Thursday, 25 September 2014

Reading

WALT- identify structural features or characteristics.

I have been learning to identify structural features. Structural features are stuff like diagrams and captions and special print. The evidence that I am beginning to understand this Walt is that I can name 11 structural features that I identified in a story. 

Structural features
Diagrams
Glossary 
Map/key
Graphics/pictures
Subtitles
Title
Captions
Special print-bold, italics, underlined words
Photos
Labels 
Comparisons 

I think I understand this Walt better than I used to because now I can identify structural features.

My next step is to be able to name some structural characteristics.


Friday, 19 September 2014

Children shouldn't do homework.

W.A.L.T- use surface features in a well structured piece of writing.
W.A.L.T- write a persuasive argument.
Children SHOULD NOT do homework because IT'S A WASTE OF TIME. Some people just don't have enough time after school. For an example, what if your sister is just the most annoying brat in the world and just has to hog the family device every day after school? You won't be able to finish mathletics and biblionasium before five O'clock if that was the case now would you? Well I've got a solution.
Don't do it.

Every morning from Monday to Friday loads of kids will arrive at school expecting a hard, long day. Every afternoon they would come back feeling tired and exhausted because they have just done heaps of work at school, AND THEN, they will have to go back home and do even more work. Sheesh! How much work do we have to do? Plus, we are meant to relax when we go home. Adults do! Work just wears us out and gives us migraines. On the other hand, we do need to do a spot of homework no and then...

Kids can do homework while they are at primary to prepare for HighSchool. At HighSchool you will get HEAPS of homework. That is a fact. It probably won't just be maths and reading every week. There will be a variety of different types of homework piled onto your shoulders for every day of the week. That's a bit harder than mathletics and biblionasium ain't it? If you think they are hard already then you will have to get used to them. It's going to be much harder at HighSchool...

I STILL DON'T THINK CHILDREN SHOULD DO HOMEWORK AFTER SCHOOL. For one thing, if we don't do homework we won't have to worry about preparing for HighSchool because there won't be any tricky homework to prepare for. For another thing, it's a waste of the precious, already limited time we get to play and relax after school. For a THIRD reason, we already get heaps of work at school that we need to finish, and, for the forth and final thing, some people don't have enough time. You might have clubs, you might have important things to go to, you might want to play awesome games on your device and then run out of time to do homework, I could go on FOREVER! 

Overall, students shouldn't do homework because it's a waste of time and it wears us kids out.

The solo level I have reached for my surface features is extended abstract because I have used lots of surface features and I know why I used them. 

The solo level I have reached for my argument is relational because I have some ideas that are persuasive in my writing.

My next step is to make my speech a bit longer.

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

leadership

leadership

Last week during PALs me and my group played with the long jump rope and played chicken tag with the year ones to threes. We also played octopus. It was fun.

NEXT STEP

My next step is to get more people to play.

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Maths

W.A.L.T-devise a strategy to solve a whole number problem.

I have been learning to turn a question like 13 x what + 150 = 293 into 13n + 150 = 293. If you have to times a number, instead of writing it like 13 x you have to write it like 13n. If you want to divide a number, instead of writing n divided by 5= 2, you write it like n\5 = 2.

My next step is to work on harder equations and explain how to work them out with more detail. 

Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Narrative

W.A.L.T- use paragraphs in my narrative to sequence and organise my ideas logically.
W.A.L.T-write a modern day fairy tale with messages/morals that are important for today's children.
W.A.L.T- use surface features in a well structured piece of writing.
Bob got off his meaty smelling bed and staggered towards the dog flap. He REALLY needed to pee. It was probably the whiskey he'd drunk with Bert yesterday. Bobs paws stung with pain because of all the weight he was carrying on his bony legs. His tummy swayed around and it was making him look like a pregnant bulldog. Bob squatted above the ground. He kicked grass and dirt on top of the yellow liquid and staggered back up to his dog flap. He flopped onto the floor inside the house and stumbled into Bert's room. Bob jumped up and nipped Bert's hand.
"Bob!" yelled Bert. 
"Go away!"
Bob gave Bert the evils.
"Okay then" Bert sighed.
"Where d'ya wanna go? Burger King, Soyo, or Kentucky Fried Chicken?"
Bob growled. Bert groaned.
"FINE. But this is the last time."

Bert and Bob hopped out of their bacon smelling cart and scrambled into the ice cream shop. They came out a few minutes later with seven scoops of ice cream piled onto the new chocolate flavoured waffle cones and they skipped into their cart. The door slammed and the cart sped off.

"Oi Bob!" Yelled Bert.
"We've got mail! I've accepted a new job!"
Bert ripped a note out of an envelope and waved it in front of Bob's face.
Dear mister Bert, we have just received your answer and 
you are now the new delivery maid. As you should already
 know, you will have to wear a red cape as it is our work 
Logo. Your first delivery will be 14/9/14 - (tomorrow) and
we expect you to be fully equipt and ready by our doorstep
by 10am. Each delivery service will get you a full $3.00 - 
about $85.00 a month.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Shoplifter
"My job starts tomorrow!" Bert announced.

The next morning Bert and Bob arrived at Mr. Shoplifter's doorstep with matching extra extra extra extra extra large red capes. Bert was sweating.
"Few, Bob!" Panted Bert.
"These capes are REALLY tight!"
Bob growled in agreement.
"Aaagh. You are 'ere!" Mr. Shoplifter exclaimed.
Bert looked up and smiled uncertainly.
"Vell. Zere you go!" Mr. Shoplifter dumped a huge basket into Bert's arms.
"Zoze beeg bonez ov yourz vill ve very uzevull in zis job!"
Bert glowed with pleasure. Hardly anyone praises Bert about his size.
"Vell. Zee you later!" Mr. Shoplifter drawled.

"NO. NO WAY!" Bert yelled.
Bert was staring into a forest. There was a fancy letterbox with a shiny gold number on it. Bert looked onto his piece of paper. 7. He looked at the letterbox. 7. He took a deep breath. He held it.
Bert stepped into the forest. Step. Step. Step. His breath was shallow and raspy. He was almost there... Woo woo woo WOOOOOOOOO! Bert and Bob slowly rotated round. They were looking into the eyes of a ferocious wolf with frothy saliver dripping beneath his pointed fangs.
"Meat." He growled.
Bert and Bob waddled around to face the entrance of the forest. 
"Run!" Yelled Bert.
Bert and Bob hadn't even gone forward two steps before the wolf caught up.
"I is only haunting fat people like you!!" The wolf screamed.
"I isn't haunting fit people!" He howled
"Don't expect me to forget!"

Bert sunk into the drivers seat. "Bob, we are getting fit." He declared.

PWEEEEEP. Lap number one. PWEEEP. Lap number two. "Keep going Bob!" Bert yelled.
Bob waddled around the acorn tree a third time and collapsed onto the ground breathing loudly.
"Ookay. This isn't working is it?" Bert asked. 
He heard whining from the ground. Bert sighed impatiently. "I thought so."
He watched his fat dog roll on the ground.
"Bob, I think we are going to have to cut down on the junk food"
THREE YEARS LATER..........

"Want a banana Bob?"
A medium sized man emerged from the kitchen. He weighed 75 Kilograms and his favourite food was nectarines.
His dog raced into the kitchen. He weighed 5 kilograms and he likes having walks around the park. Since they had met the wolf, Bob and Bert have turned into two very fit guys.  
THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ 

The solo level I have reached for surface features is relational because I had a lot of full stops and speech marks in my writing.

The solo level I reached for my narrative is relational because I had a lot of ideas in my story.

My next step is to add more important characters.

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

leadership

Leadership

Today for PALs me and Ginny filled in for Shannons group.
We played duck duck goose and sneek up granny with lots of the little juniors.

Friday, 1 August 2014

Leadership.

I finally have a responsibility. I am doing PALs and its really cool because its probably one of the most easy responsibilities and you only have to waste 20 minutes every second week. And your kind of just playing games. My next step is to teach some other people how to play a new game.