Ravenclaw with Felicity

In term 2 week 9 we looked at unpacking sentences  and what it means. Whenever someone starts unpacking a sentence Felicity told us you always have to always begin with "I think that means". For example It is a commonly held opinion that the lion is the king of the beasts. I think that means a lot of people think that the lion is the biggest and the grandest of all animals.

Immersion with Felicity

Today for immersion we looked at plants and the process of photosynthesis. Photo in Greek means light and synthesis means putting it together. Felicity gave us some study ladder tasks about plants giving us energy. And how if one animal from the food chain suddenly disappeared it would affect the whole food chain. We also did a fun activity about sorting a pile of photo's into living and non-living. But there was an argument about if sea anemone are a animal or a plant, then we asked felicity and she told us they were half plant half animal.

Writing explanation

In week 8 term 2 for raven claw with felicity we did writing explanations. My explanation was about why we need plants to live. we started off with a P.E.E.L plan which stands for point, example, explain and link. one of my key reasons for my explanation was that they give us oxygen through the photo synthesis process.

Making a roller coaster

For immersion we were looking at the kinetic and potential energy in roller coasters. Amy gave us a link to make our own roller coaster. When I first started this I thought it was going to be easy but as I started both of my  rating stayed down, but eventually I got my safety rating up but my fun ratings stayed down. After some time all my ratings went up.

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What is energy

Last week we learnt about kinetic and potential energy. Our follow up was to do this slideshow.

term 1 maths

In term 1 we looked at fractions, ratios and percenteges in hogwarts with felicity. In this workshop i learnt how to add and subtract fractions, square root numbers, prime numbers, and many other things. some of the challenges were coping with all the follow ups but that got solved evantally. some of the things I didn't like was nothing, I loved everything!! During the process of learning I also completed a lot of knoledge goals like

how to make a mango smothie

How to make a mango smoothie

Goal: use complex sentences

Serves 2

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons yogurt

½ frozen mango

3 tablespoons vanilla ice cream

1 teaspoon LSA/Chia seeds

1 tablespoon mango pulp (optional)

Blender

3 to 4 cups milk

Method

1. Combine all ingredients into blender on high speed.

2. Blend it for 20- 40 seconds

3. Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses

4. Add the mango pulp on top

The ostrich from pudding lane

Title:The ostrich from pudding lane

Author: Jeremy Strong

The problem the main character had been that he was an ostrich and several farmers wanted to kill him and eat him for dinner. This made me think about why would you want to eat an ostrich for dinner anyway they're so cool, I really liked this book because it had tons of humor and was really interesting because there was a giant ostrich randomly just walked into the school and surprisingly he wasn’t dangerous.

Felicity also gave me some feedback on always giving a reason why you say something, for example, I think this is interesting because of enormous animal on loose.

Term 1 literacy

In term 1 at rapping readers with Nicole we learnt how to write persuasive texts and all agreed that we should do one about why schools should be bully free. Along with that we were also reading the book wonder by Raquel J. Palacio  and writing a reading log about it. At the end of the term we had to write a persuasive writing text on our own for our writing assesment I chose to do it about why children should get phones and I will be sharing that soon. In my writing group I enjoyed everything 

Using complex sentences

This week at Ravenclaw my literacy goal was using complex sentences. To make a complex sentence you need to add a conjunction here are a few examples. One of my complex sentences is: The chameleon flicked out its tongue so it could catch its prey.

candle experiment

When we did an experiment about candle our follow up was to find out why black stuff appeared on the plate if you put the candle under it, here is my explanation.

The black stuff that turns up on the plate is actually called soot from the unfinished burning of the fuel, this can be caused by several factors. Two of those factors are the balance between the wax and the wick in the candle leading to disturbing the flame. The fuel to the candle flame is the liquid wax which is being drawn up through the wick.When too much fuel is presented to the flame it is not all burned.  The excess fuel is put off in the form of soot.

Science behind apple caiviar

The science behind behind the technique

The process of sphereifaction starts with dissolving sodium alganate and calcium lactate in two liquids (one in apple juice, the other in the water). Once the two are well mixed in their liquids, let them settle for a period of time to allow any trapped gases to release (put the apple flavored one in the fridge to settle). Next put the flavored liquid into a syringe and carefully squeeze drops of it into the water based liquid

pencil of doom reading log

Here is my reading log entry

The pencil of doom

Write an alternative ending:

I think that The pencil has caused a lot of incidents so Henry is trying to get rid of it. I think that Henry will eventually burn it because he has attempted doing that several times this time the pencil will try its hardest to fight back.

scale model of planets

During stem I am learning about how to make a scale model of the planets in our solar system here is some evidence.

scale model of planets

reading log entry

Reading log entry  

Nerd camp 2.0

Stop reading predict what will happen next:

I predict that gabe and zach go to camp and then gabe will get teased by all of zach’s friends. Then gabe will start getting embarrassed and get mad at zack.

 

procedures

This week at Ravenclaw we wrote a procedure about how to tie your shoe laces.
Here is my procedure