Country Life is better than City Life - Term 3 Term 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This is the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

I think country life is better than city life

In my opinion I think that country life is better than city life  

I think that country life is better than city life because there are more native trees and plants. I believe that native trees could be used for huts and I also believe that plants could be used for hide and go seek and other games.

You can experience different things about plants, you may think to yourself one day, I wonder what this plant is called and that would be amazing to find out about. You also may find sticks, leaves, pine cones etc. Then you could make wall hangings or something for your parents.

You can also learn new things that you never knew about. You can explore the countryside and go down massive streams and waterfalls.  When you are having long walks you may find little creatures and big ones.  You might find ladybirds, caterpillars, hedgehogs etc. Maybe you would think to your self I think that country life is better than city life too.

I think that country life is better than city life.

SKIMMING READING STRATEGY TERM 3 WEEK 2

                                 SKIMMING

 WALT skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get an understanding of it.

• I can decide if a book has useful information I need or whether I want to read it for pleasure.

These are The things I can do to skim read:

~1~  Look at the title. 
~2~  Look at the contents.
~3~ Read five words then you know if you like it or not.
~4~ Look for key words.
~5~ Read the blurb.

10 facts about me - Week 8

10 facts about me

1. I LOVE to read any chapter book

2. My favorite thing to do is gymnastics and (watch movies)

3. My best friends are RUBY L, HENRI M and SIENNA G.

4. I have 2 brothers and 1 sister.

5. My favorite color is Fluoro yellow.

6. My eyes are dark brown.

7. My hair is dark brown almost black

8. My favorite teacher at school is Mrs Miller
9. I love to dance !!!!!!!
10. My favorite shoes are converses.

AREA WEEK 6

AREA

Definition :

 Total number of square units inside a shape

 Real world use :

.build houses 

.carpet 

.to make a deck

 How to find it :

*count the  total square units

 you use square units to help you.

Here are some examples:

5 x 5 = 25

4 x 2 = 8

MY PUPPY PANCAKE !!! - Week 5

In a couple of days I am getting a pit bull from my Uncle Spencer.   
It is going to be 6 weeks old.

It is going to be a brown dog with a bit of blue, we might get two but if we don’t we will get one. I hope he gives us two, but it will be hard to look after two. 
This is what you need to do to look after a puppy:

1. Make sure every morning that they have water and food.

2. Give them a dog wash every Saturday - make sure you have dog wash first.

3. Play tricks  

4. The first thing to do is go to a pet shop about 1 week before you buy them because then you get a lot  of time to get toys and food ready.

~1~ Get a tugging toy

~2~ Get a chewy pig's ear

~3~ Do not forget that you need a buy a  little suit (but make sure it is cute)

ALL ABOUT SUMMARISING - WEEK 4

When we are writing a summary you need to have keywords, you can write a summary about anything.  
Key words can be used in a retell or writing of your own choice.  
A summary is a shortened version of a text that makes the right point. 

Here is an example
"The whale is  a mammal " 
The keywords  are whale and  mammal.     

Here are some fix - up strategies 

• Re-read
• Read ahead
• Find out what the word means
• Stop and think
• Create picture in your mind 
• Ask questions
• Make predictions 
• Make connections

Maths Match Sticks - Week 3

• This week we have been using match sticks for maths. We had to use 50 match sticks to make our name.
• We got four rulers and match them together to make 1m.
• We then made our name, and we took a photo on the 
• i - pad and sent it to Mrs Miller. 
• How about the next time you see your teacher, ask if you can have a go at it, and trust Parkvale School on their ideas as well. My teacher's name is Mrs Miller.
• The learning was to do with measurement, we had to think about the accuracy and the starting and finishing point.  
• We also put numbers to the colours and we had to add up the total value.