Chairs

Last Thursday we had Mrs Ealam and because we were learning about the plastic in the ocean last term, Mrs Ealam thought that we should recycle some old wooden chairs that were sitting in the shed and we did. We had to get into groups off four but we had to have the same sort of interest. My group chose nature. After we had chosen a theme we had to get lots off magazine images that suited our theme and then we had to cut them out. After that we had to wipe down our chair then we glued the magazine images onto the chair, we were not allowed to leave one bit of wood showing. After we had covered up all the wood, we had to cover all the magazine in ModPodge  glue then we let it dry and then we were finished.  I think my groups chair turned out  to look good. Here is my groups chair. If we did it again I would get some more birds that were flying.

School Holiday Maths Challenge

For the school holiday maths challenge, we had to do some maths  during the school holidays. We had to take a screenshot or photo of our maths. Then we had to make a slideshow on our slide show we had to include the maths we were learning, a screenshot of our maths and how successful
we were, Here is my slideshow.

School Holiday Reading Challenge

for a part of year 4-8 school holiday reading challenge, we had to  make a Google drawing. On our Google drawing we had to display a sentence that describes how the character

  is feeling. Our drawing also had to include the author of the book,  the page number were we found our sentence, a drawing or photo that illustrates something in the sentence,and the name of the book. Here is my google drawing.

Maths DLO Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions.

In my maths group, we have been learning about mixed numbers and improper fractions. So we made a  Maths DLO,  we had to explain what mixed numbers and improper fractions were. We also had to include some examples. Here is my DLO.

Plastic Bin Liners Persuasive Letter

In Room five we are learning to write to persuade. We are also learning about the plastic in the ocean. So we did a persuasive letter for our principal to ban plastic bin liners. Our writing had to include an introduction, three main paragraphs, three reasons why, and a conclusion. Here is my writing.

10th September 2018

Dear Mrs Wallace,

All over the school we use plastic bags for bin liners. In my opinion we should not use them for bin liners. I have three good reasons why we should not use plastic bags for bin liners.

Firstly, I strongly believe we should not use plastic bags for bin liners because we usually only put dry paper and food packaging in most of the classroom bins. It is not wet materials or slimy contents going into the bin, so there is no reason for using plastic bags for bin liners.

Secondly, I think we should not use plastic bags for bin liners because it would save money. We could use the money for other things like school books or stationery. Guess what? We use two thousand plastic bags a year just at our school. THAT’S CRAZY! Think of the savings we could make. We could save at least one hundred dollars a year on plastic bags.

Thirdly, we should not use plastic bags for bin liners. Two thousand get thrown away every year. That's fifty a week and ten a day just at our school. It all goes into landfill ruining the environment. If we don’t stop plastic from polluting our earth,  the world might just be a big pile of plastic floating in space. You know that plastic is a problem and we can do something about it here at school.

In conclusion, I think we should not use plastic bags as bin liners at school because we don't need them, it would save money, and it's good for the environment. I hope that you will make some changes at this school to help the environment.

Yours sincerely,

Amelia

El Gregoe

On September 24th El Gregoe the magician came to our school. He came to talk to us about bullying and how to stop being bullied. He said we have to use our WITS. W stands for walk away, I stands for ignore the bully, T stands for talk to a teacher or friend and S stands for say stop to the bully.
El Gregoe has lots of pets like birds and guinea pigs. Here are some photos of El Gregoe.

Two dimensional Shapes

In Room Five  we have been learning about 2 dimensional shapes. We had to make a screencastify about two dimensional shapes. We had to say what they are called, how many sides, if they are straight or curved and  how you know what the shape is.