The Mousetrap

In class for reading we have been doing informations webs but this time we had to create something else. It was to make a mousetrap! (for my group) we have been reading a fiction text called "The mousetrap" so instead of doing a information web we had to make a mousetrap, we could do it on anything I choose to do mine on a google drawing. 

When we are making the mousetrap it shouldn't harm the mouse it should just keep it trapped.

This is my mousetrap!

Come and Learn My Culture!

WALT: Investigate cultures and traditions within the class. 

In class we have been learning cultures and traditions and so we had to create and DLO about our culture (mine is the Philippines) which we had to include: family traditions, family recipe, national flower, traditional song folk tale and anthem. But if we didn't have one of those we didn't have to include them. 

What I enjoyed about this was making the whole thing because I get to say things about my culture!

What I found difficult was my family tradition because I had to ask my parents about it and the recipe.  

This is my DLO! 

Here are some questions!
Q: Where do you come from? 

Q: What's your family traditon?

Q: Would you do this if you would then why? 

Farmer Chas And His Dogs

WALT: Increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM.

In class we had to do another information web again, for another passage. I'm reading "Farmer Chas and his dogs." I choose to do mine on a mindmup again!

So we had to do a mindmup (but you can choose to do it on anything) about the information that we learnt in the story. We were still reading a non-fiction passage which is a real story. 

This is my information web!

Stop, Slow, Go!

WALT: Share what we explored with whanau.

Last term the school was learning about exploration. So last term we were looking at acids and bases and then experiments.

We were put into groups of three and we got to choose an any experiment to do from the four experiments to share to our parents for the celebration of learning! Our group choose the volcano one. This is the method of the experiment; Put dishwashing liqud into the cup then the food colouring and baking soda into the cup. Slowly start pouring the vinegar into the cup and then...STAND BACK!!

This was a first try we were trying to make it look like the a traffic light from the colours. But it was a fail and it ended up looking like diarrhea!! And it didn't really fizz much.

This was our group's second try it was much better than our first try and it also fizzed more and the colour was also much better and it didn't look like diarrhea..

This was my group at the celebration of learning day with all our stuff ready!

Last of all this is our group's slideshow it has all the information about the experiment, what we learnt and so on!

What I enjoyed about this was doing the experiment because even though it seems boring it was actually really fun but it was quite messy..

Learn my Taonga!

WALT: Define and identify our own 'Taonga'

In IL (Integrated Learning) we just started learning what Taonga is, if you don't know what it is, it's something that is very precious to you like treasure that belongs to you. But it doesn't always has to be an object, for example it could be for family, friends, country and more. 

So then after we learnt what it was we had a task which was to make google drawing or either draw on paper. But I choose to do it on google drawing because it was easier for me. So then we had to show what our Taonga is with pictures no words only pictures! We could do how much we wanted because it was our Taonga! 

I choose the two flags which one represents my country (Philippines) which is the blue and red one. 

And one represents the New Zealand flag. The reason why I choose this because those two countries are VERY valuable to me because in Philippines that's where I was born and in New Zealand that's where I live! 

I  choose the cross because Im Christian and I believe in God. And I would feel very offended if someone said something really bad about it because that's what I believe!

I also put in the three people which represents my family, the reason I choose this is because their my family of course but because their very precious to me and they also care for me very much. And their the reason why i'm alive on this earth! And they always make me smile!

I also choose the box full of hearts which are going out of the box, I choose this image instead of a heart because it shows my love for my friends and family it's also like i'm giving each one of them love.

I choose the symbol with the two people because it represents my best friends who care for me and because they remind me of my family. 

The last one I choose was a teddy bear, the reason why I choose that because it's actually very precious to me even though it's just a 'stuffed animal'. I also had it when I was five years old. So that's a lot of years that I have kept the bear and I still have it!!!

Anyways this is my google drawing! 

What's your Taonga?

Free Range Hens - Information Web

WALT: Increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM. 

It's term 4, and we are doing reading! So for this we had to read a passage which is a non-fiction text called "Happy Hens" but we had to call our information web "Free Range Hens" because they are. 

So I decided to do an information web on mindmup. This time it was pretty different because we had to put information not like the 6 elements which are: feelings, outcome, characters, settings, action and problem. We had to just add information about the passage. 

 This is my information web!