Term 3 Week 10

This week for maths we have been learning about transformations. We have been learning how to translate shapes, use reflections with mirrors, rotate shapes and enlarge and reduce shapes. I have finished all of those learning intentions. I have published my poem and handed it in, and I am proud of it. This week we have been learning how to make videos on YouTube video editor. We had to make our own YouTube account. I have already made a video about funny dogs. In tech arts ( science ) we are making balloon cars. The school record is 16.23 metres, but I think my group will beat it.

Term 3 Week 9

This week for maths we learnt about compass bearings and how to find them. We also learnt about locus/loci. Compass bearings are like North, South, East, West, North West, North East, South West and South west. We learnt how to find degrees with compass bearings. I have finished all my maths and my reading task. My reading task is called 'Raymond's Run'.We had to write about setting, conflict, flat characters, round characters, antagonists, protagonists and theme. In writing at the moment we are writing poems. My poem is called 'A prayer for the 21st Century'. It is about what I imagine it will be like when I am old, like 90. This is my poem:

-=A prayer for the 21st Century=-

May the road be free for

the journey,

May it guide us where it promise

it would,

May the sky that holds lots

of memories,

Be remembered, be clearly

understood.

May every bird fly peacefully

May every disease be cured,

May sailors in crossing the

ocean,

Not fear the injured or dead.

May wildlife increase by millions,

May nature never be tamed,

May risks be taken upon humans,

May danger never be feared.

May the darkness stand to remind us,

Of what it means to be dead,

May we be outlived by our loved ones,

May we be outlived by our friends.

May the bombs rust away in the bunkers,

And war be declared no more,

May the scientists inventing happiness,

Be encouraged to get it done.

May the knife never be used,

May the bullet be taken out of the gun,

May those who live on the streets,

Turn into those in the sun.

- Jared

We got an copy of a poem like this written by John Marsden, who is an excellent author. I wrote most of this on my own, except I borrowed a few lines for it to make sense. 

Term 3 Week 8

All week I have been busy doing my maths and reading tasks. I have done 790 words in my reading, and have finished nine learning intentions. We are learning geometry at the moment, and I didn't know anything about it, as my primary school didn't teach me it. At the start of the week I knew nothing about geometry and was kind of just sitting back and watching the teacher write up examples on the whiteboard to help us, but now I am one of the only ones who have finished all the highlighted work! We have been learning about how many sides polygons have, and finding out the missing pronumeral ( the little numbers ) and lots of other things that would take to long to tell you all about. Here is one of my Learning Reflections: 

In this lesson of maths I learnt about angles in a polygon. E.g: A five sided shape is a pentagon. Pentagons have three triangles inside them, so they equal 540°, because a full triangle is 180°, and 180 x 3 = 540. You add all the numbers that are shown. You subtract that sum from 540 and that is your answer. If there were more than one letter you would divide your answer by however many letters there are. The rule is n-2=180, because if n was how many sides, you take away two and multiply by what the number you took two away from.