Learning Journey

Monday 27 June 2016

Describing a Monkey

Hello
We have been learning how to write descriptions of things to improve our writing so one day we did this for a reading activity. You had to think carefully before you decided which group of ideas the sentence would go in.
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Reading: 27th June, 2016
To organise descriptive sentences into groups of similar ideas.

Introduction
Who or what are you describing?   Monkeys
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Looks like

Moves like

Lives like


Colour code these sentences to show which paragraph they would fit in.
Monkeys have to search for their food every day in the forest.
Most monkeys have very clever hands but they do not have fingernails.
Monkeys live in family groups and feed their babies milk.
Monkeys can climb trees easily, swing from branch to branch and leap from tree to tree.
They run along branches and sometimes walk or run along the ground.
Many monkeys have soft furry bodies and long tails.
Most monkeys are omnivores, although they prefer seeds and fruit to meat.
Most monkeys tails are very long.
Most monkeys look a bit like a skinny, hairy human with a tail.

Monkeys live in the forest where the trees provide food and shelter.

Thursday 23 June 2016

Learning how to tell 'quarter past' and 'quarter to' time.


 Kia ora.
Here are my results. I am pretty good at telling the time on an anologue clock. Next we have to read 'to' and 'past' times to the nearest minute.
Ka kite ano.

Sunday 19 June 2016

maths

Kia ora. Here is the result of a rounding activity I did in Maths Buddy. It was about rounding off  to the nearest hundred. I think I did really well and I worked fast but my teacher does say that going fast is not always a good thing.
Ka kite ano.

Argument

Understanding how to structure and write an argument.
The first paragraph of an argument is called the THESIS.
A THESIS is something that you believe.
In a piece of argument writing, a THESIS is made up of two parts.
Part 1 is your sentence about what you believe.
This is called a POSITION STATEMENT.
In this exercise you need to match an argument title with its POSITION STATEMENT.. Use the ‘Fill tool’ to colour code the matching POSITION STATEMENTS.


The Most Delicious Drug.
I believe that no one should be able to have more than two children.
Cats Are Better Pets Than Dogs.
I believe that dairy farmers are not doing enough to prevent pollution of waterways on their land.
All Prime Ministers of New Zealand Should Be Female.
I believe that homework should be banned.
Homework Should Be Banned.
I believe that chocolate is a drug.
Two Child Families.
I believe that future Prime Ministers of NZ should all be female.
Dairy Farmers Pollute Waterways.
I believe that cats make better pets than dogs.