Reading term 4

I use the reading eggspress app to practice my reading skills 

This is the library where you find books to read and then after you read them you earn gold eggs to spend.

Reading term 4

WALT ask good questions to clarify our understanding and to find out information abou a topic.

The text we read. We highlighted words or ideas we didn't understand in red. Then we talked about erosion: what it is and the damage. 

Something I did well was . Highlighting words ( ideas) I didn't understand 

Next steps: I need to ask even better questions to get more information from texts

   

Writing term 4

Today you are being asked to look back over your writing this term and choose your favourite example.  You will need to say why it is your favourite in one of the boxes below.  You will also need to show that you have responded to a comment from the teacher by changing (improving) something in your writing.

Copy and paste or type your chosen example in this box below

It was a cold windy night and I had three people living in my house counting myself. I like bunk beds in a two story house just in case there was a big flood. That night we had dinner and went to bed. The next day it was raining all day. Then in the afternoon it started to hail so no one could go outside. I was at work just serving customers at the most famous cafe in Aussie. After a few hours later water was starting to come into the cafe under the doors luckily I was at home. The way I knew is because my boss rang me up and told all about it I saw the water getting higher and higher I could see the from the house it was than the mountain

I chose this example because:

it had things to do about global warming and that's what we are learning the most in the class.

Comment from the teacher:

You do have some fresh original ideas and a nice personal kind of way of writing them down Georgia.  You should keep writing as you have the potential to become very good at it  Do make sure that you have read back over your writing and checked that you have put all of your capitals and full stops in and that all of your writing makes sense, for example, I like bed on a hill And can you spot any of the places you have missed out the capitals and full stops?

How I used the information in this comment to improve my writing:

I read through my writing and corrected them.

What I need to work on now to improve my writing:

I have to read back in my story more often because sometimes I don't spell words correctly

Spelling T3

I am in the 'experts spelling. Our homework task was to do a word  exploration. My favourite one is: 

I really like Sydney's word exploration because it has something to do with saving people's lives.

Inquiry - term 3

       

My Pepeha

      

Something I am going to work on is take my time on painting things carefully.

PE video

Geese teeters.  Ze denvj Ndebele cash ,We have been practising cross country with room 3 and 4. I hope you like it. 

http://youtu.be/XM2lRpPGWwo

Cross country

: I came 3third and tied with Emily. 

I felt tired puffed and proud .

I persevered .

I started off slow and ran fast at end.

I wnt to improve by starting off more slowly. 

Maths T3

In maths we learned to identify different angles 

Next I am learning to measure angles 

Reading

 I am working on clarifying when I don't know a meaning.

In spelling

I started on level 5 and now I've improved and moved up 2 levels.

Term 2 writing

When my dad came back from Australia we went to a farm. The farm is where my dads Maori is. My mum wants to live out there because it is peaceful. It is nowhere near town. Higher up the mountain is my nana. She is looking after 3 of my cousins. Their names are Ryder, Kani and Sypress. It's fun going down the hill but it's tiring getting back up.

I have been working on making my writing more descriptive.

I want to improve my writing by using more adjectives. 

Te Reo

WALT draw kowhaiwhai patens using repetition rotation and reflection.

My favourite shape is the big kowhaiwhai 

 I want to improve being careful with the paint brush.

Handwriting

Responsibility

I've been responsible once. I was scared to dance I front of the whole entire school. I'll be even more scared when I have to dance  at Hastings intermediate we are vsing other primary schools. The Real love group has got to vs the Hide away. I get the moves mixed up. I think that the Hide away Is better than us.

Next steps: doing extra homework.

Things that I have done so far this year

P.E.

WALT Catch the ball and throw correctly.

Next steps catching and throwing from a longer distance.

Dance 2015

I was in a dance group that got taught by Miss Lowe. I was excited to compete with other schools.

Maths : knowledge wall

I am working on stage 5

 

Next steps are to work on my 5 division.

Inquiry

WALT Ask questions to find out how time and change affects people's lives.

Next Steps:To use our questioning skills to find out how answers to problems in other learning areas.

Personal identity t shirts

Walt identity the things that are important to us and our family's and use them to make symbols and patterns. 

Next steps: I want to know more about Australia because it is where I was born.  

Our value in Term 1 is respect.

Writing

Next step : Use more interesting words.

Our museum trip

We had an old fashioned writing lesson.

WALT: draw 3d shapes on isometric paper and work out how many faces we can see and how many are hidden

Next steps - to draw harder shapes and work out the hidden sides. 

 

WritingTerm1

I'm WILF   

• I use short (simple) sentences correctly.

• I make some sentences longer by joining them with conjunctions (joining words) like ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘because’.

• I sometimes use conjunctions (joiners) correctly to start my sentences. eg ‘Before . . .’ , ‘After . . .’ , When . . .’ , Because . . .’ ‘When . . .’.

• I use ‘tense’ (past, present or future) correctly most of the time.

Writing Task: Think back to a really special experience you have had.   It might be a birthday, a family dinner or a trip somewhere.  Write a recount about it.

When me and my family went to Australia we saw my dad at the airport. we stayed in Sydney for 2 weeks and drove to Queensland and stayed there for 3 weeks.These are the places we went to Movie world,Sea world,the Zoo and Wet and wild. The one I love the most was wet and wild they had a wave pool and a tornado pool My second favourite was Movie World there was a awesome roller coaster it was a Scooby Doo one my mum dad Beau and I were all SCREAMING very loud my brother Beau was screaming the most he also started crying at the end and said I don't want to go on that ride again butbbbmju.In SeaWorld me and my mum went on a different roller coaster so I said to my mum can we sit in the front and she said only if no ones sitting  there and I ran to the front and hop in we got all wet at the end Beau and dad went on a calm ride.After Beau got off the we went to the Arcade we won a lotI gave Beau some toys to make it even.Then we all went home because they were closing.That night me and Beau went for a swim on the roof there was a spa on the roof as well.The next morning we went down to the car park and bort our money down to the machine games.When we went back too Sydney we could only stay for one more night.

Next steps:I need to make some sentences longer by joining them with conjunctions (joining words) like ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘because’.

Reading

This is how I feel about reading.