Sportsmanship Certificate

Xtra Math Certificate

Today on Xtra math I got an certificate for addition.

Last day of swimming

Last day of swimming

Today was the  last day of swimming we had life jackets.
I have done this before last year.
In the pool we had to go into a chain holding them by the shoulder of their life jackets.
James paired us into groups to go in a huddle.
Next we tried to touch the bottom of the pool.
I could not touch to bottom because of the life jackets.
The Life jackets make you came back up because you float with a life jackets. 

  

Reading a U.R.L

Yesterday we did a reading a U.R.L.

5 - 7 - 10 The glass house

The glass house 

Photo courtesy of Tom Fruin, One Big Photo.

Sarah wanted to make the glass house amazing.
Better than everyone elses house.
Sarah put coloured glass in it.
This ment it could light up and be colourful so everyone can vist.
They could sometimes help.
One day Sarah didn’t have enoarugh money to keep on the lights.

But the people who came to vist gave her money because they liked it.
Sarah said thank you and said it could be a shop so they can buy stuff.
While she was getting stuff ready her first customer came in to ask if
she had fruits for his fruit bowl. Then lots of costomers started coming inside.
Then Sarah started to upgrade her shop. Millons  of people came in.
She hired employees to help her.

Word cline - Tall

Sentence Types

Sentence types

The bobbit worm lives on the ocean floor.

They can chase and catch a rattlesnake by running 27 kph.

Although the Gilia monster is a slow mover, It has an acute sense of smell and can climb trees in cacti to find prey. 

Today's Number - 24 - 9 - 19

This is the seat we are using to revise our numeracy skills.

Read Theory - September

In the beginning of the year I was grade 1. Now I am on grade 5. My best grade was grade 5. I improved in my reading but I went back down to four.

Maths Monster

          Today in maths we played Maths monster and I got a perfect score for my 9 times table

Auckland Zoo

Weird Weather

Today we read a book called Finding Their Way. We had to write words and give the meaning and go on images and find photos that match it.

Split Strategy - 2 digit addition

today in maths we did split strategy 2 digit addition.

Satements

I feel . .happy . when . people be nice to me. . because . . . .

I feel . . sad. when you (do or don’t) mean the right thing that's why you come to school early
at time . . because I think . . . .

Today I was happy that we went to Kiwi can and it was fun playing there but the only thing that
was hard was to find the Hula hoop is to get to Through that and the other thing that we did was t
ry to hit the Balloon and past it to the other people in your team but only ones we only got it but
the rest we couldn't do the rest but at least we tried at it. 

One month ago we did I staements and it was very easy.

The Reading Room

The Reading Room

This task is about understanding what you are reading.

Read "The Reading Room", pages 2 and 3 of School Journal Part 3 No 1 1998.

Answer the following questions.

a)  What part of the house does the title refer to? - The house refer to the bathroom.

b) standard font is about Lisa and italic is about the story that Lisa is reading.

1. Standard font (e.g., Mum's finished)

2. Italic

    (e.g. His feet feel ...)

c)  Give two reasons why Lisa does not want to be found.

1. Lisa does not want to be found because she wants to finish the book by not getting interrupted.
2.Lisa doesn't want to be found because she will get in trouble.

d)  Mark is the person in the story. 

e)  Lisa left the reading room because Lisa finished the book that she is reading 

f)  Kathy was probably going to tell on Lisa because
kathy thought that Lisa to the went toilet and thought  that Lisa didn’t flush the toilet.

g)  The story was about a girl named Lisa and she went into the bathroom. She read a book. She likes reading that book. It is about a person called Mark.
He has to get some help because he is in a snowstorm.

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Word Cline - Tall

5 - 7 - 10 surprise mouse

The surprise mouse

One morning the mouse wanted to play with children.
All the children he wants to play with all
run away because they are scared of mice.
The mouse lives in a tiny hole that goes
down with a lot of other mice.

One day the mouse  met a child.
The mouse played with the kid all day.
He showed the mouse to his friends.
He kept me inside with his hamster, it was fun.
He grabbed cheese for the mouse
because it was his favorite food.
The mouse got his wish and played with the kid.

Reciprocal Teaching - Vocabulary

The Unwritten

The Unwritten

Inside this book 

kneel words  that never have been written

never have been mentioned

never have been realized                

They're aware in there 

dark in the dark

listening

but they won't come out

not for fun, not for friends, not for games

even when the shadowy night has gone away 

they’ ll still be there

hiding 

hoards of people in time to come may walk through them 

inhale them

be none the wiser    

what words can it be

that they won't demonstrate 

In what communication

would I notice it

would I be clever enough to figure it out

to make out the real words of everything 

maybe there aren’t many

it could be that there’s only one book 

and it was all we need

it's here in this book every book in the world is like this

We re wrote the poem by W.S merwin

Duffy, role model

This afternoon Jamie Walls came for an Duffy assemblie. First he showed us a video how he gets to  work.his work is watch rugby games and report. He showed us his book that he wrote. It was called bothers in black. when we got back from the hall we got out books. my first book was Amulet part 3. my second book was baby shark.  I chose these books because they are cool and easy to read. That is why you should read everyday.

Visual Language - Charlie underpants

Equivalent Fractions

Today in maths we played a game called triplets and I got up to level 6 

Word Cline - Happy