Inquiry | Persuasive Presentation

Today, the companies presented their shelter design to bid for the building contract. We presented a slideshow that included information about the shelter design, materials and benefits.

Before presenting, each company focused on timing our presentation and practicing our lines so that it was within two and three minutes. They added onto and changed some parts of the script to make it longer.

What was expected from each company was to persuade the representitives of Panmure Bridge School that our shelter is best for the certain natural disasters. They needed to include eye contact, clear presenting and the reasons why their shelter is best.

After that, each company presented our model and presentation to the class and representitives (Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie). 

In their blogpost, they gave information about what they did and what was required in each presentation, the feedback they were given, what they did well and what they could improve. They also talked about is they were able to win the building contract and what they could've changed to potentially win the contract.

LI: to present our design and bid for the building contract.

Maths | Quiz Results

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups took their partner's maths quizzes and recorded their results.

For the first quiz (the 20 questions quiz with questions based around additon, subtraction and fact families), one person times how long their partner takes to answer all 20 questions.

For the second quiz (the 15 questions quiz with questions based around all other maths knowledge), one person answers all of the 15 questions and then checks their answers.

In their blogpost, they talk about their results and their times.

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups enjoyed taking their partners quizzes and testing their maths knowledge.

LI: to use knowledge to test knowledge.

Writing | Film Creation

Mr Wong's writing groups applied their knowledge of screenplays, scripts and storyboards to finish filming their movies. The previous week, everyone from Mr Wong's writing groups split into their groups to choose one movie to film.

Two of Mr Wong's writing groups had completed filming and were onto editing. The remaining of his writing groups began filming the footage of their movies and then started editing.

The requirements of the movies were that it had to be more than 30 seconds long and less than two minutes short. The movies had to be filmed in the most effiecent way possible to save time, and the sooner that each group finished their movies, the sooner they could be presented.

Mr Wong's writing groups enjoyed filming and editing their footage and finalising their movies.

LI write a short story that can be made into a film.

LI: to convert a story into a screenplay (script) and storyboard.

LI: to film a screenplay.

Reading | Cloze Comprehension

Mr Wong's reading groups have been doing Cloze activities to test their vocabulary, comprehension and word skills.

They followed links to different cloze activites and it led them to a website with information about a topic. In the text their were blanks where words would be, and the students had to type in the word that fits in the blanks.

Mr Wong's reading groups used their knowledge of english vocabulary to write in the word that they think is most accurate. There were five different Cloze activities: Moving House, Gap Year, A New Culture, The Great Wall of China and Doing a Gap Year.

Mr Wong's reading groups enjoyed testing their comprehension skills and filling in the blanks.

LI: to practise comprehension skills.

LI: to test grammar knowledge.

 

Inquiry | Presentation

Our Inquiry task was to create a presentation of our shelter design to persuade the client (Panmure Bridge School represented by Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie) into building our structure.

The requirements of this presentation were that all members of the company had to speak, maintain print design rules, include images and graphics, the material testing result, shape testing result and the model that our company has made. 

The first thing we worked on was thinking about what aspects of our shelter design we should present. Our company first talked about the shape of our design and why we chose that shape. We continued writing down information about what the shelter can resist, the benefits of our shelter, the shelter materials and why the purpose of those materials.

We also added graphics to give the audience a visual reference and then our company began writing the script. Each member of the company was assigned a two or three sentence part to speak in the presentation.

Our company enjoyed recalling the information of our shelter design and putting it into a presentation. One thing I think we could improve on is balancing out who was speaking and how much each member of the company was saying.

LI: to create a presentation of your design to bid for the building contract. 

Maths | Testing Knowledge

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups have been focusing on creating a quiz to challenge their partner. We made three different challenges to test our partners knowledge.

The first quiz we made was on a google form. It had to include questions relating to fact families, additon and subtraction. The requirements for this quiz were there had to be 20 questions and the answer had to be written, not chosen.

The second quiz we made was also on a google form. It had to include questions relating to strand knowledge (measurement, money, time, fractions and everything else we have learnt). The requirements for this quiz were there had to be only 15 questions and the answer had to be chosen, not written.

As for the third challenge, we could choose to make this on a slide or draw. This DLO had to include one challenge where a person would need to do physically do something in order to find the answer. A challenge example is: measure the height of a chair.

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups enjoyed coming up with questions to test their partners ability and skill to solve a problem.

LI: to use knowledge to test knowledge.

Reading | Novel Study Understandings | Anaylysing Books

 Mr Wong's reading groups completed and finished their novel study on a Roald Dahl storybook.

They read through the final chapters of the book that they chose and made text-to-self, text-to-text and 

text-to-world connections. They also completed their story web and finished a comprehension task with it. 

In our blog post, we talked about what happened in the final chapters that we read. We used descriptive

language to inform the reader of the events that took place.

As it is the final week to complete our novel studies, LS1 should have a complete understanding of the book and learnt how to do a novel study.

LI: To study a novel.