Mars Comprehension

This week we had a comprehension task on Mars we had to read an article about
Mars and then answer these questions. If you would like to have a look at the article
then here is a LINK to the article.

Mars: The Red Planet Questions

1. Find and copy the correct word to complete the sentence.

Mars is named after the God of war ares

2. Which of these are reasons why Mars is a good place to explore?

• Mars gets enough sunlight to use solar power.
• A day on Mars is very short.
• There is no gravity on Mars.
• There is a little water in the soil on Mars.

3. How many moons does Mars have and what are their names? 

There are 2 Phobos and Deimos.

4. What is a day called on Mars and how long is it?

It is called a sol and is 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds long

5. Find and copy a word from the text which means ‘working’

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6. Write true or false next to the following statements.

• Venus is so hot that lead would melt on its surface. True
• Mars has a diameter of 6,793km. False
• A day on Mars is slightly shorter than a day on Earth. False

7. Which planet has the highest possible temperature: Earth or Mars? Mars

8. Why does it seem odd at first that NASA has chosen to explore Mars and not Venus? There busy working on mars

9. Look at the section titled ‘The Mars Rover’. What other subtitle could you use for this section? Explain why you have chosen it.

The space eyes. I chose is because it is looking around for NASA so they don't have to go up there

10.  Look at the section titled ‘Why Mars?’. Why do you think the author has put the facts about Mars into bullet points?

For different facts/ Points

Celebrating My Success

For this activity we had to make a slide about Celebrating My Success we had 9 tasks to do on the slide. I think this activity was fun and quite easy and I think that you should make a Celebrating My Success slide. out of all of the tasks my favourite was the photo montage it was really fun.

Show not Tell

This week we have been working on describing and we have been focusing on show not tell. Our teacher gave us a picture of a scared cat and then we had to describe it with out telling that the cat was frightened or scared. I kind of liked the activity because you got to write paragraphs and I like writing paragraphs. We had to use our senses, simile or metaphor and precise nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe.  Can you find my simile?

Fraction Thinkboard

This term we have been looking at fractions. Today we had to show our understanding of fractions on a think board. 

First we chose a fraction and put it in the oval. Then we had to show this fraction as a collection, as a shape, the equivalent fractions, the fraction in words, the fraction on a number line and last of all as a decimal. 

I think I went quite well on this task.  The part I found the most difficult was converting to decimals and showing the fraction on a number line.  I need to do more practice to get better at this.

Fairy Tale Setting Map

This week we have been working on fairy tales and books. My literacy group has been working on the story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. First we listened to the story on YouTube. Then we had to draw a setting map either on paper or a drawing. I chose a drawing because I am not very good at drawing. I think I went pretty well at this task and also think that it was okay because I don't really like making. 

Fairy Tales in the Library

For literacy this week we have been looking at fairy tales and we also looked at them when we went to our school library. Our teacher told us to look for a fairy tale in the library so we did.  It took us a while because we looked in the fiction section first and then realised that they were in the non fiction section. After that we had to make a drawing and write what makes a fairy tale. I think that this was a cool experience because we got to look up fairy tales and what makes fairy tales. 

Loch ness Monster - True or False?

Over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at unsolved mysteries.  The main mystery we have been looking at is the Loch Ness monster/Nessie.  This week we read some information about the monster and we highlighted all of the keywords in the paragraph that told us what it looks like. Then we drew a picture of Nessie and labeled all of the parts of the drawing.
  

My Treasure

WALT: Use conjunctions to join our ideas together.
WALT: Include descriptive detail.

This week we had to describe a personal treasure. What we did was we had to use at least a couple of fanboys on our paragraphs in our slides. I think that this task was interesting and fun and made me think more on description. I think I was ok at this task although I think I could do better at it. I think what I could do better next time is that I could describe my object even more and do bigger paragraphs. My precious/treasure item is my teddy bear as you probably saw in the slide. 

Comment below what your treasure/precious item is. 

Meet me - Week 4

Hi my name is Aoife and i am a year 6 and i'm 10 years old.

my favourite food is chocolate

my favourite sport is swimming and basketball.

My goal for this year is to finish all my work on the chrome book.

this year i am looking forward to getting new friends