Celebrations in Different Countries

We are learning about Celebrations in Different Countries like Diwali, Chinese new year, and Matariki.

We had to compare and think if we wanted it to be a public holiday in New Zealand.

Do you think Matariki, Diwali, or Chinese new year should be a public holiday in New Zealand? Why?

Rat Island: Language Features

 In Rat Island they use language feature we learning use in our writing like similes, metaphors, aliteration, and personification. 

We had to find in the book similes, metaphors, and personification. 

I only found a few simlies because I've only read chapter 1 & 2.

Here are the examples and the ones I found.

Simlie: His black moustache was as sharp as a stingray's tail. His single eye would burn into your soul like a fiery cannonball.

Metaphor: Captain Tombs was seated in the corner of his cabin. A black spider in the web.

Personification: Through stroms and seas that'd make a cannonball weep.

Rat Island Prediction

 We predicted what would happen in the new book for the week:Rat Island by Stu Duval.

This is the Blurb:

Scary right?!

Here is my Prediction:

I think the captain asked Tam to spy on his ship mates because he suspects they will turn against them and take the treasure for themselves. I wonder who the person on the cover is. I think it is the  Captain Ezekiel Tombs or one of the shipmates that might be leading the rebellion. I think maybe Rat Island (if I haven't read the chapter one) it would be where the treasure is. Maybe the book might be set somewhere between the 1920-1940s. The clothes to me look old fashioned but  pirates are usually like that so I'm not sure. 

Parihaka

 Parihaka, a place in the North island by Mount Taranaki of New Zealand, was a peaceful place where families could live. Maori children sang and danced, women baked and boys brought in the crops. But when the Pakeha came they moved in and wanted to take the Maori land. They warned the Maori to go out and move somewhere else. As more pakeha moved in, the other English sold the Maori’s land without their permission. They put pegs in the land to mark where they were going to sell the land. But it was the Maori’s land! The Maori didn't understand that so the Maori pulled up the pegs but the pakeha didn't understand so they shot the Maori. Then on the 5th of November 1881 the pakeha came and the Maori children sang and danced with their pois. The women baked loaves of bread for the pakeha. Te Whiti and Tohu, the Chiefs welcomed them with open arms but the pakeha army just went past them and ignored them, burning down their village. 

Our task was to think, do you really think all of more than fifteen hundred pakeha soldiers would really want to walk past the children singing and the women greeting them? How do we think they felt? Guy Fawkes is also on today but it happened in England. Parihaka is today but it happened in New Zealand. What do you think we should celebrate and how do you think we could celebrate Parihaka.

The Crystal Crescent Book Review

We finished the Crystal Cresent today. Raki got the Crystal crescent and freed Tando.

I did my review on slides.

I found it tricky to find a label to reuse cresent png.

I found it easy to use special characters for the stars.

 Next time i would an image for the star rating so I could crop it for a half star.

The Crystal Cresent #2

This is like my prediction except this is from the middle of the book.

Mysterious blue yak creatures took over Tando's mind leading her to the telotion.

Its like something's in the pool. We had to guess what was in the telotion pool.

This is my prediction and drawing.

when telotion stays in one place for about 100 years it forms powerful crystals. When you touch them they disintegrate, you absorb them and you have the power of the Blue Mist and can mind control anyone the only way to protect yourself from the blue mist is the White Mist, which can be sourced like the Blue Mist.

Here the crystals and the blue mist around it.

The Crystal Cresent

Our new book for reading for Fantastic 4 we have a book called The Crystal Cresent by John Lockyer.

Our task is to predict what its about. Here's the blurb:

'We can't avoid the moon. We're inside the atmosphere! We're going all the way down!'

The ozone layer has been destroyed and Earth is at risk. The only hope for human survival is to find the precious liquid telotion. When heated, telotion creates huge amounts of ozone. Raki and Tando are on a mission to find a source of the rare substance when they crash land on an unknown planet. What are the mysterious blue creatures they discover there? And why have they taken over Tando’s mind? Raki will face the biggest challenge of his life in his quest to find out and save them both."

I'm guessing that the "mysterious blue creatures" are aliens. I think that aliens are going to take Tando and hold her hostage and threaten Raki to give them something in exchange for Tando and telotion. 

Didymo Ad

 For reading we have been learning about biosecurity.
Have you ever been asked to put food in a bin after/before a flight?
Thats because of biosecurity. 
Food can contain bugs that we dont want to introduce to our country.
Didymo (also known as rock snot) is a slimy substance that spreads in large mats all over bodies of water.
Just one droplet of didymo can affect lots of waterways.
Our task was to create an ad that would encourage people to wash and check their gear after leaving the forest/country.
I used wevideo for my ad.
I found it easy to use wevideo because I am familiar with it.
I found it tricky to make it attract attention.

Toroa (Southern Royal Albatross) Fact File

We are doing a fact file on NZ animals.
I chose the Toroa (Southern Royal Albatross) because I went to Dunedin I went to a Albatross sighting place.
I found it hard to make the fact file from scratch.
I found it easy to find an Albatross picture.

David Walliams Fact File

We are reading slime by David Walliams.
This is my fact file about him.
I found it hard to fit in all the books.
I found it easy to find fact about him.

Should Matariki be a Public Holiday?

WALT use visual language.
My DLO shows that I can insert a slide into my Blog.
I found it easy to do a Flipgrid.
I found nothing hard.

Fight Scene Comic Strip

I made a Comic strip for the boy the back of the classroom tasks.
It was about the fight scene when Brendan wanted Ahmet's pomegranate and then they got into a big fight.
My digital learning object shows that I can take a photo and put it on my blog.
I found it hard to do a comic strip quickly I found it easy to draw.

Helps and Hinders for Refugees

I found it hard to understand what hinder meant.
I found it easy to think of things that made it hard for refugees.
WALT combine sources of information, with developing confidence,  and expressing ideas.

My digital object shows that I can insert a slide.

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Dear Mrs Khan...

For my boy the back of the classroom tasks we have to write a note complaining to a teacher about Brendan the bully. I crossed out a few things and used uncorrect punctuation because to make it look like a kid wrote it. I found it hard to think of what to say.
I found it easy to draw the paper.