40bc-Dragon Dawn

Dragon Dawn

Summary: Danzi is not yet 1000 years old which is quite young for a dragon compared to others. While there are wars going on it is not safe for a dragon to be on it's own without a dragon keeper. Whilst other dragons are hibernating Danzi is roaming around and to fulfill a promise to his previous dragon keeper he has to go to a city...

Author: Carole Wilkinson

Rating: 4/5

Age Recommendation: 9-10

Literacy Reflection T3W6 2017

Literacy Reflection

Connectives: This week one of our focuses was connectives. A connective is a word that can join two parts of a sentence and make it sound better. So for our activity we had to fill in some sentences with connectives and a couple more things. Here is my work:

Writing Reflection T3W5 2017

Writing Reflection

Video Notes: This week on a site called video notes allowed us to write down things whilst watching a video. The video we watched was salmon life cycle. We had to write down what we heard and put it in our own words. Here are is the facts I've gathered.

Salmon are one of the most prized fish in New Zealand. In December you might see some salmon in the water.

Salmon spend two years at sea and come back for a month so they can go to their spawning ground.Whilst doing this they try to relax wherever they can to have a break from the strong corrunt.

When they get close to their spawning ground they all group together waiting for a good time.

They hang quite close together.

The fish have become dark they haven't eaten since they were at sea.

The hens are female salmon the jacks are boy salmon.

The hen make a hole in the ground for the eggs when she is ready to lay the eggs jacks will fertilize it. The jacks will fight off other jacks.

They lay eggs up to 4 thousand per time.

The baby salmon are smaller than a 10c coin.

The next time you will see them they will be a big size.

Literacy Reflection T3W4 2017

Literacy Reflection T3W4

Rugby Commentary: This week the teacher set us a task which was... rugby commentary. For this activity we had to watch a video of Damian McKenzie for 45 seconds without volume so we could pretend to be a person like Damian McKenzie himself. WALT: Write for different audiences. Here is one that I have done:

40bc- Cant Catch Me

Can't Catch Me

After loosing her best friend Hannah
 in an accident Alice is lost until her Great Auntie Fran lets her stay at her place for a while. Soon she meets a shy horse named Jessie and she slowly puts her life back together. But will Alice ever be able to let Hannah go.

Author: Elizabeth Pulford

Rating: 5/5

Age Recommendation: 8 to 10

Literacy Reflection T2W9 2017

Literacy Reflection

Word Work: This week for word work I have done the usual which is the meaning, a sentence and the origin of the word. This week I have also done eight words for my speech on the slide show for my word work as well. Here is my work:

My Speech: This week I have been working on my speech. I am not going to put my work on but I am going to tell you about it. My Speech is going to be about my trip to Australia. I have almost finished my speech but not quite yet.

Reading: This week for Reading we read a book called Mrs Wilding's Potatoes. My group took turns at reading part of the book and then we wrote some main points about the book on a slide that our teacher made. The book is about how to boys wanted to go to school to see a rugby star but they got held up because Mrs Wilding needed help with compost.

Literacy Reflection T2W8 2017

Literacy Reflection

Word Work: This week for Word Work as usual I have done my origins, sentences and meanings of the words. Here is my work

Writing: This week for writing we had to pick a family member and write a descriptive writing piece about them. I had a really hard time picking who I was going to write about. In this work I had to describe what my family member looked like what their personality was like and more. My WALT is use precise and descriptive words to describe the image/ person. Here is my work:

Topic/ Matariki: This week and last week me a buddy (Alyssa) made a slide show about Matariki. We put two stories of Matariki on and we also added some information. I thought that doing this activity was really fun. Here is my work   

Reading: This week for reading me and my group read a book in a school journal called Katie's mum. I buddied up with Katelynn and made a slide with her and put down the main points of the book on the slide. In this slide show there is animation things so if there is a blank page just press the next button or just let it play. Here is my work: