Reading - Poetry

WALT respond to different types of poems. We are going to use different poems to help us practice our reading strategies.

The Olympic Games

We are learning about the Olympic Games.

WALT skim and scan information to answer questions about the Olympics.

At the Olympics I liked watching basketball.  Australia played the basketball games. It is cool. It is like I play in the team ... woo go!  I am going to play went I am older like 17.

Rona and the Moon

1. WALT re-tell the story of Rona and the Moon in our own words.

NZ Birds

I am learning to identify some facts about New Zealand birds.

I heve be learning a be birds

Stone Soup

 WALT read for enjoyment.

Why did I choose this book to blog about?

I think that this is a tricky book.  The man tricked the lady with a stone.  

What did I enjoy about it?

The lady said she had no food.  but he told her he had a special stone that can make soup. But he was he was fibbing. The lady did have food.

What did you learn from reading the text?

The man is very clever.

My Reading Video - Gibbon Island

 I have been making reading videos to share on my blog. I have learn't to put my video on the right folder and share it on my blog.

Play Sports

WALT re-tell information from the text  
Reflection -
What did you do well ? I am reading the book a lot more smoothly.

What was tricky?
writng.

Dragons, Dragons, Dragons

WALT sound out unfamiliar words using our sound knowledge.What did you learn while you were reading? At the Dragons were lonely they didn,t have friends the people thought theg were too big and too scary  they went to the skate park the people jump off their skateboards Dragons, Dragons, Dragons they screamed Run for your lives . No friends here said Dora

what did you find tricky - writing about the story

minecraft

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Undersea Gardens

Learning Intention - I am learning to identify facts about seaweed and think about what we know and make connections to what we're reading.

I learnt that some C feel slimy their slime protects the blades from damage by strong waves sand and rocks.

I thought that seaweed is interesting because they make food and paint.

Extraordinary Earthworms

Learning Intention - I am learning to use the information in this text to find out why earthworms are extraordinary

I have been learning about  the Extraordinary Earthworm. 
Did you  know they help our plants grow and some people have worm farms. 

These are 5 words I found tricky in my reading: surface, casts, garden, soil, air

1. Why don’t we see earthworms very often?  sunlight  harmful
2. What do earthworms eat? Rotting plants
3. What are casts? earthworm
4. What are the benefits of keeping worm farms? some
5. What are the sections of an earthworm’s body called?

Honeymakers

Learning Intention - I am learning how bees make honey and how beekeepers collect it for us to eat.Bees get nectar from flowers

What do the bees live in? hives

What is honeycomb? Where the bees keep the honey

How do bees make honey?

What happens first? Bees get nectar from flowers

What happens next? The bees take the nectar back to the hive

What happens last? The bees beat their wings to make nectar into honey. When the honeycomb is full the bees put wax over the top

NZ Birds

We are learning about NZ birds

Kereru is too fat and hits the window.

  

The kiwi is nocturnal. They sleep in the day and at night they hunt.

Piwakawa have feathers to move fast in the wind and noisy birds .

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