English 11/05/2018

LO: Express ideas in writing and write a five-paragraph essay.

Today in English I chose to read "Facts Slide".

What I read:
Today I read facts about coffee.

Age suitable:
In my opinion what I read is best suit for 10 years old and above.

What is it about:
It is about information about coffee.

Facts I found interesting:

• Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.
• Americans spend an average of US$1,092 on coffee each year.
• The word "coffee" comes from the Arabic for "wine of the bean".
• In the beginning, Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.

English 10/5/2018

LO:  Express ideas in writing and write a five-paragraph essay.

Today in English I chose to read "facts slide".

What I read:

I read facts about space.

Age suitable:

What I read is best suitable for teenagers and above.

What is it about:

It is about information about space and what is it like.

Facts I found interesting:

• According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes.
• Astronauts of Internation Space Station Witnesses around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.
• Most astronauts became 2 inches taller in space.
• There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the worlds ocean.
• On the International Space Station, urine passes through a special water treatment plant that turns it into drinking water.
•  NASA is developing 3D pizzas for astronauts.

English 9/5/2018

LO: Express ideas in writing and write a five paragraph essay

Today in English we had 10 minutes of silent reading and I chose to read "Facts Slides".

What I read:

I read facts about gold, there are a lot of facts that I didn't know about gold.

Some facts I found interesting:

• Your hair contains traces of gold.
• Gold is edible.
• Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it is in our blood.
• Earthquakes turn water into gold.
• Injecting gold into the body could help fight cancer.

Age suitable:

It is suitable for age 10 and above.

What is it about:

It is about information about gold.

Diffution

Aim: Our aim is to find out what will happen if you put Potassium Permanganate in different water temperature and see which one spreads faster.

Materials: Potassium Permanganate, hot water, cold water, tweezers, white paper and petre dish.

Hypothesis: I think that the hot water will spread much faster than the cold water because there are a lot of movements in the hot water

Some photos:

Term 1 Reflection

What does the word reflection mean? reflection means to reproduce or copy an image in the glass, water, a mirror or other shiny surface. It could also mean to think back to a past experience and ask yourself questions or think deeply about it.


a.What did I do well? I did well at Esol participating in everything

b.What could I have done better? I could've done better at playing volleyball by communicating with my teammates.

c.What will I do next? What I will do next is to improve my English grammar.

My goal by the end of the term is to Perfect my grammar

Drama

What have I learnt?
I have learnt about the musical theatre and the type of jobs you do in musical theatre. 

How does this work show my learning?
We made a background to show what we learnt about musical theatre. We also used the background for our performance.

What did I find challenging?
I found that performing on the stage is very difficult, especially when the audience looks at you.

What do I do differently if I did this again?


What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed working as a team in our performance and I also enjoyed watching and learning new songs

What am I wondering?
I'm wondering if our performance went great because we didn't have a lot of movements in our performance

What was it like performing on the day?
When I was on stage I was really nervous and embarrassed because of all the classes have choreography and we didn't. 

Gloriavale - Critical Thinking Questions

1. How is this similar to Martha and her parent's life?

It is very similar to Martha's life because they don’t own a car, they don’t know how to surf the internet, their clothes were handmade and their food is plain food.

2. Whose voices do we not hear?

The voices we didn't hear were the voice of some men, women and some shepherd

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