Bee Themed?

 This week our focus for mostly everything is Bees. Our reading task this week is summarizing a book about bees. This week our teacher set up our summarizing page so that we could write everything down and post it two our blog in two days. We learnt about this because we did an experiment on bees to see how they picked up pollen.This activity wasn't the easiest because at the start I never really understood summarizing but this time I really started to understand it.  It would be really helpful it you could comment on this blog post and tell me what I have done well. Bye 

Art Representing Japan

 Do you know what a Pagoda is? Or do you know why cherry blossoms are so important to Japan? and If  don't know I can tell you facts and information about these things and why we did this artwork. So first of all we did this artwork because of the Olympics in Japan. For our learn create share we had to  learn about their flag. Like you mite not have knew that the red dot on the Japanese flag is the rising sun.

Earlier I was talking about a Pagoda for those of you who don't know what it is  it's a Religious building that people use for religious purposes. They are a big part of Asia (and Japan) because they are a very sacred place. Japanese people like cherry blossoms because it represents the start of new things. And people go and have picnics when they start to bloom.

Tons of facts about Japan

 As you should know ,The Olympic games has been on and Is held in Japan. So we decided that we would learn about the games. We have been researching and reading books about Japan to put on our slides.These slides have to be Japanese themed. There were lots of slides to choose from that we had to pick for our topics. We had to choose 4 to 6 slides and add about 3 to 6 facts for that topic which is Japan based.I think our task this week was Challenging because we had to put them into big sentences or paragraphs, not short sharp facts. 

Have you ever been to the Olympics?

 You should know that the Olympics are on and are being hosted in Tokyo. So we have been learning about it and have been researching and reading interesting stories about the Olympics .

This reading task has been very changeling because my goal was to get five facts down on every slide and I did do that but I have been work after school and in my own time to get it done.I loved learning about the Olympics because I am competitive in my sports that I play and I love it because It's a worldwide challenge and we get to join in.

Did you know that before gold was first place it was silver ? Or did you know that the first modern Olympic games were in 1896? There are so facts about the Olympics. Now go check out my slides to learn more interesting facts about the Olympics.I would love it if you could give me some feedback on my slides to see how well I did with my research .

A poem about my tongue

 At the start of every week our class starts different types of writing with a different focus. This week our focus was writing a poem about our favorite body parts.  I had a hard time with planning and on deciding what my best body part was because I love all my body parts because they are all useful.  I really enjoyed writing my poem  more than I expected to. I have never written a poem before and have especially never written one about my favorite body part. 

When most of us finished our poems the teacher made them black and white and put them on our photo and media page. We all put our black and white photos on the slide that the teacher made for everyone and we added a black and white background to match. 

The next day when we walked into class our poems were hanging up on the ceiling and everyone was looking for theirs. This is how we created our poems! I would be interested to hear your comments about whether you have written a poem before and what was it about ? 

How high will it fly?

 Today we're doing some crazy science we are learning how to use a Aqua pod. I think the Aqua pod will go at least 5 or 6 meters high because I seen people do it before I think  if we do the same thing it will work. So it turned out if did go about the height I guessed let me walk you through the steps we used to make the aqua pod go flying. Do you know what a Aqua pod is? It's basically a orange launch pad for the bottle and something for the pump to connect to.

Firstly you have to fill your bottle (with water) to about 1/3  then you get the aqua pod and tip it upside down so the the water wouldn't spill when you screw the bottle onto the valve. There is a black rubber seal on the valve to stop the water from leaking and dripping.

Secondly you have to connect the  pump to anthor valve and pump it eight times. Then you pull the string and with the pressure for the air that had been pumped into the bottle it make it blast of into the sky. And that's what we did with our Aquapod here's a photo of it.

Not your normal sort of golf

This week we have been learning how to find area and perimeter. This is new to me so it was hard to understand it at first but after we watched a video called How to Find Area and Perimeter I started to understand. After we watched the video our teacher showed us where and how to make the golf course.

I found it really easy because Miss Hickling labeled everything out for us so we could drag and then measure the grass blocks. I didn't really find it hard but it was sort of difficult to understand how to add the measurements. I enjoyed putting the obstacles on the golf course to make it look cool.

Do you know how to measure area and perimeter? If you don't , have a look at the video it will teach you a lot.