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Wednesday 16 March 2016

Padlet - Ash Wednesday Q & A


WALHT: write facts about Ash Wednesday and understand them.                           Created with Padlet

Monday 14 March 2016

Propagation Of Plants



WALHT - Understand that listening and following instructions helps us to carry out a investigation in science

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A Strawberry Plant & A Runner
What is propagation?
The growth/creation of a new plant taken from a: bulb, cutting, seeds etc.

Example of propagation -
Garlic -
> Peel whole garlic and separate pieces.
> Place approximately 3 in small container
> Pour small amount of water - shallow
> Wait 1 - 2 weeks
> Remove garlic with no roots
> Plant Garlic in fairly large container (Or wait few more days for roots to lengthen)

What is stagnate & stagnant?

Stagnant -
Water cannot flow and is dirty and smelly

Stagnate -
When water stagnates, it changes colour, and becomes stale and often smelly

Experiment - Do roots have hairs?

Equipment -
> Bottom half of a transparent plastic water bottle
> Tape
> Approximately 2 - 3 Blotting paper (Paper Towel)
> Cress/Alfalfa seeds
> Approximately ⅔  cup of water

Hypothesis -
I think that the seeds in the middle of the blotting paper will survive since it doesn’t get too much water or sunlight and is not on top of the cold/hot temperature. However, I might be wrong because it seems like there is not enough space in the middle for the plant to grow.

What we did -

Day 1 -
The seeds are giving off a yellow ‘liquid’ and the water stinks. Kevin’s stagnant water is attracting an interested mosquito.

Day 2 - A couple of Alfalfa seed sprouts are starting to spring up. Thankfully, the mosquito has gone off somewhere else. No change of the current smell yet.
Day 3 - The seeds are growing rapidly. A bottom pocket seems to be crowded in roots & stalks.

Day 4, 5 & 6 - Stalks & leaves growing.

Friday 11 March 2016

More Than a Mountaineer

Walht - combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of people known as heroes or leaders.

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Picture of Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary, his recognition is commonly known for his success of climbing Mount Everest, but there were more things about him than being a mountaineer.

Believing in helping those in need, his compassion for the children in their lack of education encouraged him to support them. This can be recognised in the way he used his fame to get financial support for the needs he had seen for the people of the village.

  He was a person who stood up for the people of the Himalayan village in Nepal. This was displayed  when he had risen enough money and funds from global donations to build them a school, hospitals, clinics, an airfield and bridges resulting from found the Himalayan Trust which became a charity foundation with the assistance of the village.

  Being an inspirational mountaineer & leader to others and the present people in the Himalayan village can easily entitle him as a charitable hero and representative.

Building Patterns 2

Walht - find and continue a pattern - recording results in a table & transfer these results in a graph display
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Factory Number
1
2
3
4
5
Number of Grey Squares
2
4
6
8
10
Number of Red Squares
9
15
21
27
33
Number of All Squares
11
19
27
35
43

The blue dots (as represented as the number of the factory) go higher as they require more red & grey tiles to increase in number.

Pattern - Red tile : start with 9 adding  6; Grey tile : start with 2 adding 2.

Friday 4 March 2016

Mission Charism


For R.E, I created a slide associated with the people who have changed & shaped my personalities to make me, myself, what virtues, values & Christian values & the Mission Charism.