Line Shoot

Today for geometry I played line shoot. Line shoot is a game about lines and points. I learnt about 5 different lines, line segment, ray, line, intersecting lines, parallel lines and the point.

Simple Machines

Old Synonymous

This is my word web with synonymous of old. I had to use Mr Wong's template of the word web.

Matching parts of a book

Matching Parts of a Book

L.I. Know the different parts of non-fiction books

Each part of a book has a special name which you need to be a familiar with.

1. For each description below find the matching term in the box.

2. Write in the correct term in the space provided.

index = Alphabetical list of all the topics in a book with the page number where the information can be found.

End papers= The first and last pages of a book.

illustrator= The person who prepared or drew the pictures.

Introduction= Information about the book found at the beginning of a book.

dedication =  Words about a special person found at the front of a book.

author = The person who wrote the book.

glossary =  List of special words used in the book with their correct meanings.

spine = The flat narrow outside strip of the book.

publisher = The company who made the book.

Cover = The outside of the book.

spine label= The label which identifies the book on the shelf.

bibliography = A list of more books on the same subject.

contents = A list of the titles of the chapters.

Why coffee is bad for kids?

This is my homework based on the question - why coffee is bad for kids? I think that kids shouldn't drink coffee because of the amount of sleep they will have. Even a Dr said that it is bad!

How much of marine wildlife is endangered?

This is my homework based on the topic- how much of marine wildlife is endangered? I found some facts, and put some pictures on. And the answer is 129 are endangered and threatened marine species including 42 foreign species.

Maths - Compass points

Today for maths, I went on digistore to complete a task about North, South, East and West including NE, SE, SW and NW. I had to read the instructions and do different kilometres until I was finished. It was very fun and I have learnt NE, SE, SW and NW.

Choosing The Right Book - Non Fiction

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ?

Yearbook of Population

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992?

Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

3. How to look after a puppy?

Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from?

Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Wahine disaster?

Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games?

Guinness Book of Records

7. The size of Noah’s Ark?

The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power?

A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run?

Encyclopedia of Athletics

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy?

Myths and Legends

Xtramaths

Today for maths I played xtramath. I got 17 in a row. I think I should improve in my maths on my subtraction.

Studyladder

Today for maths  I played studyladder, I learnt how to add tens to to big numbers. Studyladder link.

Basic Facts Karutu

Today for maths I played Basic Facts Karuta with Zahra. I won, I got 6 and Zahra won 4. Irys was the judge, she was a very hard judge. I think I should move onto the 20 basic facts or maybe the 100 basic facts. I think I should also move onto division or multiplication.

Number Stones

Today for maths I played number stones with Zahra. Zahra won and I lost. She won easily, I need to improve on my division.  Zahra surrounded 3 of my blue counters.

Story Starters

This is my story starters. I had to go on this story starters, and use the story starter to write a nice story. My story starter is describe a day in the life of a nerdy gorilla who gets lost in the Amazon.

 It’s 6:00, Nerdy Gorilla has to read his handmade books about biology and maths including science. He reads until it’s 7:30, that’s finally when he gets dressed into his hand made leopard suit. He makes his eggs with his handmade pan under his hand made oven/stove. The Nerdy Gorilla give his cute, chubby babies half of his eggs. At 8:00 his sleepy wife wakes up, and now they can finally start their day as a cute gorilla couple. At this point it would 12:00 and finally the wife is awake which means they finally get out. It’s 12:10 and they are looking for some coconuts so that they can finally eat some scrumptious lunch. It’s 12:50 and that’s when his cute, furry babies have their maths lesson, 1:30 is when they get taught about biology and their last lesson at 1:50 is about history. 2:00 is when he has a quick nap. 3:00 is when they have a quick snack. At 3:30, Nerdy Gorilla has to make dinner which takes forever, because he is an amazon rain forest. It’s 6:00 and he eats dinner, 7:00 is when he finally has some desert. And it is 7:00 when he goes to sleep as well as his cute, chubby furry friends.

Birds Prey - Reading - Zahra & Nazella

WALT discuss difficult parts in a text.

This is our reading tasks. We had to read Birds Prey. Then we had to find words that were very difficult and find the meaning including the evidence. We had to work as a group to find meanings and evidence with the difficulty. We found out why it was important to share your difficulties, it's important so that you learn something new, to understand, to learn the pronunciation and to learn and learn. 

Story Cubes

Story cubes is a writing activity that I had to do.Story cube is a weird story made up from dices. You have to have story cube dices and roll the dices. Then you start a story. I typed down a story from my group.

Here's our group's story:

Once a upon a time, there was a bee. The bee saw fire from a mad dragon. He saw his whole family. So he decided to try and save his family. Apparently he died, then an alien appeared, the alien watching the bee and the bee’s family burning with a big happy smile. Then there was an airplane, all the people were very very sad.Some people were happy some people were sad. Then an alien squashed the dead bee. Then the alien rolled the dice then out came three people with three different keys. The bee had to choose choose a key, all the keys led to a different dimension. The bee chose number 3 and he went to a place called “Banana Castle”, there were no humans just…. minions. The only thing he had to learn about that dimension was how to say banana. Banana, banana and banana.

A sportastic holiday - recount

In the holidays I played sports to keep fit. I played soccer with my big brother. Then I ran around the block. After a while I had to wear new clothes because my mum said that we were going somewhere.

After a long fun ride, we reached our destination. It was the Masjid. Someone has invited us to their party. I met Zahra and all my other friends, I also played some soccer their to. After a while we had to eat, we ate yummy lamb kebab, we did not remember to eat some greens. We all sat down at one place so that we could all leave at the same time. We were all filled up and decided to go upstairs to talk. We talked about school and stuff out of the box. We were all unhappy that school was going to start. We didn’t want to stop the fun. and we didn’t want the holidays to stop.

We all left and I got ready for school, I was so unhappy. So I didn’t pack up. I just played some online games which made me not think about school. Then I fell fast asleep.