Writing

For writing we went on a website witch gave us a spinner witch we span and it would give us a topic to write about. the topic i got was a know it all spider monkey who found another planet. I thought this was fun to write because it was different then to our normal writing sections. 

commas and full stops

In reading we were learning about fullstops and commas. This was gonna help us in the future when we are writing and to understand what they really do.

The structure of infromation reports

Identifying the structure of an information report

LI: to understand the structure of information reports

Your challenge: A Use the key to help you show the structure of an information report. Highlight the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion by changing the background colour of the table. Highlight the other structures by using the highlight function.	Key
	Introduction		Body Paragraphs
	Interesting fact (to hook readers in)		Title of body paragraph
	Description of topic		Topic sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about
	Tell the reader what the report is about		Special knowledge to help the readers understand
			Conclusion

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera muscolus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

In writing we were learning what the structure of a information report is. We used the highlighter tool to highlight the structure it goes in. I found out how to structure a report and what we need in it.

James bond and the mysterious baby carriage

James bond and the mysterious baby carriage

“Beep beep!” The car's aggressively honked, as he ran in front of a car. James Bond was about to save the day (again). He eyed out the baby carriage that was stranded helplessly in the middle of the road.

His location was unfortunately one of the busiest parts in London. it couldn't of been one of the worst times of the day (rush hour!)

He rapidly ran to the helpless baby rolling across the road with no adult supervision. But as he ran he could see a car just inches away from the baby carriage.  He ran with no thought about what was in front or behind him. He Stumbled to the carriage and swiftly tugged it away to safety. His heart skipped a  beat.

As he stared at baby a sigh of relief came to him. He took a second to catch his breath and bent over to the baby. The baby had a clueless look on his face as they stared at each other. In the background James heard a frantic yell for help. A helpless mother had lost her child. “I may have found your baby!” he said as he carefully handed the baby to the mother. She looked up at James with a grateful look And thanked him for his heroic actions. then james went about his day with a smile upon his face.

Main idea

The main idea is what we learnt and the learning behind it. In this case the main idea was what the whole purpose of the poem. The main idea of this poem was to remember the solders and what they did for us.

bias DLO

My role was one of the bus strikers and i was texting my boss and my friend. I was explaining to them my bias (my point of view). Paige's role was the public and she was texting a work mate and one of the bus strikers and she was doing the same thing but her bias. I was important to look at both sides of the story (provocation) to make an informed choice.

Quick write rotation

Quick Write Rotation

Learning Intention: to understand how our choice of words create the mood of the story.

Your challenge:

Using the 4 sentence starters, come up with the next 5 sentences, and include some dialogue.  Make sure your sentences and dialogue match mood. You will have 5 minutes on each task

The wind howled through the window. The girl sat huddling her knees waiting for the storm to be over. She watch as the trees scratched against the window. She carved herself in the bed sheets as the thundered filled her ears.

Jack had seen enough. shutting his eyes he tried to block out the fire that was destroying the city. “Mum there's a fire.” he stuttered. Running down stairs to meet the blazing red fire. Watching the fire spread throughout the city. A tear dropped from his eye and ran down his cheek.

We ran as fast as we could , desperately trying to get away from the dark shadow that was gaining on us. He looked behind him and his eyes meet the figure the was gaining on him. As approached the river that happens to be in front of him he striped and unfortunaltly the figure ran faster then the boy.

PLaning a narrative

LI: to write a plan for a narrative story . Here is a Mind Minster. This shows our plan for our narrative story we were trying to figure out how to structure our narrative and how to explain it without putting to much detail. 

problem solving

This is a DLO showing to solve a problem and explaining what I did.

Kayak trip

Kayak trip

Bring! Bring! my phone vibration alerted me that Lucas had arrived and was waiting for me. I walked outside to greet him and i saw a bright orange object on the roof of his car. I had no idea what it was but i wasn't going to say anything because I didn't want Lucas to think i was dumb or something. He drove me to a patch of grass by a lake he jumped out of his car seat with excitement and rapidly grabbed the tent from the boot of the car.

after putting up the tent, Lucas unstrapped the strange object from the car. He asked for my help to take it down to the shore.Thoughts came to my head “why on earth would you put that i’m the water?” i said, he shrugged and kept going. I knew something was up but i didn’t no what.

He threw a life jacket to me and I slowly stuck my arms in with confusion. He hopped into the front of the object, and told me to hop in the back i reluctantly did what I was told. We paddled over to a bridge where the current was very strong. Suddenly a wave bashed into the side of the object and flipped it over. Lucas and I were stuck under the object and using our legs to keep us afloat . Lucas looked at my terrified face. Then he cracked up with laughter. I looked at him with confused stare. “ I knew you haven’t been kayaking before” he announced I continued to stare at him with fury. He started to push the kayak over i didn’t help i was too mad to.

  Lucas and I paddled over to a rickety old bridge after a couple of laps going up and down up and down trying to locate the tent. It was so important for Lucas to prank me that he forgot where the tent was. “Dumb” I thought.

It had of been at least half an hour until we got back to the tent. We both paddled to the shallowest part of the shore and lifted the kayak. We look at each other i still was really mad but on the inside despite everything I had a pretty good day

Informed choice

LI: To make an informed choice.

SC:

1. read both sides

2. respectful

3. chose the side that makes most sense to me.

Today we were deciding if we wanted to change the NZ flag or leave it as the current flag. We could of done it by ticking the box on a piece of paper underneath witch flag we wanted to pick. But instead we made it into a informed choice. An inform choice is a couple or even one reason that backs up or is just the reason why you chose that particular thing. Our information for each choice helped us decide what we want to choice. We got into our thinking groups and and came up with a couple of reasons why we should and shouldn't change the flag. After we went back to the mat and shared our ideas. after we got handed a slip that had both the current flag and the new flag on it and a box underneath both flags. We chose witch flag we wanted and handed it back to our teacher. some of us shared our decision and their reason why they chose it.
The most votes went to the current flag.

Writing

Today for Writing Juanita,Reon, June, Afu, and I did a retell of Little Red Riding Hood. We all worked collaborative. We all did really well.

writing an orientation

For writing we where learning to wright an orientation and the structure it goes in. This DLO that Jessie and I did showing the structure our orientation goes in.

Orientation

For writing where leaning to write an Orientation and the structure it should go in. This is Juanita's and I's example of a orientation. It's about four men that were filming in the bush who got interrupted by a bear thats decides that the want to chase the men. 

stretched sentences

This is a slide showing how to make a simple sentence more interesting by using the five ''Ws''

stretching sentences

This is my stretched sentences. It is a activity that we did that was to help us make simple sentences to complex sentences by using the five "W" who, where, what and why.