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Christmas

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The Water Horse

This week I did a poem about riding the water horse.

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Harry's War

This is my reading activity for this week. Me and my friend Alice did it together.

My Learning map

This is my learning map, it shows all the things that help me learn.

Onomatopoeia

This week for writing my class had to make a digital learning object about onomatopoeia.

The Magic box

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Last week for writing we did a poem called The Magic Box

Bees

 This week and last week my class was learning about bees, we each made a bee poster.



Click here to see my bees poster

Reading

This week for reading we had to read a school journal and make a learning object about the journal. I used Cool Text for some of the fonts from my presentation, click the link to try it out.

Swimming

We started swimming at our school here are some pictures of our swimming pool.

Life doesn't frighten me at all

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Today I made a movenote. It is a poem called life doesn't frighten me at all.

Halloween

This is my Halloween presentation.

Core5

This week I did core5. These are some screenshots from core5. 

Writing

WALT: use speech marks

Remember to:

Put speech marks around the talking– what is being said.

A new speaker starts on a new line.

Punctuation (full stops, commas etc) go inside the speech marks.

Direct Speech - Speech Marks

Speech marks (or inverted commas) show when someone is talking. You will see them written in books as “speech” or ‘speech’.

Task One

Put the speech marks in the correct places. Remember: The speech marks go around what is being said.

1. “Hello,” said the man.

2. “What are you doing?” said Fred.

3. “Stop!” shouted the policeman.

4. “Wait a minute,” said Mark. “Don’t I know you from somewhere?”

5. “I know what we’ll do,” said Lucy. “We’ll go to the pictures.”

Task Two

Put the speech marks in the correct places once again. This time, however, you will also need to add all the other punctuation that is needed as well.

Watch out for any questions or exclamations.

1. “Hello,” said Greg.

2. “You look tired,” said Martin.
3. “Can I come in?” asked the man.

4. “No!” screamed the man.
5. “Come here,” said Grandma. “I want to see how much you have grown”

6. “Is that my bag?” asked Daniel. “I thought I’d lost it.”
7. “Run?” shouted Sally. “The dog is after us.”

8. “I know what I want for my birthday,” said Tina. “A brand new car”

Task Three

How many other words can you think of that you could use instead of the word said. Write down at least eight other words for said.

commented          whispered          rehearsed

joked                       screamed       repeated

laughed                squealed            stated

barked                  bellowed          puffed

yelled                   cried                mumbled

announced           asked                replied

insisted                 yelped            whimpered

mentioned          wept               howled

Task Four

For each of the eight words that you came up with in task three write a sentence with speech in that uses that word.

“Order in the court,” insisted the judge. “Order! Order! Order!”

“Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Screamed Alfie, when he was on the roller coaster.

Task Five

When you use speech marks you need to remember the rule – new speaker, new line.

Edit this paragraph. I’ve put in all the punctuation so make sure you copy that carefully. When you edit the paragraph make sure that you put each new speaker on a new line.

“I want to go swimming,” said Matthew.“I can’t stand staying indoors all day.”                                                                                                                     “I thought you had homework to do,” said Mum.                                    “Oh Mum,” said Matthew. “I’ve almost finished it. Can’t I just take an hour off.”                                                                                                    “Yes you can take an hour off,” said Mum. “But only when you’ve finished your work.”                                                                                          “But it’ll be closed if I don’t go soon!” said Matthew                                 “Then you’d better get a move on, hadn’t you?” said Mum.

Task Six

This is almost the same as Task Five but this time you also have to add the speech marks in the correct places. It is quite tricky. You’ll probably need to read through the paragraph several time to work out what each character is saying.

“Excuse me,” said the man. “Can you tell me what the time is?”                 “I think it’s about 8 o’clock,” replied Graham. “I haven’t got my watch on but I remember seeing the time on the town hall clock a few minutes ago.”                                                                                                               “The town hall!” said the man. “That’s just what I’m looking for. Can you point me in the right direction?”                                                     “Certainly,” said Graham. “You just go down there past the bank, turn left, go straight on and the town hall will be on your right hand side.” “Brilliant, said the man, Thanks for your help.”                                          “That’s okay,” said Graham.

Extension Task

Show me what you’ve learnt. Write a passage that uses direct speech.

Show me that you know where to put speech marks and other punctuation. Show me that you can remember to start a new line for each new speaker.

Some suggestions for what your passage could be about:

1. Two friends having a chat about last night’s television.

2. A person going to buy a car/computer etc. from a salesperson.

3. A telephone conversation between a person who is reporting a lost pet and a policeman.

                            What do you want to do?      Lizzy Grace Nahlah Alice

“Blah!” Shouted Alice.

“I’m bored,” mumbled Lizzy “what do you want to do?”

“Duno,” Nahlah put in, “what about you Grace?”

“I don't know, what about you Alice?” Grace replied.

"blah!" replied Alice.

“That really helps Alice” said Grace sarcastically.

“Wait a moment the Best Laughing Ant House show is on!” Nahlah explained.

“The B.L.A.H. is on, yay!” Shouted Lizzy.

“Blah” yelled Alice again.

sparks

This week i read the story sparks and made a story map about the book.

NZ Map

Today I learnt about New Zealand Cities and towns.

Last Day of School!!!

This is a picture of me and my best friend Alice on the last day of school! On the last day of school we have a DISCO!!!

The Milk Murderer

The Eel Highway

     This is my Eel Highway reading work

This is a map i made on google maps. I learnt how to make a map.

Herbert and the Robot

Monarch Butterflies

Insect description

Title - Troll Haired Insect

WALT: describe

Remember to:

• use looks, actions and characteristics
• use describing words
• similes and metaphors
• paragraphs (from planning sheet)

Have you ever seen an insect that looks like it has a crazy hairdo? Well I haven't but I know what it is, it is a troll haired insect.

The Troll haired insect is 5 mm long 
and its body is a gorgeous golden colour. It’s hair is made of wax though it looks like normal hair. It has six legs, 3 body parts and of course long waxey hair coming out of its body.

 

Scientists believe that they use their hairy wax to distract predators from eating them.

What a fascinating insect!

Owai's Got talent

Owai's Got Talent by Alice and Lizzy on GoAnimate

Maths Reflection

Positive Blog Commenting

This is my screenshot of my comment on Rose's blog. I was positive and proofread my comment.

Experiment

Experiment by Lizzie on GoAnimate

Mars

planets by Lizzie  on GoAnimate

Wolf description

The wolf

WALT: describe

Remember to:

• use looks, actions and characteristics
• use describing words
• similes and metaphors
• paragraphs (from planning sheet)

The wolf has fierce, red eyes. His teeth are sharp, white daggers and his fur is a wiry, grey coat protecting him from storms.

His shadow hangs around the woods like a bad smell. The wolf lurks around trees waiting for unexpected visitors to walk past so he can frighten them with his clever tricks.

Newtons Cradle

Hamster

Penguins

Disc drop

New Zealand Commonwealth Games 2014

K.O.S

K.O.S by Lizzie on GoAnimate
This is an animation about keeping ourselves safe.

Spider

Tree Frog

Turtle

Sting Ray

Dog

Fish

The world by Lizzie on GoAnimate
"> This is my animation on the world, I hope you enjoy:D

plants and insects

plants and insects by Lizzie on GoAnimate
This is my animation on plants and insects.

Garden to Table

   Today it was garden to table and Al Brown came to garden to table. We made sushi. I chopped up some vegetables to go in the  sushi.  Before we ate Alice and I said grace.                                                          

Botanic Gardens

This is my flipping E-book about plants

Personification

Click here to see a video about personification

Personification is when you assign the qualities of a person 

to something that isn't human or, in some cases, to something that isn't even alive.

WALT: use personification

Remember to:

• give an object human qualities by using the senses.

Her coat is a red, warm fire keeping her safe from the cold. The trees walked toward little red riding hood with their cold, rooty feet. The wind was whistling fiercely “ go back home, leave this place.”  The creepy, twiggy, tree branches grabbed at her as she ran past.

                                                          

This is my fipsnack about plants.

click here to see my plants ebook

Maths Reflection

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This was my first time using movenote. I learnt how to use movenote.

For reading we have been learning about great whit sharks.

My Trip To the Stardome

This is my flipping eBook about my Stardome trip. I learnt how to make a flipping eBook on flipsnack.com.

Care Code

Owairaka School Care Code

We save water.

We recycle properly.

We look after animals and insects

We pick up rubbish everywhere.

We save power.

We protect nature.

Classifications

Today in science We did classifications, this is some of the work I did.http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/revision/Science/living/keys.html

My School

Nelson Mandela Presentation

This is my Nelson Mandela presentation. I learnt that Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 and died in 2013.

M&M experperiment

M&M experiment

WALT: think like a scientist

Remember to:

• predict
• observe
• record

What I observed:

First I poured water into a glass.

Next we put our M&M in a glass of water.

After that the color off the M&Ms started to dissolve.

Finally the M came of my M&M.