Data and Surveys
This week we are going to be looking at Data Collection and using a tool called SurveyMonkey which will make the process easier and allow you to spend more time working out the data tells you rather than just collecting it. We have also been invited to be part of a really exciting online project called the Horizon Project. This is where five schools worldwide are working together to report back to other students on six emerging trends that will affect your learning in the very near future. These students have been working in global teams and our job will be to review their work and give them some feedback on how well they have communicated their findings.
Back to the data - one of the emerging trends of the Horizon Project involves Mobile Phones, which many of you will find exciting. It will be interesting for us to gather some data about mobile phone use amongst MYLU students and see how it compares with other countries. We’ll learn some very valuable mathematics along the way. To demonstrate how a SurveyMonkey survey can collect data, I will be linking here to a short survey off the topic. We will gather some data during the lesson and work out ways to gather some extra data before we head into the computing room on Tuesday and create your own Mobile Phone surveys to be e-mailed out to a sample of MYLU students.
Click here to take survey
Ronald McDonald House
This morning Tamae’s mum came in to talk about the Ronald McDonald House. She made a slide show to show us and everybody learnt something. One of the things we learnt was that most of the people there are from the country and have some sort of Cancer. The people there are mainly kids from 1-12. They share a kitchen but each person gets their own bedroom and bathroom. They are 200 meters away from the Womens and Childrens hospital which can be very handy at times. The place is also to comfort the familys.
The Ronald McDonald House can comfort 10 families and is run by a lady named Jade. There are 233 Houses in 24 countries. There are more Volunteers than workers. There are different shifts for the workers that are like the shifts in a hospital, and they are, night shift and day shift. The people that do night shift are mainly there of emergencys.
If the children are there for a long period of time such as a year or so they get taught by a teacher that comes to them on week days. They also have two sponsers and they are McDonalds and Coca Cola. They get free drinks from coca cola sometimes. They also have individual sponsers such as famous people like Guy and Paulini.
They also have a few charities going like the box that you find at the counters of McDonalds etc…… They say that once a family has been there for a while they seem to get attached and go out for dinner sometimes even though there not ment to. Sadly two kids did not survive while she was there, it was very heart breaking.
Assembly
On Tuesday we had a whole school assembly.The first item was the Greek students in learning areas 6,7 and 8.They sang a tounge twister in Greek.It sounded great!Next our librarian Ms Thurston announced that a man from Scholastic book club was here to talk to us about the free books that were given to the school for completing the Premiers Reading Challenge.
After that learning area 23 came up and showed us the paper planes they had made in science.They also talked to us about fair testing.Learning area 23 also showed us the art work they had done on identity.They each drew a portrait of themselves,then cut their portrait in half.They then put one half of their portrait with another half of somebody else’s portrait.The finished product looked really cool!
Monday maths
On Monday we did some maths. It was so easy because it was just adding. We had 5 minutes to do as many addition sums as possible. Firstly, the first set questions were without exchaging like 14 + 15 = 29. In the 2nd set of questions there was exchanging like 16 + 18 = 34. It was easy for some people but harder for others.
We then did some subtraction. The first set questions had no exchaging like 15 - 14 = 1 but then it got harder because in the 2nd set of questions, there was exchanging like 19 - 18 = 1. It was easy for some people but hard for others. It’s not easy some times because even the best mathematician in this class got some answers wrong.
from Jimmy
Buddy class
On Tuesday the 27th learning area 20 went to meet their year 1 buddy class for the first time. My class and our new buddy class didn’t know who each other were so we all sat in a circle. We passed a ball around the circle when the ball came to you, you would say your name. You had to listen carefully because when the ball went around the circle once then you could pass the ball to anyone but you had to say ”Here you go” and then say their name.When the ball came to you , you had to say ”Thank you” and then their name. After all the introducing we picked a partner. My class ”LA20”was asked to bring a board game but no one remembered besides two people. If you had no board game to play you had to take some paper and play games on the paper - noughts and crosses, hangman and any other games you could think of. You could even play eye spy.
Written by Katie!
Let’s Check Some Blogs
There are quite a few classes around the world (and Australia, too) getting involved in blogging that I have come across in my own explorations. Sometimes everyone in the class has their own blog and sometimes there is just the classroom blog. Let’s start with the latter. Have a read through some of the posts at these classroom blogs - maybe you might feel inspired to make a comment.
The 6E Bunch - Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Priestic6 - Nottingham, England.
MiniLegends - Glenelg, South Australia.
Strolling in the Orchard - Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Room Twelve - Seattle, Washington, USA.
and their teacher does not describe this as blogging but it is published online student writing at:
Tell The Raven - Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
Wouldn’t be great if these guys were reading our stuff as well?
Disabilities Workshop
There are four ways to get a disability.The first one is when you were born with it. The only reason how you could’ve got it is that your parents must have had it. Another one is that you caught a Disease when you were probably in your mother’s tummy. Also the other two are if you have an accident and of old age. Common disabilities are wearing glasses and having asthma.
The activities we did with Ms Lynn were how we would feel if you had a disability. We had options of what to do.We could cut out bits and pieces of a butterfly with the opposite hand we write with. The other ones were that we could blindfold ourselves or put gloves on to bead some beads through a piece of wool. We could also wear glasses and see how it would be like to be blind. The last three were that we could ride a wheelchair, draw a line through a maze by looking in the mirror and we could touch some Braille sheets.
By Tarnya.
Attribution: Image: ‘Untitled‘ by eye2eye.
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Maths - Basic Operations and Multiples
Today in Maths, Mr.Wegner talked to us about the Basic Operations used in number facts. Here is what we discussed:
Firstly, we came up with the 4 types of operations, then brainstormed other terms that mean the same thing.
Addition - add, sum of, plus.
Subtraction - minus, take away, difference.
Multiplication - times (tables), multiply.
Division - divide, into groups.
Image: ‘Calculator‘
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We then started to look at what multiples are - Mr.Wegner showed us this website as an introduction to how they work.
Welcome To Learning Area 20.
Welcome to our class blog for 2007. This will be a jumping off spot for our online communications and be a way to connect ourselves to the wider world. We will learn how to be safe and ethical users of the web and document our learning throughout this year. Watch, read and comment on our efforts - it’s going to be fun!
Posted by Mr.Wegner.
