Poetry ILT

Last week Wednesday, we started off with our first  ILT (Integrated Learning Task)  for Grade 6. An ILT is 3 days of group work. We have a topic for each ILT we do. The teachers  explain the work that relates to the topic and we follow it whichever order we like, as long as everything is done in 3 days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).

Our topic this term was poetry, we had to write many poems and do some research on certain terminology words. One of the poems I did was about the masks that we were as people, we all pretend to be something we aren't just to fit in. The specific type of  poem that I did is called a Blackout Poem, which you basically take a page from a book, magazine etc. and you take certain words from that page and form your own poem from the words on that page of writing.

My poem went like this:
masks I use to wear,
 to the playground, to the supermarket
I think I wore it for a couple of years
but I had gotten use to wearing it.

I personally loved this activity because although we were restricted to only the words used on that page, we were able to write about anything we like and add decoration to the page.

I'm super tired from this ILT and I just cant wait to get all of the stress from ILT off at camp! I am going on my last camp at the senior primary on Wednesday until Friday and I am very excited because I've figured out who my true friends are, not the fake ones, and I am going to have a blast with the people who I enjoy spending time with.

Grade 6 2017

We are officially in Grade 6, and it's been fun, but also very tiring. on top of that we had The Little Mermaid auditions, I think I did quite well and my singing has improved but still needs work. We are the oldest in the school which means we get to be monitors sometime in the year. When our classes turn comes, I hope i'm not an upstairs monitor, which is when you have to spend every break upstairs making sure nobody is spending their break there. The reason I don't want to be that monitor is because I've worked the period of time before break and I'd like to run around and have fun with our friends who don't happen to be in our class, if I'm a upstairs monitor I cant do that for a whole term.

Although I have some things that I don't want to happen this year, I also have some goals, especially getting Netball and Softball Player of the Year award again so I'd have it three years in a row. We've had our first softball match, and although we lost, it was great playing again! I really hope our season goes well, as this is our last year at the Senior Primary and id like to leave knowing that I've set a reputation and that i worked hard.

I'm in Mrs Kent's class this year and I'm very happy with my class because I have most of my friends in it. All my friends and I get on very well, in fact, we went to Zeanne's house last weekend.. we had an absolute blast!

I hope  Grade 6 goes well and i have an awesome last year at the senior primary, setting a good reputation, having fun and making lots of new friends.

Simile Poem

In class we did a simile poem and I did mine on a llama. It was a difficult poem to do because it was hard to compare something so perfect into something else 😏 I enjoyed writing about a llama because I am obsessed with them. I found this task fun and enjoyable and I'd definitely do it again.

Science Expo - Danielle Savage

Science expo:

So basically in Grade 4,5 and 6, every year we do a science expo and what is science expo is where you find a experiment and do some research to do an oral for a judge.

I worked with Zeanne, which was really fun because she was very creative! We both had completely different ideas and we decided to compare the 2 energies but that didn't exactly work out because it was too difficult.

We ended up doing a wind turbine and we originally wanted to light up a LED light but it didn't work for some odd reason. So we bought a voltmeter and just measured the electricity.

Our poster was pink and had a white boarder. We had glitter EVERYWHERE, we worked (time wise) quite well and ended up decorating just before 2nd break.

Judge:
Our judge was friendly but as soon as he walked in a was praying we wouldn't go first ;) when he came to us it was very chilled, he just asked us simple questions without pressuring us

It was wonderful working with Zeanne but I think next year I will be going alone because I've worked with a partner twice now and I would like to see what it's like.

Hippo Diary-Danielle S

Tuesday 16 August 2016

I can't believe my mom and dad let me keep Gertruit! She's such a smart hippo. I thought it was a good idea to train her, until she ruined our vegetable garden. Mom said that if this kind of behavior continues, she will give Gertruit away! I need to make a plan as soon as possible.

Wednesday 17 August 2016

Since Gertruit ruined our vegetable garden, I needed to show mom that Gertruit and I are terribly sorry. In order to do that I needed to teach Gertruit how to write (in order to make a card of course) 

She broke all of my pens and pencils. Now I have nothing for school, Mr Raven gave me detention because he didn't believe that I had a pet hippo. Mom wasn't pleased either, she grounded me for a month!

Thursday 18 August 2016

I explained to mom that we were just trying to help. She told me that everybody makes mistakes, but I am still on dish duty. Gertruit now spends her days outside in the garden. I know what your thinking, isn't she going to ruin the vegetables again?! No, we moved that to the front garden for everybody to see our hard work. I'm trying to keep Gertruit under control for now. 

Ek wil myself onthou...

My naam is Danielle, ek is 11 jaar oud. Ek wil jou oor myself vertel. My gunsteling kleur is Groen, en pankoeke is die beste kos in die wêreld. Ek is baie lief daat dat is die rede dat ek is lief vir Selena Gomez. Ek speel Netbal en Sagtebal. Ek is in die A span vir altwee. My bestie vrendin se naame is Danielle, Zeanne, Hannah en Jemma!

Jemma en ek het Sagtebal gedoen en ons is die cuptain 

Ek wil my eie YouTube kanaal hê omdat ek kan my eie fliek. Ek wil ń deeltydse werk hê omdat ek kan geld verdien, koop ń HoverBoard omdat dit is ń goed speelding. Ek wil besoek Europe omdat ek wil koop emoji kissings.

powerful verbs

• I chose this topic because I absolutely adore netball. Mr Raven had told us that we had to go home and think about a topic. I had a netball match that day. When I defended a pass I felt that I had to use this specific topic.

• I enjoyed this activity because when I am not doing netball I still think about netball so it's an opportunity to bring myself to netball other than playing the game.

• My biggest challenge about this task was attempting to use powerful verbs, so what I did was to give myself normal boring verbs and then I converted them into powerful verbs.

• I am very pleased with what my end product was and I definitely will do this again in a heartbeat.