Tuesday, November 9, 2010

End Of Year Writing

i have had a great time in LC 13 .
T.C has been a very encouraging teacher.

my best sports achievements this year are 3rd in the school cross country, second in the school duathlon and 6th in the inter school triathlon.

I have enjoyed the inter galactic trophy because it is very challenging and fun.

My best class achievements have been getting up to independence level three, hitting a golf ball further than T.C, not getting a no for ages and getting golds for all my animal inquiry activities.

I have liked Market Day because I get lots of yummy food and snidges.

I am looking forward to the holidays but I also hope I am in T.C's class next year.


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

speech S.A

Speeches

Written and Oral Language

We are learning to:

* Present material, conveying meaning clearly and accurately

* Write and speak, expressing personal viewpoints, sequencing ideas logically

Speech Topic:

cycling cheats

Self Assessment from video

Speech in front of class

Success Criteria:

Speech Writing

My speech followed the hamburger technique and was logically sequenced

yes

yes

The point I was making was easy to understand

yes

yes

My speech contained research

Yes

yes

My speech had voice and was interesting

no

yes

My speech was in my words

yes

yes

My big idea comes through strongly

yes

yes

Presentation

I enunciated my words clearly

no

yes

Terminal consonants


Ts and ds in the middles of words


Swallowed my goobies first


Seperated my words


My voice was loud enough

1/2

yes

I learnt my speech off by heart

yes

yes

I used expression in my voice

no

yes

I used enough volume to be heard by all

yes

yes

I used eye-contact

yes

yes

My speech was not too fast, not too slow

yes

yes

My speech was between 2 and 3 minutes

no

no

My presentation materials supported but didn’t repeat my words

NA

NA

Total:

9 1/2

13

Novice – 5 Apprentice – 6 Practitioner – 11 Expert – 14

Self Assessment after Video

Self Assessment after Speech

speech

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Speech

I'm going to talk to you about how cyclists cheat, and who some famous cycling cheats are. In the olden days some cyclists cheated by throwing tacks in front of the other riders. As scientists started to find out new ways of cheating, like drugs, more cyclists started cheating. In one of the early Tour De France races they had to ride in the night so a group of riders secretly hopped on a train and hopped off just before the finish of that stage.

The Tour De France is the most well known cycle race in the world. People have thought that many Tour De France winners have taken drugs. Some have been right and some have been absolutely wrong. Some of the following people are either people who have taken drugs or people who have been found guilty of taking drugs: Alberto Contador (a three time winner of the Tour De France was suspended after a positive drug test in the 2010 Tour), Floyd Landis is also another Tour De France winner who has taken drugs, he won the 2006 Tour, but his gold medal was stripped from him after he returned a positive drug test result. Many people have thought that Lance Armstrong (seven time winner of the Tour De France) has taken drugs, but he has never gone positive in a drug test. Marco Pantani won the Tour De France in 1998, but sadly died after taking too much cocaine in 2004. He was rated the best hill climber of all time. A year after he won the Tour he was disqualified after an unnatural result in a blood cell count test.

So if you become a cyclist, don't try to cheat because you will never get away with it.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

P.I S.A

Expert
 Shows weeks of work
 Audience is very interested
 I've done the work myself
 Research in my words – with my personality in it
 Contains humour(?)
 Interaction with the audience
 Speech is confident, clear and with action and expression

Practititioner
Shows three or four weeks of work
Contains pictures and steps
Information is interesting and in my own words
 Adults have supported me without doing work for me
 Some humour
 Some interaction
Audience is attentive
Speech is clear

Apprentice
 Shows about a week’s work
 A little information – some in my own words
Adults have done some of it for me
No interaction with the audience
No humour
 Poor presentation
 Few pictures

Novice
 Reads the words on the PowerPoint or Glog
Clearly started at the last minute
 Hardly any info
 Parents have done a lot of it for me
 No pictures or steps
 Copied straight off the internet
 No humour
 Not finished on time
 Untidy presentation
 Speech is not very clear

what did i do well?did a good presentation
what did i learn?to speak up
what is my next learning step?to speak up