Hangi Term 4 2019

Hello,
Team Moana has been learning about the preparation for a hangi. Yesterday and today we have been working on the preparation of the hole but not the food yet. There are 6 steps to preparing the hole. We could do an animation, a movie and a story. Me and my group did an animation.

I didn't really like how we could only have 50 slides at the most because I love my detail.
I liked the choices that we had, I don't really like animations but it was the fastest.
The learning behind this task was to put the preparation of a hangi into a DLO.

Language exploration

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Today, Team Moana have been given a choice, to do an animal report or to do an activity with words. We have from today till Friday to get these activities. I chose to do the activity that involved words. So, what we had to do was ether make a slide or a drawing and name it "Language exploration-verb" or "Language exploration-adjective" depending on if your word is a verb or adjective. Then we had to make a new slide, on this new slide we would chose a word. We had to brainstorm some words around the word in the middle, it had to be colourful and had to have a readable but fun font. We could go to Thesaurus to help us (it is an online site that shows you better words for a plain word and it shows you the definitions for words you don't know). After all of the work on that slide there is one more slide to go, when you went looking in Thesaurus you would have found a word that you don't understand so we had to do one more slide and write down the word. We had to find the definition, find out how many syllables, show the vowels, show the consonants, write how it's said, find smaller words that mean the same and write a sentence that has the word in it.

I enjoyed looking for words on Thesaurus for "Run".
I didn't really like having to spell all of the words that went into this task.
The learning behind this task was to be able to better words for a simple plain one.

Autumn Morning (Leaf writing)

Hello again bloggers,👋 

Yesterday we had the lovely Miss Fletcher in

our class. As it is winter and all the leaves are

dying and they're all going reds, oranges, yellows
and browns we had to write a creative piece of
writing.

We went on a walk around the back to look at the
leaves that are dying. There was this tree that had
hundreds of leaves around its trunk.

This is my Google Draw Autumn Morning.
  

Structure of the Earth Facts

Hello,👋😁

For writing today we did some facts on the structure and the layers of the Earth.
Yesterday we all got into groups of three and made an Earth out of modelleing clay,
then we all painted the four layers of the Earth in different colours
(blue, green, yellow, red, brown and orange).

I really liked making the continents and islands on the crust.😉
It was really hard making the layers because we kept on squishing
them so you couldn't see that they were layers.🌏🌍🌎

Here is my writing and my photos:  

Structure of the Earth Facts

We are learning about the structure of the Earth.

I learnt that the Earth is made up of 4 layers. They are: Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core.

Facts about each layer:

Crust - The crust is the thinnest layer out of all four of them.

The crust is 8-40 kms thick!!

Mantle -  The mantle is the thickest layer of them all. It has melted rocks that squish around

because it’s so hot.

Outer Core - The Outer Core is the 3rd layer to the inside of the Earth.

It is totally liquid-rock and it’s also 4000-6000℃.

Inner Core - The Inner core might be really, really super duper hot but it is solid why?
Because of all the pressure pushing down on it from all the other layers.

Our group - Saphera, Aaidyn and I Annelise😎

First we created a 3D image of the earth using modelling clay, paint and
(blue, green, yellow, red, brown and orange) a knife (to shape the layers).

We then cut the shape in half to show the different layers. After waiting for it to dry, we

identified each layer by painting them in different colours.

Below are some pictures of our work.

Earthworm Digging Deeper

Hello, hello again, On Wednesday we got to try some experiments on earthworms. But now today we are learning to dig deeper in our sentences from simple ones to complex ones on earthworms.

In the experiment yesterday I loved finding the worms in the forest outside.

Some of the questions were hard.

Here is my Digging Deeper sentences!!😁😜
   

Fish bone MRS GREN

We have been learning how to write explanations and also doing research about the living world so our teachers gave us this writing task. We learned what a fishbone diagram is and how to use a completed one to make our own using a life form of our choice. We had to organise the fact boxes by using MRS GREN which is an acronym which reminds you about what life forms do.

Here is mine. 😉😂😎

I chose to write about: Mice.🐁 

What I liked about this task: I liked that we could chose our own life form.  

What was easy: Nothing, really it was all a challenge. 

The Reproduction Of A Sheep

Hello, Hello again,
 Today I finished a DLO* on farm animals, I chose sheep because they are cute and fluffy.
We had to find facts about the animal we chose.
I found finding the facts for my DLO easy.
I found drawing the little lamb hard.
       *DLO is short for digital learning object.

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.

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.

Bio Poem

Edited My Waitangi Day