For Reading we have been learning about “Waltzing Matilda” and how a Swagman stole a jumbuck which came from Austraila. We answered the questions on the document in our own words, and read the poem. Something I found interesting was when at the end of each line it always says “You’ll come a Watlzing Matilda with me”. We were challenged to create a summary that is exactly 25 words that talks about the peom or song from the Waltzing Matilda. Me and my group used Gemini to create a picture of a time line of where swagman started to the end that is related to what Barjon Paterson wrote. We enjoyed doing this activity because we get to understand the meaning behind his story.
Shearer’s Strike
For Reading we have been learning about “Shearers strike of 1891” and we were challenged by our teachers into putting this text into perspectives ( perspectives is two different opinions and our own opinion with different sides of their story and what they think) between the Shearers and the Pastoralist, The Shearers fought for their right because the prices for the wool had dropped, they persuaded other Shearers ( Shearers are people who cut the wool off the sheep) to stop working because they felt it was unfair that they were not getting paid fairly, basically they protested with the pastoralist to give a better pay and work conditions. But the Pastoralist ( Farmers/ Landowners ) dropped the pay for the shearers because they had dropped the prices of the wool so they wanted to get more sales. They thought it made more sense to drop the pay of the workers because they needed to get more sales than they already had. They also thought it was the right thing to do and so they tried to include the police and the government to agree with their perspective. In our opinion we agree with both perspectives because the Shearers they work hard and are not earning a lot of money to pay bills and money to pay for food to feed themselves and their children. The Pastoralists are also right because they need to drop the price of the wool because they are not getting enough sales from how expensive the wool is. I found this interesting because we got to learn about the different sides of perspectives and how my group collaborated and all participated in this activity.
Dinosaur egg AI
For this task we have been learning about dinosaurs, We got to create our own egg made out of flour, salt and water that created a form of clay. Later on we created an egg made out of clay and added our dinosaur inside. We mixed up all the eggs and cracked them open to see what dinosaur you have, after opening the egg we researched what protection, diet, predator and habitat our dinosaur has.I found this activity interesting because did you know that the ankylosaurus dinosaur uses its tail for defense against other predators.
Procedural writting
For this task we were challenged to create a dinosaur made out of black paper,scissors, gluestick, paper and a ruler. during this task we had to write our instructions while creating our practice dinosaur which we used Red paper so we knew which one was our practice and our model, after creating our practice dinosaur and we wrote our Instructions we were challenged to create a model dinosaur out of black paper using the instructions we wrote to create our red dinosaur. I enjoyed this task because we learnt how to create a dinosaur only using black/red paper, scissors, gluestick, paper and a ruler without any instructions, we used our brains to create and write our instructions and our model ( dinosaur ).
Moodboard – Child coming home in the rain from the store
LI: To understand poetry can transform everyday life into something meaningful. Poets use various techniques to make this happen, creating specific feelings and moods for the reader.
For Reading we were challenged to create a moodboard refering to the book we read which was ” Child coming home in the rain from the store”. But before we created this DLO we had to read about the story, after reading the story we were challenged to create a DLO, I researched about Rain moodboards for inspiration, then I searched up photos that I look like it refers to the story of ” Child coming home in the rain from the store” then I gathered all the photos and put all on a DLO. I found this task fun because I learnt about the story of ” Child coming home in the rain from the store”.
Rain – Hone Tuwhare ( Reading Grp 3A)
Listen to us while we read to you the poem ” Rain by Hone Tuwhare” hope you enjoy listening to us read the poem!
Malala Yousafzai
This week me and my group did a DLO about a girl named Malala Yousafzai and we are talk about what she did and how she did it and she why she did it.
Malala youisafza protested for the womens rights to get an education and she wanted girl’s to go school as the as the boys and she also wanted the justice and equality for women in pakistan. Something interesting I learnt about Malala Yousafzai is that she fought for women and wanted girls to get an education and took a risk of getting shot at her head.
Museum backpack choices.
For this weeks learning we went to the museum to finish off our topic of Volcanoes. Classroom challenges were incredibly fun we had dicover how a obsedent was form it is formed when lava and water touch and it turns into a beautifully sharp gem. We had went around looking at the lovley things that was found and dicovered. Something i have learned from our class time in the museum was that Rangitoto is still active right now and if it had erupted a big explosion then it would hit buckland beach that is located near the city ( sky tower) I wonder if the sky tower will fall down when the rangitoto volcano erupts. We had 30 seconds to decide what to pack if there was a volcanic eruption near us. Our group had to make wise choices so they could stay safe in the event they were evacuated.
Fossils
This week me and some of my friends did a DLO about Fossils and we did a body fossils and a trace fossils but the body fossils is a body of a dinosaur and trace fossils is a trace of a dinosaur.
Mary Anning
- LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.
This week me and some of my friends did and podcast about Mary Anning. Mary Anning is a paleontologist who find’s fossil and bone’s of a dinosaur and she find’s it because she like’s to find staff and she like’s it because she want’s to be a finder when she grow’s up and I think she found a echisaureis and then she put the echisaureis to a museum.