SWIMMING

We do swimming every Wednesday. My class and I do swimming at manly pool. My group practices diving of the boards and swimming in difrint stils! We do bresstroce,backstroce,freestile! My fafrit is freestile. The other groop did floting and diving. 



Have you gone swimming before if not wy not try?

IPADS

In owe class we are useing ipads. we are useing ipads not for gams but for technology. We mosly get the ipads on thursday.the choices we can do on the ipads are listening to readiing and read to self.

ROTATIONS

Tody I am doing rotations. Rotation are a groop of activitys that you can choose from we roetate arownd three tims. at the moment we can choose from write/blog,listining to reading on the ipad,read to othes,read to self Ind . and you can do a reading responts if you want!

HOW TO USE SPEECH MARKS!

Today I learnt how to use speech marks and I am going to teach you too! If you are making a story you would definetly need to do this! If one of your characters are saying something you put that at the start and the end. This is  a short example



"mum can you read me a story please?" said the Boy                           " I love you," said the Girl


have you ever used speech marks. If not, why not try?

SKYPPING MRS SMOKS

The gems and I skyppt Mrs Smoks. We red a book to Here end Here kids. she has two Kids. I red Rascal Goes Fishing I was scered! to go first!
Have you ever skypt if not wey not check it out?

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home

SKYPING MRS SMOKE

The gems and I skyped Mrs Smoke and read to her. Some gems expanded their ideas book with her and the other half read to her.   We also read to her kids and I read Rascal Goes Fishing. I was first to read to them, I was scared!
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/video-call/

ROAR ART

Yesterday we had roar art come in. We were making a face and the peosen gove us two colarjes. We put them any wear then we glood them down. Then we drouw the eyes and mouth. Next we made litle secshens of were  we pant. Last we panted. It was so fun!
http://www.artatheart.com.au/art/default.htm

 

DIAMANTE POEM

Today I learnt what a Diamant poem is. A Diamante poem is a piece of writing that has a Title, two adjectives, three ing words, four describing words, three ing words, two adjictiv words and a Title. This is an example:
                                                                                               Boys
                                                                                            cool fast
                                                                                 playing joking hurting
                                                                         rough friendly teaches funny
                                                                             giggling chatting fussing
                                                                                        smelly mean
                                                                                               Girls

Have you ever created a diamante poem? If not, why not check out this link:  http://pages.uoregon.edu/leslieob/diamantes.html

MONSTER PROJECT

 last week  we  started our monster project. Each of us will start on a  pease.  then we can help the other gems. My parts is the cane and Hair. The way I made the cane was I got carboord and shaped it like a cane then I painted it after that I made a snake and I painted it black than I did some patens on it. A bit later I made three skull teness ball legs then I put them on. The way I made the Hair is I had to make two birds nests so I got some pipe cleenes and swist it around acouple of times and I hato make it bug fild so I got som toy bugs and put them in the Hair and the base of the hair was crade paper.
http://www.smithclass.org/proj/Monsters/

Explaining 2 Digit by 1 Digit Multiplication

I learnt how to do 2 digit by 1 digit multiplications. Follow this link to see what I did:
 http://youtu.be/Z87fiZCZlJM

I learnt it from watching my sister's homework. It is really pretty easy once you understand how to do it. If you have an Ipad there is an app you can dowload to help you.

BOOK WEEK

We have Book Week every year.
Book Week is when we celebrate the books that the Authors have given us. We are skyping people from all over the  woild.
http://www.bookweekonline.com/bookmark

ACROSTIC POEM

An Acrostic poem is when you make a word that goes down. you have to also make words that fit in.              
Monster
on the roof scaring you  
no other monster is as scary as this one
so silly  
terrible grubby claws
easy for you to get caught
runs so fast

 have you ever tride an Acrostic poem befour if not wy not look at this poem. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_acrostic_poem

WORD WALL

I learnt what word wall was. Word wall is when you learn how to make words like emergency! and cyclone and earthquake and tsunami.

http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/word_walls/words.html have you ever done word wall

Investigating 16

I have been learning how many ways I can make the number 16! Like 1+15=16 or 10+6=16 or 15+1=16.

PANCAKE DAY

Today I learnt how to make pancakes! Making pancakes is hard and fun!
http://au.shopping.com/cake%20days/products~NS-1~linkin_id-8024509

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

Hello my name is Ethan. This blog is going to be about what I learn.I am a 2mgem with Mrs M.We tell Mrs M what we want to learn.Please comment and follow.