Aboriginal Artwork | Art

Aboriginal art comes from Australia. Most of the aboriginal art told a story with the different symbols which made up something called a dreamtime story. Dreamtime refers to the Aboriginals belief of how things were created. 

Like how the kangaroo got its pouch is a dreamtime story and uses the aboriginal symbols to tell the story of how the kangaroo got its pouch.

We practised using symbols but we used dots instead of lines to make the art. Some of the symbols were: stars, travelling, footprints and waterholes. After we practised using the symbols we made our good copy and told a story that we experienced ( how the kagaroo got its pouch ).

The story I tried to tell was the life of a Koala. I used symbols like footprints ( which represent the Koala ), stars ( to represent the night sky ), a yellow star ( to represent the sun ), the symbol for man ( to represent a hunter ) and the symbol for boomerang ( to represent the hunters weapon ).

I enjoyed this activity and learned many new things about the Aboriginals, and their unique art designs that make up a dreamtime story.

LI: To create art that tells a story with traditional methods.

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retell a text.
This week for SSR Selfie my book was called light. My book is non-fiction book and it tells you about light, and some fun facts about light. I also had to answer questions like what the book title is, who the author is, who the illustrator or photographer is and more on the slide below.

Properties of Sound | Inquiry

Sound is created by vibrations. There are three properties of sound. They are:

The first property sound has is that it can travel around corners. This can be shown by standing around a corner from a sound meter.

The secound property sound has is that it can travel in all directions. This can be shown by standing all directions from a sound meter.

The third property sound has is that it dissipates ( gets quieter ) as it travels.This can be shown by using a sound meter that is closer and further away from you.

LI: To observe the properties of sound.

Basic Facts

This week for basic facts I had to answer questions that are related to addition, subtraction, multiplacation and division. I did Addition up to 100 because I wanted to challenge myself.

LI: To remember basic maths facts.

Adjectives | Writing

Adjectives are words for modifying nouns. There are three different types of adjectives which are: absolute, comparative and superlative.

Absolute adjectives modify sentences by itself. For example "The loud boy". 

Comparative adjectives describe something that is similar to another. For example "The louder boy". 

Superlative adjectives say that something is at the top of a quality. For example "The loudest boy". 

Adjectives can make sentences more interesting.

LI: To learn about adjectives.

South Pacific Beats | Reading

South Pacific Beats is about a designer called Rachael Hall who designed an instrument called the Pato. The Pato is a modern version of the lali which is a Tongan drum.

She used two machines to create her Pato, she used a lathe to shape the body of the Pato and a milling machine to carve out the channel.

She made the Pato to bring the South Pacific rythms to the digital age.

I took a test for my understanding of the South Pacific Beats article, my score was 15/27

Measurement Length | Maths

Length is how long an object is. The standard forms of measurement are millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), metres (M) and kilometres (km). Common tools for measuring somethings length are: rulers or measuring tape.

Estimating means to have a educated guess on something. For example, measuring a table with pencils and the result could be 10 pencils, then measure the pencil on a ruler. Then esimating it can be easier and close to the actual reasult.

To convert centimetres into millimetres you times it by 10 (x10). If you're converting centimetres into metres then you divide it by 100 (÷100). For example, measuring the table and it was 20cm long, then times it by ten to convert it into millimetres ( 20 x 10 = 200 ). The same works for dividing it into metres, it has to be divided by 100 ( 20 ÷ 100 = 0.2 ).

LI: To explore standard forms of length 

Light and Sound | Inquiry

This week we needed to activate our prior knowledge on the science topic of light and sound.

After Mr Wong briefly demonstarted these two concepts I understood my prior knowledge to be; light illuminates things, and sound creates noises you can hear.

Next I used this prior knoweledge to find images that create light and sound on put them on a Google Drawing. We then connected the images with what they make ( light or sound ). We needed a minimum of 20 images on the Google Drawing.

Lastly I wrote how the images I put on the Google Drawing make either light or sound.

I found this activity very educational because it made me think outside the box.

LI: To demonstrate prior knowledge.

Basic Facts Boxes

This week for basic facts I had to answer questions that are related to addition, subtraction, multiplacation and division. I did Addition up to 100 because I wanted to challenge myself.

LI: To remember basic maths facts.

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retell a text.
This week for SSR Selfie my book was called Human Body. My book is non-fiction book and it tells you about the human body, and some fun facts about the human body. I also had to answer questions like what the book title is, who the author is, who the illustrator or photographer is and more on the slide below.

Scanning | Reading

Scanning is a reading strategy that helps you understand a text. Scanning is used to look for specific information.

To scan I first need to look through the contents of the book. If the article didn't have a contents page then move on.

After that I found the heading. Then I looked for the keywords and read the sentence that had the keyword.

Scanning can help you understand texts better.

LI: To scan the article South Pacific Beats for specific information.

Nouns, Proper Nouns and Pronouns | Writing

All objects have a name. There are three different kinds of nouns: nouns, proper nouns and pronouns.

Nouns are the names of object ( table, chairs or paper ), proper nouns are names given to unique objects or company's ( Newsroom, Peppa Pig or Papa Clothing ), pronouns are a general word given to an object person, or group of objects or people.

Nouns should be written in lower case letters, proper nouns should be written in capital letters and pronouns should be in lowercase.

All nouns can help people with their vocabulary.

LI: To learn about nouns, proper nouns and pronouns. 

Measurement | Maths

Measurement has two forms; Standard, Metric and Imperial and Non Standard.

Standard metric measurement includes length, weight and volume. These are measured in mm, cm, M, km, g, kgs, t, ml and L. Measurement can also be done with non standard items as shown in the attached google presentation.

Measurement is using a range of tools to find information out about an object(s).

LI: To list the standard forms of measurement.

Maths | Maths patterns

Last week the people in Mr Ogilvie's maths groups had to create a pattern using the times tables. We created pattern on a google drawing, shown below.

The pattern shown below is the six times tables, the number sequence is 6,3,9, Because 1 x 6 = 6 ( 0 x 6 = 6 ), 2 x 6 = 12 ( 1 + 2 = 3 ), 3 x 6 = 18 ( 1 + 8 = 9 ), and so on.

Patterns are a repeated design, each pattern loops, so if a design doesn't loop back to the begining, it isn't a pattern.

There are loads of patterns in the times tables, I showed those patterns in my last math blog post.

LI: To identify patterns in our timestables.

Maths | Timestable patterns

LI: To identify patterns in our timestables.
This week people in Mr Ogilvies maths' groups had to figure out the pattern for the times tables. People think the times tables patterns are hard, but most of them are actually similar.

Each time table has a pattern, like with the nine times tables, the tens go up, but the ones go down. The patterns are just like skip counting.