Tonal Landscapes

This is my Tonal Landscape. First I had to choose a base colour. Then I added white to make the colour lighter. Then after it dried, we added black to make the colour darker. I couldn't add too much black to the colour or it will go pitch black. Mrs. Paton taught us this and I think she did a very good job explaining how to do it.

Leslie WordFoto

This was the last piece of evidence that I am doing for our Bridge to Terabithia. We made a word foto for a character in the book. This character is Leslie. She is a unique and brave fifth grader. I liked working with this book because I wouldn't have normally read a book like this. This has taught me to not judge a book be its cover.

Monet Gardens

This is my Monet Gardens artwork. We needed to learn many different techniques in order to complete this piece of artwork. We used masking tape to mask of a fence first. Then we drew in the horizon line. We used a sponge for the grass, bushes and the shadows. The secret of the sponge is to put an even amount of paint and make sure you hop it along the paper otherwise the grass will look like a solid piece of green paper. For the pond, we scooped up the white paint on one side of the paintbrush and the blue paint on the other side of it. That way the colours only mix on the page not on the palette. I thought the process was very fun and interesting and as always with success there was always going to be some speed bumps along the way but we came over them as a team. 

Jess' Timeline

This is a timeline of what happend in the book called Bridge to Terabithia. We had to recount what happend in each chapter and summarise it in about two sentences or less. I learnt how Jess as a character changed through out the story. I liked the process and my next step is to use it on a different book.

How Plastic Litter Impacts Our Marine Enviroment

This is an example of explanation writing. Explanation Writing is about explaining something. I am proud of what I achieved because this was the first time I wrote something like this.  

What Why How Chart.

This is my What, Why, How chart. It is a way of planning a persuasive piece of writing.  I used it to plan my Broken Ball Commercial for Writers Workshop. I think it helped to let me know what I'm writing about. 

Leslie Burke's Obituary

We were learning how to write an obituary for a character in our class book. An obituary is like a death notice. The character is Leslie Burke. She died after she fell into the gushing water. Next time I do something like this I want to do it for a character in my own book.

Bottle Tops Research

Click here to view my research on plastic bottle covers!

 I did this research because my classroom is working with another classroom to help the local school camp we go to every year for our inquiry. This year our inquiry is based on 'Enterprise'. We are helping Camp M.E.R.C. (marine education and recreation center) to bring back the marine education part of their workshops. We have worked out a way to help them by running an Amazing Race. We have also decided to gift them a present as a way of saying "thank you" for letting us choose their problem as our inquiry topic. The present is going to be a mural made out of bottle tops. First we needed to research on what colors the bottle tops came in. So here is my part of the research.

How to Write decimals in different ways.

This is my ShowMe. I was practicing how to write decimals in different ways. I found this very easy. My next step is to do this with numbers in the 1000's.

Evidence For Persuasive Text

This is evidence for my Persuasive Writing. I had to identify the three different types and styes of persuasive writing and show where they were by using speech bubbles. I think I did a very good job. My next step is to write something using the persuasive strategy.