Final Draft - Descriptive Writing - My Mum

 WALT to write a description of our mum using precise words to create an image in our readers minds.

I’m going to introduce my Mum Brenda, she has sparkling blue eyes and likes to wear dresses. She  is tallish. We go walking  on the farm She absolutely  loves coffee. I help her  do  gardening. I help her clean the house. Mum likes to read to me. We bake  delicious banana chocolate chip muffins. Mum takes us to swimming and soccer training. We like to go to McDonalds  together.

Mum likes to watch  Country Calendar and aXe Men. Mum likes to come home after a busy day at work She cooks delicious dinners that I enjoy.  Mum takes me to nans house for afternoon tea .Then we go home. she lights the fire and we  sit by the fire and watch Outback Truckers and The chaser. mum screams  in delight when the chaser wins. She gets a little mad when me and Cameron fight but I still love my Mum even when she is mad.

Ngāti Kurī Proud by Tim Tipene

 WALT explore the various stories about why the iwi is named Ngāti Kuri

I learnt the five tribes of muriwhenua  they are Ngati  kuri Te Aupouri Ngaita  koto Te Rarawa 

I learnt want tutted means tutted is like rolling eyes and  making a noise in disagreement

Sacrifice means giving something up for some one else. 

Mana pride respected  proud greatness.

Mokopuna means grandchild. 

Pa means village..

     

ANZAC Day

ANZAC day is on the 25th of April because that was when the  soldiers landed on Gallipoli at dawn. We go to the war memorial to commemorate the soldiers that protected NZ. At war memorials The veterans wear their medals proudly. Least we forget!

Statistics

 We have  leaning to WALT ask a question for data collection, create a survey to carry out a simple investigation, make a tally chart and create a bar graph.

we  learnt  to create and understand tally charts 

we know to make four marks then cross the lines horizontal or diagonal to make the 5th mark.

A bar graph needs a title and a labels.

AMERICA S CUP A-Z AND DEAR FUTURE ME

We have been learning about the America's Cup Yacht Race. 

Peter Burling was the youngest helmsman NZ has ever had. He set goal when he was 11 to race in the America's Cup when he grew up. I am setting myself a goal for 'My Future Self'.

Weta

 
WALT identify words or phrases that may be unfamiliar and discuss their meaning. 

When I was making my poster  I learnt all about  weta  like their ears are on their legs and their breathing holes is on there thorax.

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The Great Reading Adventure

We are learning to write a moment in time about our class assembly, 'The Great Reading Adventure'.

Finally the day arrived, the great reading adventure, I was a bit shy but I got up on stage . When I  started to talk then I felt a bit better. The crowd went silent, the music came on and Jesse looked so sparkly I could barely  look at him. He  walked down the aisle. When that part finished the BFG music came on. I went  on stage and the crowd went silent when I did my part the stomping music came on the other giants were coming. Then I went and sit down and watched Maui and the sun then it was non-fiction, then the fairy tails, then Te Manga and te tinana did the duffy song. When we did the Duffy song butterflies were bombing in a pool in my tummy.