Line Shoot Out

Today room 9 played a game called Line Shoot Out, It is known for the lines like parallel lines, point and also intersection lines. You have to shoot the lines that would come up and also with the word on the mouse.

Vocabulary list

Today Room 9 done a research about simple machines. We were all split up into 3 different groups one was doing information sheet (that was going to be printed in  A4 paper size), the simple machine poster group was lucky all they had to do was put the image on a google drawing and then they had just had to write what the simple machine does. We also had the vocabulary group which we had 28 words about simple machines, we had to find the definition in the dictionary and had to copy and paste it. Then we had to write what the definition meant in our own words.

Using a compass

Today Lyndon and I learnt how to use a compass on Digi store. We both took turns on finding the houses using the campus we had to start from my place to NE which takes us 5.5 KM to the format cave then we had to find our ways to the other places such as the beach.

Library Skills 2015

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ - Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992 - Yearbook of Population.

3. How to look after a puppy - Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from - Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Wahine disaster - Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games - Encyclopedia of Athletics

7. The size of Noah’s Ark - The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power - A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run - Guinness Book of Records

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy - Myths and Legends

Reading Group Tasks

Today Captain Underpants worked on a book called Unsolved Mysterious. We had to read the book until page 5 then we had to scan for difficulty words or sentence that we were unsure of, then we had to discuss it with the our partner next to us about it. Once we have done that we had to go to our tables and then read the rest  of the book. Then we had to talk about what words we were unsure of and then we all (as a reading group) had to find out what the definition is of that word for example. (Important, Important is a urgent word that is usually used for injuries and sometimes damages to network. Once we all have agreed our discussion we had to go onto the real time board website to make notes for the information.