In reading, we got a sheet that has boxes that you can put information into. We made a biography of a friend. I did Lucia. We filled the boxes with information about questions about key details, leisure and travels, what the friend did in the holidays, friends, sports, future goals, family life and birth. Here Read More…
Week 1 timeline
This week in STEAM, we had a super cool activity where we learned about NZ famous people. In small groups, we were given a famous New Zealander to learn about. Some of us had Sir Edmund Hillary (I did), the first man to climb Mount Everest, others learned about Jean Batten, the pilot who flew Read More…
Horse Camp
In the school holidays, me and my two friends, Olive and Libby, went to the same horse camp for 3 nights and 4 days. I went at 12:30, and when I got there I met Olive and Libby and me and my parents went to the office and I got a shirt, then went to Read More…
Leather Back Sea Turtle Facts
Week 6 – concrete poem
In week 6 Mrs Haywards literacy class learned about concrete poems. How to Write a Concrete Poem It doesn’t have to rhyme but it can if you want it to. Write words in the shape of the thing you are writing about. you can include sentences or add single words. concrete poems often use alliteration Read More…
Acrostic poems.
Acrostic poems are poems that have lots of ways to write it. For example: you can write a word going down in capitale and bold letters and write sentences next to it. The first word uses the first letter as the first letter of the word. You can also do it with the word spelling Read More…
Compare and Contrast
This week in STEAM, we compared the difference between the Sea Turtle and a Shark or a Whale. We used a compare and contrast chart to write down all the things that we found out that were the same and the things that were different. I chose a lemon shark because I like writing about Read More…
STEAM Week 4 – Life Cycle Of A Sea Turtle
During Week 4 we looked at the life cycle of sea turtles. We chose a turtle to research from a choice of 7. I chose the Leatherback Sea Turtle. I chose this turtle because it is critically endangered and I thought it would be fun to write about. I found out about it’s habitat, the Read More…
Marine Animal Reproduction
In week three for STEAM we researched the different life cycle patterns observed in marine animals. We found that there are four main categories. OVIPAROUS – producing young by means of eggs which are hatched after they have been laid by the parent. VIVIPAROUS – give birth to live young. OVOVIVIPAROUS – once the egg Read More…
Ocean zones.
Me and my group made sticky notes about sea creatures. I also did a KWL chart. Finally, I made a poster in my STEAM book about the layers of the ocean and the creatures that live in them. Sunlight (Epipelagic) Zone: 1. Jelly Fish 2. Starfish 3. Sea Turtle 4. Dolphin 5. Blue Whale Read More…