November 14

Cube nets

This week, we have been continuing with our 3D shape unit. We have been sketching cube nets and we have learnt that there are only 11 types of nets for cubes. We drew the nets on a math graph which our parents ordered.  We also went on this website were you had to say what net could form a cube and what couldn’t. We used things website to test the nets that we drew and see if they were right. 

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<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/356564688″>Winnie&rsquo;s cube nets</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/sasyear6″>SAS Year 5</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

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November 14

Final Exhibition Reflection

We had our exhibition night on Wednesday, 6th of November. The exhibition night was so fun. The hall was nearly full that you could not see anything.

 

When we first started exhibition, we had to choose a topic. I chose Climate Change because I knew some facts about climate change and I waned to find out more. Also, climate change saw is not just in one place, it is all around the world. In the tuning in stage, we had to write our central idea and lines of inquiry. My central idea was “ progress impacts community”. We had other central ideas that we could of used, but this one was the best. My first line of inquiry was and inquiry into climate change patterns, my second one was and inquiry into what cause climate change, my last on was an inquiry into how climate change effect things.

 

After we finished the tuning in stage, we went onto finding out. We also met our mentor teacher . My mentor teacher was my senior string teacher and we had the meetings in her music room. When we were researching the questions we wrote, we had to write down references. I found a lot of useful information like how climate change effects animals. We had to have a Primary source. My primary source was a person called Dr Phillip Roetman and we wrote a E-mail to him. On our E-mail, we wrote six questions that we couldn’t find the answer to or we needed more information to and we got a six page response from him!!!!

 

We had to make fact sheets after we found out information. The fact sheets goes in our wall we were going to have at the exhibition evening. I decided that my fact sheets were a little to plain so, I printed the fact sheets and added some decoration to it. It looked much better after. We also had other stuff like our art posters, our poems that we had to write, our 2 graphs that we created and little facts like “ Did you know that little changes in your house can make a difference?” Or “do you know what climate change is?”

 

We had to take action for our topic so my friend and I did a pledge which is when you promise something like using less hot water, growing a plant in your backyard, turn of electric devices when not in use or have a plastic free lunch box. You choose one of those to do and sign your name on a big piece of A3 card with the colour that is presented next to it. You get a little sticker depending on which colour you signed and then, the people who received the stickers can attract people to come to our stall. It was very successful because we got every that came to our stall to sign it and the page they signed their names on is covered signatures.

 

On the night, I was talking a lot of parents. During, we went over to the hall to set up our stall. We had to hang up our fact sheets, our art poster that what does made in art and much more. After that, we went to our stalls and half of the class pretended to be the friends and parents that were gong to come on the night. My friend bought in fairy lights and we turned them on once the parents came in. We also had some flowers on our desk to decorate it and we had a blue cloth since the table is all white and dull.

Exhibition will be a event that I will never forget.

October 25

100wc T4 W2

The topic for this week is “…..but where did it go?” She shouted……  Here is my story that I wrote.

 

I was on the plane with my family. We were flying to Melbourne. The plane landed and we gathered our stuff and walked out the plane door. When we were out, my sister shouted: “ where is my teddy!”. I had to find it or I would need to buy her a new one. Luckily, the plane hadn’t left, so we told the crew that we had left something on the plane and they let us in. We search for the seats but it wasn’t there. “ I left my teddy there, but where did it go?” she shouted. We went to buy my sister a teddy and when we were buying a teddy, we saw someone holding a teddy that was like my sister’s.

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October 16

100wc T4W1

The prompt for this week was it ‘it was heavy that I expected’

Here is mine

 

It was lunch and I was sitting down on the bench eating my sandwich. Suddenly, the school gates opened and a truck came in. The driver came out and dropped a box and drove away.  I ask what was inside the box and she said it was a surprise. I wanted to see what was, so when the principal left, I wrapped my hands around the box and lifted it up. It was only in the air for seconds when thud, it dropped, it was heavier that I expected it to be, so I left it. We saw what it was during Assembly, it was a box of plants.

October 16

100 WC T3W10

This week, the words are Bicycle, Desperate, Yellow, Warned  and  Greedily. The hundred word challenge has to be related to our exhibition topic. Here is mine. I hope you like it.

 

I warned you from time to time but you have not done anything about climate change. I am a nature and you will always need me. You have made the ice melt and the sea level rise. You let the yellowsun shine on the world. Your community have greedily used fossil fuel to power up their cars. To fix this, you can ride bicycles to reduce the gases in the air which cars, trucks and motorcycles produce. Nature is desperate for your help and if you help, I know we will make a strong team and fight climate change.

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September 23

Exhibition Week 9

This week, we have been making fact sheets for each line of inquiry we wrote and answered. So far I have done 2 fact sheet but we still need to read over the text and see if it makes sense. We have also been writing poems for our issue. We are not allowed to write acrostic poems because there to easy. I am stuck on writing a poem but I hope 🤞 I will think 💭 of one soon.

We have nearly finished our dance. You might know what our story is but for people who don’t know, it is heat vs cold. We just need to finish the ending and video it.

We have been making posters in art and making music for the exhibition in music. We haven’t started making the music since we had other things like ICAS so we will be starting soon. I can’t wait to start 😀.

September 16

Exhibition Week 7

Finding out

This week, when I was finding out, I found out that I didn’t have a primary source, so my teacher gave me one since he knows lots of people. I wrote my letter a few days ago, so our teacher could email him. On the email, we wrote questions that we couldn’t find the answer but we haven’t received a email back yet. My other sources were some websites like WWF and National Geographic. WWF had lots of information because it is about animals and one of my questions was “why are animals dying” and “how is climate change effecting animals”. Besides using using the iPads, I also used books to find out information like what is climate change or what are greenhouse gases.

Sorting out

We have also been sorting out. Sorting out is when we sort out our information into information we need and information we don’t need. My sorting out went ok but I didn’t get a lot done because I hadn’t answered all my questions.

Going Further

When I finished sorting out, we went on with going further. Going further is when we finish sorting out and see if we have anything that we didn’t answer. I realised that I hadn’t answer all my questions, so I went to websites and books to find out more. I am hoping to find out more next week or when I get home for independent study.

 

September 16

Graphs

This week for maths, we have been drawing graphs for the 5H birthdays. I drew a graph for 5H birthdays for each month label the y axis and the x axis. To improve, I think I could of used a ruler and colour in better. This is my first one.

For my second one, I used a ruler and I coloured in the rectangles better. The data is still the same but I made it better.

After that, I decided to find out what years were people born in. There was 7 in 2008, 11 in 2009 and 1 in 1980. I showed my teacher and he said that a bar graph wouldn’t be the best graph to do the years in so we suggested a pie graph. A pie graph is a bit trickier because you need to find out the angles of the people. Our teacher helped us make it and this is our pie graph.

To this

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September 12

Hundred word challenge T3 W8

BANG! The house next to me had its lights on. The woman inside the house shouted “robber!!”
So I raced out the door and I saw polices searching the house. I turned around to walk back to my house to sleep and I saw two statues facing each other. I just thought it was a statue that the women ordered since she loves statues. “Help!!” I screamed as the statues moved closer to me.
The police ran out and said “hands up or else,” so the robbers put their hands up and the police handcuffed him so the police could take them to jail.

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September 2

Isometric Drawing

Today we went on a site that we could make 3D shapes on.

There was a challenge that you could do. Most of us couldn’t work it out, our teacher, Mr Huebl couldn’t work it out either, so he got some lego blocks and built it with lego instead. It was really fun to build.

Winnie’s isometric shape from SAS Year 5 on Vimeo.

We also drew shapes on a piece of paper. We had to draw a rectangular  prism and then we had to draw the things that we built in the challenge. After that, we drew our own thing.

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