Freya+B

Here is some work I've been doing:

Docklands excursion: Lego land
We went on an excursion to Lego Land, Docklands. When we were walking through th ﻿ e Docklands city, we looked at the sustainabilty side of the city: Sustainable things in Docklands: 1. There are public-use bikes everywhere. The bikes themselves don't use any energy and the electronic system is run off solar pwer. 2. The renewable energy system is good. There are wind turbines on top of different buildings. Interesting shaped turbines, interesting buildings. 3. There are a lot of windows north-facing which means people get lots of sunlight. This means people don't need to use as many lights.

Things Docklands can improve to make the city more sustainable: 1. The lights have reflectors above them, they should put solar panels above them. 2. Even though there is a lot of public transport around, so many cars go through. If more people use public transport not as many fossil fuels will be used. 3. There aren't many real plants. Most of the big plants are fake. If there were more real plants, more carbon dioxide would be absorbed.

Maths ﻿The maths continuum is the plan of thing primary school children nees to complete during maths: This is my most recent step in my maths continuum, to <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">add **(step 3 grade 5)** and <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00f2ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">subtract **(step 3 part 2 grade 5)** numbers with 1 decimal place using **models**, **number lines** and **formal algorythm**.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #8700db; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Reading <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿The reading matrix is reading activities based on whatever book you read: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #050505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One of the **Reading Matrix ** activities is an **Author Profile**. In class we're reading a book by **Anna Perera** and this is my profile of her. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #8700db; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Writing <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In the first semester we have covered persuasive writing and narrative writing. Here are a few examples of my writing pieces: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Persuasive:**<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Killer Whales **Narrative**: Snapshot in New York 1932, Pioneers: The Story of Us

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #8700db; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Unit <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This term we are doing a project on improving things environmentally. I am improving a roller coaster to use 'Kinetic Energy'. It is called the 'Kinetic Coaster!' Here is my reflection Journal: <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Reflection: In making my **Kinetic Coaster** (kinetic roller coaster) as my Enviro-Inventors project submission, I have: Made a building plan with all my materials on an A3 piece of paper with easy-read instructions, built the frame of the roller coaster out of boxes and supports, made my carriage (with axle enforced wheels), made my track out of foil, extra cardboard and wire, created the slope so the carriage comes back up, made sure all my materials are recycled and I will be finished really soon. All I have to do is: finish touching up track (it is still not completely flat), decorate frame and carriage, add wire to the top of the roller coaster to make sure the carriage doesn’t fall off and goes completely straight to gather the most speed possible and make advertisement and 500 word description. After those small touch-ups (which won’t take long) my project will be complete. Here are the mistakes I made at the planning stage: I did not specify how to use the wheels, I was just sticking them on instead of using wire and axle so the wheels could move. I also did not plan a track that would make the carriage roll down fast enough, it would have 2 slits where the wheels go but if you use foil and 2 strands of wire (for a track for the wheels) the carriage now goes down at maximum speed. I didn’t plan the length and height of the frame and if I didn’t plan it on the box, my carriage would not have rolled down, but have fallen down it was so steep (in my head). Also, I didn’t plan how everything would stick together and if I did it according to my plan everything would have fallen apart, in the end I used hot-glue.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That is my 300 word reflection **