Myths And Facts About Wolves

This week has been book week. We have had quite a few challenges based on the stories we read as young children. Our teacher Mrs Anderson has also set us a few challenges based on a few books that she read as a child. This one being Wolves. It is written by Emily Gravett, and illustrated by her too. This book explains and gives a few facts about wolves, and includes lovely images to paint a picture into your head. Our challenge, was to come up with around 5 myths about wolves, and then research them and see if they are true or false. This task could be done alone, or with a partner, so I chose to work with Alex.

New Zealand Shakeout

Today at approximately 9:30, an alarm went off. The reason it went off is
because today is New Zealand Shakeout day. A Shakeout day happens once
every year, this year it was on the 18th of November at 9:30. This event is a
reminder for people who forgot or don’t know what to do during an earthquake.
What we learnt from this is, during an earthquake we have to drop, cover, and
hold. Which means, drop down, crawl under something that will protect you, for
example table, and hold on to any object that will prevent you from moving.
After the drill has finished, we were asked to created an DLO,
(Digital Learning Object) telling our audience what to do during an earthquake. I
worked collaboratively to create this DLO with Alex and Sanujan.

Comrades Marathon

This week for reading our task was to research about the Comrades Marathon. But first we were told to get into a mixed group of boys and girls. Since their were no more girls left our group had 3 boys and 1 girl. My partners were Alex, Viva and Jericho. I found this task fun and interesting because I did not know anything about the Comrades Marathon. But after researching I learnt lots of fascinating things. Did you that an ultra marathon is double the length of a normal marathon.

M.R.S.G.R.E.N

This week for inquiry the other task was to create a DLO on the 7 things that you can use to figure out if something is alive, we can remember the things by remembering a name, M.R.S G.R.E.N. The M is for movement, the R is for respiration, the S is for senses, G is for grow, R is for reproduction, E is for excretion and N is for nutrition. I completed this DLO with the help of Alex.

Age Problem

This week for maths the task was to solve a problem about age and then create a dlo about how we worked it out. For this task i worked with Alex. There were some parts that got Alex and I confused because we thought that it was Peter who was 4 years younger than Jack but after a while of searching to find the fault and we finally finish the problem.