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.