Name that Shape

In class we have been learning about lots of different two dimensional shapes. In our Screencastify we had to say how many sides the shape had, what kinds of angles the shape had, how many equal sides, if it has parallel sides and the name of the shape. I chose a rhombus and Mackley described a square. Here is Mackley's and my Screencastify.

Trapped

In Room 5 we are learning how to describe. We had to describe a picture with a turtle in it and what we think will happen next. Our success criteria was to use present tense, use adjectives that describe the turtle and extend our sentences by using more detail. We also had a challenge which was to begin each sentence in a different way. I think I have used all of the things in the success criteria and in the challenge. This piece of writing was about how plastic polluting the ocean and what it does to sea animals. Here is my writing called Trapped.

Sadness sweeps over me as I spot a limey green turtle tangled up in an angry slimy green fishing net. What can I do? What can I do? The words keep repeating in my mind as I stomp around on the golden sand.

The nightmare keeps scaring me as I go back to when I was picked up by a fisherman and thrown into the gigantic boat with a enormous fishing net. It was a stormy night last night and the boat kept swinging on the rocky oceans waves. I remember when the boat started to hover into the ocean waters and everyone screamed at the top of their lungs trying to get help. But it was too late the boat was already under water and I was pretty happy to go back home but then a swampy green thing came and it tried to kill me. The creature keeps me in its stringy claws and now I am on the side of a beach.

As I stop daydreaming there is another person with brown trousers and a blue t-shirt standing by my side with a sharp metal thing. It keeps coming closer and closer and I keep getting more anxious. Then there was a snap and I could feel my fins again! YAY! Wait, how am I going to go back home? Something is tickling me. I can see everything from up here! I am the king of the world! I came in like a wrecking ball! Splash! That was me doing a belly flop into the water. Before I leave I give my rescuers a toothy smile and turtle paddle away.

There are thousands of little bits of plastic in the sea and lots turtles like me get tangled up in it. As I swim back into the ocean I spot lots of plastic bottles and lots of other plastic things. I am now scared of what is going to happen to my home. Will all of my family die because of all of the littering by humans? Or will it stop? Nobody knows what will happen in the sea because it is all up to the people on land to make the decision.

Plastic Avalanche

In Room 5 we are learning how to describe a moment in time. We had to look at a picture and write what was in it. Our writing topic was plastic. We had to imagine we are one of the people in the picture. Our success criteria was to write in present tense, use my senses, sights,sounds,sensations,feelings and smells and to extend my sentence by adding more detail. I think I have done all of the things in the success criteria. Here is my plastic writing.

Green and white bottles are piling onto each other in a mountain and the petrol smell is conquering the air. The day is passing by and I feel determined, as if I am racing against time to get all of this plastic into piles. Will this ever end? “Stop daydreaming Milly,” shouts Mother. Dust rams into my eyes as a jeep rolls over the bridge. The crunching sound of my feet stumbling over the rubbish mixed with mud is taking over my ears. The large, dirty white crinkled sacks are under the towering bridge with a big variety of transparent bottles. I pick up a slimy green bottle and chuck it into the green basket and it bounces out back onto the mountain. I feel restless as I trudge over to the bottle and squeeze my anger into it.

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Plastic is taking over the world! When it is 2033 the only thing that will be in the ocean will be plastic. We need to stop! I know some people forget to bring their bags into New World and have to use plastic bags but we are so much better than that! Plastic is everywhere! Some clothes are made out of plastic and some chairs are too! You know, Countdown is selling bags that are reusable and they are only one buck! Plus you can bring them back in if they are broken or ripped and get a new one for free! When you get coffee or tea at a cafe you need to bring your own cups in and then you are helping the planet. If we are doing little things alone we can do big things working together.

Sadness,anger,annoyance and confusion are all in my mind and I can’t get either one out. I know this is how we get food and water but isn’t there another way? Can’t we have a life without plastic or will it stay in our lives forever?

Here is the link to the picture

Plastic Bottle Mountain

Jennifer Sommervell

On Tuesday the twenty eighth, Jennifer Sommervell came to Awahono School. The first books she wrote were true and she has written 3 - 4 books which are The Day My Dad Blew Up The Cowshed, Eel Hunt and The New Old Truck. Jennifer has two editors and one illustrator who is her sister. She told us when you write a book it is not perfect straight away. Jenny is working on a book right now that is about her uncle's stinky leg. She originally lived in Taranaki on a farm which was by a river where her family fished for eels. Jennifer Sommervell was not there when her family went fishing so she had to interview them about it. There were obstacles put in each book she wrote because it can't just go the characters way. Also there was actually eighteen people that went on the eel hunt but Jenny's sister did not want to draw that many people. Jennifer Sommervell helped me think in a different way because I always thought that I would get things perfect in the first go but I never did.

Castle Meanings

For homework on the can do list was to do a DLO about one of your words that is in your sheet. I picked the word castle. We had to say the meaning of it and I picked to do some examples. Here is my castle meanings.

Batman

In class in Infobytes we have been reading about Batman. Our Batman story is not like all of the others, it is about Batman's problems. We had to make a slideshow showing Batman's solutions, problems and advice. Here is Isabel's and my Batman slideshow.

The Plastic Toy Shop

In class we have been learning how to describe what we can see in a picture. Our picture was of a plastic toy shop. The success criteria were to use interesting precise verbs and nouns, use my senses smell,feeling,sensation,doing,sight,sounds, use adjectives to describe people and things, use present tense and extend my sentences by adding detail. I think I have used all of success criteria There was also a challenge which was to hook the reader in at the start, begin each sentence in a different way and use similes, onomatopoeia and alliteration. I think I have hooked the reader in at the start and I have began each sentence in a different way but I did not use any similes, onomatopoeia or alliteration. So I need to use those things in my next describing the picture. Here is my describing the picture writing.

I creep through the plastic kingdom and feel disgusted as I spot all of the luminous coloured toys that are all kinds of different creatures. The sound of the employee clicking the keys as she types is annoying me.

Plastic is everywhere! The vivid colours are blinding me and the rubber smell is drowning into my nose. Sunset yellow ducks are one of the toys that are clustered together with lots of other neon creatures. Dark coloured cars with streaks of rainbow are lying on the packed shelves along with a variety of long shotguns with lots of accessories. I feel like I am drowning down deep into the waters of an ocean full of plastic.

People buy a toy, play with it and they just throw away, either because they are cheap or because they are broken. The anger in me is growing as I think about what is going to happen to all of these toys. Will they go into a landfill? Or into shallow waters of a beach? All I know is that none of these things are recyclable. What emotion should I have? Should I be sad because lots of sea animals might die. Or be angry because people are using too much plastic. I am starting to change my mind about going swimming in the ocean today because I might come face to face with a whole lot of plastic.

Symmetry

In maths room 5 has been learning about symmetry. Line symmetry is when the two sides of a shape are the same size and make a straight line in the middle of the shape. First we had to get a square piece of paper and fold it corner to corner. Then we drew a shape with a ruler and  straight lines and then cut it out. After that we had to unfold the shapes and draw a line in the middle of them and stick it onto a piece of black paper. We had to make three sided shapes, four sided shapes and shapes that have more than four sides. Here is my line symmetry work.

Dear Dumb Diary

In reading we had to make a book review. The success criteria was you have to have your title and author, the type of story it is, what the book is about, something interesting about the main characters, the setting for the story, the main problem in the book, what I like about the book and why and your favourite part. Here is my slideshow.

Reading Profile Term 3

In reading everyone had to make a reading profile. In a reading profile you have to write what book you have recently been reading, a book somebody recommended for me, a new author that I have tried and enjoyed, my favourite series at the moment, how I went with my term 2 reading goals and your goals for term 3. I how I have included all of the things I need in a reading profile. Here is my reading profile term 3.