Basic Facts Boxes

LI: to remember basic maths facts.

The challenge I did this week was the SPEED DEMON challenge. I did all 200 questions within 1 minute and 17 seconds. The SPEED DEMON challenge is where you have to complete as many boxes from 5, 10, 20 or 100 while timing yourself with an online stopwatch.

Commenting

LI: To post a positive comment.

This week I commented on Chisa's reading blogpost. Her blogpost was about a persuasive article which was speaking about how we should stop eating junkfood. She included a QAR which was used to separate the 10 question answers of the article into the 4 reading areas: Right there, Think and search, author and me/you & on my own.

SSR Selfie 2019

LI: to summarise a text

This week I looked into a book called Horrible Histories. It's a book that talks about the crazy and horrible histories of our planet and entire generation. I found this book of interest to me because it was talking about facts and things that our family bloodline's did in the past. SSR Selfie is about reading a book and being able to talk about it. SSR Selfie also includes a selfie with your book.

Cybersmart | Print Design Rules | 6 Simple Machines

LI: To apply the print design rules.

There are four areas of the print design rules which are: Colour, layout, text & composition. We had to use the print design rules to create a poster about one of the 6 simple machines we have learned about over the term. The 6 simple machines are: Inclined plane, Wedge, Pulley, Lever, Wheel & Axle and a screw. We had to include the definition of our chosen machine, how it works, examples and (attributed) pictures to fit onto this DLO. 

Reading | Synthesis | Questioning | Article

LI: To separate fact from opinion. We were assigned to a new article. The article I did was 'Stop this horrendous crime'. This article was talking about how we should stop testing animals and ban this crime. Animals are being tortured in all kinds of ways. Toxic, poison and all sorts! Like last week, we needed to complete the QAR and the Synthesis with a FlipGrid of our opinion.

Writing | Advertising/Advertisement

LI: to learn about persuasive tools in advertising.

We were learning about what is used in advertisements and companies. There are many required things used to draw in peoples attention in both companies and adverts. Some of them are:

1. Spokesperson / Mascot

2. Celebrity Endorsement

3. Slogans

4. Staged advertisements.

A Spokesperson is the main character(s) of a specific product within a company. Celebrity Endorsement is when advertisements use celebrities to showcase products. Take the All Blacks for example. They are celebrity endorsements for Weet-Bix. Slogans are a short phrase that give a small brief description of the company. Like Bunnings Warehouse, "Lowest prices are just the beginning". Staged advertisements are when companies use items to display their products as if they were fit for royal. An example of staged advertisement is when people use plastic ice cubes for drink ads.

We needed to first write our point of view of Spokespeople and celebrity endorsements. Next we had to find slogans within the 4 catagories. Then we had to make a custom slogan about PBS then list some tools people use in advertisements and what they do.

Kiwi Can | Resilience | Challenges

LI: To deal with challenges.

This week we were focusing on challenges. We were introduced to our new topic: "Dealing with challenges". A challenge is a difficult task that you have to complete. In our activity, we had to face a challenge where we had to use 6 shapes to make a cross or plus sign. We could not cut out the shapes. We were given a big piece of paper and a pencil, pen or felt to draw the shapes in ways we thought it could make the needed result.

Play this puzzle to see how you close you can get it to a plus/cross.