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Week 10, Term 3 September 22, 2010

This week I have learned…

Maths: in maths I have learned that to draw plans of three-D shapes you have to look at it and visualize it from the different views. I have learned that you don’t have to say when the shape moves down because it is only a 2-D drawing. I have also learned that to draw cubes on isometric paper is frustrating at the beginning, but I think that I have got the hang of it. I found out that it is easier to shape in all of the front faces to help me see it better.

English: In English I have learned different more interesting sentence starters. To do this our class had to re-write Cinderella starting with all the letters of the alphabet in order. For example After Cinderella moved into her stepmother’s house, her father died. Because of his death, The step-mother took over. Cinderella was not liked by he step-mother, so Cinderella was forced to do chores , And so on until you get to Z. I found that the hardest letter to think of as a sentence starter was X because the only thing I could think of was xylophone, X-ray, X-mas, and all of these words do not fit in any of the story. I just said that they where dancing to the music of the Xylophone. In a different order of words, of course