T3W7 | Marketing Cat-Soph-a-licious

Hey hey :)

This is my homework I did in Week 7, It had to be on,  if you were to market yourself What would your packaging look like? What would your catchy product title be? What would it say on the box?

Think about the types of packaging you have seen on other products. Think about colour, slogans etc

And me and my friends Sophia decided to do our homework together :) I came up with the name Cat-Soph-a-licious!! We worked really hard and attempted to make it real but homework was due on FRIDAY but we decided to do it on THURSDAY so we just canned it and maybe we could do it next time! I had lots of fun and it would be awesome to do homework like that again :)

~Catherine

Did You Ever Poem

CLICK PLAY BEFORE YOU READ IT!
In class we have been learning how to write a 'Did You Ever' Poem! I found it quite easy because it only can have 2 words in a paragraph!  

The start, starts with the question Did/Have You Ever 

Your question

Subject | Verb x3 

Then an ending question!

Simple as that! I literally could make hundreds of these! I could make them for a living!!!

Hope you liked it :)

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~ Catherine

Mathletics Achievement

On mathletics last week I got over 10,000 points! And I got up to 9th place in the WORLD in ONE day! I don't know about you but I think that it's pretty impressive! 

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~Catherine

T3W5 | NZ Longfin Eel

This is my other homework for this week! I tried to find something unique that nobody in class would choose the same thing as me! It was really hard trying to find information because maybe Longfin Eels aren't that popular on the web? I animated it cause it's also a new I learnt! But anyways, ENJOY!

If you want to see my other homework first on Sea Otters then the link is down below

T3W5 | Sea Otters

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~ Catherine

T3W5 | Sea Otters

For this weeks homework I had to research about a marine sea creature and I choose 2 sea otter & NZ Longfin Eel but this post is the sea otter! I choose this creature because I was just surfing the web and I came across a website and it had all the cute and furry friends :) The sea otter had caught my eye and I decided to do it on sea otters! It was actually quite easy because we have done this homework before and I have definitely improved

I hope I didn't bore the life out of you!

Check out my other homework! The Longfin Eel. Click down below!

T3W5 | Longfin Eel

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~ Catherine

Marshmallow Maths

A few weeks ago Room 20 were learning about Mass, Temperature & Volume but with a twist! We did it with marshmallows! We had experimented everything! 

Mass = How heavy something is 

Temperature = How long would it take for a marshmallow to melt in boiled water

Volume= How much can a container hold? 

Everyone had to choose between Mass, Temperature & Volume to make a presentation! Our group choose Mass. And this is our final evidence....

I beleive that you should have fun with maths every once in a while! Trust me it's soo fun!

In the end our teacher put everything together into 1 slideshow! CLick down below to have a look at that!

Marshmallow Maths

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Catherine

Maths Olympiad | 2013

On the 28 of August it was the day Room 20 had all been waiting for...

It was the YEAR MATHS OLYMPIAD! It is like a reply race but maths kind.  Every class has 2 teams made up of 4 people. We all get 30 minutes to solve 20 questions.. And trust me they were hard.Our 2 teams had tackled all the maths we could possibly have and practised and practised hard! We even learnt the meanings of words like withdraw, overdraft, deposit.  Let me introduce you to the teams...There were:

Team 1 : Anahita, Lee, Hubert, Zhaoyu

My Team: Charlie, Me, Maddi & Louis

Our team wasn't the strongest but we didn't care, we ignored everyone even if we were getting beaten. We were the only ones with EVERYONE co-operation throughout the WHOLE half an hour as far as I saw... The first question was really easy but then on question 2 it got REALLY hard! I think that the teachers were being mean!  Time had passed quick we were still on our second question, at the time our team was just about to give up but then we went up to check the answer.. Guess what?! WE GOT IT! We were the 1 in 2 teams who had got it! That encouraged us to push ourselves. At one point our team was all in different directions! TIME IS UP! Although we didn't win and get our names engraved on the trophy we were sooo proud of ourselves I know Mrs Graham and Room 20 were too! And big shout out to Room 20 for cheering  and supporting us from the start :)

It was an amazing experience I enjoyed it alot it made me improve my co-operation skills, sharing each others ideas, not to shout at each other! I'd hope to do it again sometime :)

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~ Catherine

Should We Ban Plastic | Argument

This is an argument about Banning Plastic. I learnt that you had to set the argument like this..

~Set out you're points evenly, good, bad, good, bad

~Use phrases to show different point of view

~First paragraph has to tell what you are arguing about

~In your conclusion add your personal opinion

I found it really easy because I had experience in my other argument which I did earlier and I actually have to say I really improved! I included more details and make it really interesting!

~ Catherine

Sailing Around the World! Good? Bad?

In class as I said before we are reading a book called Kensuke’s Kingdom... And I also mentioned that she sails around the world with his family. Soo... That week we were learning about how to write an argument. So Mrs G decided that we should write an argument about ‘is it a good idea to sail around the world WITH your family or not?’ I found it easy with all my friends helping me and it was really fun!

Here is my one :D Hope you like it!

~Catherine

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Japan H/W W4 T3

Japan! On the 15/08/13 we had Japanese students from Hoshino Gakuen Primary School come to our school. So the week before that Mrs G (teacher) knew so our homework task was to research JAPAN! I did a lot of research and here is my finished product! I found it very easy because all the information I needed was there... Other researches from other countries were harder because the countries weren't as popular as Japan, Australia, China etc. The following Thursday the Japanese students arrived, I had a buddy she was kinda shy it was AWESOME!!

~Catherine

Kensuke's Kingdom Travel Map

This is my Kensuke's Kingdom Travel Map. You’re all probably wondering what Kensuke’s Kingdom is.. Well it’s a class novel we are reading everyday, Rm20 seem to be enjoying it so far. And it is one of the most famous book across the whole of Year 6 at EPS. In this story there is a character called ‘Michael’ he goes with his family to sail around the world! Pretty cool right? Our teacher thought that we would do something new but still have things related to the novel. So we chose ‘How to make Animations’ on Google Presentations’ And here is the one I made.. I tried to keep it as simple as I can :) Enjoy!

~ Catherine

Poverty Speech

This term the whole of year 5 and 6's had to do a speech! I wanted my speech topic to be unique and memorable, at first I chose the topic 'Brothers' and I finished it but I wasn't 100% happy with it so I changed it at the last minute to 'POVERTY' and I'm actually quite happy with it and it's good enough :) I didn't make it into the speech finals but that's okay! At least I proved that I can write a speech and present it (confidently), AND IM PROUD OF MYSELF

If you have any feedback or questions PLEASE leave a comment in the comment box down below! I would love to know what other people think of it :D

~Catherine

Making Graphs On Spreadsheets

This is my a spreadsheet I used to create my graph. I asked loads of questions (excluding the name) but then we thought that if we turn it into a graph then it would be a long long sentence and it would be a 'flat line' as our teacher would say it BORING!! So I stuck to 'one' question! I think it's an awesome way to collect data AND I got to learn more stuff like collecting data and using a spreadsheet to make a graph :D

~ Catherine

What Why How Chart

This is a What Why How Chart. It's a new way of planning a persuasive piece of writing. I used it to plan out my B.B Ball T.V Commercial. I really helped me to know what I'm writing about and what I should do...  

~ Catherine

Monet Garden

Here is how you can create this masterpiece:

(requires lots of patience and skills such as sponging, sticky taping and using a paintbrush)

1. Draw the horizon line and the pond

2. Use masking tape to create the fence. Above or below or in the middle of the horizon line.

3. Use a sponge to sponge the grass. Using the colours yellow and green, Claude Monet never mixes colours together so try not to mix... and another great tip is to use the sponge as if you're making the sponge hop like a kangaroo!

4. Next you will need some cardboard, put a gulp of dark blue on the tip of the cardboard and then spread it out. Then you put a little bit of white on top of the blue to create the clouds. If you like you can add light blue too! And then drag it across and try not to go over it again and again...

5. Now it's time to do the bushes using green for the bushes and blue for the shadow. Use blue because Monet never uses black.

6. Next you paint the pond with a paintbrush with white and blue.

7.Lilly pads! We had to use a brush and the colours... Yellow, pink and red.

8. Then we did the dots of flowers with the end of the brush (the wooden bit) and dipped it in different types of colours. and dotted it on the bushes and grass

9 .Nearly done! Time to do the path, you can use any colour you want in any technique but I chose brown stepping stones using a sponge!

10. FINALLY!!! Carefully rip off the masking tape.. Be careful or it might rip the paper. (it depends on what masking tape you use) Like I didn't use very good masking tape so it make it have a textured effect. Which made it unique!

Above is my painting of Monet Garden, I found it really hard to sponge because whenever I push down the sponge there would be lines because if the sides of the sponge. I learnt that by pinching the 4 sides with your finger it can lift up the sides of the sponge and it won't leave anything on your nice paper. My favourite part was cardboard dragging the sky and putting the masking tape on to create the definite lines of the fences.

If you have any questions feel free to put them in the comment box...

~ Catherine

Tonal Landscape

Mrs Paton (student teacher) was teaching Room 20 about tones of colours using paint and a paintbrush.  So we decided to do Tonal Landscapes. To create this a.m.a.z.i.n.g landscape you have to draw lines to create the landscapes, you can choose to put a silhouette or not. Next you get your base base which you paint in the middle.  After that you add white, paint, add white, paint etc until you get to the top of the paper. The last thing you want to do is do the exact same thing you did before but instead of using white, you have to use black.  This will create the effect that the blackest part is nearer to you.  

I found it hard to paint the silhouette because I couldn't get the curves of the bush the way I wanted it so what I did was try my best to just paint straight on.  And it turned out better than I expected. The easiest thing was adding the bits of white to make it lighter and adding the black to make it darker was a bit harder.

Overall I LOVED painting this landscape! Also a special thanks to Mrs Paton for helping and encouraging me to do my best and it turned out PERFECT!!!

THANK YOU MRS PATON :)

~ Catherine

Ridiculously Big Numbers!!!

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WOW! I didn’t even know numbers have names for numbers that big! It was really fun finding out the numbers, it was sooo easy because my partner was typing and me and my other partner was writing down the numbers so it made it extra extra easier! Next time I could try doing the typing and I could try to use these numbers in maths to WOW the teachers!

~ Catherine

(if you want to find out even larger numbers click on the link and it will take you there:D)

Ridiculously Big Numbers

Welcome to El Salvador!

Mr Fitz has been travelling around Central America for the last 2 months. Sometimes he would give us hints and Room 20 would have to guess where he is! So Mrs G (teacher) decided to put our homework task as find out about the countries Mr Fitz has visited, here are some of the countries.  Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Guatemala.  Out of ALL those countries I chose.... EL SALVADOR!  I really REALLY enjoyed researching hope you like it as much as I liked researching about it!

~ Catherine   

World Ocean Day Presentation

4 weeks ago, it was World Oceans Day! Our homework task was to tell people how we use the ocean, what if future generations couldn't do that, promises etc. It was sooo fun because it was the first time using 'Google Presentations' I thouhgt it would be hard but it was soooooo easy! We found out about this place called Midway Attol which is located just north of Hawaii and that is the place where ALL of our rubbish is going and birds and sea life is dieing :( I has to do alot of research and below is a website that helped me find my facts/ideas and there is lots of information about Worlds Ocean Day :)

~ Catherine

How does Rubbish Affect Marine Life?

How does rubbish affect marine life?

In NZ there are hundreds and hundreds of people dropping plastic rubbish and they seem to not know or not care where the rubbish leads to and what happens to it. All rubbish goes down drains and drains leads to the ocean...

People drop rubbish on the ground either if it’s accidental or on purpose. It gets caught by the wind and goes out to the sea! Or it gets down the stormwater drains and then goes to the sea. When it gets to the ocean it floats on the surface on the water and then sea creatures think its food for them to eat! 100,000 sea animals die each year. All the leftover rubbish that is floating gets caught in gyres and most of the plastic goes to north of Hawai’i. There is this type of plastic that is THE WORST it is called ‘nurdles’ They are 3.33 millimeter plastic things and are the base of most plastic products.  Fish eats the plastic and also goes up the food chain. Environmentalists and Scientists say that the oil from the plastic and from the fish act like magnets, even if we don’t eat the stomach of the fish you eat the meat and the stomach and the meat attract each other so the meat has the dirty, disgusting oil.Things like bottle tops, plastic containers, plastic bottles get photo-degraded which means it gets broken down by the sun and turns into 10,000,000 small pieces of plastic. Or Bio-degrade which means it breaks down naturally.  Later on a little fish will eat the plastic and a bigger fish will eat the small fish so on and so on. At the end the biggest fish gets all the plastic from the other fishes and you might not know the fish could end up on your dinner plate. That there is called Bio-accumulate, it around and around the food chain. If we keep doing this we will have no more beautiful blue beaches,seas and no more fishing for fresh fish anymore because all the fish would’ve probably died.  No one would go to the beach and do fun fun things.  NZ is known for our beaches, tourists won’t come and visit NZ and our population will go down and probably NZ, sea creatures and even birds will become extinct. 100,000 sea mammals die each year! You can help by reducing the amount of plastic rubbish and when you see a piece of rubbish don’t just walk past it pick it up! A little can do ALOT! Be awesome and do everything you can to help the ocean!

By: Catherine

Leslie's Obituary

This is my obituary for the death of Leslie Burke, Room 20 has just finished reading the book 'Bridge to Terabithia' It was awesome! And then my teacher said that we had to write an obituary... I thought what in the world is an obituary??? Later that day she gave the class an example, a obituary for Steve Jobs! Then we listed the things that the people who  wrote it put in there. We spotted the date, how it happened, who was involved, occupation, what did family and friends say etc.  I found it really easy because I LOVE WRITING and it was lots of fun it also made me feel how sad and devastating it is to have your best friend pass away :(  To be honest with you the date and time is made up because the book didn't tell me anything about the date and time. Room 20 also watched the movie and we found things that are very different from the book... I HIGHLY recommend you read and watch 'Bridge to Terabithia'

~ Catherine

Mixed Numbers

Above is my maths evidence for this term! I was learning about mixed numbers. I found it really easy because one of the skills you need to know is your basic facts and during this term I have worked really hard and I’m very proud of myself!!!

~Catherine

Mathletics Award

WOO HOO! 3rd place! I never knew that I had that much points! Going on Mathletics actually helped me learn lots of things, in class we have this leaderboard called 'Mathletes of the Week' Each day our teacher updates the scores and then people with the most points gets to be on the top 3! Having the leaderboard encouraged me to go on more so one day, SOON I can get first place!!!

~ Catherine

Comparing Characters

In Room 20 we have been reading a novel called 'Bridge To Terbithia' We read a chapter everyday after morning tea. We are learning to describe the characters in the story. This is a Venn Diagram shows the differences between Jess & Leslie. Jess & Leslie are the 2 main characters in the story and as the story goes on and they get to know each other more they are having lots of things in common. I found it easy to find the differences because the story had lots of information about the 2 characters and it was obvious. For example it explicitly said Jess was very poor and Leslie was very wealthy!

I really enjoy reading this novel and I can't wait to finish the book!
~ Catherine

Welcome!

Hey There!

Welcome to blog! It's a place where all of my learning evidence will be shared with the world! I am a Year 6 student at Elm Park School in NZ.  My favourite subjects are netball, maths, writing and spelling. (I also have the best teacher ever!) And I'd love to see you come in and check out my blog and leave positive comments and feedback! I will be looking forwards to hear from you :) AND... I LOVE seeing my pageviews counter go up :D

~ Catherine