Climate change is a horror story

Hey everyone

Today's post is about climate change. I actually finished this yesterday but I posted this well today. I had to put four to five videos on four to five slides you will see them later on. I also had to write notes/facts about climate change but we had to watch the videos to get the facts. So now I will leave the rest to you.

   

Have you ever done something about climate change?

Tata now darlings!

Poor Poppies

Kia ora bloggers,
This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell.  When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences.  We want to show them - not tell them.
For example:  Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realised he had just missed the bus.  But instead I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realised that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now”  You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated.
Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man.  We used Adobe Spark to do this. 
Have a look at my video and see if you can you make some inferences about what I have written.
Do you think the elderly man is happy?

Soggy school work

Hi Bloggers,

For numeracy this week, we have been learning about grid references and we have been working on 4 and 6 digit grid references.

We learnt that we read across the bottom of the grid first (Eastlings) and then up the side second (Northings).

Our task today was to look at an aerial map of our school, write down the 6 digit grid references for the letters that our teacher had put on it, and then go in hunt of those points.  At each point, there was 1 or 2 letters.  Once we had them all, we had to come back into the hub and unscramble the letters to figure out what it spelt.  The secret sentence was ‘Happy Birthday Zoe’.

I really enjoyed the task, the reason why I called is Soggy school work was because the grass was very wet.  Have you ever had to use grid references before in real life?  What was it for?

See you next time,

Tiny Twits

Kia ora Bloggers,

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something. 

An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and
add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference. 
For example,  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that
this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair
nets and this is required in all food factories.

The text that we read a snippet out of was ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.
Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr and Mrs Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr and Mrs Twit. 

Have you read The Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!

Buzzy Bee Bots

Kia ora Bloggers,

For Numeracy this week we have been looking at compass directions.  We have worked on reading maps using the 8 main directions - North, South, East, West, North-East, South-East, North-West and South-West and then we moved onto using Beebots and our knowledge of compass directions to get a Beebot through the grid to various locations.

We had to programme the Beebot with our own algorithm, using forwards, backwards, turn right, turn left and N, S, E, W.  It was important that we regularly tested our algorithm to check we didn’t need to de-bug (find a problem and fix it).

Have you ever used a compass before?

Now Tata darlings 

Lucky last

Hi bloggers

Today is the lucky last day of Distance Learning, we have a great line up for you today so on with the show!!!

Literacy

Today I have picked two things for literacy that I really enjoyed doing. The first one is my website with interesting facts about Roald Dahl because we are reading Going Solo at the moment. 

Sorry if the link doesn't work >>>>>>>>>>  Phizz-whizzing facts about Roald Dahl

Now for my other favourite. My literacy teachers read a chapter from Going Solo about Roald Dahl flying to a place destroyed by the Germans to deliver a parcel to a man named Carter, that we knew nothing about. Roald Dahl wasn't allowed to know what the parcel was about and it couldn't fall into enemy hands. We had to write what we thought happened to Carter and the parcel. Here is my story.

 

Maths 

This week in maths we have been learning about volume and capacity. Here is an example of what I have been up to. 

Tech & Friyay tasks

Now Today for tech I actually made this last Sunday night and thought it was good enough for my tech task.

 

                     For Friyay I made a cheetah enclosure out of cardboard and paper. Here it is...

          Cheerio! see you all at school on Monday!!!!!!!!!

Survival

Hi Bloggers

In literacy, we have been reading Going Solo by Roald Dahl. It tells his story from where Boy left off. He went to Africa to work for The Shell Company and he has many adventures there. Some of these are really funny. He then joined the RAF to fly in WW2. We have recreated a part of the story where his plane crashes in the desert. He manages to survive although he is blinded by the crash and badly injured. He does get his sight back eventually. Going Solo is a great novel that I would recommend you read.

Art, Aeroplanes and Architecture

Hi everyone

This week has been so much fun and I can't wait for level two. This week I wrote about snakes, planes and art, in maths I made a farm, city and my dream house but in one story. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Monday

 On Monday I had to write about Roal Dahl's first chapter in the book called going solo where he is on the boat heading to Africa we had to make a map to show where he went and make a word art from something in the book. In maths, I made a farm using area so here it is.

  

Tuesday

On Tuesday I don't have anything for literacy but in maths, I made a city, I don't have a name for it yet. Here it is.

Wednesday

 On Wednesday I had to finish a chapter but write the end how I thought it would end. In maths, I got to make my dream house but not a two-story I would have made a two-story but you can't really do that on google slide.  

Thursday

On Thursday I got two make two rooms from my dream house on a 3d house maker I think that's what its called anyway I only ended up making one room because I had a lot of problems with my computer. In literacy, I had to write what it was like to fly a plane in world war two.

Friday

                           Today I made 9 pieces of art and made an online gallery here it is.

What's your favourite aeroplane? Bye! 🐆🐧🐍🐍🐠🐬🐢🐊🐖 

My wobbly work

Hey hey hey it's your boy Billy

This is all my work from the week Including the hybrid animal I made also my board game, first up Wednesday.

Wednesday 

On Wednesday I made a giraffe word art and three simile sentences about these giraffes that did high dividing you can watch the video on the toroa site. In maths, we are now doing area and in this maths task, we had to measure the area of these little bricks as you can see and then there were question that we had to answer. 

  Thursday 

On Thursday I did a report on giraffes we had to do an Intro, Dite, habitat, Description, Adaptation and interesting facts. In maths, we got to make a them park well not literally and we had to use time tables to make it.

Friday

On Friday we had to do tec and there were 8 things to chose from and I chose to make a board game its monopoly. This is my hybrid animal. Just because I wanted to I got a letter from the primeminster!!! bye.

here is how you make the board game.

1. I used a canvas but you can use cardboard and other materials 

2. sketch it all out

3. colour it in 

4. outline it with a black pen or vivid 

5. find a dice or make one

6. make the counters and every other item

7. have fun and you can play!