Maths Assessment: Click Here to go to the maths assessment page. Make sure you read the questions carefully and do your best work. You can use a scrap piece of paper for your working out if you need to. Good luck!!
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One of your tasks in this weeks Literacy Matrix is an online activity called 'Meaning in context: literal and figurative'. You will need to read the information that pops up and follow the instructions to work your way through the activity while testing your understanding of Figurative Language. At the end of your activity I will receive a report that lets me know how well you went so make sure you put in your best effort!
This week your computer task during maths is focussed around percentages 'of' prices or amounts, as well as percentages 'off' prices or amounts. These two interactive games will ask you several questions based on both types of calculations and will allow you to practice your new skills in this area. Some parts may not be easy, but if you work together I am sure that you can persevere and work your way through it! PLEASE COMPLETE THE FIRST GAME BEFORE TRYING THE NEXT ONE:)
Game 1: http://www.mathplayground.com/percent_shopping.html Game 2: http://www.mathplayground.com/mathatthemall2.htm PAT-M LINK: For those of you who are working towards understanding percentages please watch the following tutorial. Remember as it is a video you are able to pause and rewind where necessary to help you make sense of it all! The man on the tutorial will give you a few questions to practice so have a go at these in your maths books. Once you have finished these I would like you to complete the google form below. You can re-watch parts of the video if you need to and you will probably need to work these out in your books. Good luck! For those of you who are working on calculating change, please watch the video tutorial below. The video will show you some strategies to use that will help you accurately work out the change required from a given amount. There will be some practice questions asked and you will need to answer these in your books. Remember you can rewind or pause things if you are still unsure!! Once you have finished watching the tutorial I would like you to complete the google form (you can use the strategies shown and complete any working out you need to do in your maths books; however some of you may be able to use this strategy in your head!) For one of your maths tasks this week you will be using ThingLink to solve a range of division word problems. There are 10 questions in total. Some are a little harder than others and that is why on the red target that pops up above the 'Division Problems' title, I have linked a short video tutorial to refresh your memory on how to solve these if you get stuck. If you are new to ThingLink, you must hover over the images and where a target or symbol appears, so to does a link, video or text. You will need to enter your answers into the google doc linked below, however you might like to work these out on scrap paper beforehand. Challenge: If you finish early, grab an iPad, find some pictures from images, open PicCollage and create your own collage image. Once you have done this you can go to ThingLink, upload your image and begin adding your questions. You will need to see me for our login if you are up to this. During maths we are now changing our focus to division. Today we had a look all of the different language and different terms that are used. Some of the words that were relatively new to our class were the following: Dividened - this is the largest number in the equation; it is the number being divided Divisor - this is the number that you are dividing by Quotient - this is the answer to your division equation For one of your maths tasks this week you will need to watch the tutorial on dividing numbers by multiples of ten (below). The tutorial provides you with some questions at one point, so make sure that you pause and have a go at these in your books before starting the clip again. This is a great way to learn because if you are unsure of something you have the power to go back and replay the video, or you can also pause it if you need to. Now that you have finished watching the tutorial you will need to go to our Dropbox folder. In Our Class Folder you will find a document titled 'dividing by multiples of ten'. Open this document and save to your desktop with your name in the file name. Your task now is to use what you learnt by watching the tutorial to help you answer the questions on the document (you may like to replay it is you go?). Once you have finished typing the answers in, upload your newly named document back into YOUR Dropbox folder to await correction.
For one of our literacy activities this week students are choosing someone that they would like to complete a brief biography on. After identifying the features of a biography and looking at the ways in which we could still incorporate these whilst keeping them relatively brief, students began their research. They are completing a draft of their biography and then we are working together to identify the areas that we would need to change from 3rd person to 1st person when we record into iFunFace (iPad app). We found a picture of the person in question and loaded it into iFunFace and began the morphing process! This proved to be quite an engaging and fun activity for students to practice their research, writing and oral language skills all in one! Here are a few examples of our work, but stay tuned for more throughout the week! We hope you enjoy them! Have you used iFunFace in class before?
Over the last fortnight in our Literacy block I planned an activity for my students that required them to watch a silent video clip. After watching this clip, which was very funny, my students then had to write a short script of what the characters or commentators of the baseball game could be saying. When they had finished scripting they then had to load the silent video clip into iMovie and record themselves over the top. Some students used music to enhance their final product, where others were happy to simply commentate. (For all of the teachers out there, the trick to getting the video into iMovie is to locate it from You Tube and save into a Dropbox account that can then be opened on an iPad or other iDevice. You are then able to download the video into your camera roll and use in iMovie, a trick I will definitely be using in the future!). My class had a good time doing this and were very conscious of the way they were presenting their work. I think that you will agree that they have done quite a good job! Leave a comment below to let us know what you think but remember we are still learning as well, so be kind! |
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