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Thursday, 29 October 2015

Research Tag

Research Tag

Choose a country and write a question about it.  For example what foods do they eat in Romania?

Topic:Russia

Big idea:Art Forms

Now go and find a book that you think could answer the question and fill out this information.

Book title:Russia

Author/s:Kremena Spengler

Publisher:Capstone

Date of publication:2005                      

Keywords found:arts forms

Page #’s:20_21

Key pictures found:Large nesting dolls

Page #’s:21

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Library Skills

Matching Parts of a Book

L.I.    Know the different parts of non-fiction books

Each part of a book has a special name which you need to be a familiar with.
1. For each description below find the matching term in the box.
2. Write in the correct term in the space provided.

__________index ________ = Alphabetical list of all the topics in a book with the page number where the information can be found.

___________End papers _______= The first and last pages of a book.

____________lllustrator ________ = The person who prepared or drew the pictures.

_______Introduction ___ _________= Information about the book found at the beginning of a book.

___________Dedication ________= Words about a special person found at the front of a book.

________Author ___________ = The person who wrote the book.

_______________Glossary ______=  List of special words used in the book with their correct meanings.

_______spine __________ = The flat narrow outside strip of the book.

______publisher ________ = The company who made the book.

__________Cover _________ = The outside of the book.

___spine label______ = The label which identifies the book on the shelf.

_________Bibliography___ = A list of more books on the same subject.

_______content_________ = A list of the titles of the chapters.


Thursday, 6 August 2015

Library skills Non-Fiction

What are non-fiction books?
Melvil Dewey was the man who decided to use numbers to organise the books.

Who was Dewey?
How are non-fiction books arranged on the shelf?
List the following spine labels in the correct order:


219
623
796
001
913

Choose a non-fiction book from the shelves.
Does the book you have chosen include the following?  Locate and photograph

Index                                                      Appendix                                 
Contents page                                       Footnotes                                    
Bibliography                                           Title pages                               
References                                             Copyright                                 


Screenshot 2015-08-06 at 11.16.47.pngThis is a and Indexed book Non-Fiction

Title pagewebcam-toy-photo18.jpg Screenshot 2015-08-06 at 11.26.02.pngThis is glossary book  



What is a glossary?

It is a mini - dictionary for the book.

Digistore: The part adder

I used the part adder to solve this problem 48+49.


Thursday, 23 July 2015

The part adder

I needed to solve 18 + 8 =. I used the part adder tool to solve the problem.

Friday, 29 May 2015

Story Retelling

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I read a book called Sailor Sam clothes. Once we finished reading the book we had to make a drawing of a picture of Sailor Sam, rock, shirt and pants. When we finished our drawing we had to put it on a presentation called Story Retelling.