Aboriginal Art | Art

Aboringal art comes from Austraila. Abroiginal art was used to tell stories like how the Kangaroo got it pouch. They were called dream time stoires. They used symbols explain how the stories worked, e.g. sun (farthers destiny) is a hand.

First we painted symbols onto a peice of paper to recoinse what they represent. There were two techinces to do the symbols dots or strokes. We had to keep the dots close as possible to make it look good. 

Second we got to choose a animal to explain or make a story about. The options was a kangaroo, joey, wombat, lizzard and a penguin. I choose a Joey (baby kangaroo) and a kangaroo. We had to trace a outline of  a animal for our base of the aborginal art. Then we used dots for the inside of the animal. After we used lines and dots to create the symbols to explain the story.

My story is about a Joey and a Kangaroo traveling along but it starts to rain when a man tries to hunt the joey and a kangaroo. Later the rainbow comes up and the joey and kangroo get out of site from the man. 

Inquiry | Light & Sound

In our inquiry session we were learning the volcabulary about light and sound. 

We had to find the defenition that we thought matches the word, e.g. Prism is when a transparent shape that can be split into white light to make a spectrum of colours.

The second activity was find, act, draw and animate. We had to chose four diffrent words that were related from the vocabulary activity to explain how it works using an animation, a video, a picture and a drawing.

One word I choose was laser. I drew a picture to show what a laser is.

Verbs | Writing

Verbs are action words. There are three types verbs called phyiscal verbs, mental verbs and state of being verbs.  

Physical verbs are action words that are to do with movement, e.g. pull. Verbs use the orignial word by its self and also uses no cpaitals becuase they are not propper nouns.

Mental verbs are thinking words that are related with thinking, e.g. dream. This is a thinking word becuase you are thinking of something when you are dreaming. 

There is only one verb to show state of being, but it has many different forms. The verb is be, but some of its other forms are: is, are, were, will be etc.

Verbs specify what a person is doing or thinking.

Making Predictions | Reading

Predicting is a educated guess about what will happen next or in the future. 
We had to make predictions on the questions about the book called Happy New Year. We had to answer the questions by predicting what will happen later in that story.  

One prediction I made was I think that the family uses fireworks and catches fire to the great barrier reef. It was wrong becauase there are fire bans at the great barrier reef.

The second prediction was the party is going to turn into a disaster. My prediction was correct because one of the locals shot a flare gun and the flare caught fire to the trees.

Predicting can help you find clues about the story for information.

Properties of Light | Inquiry

Light is a element that makes objects visible. Light has many propertys. 

One property of light is that it can not travel through opaque objects. This was proven by putting an opaque object in front of the torch. The results were that a torch can not travel through opaque objects. 

A second property is that white light can be spilt into many colours. This was proven by light traveling through a prisim that spilt the white light into many colours. 

A third property is that light travels in a straight line. This was proven by putting a peice of card with a small rectangle hole and measuring the directions of the light. The results was light can travel in straight lines.

Reading Large Numbers | Maths

Large numbers can be hard to read depending on what number is being read. 

To read a large number like 547,829,316 you start with the millions place value. To read the millions you group the number in a group of three and say it as "five hundred and forty seven million". 

Then you group the thousands into a group of three and say the number as "eight hundred and twenty nine thousand."

After you group the ones. Group the ones into a group of three and say three hundred and sixteen. 

Group all of the numbers togther and say it as five hundred and forty seven million, eight hundred and twenty nine thousand, three hundred and sixteen. 

Make sure you say the place value house with more importance so people know what the number is worth.

Plurals | Writing

Plurals are nouns that show there is more than one thing.

Most plurals have the letter s at the end of the word to make it a plural, e.g. lions. There is a letter s in front because there is more than one lion.

If the object ends with a y it changes the y to a i, e.g. bunny changes to bunnies because there is more than one bunny.