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.