Instructional Verbs

Rewriting Instruction

  Re-writing Instructions

Instructions should have clear, simple steps so you don’t confuse the person reading them.

Can you make these various instructions easier to understand?

Pick up an egg, gently hit it against the side of a bowl and empty the contents into a clean bowl.	Get an egg , hit against the side of the bowl and empty the egg shell into the bowl.
Open the fridge and take out the butter. Take off the lid. Get a knife and use it to scoop some butter. Rub the knife onto the toast.	Open the fridge and take off the lid, Get a knife and scoop some butter. When you are finished butter the toast.
Hold the two shortest sides of paper and bend them together. Squeeze them so that the paper is now in half.	Hold the two shortest sides of the paper and bend them so it will reach the opposite side. Next squeeze it so that the paper is now in half.
When you hear the sound of the whistle, move one leg in front of the other as quickly as you can.	When you hear the sound of the whistle move one leg in front of the other as quickly as those big legs can go.
When player One had rolled the die, they should hand it to player Two, who should then roll it too. The person with the highest score moves their counter first.	When player one had rolled the die it was player two’s turn next to get a higher number. The person with the highest number moves their counter first.
If you want to turn on the computer, look for the round, lack power button and press it once.	To turn on the computer, look for the round lack power button and press it once.
Hold the handles of the scissors and cut along the dotted line, making sure you don’t hurt yourself.	Hold the handles of the scissors and cut straight along the dotted line, make sure to not hurt yourself.
Before you start mixing the ingredients, switch on the oven and turn the dial to 140 degrees.	Before you start mixing the ingredients,turn on the oven and then turn the dial to 140 degrees.
Take the lid off the glue stick and rub the glue on the tab, being careful not to get any glue on your clothes.	Take the lid off the glue stick and rub the glue along the tab,and be careful not getting glue on your clothes.
When you have planted your seed, pick up the pot and move it it near to a window where it will get lots of sunlight.	When you have planted your seed, pick up the pot and put it on the window for lot’s of sunshine.

Fair Test : Poster

Term 4 started 4 weeks ago and our school focus for our final term,is all about science.From week 1 right up until now, I have learnt heaps of stuff about science,especially a fair test here is an example 

Science Investigation : Fair Testing

Science Investigation

Fair Testing

Fill out the following table to help you explain the Growing in the dark: Plants and light experiment

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	Which type of vinegar Produces the biggest reaction with baking soda.
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	What I reckon is that that balsamic vinegar will be the biggest and the white vinegar will be the second biggest, and wine vinegar will be the least amount of reaction.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	White , Balsamic Vinegar and Red Wine
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	Baking soda with every other Vinegar and Wine
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	No variables will still be the same.

The students of Room 4 wanted to find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred. FIll our the table below thinking of which variables you would make independent, dependent and controlled.

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	Do plants need light to grow
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	No some don’t need light to grow
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	Put the plants in a dark cupboard and add water
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	I would measure the soil and measure how long it will take
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	I would keep the soil the same

Algebra

This week we got a new task to work on . Throughout the past few terms I have learnt heaps about Algebrah. So I wanna thank my teachers for putting this work up for us to work on. I'm really proud of what I learnt in Maths class this year.  

Chemical VS Physical Changes

Maths Word Problem

       

This week we have been learning  about solving word problems. This is what I've been working on this week and now it is really easy for me to know what strategy to use for a word problem.

Matters Matter

Discussion Doc  

States of matter

Task

Work on this Doc together with a partner or in a 3.

Give three examples of each state of matter?

Solid	Liquid	Gas
Rocks	Milk	Oxygen
Ice	Water	Hydrogen
Iron	Soft drinks	Carbon dioxide

What’s the difference between the three states of matter?

Solids	Liquids	Gases
Solids aren't that easy to change its state	The molecules in water are not as tight as the molecules as solid.	In a gas, molecules are far apart.Mostly gas is made out of empty space.

Write 3 sentences explaining something new you learned from this reading.

Today I've learnt that everything that’s around us are made out of matter. Matter are things that has mass and takes up space. I diamond can be boiled around the temperature of 6,422 degrees fahrenheit.

Week 9 Think board.

Blog Posting

I have commented on these two students work because, I think that they have proven to the reader that the relationship between the the son and the mother in the Tauhara Street story.

Ratio

                                             This week we have been learning about Ratio and it is really fun once you know the Strategy.

George - Ratio Practice

TB

Tauhara street

This week I have learnt how to Analyze relationships between characters within a text and I have to comment on google groups about how do you feel,describing relationships and also to show how to blog it on you blog and This is what I've been learning about

Tauhara Street

Six Sentence Story

Long time ago in a small island in the south pacific , there lived an intense and a very talented young mechanic.He lived with his wife and kids in a mansion in the middle of the island.He could fix any car with any problem he was the best on the island. Sadly he doesn't have enough money for him to buy himself,some new playing tools to get cars running again.One day when he went out to buy himself a treat, when he pumped into an old friend so the kick back and a caht after a while talking, they figuered out what to do for him to money for him to use.After a couple of weeks they came together and put up the fundracer saling all of his old stuff , buying some drinks and running some foodstalls. After that day the sale was finish everything was closed down, after counting the money they got,the only thing that this young man could say is “It’s More Than Enough”.    

George-Sleeping Advice

George-Sleeping Advice

Hiwi The Kiwi

We were so blessed when Hiwi the kiwi came to pt england school.We got to learn how important what to take,do and remember when we for fishing.First Mr Minstrel taught us how to protect fish for the future.He said that  if you ever go fishing on a boat remember to take a life jacket,it doesn't matter if you know how to swim because when there is an accident and you don't have a life jacket on then it will be too late.Next leason was saving our sea birds so that it can keep our sea beautiful and nice.Last we ended up doing a mexcican wave    

Cross Country

Like a soldier ready to battle we marched to the starting line. In a straight line we all stood together as one.Finally it was time Mr Burt hold up two pieces of wood.When it was coming together it seemed like there were two giants running towards each other making a big and the most exciting sound.Whooooooooo yeah, were the only words that I could here at the time. BOOOOOOM!!!!!!! It was time to attack.   `