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.

  

My Dog Jack - Week 1

My dog is a mareama sheep dog.  His name is Jack I will show you some photos of his kind.

These dogs are meant to chase away these bad boys (grizzly bears).


  

Grizzly bears always are always  tempted to go to farms so they can eat the sheep, but we just keep him as a pet because we don't have big bears in N.Z

My dog is always wanting to play with us because when we give him his food he only eats his meat for breakfast and saves his biscuits for when we get home from school. That's why we only give him breakfast and dinner.  My dog is extremely fluffy, he is so fluffy because we never brush him because he is terrified of the dog brush and any sticks above his head.  
Once when mum let him out, she forgot to close the gate so he went out across the road to our car and sat down and when people walked past the car he barked like he was guarding it.    

Swimming Reflection.

I learned how to…swim with our clothes on  

Something I found challenging was…taking off our clothes while treading water and putting our life jackets on while treading water.

At the end of the year I would like to improve on…our survival back stroke .

Mrs Miller, Mr Kenny or Mrs Lowe could help me by…

demonstrating what we are doing on land before we do it.

The best part about swimming was…having a free swim after we had done our tabloids wheels day.

All about Lions

Lions are fierce big cats, some people refer to them as big furry cuddle machines but they are actually killing machines.  Here are some photos of lions.

      This is the fierce African male lion.  He is the most fierce lion of all.  Not like the female lion, the male lion is always the lazy lion because he leaves all the jobs of hunting and other stuff like that to the female lion.

This is the female African lion, she is not particularly the lazy one like the male lion because she does all the work there is to do.

Moving on to cubs now

 African lion cubs are not like the adult lion killing machines, these are in fact cuddle machines. You can get as close as you want to these little fellas, as long as their mother is not around.   Touch one of her babies when she is around and you'll be eaten for dinner in no time.

Superhero book day

Last Friday it was superhero book day and we all had to dress up as our favorite book character.
Here is is my picture .

At the parade 1 person from each class was selected to be the best dressed person.  Henrietta was selected from our class, she was dressed as soul surfer, she picked her because after the tsunami she encouraged kids to get back in the water.