Textiles: Fish Mobiles
Yes Group 3, you have now all earnt your sewing machine licences! Congratulations. This means that we are ready to get our teeth into some production. To link with our work in MESH on ‘Healthy Catchments: Healthy Oceans’ we are creating fish mobiles. We will begin by investigating and desgining, then we will start sewing our fish mobiles, finally we will evaluate our work. Here is the Fish Mobile Design Brief, it contains all the instuctions (with photographs of each step) that you will need to create your first project in Textiles
Assignment: Poetry Folio
Hi Groups 2 and 5. This is you assessment task for Poetry. Click on this link to read or download the Poetry Assignment. Group 5 has already began this assignment and Group 2 will be beginning after we look at the use of ‘Sound Images’ in poetry – Alliteration, Assonance and Onomatopoeia.
Myth Draft:Practitioners
Just a reminder that the first drafts of your myths must be finished by the end of Friday’s class.
Video: The Water Cycle
On Tuesday of this week we watched a video in class titled ‘The Water Cycle’. Once you have completed the Video Questions Worksheet post a comment on this blog telling me two facts or interesting things that you can recall from the video.
Water: Web quest – Australian Environments
Hi group 3 if you have missed class this week you can have a go at this web quest at home. Read the instructions in the coloured boxes and complete the activities in the word document, save it and email to me when it is completed. Australian Environments Web Quest
Healthy Catchments Healthy Oceans
Since beginning the water unit we have learnt about catchments and drainage basins in Victoria. Last week we completed a puzzle of all the drainage basins in Victoria. We have just finished creating Overlay Maps of the Corangamite Catchment (Geelong is a part of this catchment area). If you were absent instructions on how to complete the overlay map are here: Instructions
Writing Myths and Spelling Books
This week we have begun writing our first drafts of our own myths. You should have previously planned and invented mythical characters. To get some ideas for creating your own mythical character see this web site: http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/index.html
Each student in the novice group now has their own spelling book. Today each student added words that they have trouble spelling to their spelling book. You all need to practice these words as we will have a spelling test this Thursday.
Poetry
Hi groups 2 and 5, we have started a unit on poetry. So far we have looked at the 3 features of poetry: Rhythm, Rhyme and Visual Images. To get the notes on rhythm click here Poetry Rhythm Activities. We have discussed rhyming patterns, written limericks, taken notes on similes, metaphors and personification and written poems with these features. To get the notes and activities for these topics see me in person.
