We hope you've enjoyed the holiday. In Year Three we've hit the ground running and got on once more with another solid week (albeit, shorter than usual).
In Maths this week we have been looking at bar charts. A bar chart is a chart that represents data by rectangular bars. These bars are usually represented vertically but can be horizontal too. The point of a bar chart is to show comparisons among different categories. One axis of the bar chart shows specific categories being compared (colours, months, breeds of dogs, etc). The other axis shows a specific value (people's opinions, rainfall, dogs who bark loudest, etc). This information can be used for many different purposes. One of the reasons why we have been doing this is to show that we understand that data needs to always have a label, that our bar charts needs to have a title and we need to be consistent. We have been looking specifically at the average rainfall that has fallen in the country of Brazil annually.
With this knowledge we have been converting it into a bar chart so we can understand two important concepts: data collection and using the correct measurements for our information. We need to show what the measurements are (i.e. they are in millimetres) and to correctly convey this within the right parameters (i.e. the months that the rain fell). Here is an example of a bar chart:
In Maths this week we have been looking at bar charts. A bar chart is a chart that represents data by rectangular bars. These bars are usually represented vertically but can be horizontal too. The point of a bar chart is to show comparisons among different categories. One axis of the bar chart shows specific categories being compared (colours, months, breeds of dogs, etc). The other axis shows a specific value (people's opinions, rainfall, dogs who bark loudest, etc). This information can be used for many different purposes. One of the reasons why we have been doing this is to show that we understand that data needs to always have a label, that our bar charts needs to have a title and we need to be consistent. We have been looking specifically at the average rainfall that has fallen in the country of Brazil annually.
With this knowledge we have been converting it into a bar chart so we can understand two important concepts: data collection and using the correct measurements for our information. We need to show what the measurements are (i.e. they are in millimetres) and to correctly convey this within the right parameters (i.e. the months that the rain fell). Here is an example of a bar chart:
Here are some examples of our work:
In English we have started to write a story, based on our knowledge of the Water Cycle. Our story is titled: The Journey of a Water Molecule. With our story, we are telling the reader about the exciting life of a single water molecule. We also want to show the reader all the different stages: sublimation, condensation, precipitation, evaporation, evapotranspiration...etc. We've looking again at the different ways we can begin a story: description, dialogue, character, action. We also looked at the "Roller Coaster" method of story telling which shows that a story must have elements of pause (when our roller coaster is on a straight track this is where our descriptive writing comes to play) and moments where we are leaping into our story and describing exciting events (where our roller coster is going up the track the story could be turning into a scary tone and when it comes down it could be an exciting tone).
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