Buzzing Through Year 5

Saturday, 18 October 2014

100 word prompt #2

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words. You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Cupcake Fractions

Cupcake Fractions and Ratios

By Alessia and Georgia

Last Friday Miss Lee organised us some fun food activities. She bought cupcake mixes (chocolate and vanilla flavour) and green cordial. There were also other activities like the fraction flag activity. We were split into groups for the day when we did this.

We made cupcakes using ratios and fractions.

We had to mix some vanilla and chocolate then write the ratio and fraction for it. For example 3 spoons of chocolate and 1 spoon of vanilla. The ratio would be written like this 3:1 and the fractions ¾.

We then did the same with the cordial 20 mL of cordial and 40 mL of water had 1 part cordial and 4 parts water. It had a fraction of ⅕.

Fraction Maths

Chocolate Fractions

By Abby and Matt D

Our Year 5 class have been learning about fractions. Last Thursday we played the chocolate fractions game. In the chocolate fractions game we had three chairs at the front of our classroom with chocolate packs on them. The first chair had one pack of chocolate. The second one had two chocolate packs on it and the third had three packs of chocolate. Year 5 had to pick which chair would give them the most amount of chocolate.

Kameron had the first choice and that was easy (he chose the seat with 3 packs). From then on more students had the chance to come up to the front of the classroom to pick what chair they would get the most chocolate from.

We had whiteboards to see what fraction it would be, sometimes all the groups would have the same fraction which is called an equivalent fraction e.g 1/3, 2/6, 3/9. We would have to think and use our fraction brains to figure out the option would be the best and give us the most chocolate.

Which option you would choose?

Option 1- You would have 1/5 of the chocolate (1 bar)

Option 2- You would have 2/9 of the chocolate (1 1/9 bar)

Option 3- You would have 1/12 of the chocolate (1 3/12 bar)

What did you learn from the chocolate fractions lesson?

25 Years of Rights for Children

25 Years of Rights for Children

2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Earlier this year Miss Lee's brother Michael (the pilot) came into our class to explain to us why planes stay up in the air. Well Michael is currently working at the United Nations in Geneva with the Marist Brothers who have a seat with the Rights of the Child.

Image from: http://www.myswitzerlandtravel.com/geneva-united-nations-building-photo-1.jpg

He has put together this video to explain to our class what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is all about.

What did you learn from the video? What questions do you have for Michael? Why do you think the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is important? Comment below with your answers to these questions. We will see if Michael can answer some of our questions.

Sunday, 12 October 2014

100 Words Prompt #1

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Constructive Feedback

By Abby, Vivian & Jamie

In Yr 5 we use constructive feedback to improve our work by getting feedback by other students in our class and our teacher. We started doing constructive feedback after watching a video about a boy called Austin. Austin is a 1st grader and had to draw a scientific butterfly and to accomplish that he used feedback from the other students.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZo2PIhnmNY

First, we have to do constructive feedback-self you have to write your name, what draft number, then you need to sign it, write the date, what is your learning goal, what you did well and what you need to improve on.

Next, you have to show your work to two of your friends so they could fill in the constructive Feedback-peer and then you use what they said you need to improve on e.g. If they told you to be more creative you could add some colour to your work.

Finally, you have to give your work to your teacher and they will fill in the constructive feedback-Teacher

Goal

A goal is your aim, or what you want to achieve.

Medal

A medal is what you did well.

Mission

Mission is what you can do to improve.

Thank you for reading our blog post. What do you enjoy most about constructive feedback?

Saturday, 9 August 2014

Volume for St Felix

Volume Activities for St Felix

By Paul, Matt D and James

This past week, Year 5 have been learning about Volume. We were given the challenge to create some learning activities for Yr 5 from St Felix. We split into different groups. Some were doing volume and others did displacement. Everyone did an activity: some did game, a tutorial, a song and a quiz. We learnt about the formula of the volume of an object. We times the Length, Width and Height.

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Try making your way through our activities to increase your knowledge and skills about volume. Happy Learning!