Reading: Venn Diagram - Fifita, Afu, Harry, Juanita, Victoria, and Charlize.

This week for reading we have been comparing Ping-He school to PBS. We had to include how it was a boarding school there and how they had dorm mom's. We had to include the difference's and the thing that are the same. We found out that in Ping-He school for PE you have to do 100 Sit up's 100 Push up's and they had to run around there track 50 times. 

Writing: Shoe Narrative - Afu

As I was purchased from the shop I was living happily with my owner. When he first put me on I was really excited because I have never been worn before. The next day he put me on, I was so surprised because I had no idea of where he was going to take me, he went outside and he started walking, we went somewhere to place that I couldn't even describe, he was walking and I was sang along, then I stopped because there was something ahead of me that was calling me to come closer, I was trying to stop him but it was to late I went under the mud it was horrible, I couldn't breath. First I couldn't even survive through this hideous mud, I was scared of what he would do to me. I was covered in this  disgusting mud, while he was walking I was crying for help, then he came to this interesting thing I could not describe it but it did not look nice, it barked, I got scared it came all the way up to me and dribbled on me, “Eww that’s disgusting.” Than I turned around, and I saw my owner coming , he picked me up and put me into the locker room which was filled of shoes, then they started talking to me. I could smell the disgusting smell of the dog, I could hear the people talking on the little objects, I could taste the slimy dog dribble inside my mouth, I could see the people walking past me texting on their little objects , then I could feel my owner touching me with his muddy hands. Then these other people that looked old saw me and told my owner to go and put the shoes in your locker where it was supposed to be, then he put me in his locker and these friendly shoes was talking to me again, I talked and talked and talked until I was able to get to know them better. Then after awhile I was able to call them “ My Family.”

Today for writing we had to write a narrative with a buddy, my buddy was June. June and I had 15 minutes to write this paragraph and had a few minutes to prove read our Narrative with our partner. After that we had to plan what was going to be in this paragraph. Than we had to go back to back to make  our narrative more interesting. After that we were timed and than we had to write one sentence each. 

Endangered Species Gorilla - Synthesizing

Today for reading we were learning about how gorillas are endangered species. My partner and I Jessie found out that gorillas weren't actually  aggressive but they are endangered. For our task we had to write down what we already knew about gorillas. One of the things we already knew was gorillas are big and furry. Then we had to read a short story about gorillas, then write what we found out. One thing we found out was they eat 70 different plant species. Then we had to put the information we already knew and the information we found out together to make one opinion. After that we DLO about Synthesising.

Inquiry - Afu

Today for inquiry LS2 had to do a poster about the country we visited this week. I did a poster about Thailand, we had to find 5 or more interesting facts about our country, find where our country is on the map, then find the country's flag, and find 3 photos. I think this is a good poster because it will tell people about Thailand and it will make people want to visit Thailand.  

Inquiry - Afu

This week for inquiry LS2 and LS1 were put into 5 groups I was in Mrs Donaldson's group. We had to do a mapping challenge, we needed to answer all of the questions on the map by drawing and writing. I think this was the best challenge for inquiry this year, and a cool thing I learnt about Thailand was that the capital of Thailand is Bangkok.

Writing - Afu

Identifying the structure of an information report

LI: to understand the structure of information reports

Your challenge: Use the key to help you show the structure of an information report. Highlight the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion by changing the background colour of the table. Highlight the other structures by using the highlight function.	Key
	Introduction		Body Paragraphs
	Interesting fact (to hook readers in)		Title of body paragraph
	Description of topic		Topic sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about
	Tell the reader what the report is about		Special knowledge to help the readers understand
			Conclusion

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera musculus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled grey whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

LI: to understand the structure of information reports .This week for writing we learnt about information reports. We had to highlight the introduction, body paragraphs, interesting facts, Title of body paragraphs, Description of topic, topic sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about, tell the reader what the report is about, Special knowledge to help the readers understand, and Conclusion.

 

Reading: Synthesizing - Afu

We have created a cover for a biography of Anne bonny using what we found out after researching. the new information helped us think about what their picture would look like, what the title might be and what background would match achievements.

Maths - Afu

Today for maths I played a game called hit the button. I used the strategy that we have been learning this week in maths. I am proud of my score. The strategy I used was a great way to answer my times tables, to play this game you need to choose what times tables you wanted to learn. Then you had to find the answers to figure out the question. I enjoyed this game because it helped me answer my times tables. 

Maths - Afu & Juanita

Yesterday we did an activity which help us on our maths time tables. We found it abit hard doing our 6,7 and 8 time tables hard so we tried to split the number into 5's to make it easier for us. After we did this activity we found our time tables way easier.