Andy Warhol Art

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This week we did some more art on our computers. We did art like Andy Warhol's, and I think mine looks good. We did it on Pixlr, and we did it really quick.  We had to choose different contrasts to make it look effective.  Here is my piece of art work. Hope you like it.

My Chimera

Hi guys,
I have been doing heaps of art this week and I just finished my chimera and it has turned out really good.
It is part Mermaid part Butterfly. It took me two days. I think I did well colouring it in. Something I need to work on is not trying to rush on it. You can learn about my chimera by reading the text at the bottom of the picture.

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

Hello everyone
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. 

Reading 2017 Term 1

Hi Guys Happy 2017,

This Year our topic is: Learn from a myth become a legend, and we have been making slides about the Ohaeaway path to learning based on Myth and Legends. We have slides to tell you guys what is a myth and what is a legend. I have been reading a Myth called The Ungrateful Tiger. It basically tells you that when someone helps you you have to be grateful not ungrateful. Here is a Graphic Organiser about the story. .Click on this to watch the story video

The story comes from a culture.	It has non-human characters like gods.	It can have some real characters like plants, humans and other animals.	It is set in a certain place.	It explains a certain phenomenon or says why things are the way they are.	The main parts of the story are:
Korean tale	Talking animals - oxen and tiger, hare. A talking tree.	Tiger, Hare, Tree,Oxen.	Forest or Jungle?	It tells you that if someone helps you, you have to be grateful for their help.	Tiger gets trapped in a hole. Human helps him. Tiger needs help promises he’ll be grateful as long as he helps him. Well the tiger was not grateful and decided he wanted to eat the innocent young man. The man stood up to the tiger and made a deal the other animals had to judge if the tiger could eat him. The tiger was winning and the tree voted for the tiger cause he thinks that humans cut them down. The Oxen voted for the tiger cause too many people treat them badly. Then the hare came and voted for the human. The human ran away and lived happily ever after.

Taupo Bay Recount

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Here is the recount I wrote  for an eAsttle writing test in Week 4.  Our teacher marked all our recounts and gave us our scores. Mine came out at Level 3p which is just above the end of year standard for Year Five. I got the best score for using paragraphs and the worst scores for vocabulary and sentence structure.

We helped each other improve them by reading each other’s recount and talking about them. We also used Revision Assistant to help edit each other’s story and Mrs B added some notes as well. Everyone in our room likes Revision Assistant because it’s easy to understand the marks/ notes that it puts on your writing and so it’s quick for us to go and do the fix-ups. We have to get the spelling, grammar and punctuation really good before we are allowed to publish them here. I hope someone will give me some feedback.

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“Wahoo!" I screamed. A couple of days ago, my family and I were preparing for a lovely caravan holiday for three nights at Taupo Bay.“ Mum, Dad, let’s go already.” I shouted.

“ Ok, Ok, Ok, we're coming.” Mum gasped. My family were all trying to get out the door. “Get in the car!” Dad yelled. I grabbed my bag and hopped in. My Mum and Dad came running out the door. My Dad turned on the car. We were all ready to hit the road. One hour later we arrived.

“Yes!!” I yelled. We had finally arrived at the campground.

“ Ok, guys. Let's put the awning up.” Dad said.  We grabbed the awning gear out of the caravan.

Then Kate and I wanted to go to the playground. “ Can we go to the playground Dad?.” Kate asked. “ Yeah I guess so.” Dad replied. We rushed over to it. Then up and down we went on the seesaw. The seesaw hurt our butts because the seat was wooden.

After that we visited our family friends who have a beach house in Taupo bay. We all wandered over there. “ Hello, come in, come in!” screeched Ange. We also saw other famillies at their beach house who we knew. I started to play bullrush with the kids. Charlie was in. He was 8 or 9 years old. He could not tackle anyone.  He was kind of bad at tackling. But we didn’t want to tell him because he would be sad and cry and walk away back to his batch. “ Bull rush!” he yelled. He did not get anyone for the 10th time. How bout the first person who Charlie touches is in with him?” Toby suggested. Everyone agreed. He touched Travis. Travis was now in with Charlie. Travis was a really good tackler. He got heaps of people. It was down to three people. Me, Lily, and Emma were the last three people. I was getting nervous.

But they all went for us one by one. And we ended our fun with a game of Tonker.

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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