Julia

"I made triangles.  One triangle is 9 and the other adds 6.  To work out how many stickers you could count up in 3's or 6's.  If you wanted to use multiplication you could times 6x9".  (Julia is confusing the first group of 9 with what she thinks the 6 needs to be multiplied by).  Julia found this pattern tricky to build initially, but she managed to create it in the end.

Julia is able to read most times on analogue and digital clocks.  She can identify am and pm.  She can draw a clock and record her own time.  She can also solve most simple time problems involving exact time.  She must continue to be given time problems to practice this skill as she hasn't completely mastered this yet.

  

Talia, Bre, Leah and Julia worked together to work out what food they have in their fridges.  Firstly they made a strip graph and then made statements about this graph.  They made a connection to fractions (because there was 4 in their group) and made statements like "3/4 people in the group like carrots".  After that they measured their strip graph into a circle and transformed this into a pie graph.  The size of the strips (i.e. carrots) helped them to measure their slice of pie.  They made more statements about their information off the pie graph and found that they were learning and seeing new things.  To finish they made a computer graph.  This group found it a bit challenging to work together at times but eventually started to compromise with one another and share out tasks.

Julia confidently made this 3D polyhedron.  She calculated how many edges, faces and vertices (corners) her shape had.  She learnt how to count up how many angles there are in her shape but will require more teaching on this component.  

Julia required quite a bit of support in order to complete these activities.  She couldn't understand how to make her fox tessellating shape and how to join them together like a puzzle.  When she attempted her symmetrical pattern she drew shapes that were symmetrical, but this was incorrect because it was meant to be a whole symmetrical pattern like the one shown.

Julia and Tanika made this car safety power-point together.  They researched their topic and worked well together to present their research to the class.  They are becoming better at speaking in front of an audience.  Well done girls... 

Pyper and Julia worked together to construct this 3D geometrical city.  The designed a 2D plan to start and then went on to complete their model.  They found it difficult to organise their time and were last to complete the task.  They had to complete some of this task in their own free time.  As you can see they did a great job, they just need to think about time management.  They were able to complete the task using the required shapes or patterns (i.e. tessellation, symmetry, cylinders and pyramids.  Well done girls, but keep thinking about the deadline.

5/7/16  Speech:  Here is Julia's speech about Flamingo.