Compare and Contrast Horizon Texts

 

Compare and Contrast Texts: Paragraph  Synthesis  30.10.2020

Text One has a strong mood/atmosphere of positiveness.  Language features the writer used to show this mood were adjectives such as endless blue clear...,verbs such as hoping floating and believe and adverbs such as gently

  In comparison, Text Two has a strong mood/atmosphere of negativity Language features the writer used to show this mood were adjectives such as treacherous,scorched and ethereal..,verbs such as raged                                

escaped  and adverbs such as still

The difference in the moods created between the two texts is because of the connotative meanings of many of the words. Many words in  Text One made you feel positive..

 whereas many words in Text Two made you fell negative...

              These two texts are evidence that when writers choose words very

               carefully, they are able to create quite different moods even though the

               language tools they are using are the same.

Creepy Crawly

 In Term 4, Week One we had to solve a maths problem about creepy crawlies in an alien zoo.  Some had 4 legs and some had 3. We had to have a combination of 3 legged animals and 4 legged animals to make 48 legs in total. I had so much fun with this activity. Here is my work. I hope you enjoy it.

 Kia ora

We have been learning about how to use Compatible Numbers. Compatible Numbers are any two numbers which add together to make a Tidy Number 

(a  number which ends in zero).  We had to choose two Compatible Numbers and another number. Then we had to think of a word problem which used our numbers and give the problem to a buddy to solve. Mrs Ogle, our maths facilitator, said this is called 'posing problems'.

Dog, Cat and Bob have some chickens. Dog has 6 chickens Cat has 4 chickens and Bob has 5 chickens how many chickens do they have all together? 

6+4=10

10+5=15

Measuring feet and heads

 Hi, 

This week we were measuring feet and heads using a piece of string.  First we had to estimate our feet and heads before measuring our piece of string against a metre ruler.
What was hard? Getting the measurement from the string and ruler.

What was easy? Writing the  measurement  on the slide.

Here it is:

Plate Tectonics

 We did an expeiment to learn about plate tectonics and how the movement of the plates help shape New Zealand .Here are some photos from my experiment. Can you guess what we used for our materials?

Shore plover

For term one we were focusing on extinct birds. My extinct bird was the shore plover here is my work I hope you enjoy. 

The PECO Incident

In term one we read a book called The Peco Incident. The story is about two kids Nick and Daniel how sneak into a fame and take pictures of the farm and get in a lot of trouble. I did the task to make an animation about the story. Here is mine. I hope you enjoy.

space story

In term one we did a space story I liked the cool picture in my head of going into space. what I didint like was all the writing. here is mine I hope you enjoy.

Rhyming Couplets

In term two we did rhyming couplets. Rhyming couplets are a poem that has two lines and the last words on each line has two rhyme. We did rhyming couplets about Matariki. Here is mine I hope you enjoy. 

chicken Divas

In term one we read a book called Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas and we got to draw a chicken, then colour it in. After that we cut it out then put a coloured paper behind it, then we got to decorate it and put it on the wall. Here is minehttps://docs.google.com/drawings

Maths

In term one, week 10 we did our 2xtables, 5xtables, 10xtables, 3xtables, 4xtables, 6xtables, 8xtables, 9xtables and 7xtables. I got all the answers right but I was to slow with some. We get 5 seconds. If you don't answer correct in 5 seconds you don't get the answer right. It means we still need to practise and be able to answer them instantly.

This week we did a task about Corona virus I made a little blurb about corona virus I hope you enjoy.

homeschool

mum had a good idea of going down a dirt hill with a surf board. Here are some photos. of me. You can see in one of the photos Cricket my goat wanted to join in. all so my puppy bailey joined in sorry we don,t have any photos of me and bally but I hope you enjoy the other photos  

ANZAC

part of my school was to write a story about life in the trenches to my diary as a soldier.

ANZAC

I learnt some things about ANZAC I hope you enjoy

ANZAC DAY

I am learning about ANZAC day at home with mum. Today I wrote a letter to a WW1 soldier.

fun with Mum

I played around in my back paddock with Mum and I had some fun on a vine hanging in a tree. I used it like a swing. I made an animation about it I hope you enjoy. 

I collected some eels from the pond and I mad an annimation about it her is a link to my other eel blog Andrew's Blog I hop you enjoy

Eels

There are two main types of eels in New Zealand, the shortfin and the longfin. Eels are getting less  because of the loss of their wet land habitat.  Shortfin eels at about 15 to 30 years and longfin eels about 25 years but they can reach up to 80 years, they go to Pacific Ocean to breed and die. Eels are normally nocturnal witch means they like to come out at night. The Maori word for Eels is Tuna.

Me and my brother went up on our motorbikes to the dam and court 13 eels. They were differnt sizes. The biggest one was 25 cm long I think it was a mixture of both shortfin and longfin.

8th April 2020

the difference between hedgehogs and porcupines

I found the Hedgehog at home and I found the difference between a porcupine and a hedgehog I hope you enjoy these facts

Whitebait Fritters

We have been reading Whitebait Fritters made by Kingi McKinnon. 
I found making the characters hard because I am a bad drawer.
I found it easy editing my work because I had a good picture in my head. 
The learning behind the task was  Whitebait Fritters story book cover.

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Whitebait fritters

We have been reading Whitebait Fritters made by Kingi McKinnon. I found making the characters hard and editing easy. My group was Elise, Veon, Rory and Max. Here's our animation.

log lasting food

1 museli bar 2 nuts 3 raisins 4 cereal 5 caned spagetti 6 caned tuna 7 carrots 8 orange 9 apricots 10 caned baked beans