Shapes

In class we have been working on shapes. We had to do a  Screencastify about two dimensional shapes and we had to buddy up and talk about some shapes. Here is mine and Solly's Screencastify.😁 

The Plastic Mountain

In writing we have been working on The Plastic Mountain. We had to make sure that we were writing in present tense, extended our sentences and used senses to describe: sights, sounds, smells, feelings, sensations. Here is my writing.

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    The Plastic Mountain 




                                                THE PLASTIC MOUNTAIN!
 Another day at work and I still don’t have enough moola to live a happy life.  “Ow!” Crunch! I just tripped over on a mountain of plastic bottles.  I sit down  on some bottles  and start cutting the labels off the vivid  green plastic bottles with my pocket knife.  As I cut the labels off and put the bottles in a  wooden   basket   all I can hear is the cars and trucks thundering over the bridge and the people on the other side of the bridge staring at us.

I’m so angry because I have been  sorting plastic bottles all my life and  me and my family and i are still under this bridge sorting plastic!   I walk over  and pick up a dirty green bottle and  throw it in a basket  but then I notice that it landed in the wrong basket. I stomp over and all I can hear is   the sound of of people laughing at us, I  pick the bottle back up and squeeze the bottle until the bottle is flat like a pancake. 

I walk over the bottles  and all we can hear is the bottles going “CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH!”I pick up a basket and there a variety of different fizzy drinks  like 7up,  Fanta and some more lying in the basket.  I pull out my knife and just before I cut off a label “AHH!” my mum shouts  as she sees a big brown rat with a long pink tail jump out of a chip packet.  I sit down and sigh and all  I’m thinking about is why do we need all this plastic?

Author Visit

On Tuesday 28 of August Jenny Sommervell  came to visit our school.  She told us about the  writing process and how hard it can be to write a book. She also showed us some of her books and she read two to us. My favorite book was The Day that Dad Blew up the Cowshed.     

            Here are some photos of her visit.

Plastic toy shop writing

In class we have been writing about a picture of a plastic toy shop. We were learning how to describe. We also had  to make sure that we used present tense,
used senses to describe sights, sounds, smells, feelings, sensations, used adjectives to describe the people and things, used interesting, precise nouns and verbs

and extended our sentences by adding detail.

here is my writing.

Here is mine:)😎😎

The Plastic Toy Shop I stroll into the plastic toy shop. The shelves are packed top to bottom with bright neon colours. There are toy cars stacked three high on a shelf that are all different vivid colours. I am so cramped because the store is flooded with plastic toys that soon will end up in the sea or in a landfill. As I browse through the toy guns and try to decide on one to buy there is an irritating sound of keys from the computer keyboard clicking. As I walk up to the counter I am starting to regret buying this plastic toy because it might end up in the sea and kill some animals.☹☹☹☹ my name is Jeff the man boy!!

Symmetry

Today in class we have been working on lines of symmetry. A line of symmetry is a line in the middle of something like a piece of paper that divides it in to two equal parts. We had to get a piece of paper and  fold the paper in half then we had to draw some straight lines and make shapes and glue them onto some black paper. We had to have 4 shapes with three sides, 4 with more than 4 lines, and four with 4 lines. Here is mine:)😈😈😈

Reading Profile

In class we have been working on reading profiles. We had to make sure that we have a book that someone has recommended  to us and  some other things. Here is my reading profile.