Reading

WALT: work collaboratively to have a better understanding of what we read.

What we have been doing-

Reciprocal reading, taking turns at clarifying, summarizing predicting and questioning. We take one week to read the story.

Next steps:

I need to summarise in one sentence-the key idea.

My holiday recount

My holiday

Was poppa and my's drift wood hunt successful?Well,here is the story that should explain it all.

It was a warm day at the beach in Whanganui. Poppa and I had decided to drive to the beach and search for driftwood for poppa to polish and sell.

We were looking around,and I decided to come back, closer to poppa. But almost immediately the damp wood he was standing on collapsed beneath him and he fell on his back. I helped him up, and, luckily he only grazed his elbow. It had some dark red blood coming out, but nothing too serious. We found one stick,yes, one stick he could sell as a walking stick.

The warm wind was covering us in sea spray.

The second beach was covered in more sticks,

but still no luck. After that we decided to called it a day.

Olympic poem

This is my diamanté poem about lap running at the Olympics.

           Running laps

Sweaty                     Tense

Sprinting, Puffing, Speeding

Medals                  Podiums

                  Turf

WALT hook our readers using only a question

I wonder what made that noise?

I am watching T.V.,it is 8:45 pm… it can't be the birds,they should be asleep. Perhaps it is the cat… it’s getting nearer and louder. It sounds kind of metallic, so it must be on the roof.

It's very annoying. Hmmm… I should check what's making that noise,before it gets on my nerves.As I walk outside I see the cats eyes flashing in the light of the house while he sits on the fence. Right.So that's crossed of the list. 

“BAAACAAW!”I hit the deck immediately,as I humongous flock of sea birds dive bomb me and the house. Feathers,feathers everywhere! My face is being smacked by thousands of sea smelling wings as they crowd the house. There is barely any breathing space,as I get a beak to the forehead. Never mind,I guess birds do stay up late some days.

The aftermath isn't pretty. Poop and feathers are everywhere. Even some fishy vomi-never mind. I'll just leave it as this: Me and my parents have a lot of cleaning to do.ALOT.

Math workshop term 2

This week in maths workshops we were learning about capacity and millilitres.This is one of our sheets where we had to figure out what days and how many Millilitres of water goes into the plants,and they would have schedules eg.the fern needs twenty millilitres every second day.

Here is mine.

Earth to Pluto instructions

Task: write a set of instructions on how to get from Earth to a planet of your choice.

WALT:

- a chosen planet’s location in the solar system.

- a chosen planet’s distance from earth.

- planets you will pass by to get to the chosen planet.

- obstacles that may be on the journey, e.g. Atmosphere, moons...

I was a practitioner.

Next time I need to include a summary.

Poetry workshop T2

WALT:When I write a poem I will notice and identify the tense in a sentence.  I will replace the words to change the tense of the sentence in the poem.

First we had to choose a writing workshop.I chose the poetry workshop with Mr.Wallace because I enjoy writing poems because they are creative.

In poetry workshop we had to make a poem about autumn.

We felt and looked at some autumn related things.We had to brainstorm some related words and go through our poems and edit them.Then we went back outside to take pictures of some autumn related stuff like trees and flowers.

Next we had to sketch the pictures and write the poem on an A3 piece of paper and make a border.Here is a photo of mine.