mountain to the sea

Here are some facts that I learnt during our theme - From the Mountain to the Sea.

my fish

Meerkats

We have been learning how to write animal reports. I have used a thinglink to show what I learnt about Meerkats.

Report

We have been learning how to write animal reports. Here is one I wrote about snapper.

Snapper

A snapper is a fish and belongs to the sea bream family. People love to fish for snapper.

Snapper are reddish bones and have very few bones. They can grow to about 17kgs and 105cm. The have crushing teeth.

Snapper are carnivorous.  They eat sea worms and small crustaceans. Larger snapper eat kina, crabs and shellfish.  

They live in water ranging from 5 to 50 metres in reefs and the seas around New Zealand.  They lives in schools, but the large ones normally swim alone.

Snapper are the most commercially caught type of fish.

Vaseline Saucer

This is me and my vaseline saucer for Pet Day. This is how I made it. I got some flowers and pulled of the petals and spread them out onto the plate covered in vaseline. I tried really hard to make my plate symmetrical.

Partly Cloudy

We watched a short video called Partly cloudy. We had to write descriptive sentences about what happened using abverbs as sentence starters.

Partly cloudy

Slowly the white birds delivered kittens to the front door .

Patiently white clouds stood quietly in the sky.

Happy white clouds made shapes of  animals and babies.

Sadly the black cloud was sitting under the white colds.

The baby crocodile bit the bird’s neck.

The bird got charged by the baby ram.

Quickly the baby ram bunted the sore bird.

The hedgehog put spikes into the bird’s head.

Quietly the bird raced up to the other cloud to get armor to protect him.

Sadly the cloud poured down with tears.

Happily the cloud made an electric eel and the bird got shocked.

Basic Facts goals

Basic Facts Goals

I am good at tens that add to 100.

I need to work on my grouping within 100.

I am working at stage 4.

I need to be working at stage 5.

My Writing Goal

Here is my next writing goal.

Maths Problems

           
        I have been working in a small group to learn how to solve multiplication and division problems. I know how to use repeated addition.

Maori

We have learnt the Maori names of fish and other sea creatures. I still need more practice saying the words in Maori.

Art Clay pot

We were pretending that we were stuck in the bush. We had to make a container to collect water so we used clay to make a pot as you can find clay by the river.

Here is my group making our clay pots.

Handwriting

This is my term 2 handwriting sample. My next goal is to watch my size.

I can type 7 words per minute.

Rugby Game

We have been learning to write narratives. Here is one of my narratives.

Rugby game

Every Monday there was a rugby game. The rugby boys names were called Nero and Reed. Reed looks like 80in man and was fast like a racing car. Nero was a tall man and was fat like a big rock. The boys played rugby for Kaeo and they have won all their games. They had a small dog that liked to roll in cow poo.

One day the All Blacks came to watch Nero and Reed play rugby so they could pick one to join their team. Reed kicked the ball to Nero, but the ball hit Nero’s face and knocked Nero out.  

The All Blacks picked Reed for their team because he scored 10 tries in just 5 minutes while Nero was in the ambulance

By Reed

Autumn Cameo

The Writing Process

Written Language Sample

Cameo

Learning Intention: I am learning how to use appropriate adjectives and powerful verbs in my cameo writing.

Success Criteria: I am able to find and highlight adjectives and verbs in a cameo and explain why they work.

I am able to write sentences with appropriate adjectives and powerful verbs in my cameo.

Task:  To write a poem about autumn, using appropriate adjectives and powerful verbs.

Remember to:  Punctuate your work correctly.

        Use careful spelling and sounding out

Here is my writing

Autumn - DRAFT kaek kaek goes the leves on the dir trees . flat flat done goes the red and yowwl levs. It is cold said my steier i am cold to.

Autumn - Published

Crinkle, crinkle goes the leaves on the dry trees . 
Flutter, flutter! Down floats the red and yellow leaves. 
“It is cold,” said my sister. “I am cold too,” I replied.

narrative writing

The Big T-Rex

One day there was a big village in a noisy deadly jungle. There was a big angry blue and brown dinosaur that lived in the jungle.

One day two men were paddling down the river to check their traps for meat. The dinosaur smelt the meat and found the traps. The men came along. The dinosaur heard the men coming and he hid in the bushes and waited. When the men got to the traps they found their meat had gone. The felt something drip onto their heads. They looked up to see what it was and they saw a dinosaur with his mouth wide open.   

The men screamed and screamed and sprinted to their canoe. They paddled as fast as they could. The dinosaur chased after them. The men shot 5 bows at the dinosaur.  2 bows got shot into the dinosaurs neck. The dinosaur roared and tried to get them out. The dinosaur was really hurt and turned back into the jungle.

The two men paddled home as fast as they could and told the other men what had happened but no one believed them.

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