In Room 10′s writting block we have been learning about procedural texts. We have written raps about what we have learnt and we think they are pretty cool!
Gaby and Maggie performed their rap at assembly this morning and did an excellent job! Well done girls.
Here is their rap:
Verse 1
Procedural texts aren’t that hard to write,
Once you get it like that you can do it in a night.
Procedural texts are cool they’re in this season,
But they all need to have a reason
You need a procedure for a recipe
You also need command verbs to let it be.
Chorus:
Twist, shout, spin and turn, this is a rap that helps you learn.
Pour, sift, mix and add
The more you learn command verbs the more you’re glad glad glad.
Procedural text is what I said
She Said, I said, She Said, I said.
Procedural text is what I said
She Said, I said, She Said, I said.
Word!
Verse 2
If you’re gonna have instructions you want them to be clear
Go and get command verbs and bring them over here.
If you write more procedural texts, the more you will get better.
You’ll know them so well, you won’t miss a letter!
In Term 2 as part of our Integrated Inquiry History Projects Grade 5/6 students at Quarry Hill participated in a Pilot Program at Melbourne Museum. This project resulted in creating an interactive History Website resource which was launched this week .
Here is Sophie’s Recount;
On Monday 17th October we got up early and got on the 7:45am train to Melbourne. We got off at North Melbourne station and hopped on the city loop to Parliament Station. We then walked to Melbourne museum for the launch of the “Making History Project.” We met up with the other schools and listened to a speech by the Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Mrs Inga Peulich and we received a certificate for our participation and got photos. We were lucky to have a yummy morning tea of scones with jam and cream and orange juice in wine glasses. We got to have a look at a few other schools entries on the computers. After this we caught a tram to Southern Cross station and had lunch at the food court. I had sushi, really yummy sushi! All up, the day was great fun and a good experience. It was nice to see our school recognised by the museum. We also got on Channel 10 news!
This week in class we listened to the storybook, Private I. Guana by Nina Laden and we had to write a peom in response to the book. We could write any type of peom (eg. Acrostic Poem, Rhyming Poem Etc.) We discovered that Private I. Guana was quite a smooth, funny detective who is a little cheesy. – By James S
Here are some of our poems;
Good for unexpected cases.
Underestimated, he is never seen as a detective.
Anti-social is a good skill for a detective.
Never giving up on a case.
And he loves fried grasshoppers.
By Ben G
Pouncing straight to the culprit
Right onto the case
Inventive and Innovative
Vile and Evil
Also sounds very hoarse
Thinks from every angle
Epicly Awesome
Is Always Thinking
Great Detective
Ugly to look at
A Hit With The Laidies
Nothing To Hide
A Great Thinker
By James S
Private I Guana Poem
Private at all times.
Risky when he has to be.
Investigates all crime.
Very sneaky at times.
Active all the time.
Truthful to all.
Everything he sees and hears he records in his mind.
These past two weeks we have been working on recognising Facts and Details in our reading. In writing we have continued to refine our information reports and are getting very good at making them sound professional and full of relevant facts and technical words. So far we have written an information report about Dugongs, Tooth Decay, a topic of choice and a deadly sea animal. We have been busy.
In Maths we have now started our new focus on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.
How many everyday fraction problems can you think of? Can you share one for us to solve?
So far in term 3 5/6 have had lots of events! We had netball, football, basket ball, School’s Spectacular and Beneath the Southern Seas Incursion. The netball was a fun day at the Bendigo Stadium for grade six students. School spectacular was a practice session in Melbourne for the upcoming School Spectacular in September. Our Beneath the southern seas was an incursion for grades prep to 6. It was all about our ocean life.
We have had a fantastic start to Term 3!
This week we have been very busy across all our subject areas.
In Week 1 Readingwe have been focussing on finding and interpreting the ‘Main Idea’ of sentences, paragraphs and texts. Next week we will be learning about the differences between ‘Facts and Details’ that support the main ideas.
In writing we have been learning about the language features and structure of information reports. We have used graphic organisers to sort facts and then write a report about Dugongs.
In Maths we have been exploring the concept of measurement. We have been learning about converting metric measurements and problem solving. We are now beginning to explore other aspects of weight and time.
Coming up next week we have our choir heading off for a Schools Spectacular Rehearsal. We also have a Football Clinic, Netball Clinic, Gymnastics starting and Energy Breakthrough applications will open! Busy Busy Busy!!
Grade 5/6′s – what is something you have learnt this week, what are you proud of?
The Topic: Volume – we have been looking at cubic centimetres, what does a cubic metre look like? The Task: Create 1metre cubed using only masking take and newspaper.
The learning journey and process…
Hayley:
Making the metre cube was actually quite scary believe it or not. The thought of knowing that only masking tape was holding the frame together was worrying.
What our whole group discussed in the planning stage was rolling up newspaper to make the frame. We thought that the newspaper is quite strong when rolled up.
Our team worked really well together, and I guess there were different roles for each person.
We had to use multiplication to find out how many roles we needed to make and how many metre rolls. The strategies we used were supporting the rolls, while another person pressed the masking tape together and using heaps of masking tape.
What I would do differently is try to make a little bit thinner newspaper rolls, and try and tell everyone to stop worrying about filling in the frame with newspaper. The problems the team faced were news paper rolls bending and collapsing a little bit.
I can’t decide which part was my favourite. It was all really fun. What we found most difficult was the newspaper rolls were collapsing. The most disappointing thing was when we came back from recess and found out that ours had collapsed, and only one was left still standing. We didn’t mind that they won, because we all had fun!
Creating a Cubic Metre on PhotoPeach
Liam
Reflection Writing – One Metre Cubed
We discussed that we would use cylinders for the frame and to make the faces for the metre cubed model first.
I think our teamwork went really well. We did not have specific rolls because sometimes one person would get annoyed with the job that they were on so we alternated.
The only strategies we had was to build the cylinders first then put it together from the bottom to the top.
If I did this task again I would listen to the instructions better because we thought that we had to make a closed cube. So we wasted about half of our paper on making one of the faces of the cube.
The only major problem was that we weren’t using our paper wisely so I had to go and get about double the amount of paper we started with.I really liked rolling up the newspaper but I did not really like how our poles kept on bending then they did not even stand up.
Brayden
At the start we were discussing our plan about what strategy we would use to make our cube and about how to do our measurements.
I suppose there were many different roles that everyone had so that we didn’t do the cube wrong.
The maths knowledge we had to know was multiplication, height, length and width.
In this task we needed to know how to roll up the paper just right and also how to get the joint done correctly.
If we were to go back and do this task again, we would try to make the frame stronger.
We faced some problems like broken scissors and thick newspaper but in the end we all had lots and lots of fun.
I enjoyed working in a team with wonderful people.
Hainsley
In the making of the 1 metre cube my team discussed about what we were going to do about the structure. We thought of making a big cube but in the end we decided so that the structure should just be a skeleton of the cube.
Our team worked extremely well in the rolls because we were all good at our own parts and we worked really well as a team.
We needed to know how to make a metre out 30 cm rulers and we also need to know how long a metre is.
Some strategies that we used were rolling up the newspaper and we chopped of the ends that were too long and we stuck them on the ones that were too short.
If we could do the task again next time I would put little tubes in between the 2 longer tubes so it would be much stronger.
Some challengers were that some of the tubes of newspaper were really floppy so we had to put another couple of newspaper over them.
I mostly really enjoyed working really well with my team and I found it most difficult when me and my team tried and failed to stick the tubes into the skeleton.
Some of you may have noticed that we have currently removed our videos and photo slide shows from the blog. We have recently sent out a permission note in regards to our blog as we have realised the importance of parental permission in using web 2.0 applications and we will wait until this has been completed before we re-publish them.
We hope you can see the value in equipping the student’s with 21st century ICT skills, whilst also teaching internet safety and showcasing our learning.
Should you have any questions about our blog, it’s purpose, the programs we are using or anything else ICT related in regards to school please do not hesitate to contact your childs teacher.
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It is hard to believe just how much we packed into our week in Canberra.
Lets take a vote to see which were the favourite activities. In order for us to get realistic results it is important that you please only vote ONCE and only if you attended camp.
Please leave a comment to let us know why a certain activity was your favourite…
Firstly thank you so much for all the comments; it is fantastic and exciting to know that people are following our Canberra adventures. Whilst the student’s do not have internet access at the moment we have been passing on your comments which they love.
Finally in the evening we headed back to the motel for dinner before heading out for an evening view of Canberra from the Telstra Tower viewing deck on Black Mountain.
Everyone is doing great, but definitely getting more tired as the week goes on. Tomorrow we visit Parliament House and the Australian War Memorial.
