Light & Sound | Inquiry

We were learning about light & sound vocabulary. Sound is when something travels and gets weaker and weaker. Light is to make something visible.

Our first activity was sorting out the meaning of words that relate to sound and light. We had to use our prior knowledge to find the meanings of some words. We had three different dictionary sites to look at to help find the meanings as well. 

Our second activity was find, draw, animate and act four words. For the draw,  we drew a prism making a rainbow. Our animation was about vibration. Lastly our act was a video on transparent.

The words we used were transparent, vibrate, decibels and prism. 

I enjoyed drawing the picture of the prism. 

L.I - To learn the vocabulary of light and sound 

Subtraction | Place Value

We were learning about subtraction using place value. Subtraction is taking or subtracting an amount of something from another thing.

One of the problems I solved was:

227 - 163 = ?

163 = 100 + 60 + 3
First I split the number one hundred twenty seven.

227 - 3 = 22
When subtracting always start from the ones.

224 - 60 = 164
After that I took away the tens.

164 - 100 = 64
Finally I took away the hundreds.

I think using place value for subtraction is helpful because it helps me understand the equations easier.

L.I - To subtract using place values

Mental Verbs | Physical Verbs | State Of Being

Verbs are actions words, for example jump,walk and rip. There are three types of verbs, mental verbs, physical verbs & state of being.

State of being verbs are the verb "be" is, for example is, are and will.

Physical verbs are what people do, for example flick,chug and smash.

Mental verbs describe a thinking action, for example decide, imagine & remember.

Verbs help describe actions.

L.I - To learn about verbs.

Predictions | Grandparents Day

For reading we made predictions, those predictions were educated guesses. Educated guesses clues are made prior knowledge.

I thought that "the grandparents had a good day". This prediction was incorrect, the real answer was "The grandma was confused and mad, she thought that she could be able to go the grandparents day".

One more prediction I did was "I think that the grandpa won’t get anything done because he always slow at doing things". This prediction was also wrong because the grandpa was more faster then the grandma.

I think predicting is a good strategy to use in reading because it helps me understand what is going to happen next.

The book we read was - Grandparents Day

South Pacific Beats | Interactive Summary

We made an interactive summary about the article "South Pacific Beats". We learnt four different reading strategies to help us understand this article.

For my interactive summary I used my prior knowledge and skimming to help with writing down information either about Rachael Hall, the pato or the lali.

My prior knowledge helped me by me write what I already new about Rachael Hall, the pato and the lali. The reading strategy skimming also helped me so I could understand the article.

L.I - To create an interactive summary of the article South Pacific Beats

Properties Of Light

Light is a source make objects visible and easier the see or find.

One of the properties of light is that, light cannot go through opaque objects. This was proven when the opaque object blocked the light from passing through. 

Another property of light is transparent objects can go through light. When the light was going through the glass it went through because the object is transparent. 

Another property of light is that light can change positions depending on the angle of the mirror. 

When the light shined into the mirror it reflected.

One more property of light is that light can form a rainbow using a prism. If a light source is put on top of a prism it forms a rainbow. The prism makes a rainbow because the white light is split into many colours.

Check the embed document for more properties of light.

L.I - To observe the properties of light 

Reading Large Numbers

Reading large numbers can be hard to read because they are large and sometimes if they have millions.

To read 547 829 316 first read the millions.The millions is read like, five hundred and forty seven million.

Next read the thousands as eight hundred and twenty nine thousand.The last part is to read the ones like, three hundred and sixteen.

L.I - To read and recall numbers greater than 100