My Learning Journey in Room 2

Writing: Our quick writes were based on proverbs and one of my proverbs was  'Birds of a feather stick together. Another one of our quick writes was about using our five senses to describe an experience in our cubby. I wrote about The novel my group is working on. destroying a dangerous monster that would take over the world if I didn't stop it. I enjoyed writing this and it helped my descriptive writing. Reading: I worked on connections and Passage picker, where i had to identify an emotion in a paragraph and write why i chose that particular passage. With connections we learnt about text to self, text to text and text to world. I found it a little difficult as I have never read a book similar to 'Slide the Corner' Math: On Monday we took a Pre-test on statistics. I didn't do very well but I got most of the questions correct. WE learnt how to make  a pie graph and how to make a time series graph. I enjoyed most of the work and Emily T and I started our...

Post 2-Term 2, Week 7 Writing: This week we focused a lot on quick writes, which are short stories where we focus a lot on a particular skill. In our quick writes, we concentrated on using descriptive devices such as similes, metaphors, adjectives, alliteration and personification. We created a paragraph based on an imaginary insect and I chose to create a gargantuan glass wing butterfly that lived deep within the most remote rainforests.  Math: We started our groups for our statistical investigation this week, and we learned how to create column graphs, dot plot graphs and Histograms. Topic: Joyce, Talia and I started our tic-tac-toe about the reproduction of The Goliath Bird Eating Tarantula. We also wrote the finished paragraphs for three of our slides, based on information from the Tic-tac-toe. GBE's are the only member of the tarantula family that don't eat the males during mating. Instead, they eat them afterwards, to fuel up for laying eggs. 

Learning Week 6 Term 2 Reading:  I used visualisation and clues from the text to create a map based on the setting in 'Slide the Corner'. It was difficult because I couldn't get a feel of the place so I had to skim and scan for tid-bits of information that painted a very blurry picture. Writing: In writing, we practised quick writes, where we try to fit in one skill in a short story.We have used prepositions, practised descriptive writing using adjectives, adverbs, and figurative languages Maths: I learnt about the Mean, Median, Mode and Range and how to identify them using a poem. Hey diddle diddle, The median is in the middle. You add and divide for the mean. The mode is the one you see the most. The range is the difference between. Topic: I learned about the visual features of a Goliath Bird Eating spider and how it uses its hairs to inflict damage to the mucous membranes in the eyes. Its colour depends on which area it lives in. It's a varied sha...