Skimming Reading Strategy - Term 3 week 2

Walt skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get the understanding of it.
These are the things I can do to skim read

1. Look at the title
2. Look at the blurb
3. Look at the characters
4. Look at the contents
5. look at the index

Matariki Reflection - Week 10

Last Monday was Kauri hubs Matariki workshop day. You had to choose 3 workshops unless you chose making Maori kites, mural art or sewing which you have to do for the whole day. 
The workshop that I chose was sewing and as you can see in the picture I am using a sewing machine. 
The thing I found challenging was trying to get the lines straight when I’m using the sewing machine, but the thing I found easy was keeping the sewing machine nice and slow.

Area Week 6

 We use Area in almost every thing, even video games like Sims and Mine-craft where you have to plan the Area of your house.

A Square grid is the thing that most people use to find out the Area of things like buildings and houses.
If you wanted to build a pool the counsel would say you have to have a fence around it so that's where the grid kicks in.
  What you have to do is find a big piece of land for your pool and then you measure the Area with a tape measure and then draw it on the grid and then go show it to a builder and then they will build it for you. 
Here is an example of anotherway to find out Area, what you do is count one row and one column and then do a thing we like to call length x width so when you have the total numbers of the row and columns you multiply them and then you have the total number of the square units inside a shape.

Rhinos - Week 5

Rhinos are big heavily armored mammals that you will find all around Africa, most of the time they are peaceful herbivores but if they are provoked they will charge.
Here is a photo of a rhino.

   
This rhino's horn is strong enough to kill three grown men, if you are charged by a rhino and you survive you will consider it a miracle.

How to survive a rhino:
If you just happen to be riding around in a jeep or car in Africa and you come across a rhino, if you don't want it to charge you, turn off everything in the car and keep still no matter what until the rhino goes away.

How to tell if a rhino is about to charge:
If you see a rhino with its horn on the ground, it means it it going to charge, it will look a bit like this.


So if you see a rhino like this, stay still and don't move.

The Summarising Strategy - Week 4

We often use the summarising strategy when we are finding information out of books and texts.

I'll now show an example of the summarising strategy:

What you do is you find some key words out of a book or text and write them down on your computer or book. Then you you choose some of the key words and write a sentence  in your own words, because if you copy straight out of the book or text that's called plagiarism.  People can get into a lot of trouble if you are plagiarizing. 

Here is an example of a sentence:  

Key words

dog 
cat


Dogs love to chase cats because they do not like them out and about in their territory.

  

Matchstick Maths - Week 3

In Room 12 we have been learning about measuring accurately and Mrs Miller said that we had to make our name out of 50 match sticks and it had to be 20 cm tall or 1 metre long.  Here is my name.

This maths was hard and challenging but really fun. I did the one where you had to make it a metre long.
We had to measure accurately because if our starting point and finishing point were wrong that basically mucks the whole thing, that's why we have to measure accurately.
After we finished our name, Mrs Miller gave us a sheet and we had to work out the value of someones name.

All About Sharks - Week 2

Sharks are fierce sea creatures, in fact it is the king of the sea - here are some photos. 

This is a great white shark, the strongest of all sharks.  In fact, he is the king of the sea.
Sharks are strong enough to take down a blue whale.Sharks always attack whales from below because they know that they will  get wiped by their tail.  Sharks are in fact at the bottom of the food chain. Tiger sharks will eat anything in it's path, even poisonous snakes like this  (Yellow bellied - sea snake)

And that's my report on sharks.