Shark Day

Kakapo

A safe home for snails

Flax Snail Facts	What the Scientists did
There are not many flax snails	They collected some flax snails
Flax snails have babies	They find them on the grass
Rats, pigs and thrushes eat lots of flax snails	they put the flax snails in a safe home
Flax snails’ favourite food is karaka leaves	They feed them with the karaka leaves
Flax snails like damp places	They put the flax snail’s in a damp hole
Flax snails are good at hiding	they put a tiny machine on the flax snails

Nana and the flower arranger

CREATE: How did Luke’s feelings change from the beginning to the end of the story?

In the beginning of the story	At the end of the story
Sad	Happy
Angry	relieved
Lonely	comfortable
uncomfortable	emotional

The Prank

W.A.L.T. to write a character description about one of the characters

Character’s Name Matt

Physical description

Brown hair Black eyes

a brown nose red cheeks

Peach skin Freckles

Interesting details That he bought a disgusting and smelly stink bomb to prank his old friend from his old school.

What the character says “I wonder how dad is getting on?” “How’d your interview go?” “But they were so rude?” “I don't know what you mean?” “Best prank ever!”

How do the other characters see this character?

They see him as a helpful person but actually he is a sneaky cheeky prankers.

Stars And Clouds

Mrs Wilding's Potatoes

 MOANA: T2,W7    Mrs Wilding’s Potatoes  SJ P2,N2,2001

VOCABULARY: Using prior knowledge and contextual clues to clarify meanings

Word	My meaning	Meaning
autograph	Signature	a person's own signature:
massive	huge	huge
spuds	potatoes	a potato.
occasionally	sometimes	at times; from time to time; now and then.
muttered	rumble	to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.

Questions:

1.What is Mrs Wilding’s problem?s She needs help with the potatoes                 

2.What is her relationship with the boys? Liam,who lived next door,was always happy to lend a hand

3. What does she mean “they’re always here when i need them”?to work for her

4.What does “no sweat” mean?no problem

Fill in the table on each of the boy’s attitude and how they felt about helping.

Name of boy	Attitude	Evidence
Corban	Hates working for her	H e said ,"no problem"
Jordan	Hates working for her	He was not happy
Liam	helpful	He helped dig out the potatoes

The Spacecraft

W.A.L.T. list information from the text

What materials did they use?              what is a weasel:       

>string                                                               A weasel is a mammal of the genus

                           

>Umbrella                                                       Mustela of the family Mustelidae.The

>old sky rocket                                               genus Mustela includes the least weasels,       

>wood                                                            polecats,stoats,ferrets and minks.Members

>sellotape                                                     of the genus are small ,active predators,with  

>clothesline                                                  long and slender bodies and short legs.

crusaders vs huricanes

During The week the Crusaders and the Hurricanes had a game at Eden park and when they started playing the Crusaders were saying,”we are gonna win this  boy’s”,yep they said. Then they started playing and some of them were week by not bumping them off so they lost!!!

So when they finished playing there game  the coach called jonah lomu to help them  win the game next week.  So jonah lomu came for the game then when the game  started jonah lomu bumped every one and made lots of tries.

Then when the game was finished jonah lomu went to the doctors because something was wrong with his lungs and then the nurse said to jonah lomu ,”you have cardiac arrest”,then jonah lomu was on a wheelchair but then he got off and he still played.

And then he went on another game and jonah lomu went to another team to make them win is because he feels sad for some teams that always loose so he played for them and he met some team mates and there game  started and the other boy’s in jonah lomus team they said to the captain quietly”is this guy tuff”then the captain said”lets see”.

Then when they started the game jonah lomu was tuff and bumped everyone off even when someone tries to kick the ball jonah lomu just comes up very fast and bump them and gets the ball and runs and get’s the trie.Then jonah lomu got all the tries without failing for a trie.When they were finished the captain and the coach was so surprised that he’s actually tuff so they wanted him to play next saturday but then jonah lomu went to the doctors to check if his lungs are ok so the doctors scanned jonah lomu and when they were done scanning the nurse said”something is wrong with your lungs”.

Then after that jonah lomu still played but then something was really really wrong with his lungs and jonah lomu felt so bad and he fell down in when he was walking and he died in the middle of the road. And cars were horning very loud because they wanted to pass thru and the police said to everyone”stop”!.

Then the police checked who it is and they found out that the man was jonah lomu and they picked up jonah lomu and took

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The journey

The Birds were in Alaska and they were trying to get to  Auckland so wilfred and the other Godwits they all went and they were almost there but then there were a huge thunder storm so they were still going and didn’t stop but then wilfred’s sister called Doreen got shot by the thunderstorm and Doreen thought she was going down and go to heaven but when Doreen was going down it was silence until the captain respect the fallen leader and then when Doreen was going down it was suddenly silence again and Doreen opened her eyes and all of the godwits came all together with Doreen in the eye of  the cloud and they were finally at Auckland.   

Camping Gear

We have been reading the text Camping down the Line. This is the information on camping gear.

The sky

{5}The Sky is so blue

{7}I Like the shiny bright sky

{5}The cloud is whighter

Matariki

seals

Seals SJ Level 2 August 2016 Read pages 25-27 Questions: 1.How do seals stay underwater for a long time?seals can stay underwater like a hour without coming out for air and seals have the to breath air to stay alive. 2. What are the seal’s whiskers used for?their long whiskers help them to find prey by sensing movement in the water. 3. How does the blubber help the seal?seals have a layer of fat under their skin called blubber. 4. What are baby seals called?it called pup.

Teacher-Group reading pages 28-29 Task: Name the 3 species of New Zealand’s seals and one fact on each.kekeno, Whakahao, Ihupuku, Leopard seal. Kekeno are the most common seals in new zealand and their population is growing...

Clever cats

This week we read about a play about clever cats.

1.That is to send us a message that cats are clever,not scared,greedy.

2.Yes because i think she has one of her cat is greedy and does every thing in the story and i think she wrote  about clever cats that why.

raibow occur

1.Rainbows happen when sunlight and rain combine in a very specific way.

2. The beams of sunlight separate into the colors we see in the rainbow as they enter a raindrop.

3.Sunlight is actually made up of different colors that we don’t usually see.

4. When a beam of sunlight comes down to Earth, the light is white.

 

5.Many raindrops form the rainbow that we see, in stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.Good j

wild orphans

W.A.L.T identify the main ideas in the text

1.Orphaned elephants are named after the area they are found.

2.At sunrise each day and go out with their keepers  to play in the bush.

3.Elephants do not forget their keepers.

4.Hunters kill the mother for their tusks.

5.Baby elephants are called calves. are called calves

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Book Rievew

TITlE:GHOST

Author:Robert Westall

Storyline:once there was a boy called A.J and a girl named Bruce.  A.J ran away from his family and then he came back to kill his own sister.

Word difficulty- Just right

What I like best:I liked how the boy went away because he’s bad.

What I didn’t like: is how the boy killed his own sister.

illustrations-just right

The book was interesting.

Name of reviewer:Isileli

Date started:2 weeks ago

Date finished:one week's

Recommendation-box

Highly recommended/reasonable/not recommended?highly recommended