Rhythm Interactive's visit to PBS

This week the whole of PBS went to the hall to learn about the importance of making a change with our special guest Johnny. When we got into the hall we up to buddy up with one of students in Rm 1 and 6 to help them so they can understand what to do because they are the little kids in the school. Our instructor Johnny talked to us about making a change together as a team. Johnny had a phrase called if you can say it you can play it it means to speak something and copy but on a drum. We had to listen and follow a beat, Pattern or a Rhythm. Johnny had a African drum called a Djembe and we had a little version of the Djembe. I really Enjoyed this activity because I got to help the younger students and to copy a beat on a drum, And it was also funny. johnny has a video about saving the Jungle. At the end Johnny was giving out drums for the school if they get the answer right to see if we can guess what the instrument.

Link to Rhythm Interactive.

Respect the sea life of the ocean

Respect The sea life of the ocean



There a fish everywhere in the oceans of the world, and The fish are disappearing because people aren’t being respectful and either taking undersized or oversized fish. You are only supposed to take what you can eat. Your supposed to take the right size fish because if you take the over sized fish they might be having babies, and if you take the undersized fish the won’t get a chance to grow and have babies to keep the fish living for people to catch the right size. Fisherman use the birds to help find where the fish are.



When you go fishing your supposed to where a life jacket so you can stay afloat if your boat crashes. Did you know that fish are becoming endangered and might become extinct in the future. While going fishing sea birds come to your boat to eat your bait. You can not throw things except for a bucket of water to scare them away so they don’t get injured. After you catch a fish you have to grab it with a wet towel so you don’t remove their scales and their special coating for fish that acts like sunscreen. Plastic is a bad thing for fish because they will get confused and think it is prey.



The earth is a great place and we have to take care of it to keep the animals alive like the sea animals. Also make sure to measure the fish to see if you are allowed to keep it, and don’t injure the sea birds and fish by not respecting them like grabbing the fish without a wet towel. Tell people who go fishing to wear a life jacket to protect your life from drowning.

Waltzing Matilda poem

Today this week we unpacked the literary devices and language in banjo Paterson's very famous poem called Waltzing Matilda. Some of these words mean something but said in a different way than others say it, for example Swag man is a seasonal worker, Jumbuck is a sheep. The poem is telling us how hard it was years ago in Australia. The Swag man would rather jump into the water hole then spend his life in prison.

Strengthening connections to maths language

Today for Maths Nidhi and I learnt that many words can mean the same thing when you are using maths language. We thought about all the different ways of saying hello and how that could be confusing for someone who was learning to speak English. Then Mrs Anderson asked us 'What is a plane?' We all thought that she was asking us about the aircraft plane but we learnt there are two meanings for the word plane. The plane she was asking about is the plane surface that is used in Math. We used the vocabulary DLO to see some other words that were used in Math which we didn't know. We used the explore tool to see what the words meant and dragged them to where they belong. Mrs Anderson's friend shared this activity with us because we need to know what the words mean in a maths context to help us understand what the question is asking us to do.

Tech

This week at tech we had our second session doing graphics with Mrs Fergurson. We started off with labelling the parts of the toys, writing what the toys made from and how to play the game. And after that we were handed a piece of paper and we had to draw a 3D cube so we can shade the top light and the front of it medium and the left or right depending on which hand you write with you make it as dark a you can.

Literary Devices

Here is the link to my DLO 

This week we were challenged to only use google docs to make our Literary devices DLO. First we worked in partners  on separate DLO to do a different DLO about were we had to try and guess if the sentences were Hyperbole, Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification or Onomatopoeia. When we finished that we made our own sentences about Hyperbole, Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification or Onomatopoeia. Then on another google doc we made a table and write those six words find images and write down the definition.