Making Connections

This is my making connection activity I have completed with my friend Freeman. In this task we had to completed three parts text to text, text to world and text to self. The book we used for this activity was When The Wind Blows.

Maths - Even More Pizza And Things

Today I have completed my maths DLO. For this activity I had to read a the maths question and then I had to work out the problem. In the question I found a clue to help me solve the question. I had to use my multiplication skills to solve this. 

Reduce Reuse Recycle

Today my group and I have completed our DLO on rubbish and waste in New Zealand. The people in my group were Te Wai, Viva, Mishaan, Fifita and Calvin. I learnt that we are dumping enough reusable containers to fill seven hundred jumbo jets.

Language Features - Similes

Today for writing we have been working similes. A simile is comparing something using as or like. We had to fill a sheet and fill in the missing word. After we finished that we had to make a DLO on one of the sentences. Here are the other sentences we had to fill out.

I’m as busy as a bee

It’s as slippery as an eel

She’s as quick as a fox

He’s as blind as a bat

She’s as wise as an owl

She’s as happy as a lark

It’s as slow as a snail

He’s as stubborn as a mule

He’s as gentle as a lamb

He’s as strong as an ox

I’m as sick as a dog

Current Events - Ivory ban in China

For this current events task we looked at ivory ban in China. Ivory is the tusks of elephants. They are used for art and manufacturing. The people who cut off the ivory are called poachers.  I worked with Daniel for this DLO. Daniel and I had to write our opinions on this. Daniel I think that China is making the right choice because the elephants could became endangered.

Ake Word Chunk - Word Cloud

This is my word cloud I have created using all the words I know that have ake in it and all the words I have found out that have ake in it. I did this task to learn new words and sentence structures.

Is recycling really helping our planet?

Today for reading, we made a padlet about Is recycling really helping our planet? In this padlet everyone wrote down their opinions. All of us thought that recycling is helping our planet because it stops pollution or it reduces the amount of waste that is in our landfills.