Alexis' Blog

For the last two weeks we have been working on a narrative about the future. We had to pick an ethical issue that is currently going on in the world and theoretically fix it. My ethical problem is about pollution and how we might loose our beautiful world to this, so we should try and live healthier lives to preventing this. For one of my blog posts I posted a plan for writing and here is the final product of that. (It's 7 pages long and might change due to future edit's) The Future Writing What ethical issue would you have written about and why?

Last week on Thursday my winter sport's team went to centrals for the hockey tournament. My team consists of Gaby, Grace, Isabella, Mereana, Neila, Petra, Oliver, Ben and I.  We came second in our pool so then we versed for 5th and 6th since we bet the team we came 5th but since a team tied for 1st place we came 4th. We won all our games except for one which we lost. All the teams there were really nice and respectful to our team, everyone worked really hard in the tournament and congratulations to those who placed. I think my whole team can agree that we all had a fun and great time. If you went to a tournament what sports would you play?

This week for workshops instead of having goals we have narrative writing, reading slides, cantamath project and diamond math template. Today I am talking about my reading slides. In the reading slides it is based off the novel that we are reading. On the slides we had to write an orientation of it then draw a picture for it. Next we would do a Y chart and then on the other slides are more but we haven't finished the book yet so I have not done them. Here is my work so far.   Have you written an orientation before?

Last week for writing we were introduced to the next few weeks writing task. We have to write a narrative on the future and in the story it has to include an ethical problem that is currently happening in the world right now. First we brainstormed some ideas on what our story could be about. Here are some ethical problems we brainstormed: *Over Population *Pollution *Global Warming/Climate Change *Extinction Of Animals That was only some of the examples. Then we got given a template for our planning and filled it out, so here is mine: What would you have written about?

This week for my math workshop our goal is: Solve problems with fractions, decimals proportions and ratios using a broad range of strategies. For my create task we had to fill out a diamond template that looks like the one below; we had to choose a question that the teachers gave us and use that for the template. Here is mine: How would you have answered the math question?

This week for reading we chose a book to read for the rest of the term and in our reading workshop we would use that book. My goal for this week is: Independently predict, interpret and analyse text, reading between the lines' to gain a deeper meaning. Here is my create task: Have you read this book before?

This week for my reading workshop we read a book on the Rena Oil and we unpacked what happens in the book. The goal for my workshop is identify some text events and features, and discuss what they makes the reader think about.  Our task for the workshop was to make a copy of a document and fill it out. Here is my create task:  Have you ever learnt abut the Rena oil spill?

This term we have been doing some science experiments every Tuesday. So far I have learnt about our heart rates and the water cycle. Here is my water cycle. We learned about evaporation, precipitation, and condensation. Have you heard of the water cycle before?