How to make a sandwich. According to a robot programmer. [me*]

we are learning how to make a scientific method. Miss A ,our teacher, gave us a task on telling her how to make a sandwich as if she was a robot. this is what you need to say and what not to say

this is how not to tell a robot to make a sandwich

1. wash hands
2. grab bread from the bag
3. spread butter on the bread
4. add marmite on top
5. close the sandwich
6. cut it half
7. eat

This is what to say instead

1. go to the sink
2. turn on the cold tap
3. get your hands wet in the water
4. Squirt one pump of soup on your palms
5. rub your hands together
6. rinse the soap off your hands with water
7. turn the tap off
8. grab a towel 
9. dry your hands on the towel
10. open the bread bag
11. take two slices of bread from the bag
12. place the bread side by side on the plate 
13. pick up the handle of the knife
14. open the butter
15. stab the butter near the edge with the blade  
16. put the butter on the knife blade
17. spread the butter evenly on one of the biggest sides of the bread
18. put down the knife
19. replace the lid on the butter
20. pick up the knife by the handle 
21. open up the marmite 
22. get a little bit of marmite on the knife 
23. spread it evenly on the buttered piece of bread
24. put the knife down
25. replace the lid on the marmite 
26. grab the unbuttered piece of bread and plase the biggest side down on top of the buttered piece.
27. pick up the knife by the handle
28. cut the sandwich in half
29. enjoy

Why is it good to have detailed method

it is good so that we can understand the instructions and so we don't muck up.

*i'm not actually a robot programmer 

Culture

in social studies we have been learning about our culture  and now we have some questions to answer.

what i already knew about culture.
that it is all about you

what I found interesting
Nothing much

what else would I like to know?
nothing. im filled to the brim with knowledge

what does culture mean to me?
It means.... that I..... am kiwi
I DON'T KNOW OK DON'T JUDGE ME ='(

here is my poster on a family tradition

Language fitness set 1

we have been given a bunch of langage fitness questions to answer. here they are

What is the collective nouns
a flock or group of doves
a fleet of ships

The children knew they had to have their homework on their teachers table first thing in the moring but there were always those who were late.

a semicircle is half of a circle 

write a word with the suffix ful
Colorful 

write a synonym for these words
voyage Trip
decide Choose

write a antonym for these words 
Tame wild 
eventful quite

write two meanings for the word "shoulder"

a) the upper joint of each of a person's arms and the part of the body between this and the neck.

b) a part of something resembling a shoulder in shape, position, or function.

What do these mean

Mon Monday

Dec December 

Rewrite these words in their shorter form

I will l'll

He is he's

write the plural to these words

Lady ladies

class class'

paper papers 

1. 
   

SUNDIALS!

In math we have been making a sundial. we first made a slideshow on sundials here's mine




we then went to the workshop and made it . this took 2-3 lessons.

this is mine

go to link for sound

I had a triangle gnomon (thing in the middle) but it did not work out so I changed it to have a pole 

cool facts about sundials

1. did you know that the gnomon [pronoused no-mon] comes from a greek word meaning indicator? (learn more at www.sciencing.com)

2.  did you know that the sundial works because of the rotation and movement of the sun? (learn more at www.easyscienceforkids.com

3. did you know the sundials are the oldest known way to tell the time? (learn more at www.kids.britannica.com)

we also made a slideshow on time here's mine

Abomination - Novel study

we are now starting a novel study of a book called Abomination. we have some questions to answer about the cover.

• What do you think the story will be about?

a boy who is deformed or unliked/unloved because it looks like there is a boy in a cage.

• How do you think this story will be written?

i think it will be written as a third person. just because it just seems like that's what it would be.

• Why do you think the story is entitled as it is?

I don't know it just is.

• Where do you think the story will take place?

• What time period do you think the story is set

in the 2000s because it seems like something that would happen in the 2000

What is Critical Literacy- Reflection Time

we are finishing up critical literacy soon so we now have to answer some questions.

What do you think Critical Literacy is?

it is basically how to cut up media and how to read between the lines

What did you learn during Critical Literacy?

how to ask questions and to never just go off something by one side of the story.

What did you find challenging during Critical Literacy?

answering said questions

How will you use Critical Literacy skills in real life?

by looking deeper with ads and not to just trust it

What are you looking forward to in English this year?

Creative writing

Science

WHAT IS A SCIENTIST???

I think a scientist is a person who studies science. they work in a lab and they studie things about science. they find cures for diseases, they find out about space, they find out about new species and research about dinosaurs.

Google says "a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences." a scientist is someone who conducts  research to gain knowledge in an area. 

Research on Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

She was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer. Her witness for the beauty and integrity of life continues to inspire new generations to protect the living world and all its creatures.