Diary of a SUPER SWIMMER.

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This week for Reading we did not have any goals to tick off. We had to pick a fiction book (Which means its fake.) and do a charater web on it. A charater web is like a spiderweb. You put the main charaters name in the middle and then the supporting cast around them. You  have to write a little blurb about what they dod in the book and an adjective to go with their name.We go to pick out of a novel, Graphic novel or a short story. I picked a short story/comic. 

It was called "Diary of a Super Swimmer." It is about a boy named Marcus who can't do any sports but his Dad belives he can. So he signs him up for a swim team. Marcus struggles alot with his swimming and isn't enjoying it. But his family makes him keep going. He does his first race and goes bad, but he the next week we works harder and has another race. Does he win it? Does he embarrass himself? You have to read the book yourself. 

Heres a link if you can't see it.

Have you ever done a Charater web?

  

FANTASTICS!!!

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This week for reading we had to read an article about something and tried to find the Fantastics, Grammaristics and Boomtastics from them. If you don't know what they are I'm here to tell you. Firstly the were made by Jade Considine. They are a wiritng stratergy to make your peice better. The Fantastics include of: Feeling, Asking, Noticing, Touching, Asking, Smelling, Tasting, Imagining and Checking. As you can see the first letter of each of them speel and Fantastics. Each Fantastic is used for different types of writing. Now the Grammaristics and Boomtastics are different. They don't spell out their own name. They include different feauters such as Rhyme, Paragrpahs and other things. My article was about a person coming  to speak about Maori language and how you can get involed. Here is my DLO. 

Have you ever used the Fantastics?

Making Predictions.

 Hello guys today I will be showing you my Reading. For reading our goal was make predictions about the text & look for clues to confirm predictions. We read a book called counting Kakahi and had to make predictions about it. Here is mine. 

Have you ever had to make predictions?

My Turangawaewae

Hello, this week for writing we had 2 goals. They were plan effectively, where appropriate, using a variety of strategies and use “show not tell” when appropriate. We had to think about where we our Turangawaewae is and write about it. But the challenge was we couldn't say the name of it. Here is mine, try guess where it is. 

You walk into a fresh field as the birds start singing and the sun welcomes you in. You see 2 teams play a game of rugby. But the only team scoring tries is wearing Green and Black. You start to play and you love it. Scoring Tries and putting on hits. You end the game with chips and cheers. You lie down and dig into your chips and coke. You hear your mates yelling. “Chug Chug Chug!” You finished your chips and decided to leave. The Flag smiles and waves you goodbye. Now you know what the bullring feels like. 

Where do you think it is? (I'll Give you a hint, I live in Christchurch.)

Reading Template

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This week for reading we had to read to texts then fill out a template about them. There was a bunch of different questions and boxes we had to fill out. 

Have you ever read any of these books?

Infographic about Hihi

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This week for Writing we were making Infographic about our reading. We had to pick a thing that we thought intresting from our template and we made an infographic about it. I chose the bird Hihi or Stitchbird from the article Te Tapa Ingoa. Here is my DLO.

Did you know about the Stitchbird before this?

To Weeks of Math in 1 BLOG!!

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This is my first time blogging in Term 2. We have been at Swimming lessons for the first to weeks so the work has been a bit different. But none the less here is my Maths. For Maths these last 2 weeks we have been learning about 2 different things. The first week it was all about Tree Diagrams, then the 2nd week it was about a two way table. Everything we did we had to put on a slide so here is mine. 

Do you like swimming lessons?