Light and Sound Experiment

This afternoon Room 5 and L.S.1 went to the reverse and did an experiment. We needed to put our hands up when we heard the clapper. We made a long line beside the water. Ms Kirkpatrick was at one end. When she clapped the sound travel down the line. People put their hands up in a wave. We saw the clapper before we heard the sound because light travels faster than sound.

Read Theory Progress

 

This graph shows my progress using Read theory. Next term I need to carefully concentrate.

Grammar - Good or Well

We made a D.L.O. to show when we use good and when we us well.

My Opinions

This week we needed to decided in our thinking groups if we should or shouldn't have prize giving.

We decided we should have prize giving.

Adding Tens and Ones

We played a P.V. game, watched a video, then complete this DLO.

Different Opinions

In our thinking group we looked at a text that has different opinions. The issue was: should we have prizegiving? We looked at the vocabulary and found some definitions. We talked about our own opinions. We wrote down one reason we should and one reason we shouldn't have prizegiving.

Poem - Echoes

Here is the DLO to show some of the onomatopoeia used in our poem this week

Instrument art

Here is my pastel art. We made the instrument cold, swirly colours, and the background hot, spiky colours.

Poem - Echoes

We read a poem  called Echoes. We learnt about onomatopoeia. here are my examples below.

Grammar - To Too Two

I made this DLO to explain what to, too, and two mean.

Poem - I hear

Here is the original poem. I have written my own version.

Twinkle Twinkle on the xylophone

As part of our init on sound we learnt to play this song on the xylophone we payed it at our on-line assembly

Maori number

Grammar - Is Or Are

This drawing shows when to use is and when to use are. Is is for one thing, are is for two or more things. (plural)

Poem - When Frankenstein Came to My Birthday

The poem this week was When Frankenstein Came to My birthday 

Here are some present and past tense verbs.

Complex Sentences

The boys played rugby, until it was dark.

Until it was dark, the boys played rugby.

Today we learnt about writing complex sentences different ways. There are my

2 sentences.