Great Questions

Kia ora bloggers,

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Google Drawing and it was about a book called ‘Wild boy. Here are my queestions

How is ADHD caused to people?

How long is the coastline of new zealand and how long does it take to go across

How sharp are the horns of bulls and can they kill someone

ADHD is caused by genetic factors with your parents. The cause is exactly not found yet

The entire coastline of New Zealand is estimated at around 15,000 KM. It takes around 14 days to go around the north and south island.

Bull Horns are known to be razor sharp and deadly enough to kill someone in one stab. Bull have killed over 15 people recorded over the years.

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?

My fractured fairy tale

Kia Ora bloggers.

For our literacy our create task was to make a book cover of ours story on book creator. As my main story I picked the three little pigs but put my own spin on it. Mine is about three little big boys and the small bad boy. It was about how the small boy is a big bully and punches everyone. It is kind of connected to three little pigs. Here is my fantastic work

It is not close to even done but I will work on it later.

If you have ever worked with

Absolute Angles

Kia Ora bloggers.


For maths for the last few weeks we have been working on angles and how to measure them. We did many different activities like measuring our name, measuring angles on a sheet, and now we made a robot on google draw and then printing it. We had to get at least one of every angle. Here is my work

If you have ever worked with angles please comment down below.

Kool Koru's

Kia Ora bloggers.

For the past few weeks we have been working on koru's and all about them. A koru is something very native to  New Zealand and its culture. We had to make an adobe spark about everything he have done on koru's every Friday. I spent a lot of work on this and I think I did pretty well. Here is my video.


If you have used adobe spark please comment down below.

Annoying Angles

Kia Ora bloggers,

For the past few weeks for maths we have been working on angles. There are 5 types of  angles and they are, Acute, Right, Obtuse, Straight, and Reflex. All of them have a different degree of angles. Acute is anything below 90 degrees, right is exactly 90, obtuse is between 90 and 180, straight is 180, and reflex is between 120 and 360. Here is mine

If you have ever worked with angles please comment down below.

Samoan Siapo

Talofa Bloggers,

For the past few weeks we have been working on the Siapo. A Siapo is a Samoan known thing which is made out of the bark of the mulberry tree. It is made as a floor mat, gift at a wedding, and clothing. Our task was to make our own Siapo. Here is my Siapo.

It is supposed to look like a starfish in the water because of the dye in the background. It did not go like what I expected but I am still proud of it.

If you have ever learned about a different country than where you are from? Please comment down below.

Ironic Comic

Kia Ora bloggers.

For today we have been working on ironic things. Being ironic has three different types. They are Situational, Verbal, and Dramatic. We had to make a comic with a partner of a situation of Ironicness, me and my partner chose the basic good old kid not doing his work. I think I did pretty well. Here is my fabulous, fantastic, unbeatable, work.

What you can see here is situational irony. It is the opposite of what you would think. Example: When a math teacher does worse than a kid in maths.

My comic is when one person is doing work and the other is on their device. And the kid doing work asks the other if he is doing work or not and he says yes but he actually isn't. And he is looking at backgrounds.

Have you ever made a comic strip? if you have please comment down below.

Panicked Pigs

Kia Ora Bloggers.

For our literacy this week we have been working on fractured fairy tales. They are fractured becasue they are a bit broken and muddled. We had to make some writing about the book Three Little Pigs. We had to follow the 5 different settings. Background, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, and finally resolution. We had to make a castle because most fairy tales are based on castle's. We had to match the writing were it fit. I think I did pretty well. Here is my work
    

Have you ever read a fairy tale? If you have please comment down below.

If you have ever used google drawing please comment down below.]

Extreme Angles

Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have started to learn about angles. 

We learnt about 3 different angles today - acute (less than 90°), right angle (90°), and obtuse (larger than 90° but smaller than 180°).  We also learnt how to use a protractor to measure angles.  We know that we need to measure an angle from a vertice (a corner where two straight lines meet).

For our create task, we had to measure three different angles on the first letter of our name - can you  figure out if they are acute, right angle or obtuse?