May 26 2008
Maths questions
The year six maths and science teacher gives us different questions each week. This week I was the first person to solve the question.The question this week is……How many squares of all sizes are on a checkerboard?
I think that there are a total of 204 squares all together on a checkerboard.
1×1 squares = 64
2×2 squares = 49
3×3 squares = 36
4×4 squares = 25
5×5 squares = 16
6×6 squares = 9
7×7 squares = 4
8×8 squares = 1
Last week the question was……. What is the oldest thing you will ever see?The answer is Arcturus
The week before that the question was….. Why do people have different colour eyes? The reason people have different colour eyes is because in your eye there is a thing called malenine, those who have blue eyes have little to none and those with brown eyes have much more. Babies usually have blue eyes because they haven’t developed malenine yet and sometimes after 5 months or so the eyes will turn to their true colour. Usually but not always if there was some kind of trama to the eye at a young age it may not turn to brown and the other one will!!!!
Posted on on May 26th, 2008 in questions Tagged Maths and science questions | Edit | No Comments »
My Weekend
On the weekend I played netball at Tatyoon and I played wing attack. My team won by 16 goals 16 to 32. On Sunday I went to the netball in Warrnambool with my friend Georgia to watch. It was a fun weekend.
Posted on on May 25th, 2008 in Weekends Tagged My Weekend | Edit | No Comments »
Grammer Gremlins
This is something we can look at before our next Grammer Test.
Common NOUN - the name given to a person, place or thing eg pimple, towel, pumpkin
ADJECTIVE - a word which describes a noun eg. blind, prickly, enormous
PROPER NOUN - the name of a particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns have capital letters. eg Kevin Rudd, Canberra, Prime Minister
VERB - an action or a doing word. If you can do it, then it’s a verb eg crawl, tickle, swim
ADVERB - Adds to the verb. Usually ends in ly and usually answers the question “how” something was done. eg. erratically, mercilessly, quickly
PERSONAL PRONOUN - a word which indicates personal onwership eg she, he, they, we, them, their, we,
CONJUNCTION - A word that joins 2 ideas together in a sentence. eg. and, then, so, but. One conjunction, one fullstop. A sentence must only contain one conjunction.
PREPOSITION - A word which indicates the “position” of something, compared to something else eg. the frog in the pond, the turtle under the rocks
Posted on on May 25th, 2008 in litracy Tagged Grammer Gremlines | Edit | No Comments »
How many squares of all sizes are on a checkerboard?
The year six science and maths teacher asked us to find out, How many squares of all sizes are on a checkerboard?
I think that there are a total of 204 squares all together on a checkerboard.
1×1 squares = 64
2×2 squares = 49
3×3 squares = 36
4×4 squares = 25
5×5 squares = 16
6×6 squares = 9
7×7 squares = 4
8×8 squares = 1
Posted on on May 22nd, 2008 in Maths Tagged How many squares of all sizes are on a checkerboard? | Edit | 1 Comment »
Science
In science today we were put in groups of three and we were given two balloons, a candle and matches. First we had to blow up one of the balloons, then with the other balloon we about half filled it with water, then we blew the rest of it up with air. After that we had to lite the candle, then with the balloon we blew up we had to hold just above the candle and it popped straight away. So then we did the same with the balloon that was half filled up with water and air over the candle, some that didn’t have much water popped straight away, but with the groups that had about the right amount of water and air. First it went black at the bottom and went all hot, then it popped.
Posted on on May 22nd, 2008 in science Tagged science | Edit | No Comments »
A Typical Day at School
I usually catch a bus into school. I usally get to school about 8:45 or 8:50. The bell rings and we have to make our way into the classroom. The chair person asks us about how where feeling like positives, isues and we do tribles and say what where feeling out of ten. Then we do writing or our projects. Then it’s maths time, we correct our homework and do maths work. Ring, Ring the bell goes for reccess. Ring, ring the bell goes for third period, and we have sport, we get split into teams and play dodge ball. Then we have music fourth period. We learn to play a few cords on the guitar. Then the bell goes for lunch. Ring, ring, the bell goes for fifth period and we have art, Art is a fun activety and we do paintings and pictures, so fun. That’s a typical day at school for me.
Posted on on May 21st, 2008 in writing Tagged A typical day at school | Edit | No Comments »
Moving on
What are you looking forward to in year seven? I am looking forward to meeting new friends and having different teachers and doing different subjects like cooking.
Are you nerves about any thing? Iam a bit nerves about moving into high school and going into different class rooms.
Posted on on May 19th, 2008 in writing Tagged Moving On | Edit | 2 Comments »
Science
The year six science teacher wanted our class to found out the answer for What the oldest thing we will ever see is? Only one person in the grade found the answer out, that was Big Foot. Our science teacher told us the answer today. The answer was a star you can see in the autumn night sky, it is called an Arcturus.
Posted on on May 19th, 2008 in Stories, science Tagged science | Edit | 1 Comment »
OPCRC
Orientation: Me, a dog, car, my sister and a country road Problem: Car brakes down, dog runs away and I need to catch the bus Complication: Phone has a dead battery and don’t have the charger with me Resolution: Dog comes back with a person on a horse Conclusion: Need to catch the bus
Posted on on May 18th, 2008 in writing Tagged opcrc | Edit | No Comments »
