Term+2+Portfolio

=This is my Term 2 Portfolio. This is just a reflection on my awesome term. ENJOY!!=

**__ Term 2 Reflection __** This term we had to really start to knuckle down and focus on all the work we did. It has been much tougher then the previous term. Apart from it being tough we’ve had a lot of fun as well. One of my favourite things we’ve done this term was competing in the south-eastern arts festival. It was great because we came first and beat St. Margaret’s School by one point. There was also a great Mother’s day assembly. We all sang a song to our mums called “This train is bound for glory”. The mums loved it. Miss Cole and Mr Bailey both did a speech and they were both very funny even though we didn’t get most of the jokes. One of the best things we did in class (well the best thing for me) was the absolute monarchy role play and it was great because I was the King. It was a great day because people would carry my books and my stuff. If I wanted a work sheet it would come to me without me even getting out of my seat. This term we also had our first whole school photo for the 85th anniversary of St. Margaret’s School. It took forever though just to position everybody. This term we had loads of tests, at the start and at the end. Another exciting thing that happened this term was both schools getting a new principal. Her name is Mrs. Anderson and she is very nice. Also one of my friends named Curtis got his cast off. He had a cast because he badly broke his leg at school. He had to have a cast and it seemed like months before he got it off. This term was one of my favourite units: has been how we organise ourselves. It’s great because we’ve been looking at governments and how they make a bill. We did a vote to see what we had for lunch and we had a Bailey Burger. It was delicious and we had to have it because it was like a prime minister, if it was voted for, we had to have it. That was awesome. Overall this term has been the best yet. I can’t wait for what we do next term.

**__ Term 2 Goals __** 2. I want to improve in spelling French words in French class with Miss Turner. 2. I want to work on putting my hand up instead of sometimes just blurting out what I have to say.
 * __ Academic: __** 1. my goal this term is to get faster in speed maths. Mainly in addition and subtraction.
 * __ Attitude: __** 1. In all classes I want to be able to talk to others but in a quieter voice and only sometimes.

**__ English __** In English this term we have done a lot of revision for all our tests and learned a lot of new things. We’ve looked into poems and we did a couple only to find out that we’re not meant to be doing them until term 4. My favourite poem was the Quatrain poem. I did mine on a video game called “Halo Reach.” We did lots of reading comprehensions on finding information and sequencing. Some were harder then others. We have also done editing and proofreading sheets. There were lots of topics. One was about the question mark, there was one about urban myths and one about a castle. Because we did the urban myth editing and proofreading sheet, just for fun in the next lesson, we looked up urban myths. I found some really spine-chilling ones. All of the ones I read about were really freaky. There were ones about killer baby sitters, another about scary men in your back seat and another about people licking your hand under your bed. There was one lesson where Miss McMurtrie went crazy and we had to write a sequenced paragraph about what she did. That was very awkward but funny. This term in English has been full of many surprises. So next term will be much better, I hope.

**__ Maths __**

In maths this term we have gone over a lot of things we have done and we’ve learnt a lot of new things. We’ve done a lot of adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions. Also I’ve learnt how to multiply and divide fractions by whole numbers. We also learnt a new thing. We learnt how to find the mean, median, mode and range of a group of numbers. I learnt a lot. One of my favourite things we did in maths was the Fremantle prison escape test. We had to make an escape route for the escaped prisoners. Luckily everyone passed including me. Later in the term we looked at BODMAS (Brackets Of Division Multiplication Addition and Subtraction). It was good to get refreshed on how to do BODMAS. In maths this term I think I did well in multiplying and dividing fractions by whole numbers and multiplying fractions. We also had two tests. We had a topic test just going over all we had done this term. We also had a key skills test with stuff we hadn’t even done this term. I was very pleased with my score (46/50) because I had improved very much from the previous key skills test.

Multiplying Fractions

Mean, Median, Mode and Range



**__ UOI __**
 * __ How the world works: __** This was a very interesting unit. We did lots of thing related to science so Mr. Lardner could help as well. At the start of the term we went to Science Works for an excursion. We learned a lot of stuff and it was really fun. My favourite thing was the LEGO mind storm robots. It was fun because we programmed them to find a certain colour (which was a mirror). After we programmed them we played a game to find the mirrors. When it found the mirror, a person gave it to us and whoever had the most mirrors at the end won. We also made a PowerPoint presentation each and I did mine on the physics in guns. It was really fun to make and I learnt a lot.When we made the PowerPoint we had t generate our own lines of Inquiry. It was pretty tricky. What you had to do was make a big question. See if you can make 5 "W" questions. And if you could make those 5 questions you turn the big question into a statement. That's how you do it.


 * __ How we organise ourselves: __** This has been my favourite unit so far. Our main focus was on government like Earn and Learn last year. The first thing we did was an absolute monarchy role play for a day. I was the king and it was so awesome. It was great to have the luxury of pushing everybody around and getting whatever I wanted. Unfortunately the day ended quicker then I thought. When we started the modern government side of it we were all given an electorate that we had to make a speech for. I didn’t win my electorate unfortunately. After all the speeches we started to make bills which can be made into laws. We learnt how to make a bill and what you have to do to make it into a bill. After that we had to have sessions of parliament to pass the bills. I was in the House of Representatives. Sometimes it was really funny, because some people made really funny remarks and arguments. We never wanted to stop doing the sessions. It was awesome.
 * __ PowerPoint [[file:Major Assessment.pptx]] __**



**__ PYP Attitudes/Learner Profile. __**

This term I think I have shown Co-operation. Like when we were doing the parliament sessions I helped my team out and didn’t argue with my team’s decisions. I’ve let other people lead a bit and I’ve co-operated with them. What I’ve noticed is that when you co-operate it makes life easier.

**__ Specialist __**


 * __ French: __** The best and most fun thing we did this term was “Who Stole the Mona Lisa”. What we had to do was find out who stole the Mona Lisa without the internet. Miss Turner sent us a sheet with enough clues to solve it but a lot of the words we had to translate. We eventually worked out that it was the cleaner. After we solved it we made a newspaper article about who stole it. I hope we do another thing like that.


 * __ Newspaper Article[[image:Mona_Lisa.PNG]] __**


 * __Art: __**In art this term we have been doing a lot of shading and shadow of 3-D drawings. I think I did really well. We also did a big shaded drawing of the Fast and Furious 5 drawing. We got a big piece of grid paper and a little filled in grid piece of paper and we had to shade in on the big paper what we saw on the little paper. Then we put them all together and it looked like a big picture.
 * __ Sport: __** In sport this term we have gone over many sports like European handball, soccer and my favourite, football. I really liked football because It is really fun to play. I love to tackle in football and that is why it is one of my favourite sports. I also played football in the Lightning Premiership. But before the Lightning Premiership we had a friendly match against another school. We got smashed. But I still had fun. From what Mr Kemperman told us the sports we are doing in the oncoming terms are awesome so I’m looking forward to it.


 * __ Science: __** In science all term we have been studying forces. We have been looking at Newton’s laws and found out what they mean. We have watched a lot of videos about forces and one of the most interesting videos was about planes. We watched crash tests and watched what happens when they crash. Also I was selected by Mr Lardner to go to Melbourne Zoo for this year of the forests thing. A lady named Jane Goodall was there and she made a very special speech. It was very interesting. I can’t wait for what science has in store for me in the following terms.


 * __ Music: __** In music we have been making a lot of performances with our own written music. It has been really good. In our group the song we made had a main theme of war. It sounded great because some of the instruments sounded like the real thing. I played the snare drum and it gave it an army March effect. We also started a piano assignment but we have to finish it next term.


 * __ Library: __** Well this term I definitely read a lot more books and I am really proud of myself. One of my favourite things we did this term was making a book trailer for a book we’ve already read. I did mine on a book called “SCARECROW” Miss Cole said mine was great. It was really fun when I was making it because I got to film a video of me shooting my siblings with dart guns for the video. My siblings were pretty beat up after that. Miss Cole was very pleased with my work. I had a great term in Library.
 * __My Book Trailer . File is to big to put on. __**