My Medical Fact Files.

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I am back with another senses writing!!
Yesterday we had an experiment with RAW meat, crazy right?
Everybody had either a circulatory system ( the heart) or a excretory system ( the kidney).
I had the circulatory system ( heart)
Now today we had to make a document on what we saw, heard, smelt and tasted.
I am an animation. Hope you like it!!
Ka Kite ano.

Holes Describing People.

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This week we had to make two documents on describing people from the book Holes. By Louis Sachar.
We had to describe one of the characters, the Warden.  The Warden is an important character in Holes.
We had to make a mindmap on describing the Warden.
Hope you like it!!😀
Ka Kite Ano.



This is my first describing document I made:

This is my second describing document I made:

                                     My Describing Sentences.


Skinny legs jumped out of the passengers side of the van. Cherry red fingernails clutched onto the side of the door handles. Ginger, curly hair bounced on her shoulders. Bright pink lips pursed together as she got out. Her eyes were like bright green emeralds, they had a nasty, evil glint in them. Jangling noises were heard as her gem bracelets banged on her wrists. The turquoise studded boots thudded on the hard ground as she slowly walked towards the holes.

My Skittle Poem.

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Yesterday we did another experiment using Skittles.
We had to put some Skittles in a bowl, put water in the bowl and observed what happens.
When we put the water in the bowl all the colour from the Skittles drained out of it.
After that we had to choose a document to present the five senses. I chose to present it with a poem.
Ka kite ano.

Using ideas from our senses to write Show not Tell sentences.

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We are learning how to add description to our writing by including ideas from our senses and creating Show not Tell sentences. We made popcorn in class and got to hear, smell, touch, see and taste it. I presented my five senses in a Thinglink. Enjoy!!😃

Five senses writing

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This week we had to do some individual writing. We had to choose a picture out of six pictures to write a story about. We had to include three senses to describe in my story.  I chose a winding pathway. Hope you enjoy reading it!
Ka kite ano. 🙂

The wind howled as I walked up the winding path.Old, creaky trees reaching out to me like spiked claws. I shuddered at the thought of huge spiders crawling up the trees. Old, musty smells hit me as I walked deeper into the pathway. The trees whispered to each other behind my back. Old dying grass littered the pathway like rubbish. Mist floated around like ghost’s. I winced as they passed through  me. It was like walking into cold water.

Cross Country 2017

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This week we had cross country.
For the Cross country we had to run all over 6 paddocks  and the field 2 times.
There were about 6 schools competing and 700 people altogether.
I raced the 10 year old girls and came 3rd.
Kyra came 2nd and Willow came 4th.

                                       This is the picture of the 10 year old girls.
                                         Try find me!

Learning how to read scientific reports

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We are learning how to read and write scientific reports. We have been doing experiments and writing about them. This is a reading activity we did. We had to be able to match a thesis with its hypothesis.

We are learning how to understand the structure and language of a report about a scientific experiment #3 Understanding that a hypothesis is a brainy prediction based on what you already know.

In this exercise you need to match a thesis with its hypothesis.  Use the ‘Fill tool’ to colour code the matching ideas.

                               Thesis                                                                      Hypothesis

I know this……                                                              So therefore if I do this I think this will happen...

I know that a puddle of water is a small amount of water lying (usually) on the ground. I know that water is a substance which is found on our planet and that it can exist as a solid (ice), liquid or a gas (water vapour). I know that the main reason water changes from one state to another on Earth is because of  temperature -heat or cold. On Earth a sunny day is when there are no clouds, the sky is blue and the temperature is usually warm or hot.	I predict that when I mix vinegar and baking soda together that a chemical reaction will occur and that I will be able to notice this. I might feel hotness or coldness, notice smoke or bubbles, smell something, hear some kind of noise or  find that the taste or texture of the foods has changed.
I know that heavy things usually sink and light things float. However, container ships are heavy but they still float so there must be more things that have an effect on floating than just weight. Blutack is a squishy material that is quite light. It usually comes as a wide, flat strip but you can shape it into a round ball, a sausage shape, an O shape etc or you could flatten it out into a thin, wide shape like a leaf or saucer. Leaves usually float and ships look a little like a leaf shape.	I predict that when I take an ice cube out of a freezer it will begin to change back into liquid water (this is called melting) because it will no longer be colder than 0 degrees centigrade.
I know that an ice cube is water which is frozen. I know that that liquid water freezes into ice when the temperature reaches 0 degrees centigrade. An ice cube will stay an ice cube as long as it stays in a freezer.	I predict that if I make a puddle of water somewhere on the playground on a hot, dry day that the puddle will dry up and disappear quite quickly.
I know that everything we eat is made up of different kinds of chemicals.Sometimes when you mix different chemicals together they react with each other in different ways and the substances will do things that they didn’t do before (chemical reaction) and become different to what they were like before (chemical change). You will be able to notice things happening by using your 5 senses to  listen, smell, feel, look at and sometimes taste what is going on. I know that vinegar and baking soda are both food substances and I learned that they are chemically different	I predict that if I take some ice cubes out of a freezer and wrap them in different materials, I will find that one material will keep the ice cube frozen for longer than the others. This material would then have proven itself to be the best insulator.
I know that liquid water changes into a solid (ice) when the temperature reaches 0 degrees centigrade. I know that a freezer will keep water solid because a freezer’s job is to keep food at a temperature just below 0 degrees centigrade.	We are going to use Bluetack as our material. We will use the same amount of Blutack to make three different shapes. One will be a straight, rectangular strip of Blutack, one will be a compact, round ball and the third will be a rounded  saucer shape like a boat. We predict that at least one of these will float.
I know that insulators are materials that can be used to protect yourself from too much heat or cold. When we put clothes on because we are cold, the clothes are insulators which help our bodies stay warm. If you put insulating material like Pink Batts in the ceiling of your house, in the winter the Batts help keep warm air inside the house. In the summer, The Pink Batts help stop hot air coming into the house so they help to keep us cool. Many  food containers like Thermos flasks and Chilly Bins are made out of insulating materials to keep food hot or cold.	I predict that when I put some liquid water into a freezer it will change from a liquid state into a solid state (ice) because the temperature in the freezer will be below 0 degrees centigrade.