don’t wanna mess around your house you need a snake. There is no other animal like a snake on earth so go buy a snake now!!!

By Catherine, Zoe, Caitlin & Bridget

Mandarin lessons

In Mandarin we learnt how to say our own names. Mine is Zuo yi which translates to Zoe. We also learnt about how to greet each other. Here is an example:

Jiāmíng: Nĭ hǎo! = Hello!
Bĭdé = Peter : Nĭ hǎo! nĭ jiào shén me = Hello! What's your name?
Jiāmíng: Wŏ jiào Wáng Jiāmíng. nĭ ne? My name is Jiaming. And you?


And the conversation goes on...

Electronic Tech - Soldering!

 

In Electronic tech we have be soldering. You have to heat a soldering stick onto plastic and put the wires onto it. It was tricky but it got easier on the second try.

Comparing and Ordering Decimals

Today Taylor and I compared and ordered decimals. We took some cards out of the pack and randomly made them into a decimal and then we ordered them. Eg: 

Emergency Survival Kit

Get Ready Get Thru says we should be prepared for an emergency with a torch or light for our emergency kit.

Mandarin Lessons

Today Tracey from China came and taught us some Mandarin which is the main language in China. Nihao is hello in China and Nihao Ma is how are you. Here is a song that she taught us.

Picasso Art

 

Picasso Art 

In Room 20 we have been doing our art around picasso style. Picasso did his art in a weird way- the eyes were different shapes, the head was completely different to real humans and some colours didn't go well together. He lived up to 91 and his first name is really long- 23 words! Picasso was born on October 25th 1881 in the city of Malaga, Spain. 

For our art we first had to roll a di. It would land on a number and that would be the facial feature we used. It was really fun and mine turned out really good except for the eye which got smudged with pink.

Hard Materials Tech - USB

 Hard Materials Tech 

At Hard Materials Tech we have been making covers for a USB stick. I made mine in the shape of a netball. We had to come up with 2 ideas to choose from. I did chocolate and a netball. Then we had to make a wooden design to test it and see what we could improve or if we liked it the way it was. I decided to add engraving on the other side.  Then Mr Sutherland made our plastic ones and they turned out to be really cool.