My Skittle Story

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This week we did a really exciting Skittle experiment in our writing group, it was AMAZING!

So all we did was place Skittles into a shape in a deep plate and add warm water to it. Then we watched as the Skittles dissolved into a Rainbow! So I decided to write the 5 senses about it and then turn it into a story. Here is the finishing story. See if you can spot the 5 senses, hear, touch, see, taste, and feel.

Cricket

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This week we split up in 2 groups and went out to Cricket and we each had a coach. I had Neil and the  others had another guy named Ben. We learnt techniques for throwing the ball, and catching it. Finally we actually got to play speed cricket. We had two teams made out of our one team. My team lost!!!!!
But it was fun. Sorry no photo's :(

Persuasive Writing

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Today I am going to show you guys my Persuasive Writing I did this week. We have been learning different types of legends and we have done writing about MAUI! We did Persuasive writing about how he could be a great mythical hero, which in my opinion he was a great mythical hero.  I hope you guys enjoy reading my Persuasive Writing.

TITLE: Maui - A Great Mythical Hero.

Name: Mrs B                                                                                            21.2.17

Introduction: I believe that Maui is a great mythical hero.

Reason 1: My first reason is that Maui helped people a lot and he was caring and would do anything to help his people.

Reason 2: Secondly, he had super human strength because he has the super powers of a demi god. He fished out the North Island from the sea.

Reason 3:  Finally, he had a magical, powerful fish-hook that was strong enough to drag a mountain behind him.

Conclusion: Now I am sure that you agree with me that Maui is a great mythical hero because he helps people, he’s strong and he is a mighty demi god with a REALLY strong hook that can help him with mostly everything.

Master Persuasive Planner

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This week we have been learning about the Hound of Hades. We have been doing a planner using persuasive writing to see whether the Hound of Hades would be a good guard dog. We have an Introduction , and three reasons and a conclusion. Here is a screenshot of my work. 

Seas/Oceans Thinglink

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This is an activity we did using the Thinglink app. This is the second time I have made something using Thinglink so I hope someone will give me some feedback.

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Google drawing of Mt Ruapehu

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This is a Google drawing I did of Mt Ruapehu. We are trying to get better at using Google Draw.
I used three similes to describe Mt Ruapehu and Mrs B really loves my buses.
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Holidays

During the last school holidays my whole family got a family pass to Action World but my mum lost the family pass so she had to pay for a new one. We met up with our good friends there. I was excited because it was my first time.

First, I went on this wacky thing. So basically, you're on a pole and you have an inflatable bouncy thing underneath so you don't get hurt when you get wacked off. I got smashed off by this big kid which was really annoying.

Then after that I went on a big inflatable slide or should I say the tallest inflatable slide in the whole world! But basically, I went on it like the whole time we were there, and this is how many times I went on the big slide...... 22 times!

 It was a amazing day.

Recrafting to Describe

This week we have been doing Recrafting to Describe work. Our teacher had made us some work to do about monkeys. We had to colour code up the sentences to match the sentences in the correct order.

27th June, 2016

To place descriptive sentences in correct order.

Introduction

Who or what are you describing?

Monkeys

Attributes                              E= elaborate, explain, example

Looks like?
Moves Like?
Lives Like?

Place these sentences in the correct boxes:

Monkeys have to search for their food every day in the forest.

Most monkeys have very clever hands but they do not have fingernails.

Monkeys live in family groups and feed their babies milk.

Monkeys can climb trees easily, swing from branch to branch and leap from tree to tree.

They run along branches and sometimes walk or run along the ground.

Many monkeys have soft furry bodies and long tails.

Most monkeys are omnivores, although they prefer seeds and fruit to meat.

Most monkeys tails are very long.

Most monkeys look a bit like a skinny, hairy human with a tail.

Monkeys live in the forest where the trees provide food and shelter.

There are 264 different species of monkeys, and they are all different in size and colour.

Perception writing

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Yesterday we were doing perception writing. Mrs Dixon read out some sentences, and we had to picture that in our minds. We used google drawings and pasted it in Google slides. After that was done. Mrs Dixon Buddy us up and our Buddys made up a story of what they thought the picture was.

Zoofari Trip

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A couple of weeks ago 25 people got to go on a amazing trip to the Zoo in Auckland for the night. We got to see heaps of cool animals at night.We did lots of fun activities. Here is a photo of me making my bed.

Writing speeches

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In the last couple of weeks we have learning about Argument Writing.We had to use colour-coding to match position statements with an argument title. Position statement is just a fancy way of saying what you believe. This was a helpful activity for me and it was slightly tricky but I got it all done all by myself.

One-sided argument

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This term we have been learning about how to write a One- sided argument. We all chose a topic. Here is my title/topic.