5 - 7- 10 Descriptive Writing

This week for 5 - 7 - 10 we were given a photo of a "tunnel" made out of wood or vine, I chose to make my short descriptive narrative a first person story about someone running around a forest. Since the main point of our stories are to create descriptions of not only the character but the area around them too, I needed to think of many was to describe.

There I was, stumbling blindly around the forest, without a care in the world as I rushed through a spiderweb and leaped over a log. I was dressed in my best ‘adventuring’ clothes, head to toe with camo coloured gear. It seemed like I’d been running for hours. A while later I accidentally tripped over my own feet and landed before what looked like a tunnel. It wasn’t really a tunnel but it resembled one because of a transparent blue tinged casing, which made it look like a tube. Filled with curiosity I slowly walked up to it and reached my hand out... Bzzt! I was thrown back, and forcibly slammed into a thick oak tree.

Researching Professor Stephen Hawking

Since Stephen Hawking passed away last week, the students in LS2 were tasked with the job of creating a DLO on him. We were allowed to get into groups and I grouped up with Julian, Sanujan and Jack. In our groups we answered some questions about him and his occupation, one example would be what is a physicist? We would then answer that question in the slide.

Descriptive Writing

LI: To notice the language features in a character.
LI: Use different sentence types to add interest.

This week for writing one of the tasks was to create a piece of descriptive writing using simple, compound and complex sentences. To give us an idea we were shown a picture of a man standing in a field with long grass surrounded by floating chairs, we were also told to show, not tell.

The man calmly stood still, as the blades of grass around him proudly swayed in the wind. Dressed in a cement coloured hat and vest, his ocean blue pants and a cloud coloured shirt. With a simple gesture, an army of wooden furniture rose above his head. Although the items were in the air, they floated without moving. When the strongest wind hit them they didn’t move an inch, and when the man touched one himself there was no movement.

5 - 7 - 10

LI: To notice the language features of a description.

This week for writing one of our tasks was to do 5 - 7 - 10, for 5 - 7 - 10 the 5 represents five minutes of non-stop writing, the 7 represents seven minutes of talking and changing with a partner and for the last part (which is the 10) we were supposed to use the time to finish and polish the story. We were given the ideas for the story from a website that randomly shows a photo.

Getting Lost

There I was, tramping in the bush… spending hours and hours walking back a forth
and recording everything onto my map. Even after years of trying I’d never mapped
the whole thing. You might think that it was because I was lazy, but the real reason is
because it’s easy to get lost.

On this unfortunate day I was wandering around the deepest parts of the bush when I
was suddenly hit on the head by a falling log, instantly knocked unconscious. When
I woke up it was already dark and when I tried to turn my flashlight on it barely
flickered, the result was expected because I’d landed on it when I’d fallen. After
searching around for what seemed like an age I finally just gave up, falling over a
stone. Sending me sprawling.

After all of that my head was getting pretty sore, because when I tried to stand up I fell down again. Hurt but determined I rose up again but this time I tripped over some tree roots and rolled down a hill, landing inside of someone’s backyard. Seconds later a dog started barking and someone ran over to me and asked for the reason why I was in their property, and I replied with ‘I got lost’.

Fractions And Times Tables

During maths today San Kyaw and I were given a mini test on fractions because we didn't do so well with them in the test, for the "test" San Kyaw and I used times tables and division to get the answer. We answered every question correctly.

Maths Decimal Game

Today for maths the warm up was to play this game and complete it, to complete the game you have to correctly choose the right "house" to throw a newspaper at by answering a series of decimal based questions. The aim of the game is to earn enough money to afford a scooter, throughout the game you evolve from having a skateboard, to roller blades, a bike and then at the end you have a scooter.

Tech Reflection

Today at tech we were tracing our designs on a wooden square, cutting the traced design out and filling it with pewter. I wasn't able to cut mine out but I have finished tracing, the reason that it took so log is because so many people wanted theirs checked and my name was pretty far down in the list. When Mr Grundy gave us all a demonstration on how to use the the cutter everyone had to stay a metre away just in case someone tripped or something, we also had to stay behind some yellow and black tape on the floor when he was pouring the pewter into the moulds.

Agents Of Change DLO

This week another task for inquiry was to write down the ways that we could change things to help with our education, they were basically goals that we thought would help us achieve more or help others to do the same. For the DLO I also drew pictures of what I thought my ways to be an Agent of Change would look like, one is for packing my bag the night before, another is helping others with their work, the next is getting to school early and the last one is running (As a sport). To help us set the goals we looked at how we could be Agents of Change in our own 2018 learning journey. 

Wooden Blocks Problem

This week's maths task was to create a DLO on an equation for wooden blocks, to do it properly Julian and I needed to decrease the equation twice. Although the bigger equations still added up to the same answer, they wouldn't look right in reality (I mean, 100 or 50 blocks long is way too much). After the maths was done we just decided that the DLO looked too empty, so Julian and I just made a simple explanation using blocks.