Stardome Trip

On Thursday Night the LS2 Year 7/8 went to the stardome observatory. The purpose of this event was mainly to learn about space. We left school at 5:30 and left the observatory at 7:20. There is lot of information about planets which you can explore and learn all around. We were first got introduced to a animation which was casted and shown by Tobias. This animation showed us how constellations work, constellations are stars that are formed to its identified figure, there are different mythology meaning, different cultures have different beliefs. They also showcased a close up look towards Jupiter and Saturn.     

Introducing Penguins

This week we gathered information about penguin, then we used that information for our planning. The reason why we planned, is because we were trying a challenge, which was, we could only use information gathered from our planning to make a infographic. The three main three property we used were Appearance, Diet and Habitat.

Introducing Penguins

Is it just me or are we both clueless for not realizing that a weird walking animal named penguin is a type of bird. Penguins are different to ordinary birds as they can not fly or glide, they don’t even have Wings and are completely flightless. Penguins are aquatic creatures and have flippers to swim they're way through the water which is often called (rocket). They’re often hunted by sea lions, some may have had brutal deaths. The scientific name for penguins are recognised as Spheniscidae.

Penguins are bigger and taller than normal birds, nearly all type of penguins have an black back and white in the front as feathers.

As all birds have, a penguin has a yellow beak. Some penguins even have patterns, like the humboldt penguin. They even have flippers.

The emperor penguin is considered the tallest and heaviest among all penguins. The smallest penguin is called the little penguin.

Penguin life is truly sad being the favourite food of an Leopard sea Lion. (Sea Lion)

Penguins mainly eat fish, but can also consume Squid, Krill and Crustacean as an diet.

Crustacean is a Type of Animal that lives in the water and is a type of aquatic. A common thing people do, is misunderstand Crustacean for an prawn.

“Never knew a type of bird lived in antarctica”  “me either”, “I’d expect any type of bird frozen to death by the time the clock has past 30 minutes”

Antarctica is a freezing place (ice biome) it contains lots of high ice structures and spices well known as penguins.

Antarctica is not the only habitat where penguins take on, there are many countries where penguins live in, but they are usually different types.

Night Light

This term for reading we were reading books about space which is our topic for inquiry. We read lots of different books like, The Problem with Pluto, Return Ticket, Please!, Night Light and a few more options. There were also 6 main responses, each response had different challenges for us to use the information we gathered by the text. We also had to comment on people's responses to learn how to have a Dialogic Conversation. As you can see the DLO that I have created is a challenge from 1 of 6 selections of responses.

Kiwican

This week at kiwican, our term 2 topic was focused on Integrity. An example of integrity would be setting up an good example when no one's looking. Then we had an roleplay of what honesty looks like. There were 4 groups, each group had different ideas. Our group had an wallet as our idea, our role play, was a guy who lost his wallet while going to the shops. Then a random man picked up his wallet and gave it back to him. Telling the truth to your friends will help you earn their trust, or it will help with connections. The thing I found interesting is that owning up to the truth rather than hiding it will prevent a bigger consequence.

Place Value Partitioning

As you can see this DLO shows the strategy of place value to solve addition problems. During our maths session we practiced our place values by answering word questions and addition problem. When I was answering the words question I had to look for the maths so that I knew what numbers to work with. What I found interesting is that this strategy is really useful against addition questions and not useful with multiplication, this had shown me that different strategies are useful for different maths question.