English

Today in English we read 5 non-fiction books. Each book we had 2 minutes to read after the buzzer went off we had 30s to write down 1 fact. We were allowed to read the same book twice just as long as there a different facts Heres the facts:
1  On 10 December 2016, Joseph fought for the heavy weight championship and won
2. N one knows who invited the dunk, Bob kurland first made it popular in the 1940s
3. Men and women can compete in the mixed doubles diving
4. A rugby ball is oval shaped and it can be kicked,carried, or passed from player to player
5. Josephs mum didn't like watching Joseph box

100 Facts On Planet Earth

8 March 2019

Today in English we all had to read a book of our choice and then summarise some facts.

Summarise:

1. Flint is found in chalk and limestone. Thousands of years ago people used to make axes,knifes and arrow heads.

2. Some fossils of bacteria are three and a half billion years old

3. Everyday there are 45,000 thunderstorms on the earth

4. 30 to 50% of all living species may be extinct by the middle of the 21st century

5. In one part of Turkey,people have cut caves in huge cones of rocks to make home

Quiz

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1. If a sandstone has red,round,smooth grains,where was the sand made?

2. Which rocks are made from seashell and tiny sea creatures?

          3. Which rock changes into slate?

Answers:

1. The Dessert

2. Limestone and Chalk

3. Mudstone

100 Facts On Weather & Oceans

15 February 2019 

Today's book I read was '100 Facts on weather' it was facts about how weather work when was the first record of weather and interesting thing that you would not believe.

Fact

Fact is that the first record of weather is 3000 years old it was marked on a tortoiseshell. People say that cow's lay down when rain is coming but cows lay down when rain is or not coming. 

Opinion

This book is interesting because it tells you a lot of information that can happen around the world like tornadoes and hurricanes. 






19 February 2019
Today's book i read was 100 facts on oceans its about history on different types boats and fish and about the titanic. There is 17 types of penguins - Chinstrap,Gentoo,Adelie,Emperor and King penguin.

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Fact

The world's biggest ship is nearly half a kilometre long, it is called Jahre Viking. Supertankers carry cargoes of oil around the world. They move slowly because they are so huge and heavy. Did you believe that Jacques Cousteau built a village on the bed of the red sea and he lived there for a month

Opinion
This book is interesting because it gives information that has or is happening to the sea. It gives information about assorts of large sea animals/fish. 

What I Read About

Book: Billionaire Boy
Author: David Williams 

7 February 2019
I have now read 80 pages of 'Billionaire Boy' written by David Williams its about a boy named Joe that has been bullied at his previous posh school for being super rich/Fat.
Joe convinced his dad to go to a normal school with normal kids. He made a new friend called Bob. Joe didn't tell Bob about him being rich because he was scared that he would make fun of him because he got rich by his dad selling toilet rolls. But then Bob found out but he said he will keep Joe's secret to himself.
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8 February 2019
I have now read to Page 93....
Joe and Bob were spotted by the twins (Grubbs) they ran down a alley hid behind a garbage bin. Where the grubbs had stolen the cadburys dairy milk chocolate bar snatched out of Bob's hands. Then the grubbs threw Bob in the bin where spaghetti and Parmesan cheese ended up in his curly hair that Joe had to pick out himself. The next day at school the 2 grubb twins came walking over slowly, through the football game that no one dared to complain, so  the boys ran into the dinning room. The cooking lady Mrs Trafe said to the twins 'If you aren't eating then get out either Dave or Sue said   'but Mrs trafe...?' ............ ''I SAID OUT!''

(The grubb twins are identical twins but  Dave is a boy and Sue is a girl)

A Little Bit Of Reading / Christmas In Te Reo

One of our Christmas Reading tasks is translate the Christmas English Words to Maori.

If You go to Ashley Blog you would see Ashley and Me Screencastify about us trying to pronounce Maori Christmas Words. Here is the link to her blog.

http://shsashleyu.blogspot.co.nz/

Meri Kirīhimete - Merry Christmas

Make sure you do a kāri Kirīhimete - (Christmas Card) for your friend

Reading Test

After the role Mr Breach said we have a reading test today. So when it was time to go I went at got my Chromebook and sat in room 6 next to Aroha and Ruby. So as I logged in it said I have 28 questions to answer and I had only 40 minutes to complete the test. 

Let Me Sleep...

Sleep Sleuths

This week for reading we had to read the text that we were given. Our text was called ¨Sleep Sleuths¨. We had to write an information report about it. With the information report we had 4 facts to write plus an Opening Statement and a Concluding Sentence.

Sleep Sleuths is about getting enough sleep through the night. 

Moose

This week my group Kakariki (Green) has been doing reading about MOOSE'S

Treasure

My Reading For This Week Was Called Treasure

CHARACTERS - Jumbo Mumbo & Gumbo

SETTING - Farm

PROBLEM - No one wanted to help the ill farmer. His sons were lazy and the farm was going to decline

FEELINGS - Angry

ACTION- When the son heard there was treasure in the padlocks

OUTCOME - They got an intrinsic reward and the reward was about them feeling good about cleaning the farm.

If Only

For Reading my group is reading the story called If only.

We changed the way to how we get our work done. So now we get points.

If we get number 1 done and our teacher checks it we get 1 point.

So my group had to get a total of 27.

10pts. How good the story is -

• CHARACTERS  -  (4)   I gave it a 4 because we don’t know much about them. All we know is he lives down the road. The author could have made the characters more interesting by describing them and more detail.
• STORY STRUCTURE - (9) I gave it a 9 because it has really good structure and the ending was satisfying but it didn’t have that much to it.
• LANGUAGES FEATURE - (10) I gave it a 10 because the author did use interesting words like - The obliging giraffe, Huge bull elephant and more.
• THEME -  (7 ½) I gave it a 7 ½  because it’s important that you don’t use dangerous things near people

1pts. Character Web -

4pts. If Only Poem

7pts. What if…

1- He screamed off crying with his hand over his eye blood pouring everywhere.

2- He screamed off running down the street with his hands covering his eye when blood is pouring everywhere.

Dragon Writing Week 8/11

We have been learning in reading is to use similes and strong words