Pet Day

For Pet Day we made Vaseline saucers out of flowers, Vaseline and a plastic plate. 

To make a good Vaseline saucer it needs to be symmetrical. Here is my symmetrical (ish) Vaseline saucer. I hope you like it.

(Sorry if it's a bit blurry).

 

Christmas

Kia ora

We have been learning about  the different ways people celebrate Christmas around the world. We decided to make a Venn diagram to show things that are the same and different in New Zealand and Sweden. When this are the same, you can compare them. When things are different, you contrast them. I hope you like my diagram.

Merry Christmas/ God Jul                                                         
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Geometry tasks

For the last few weeks our focus for maths has been Geometry. We got to choose geometry tasks to   complete.        

PAT Maths Test

In my PAT maths test that we did yesterday I got 26 out of 35 but the term 1  PAT maths test that we did I got  20 out of 35. In the term 4 one that I did yesterday I got all of my Statistics rite.

Here is how I did on the test.  

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Star Reading Test

Here are my results on my Star Reading Test. At the beginning of the year I got 32 out of 50. At the end of the year I got 34 out of 50. I improved by 2 marks. For my Star Reading Test I'm at average for a Year Five in New Zealand. I improved the most in Which Word Means The Same. I need to work on finishing sentences.(Sorry can't add a photo of my test.) 

Comic strip Pencil vs Chair (who will win??)

Yesterday we were making comic strips with Miss Stewart and Mrs Craig. We were doing the comic strips on battles because we read a story called The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors.(It was a really funny and cool book!!😆😂)
Here is my comic strip!! Mine is on a Chair and a Pencil.

 

Term 1 vs Term 4 explanation writing

These are my two pieces of explanation writing from Term 1 and Term 4. We have been comparing them. I think that my term 4 explanation writing is better then my term 1 explanation writing because the spelling is better and I have a secondly paragraph. Here are my two pieces of explanation writing.

As you can see my term 4 explanation writing has improved.

Annelise's explanation

This Friday is our Greats and Grans Day. In the activity we wrote 4 things about our grandparents problems and then chose one to write about and how to cope with it. The one I chose was lack of  Eyesight. 

Beginning	Title Copy your explanation title here.	How Grandparents Cope with Eyesight.
	1st paragraph Define and describe what you are explaining.	A grandparent is a person who is old enough for their baby to have a baby. When people start to get old different parts of their bodies start to get worn out and they can no longer do what they could do before. This is called aging and it causes many problems. One aging problem is losing eyesight.

Middle	2nd paragraph Write about one thing you can do to cope with hearing loss.	One thing that a grandparent can do to cope with their eyesight is getting bigger writing so they can still read books and signs around town.
	3rd paragraph Write about a second thing you can do to cope with hearing loss.	A second thing they can do is invest in a well trained guide dog to help them get around town and to not bump into things that could hurt them.
	4th paragraph Write about a third thing you can do to cope with hearing loss	A third thing they could do is get stronger glasses to just wear around the house to see where they are going.
End	5th paragraph Wind up your writing.	Eyesight can be a difficult aging problem for grandparents to deal with but people are hopeful that improvements in technology will be  a big help for this problem in the future.

  

Can you make it to NZ?

This week we have been writing letters for our grandparents for Greats and Grands Day on Friday. I did mine in Danish so my Grandma could read it.😉 

Tongariro National Park

This is the full of facts slide that Maia, Amethyst and I created. I hope you like it!!

Ski Trip Diary 2018

This is my personal recount about everything I did during our school ski trip to National Park in September 2018.The trip was AWESOME and I loved it!!

Komodo Dragon Report

Komodo Dragons

Classification:

A Komodo dragon is a large species of lizard. The scientific name for a Komodo dragon is Varanus komodoensis. The Komodo dragon’s scientific name stands for lizard beast and its class is a reptile.

Appearance:

Komodo dragons are extremely large reptiles that have long tails, strong jaws, thick and rough skin. They have a tongue that is very similar to a snake's tongue and they have teeth that face backwards so that when they bite into their prey they rip a hole lot of flesh off the animal. They can grow up to 3 metres long and weigh up to 150 kg.

Diet:

Komodo dragons are carnivorous so that means they eat meat. There are many different animals that they eat. Komodo dragons eat large water buffalo, pigs, deer, Human and even smaller Komodo dragons. They can eat up to 80 percent their body weight.

Habitat:

The Komodo dragon lives on only 4 islands in Southeastern Indonesia. The islands they live on are called Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar.

Threats:

Their threats are humans and bigger Komodo dragons. Humans are a big threat to Komodo dragons because we hunt them and we're polluting the Earth .Bigger Komodo dragons are a threat to smallest ones because they are bigger and stronger.

Reproduction:

Komodo dragons are reptiles so they lay eggs. Komodo Dragons can lay up to about 26 to 30 egg.

Conclusion:

Komodo dragons are well-named because they are large, ferocious and scary.

Temperature

For the last 4 weeks we have been working on this drawing on temperature because we are going on a ski tip next week. My favourite thing I did was the doing the silly sentence.
Link to my work

Matariki Day

On Thursday we celebrated Matariki. We celebrated by doing activities that had something to do with Matariki. One of the activities I did I wasn't quite sure if it had something to do with Matariki but it was fun!! This lady named Tracey is an artist that came to our school to show us how to make cardboard dolls. They looked so cool, I never thought I would make a doll to celebrate Matariki.

Annelise Waitangi Experience

On Thursday and Friday we got to go to the Waitangi Treaty grounds.😁

Golf

Yesterday we had a golf instructor come to teach us about golf. His name was Paul but we could call him Mister Golf if we wanted to. He taught us lots of different rules about golf. Did you know that in golf the lower number in your score the better.

Commonwealth Games

Last term our class put on a Commonwealth Games day for the whole school. Here is my report about it:

Environmental Writing

Yesterday we went outside in the sunshine and drew sketches of what we could see. Then we had to come inside and write about it. Here is my work:

Weather poem

We have been learning about similes. We had to choose one element of the weather or a few elements and create a poem using at least 5 similes. I chose to write about the rain.

Weta

In our class we have been learning about using similes. We were studying 3 types of similes: 'AS','LIKE' and 'THAN'.
we made a DLO about it.

Than similes

For the last 3 days we have been learning about similes and today we have learnt about than similes and here is my drawing about it.

'like' similes and 'as' similes

These are my 'as' similes.

We have been learning about similes using 'like' and 'as'.

We matched these pictures to write our own similes.

These are  my 'like' similes.

Swimming T1 2018

This year we have been practising streamlining our arms and legs. we have also been practising our breathing skills.
I am good at streamline.
We also had swim safe to teach us how to stay safe in an emergency somewhere in the water.
I can swim a length of the pool width to breathe easily but one length is quite hard for me.

Reading Poetry Lesson No 3: Tiger in the night.

Learn:1. That rhythm is a main clue that a piece of writing might be poetry.

2.  What rhythm is.

Bio Poem

Tukeys

Reading task treaty of Waitangi

Reading Week 2 Term 1 2018 This week’s goals: Learn: How to recognise, ask and answer literal questions. Success criteria: Read texts and be able to think of a literal question based on that text. Use the key words What, Where, Who and When as sentence starters for your literal questions. Answer literal questions posed by other people. Create:   DLOs on which to record answers to questions/activities based on the Treaty of Waitangi. (from several sources). Scroll down for more information and links

In order to show that you have met the learning goals above you need to do 2 things with this sheet. Step 1. Find your named box and write a literal question that could be answered by someone who has just read your text about the Treaty of Waitangi. Step 1 will be completed while you are with the teacher.

Cerys: When did the British decide to protect the Maori? In the 1830s.

Amethyst ~ Who was Henry Williams? Mishanery

Moses; How many Maori rangatira signed the Waitangi treaty?

Honey - Who was William Hobson?

Reagan: Who gave William Hobson advice  about the treaty?

Annelise: What is the treaty of Waitangi? The Treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of NZ.

Charlie R: Who else wanted to take over NZ?

Kyle: When did the British announce supreme power over New Zealand?

Traeh: Who was the first chief to sign the Treaty of Waitangi?

2. Once all of you have written a literal question in your own box, you each need to make a copy of this document.  Put your copy into your Reading folder in your Google drive. Using your new document, you need to answer each literal question until every box on your new document includes a literal question and its answer.  You will complete Step 2 independently after you have left the teacher. Tomorrow you will have another session with your teacher and your work will be marked.

Edited My Waitangi Day

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