Paekakariki Flood

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Flood: Flood is about a family and their pets! Ama and Lucky (their cat) were asleep on the couch! Mum was in the kitchen with Poppy (their dog) suddenly Amas mum lead Ama, Poppy and Lucky outside! There was a flood. A few moments later they were all safe in a house on top of a hill. This is a true story and it took place in October, 2003.

Complementary: A kid came home and his shoes were all soggy and wet and water was dripping from them! His mum asked “why are your socks all wet?” He told her about how his school flooded! It happened because they were doing an science experiment.

Challenge: The video teaches you what is in a flood how it works and how dangerous it can be. How to moves and where it can go.

WALT: Use prior knowledge when making text to text connections.

The hungry wave

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The hungry zone: The hungry wave is about a tsunami that occurred in Samoa and in Tonga in 2009. There was a big earthquake and then there was a big tsunami it hit a lot of villages and killed 189 people. The story is about survivors and stories of what happened to them on that day. The family was getting ready for school and then the big earthquake struck them. It lasted for ages but then they have to go to school. When they were walking out the door they saw that the tide was going in and the ocean soon turned into mud. They could see all of the Coral that was in the ocean. The two kids tried climbing up a hill but then the tsunami hit Ana. She was washed away by the tsunami but her brother climbed up onto a tree and soon saw her head bobbing up and down out of the river he grabbed her hair and pulled her up onto the branch no one in their village died but other people were not so lucky. The characters in the book were Ava her brother Niko and Mika and their little brother.

Challenge text: The challenge text is about a little girl who learnt to make a tornato with 2 water bottles! Her teacher told her that water in the top bottle is replacing the air in the bottom bottle and as it goes down the tube makes a spinning vortex. It also happens in a bath! Then she went somewhere where a bad storm was brewing. There were dark clouds, that means that's a warning for a tornato!

Complementary text: The complementary text shows you what makes a tsunami. They show how tsunamis are formed and what they do.

Numicon!

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This week my math class started working on numicon! We had to use interactive whiteboard and the numicon shapes! For the first task we had to make 2 robots but only use 27 shapes! For the second task we had to make an animal but use 20-50 shapes! This was really fun because it was my first time working on interactive whiteboard! I found it fun to move all the shapes around and to write about the animal and the 2 robots I made! I hope you like my work! What do you like most about my work? 

 

Wild things

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Wild things: Wild things is about a family that went to their friends Bach, They got their but the kids didn’t expect the house to look like that because their friend said it was rustic but it was more rusty. The first night they stayed their they heard a weird sound outside and when their dad and the 2 kids went out there they saw a possum with red evil eyes! The next morning they tried to make a possum trap but things didn’t go as planned… The characters are the kids dad, and the dads 2 kids!

Complementary text: A possum called batman was struggling to eat after the soft roof of his mouth when he was ripped from his mothers pouch by a hunter.Too young to regulate his body temperature, the six-week-old is fed through a tube by his carer, who tends to his need, trying to keep him alive.

Challenge text: In 1837 some of New Zealand’s early European settlers brought Australian possums to New Zealand hoping to start a fur industry. These first possums did not survive, but people kept trying. The first possum population to survive was in South land in 1858. In 1921 the Government made it illegal to bring any more possums to New Zealand. But by then, possums were already living in 450 different parts of New Zealand.

WALT: Evaluate ideas and information in a narrative text

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The weird zone

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This week I had to read a book called the weird zone! The weird zone is about a family that usually goes camping every boxing day, however the mum and dad had just broke up...It’s boxing day - the day we always leave to go camping- and Dad’s being weird. We find him in the bathroom, reading a comic in the bath “Dad! What are you doing?, we need to hit the road!” after a while once they had got to the camp their dad opened up to them and said “It’s just that well, we used to be doing this trip with your mum, you know that, it’s a family tradition. And yes she did put up the tent i’m not practical! We nod again, it’s different this year, i’ll be sleeping on my own, I guess i’m just a bit lonely”...The field mouse was gathering wild beans for the winter his neighbor came down to graze down at the meadow, the little field mouse did not like that...Do you like riding a bike but not up mountains? The easy rider track is a simple track that are easy for 4 to 6 year olds! They found it very fun!

-That was the description that I made (you will see what I mean when you look at my work)

WALT: Evaluate ideas and information in a narrative text!