Learning From Week 3

I can't believe that we're through to the end of week three already. It's been an insane week with all the rain and stormy weather. The students are holding it together well, especially given that they value their sports and we haven't had much of a chance to get out for a game over the last couple of weeks. 

Here are some examples of what the students have been up to with their learning. Sorry about the budget formatting of the videos and reading activities. When we get individual blogs up and running it'll be easier to make them look tidier, but for now it still provides the students with a forum to showcase their ongoing learning. Please feel free to comment on the blog post. 

NAME: Bridget                                             DATE:   24.3.16                           

Although dictionaries can be a great help, they do not always provide you with a definition that you can understand or use. It is important to think about a new word or idea in different ways.

There are many resources you can use to help you complete this chart:

Experts: teachers or students

Reference tools: old school paper dictionaries, online dictionaries

Context clues: you might guess what the word means from how it is used      

Prior knowledge: what you already know about words

Word: GOBSMACKED

Put the definition into your own words Totally shocked and amazed sometimes horrified Pleased happy LOVED IT  it's absolutely crazy AMAZING	Find words that have a similar meaning Shocked Amazed “ Well I did not know that was coming!” Says mystery person Super duper happy! Think it was crazy
Use the word in a sentence The guy was so gobsmacked he nearly fainted! She was so gobsmacked she was speechless. I saw a massive goat and was I then was gobsmacked.v	Draw the word (google draw is fine)

NAME:Bridget                                            DATE:30.3.2016                       

Although dictionaries can be a great help, they do not always provide you with a definition that you can understand or use. It is important to think about a new word or idea in different ways.

There are many resources you can use to help you complete this chart:

Experts: teachers or students

Reference tools: old school paper dictionaries, online dictionaries

Context clues: you might guess what the word means from how it is used      

Prior knowledge: what you already know about words

Word:Individually

Put the definition into your own words Everyone is different everyone has their own taste for clothes fashion and everyone has different taste buds and some people like some smells and others don’t.	Find words that have a similar meaning Different, reading by yourself,doing stuff by yourself, basicly like different things.
Use the word in a sentence She was put in a individuality class to find out what made her different to someone else.	Draw the word (google draw is fine)

NAME: caitlin                                                   DATE:  20 th                                               BOOK:

Pre Reading Activity: Work independently to skim-read this week’s text and complete the first three columns. The last column will be completed after reading.

Know	Would like to know	Vocabulary	Learned
K: List all the things you think you know about the themes in the text.	W: List 2 - 5 things you’d like to find out.	V: Make a list of words you think you might come across reading about this subject.	List some of the main things you learned from reading this text.
The moon is 348 thousand km away Neil armstrong was the first ever  astronaut to go on the moon Half the moon is always in the sunlight and half in the shade The earth	Why is it called a waxing crescent Why does the cycle seem to be bigger every time Why is it called a waning crescent Why does the moon orbit the sun anti-clockwise	Blotches Mentally Perspective Saddlight   Proportion	The moon is different in the northern hemisphere Modern scientific understanding of the moon tells it's just a big Airless sphere of rocks and dust that orbits the earth and reflects light from the sun A waxing gibbous tells us  it's on its way to becoming a fall moon

NAME: Natasha / Bridget DATE: 18.5.16 BOOK: lunar phases

Pre Reading Activity: Work independently to skim-read this week’s text and complete the first three columns. The last column will be completed after reading.

Know	Would like to know	Vocabulary	Learned
K: List all the things you think you know about the themes in the text.	W: List 2 - 5 things you’d like to find out.	V: Make a list of words you think you might come across reading about this subject.	List some of the main things you learned from reading this text.
The moon isn’t the only moon in the solar system My sister thinks the moon is cheese but it is really made of rock and dust. The moon has craters on it There is a maori legend when the moon sucks up the woman The moon reflects light from the sun _____________________________ The moon is said to be made of cheese but I know it is really made of stone and dust. Some nights you can look into the sky and see the man in the moon. There is a half moon full moon quarter moon and fingernail moon. The romans named to moon Luna_	How was the moon created? Why can the opposite side of the earth see the other side of the moon? What county was the first to find out about the moon? How many craters has the moon got on its surface Does the moon have a core? _____________________________ Are there any other moon shapes that have not been discovered and like only come out in a 1000 years? Could there be a cheese named after the moon? Does the moon have any hidden life	Orbits, angles, waxing, waning, Gibbous, crescent, First quarter, Waxing crescent, New moon, Waning crescent, Last quarter, Waning gibbous, Full moon, waxing gibbous. _____________________________ Universe Astronauts Gibbous Waxing Waning Crescent Sun Waxing crescent Waning crescent Waning gibbous Waxing gibbous Confusingly Orbit Angles probe	_____________________________ There are more moon angles then what I thought There are different names for the orbit of the moon We see the same side of the moon all the time ( an effect called ‘tidally locked’ the part we don’t see is the dark side of the moon. The first time humans saw the other side of the moon was in 1959 when the Russian probe luna took some grainy photographs. The dreamworks (movie company) logo features the moon with a boy fishing off it, the moon is in a waxing crescent

NAME:  Jack H                                                 DATE:         20/5                                        BOOK:

Pre reading Activity: Work independently to skim-read this week’s text and complete the first three columns. The last column will be completed after reading.

Know	Would like to know	Vocabulary	Learned
K: List all the things you think you know about the themes in the text.	W: List 2 - 5 things you’d like to find out.	V: Make a list of words you think you might come across reading about this subject.	List some of the main things you learned from reading this text.
It takes 1 month for the moon to circle the earth. It's a moon It's a earth	Does the moon ever stop circling the earth Does the atmosfear stop?	Blotches Myths Orbit Waxing Earth Moon Diagram	Gibbous is like a lop sided rugby ball shape. Waning means getting smaller or going out. Crescent is the thin silver with pointy ends. Waxing means getting bigger or coming in.

NAME:       Jack B                                             DATE:  20/5                            

Although dictionaries can be a great help, they do not always provide you with a definition that you can understand or use. It is important to think about a new word or idea in different ways.

There are many resources you can use to help you complete this chart:

Experts: teachers or students

Reference tools: old school paper dictionaries, online dictionaries

Context clues: you might guess what the word means from how it is used      

Prior knowledge: what you already know about words

Word:colonel

Put the definition into your own words A rank in the U.S. army ranking between lieutenant colonel and brigadier general. Colonel Flight lieutenant Flying officer Pilot officer Lance corporal Staff sergeant Flight sergeant Warrant officer

Find words that have a similar meaning Captain Lieutenant Brigadier general General 2nd lieutenant Lieutenant colonel Major Sergeant Corporal 3rd lieutenant Commandant Admiral Field marshal Vice admiral Rear admiral Commodore Commander Lieutenant commander Sub lieutenant Ensign Midshipman Lieutenant general Major general Brigadier Officer cadet Marshal Air chief marshal Air marshal Air vice marshal Air commodore Group captain Wing commander <Squadron leader

Use the word in a sentence Colonel Hogan is a prisoner in stalag 13. Colonel Hogan is part of the U.S.A. Airforce Colonel Hogan is very smart. Medals:

Draw the word (google draw is fine) Colonel and troops

NAME: jack b                                                   DATE: 16/5/16                                                BOOK:tracking Jupiter’s moons/what is the moon

Prereading Activity: Work independently to skim-read this week’s text and complete the first three columns. The last column will be completed after reading.

Know	Would like to know	Vocabulary	Learned
K: List all the things you think you know about the themes in the text.	W: List 2 - 5 things you’d like to find out.	V: Make a list of words you think you might come across reading about this subject.	List some of the main things you learned from reading this text.
Names of planets Names of moons Why they’re called that	Are they all named after greek/roman mythology? Who named them? How far away is neptune?	Velocity Telescope Atmosphere Jupiter Scientific Sphere Myths Moon Stratosphere Titan	That the ancient greeks thought that the moon was the home of the dead That up until the twentieth century doctors called people that were mentally ill, lunatics It is the 5th largest moon in the solar system The moon is bigger than pluto That the Moon is 384,400 kilometres away