Showing posts with label home learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home learning. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 November 2015

What's going on in this photo - Week 4

Here is this weeks photo for our finding details and giving reasons for those details exercise.


  • What’s going on in this picture?
  • What do you see that makes you say that?
  • What more can you find?



Write your answers in the comments, write in full sentences, think about Who, What, Where, Why, How details and tell me as much as possible. You can also respectfully comment on, or refer to, other people’s answers. You might agree with them and add more detail to support their answers or you might have another opinion that you can support with other reasons. 

Who is in the picture? What are they doing? What are they feeling? Where are they? Why are they  there?  Why are they feeling that way?  Don't forget your conjunction "BECAUSE". 

UPDATE:
This week’s image is from the April 25, 2013 "Pictures of the Day" post on the Lens blog. All four living former presidents joined President Obama during the dedication ceremony at the George W. Bush Presidential Library in 2013. The original caption reads:
Silvio Berlusconi, center, the former prime minister of Italy, during the dedication ceremony at the presidential library.

This was not the first time Mr. Berlusconi was caught sleeping at official ceremonies!!

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

What's going on in this picture?

I have been asking you lots of questions around giving me more details either when answering questions in reading, or when writing your setting and character descriptions. To practise finding details, look at the picture below and answer these three questions.   

What is going on in this picture?
What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?



Write your answers in the comments, write in full sentences, think about Who, What, Where, Why, How details and tell me as much as possible. You can also respectfully comment on, or refer to, other people’s answers. You might agree with them and add more detail to support their answers or you might have another opinion that you can support with other reasons. 

Who is in the picture? What are they doing? What are they feeling? Where are they going? Where have they been? Why are they going there? Why had they been there? Why are they feeling that way? How did this happen? Don't forget your conjunction "BECAUSE". I think they are going away from the beach because ... (including evidence from the picture).

For example, Bob might say he thinks these people are happy to be here because they appear to be walking casually, Sarah might say she thinks they are unhappy because they are all bowing their heads, looking at the ground. As long as you can justify your comments, there are no wrong answers. This is a details finding exercise.

The actual caption was:
Swimmers walked across a beach covered by seaweed in Qingdao, in eastern China. Beaches in Qingdao have been plagued by seaweed from the Yellow Sea the last several summers.
The Times reports about the algae bloom in this article, writing: 
In what has become an annual summer scourge, the coastal Chinese city of Qingdao has been hit by a near-record algae bloom that has left its popular beaches fouled with a green, stringy muck.
The State Oceanic Administration said an area larger than Connecticut had been affected by the mat of “sea lettuce,” as it is known in Chinese, which is generally harmless to humans but chokes off marine life and invariably chases away tourists as it begins to rot.
Some beachgoers appeared to be amused by the outbreak, at least according to the Chinese news media, which in recent days have featured images of swimmers lounging on bright green beds of algae, tossing it around with glee or piling it atop of one another as if it were sand.
Local officials, however, are less enthusiastic.

Monday, 7 September 2015

Prototec Maths

Here is the website that you may find useful for practicing your basic facts

PROTOTEC

Give it a go, try both the sheet and timed test type.  The sheet version will give you a sheet of all of the questions that you can answer and when it is marked it will give you a time it took for you to complete it.  The timed version gives you one question at a time and changes every three seconds.  Just like the basic facts testing we do in class.

Most of you will be at stage 5 or 6.

Monday, 17 August 2015

Hotsteppa!! Homeplay challenge

This week we have Hotsteppa for homeplay challenge.  Give his challenges a go and tell us about them below.  Did you hit your target?  Did you beat your time on your sprint track?  Were the games easy?   Don't forget to sign off with your name and use full sentences.  The videos explaining what to do are below.




Sunday, 9 August 2015

Home play challenge week 2

Criss Cross is our home play challenge player this week.
Have fun trying out her activities!!





Saturday, 1 August 2015

Electricity Home Learning

Have a bit of fun building and growing a virtual city on www.electrocity.co.nz Learn about using natural resources to help grow your city while also changing the environment. Use the code MJ33781

at the end of your game to save it. Record your final score below after 150 turns! See if you can better Mrs Johnson's score of 81. Make sure you keep your environment points at 25!  You can search the finished cities using Te Totara in the school space to see how your class mates are going, and what Mr Jordan's class did last week.  (Unfortunately not able to be played on iPads)

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Matariki

Matariki is a time for remembering those who have passed, planting new crops and celebrating new beginnings.  Sharing a meal is an important part of these celebrations. On Wednesday we are going to have a Matariki day in the Marama pod, celebrating with our friends, including having a healthy shared lunch.  As we learn about the Matariki celebrations, it would be wonderful to hear about some of the celebrations you participate in at home.  Share below a celebration your family participates in and any traditions you may have associated with that celebration.  Remember to comment in full sentences and sign off with your name.

Monday, 8 June 2015

Home Learning Week 8

Write a comment about how you are enjoying the process of designing and creating muesli bars. 
I expect to see that you have written about the positives, negatives and interesting parts of the process. This should be at least three sentences long. 
Make sure you write in full sentences and check your spelling and punctuation. Finish your comment with your name.

Monday, 20 April 2015

Home Learning Week 1

This week I want you think about ANZAC Day.

Why is it important for us to remember ANZAC Day?
What can you do as a child to show your respect for those who fought in the war?

I look forward to hearing your responses. Please think carefully about this and write more than a few sentences. This very special day deserves your time and thoughts.


Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Home Learning Week 6

Your task this week is to do a Google Search for an image of a plant and find out it's name, or look in your garden and take a photo!  Print out the picture and bring it into school with the plant name written on it. If you don't have a printer at home you can print out your images at school from the i-pad.

Write a comment here on the blog that includes the name of your chosen plant and a description of it.
For example:

I have chosen a Rose from my Nana's garden. It has dark green leaves that are the shape of….

Monday, 2 March 2015

Home Learning Week 5

Mid Term Reflection
- Your task this week is to think very carefully about how you are going in school at the moment. What are you finding challenging? What are you enjoying? What are the things you need to work on?
Write a comment that includes an explanation of all of these things.
Don't forget - Capital letters, full stops - check it makes sense before you press 'publish'.

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Home Learning Week 4

Have a look at this image and read the text around it. 


Choose one part that you really like and explain why you think this is important. Make sure your comment is different to everyone else's. 
You may like to discuss this with someone at home.

Please proof read your comment before you publish it. Make sure you have capital letters and full stops in the right place and that each word is spelled correctly. 


Monday, 16 February 2015

Home Learning Week 3

Your Home Learning task this week is to write one way that you will show the STARS while online. 

You need to read what others have written and write something different to them.

Think about:
Smart Decisions
Trying our Best
Always Learning
Respectful
Self Managing

For Example: I will be respectful when online, by reading other people's comments and replying to them with learning related feedback.