Lonely Lock-down

Lonely Lock-down

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Lock-down has been very difficult for many people, and for me it's been pretty lonely. I am the only girl in the house, so it makes it pretty lonely; but with online classes and google hangouts I am able to chat with my friends from school.

I love talking to my friends at home, we laugh and tell each other about what we do at home during the lock-down.We still get to learn together and I really enjoy online classes!

I cannot wait for school to start, so I can see all my friends in person!

Being in lock-down has been very challenging, but I'm grateful to have amazing friends by my side!

How do you communicate with your friends?

Are you excited for school?

COORDINATE CHAOS

Coordinate Chaos!

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Carrying on with coordinates, my class and I were assigned to fill out a slide with mini-tasks included. These tasks were to elaborate on our learning from Khan Academy due to the reason of many students struggling with this topic. The tasks included had us mark out the specific locations of people after moves, we had to mark out coordinates on a google drawing copy and create the hidden shape.
Then play the coordinate game, where we had to click the exact location of the coordinates!

I struggled with this topic as well, and found this follow-up task very helpful! I feel that I have improved and can complete these coordinate tasks much more efficiently now.

Here is the slide:

I had lot's of fun with these tasks, especially playing the game at the end!

Confusing Compass!

Confusing Compass!

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Continuing with home learning, we have been focusing about compasses & directions. For this task we have been memorizing the main directions (North, South, East, West), locating those directions etc.

Following up with this task we have also been working on 

co-ordinates.

 To review this task there are a few tasks on a maths site called Khan Academy; I struggled quite a lot when it came to locating specific co-ordinates and I found it very confusing! But the video helped me understand a bit better.

Here is the slide I filled in for the Compass Learning with my answers:

I enjoyed this task and even though I struggled it makes me want to strive to improve my learning more!

What's a saying you use to remember the 4 points?

(North, South, East, West)

Walking to War

Walking to War 

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ANZAC Day is coming around and during this time we give time to learn and reflect about those who served their country. 

Since ANZAC day is coming up, we have been doing lot's of learning based on this topic. To complete this task there are four mini tasks we had to complete. The first one a Venn Diagram/Chart; about those who went to war, those who stayed home and the similarities between the two that were impacted. 

The second was Synthesis; which is a rubric with questions we need to answer with information from articles provided. 

The third was the Maori Battalion; which we had to read an article about and create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) to show what we've learnt.

And the final one (which I have previously completed) was the character web. 

Here is the link to the Character Web post: Web Post

Here is the DLO's and Sheets I have completed.

I found this task very difficult to complete since there was so much work, but I enjoyed learning about the history of WW1.
(You may need to zoom in if you would like to read the Venn Diagram)

Did you have anyone in your past family go to war?

Did they recieve medals?

2d+3d Shapes

2d+3d Shapes

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Carrying on with shapes, we were also set 2 tasks related to 2d and 3d shapes. For the first task we had to draw out a net (flattened shape) that is foldable to form a 3d shape; the second task was to take photo's of 10 different shaped items around our house and create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) showing this.

I found finding 10 different shapes around the house difficult, but I found creating the net quite simple.

Here is my DLO and photo's of my Net+Pyramid.

I enjoyed this task because I got to experiment with shapes and have a mini-scavenger hunt for items around my house!

Have you tried to make a shape using a net of your own?

Were you successful?

Shape Slide

Shape Slide

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We have been learning about 2d and 3d shapes.

We went over a slide that had a list of shapes; we had to make a copy and fill in what shape we think it is, how many vertices it has, how many lines of symmetry and how many faces.

I thought this would be easy to name them but there were a few shapes that I didn't know the name of e.g: trapezoid.

Here is my slide:

I found this task a good recall to remember these shapes. Now I am working on the follow up where we have to create a DLO with 10 different items that are 3d shapes. I probably wouldn't remember some of the names of these shapes without this recall.

Can you find 10 different shapes in your houshold?

Character Web

Character Web

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A character web is another way to plan a story or a characters traits.

This one of the tasks that we were set for the class. We had to create a Character Web for a daughter or a mother, from a poem we read. When we create our "web" we must use 10 words to describe our person and how they would be feeling. I chose to write my web for the daughter & from her view;

 because I picture myself in the daughters view.

Here is my web & the link(The photo didn't come out well)

                Character Web Doc 

I enjoyed this task because it was simple to complete but difficult to find the right words. 

If you or someone in your family went to war,

how would you feel?