Assembly Wk5

This week we are presenting in assembly!!!. If you missed it here are all the links. ENJOY! If anyone has a device here today and would like to comment on any work...we would appreciate it!

Jake's Cricket Video.

Jake made a short video of himself playing cricket and posted this. He's playing 4 way cricket. Jake starts the video by saying hello and introducing himself. Great work Jake!

Science

We are currently investigating 'Kitchen Science'. We are completing simple experiments with things that we can find in our cupboards at home. This week we've begun an investigation on our taste buds

What are taste buds? What do they do? 

Our tongues have four basic types of taste buds: bitter, sour, salty, and sweet. Our taste buds are located in specific areas on our tongues. Our experiment was to find out where these particular places are.

Heres a short video of our first run through.

Our next experiment will be to repeat the same test but to find out what happens if you block your nose, if your tongue is completely dry. We'll keep you posted. Come back and find out!

Last week we completed some investigations into some science ideas that we'd like to find out about

Newtonian Fluids
Taste Buds

Literacy

Here is a snapshot of some of the writing we've written so far this term.

Rules of Summer

Rules of Summer Heres a link to the writing blog,

Utter Nonsense
Writing without worrying too much about content means that you sometimes get some fantastic dream-like gems of writing.
Lukes Absolute Nonsense

Lies
Shemira's 10 Lies

PowerWriting

Most days, we warmup to writing by writing 2 rounds of 3 minutes of PowerWriting. 

Saxons 'I don't know'

Week 5

Halfway though the term already!!!

This week we are testing and these results will be available at the end and the beginning of the next (I'll have the weekend to mark!).

Well done everyone who used their time wisely and put enthusiasm into their little science investigation. I am looking forward to the presentations! Please make sure you put the evidence of your hard work on your blog.

Here's a link to the terms Key Coms if anybody has missed it. Put the evidence on your blog.

Here are this weeks HomeLearning links

Spelling

Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4

Spelling Response form

Maths

Complete a comprehensive test in a new area of maths and identify your strengths and weaknesses. Set yourself tasks to improve. Resit the test and bring me the evidence. Save the tests as PDFs (when you print, you can change it to PDF there. Save to Drive. Put on your blog)

Science

Here is a nice little identifying and clasifiying tasks on cute cuddly wetas. Make sure you save a copy to your Topic Folder.

RMQ-Cartouche Puzzles

Today's Rich Math Puzzle is a called a Cartouche puzzle. This begins a little like Sudoku but uses BEDMAS or Order of Operations.

The MathsBuddy year 7 lesson number for BEDMAS (they call it BIDMAS) is '1594' and the Year 8 is 1608. Extension learning is 1610, 1612 and 3163!

Cartouche Simple This is a google drawing that YOU NEED TO COPY and PUT IN YOUR MATHS FOLDER FIRST. Its editable. If a box disappears, copy one that there.

Cartouche Worksheets HEAPS of the little critters!ENJOY!!!

I'm Gone!

Hi everyone

I'm off to Hagley Oval today to take Mr B (oops I mean!) the cricket team to England v Scotland. Ms Lagan will be teaching you. I am always Tuesday also. A link to my planner can be found here. You'll need this to find your learning links. Please make sure you log into chrome and I can help out if you need me.

Your writing to is A Memory and the marking guides are here also. Don't forget to put your work up on your blog if you have had it reviewed by 2 others.

This afternoon we will begin our science topic. I would like you to create a 'genius hour' presentation of what 'Squeals your Wheels' about science? You can work in pairs. What would you like to find out more about. Germs? Rockets? Research something to find a little more about it.find a simple experiment the demonstrates your area.  These presentations will be presented to the class Thursday. This is also your home learning this week!

See you Wednesday

P.S-Ella...you can sit that test when i get back!

Home learning Wk3

Below are the links to this week's home learning.. Hopefully I have all of the teething problems sorted.

Spelling
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Spelling Response form

Science
Science- Hot Cawfee anyone? Activity sheet
Science-Hot Cawfee anyone? Responses

Maths
Your maths homework this week is simple...please share your login details in mathsbuddy with your parents/caregivers. Simple!

Jake playing cricket

Here is a video of Jake playing 4-way non-stop cricket. Jake starts the video by saying hello and introducing himself. Great work Jake!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back!