Siobhan's Evidence of Learning

The Bone Sparrow Book Review The bone sparrow is a realistic fiction book set in an Australian refugee camp, full of refugees from  Rohingya. The main character is a nine year old boy name Subhi, who lives in the refugee camp with his mother and fifteen year old sister. They don't know if his dad is alive or not, but they believe hes coming to save them. They live under very harsh treatment and most people die by suicide, starvation or heat stroke. This book is very descriptive and detailed, so some people may find it disturbing. It has a lot of blood and and stuff like that, it is NOT recommended for sensitive people, or people who hate sad stuff. I would say you have to be at least eleven or twelve to read this and understand it. If you love crying, sadness, don't mind disgusting detailed stuff and violence and taking awareness to situations like that this is definitely the book for you!

Immersion Update (Before reading this read the last post) So after we came up with possible solutions. We had to pick one to be our safe bet, our moonshot and our darling. Our safe bet was one we were 100% sure would work, our moonshot was one that we liked, but it was very far fetched, and was very big, and would require the most work out of all the ideas, then our darling was the one we loved the most. The posters were our safe bet, the duck area was our moonshot, (because we would have to buy heaps of things and stuff like that,) and our darling was to make a movie because we all love filming and script writing. Even though we hadn't decided the main one to do,  and I decided to make some posters to put up around the school anyway because we figured they would help bring awareness. I made a poster saying "LEAVE THE ANIMALS ALONE !!" and Brianna made one that said "stop being mean to the animals." We just decided literally right now to do a movie! YAY! s...

Immersion Projects  Last week, (Term three, week five,) we started Immersion. For this terms immersion, we were doing projects, and our projects were about issues within the school. I decided to go in the group to stop bullying the animals because I think its really sad and just plain stupid of how most people treat all the animals that come to this school. Since our group was so big, we split off into smaller groups of five. Jorja, Brianna, Anesu, Madeline and I were in a group. First we had to come up with a how might we, then find the main reasons this should be stopped, like the animals can die of fright, Their being forced to find other places to live, etc. Then we had to find possible solutions. So far we have come up with: A speech, a movie, writing a book, doing a play, making a "duck area" Although were not really sure what that would be, and making posters which is one of my favorites because I think they bring awareness and I love designing!  

Cross Country Training In week three of term three, we sadly started cross country training. Like most of us, I was very disappointed, but I decided to try my hardest anyways. We were given an option to walk, run or run competitively. Since I didn't want to be competitive, but didn't want to go to slow, I decided to run. The course was to run around the outside of the school once, then run around half again. I started to get tired towards the end of the first lap, but I kept running. Around the middle of the second lap, I took a 14 second break, and kept running. The next day, I thought that since I only stopped once the day before, I could run the whole time. But then Anjani kept grabbing my arm so that failed. Then I tried again the third time we did it, but I my ankle got sore in the middle of running, and I got to tired. For the next two days, it was bad weather so we stayed inside. Then the next time I decided to see if it would be better to walk some then run some, or...

Projects    In week one of term three, we started our science projects. I decided to partner with Anjani. The first thing we had to do was choose if we wanted to do a learn it, prove it or teach it. It took us a long time, but we eventually decided n teach it, which meant doing an experiment and explaining the science behind it, by posting videos on you tube. We wanted to do that because we like teaching things. After that, we went online to look at experiments we could do. We had a hard time choosing just two, but we eventually decided on home made lava lamps and home made fluffy slime because they both had fun and science in them.  Since we were going to  make a video on you tube, we had to make a  script of what we were going to say. That probably took us the longest to do out of all the things we had to do, because we were constantly changing the script and taking out or / and adding in new ideas. It took longer  on the first script because we did ...

Mixed & Improper Fractions In maths with Amy I learnt how to convert a mixed fraction to an improper fraction.  This is what I learnt: you multiply the whole number bit by the denominator. Then you add that number to whatever the numerator is. I usually write the answer by the denominator. That's how you convert a mixed fraction to an improper fraction. Now I know how to.