Today for maths we were given a maths task. This task was based around fractions. We had to answer the questions that were on the presentation. This task was easy, because we answered these sort of questions last year. I enjoyed this task, alot. Hope you enjoy, and learnt something knew aswell.
Today, we did a activity related to team work. We got put into groups of 4, to make it easier we grouped up with the people in out table. My group was Lincoln and Simon. We had to work together and try to make a boat/raft, out of straws, our extra items, were tape, and scissors. Each group had to make a boat that could hold a plastic animal, and can float in a bucket of water. Our group successfully completed the activity, and got awarded points.
We decided to wrap all the straws in tape. Because we thought the more tape we added the more chance our boat had of floating in the water. We also, taped down our plastic animal, just so it won't fall off.
Heres a photo, of our boat.
Today we had our first Extension session for term 2. Ms. West made a presentation, with questions based on Earth. The question that was my favourite was ( what are some reasons that earth could become uninhabitable? ). We each had to answer all of the questions that were given to us.
After we answered all that questions, we had to pick a topic on what we will be researching about this term. We had the choice to either work independently or in pears. I'm working in a pear with Norah-Jade , and what we are going to research about is, Why is Earth the only planet that we know has life. We chose this topic, because we wanted to find out why, and how they made Earth a living planet.
Feel free, to check out Norah-Jade's for more information about this.
Our theme for this term is Watch the Space.
This is a inquiry based task, and it was all about my knowledge I have of the Earth. I had to write what I already knew, and what I wanted to know, and then I researched the answer. I hope your enjoy as well as learn something knew.
On the 24th of march, the extension group went for a walk around our area. We went to mark some good spots, so that we know where to go, and the right places to put our activity's that we planned, in our groups. The video above, shows the walk that we went on, and seeing the different places we went to, and the things we planned, we are doing this so that the people walking around, and passing through the areas we put our little activity, can have some fun, the kind of activity's we planned, were Connect the dots, Word Search, and more things like Treasure hunts. In my small group were Me, Simon, and Oalii.
