Amy's Evidence of Learning

Last term I was in Felicity's math workshop.  We worked on stuff like Equivilent fractions , converting fractions to decimals and decimals to percenterges . One of my favourite parts of the workshops was when we played the decimal bingo game. But a big challenge was completing all my follow ups because I had not had much time. There was one stage where I hadn't finished my follow ups for weeks.

I have changed specialists and I am now in P.E. We worked on ball skills for the first half of the session and for the other half we played a fun game of dodge ball. I have now found a new love for dodge ball because it is a perfect oppertunity  to work on my catching skills.

Challenges: A big challenge in rapping readers was definitly  trying to complete all my follow ups on time and catch up with reading wonder because at one stage I fell behind quite alot . Celebrations: One of my really big celebrations was doing the peice of writing about bullying because I found out lots of reasearch  and I put alot  of effort into it. Overall I was really proud of it. The Book: In wrapping readers we were reading a book called Wonder. It was about a boy called Augest that had a problem with his face and was starting a new school Beacher Prep.

This week for immersion we did a candle experiment. We tested to see how long a candle would last with limited oxygen. How we did it was we had 3 different sized glasses and put them over a candle and timed how long they lasted. My hypothesis was right the candle that had the smallest glass had the least amount of time. This was a fun experiment and I really enjoyed doing it.

Every Friday I get to do textiles. I am making a pencil case/ art kit. I have nearly finished my prototype and have started practicing useing the sewing machine. Doing textiles is certainly out of my comfort zone but I am really enjoying it.

The challenges: during my project I had a wonderful time but there were a few hiccups along the way. For a few examples we had trouble with callaboration  because everyone was arguing instead of listening to eachother . We also had trouble with sorting out teams because we all wanted to be with our friends. What I learnt: While doing my project I learnt a lot of callaboration  skills and I learnt more about the area I live in because I was the one that made the track around Hobsonville Point. I also improved on my organisig  skills and completing tasks quicker. Celebrations: One of my biggest celebrations in my project was when we completed all our tasks so that we could set a date for the amazing race. How long it took: The process of the amazing race took around 1 term. I had a lot of fun and it was an amazing journy

The Process: For my fitness project I worked with Mackenzie, Zarlia and Radha. Unfortunately I was away for the first few steps of my project. When I was away my group made a list of problems about fitness. As a group we all decided on what problem we were going to try and fix. We chose that people are not pushing themselves to do more challenging fitness. Next we came up with our how might we.It was how might we create opportunities in order for LC3 to stay fit and healthy . After that we brainstormed some solutions to our problem then wrote them all down on big piece of paper. We chose to do an amazing race. The next stage was to do a prototype sketch it is where you sketch out your problem then how you are going to fix it then what it will be like once you have finished your project. Once we finished our prototype we filled out a project map and wrote down some tasks we had to do get started on working on our project. Then we all signed a group contract to p...

This week I have changed immersion and I am now with Kothar and Nicole. We have been learning about the three states of matter: Solids, liquid and gas. We also learnt about different types of energy: kenetic  energy, thermal energy, light energy, chemical energy and potential energy.

For my immersion I have been learing about energy and the living world. This week we made a  marine food web. What we had to do is we got this worksheet and research what animal eats what. Then we got pictures of the animals and stuck them on a peice of paper in a food web.