Lotto Game

For extension maths we have been making lottery games. Dewald and I made one where you could win a car or various amounts of money. This was heaps of fun, this is a bit different to the normal things we do at extension maths, but I enjoyed it.;)

Here is the link to the presentation:The Presentation.

Sustainable Art

For art this term we have been making sculptures out of recycled objects, Dewald, Flynn and I have been making a lamborghini,this is gold and the outside is made out of a shoe box and is reinforced with plastic.This is really fun to do, I hope we have another lesson soon.;)

Narrative Writing

Today for writing we made six sentence stories. It was laid out with each sentence a different theme to the others. This was a really fun activity to do, it was fun because it was a creative way to write. It was laid out like this:
1.Who the main character is, 2.This is where they live, 3.What they are talented at, 4.Was the problem, 5.Why there was a problem and was 6.The solution.
Here is mine: 

1	Once upon a time there was a sad lonely dragon called Jeff.
2	He lived in a lonely cave with a very depressing atmosphere.
3	But he could play a trombone very passionately his music was like a chocolate brownie,satisfying.
4	He wanted to make friends but everytime he approached someone then they would scream DRAGON!!! and run.
5	He was a sad dragon because all other dragons are evil but he was not.
6	One day a kingdom was being attacked by a purple dragon then Jeff came along and defeated it,now he is the most popular person in the kingdom,now he is the happiest dragon alive….The End

Maths, Reading & Visualisation

In reading we have been working on our comprehension strategies.  Last week we focused on visualisation - they way we can create mental images when we read to deepen our understanding of the text.  We read a short passage that explained how to measure a very tall object without having to climb it and we visualised how we would do this.

Yesterday we went out and put this knowledge into practice.We used a method which involved lining the tip and bottom of the pencil with the tip and bottom of the object we are measuring,then we turned the pencil on its side and our partners (who were standing at the base of the object) moved to the edge of the pencil,then we measured the distance from him/her to the pole.Dewald and I did this with the rugby posts and the size of them were 6.5 metres(according to the method).