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My Book Review

My Book Review

Title: Horton Hatches The Egg Author: Dr.Seuss Illustrator:  Dr.Seuss	What I Liked Best: I liked the riming in the story, I think it makes the book more exciting and interesting, because when a word a word comes you’ll be wondering what is he going to rime this word with.
Storyline: It’s about named a elephant named Horton and a bird named Mayzie.  Mayzie has an egg she has to look after but she is very lazy, so she asked Horton.  Mayzie flew off to have fun.  Hunters come and shoot horton so then he falls asleep.   A few days later he ends up in the circus, Mayzie flies in and finds out her egg is hatching, crack, crack, crack, and outcomes an elephant-bird.	What I Didn’t Like: I loved every bit.
	What Is My Favourite character: Mayzie because I can relate to her, I would hate to sit on that egg all day while my friends are having fun.
	Would I Recommend This Book: I would recommend this book to people who like poetry, learning new words and people who like reading in general.

Olympic Artwork

In term three we were working on a piece for the Olympics, this piece has many different subjects like maths, writing, art and our heads on our chosen athlete.   

For the maths we did a tessellation (a tessellation is a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps).  For the tessellation we used a 3.8 triangle, as you can see I made hexagons and squares out of just using that single polygon (shape).  

We also wrote the three Olympic values respect, excellence and friendship, we chose to put these on our poster because they were related to the Olympics, and without these there will be huge fights during the game.    

We did different similes (a simile is a comparison using like or as), and metaphors (a metaphor is a direct comparison not using like or as)  in the speech bubbles and thought clouds. Can you guess which one is which?

The paper we used was slightly smaller than A3, we cut off about 4cm.  We had to use specific vocabulary that you would normally hear or see in the Olympics.

I enjoyed collaborating with other people and sharing ideas.  Now this piece is laminated and hanging above Room 10’s tables

I Completed Course 2!!!

Here is my certificate. 

I Completed Course 1!!!

Here is my certificate. 

Hong Kong STEM Challenge

Our Materials:

6 x long sticks

1 x  wooden square

2 x pipe cleaners

2 x straws

11 x plastic cubes

1 x bunch of popsicle sticks

4 x wooden small flat pieces

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base:

In challenge 1 it was hard because you had to focus on balancing the structure so it does not fall and bust down and that happened to us a lot, so we had to make it again.  It was going well at the start but at the end, not so much.

Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size:

Challenge 2 was very interesting because it’s hard to build things on a table when everyone is doing something at the same time.  It was going well until it came to the end.

Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it:

In challenge 3 you had to make one of your items stick out of the side.  It was hard because you had to make it balance and the pipe cleaners were supposed to be the things that stick out, but they touched the table and you cannot let that happen.

Moment In Time Week 7

Today our teacher asked us to write a ‘Moment In Time’ piece using a picture of a boy in the water.  We planned as a class to make sure we had the 5 W’s and the 6 Senses.  

Before we began our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct.  Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader with more of an experience.

Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end.  We had so much fun working together!

If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.  

Boy Overboard!

Jack was heaving on his rod but it was stuck, he kept heaving and heaving he looked down to see where it was stuck, he leaned over to much and he face planted in the icy cold water gasping for air, he could feel sharks bumping into him and he could feel the fins under his feet, Jack was frightened.  He heard the boat slowly moving away from him, “Help! Help!” he cried.

Nobody could hear Jack’s lonely call.  Jack could smell the diesel engine moving further and further away.  Jack started to give up his hopes, goosebumps started forming on the sides of his arms.  He didn't know what to do…he said to himself “I don't want to die this way” with a frown on his face and tear in his eye.

He could feel the sharks getting closer and closer to him, a shark pounced out of the water and bit his shoulder, he could hear the bone shattering into a millions of pieces, Jack sunk to the bottom of the deep blue sea slowly rising up to the top.  “I’m alive!” Jack shouted.  Jack had one arm but he was still grateful that he was alive…    

Written by Havana and Sonia.

Sonia:

I think I did well with giving ideas and fixing our punctuation.  I also learnt new words like heaving and pounced.  I had a lot of fun.  

Havana:

I think I did well with my ideas, editing and fixing our work.  I we both did well making the story interesting.  I learnt words like heaving and diesel engine.  I had fun.