Landfill Advice

   

WALT : Look beyond the text. 

Our Task was to create a reply to someone who has asked you for advice on your blog. We also needed to create a presentation in a way that looks like an advice column.We needed to read their problem carefully, make sure your understand all of what they are asking you.We had to offer them advice and information to the answer all of their problem.DO not leave anything out.The way the letter was sented to us and we had to answer the letter in the same from.

Chicken flavoured worms

Have  you  ever ate  Chicken  flavoured Worms ?              

Has your teacher ever fed you chicken flavoured worms. It was seemingly ordinary  day until Our literacy teacher Mr Goodwin walked in and started to talk about chicken flavoured worms. As far as anyone knew, they thought that our teacher went nuts !!  
   

 

by Heather 

Walt: write a detailed introduction with hook and orientation. 

We had to follow the demonstration by our teacher. Our task is to write an introduction that is both interesting  and attention grabbing to your reader, as well informative to the direction of our writing.And We had to the use  a rubric to score a buddy.

Omaru Creek

  




Walt : to learning more about our Community


Our Task was to create a presentation.About the creek near our School.
We had to explain and show to our readers :
What's the name of our creek ?
Some Photo's from Google maps
3 simple facts about the creek
Why they should go and visit our creek

Problem Solving - What Strategy Did You Use?

Walt: We are trying to solve problems with different strategy.

 


Our task was to try solving problem and to try think of different strategy.

Kakapo - Fun Facts

Fun Facts 

 Kakapo

Walt: look beyond the text. What kind of food do kakapo like to eat ?

What are kakapo ? 

kakapo are a kind of parrot - but they're very different from other parrots. For starters, Kakapo don't fly.They're also nocturnal, which means they go about their business during the night.The Word Kakapo is Maori for " Night parrot ".Some kakapo can live for ninety years, which is a very long time for a bird.In Fact, scientists think this makes kakapo the longest living bird in the world.But Although they can have long lives, kakapo are seriously endangered.There are less than ninety left. A Kakapo like to eat many food.Their favourite foods include berries ( especially berries from rimu trees ), fruit, nuts ( especially almonds ), seeds, leaves, tussock, grass, fern roots, and moss.Most kakapo also eat a special muesli made by Doc staff. Kakapo muesli contains flour and tapioca along with goodies such as almonds, manuka honey, and spirulina.

Life Cycle of the Kākāpō

A lot of things about the kākāpō are still unknown, especially how long they live for.

 Kākāpō live life in the slow lane. They do everything more slowly than most birds, and live, on average, for 58 years and potentially to almost 90! None of the kākāpō whose ages we do know have yet died of old age, even though most were discovered 15-30 years ago. In fact, it may not be known how long kākāpō live until some of the birds hatched during the Kākāpō Recovery programme die of old age. That might be several decades away.Everything in the kākāpō’s life-style happens slowly. Males do not start breeding until they are about four years old, while females do not start until they are at least six years old. Even then, breeding does not take place every year.Rather, it seems to be dependent on the availability of key food supplies, such as the fruiting of rimu trees, and will happen, on average, only every two to four years  




Here is a picture of a Kakapo : 

What did we learn ? 

Our Task on Tuesday was to write a new blog post, using the story.We had to Read the instructions carefully, and make sure we read the whole story in full, We also had to read the Questions and had to Complete the tasks in order.We needed to try to explain to the read : What is a kakapo What kind of food do kakapo like to eat What are kakapo like 3 interesting facts about a kakapo  Write an explanation about why it is important to help save and protect kakapos.

Duffy Theatre

The Duffy Show

WALT : Follow the structure of a recount to produce a piece of Writing

Did  you know that on Monday we had Duffy come to our school ? So what we did was line up straight after lunch. After we got lined  we sat in the school  hall and a lady played Simon says while the seniors were sitting and getting ready for the Duffy theatre . All the people were there  from years 4 to 8.

All of a sudden Duffy came  from the back door  and played his song. And then the the show started. One lady played a bunch of characters. Siana played ( the person that does not like to read) So one day after school on a rainy day Siana went to the library and found Duffy Duffy said “ hi Siana  I you here to buy a book Siana replied I don’t  know how to read  books. 2 days later Siana came to the same library and Duffy helped Siana read.

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When Duffy teached Siana how to read Siana liked to read a lot but when Duffy asked Siana questions she was into television. After a wild Duffy asked Siana “do you want to have a library card”And that's when Siana’s mum came and said “Siana What are you doing here let’s go home and do the dishes” Siana said Duffy really want’s you to sign the library card. And Duffy said to Siana’s mum you like fishing I can give you a fishing book And Siana’s mum said OK i will sign the card. And every day she used to come to the library with her friend after school.

Did you know that the whole point about the people playing the Duffy show was to encourage the people to read. What if we did not know how to read we won’t even be saying English

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What I thought about The Duffy show was it was quiet funny and helpful. all though  they do read.And I hope you enjoyed my Writing  



We had to write a recount  about the Duffy theatre we saw at school on Monday.We need to try to convince our readers that it was an interesting and great show, so that after reading our story they want to see it for themselves. We also had to think about how we are going to describe the Duffy theatre using interesting words.

What 's in the Bag ?

WALT: make predictions, list possible outcomes, assign possibilities to simple events using fractions

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We learnt that the colour of the cubes aren't always what you think it is. We all worked in groups of two and went around asking people to draw a cube. A few people peeked into the bag to see what was in there.