Descriptive Writing

WALT: write a descriptive piece of writing.Today we will focus on the use of our descriptive language

-adjectives, verbs, adverbs, similes and personification.

When writing about one of the images you are pretending that you are there… What do you see, smell, feel, touch and taste

I sat on my chair and the sun was glaring off my skin making me really hot, I can hear the waves crashing along the shore as some boats fly past as some are going slow because they were fishing. My drink finally turns up it is bubbling and sparks are flicking up because all of the cold ice cubes, I pick it up being careful not spill any I take a sip and a cold chill runs down my body and stops at my stomach, it feels nice because it called my body down a little but I am still burning hot. My feet dig into the silky sand but I take them out as they start to burn. I am going to go for a swim in the nice warm salt water. I stand up and the sand is really hot. I run half way and stop and hang on the coconut tree for a while then I quickly run to the water to call my feet down. I see the fish quickly swim away as my feet touch the water.

Perimeter

 

This week we got given a slide full of maths questions about perimeter, here is my slide.

Describing characteristics

Today we got a task from Miss Katie, It was to write describing characteristics about yourself in Maori. You had to put your  name, how old you are, is is your hair long or short and what your eye colour is all in Maori. Here is mine.

Persuasive Writing

Why kids under 2 should not be looking at electronics.

Did you know that if kids under 2 look at electronics it can have
an effect on children's language development, reading skills, and
short term memory?  I think that it is very bad for their eyes
and might affect their eye site.

My first reason is that surveys tell us that 92.2% of 1-year-olds
have already used a mobile device, some starting as young as age
4 months.

Another reason is that kids should be injing life outside and not
inside on a screen.

My third reason is that Dr. Aric Sigman says that they can
unintentionally cause permanent damage to their still-developing
brains. Also too much screen time too soon, he says, “is the very
thing impeding the development of the abilities that parents are so
eager to foster through the tablets. The ability to focus, to
concentrate, to lend attention, to sense other people’s attitudes
and communicate with them.

That is 3 reasons why I think that children  younger than two
should not be looking at electronics. What do you think ?

Persuasive Writing Success Criteria

Introduction

• Opening question
• Opinion/Reason

3 Reasons

• Each paragraph is one idea supported with your reasons/facts

Conclusion

• This ties back/recaps back to the introduction

Highlight evidence of linking words.

Hi pyper i loved how you put so much detail into your work and the SNL
for you is that you need to put in some more linking and you didn't any from
Nia

I think that I definitely need to put more linking words in and i like how i put
the person that wrote that piece of text.

how long?

For this activity we had to get in groups, and then 1 member had to jump as far as they could,and we would try and guess how many cm they jumped.After that we would measure how far they jumped. Once we jumped 1.94!I really enjoyed this activity.

Free Choice Writing

WALT: Free writing 

I done a recipe on how to make a chocolate cake. From step 1 to step 9 here is my recipe. 

Addition and Subtraction using Place Value Partitioning

Maths week 4 

This week for maths we are learning about problem solving with addition and subtraction. The strategy we are focusing on is using place value partitioning. This is an easy strategy to use.

Here is some of our work...

Main Star Create a Presentation about 1 of the school values

This Term one f my Main stars is to create a presentation about 1 of the school values, and I decided to do mine about hands feet and objects. Here is my slide that I made.