Weather poem

Last week we had to write a weather poem. I did summer. Summer is my favorite weather of all. Here is my poem.

Couplet poem

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Today we have learned couplet poem. Here is my work.

Learn:

1. How to identify rhythm and rhyme in a couplet poem.

2.  What a couplet  is.

Up at seven, nil breeze,

  1    1  2 1     1

Shorts and sandals, bare knees.

  1    1  2 1     1

Prose and poetry

Hello my class had to do a prose and poetry, their is a different between prose and poetry, prose when u have sentences and don't rhyme while poetry is when it rhymes and full stops at the end of your writing.

Prose	Poetry
In my opinion, a brother is the best kind of relative you can have. A brother knows everything about you; all of your highs and lows and all of your wins and losses, but through it all he will always stand by you and be there for you.	A brother…. Sees you come last Sees you come first Sees you at your best Sees you at your worst Sees your lows Sees your highs But through all of this He always stands by.

 

Treaty of Waitangi

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Here is my reading task we have to Find your named box and write a literal question that could be answered by someone who has just read your text about the Treaty of Waitangi.

Reading week 2 Term 1 2018 This week’s goals: Learn: How to recognise, ask and answer literal questions. Success criteria: Read texts and be able to think of a literal question based on that text. Use the key words What, Where, Who and When as sentence starters for your literal questions. Answer literal questions posed by other people. Create:   DLOs on which to record answers to questions/activities based on the Treaty of Waitangi. (from several sources). Scroll down for more information and links

In order to show that you have met the learning goals above you need to do 2 things with this sheet. Step 1. Find your named box and write a literal question that could be answered by someone who has just read your text about the Treaty of Waitangi. Step 1 will be completed while you are with the teacher.

Reed:  Who promised to protect the Maori people ? British government

Enzo:  What is the Maori word for chiefs? Rangatira

Terei:  Who else was interested taking over New zealand? France

Mitchel;) When was the treaty signed? 6th February 1840

Lukas: Who signed the treaty? Maori chiefs and representatives of Britain.

JT: Who was William Hobson? The man that write the treaty

Sunita: Where did the treaty get signed.? Waitangi

2. Once all of you have written a literal question in your own box, you each need to make a copy of this document.  Put your copy into your Reading folder in your Google drive. Using your new document, you need to answer each literal question until every box on your new document includes a literal question and its answer.  You will complete Step 2 independently after you have left the teacher. Tomorrow you will have another session with your teacher and your work will be marked.

Learning how to read scientific reports

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We are learning how to read and write scientific reports. We have been doing experiments and writing about them. This is a reading activity we did. We had to be able to match a thesis with its hypothesis.

We are learning how to understand the structure and language of a report about a scientific experiment #3 Understanding that a hypothesis is a brainy prediction based on what you already know.

In this exercise you need to match a thesis with its hypothesis.  Use the ‘Fill tool’ to colour code the matching ideas.

                               Thesis                                                                      Hypothesis

I know this……                                                                         So therefore if I do this I think this will happen…

I know that a puddle of water is a small amount of water lying (usually) on the ground. I know that water is a substance which is found on our planet and that it can exist as a solid (ice), liquid or a gas (water vapour). I know that the main reason water changes from one state to another on Earth is because of  temperature -heat or cold. On Earth a sunny day is when there are no clouds, the sky is blue and the temperature is usually warm or hot.	I predict that when I mix vinegar and baking soda together that a chemical reaction will occur and that I will be able to notice this. I might feel hotness or coldness, notice smoke or bubbles, smell something, hear some kind of noise or  find that the taste or texture of the foods has changed.
I know that heavy things usually sink and light things float. However, container ships are heavy but they still float so there must be more things that have an effect on floating than just weight. Blutack is a squishy material that is quite light. It usually comes as a wide, flat strip but you can shape it into a round ball, a sausage shape, an O shape etc or you could flatten it out into a thin, wide shape like a leaf or saucer. Leaves usually float and ships look a little like a leaf shape.	I predict that when I take an ice cube out of a freezer it will begin to change back into liquid water (this is called melting) because it will no longer be colder than 0 degrees centigrade.
I know that an ice cube is water which is frozen. I know that that liquid water freezes into ice when the temperature reaches 0 degrees centigrade. An ice cube will stay an ice cube as long as it stays in a freezer.	I predict that if I make a puddle of water somewhere on the playground on a hot, dry day that the puddle will dry up and disappear quite quickly.
I know that everything we eat is made up of different kinds of chemicals.Sometimes when you mix different chemicals together they react with each other in different ways and the substances will do things that they didn’t do before (chemical reaction) and become different to what they were like before (chemical change). You will be able to notice things happening by using your 5 senses to  listen, smell, feel, look at and sometimes taste what is going on. I know that vinegar and baking soda are both food substances and I learned that they are chemically different	I predict that if I take some ice cubes out of a freezer and wrap them in different materials, I will find that one material will keep the ice cube frozen for longer than the others. This material would then have proven itself to be the best insulator.
I know that liquid water changes into a solid (ice) when the temperature reaches 0 degrees centigrade. I know that a freezer will keep water solid because a freezer’s job is to keep food at a temperature just below 0 degrees centigrade.	We are going to use Bluetack as our material. We will use the same amount of Blutack to make three different shapes. One will be a straight, rectangular strip of Blutack, one will be a compact, round ball and the third will be a rounded  saucer shape like a boat. We predict that at least one of these will float.
I know that insulators are materials that can be used to protect yourself from too much heat or cold. When we put clothes on because we are cold, the clothes are insulators which help our bodies stay warm. If you put insulating material like Pink Batts in the ceiling of your house, in the winter the Batts help keep warm air inside the house. In the summer, The Pink Batts help stop hot air coming into the house so they help to keep us cool. Many  food containers like Thermos flasks and Chilly Bins are made out of insulating materials to keep food hot or cold.	I predict that when I put some liquid water into a freezer it will change from a liquid state into a solid state (ice) because the temperature in the freezer will be below 0 degrees centigrade.

Learning how to read and write scientific reports.

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We are learning how to read and write scientific reports. We have been doing experiments and writing about them. This is a reading activity we did. We had to be able to match a title for a report with a wondering question.

Freezing Water.	What will happen when you mix vinegar and baking soda?
Floating and Sinking.	What will happen to an ice cube if you take it out of the freezer?
Kitchen Chemistry.	Which materials make the best insulators?
Disappearing Water.	What happens when you put a container of water into a freezer?
Keep Your Cool.	What will happen to a puddle of water on a hot day?
Ice Cube Experiment.	Does Blutack float?

Kiwi Kids News

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This week we have been doing another Kiwi Kids News article. Mine was about a faceless fish.

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? The great Chief scientist Tim O’Hara
2. What was the key event from the news article? A faceless scary fish was discovered.

3.Where did this event take place?  Deep sea underwater off the coast of eastern Australia.

4.When did this event take place? June the 8th 2017.

All creatures great and small

Hi my name is Terei.  For our report writing we had to choose an animal to write about.  Here is my report about African Lions.

Did you know African Lions are second largest cat in the worldLions are from sub-saharan Africa. They live in the Kalahari desert, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Sudan.

Lions live in African grasslands, savannah and scrub. Lions live in groups called ‘prides’.

Did you know African female lions or lionesses do the hunting? The male lion's guards the pride and the territory.

Lions are carnivores.Their prey includes zebras, antelopes, young elephants, buffaloes, giraffes,

young hippos, young rhinos, crocodiles and warthogs.

After a successful hunt, all the Lions share the meal.The male lions hunt on their own when they are pushed out of the pride. They return to the pride after about 18 months to 2 years.

Kiwi Kid News

We have been doing kiwi kid news to write what happened.  Here is answers and questions. I hope you really like it.

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? The main person was Dr sue cook.
2. What was the key event from the news article? A massive section iceberg in Antarctica.
3. Where did this event take place? The icy cold Antarctica.

4. When did this event take place? The date was the November the 10th 2016

All creatures great and small

We have been doing a thing called all creatures great and small. We had to put facts about two animals - I did a Kiwi and a Pukeko. The Kiwi had so many habitats, it was hard and Pukeko does not have that many habitats.