Friday 26 June 2015

Shopping Around Math Task

Shopping Around:

What is the total amount shown in this picture?
1$, 1$, 10c, 10c, 10c, 10c, 10c, 10c, 10c and 5c.
There is 2 dollars and 75 cents.



Zoe bought a packet of cornflakes at two at two different supermarkets.

Cheap Food supermarket charged her 2$.75. Bag’n’ save charged her 2$.80.

How did each supermarket round their prices? Bag’n’ save rounds up and cheap food rounds down.

Is there any other way that supermarkets can round their prices?
I don’t know.










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Wednesday 3 June 2015

James and Pio- Mythical Creatures and descriptions

James and Pio-Percy Jackson CHARACTERS Study


Percy Jackson
Grover the Satyr
CHARACTERISTICS - how would you describe this character? their personality?
  • Percy Jackson is a very brave person.
  • Percy jackson is a courageous person because he went on a very dangerous quest to find his mother.


CHARACTERISTICS - how would you describe this character? their personality?
  •  He is kind of a responsible person.
  • He is very brave and courageous for staying behind with the wife of Hades Persephone because there were only three pearls and their were four of them.
ACTIONS - what key actions and events did this character take part in?
  • He was the most important character in the movie because his name is in the title and that he was one of the people that were in the quest and he became the hero of the movie.
  • He defeated the lightning bolt thief and returned the bolt to the owner Zeus.
ACTIONS - what key actions and events did this character take part in?
  • He sacrificed his pearl for Percy’s mum and stayed behind with Hades wife Persephone.
  •  He always protected Percy and there other people that were on the quest because it was his duty.
HOW DOES THE CHARACTER CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MOVIE?
He was not that well known when he went to camp half-blood and when he came back from his quest everybody was impressed and they were saying well done and other good comments to him.
He was very weak and pathetic and then he gained strength from the water and became really strong and had a lot of strategies
He getting distracted a lot but with the help of his father he was becoming more focused in finding his mother..
HOW DOES THE CHARACTER CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MOVIE?
He was lying to Percy about what he really was and then during the movie he took his pants off and he told Percy what he really is. He is a satyr.
He was not a very good protection at the beginning because he just let Percy’s mum disappear he just watched but at the end he became one of the greatest protectors at camp half blood.

Pio and James-Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief Movie Study

Percy Jackson - The Lightning Thief
Movie Questions

  1. What is the relationship between Zeus and Poseidon? They are both brothers.
  2. What learning difficulties has Percy been diagnosed with? He is diagnosed with Dyslexia and ADHD
  3. Who is Zeus’s father? The father of Zeus is Cronus God of all Titans.
  4. What type of mythical creature does the substitute teacher change into before attacking Percy? The substitute teacher changes into a creature called a fury.
  5. Why can’t Percy’s mum get into the camp? His mum couldn’t get into the camp because she wasn’t a demi-goddess and she wasn’t a half blood. She was just a mortal woman.
  6. How are Percy’s learning difficulties related to him being a demi-god?
  7. What is the name of Annabeth's mum? The name of Annabeth’s mum is Athena goddess of wisdom and battle strategy.
  8. How did Percy’s mum protect him by being married to Gabe? It was the only way and because the gods kept away from Gabe’s horrible stench that is in his house.
  9. How does Percy look at Medusa without turning to stone? He didn’t turn into stone because he used the reflection in his ipod. And he cut her head off.
  10. How do the three heroes defeat the Hydra? Grover the satyr grabs medusa’s head out of the bag and shows it to the hydra and turns them into stone.
  11. How does going into the Lotus Casino affect Percy’s Quest? The only reason it trapped them in their was because whenever they eat the lotus flower it makes them stay longer and it is a prison trap for people to stay there forever.
  12. Who stole Zeus’s lightning bolt? The person who stole Zeus’s lightning bolt was Luke son of Hermes the messenger of the gods.
  13. Where is the entrance to Olympus? The entrance to Olympus is in a room at the top of the Empire State Building.
  14. Who does Percy Jackson fight at the end? The person that Percy fights is Luke.
  15. How did Percy defeat his enemy? He defeated Luke by breaking 4 water tanks and all the water drowns Luke and then a bit of the water turned into a trident and Percy threw it at Luke and he flies into the ocean.
  16. What motivated Luke to steal the lightning bolt?  He wanted war between the gods so they can destroy each other and the new generations of gods can take over the world and create a new world in their own image.