This term for literacy we have been working on writing narrative stories.

I was focusing on paragraphs and becoming the character. Here’s a sample of a story I wrote called The Grandparents. I really enjoyed writing it as I got to tell it from the perspective of a 5 year old. My next step would be to describe the excitement of  the narrator as she opens the door.

Here’s the sample:

Finally the doorbell rings once again. I rush to the door and immediately hug the people there. I’m so happy to see my grandparents! Then I realise I’m actually hugging the letterman. He gives a very boring looking letter to me, addressed to Abigail King, and quickly hurries off. 

I’m really disappointed and pretend to act out SparkleButt the baby zebra when she thinks there’s no way out of the mermaid kingdom from Baby Animal Island. I sing the song she sings, and look as disappointed as I can. I think I’m very good at singing, I’m going to be a singer when I grow up! And I’m going to marry Mum and Dad and then we can all live together forever and eat honey on the moon! Oh wait. I’m meant to be disappointed. Oops.

Mum walks over to me and asks me what’s wrong. I continue singing my sad song and walk past my mum, pretending she doesn’t exist like SparkleButt does. I walk around the house singing, so, so sad. I will never be happy again. Then the doorbell rings again.

Yay! 

This week is the second to last week of school.

On Thursday I had tech, and I finished making my game and colored it in. I put batteries in and tested it. I beat it 4 times.

Since Sunday I have been writing a long story, and spend a lot of my spare time doing that. I curl myself in my sleeping bag in front of the computer with a cup of tea and my cat on my lap. It’s really especially when my sister has other stuff to do that does not include annoying me and scaring away my cat. My goal is to write chapter 10 before Monday. I’m up to chapter 7, so I think I can do it.

I have used empathy because I play with little kids every middle break and I do what they say. I used success because of my writing, and resilience because I biked through the rain yesterday.

This is Gerald. He is amazing. He is a frog and he wears a hat.

Gerald Is Amazing.

Today in maths we gathered data and used Google Sheets to make a column graph.

Our topic was preferred drinks and our variable was gender.

The features of my graph are the titles, the options, and the variables.

From the graph I notice that Juice is the most popular.

We used different coloured columns to represent the different genders.

For action stations I have been making earrings out of clay with Fi.

We started by designing out earrings, I wanted to make avocados. Then Millie told me I should but a cat in them, and Alexia said that on the other side I should put a cat butt. So that is what I did. I also made some very quick marble pink and yellow earrings, so now I have two pairs. When I was making my avocado cats, one of the earrings accidentally got baked when it wasn’t ready and there wasn’t a hole to put the hangy things, so I turned them into studs.

I enjoyed making my earrings.

Today for CRT we did art inspired by Keith Haring. He is a man who got arrested for drawing at train stations. He draws stick figures in action poses.

This is my reflective blog for Week 6.

One thing I achieved was Tech. I designed my game which I am making for Makerspace.

Another thing that went well was Choice and Challenge. It was my first time, and I led bikes with the younger kids and my friends. It was fun.

I forgot my togs on Friday and I was really happy because that meant I didn’t have to do swimming sports or any swimming at all.

Today we did 100 division questions in 10 minutes.

I got 98/100 in 9m 4s.

I did worse than my multiplication test.

Next time I want to complete the test in 8m.

To do this, one fact I’m going to focus on is 108 divided by 12 = 9.

This week for Tech I have been in Makerspace like I have all term. We’re making games, using circuit boards we have been making in the last few sessions.

I’m making a ‘Steady Hand’ game, which is the easiest of the three to make. What happens is you use the handle to navigate your way along a twisty – turny line, and if it touches the line, it makes a beeping sound. The goal is to get it from one side to the other.

The games I’m not making are harder, the middle hardest is like a matching game, I’m not entirely sure how it works, but you have to match stuff to other stuff. The hardest game to make is an operation game. I don’t know how that works.

Tech so far has been quite fun, and I’m really excited to make my game.

Today we did a times table test to see if we knew our multiplication facts. 

We had 100 questions and 10 minutes.

I got 99/100 in 7 minutes and 37 seconds.

My goal is to work on speed. Next time I want to do it in 6 minutes.

To achieve this I am going to learn 4×8 by heart.