Setting Goal

Today we learn about setting goals and we made a DLO for it.

Flea Feast

Flea Feast 

LI – rhyming scheme, nouns, verbs

Read the poem

Rhyming scheme – What lines rhyme with each other in the first two verses

Lead-Greed 

About - shout

Powder- louder

War-More

Shed-Bed

Quite-Diet

Name the characters in this poem - The Flea, the Boy, the dog

Identify some of the nouns

Flea

Bed 

Shed 

Pills

Powder

Spray

Victims 

Identify the verbs – use a thesaurus to find a synonym for each.

bark - woof  

sleep - nap 

wish - Dream 

shout - yell

change  - dress

make - create

Today we did a poem called Flea Feast and we had to do questions at the bottom of the poem.

Times Table Shift

To play this game we had to work out what times table it was and what they had shifted the start number by. 

Night in the Forest

Night in the Forest

Read the poster and use the information to complete the following tasks. 

a)  Use the ideas from Night in the Forest to explain how birds, insects, and bats find food at night.     

Fill in the chart. Write one idea for each bullet point.     

The first one has been done for you.

Animal	How does this animal find food?
Kiwi	Can smell food / worms through its nostrils at the end of its nose.
Morepork	It’s big eyes help it see
Glow worm	It’s lure insects with its light and then catches them with it’s net.
Bat	Echolocation is what animals use to locate objects with sound rather than sight Bats, for example, use echolocation to find food and avoid flying into trees in the dark.

b)  Give the meaning of the word that is underlined in these parts of Night in the Forest.

     i)   "...and makes a net of sticky, dangling threads."

          dangling means drooping

     ii)  "...many native flowers are white to attract night flying moths and beetles."

          attract means appeal to

     iii) "The kiwi is special."

          special means rare

Today we did book called Night in the Forest and

we had to answer all the questions at the bottom of the poem.

Simpson Family Tree

Simpson Family Tree

Ko wai te whaea o Homer?         Mona Ko wai te kuia o Ling? Jackeline

Ko wai te papa o Lisa?     Homer             Ko wai te mama o Patty? Jackeline

Ko wai te koro o Maggie?   Abraham Ko wai te papa o Marge? Clancy

Write your own questions using : kuia, koro, mama, papa

Ko wai te papa o Bart?

Ko wai te mama o Harb?

Today we did for Te Reo is the Simpson Family Tree.

Complex Sentence

Simple

The dog likes to play with his toys. 

Complex

When it's morning, the dog likes to play with his toys.

The dog likes to play with his toys, when it’s morning. 

We started with a simple sentence and turned it into a complex sentence.

Favourite Colour

Today we made a pie chart on google sheets. We used tally marks to find out what was our favourite colour. Then we changed all the colours for our pie chart..

Reciprocal Teaching

Predator	Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
Skeletons	Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
Nocturnal	opening by night and closing by day, as certain flowers (opposed to diurnal).

Today we wrote three words and found out the meaning of the word.

What is Money?

Today we learn about money and we made a DLO for it.

Blogging

Today we wrote on LS1's blog, Room5's blog and Kawakawa's blog and told them what I liked about their work.

Word Cline

For more than an hour, there was perfect stillness, as the shades of evening deepened.

He would think you dreamed, as all people do, of what they think of in the daytime.

At sunset he would have stopped for the day, camping on the spot.

But Robert was destined to fall in with him at a future day.

But if she had any such thing I'm sure it was ended, and she'd have jumped at this chance a year ago.

Today we made a word cline the word that I used was day. Then I had to write five sentences.

Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup

L.I. - Identify literary device - Simile and Metaphor and rhyme

Read the poem

Identify the two metaphors in the poem   Marshmellow boats - refers to marshmallow floating
in the hot chocolate   

Chocolate sea - refers to hot chocolate looking like the sea.

Identify the simile   Like a silver typhoon - refers to a spoon that looks like the spoon is
spinning around the hot chocolate.

Write down the pairs of rhyming words  sea and me pink and sink wobble and bobble

Today we did metaphors, simile and rhyming and the book we did was Storm in a Teacup.

Ladybirds

Ladybirds

• Two insects that ladybird larvae eat aphids and scales.
• Bird don’t eat ladybirds because they taste terrible.
• Ladybird sometime ooze their bitter orange blood when they play
• dead.
• 
  
• Play dead means trying to be dead.

Today we used part of the Question and part of the text to
write our answer.

Column Chart

Today we made a column chart of our favourite sports and the most one was handball.