Talia

Talia very cleverly solved how many stickers she had on her algebraic pattern by confidently saying "I started off with 4 stickers and then added 3 more for each shape as it goes on.... There are 13 groups of 3, so 10x3=30, which leaves 3 groups of 3, which is 9.....30+9=39.... so 39 plus the first 4 stickers is 43.  There are 43 stickers".

Talia is able to identify most times on analogue and digital clocks and is still working on understanding 24 hour time.  She was able to talk about and understands am and pm.  She was able to draw a clock and correctly label the 5 minute intervals in between numbers and the time she chose.  Talia is able to solve problems involving exact time and did this using a number line.  She confidently talked about what she was doing.  

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.

TALIA WAS ABSENT WHEN WE UNDERTOOK THE 3D GEOMETRY TASK

Talia was able to complete these pattern activities well.  Her tessellating bird pattern (above) is tessellated correctly and you can see her visual colour pattern emerging.  The above pattern is a reflectional symmetrical pattern and she has done this correctly.

Talia and Jessie worked very well together to design and build this 3D geometrical city.  Firstly they planned their city using a 2D drawing.  They then build all of the shapes and created all of the extra elements you can see in their city.  The achieved the criteria easily (they had to include certain geometrical elements like symmetry, tessellation etc).  Well done girls, you have done a great job.

5/7/16 Speech:  Here is Talia's speech about blindness.