During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, 5/6M had their own mini-Olympics in the classroom over the span of one week. We played Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. We were split into four groups and each group had to choose a country to represent. The four countries chosen were:
With our teams decided on a country, they now needed to create an application form in the guise of an informative poster of their country. On this poster were such things as most common language spoken, average population, flag, map, surrounding or bordering countries, popular religion and of course the name and capital of their country. Being an application form, each player needed to add their name alongside their chosen event. Click to enlarge. Names have been blurred out. Click to enlarge. Each team researched their flag, recreated it on an A.R. target and posed with it using Quiver. With applications in, the games begun! Events included the 100m Sprint, BMX, Table Tennis, 100m Freestyle, Volleyball, Gymnastics, 4x100m Relay, Boxing, Rugby 7s and the Triple Jump. At the end of the week and all of the events had been completed, the final medal count was: A few days after we had completed our games, we were asked to make a very quick video outlining one thing we had learnt during the events. We got back in our teams for twenty minutes, sat in front of a camera, pressed record and this is what we learnt. We demonstrated a lot of teamwork, worked together in a research task, used a variety of technological devices to research, make a virtual flag appear in our team picture, used a WiiU to play competitive games and used iPads to record our conclusions. We also got to role play a competitive environment at Olympic level and have a friendly rivalry with the teams we were competing against. Overall, we all had a great time!
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This week, we're looking at two graph types; the dot plot graph and column graph. Below you'll see our first steps in creating dot plot graphs, then our work on column graphs.
As this is the first step in creating a dot plot graph, we drew the dots from bottom to top (this also helped us understand how a column graph is constructed, too). We were each given a small box of Skittles to graph. After creating a tally table, we used that data to construct a dot plot graph.
The next day, we constructed a column graph using just one box of Skittles. Same scenario as yesterday - collect data, place it in a tally table and this time create a column graph. After we completed our column graphs, we converted the 2D column graphs into a 3D column graph in Minecraft.
We've just added a separate section to the page dedicated to our S.T.E.A.M. challenges. This is where you'll find all challenges from Term 2 onward.
To recognise World Turtle Day on Monday, May 23rd, we used the art style of Pointillism to draw, and or, colour turtle pictures.
World Turtle Day hopes to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive. Pointillism is the technique of painting, drawing and colouring in which small dots of a variety of colour are used instead of the traditional brush or pencil stroke. It's a long and tedious style, but in the end, it really pays off. Here is a collection of our turtles we drew and/or coloured using Pointillism.
This week, we've been looking at how to reflect, rotate and translate polygons.
We had a hands-on lesson on equivalent fractions this week. We observed how eighths, quarters, halves and a whole can all be expressed equivalently. We then "tidied up" in the yummiest way possible.
Mr MacGregor has been going on and on about this since Week 2 of this term - our geography presentations in Week 11. Today saw our final, in-class time for student driven research before Week 11. Any other research we're doing will be done in our own time. The timetable for Week 11's presentations are as follows.
Group 5 has been combined with Group 2.
As we're studying Japan in geography this term, we got the opportunity to experience some unique flavours of Kit-Kat imported from Japan.
Kit-Kats are very popular in Japan. The name, "Kit Kat", sounds very similar to the phrase, "kitto katsu", which translates to, "surely win". Due to this popularity, Kit-Kats come in a wide range of flavours. Students in 5/6M and 5/6P got the opportunity to try a collection of flavours:
We made a collection of video reviews based on our predictions, expectations, experiences and conclusions. Although these are candid reviews, ie we didn't rehearse or have a solid script, we hope you enjoy watching them all the same.
Our first review in front of both classes.
Harmony Day is a day to celebrate Australia's multiculturalism. The day focuses on respect for others, belonging, inclusiveness and to share what we all have in common. Today, we got a different lesson for Harmony Day. To begin, we want you to imagine it is your birthday and you're allowed to choose either one of the gifts below. They're both the same size. When asked which one we'd pick, some chose the pretty wrapped gift and some chose the newspaper-wrapped gift. Some reasons for selecting the pretty gift included:
Decisions, decisions... After discussing and justifying our decisions on which gift we'd choose, it was time to open the gifts to see what was inside of them. SURPRISE! The pretty box that was well presented with gold ribbon was full of rocks! The newspaper-wrapped gift, though, was full of delicious chocolate. This experience also works for choosing the people we call friends. Although someone may wear the best clothes or live in the nicest areas, it doesn't always mean they're nice on the inside. It doesn't matter what colour you are, if you speak with a different accent or where you're from, it's what's inside that counts when making friends. But... what about the chocolate? The newspaper-wrapped gift was full of bags of M&Ms. Why are they in there? What's the best part of an M&M? The chocolate! Where's the chocolate? On the inside! We had one student blindfolded and we challenged them to try and guess what colour M&M they were given when they put it in their mouth. You know what? They couldn't do it. It didn't matter what colour the M&M was on the outside, the yumminess was on the inside. This is a Harmony Day lesson we'll keep with us forever...
We have been looking at how to add and subtract fractions using the butterfly method. Check out some of our 'how to' samples below demonstrating how to use the butterfly method.
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