Greek Gods

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the Greek gods 

Today David shared his reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. We earn CARE award badges in year 7 and 8 to show that we understand our school values. In this activity we used our smart searching skills to find information to help us complete the table. I found this activity fun because I got to learn about lots of the greek gods. The Greek god I found most interesting was Ares because it tells me how he is god of war.

Luxury

  L.I To use metaphors and the five senses to describe the abstract noun.

Here is a link to my DLO if you would like to see it closer

Our task was to create a DLO of writing a poem using a  abstract noun. Abstract nouns are things that we can feel but we can't physically touch it.The 5 senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell and feel. First we had to pick a word from the list. And me and my group choose luxury. After we picked the word, we looked for a structure  in a example of given to us.After writing the poem we had to make a poem of us describing the word we have picken.

We really enjoyed this activity, because it taught us how to create metaphors and poems, using abstract nouns. 

Rock Paper Scissors

 

L.I To learn how to code the microbit to play rock paper sicsors and under stand how the flowchart matches the code.

Link to DLO

When I shake the microbit it will chose a random number beetween 1 and 3. I have to make a veriable called hand and set this to the random number. If The number is 1 - the microbit will show the simble of rock. If The number is 2 - the microbit will show the simble of paper. If The number is 3 - the microbit will show the simble of scissors.

Misery

 LI: To write an abstract noun senses poem.

For this task we worked collaboratively to create a poem using abstract nouns. Our group was given a list of abstract nouns that we can use to write a poem. The abstract noun we choose was misery. We used the five senses to describe what misery sounds, looks, tastes, and smells like while using metaphors to structure a poem correctly.

An abstract noun is a feeling or emotion that cannot be physically touched. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

For example: Happiness is a river of joy that is flowing through my heart. 

The word happiness is the abstract noun and is used to create this metaphor. 

The five senses are: hear, touch, smell, feel and see. Each of these five senses are what many humans are able to do. 

A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

I really enjoyed doing this because I got to work collaboratively and work together in a group and also use powerful words to strengthen the poem and make our metaphor stand out.

Writing

L.I: To understand how to use and correctly punctuate dialogue when writing.

For writing we were we did dialogue. We picked a sitaution and created a conversation. The situation I picked to create my conversation was when the wolf was furious that he couldn't bust the brick house.

After creating a conversation we created a DLO on what is dialogue, and where the punctuation go.

Dialogue is a conversation between two people or more.

I enjoyed this activity because when writing the dialogue we got to use this interesting website called Ifaketext messages.

Reading

L.I To write 6 hot questions about muslims and their communities they live in.

In the past 2 week’s our reading group has been learning about the culture Afghanistan. The text we read was called All as One. This is about how one culture comes together and pray in one room with men and women divided. 

After reading this text we wrote some questions that we thought we wanted to know. When writing the questions we needed to use might, could, should, or would to make our questions better. 

Some examples we wrote were: 

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1. What might have happened if an adult eat during fasting?

2. What might happen if a muslim said something wrong during praying?

3. Who might have the idea of introducing the scarf for woman

4.  When might have the quran been written?

5. Where did the muslim culture start?

6. What might have happen if a muslim said the wrong thing during praying.

Summarising

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about

This week we were reading a non fiction text about creatures of the deep. Creatures of the deep live in total darkness and can thrive  in icy cold conditions. Some creatures have organs that glow to attract their prey. One intresting fact I learnt about the creatures of the deep was that the total darkness starts at 900 meters deep where the sea creatures live.

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Student Led Conference

 L.I To share our learning with our familys.

Last night we had student led conference at panmure bridge school from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. I came at 4:30 pm to show my mum my learning. I showed her my reading, writing, maths, inquiry and camp learning. My favorite thing to dhow my mum was my writing. It was my favorite because I was learning about cinquain poems. My mum took photos of all of my work and she loved all of my work

Being A Jedi In Coding

L.I To code a mbot to move forword when nothing is there and to move backwards when you put your hand in front of it.

My robot will wait until i have pressed the onboard button before it does anything. We used an "IF - THEN - ELSE" block as this gives the robot two choices of things to do. We are using the ULTRASONIC  SENSORon the of the robot and we need to sense if something 10cm in front of it. IF something is 10cm or LESS in front of the robot , it will move backwards. IF something is NOT less han 10cm in the front of the robot, it wil move forwards (ELSE). This is all put into a forever block so that the robot constantly senses what is in front of it.

Cinquain Poem

 LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star

We have been learning to write cinquain poems to help us strengthen our connections to description. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.

I enjoyed this activity because I got to chose any sports star in the word.

My Reading Pathway

LI: To show my personal journey through books

This week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities. One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading a book called The Help because it is a verry verry funny movie and book.