Reading | Information Gathering | Skimming and Scanning |

LI:o skim and Scan

This week we were focusing on gathering information. Each group got a different story to gather from and use prior knowledge. The story my group had to do was called "Lagoon Hopping". On the slide we had to (first) activate our prior knowledge and talk about our prior knowledge in the bottom right corner.

We needed to include 6 keywords from the story and define one of them. We had to use images to show a visual example (including an attribution). We needed to include 2 or more facts that were stated in the story. Key Questions are questions that were mentioned in the story.

Maths | Paper and Plastic | Fractions

LI: to relate fractions with division

A fraction is when something is taken and cut or broken up into equal pieces. We were focusing on talking about fractions using paper and plastic to portrait each fraction. Using paper and plastic, we had to cut them into the needed amount of pieces and show the unit fraction (one part of the fraction), the full division photo and a multiple parts photo.

We needed to do 10 fraction tasks using paper to showcase how we figured and solved out the maths fraction problem. Using the textbox next to the photos, we had to answer the questions given in the box. Example: What fraction is this?

Writing | Explanation | How does the tide work?

 LI: To write an explanation

This week we needed to write an explanation with a topic of our choosing. We needed to write an explanation using the structure TIMES. TIMES stands for:

Title
Introduction
Meaningful Information
Explanation
Summary

My topic is about how the tide works. Working on a document, we had to talk about how/why it happens and give information about our topic including images showing specifically about the information spoken about. Our main focus was to write a full proper explanation using the structure.