Multicultural week

This week I have participated actively in a range of learning experience around ‘Multicultural week’

WHAT: I was involved in a range of learning experiences for Multicultural week. I contributed in the cultural games. And played fairly.

SO WHAT:

I learnt that in Russia the temperature can get to -71℃ and if you throw a boiling pot of water it will turn into snow.

I enjoyed the chopsticks activity because we picked up jelly beans with the chopsticks; I think I was really good at it.

I was most fascinated by how long the henna stayed on.

NOW WHAT

A question I have is why is the Chinese new year different to other countries?   

Coming Up

14/2/17         Coming  Up by Keira

This includes:

• Fiction
• Intense Climax
• Resolution
• Paragraphing
• Pictures that tell the story
• Title-makes the reader curious
• Lots of descriptive word/descriptive language

W.A.L.T: identify writing processes that are appropriate for that purpose     

Coming Up

Hi my name is Blake, I am a farmer and I am going to tell you about something HORRIBLE that happened to me.

It all started last summer when I had to go to work. I said bye to my wife and two children. I had always gone back and forth over the bridge with my rusty old truck carrying stacks of new golden hay but last summer I got a lot more than I usually get.

I should have left a little bit of the hay at the farm.

I have lots of friends at work and one used to be a doctor.

So I drove over the bridge to load the hay and while I was there I had a little chat with the farmer about how old the bridge was and how it was still up. I had to go because I was a bit late so I had to rush. I went the normal speed over the bridge but I stopped in the middle because I heard a crack. I  kept driving then THE BRIDGE BROKE! I was so scared I peed my pants. The front wheels were hanging off the bridge. I closed my eyes. And then we hit, we hit the bottom of the river. I choked on water and blacked out. I saw two kids, I was waving at the two kids. But I was floating, SUDDENLY I got pulled into the body the kids were dragging...    

I felt the grass and then coughed up water, I opened my eyes to see my friend (who used to be a doctor) covering the bright sun above me giving me mouth to mouth. I pushed him away because it was gross. I got put on a stretcher and sent to the hospital for a check up but they said I was fine. So I went home to see my family relieved because I thought I would never see them again.

That was the worst thing that happened to.

By Blake (Keira)  

swimming

We have been doing swimming the over pass two weeks and I have learnt how to do butterfly better.  The thing that I found most challenging was doing lots of laps. The thing that I am the most proud of is that I did lots of laps of butterfly.

Visual Art

Last week I created a collage showing the ocean habitat. The three animals I chose were dolphin, whale and a octopus.
The features I am most proud of are the octopus because it pops out from the background and the whale because it looks like it is chasing after the octopus.

My writing goal

My writing goal is to: write faster.

Something I will do to achieve this is: To write stories at home to speed up my writing.

By Keira

Reading - Our class novel

As a class we read the Novel Best Mate by Michael Morpurgo.

The best thing about this book was when Patrick jumped in to the water to save the puppies.

A question I have is why are all your books about animals?

I am feeling enthusiastic about reading the BFG.

Integrated Learning term 2

Our new focus is on animals and habitats.
A question I have is... Why do elephants have trunks and not noses like other animals?????