INDIVIDUAL PURSUITS

Today in class we did Summer Learning Journey. On Summer Learning Journey we had to do facts about Serena williams. We had to do some picture of Serena williams husband and kid.

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

This week we did the teaser week for SLJ. For the first activity created a profile page about Lorde. Something I found interesting was how Lorde had synesthesia and she dropped out of high school. I worked with Taheesha and Sakina for this activity.

Today's Number

Today in class we did Today's Number. I had 22 red check marks and that is good.

Cyclone

Cyclone

L.I. - Identify literary device - Simile

Identify some of the similes in the poem

-  As hard as strone.

- Like a washing machine.

- Like an evil demon.

- Like being chased by a lion.

What is the poet describing with these words?

crashing – Lighting destroying people with it’s fire.

whistling – Iron garage roofs blowing off.

clicking – stones clicking aga the window.

Word Cline- Tall

Today in class we did word cline the word toady was tall and I put little one first then I scream shot it all.

Pie Chart

Today I made a pie chart about how many people like Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Purple. The most tally marks was Purple. Purple was the winner then we put this on google sheets and wrote down the Colours and created the pie chart.

Night in the Forest

a)  Use the ideas from Night in the Forest to explain how birds, insects, and bats find food at night.     Fill in the chart. Write one idea for each bullet point. The first one has been done for you.

Animal	How does this animal find food?
Kiwi Morepork Glow worm Bat	Can smell food / worms through its nostrils at the end of its nose. Has big eyes to see in the dim light. Lured by the light and caught in the net. echolocation.

b)  Give the meaning of the word that is underlined in these parts of Night in the Forest.

     i)   "...and makes a net of sticky, dangling threads."

          dangling means That the school bell was handing on the bell.

     ii)  "...many native flowers are white to attract night flying moths and beetles."

          attract means That The gravitational force of the earth attracts smaller bodies to it.

     iii) "The kiwi is special."

          special means unique.

Blogging

Today I wrote on 3 blog's. One of them was Dezy. I like Dezy's blog because her books were so cool. I like her star friends one because it has lots of animals.

Whale Watch

1. Max hoped to wear the dolphin necklace for good luck.
2. Lester put the hydrophone to listen for whale
3. Lester took them offshore because the water was deep and fulled with food.
4. Lester couldn’t get any sounds of whales because they were asleep or far away.
5. The words "We waited …and waited have been written in large print to make them stand out. Max's was feeling happy.
6. The first clue max had was the rush of air that was the whale breathing. Today in class me and my group did whale watch in reading.

Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup

L.I. - Identify literary device - Simile and Metaphor and rhyme

Identify the two metaphors in the poem Marshmallow boats, marshmallow, chocolate sea ,

hot chocolate.

Identify the simile Like a silver typhone- spoon.

Write down the pairs of rhyming words wobble bobble, pink sink, me sea, 

Ladybirds

Lady Birds

1. Two insects the ladybird larvae eat are scale insects and aphids.
2. Birds don’t eat ladybirds because they taste too terrible to be eaten to themselves.
3. Ladybirds sometimes ooze bitter orange blood from their legs when they play dead.
4. Play dead means they are pretending to be dead. 

Gymnastic

Today in class I took a scream shot of my Gymnastics. I came 2 place.

Last day of lesson

Last day of lesson

Today was the last day of swimming. At swimming we use life jackets.
The first thing we did was put on our life jackets. With our life jackets we made
a chain in the water. So we had to hold the arm
part of the life jackets.
Then we had to make a huddle in a circle. Then two people had to came in the
middle and keep them warm. Then we had to touched the bottom of the
ground but, the life jackets will float up. It was really hard to touched the
ground at the pools.

The glass House- 5-7-10

The Glass House

Photo courtesy of Tom Frunin, One Big Photo

Once there was a glass house under a bridge standing there. It was so pretty with so much colours on the glass house. There was a city behind the glass house. The glass house looked like a shop because it had lots of food in the glass house. After the glass house was made out of a shop but, it had no door.

After that Sara looked at the door but, at the door she saw her mum. Sara mum
looked old and then Sara mum said go away. Then Sara got her mum back and then
lived happily ever after.

Word Cline

Today in class we did a word Cline activity and I picked big.

Today's Number- 24- 9- 19

This is the sheet we are using to revise our numeracy skills.

Sentence types

Finding their way

Simple - The position of the sun appears to change from east to west.

Compound- Animals don’t have maps or GPS systems.

Complex-  Bees can find their way back to their hive, after flying long distances
looking for food.  

Today in class we did some reading. The first book we read was finding their way.
So we had to find a AAAWWUBBIS in the book.

THE READING ROOM

THE READING ROOM

• The title refers to  the bathroom.

• Italic is in the book Lisa is reading and standard is Lisa in the book
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• Mum finished on the telephone.
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• His feet feel like it was ice.
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• Lisa did not want to be found becuase she loved her book very much.
• Lisa’s older sister looked for her everywhere. 
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• Then the mum finished on the telephone.
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• Lisa mum looked everywhere for Lisa becuase she was in the bathroom forevery.
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• Mark is a boy who is in Lisa’s reading book.
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• Lisa did not want to come out becuase she didn’t want to do work that her mum tells her to do.
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• Kathy is going to go to the libray to get some book for Lisa. 
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• Lisa is reading a really fun book. Lisa had good time becuase she is reading her book in the
• bathroom. Lisa thinks that Mark will come alive becuase Mark is in the book. Lisa got the book
• from the libray. 

The Surprised Mouse

courtesy of Valery Subachev, One Big Photo.

Once there was a mouse in it’s hole. The mouse was just coming out of the hole and wanted
to see where a loud noise was coming from. The mouse saw lots of peanuts on the ground
and went up to eat them. The mouse was so surprised that he saw lots and lots of peanuts. Then
the mouse went to lie on the peanuts and ate some of them. The mouse took the rest of the
peanuts back to his hole and put the peanuts on his bed. The mouse had nowhere to sleep.

There were so many peanuts that the mouse had to dig in another hole just for the peanuts. The
mouse was so tried, he put all the peanuts in the new food hole. Then the mouse went back to
sleep. The mouse lived happily ever after with all his peanuts.

Duffy Role Model

Today in class we took out our books. So the first thing we did was Mrs Kirkpatrick gave as our books and My favorite book was melody because it is shinny on the front paper. So on the front paper is a unicorn on the paper. She looked so pretty because it gots a unicorn and some of a shinny and it gots a caste behind the unicorn. So I like that book very much because it is so shing and it looks like a unicorn on the paper.

Duffy Role Model

This week we went to the Duffy assembly role model. There was a guy named Jamie wall he talked to as about the him self and we watch about Jamie to go to work. So the next thing we are going to do is watch the movie. 

Pockets

Today in class we did pockets. So the first thing we had to draw what was in our pockets and then we had to do the background and I did rainbow background and it was pretty.

Visual Language- Charlie's Underpants

Today in class we did Visual Language. So first we had to write the word on the board and then we had to copy it on our chrome book. Next we had to screenshot it and the put it on your blog.

Word Cline - Happy

Today in class we did Word Cline, my word for the Word Cline was happy.

Reciprocal Teaching- Spencer And Charlie

Today in class we did some reading and it  was super cool. So first we had to go around in groups and do what the teacher had said. Then next we had to put our hand up and the teacher has to write the word that we had said.  Next we had to ask the question and Josh had to pick me because I had to answer the question.

5-7-10- Life On Mars

http://www.pobble365.com/life-on-mars/

A long time ago there was an astronaut coming out of the door and it was dark inside and the man
is wearing his space suit. He was looking everywhere to find out what's going on.
The man went inside and it was very dark and dusty. So dark and dusty that he couldn’t see
because the wind blew the dust and he felt scared. Then he saw something move!
He jumped up and ran away when he came back and looked it was a little bug. 

He got out his water bottle and he started drinking.
Then he saw a gold coin and it was so shiny he picked it up and put it in his bag.
Then he saw a window high above his head. Then he climbed out the window and went to his rocket.
He blast off and went back to Earth. 

5-7-10 Battle Of The Storm

BATTLE

Photo courtesy of Lewis Moorhead, www.flewdesigns.com

Once there was a war it had shouting and there were lots of people staying on
the spot with their guns.

They had a battle up in the sky and they started shooting.
There was a crash and a machine was on fire.
It was on the ground sitting there.
There was lots of shooting and fighting and the buildings were on fire.

That is a lot of mess in that war.
The ground looks like it is such a mess and it looks like that place is frozen.
I think it is a freeze gun to freeze the people.

Tapa Pattens

This term we made a Tapa first we had to make some patterns and then we draw in vivid over the pencil. Next we had to dye and then it had to dry and then crash it.

Work Clime- Afraid

Today in class was on word clime and my first word was afraid and we looked in our thesaurus and that where you go and get the afraid words.

Read Theory

Today my grade is four and three because I was answering the question well. So first we had to read the words on the side and then I had to choose the right answer to match the word.  

Word Cline- Big

Today we did a Word Cline. First we had to write our word inside the black boxes and my word was big and we had to look in our thesaurus.

Measuring Metic Length

Today we had to do a game called measuring and metric length and it was  fun to do the game. First I started again because I pressed skip and then I started again. I forgot my score but I saw a little bit of it. 

Vocabulary I or Me

Use I or me in the blanks to complete the sentences below. 

1. I really don't want to go. 

2. It is not me you should yell at. 

3. I ran to the park today. 

4. I have the winning lottery ticket! 

5. He and I have never played on the same team. 

6. The dog barked at me when I tried to pat him. 

7. Are all those candies for me? 

8. The girls and me are going skiing. 

9. Give the wrench to Jake and I and me will fix your bike.
10. Who will be singing with Anne and I ? 

11. She wants to give the prizes to Jill and me. 

12. My neighbor and I were waiting for the bus.

S.T.E.A.M

 Today we did a mind map about S.T.E.A.M.  We had to do this on lucid chart and it was hard to do this because it made my body go hot and we and we had to some colour. First we had to put in the colour and then we had to put in the word. We had to copy it from the whiteboard and on the board was Science, Technology, Maths, Art, and Engineering.

Cats

pixabay.com/photos/cats

My favorite animals are cats. They can hear and they can sniff the
ground.They also can run fast and they are cute and they are so,
when they grow they do tricks.They can hear and they jump up
and they go and run to the front door. They also can climb trees
but, when dogs catch cats they go on a tree and then dog start
climbing the trees.When they are sleeping they are quiet.
They can also play with wools.

Space Learning Centre Food

                                       Today I drew a picture of what astronaut eat. Here is a screenshot of my picture.

Space Art

At the end we had to do our space art and we had to put the moon on a black paper and we ad to frick  the white pain on the paper and we had  to cut the the planet and we had to and the moon and then we had to take a photo and then we had to put it on our blog.

Windscreen Wiper

Windscreen wiper

L.I. - Onomatopoeia

Flicker flicker flack!

Flicker flicker flack!

The wiper on the car goes

flicker flicker flack.

The rain falls flick!

And the rain falls flack!

And the wiper on the car goes

Flicker flicker flack!

Flick!

Flack!

S.K. Vickery