Don't fall off: Reading DLO

For Ms Naicker's first reading group we had to read an article. The title was Don't fall of. After we had read the article we had to write fast facts. We had to write the things we notice in the article. The next thing we had to do was make a DLO on the main ideas. We had to write the three main ideas. 

Cross Country 2016

This afternoon the whole school went to Dunkirk Park to do cross country. The first race was the Yr 1's it was really close. The next race was the Yr 2's they run there fastest it was pretty intense. As the races were getting closer to the Yr 7 and 8's I got nervous and had butter fly's in my stomach. We had to run 4 laps around the course. The most important thing was to pace yourself. I tried to pace myself but I did my best. I ran all of the laps and never stopped. I tried to make it into third but I came fourth.  

Reading - Main Idea, Fast Facts

For Ms Naickers reading group we read a story called fast feet. First we had to write fast facts, what we noticed in the story and write it down. After that we had to finish a DLO on the the main idea. We had to write the main ideas and write how we know this. 

Maths Follow up Place value in decimals

Today morning Ms Naicker's group in maths were doing decimals. My learning intention was Find the Place Value in Decimals. We had to write the decimals numerals in words and write the decimal words into numeral decimals. I had fourteen questions altogether. I managed to finish. I got confused a little. Sometimes I wrote numbers instead of words. We were learning to understand where and what the place values are in the decimals. Ms Naicker helped us out a lot. One of the questions was 24.34 I had to write that in words and the answer was twenty four and thirty four hundredths. 

Read Theory

LS2 have been using a website called Read Read Theory, we read for 20 minutes in our class. We go on that website to improve on our reading. First they give you a quiz, you have to read the passage first, then answer the question. You get a different quiz each time if you pass the quiz. Each time you finish a quiz you get points to earn a new title. Each time you get every question answered correctly you go up a grade. You have to understand the text to answer the questions. You have to know what the question is asking you. The good thing about is the you can go back to read the passage to look for the information. 

Sketchnotes

LS2 have been learning to sketchnote. It's like writing notes but instead your are drawing. It's a lot more fun than just writing, because drawing is more creative. You do need a couple of words on sketchnote like labelling them in order. It helps you with connections, doesn't need to be neat or look really good, it just needs to make sense to you. It helps you focus because you have fun. We started off with questions because we started learning and we knew the topic. We then moved onto athletics, making sketchnotes about what we learned about Run, Jump, Throw. Our next topics were about Rio and Olympic medals. We were drawing the famous landmarks for Rio. For Olympic medals we had to write how to earn a medal in sequence. To our class this is a new and creative way to record information. We have to use bullet points, like an actual bullet. This is a new thing in our class and we are enjoying it. 

Cross country practise

PBS has been practising for cross country. Mr Ogilvie has been helping us. The first day we started of with 1 lap. Every week the lap goes up by one. We learnt to keep pushing ourselves to finish our laps. Mr Ogilvie helped us with endurance and agility. Each time we ran I got better and better at cross country. The most important thing Mr Ogilvie taught us was to keep pacing ourselves and on our last lap we go our fastest.