The Mysteries Of Giza - Information Report

For Literacy these past few weeks we have been working on information reports.
We could have done a information report about the Giza or extreme weathers. I personally liked the idea of doing a report about Giza since people have a lot of conspiracy theories about the place.

My Recount Story

This week for Literacy we have been learning to write recounts. We had to learn to put it in the correct
structure and language features. If you have any feedback please comment!              

  The First Time I Saw A Lion   

About two years ago at my old school the Middle Syndicate, (Team Tui) decided to go on a trip to Orana
Park. We were mostly going to study the animals as part of our “Beasts Now Captured” research about
animals who had been locked up in cages at zoos.

The day was here and I was utterly excited! On a summer morning the bus appeared in the school car
park. I thought I was dreaming. I had been waiting to see a lion all my life.

The bus ride to the zoo was longer than I expected. Team Tui sang songs on the way but obviously we
got bored after a while. I saw fields of grass and paddocks with horses and cows on the way. I couldn’t
wait anymore!

After a hour or so we were finally there! I had never been more excited. As soon as we got there a lady
who worked there (let’s call her Lily) welcomed us and showed us where we would be eating morning
tea.

Afterwards when we had all finished eating we got split into groups. In my group we went to visit the
tortoise first. We went in the room near us.

Did you know..that a group of tortoises is called a creep?

My group all sat down and waited for the tortoise to be handed to us. The tortoise got handed to me last.
I loved him! His little black eyes had a tiny, tiny sparkle in them. Ah, I wish I had his eyes.

Finally, we got to where the lions were! Sometimes when you imagine a lion do you imagine a lion with
a mane? I do. These lions did not have manes because they were male lions and they would fight over
who’s was thicker and bigger.
The lions were laying down when we got there, they all looked lazy. I tried to find some cubs, but
unfortunately I couldn’t find any. They were with their mums in the other room.

Did you know..that male lions don’t hunt, the females do?

After that, all the groups got together where the otters were. I found my friends, we talked about our
favourite animals that we saw today.

I loved my trip to the zoo, especially seeing the lions. I’d love to go again and see different animals.

Would You Rather...

For Literacy we had to do an activity where we choose a would you rather question. We had to present it in someway, I decided to show on a Infrographic (Piktochart.)

You also had to say what you would rather do and then you had to explain yourself.   
So this is mine!

If you have any feedback please comment!                   

Narratives, Characters and Questions

This term for Literacy we are focusing on the narratives, the characters and the questions.

Narrative
From my prior knowledge I know that a narrative is a story, a story that is fiction (not real.)

Characters
I also know that characters in stories have names, have personalities, and that when people read stories  to someone that person could  could describe one of the characters a "Main characters."

Questions
Now, for the questions I understand some of it..like, we have to ask questions before and after we have read the text.
If you are ever with a teacher and  they ask you to do this, you could ask questions about the illustrations and the book.

So, if you know more about this topic please comment!

My Summer Acrostic Poem

For Literacy we have been doing poems about 2 weeks ago we started to do Acrostic poems, out of my five that I wrote this one is my favorite. This is about Summer.

If you have any feed-back feel free to comment!

My Netball Poem

This is my Netball poem.
For literacy we have been writing types of poems. Every week a teacher introduces a new type of poem to us, some are hard and some are not. Last week we started writing Cinquain poems. Here is my Netball one.

I chose to do one about Netball because I play Netball every Friday we call it "Winter Sports"

If you have any feed-back then please comment.

Anthology

For the past 2-3  we have been write types of poems.
So far in my anthology I have 3 types of poems, limericks, acrostics and triplet poems and i'm currently working on a Cinquain poem.
All are quite challenging but the hardest for me were the Limericks.

PLEASE view my anthology, much appreciated :)

Badges

Since South Hornby School is a new school there are new values and a new mascot, which we call Wonder Weka. Our teacher, Mr.Breach said that we need new badges too, everyone was excited.
We work in buddies of 3..but since their weren't enough people it was just me and my friend.
Me and my buddy searched up wow words,
We liked the word "Golden". We made 3, one was our mixed idea one, and then we made our own different ideas.
My and my buddy decided that this badge represent our present badge called "Trusted Kid"
It is very hard to get that badge, but "Leader Badge" is the hardest.
                                                                                     Since, there are year 4,5 and 6's in our class, it                                                                                           isn't actually fair because only year 5 and 6's can                                                                                       get "Trusted Kid" badges. So "Golden Kid" will                                                                                       be for year 4,5 and 6's.

Focus

Lately we have been focusing on Focus, there is a chart in our Class and on the chart are 4 colours.
Green, the lowest level of focus..Red, the second lowest level of focus and Orange, the second highest level of focus and finally Blue, the highest level of focus. Currently there are a lot of people in Orange and a couple in Blue. The first day we put our names on it we got to choose where we think were at, some people put themselves in blue..but then later on realized they should be in either Orange or Red.