Ella Diaries Double Dare You 30BC Book Review

Author - Meredith Costain
Illustrator - Danielle McDonald

Genre - Humour/Narrative

Main Characters - Ella, Zoe and Peach

Summary
Ella's enemy Peach has to sit next to her because her best friend Zoe is away. When Zoe comes back will she be able to sit next to her or not? One lunchtime they see Peach sitting in a circle underneath a tree. There is a shoe in the middle of the circle. They go and join the circle but what is going to happen then?

I would give this book 4.5 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who don't like bullies but like funny things. The age I would recommend this book for is 8 and up. 

Literacy Reflection W5 T3

Literacy 
This week for literacy we have been using FANBOYS, puntuation and 1-2 Te Reo words in our sentences. We had to write a sentence for every FANBOYS joining word. 
We had to listen to the story Peter Rabbit and complete the activity about the book using Literacy Elements. 
We also used Coggle to find the literacy elements in our favourite book. We had to take a screenshot of our work and put it on a slide in our group's modelling book.  

FANBOYS Activity

Peter Rabbit Activity

Coggle Activity

Olympic Reflection W5 T3

Olympics
This week the Olympic Task we had to do was do 3 google drawings with the top 3 events that you would like to do 1 day. I chose Mountain Biking, Triathlon and Pole Vault. Here are my DLO's.

Mountain Biking




Triathlon



Pole Vault

Magic Finger 30BC Book Review

Author - Roald Dahl
Illustrator - Quentin Blake

Genre - Narrative

Main Characters - Girl, William Gregg, Philip Gregg, Mr Gregg, Mrs Gregg and the ducks. 

Summary 
The Gregg family like shooting but when a girl (who dosen't like shooting animals) sees that her friends William and Philip are shooting animals she puts the Magic Finger on them. What will the magic finger do to the Gregg family? 

I would give this book 4 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who don't like shooting animals but like magic. The age I would recommend this book for is 7 and up. 

Fantastic Mr Fox 30BC Book Review

Author - Roald Dahl
Illustrator - Quentin Blake

Genre - Adventure

Main Characters - Mr Fox, Mrs Fox, Small Foxes, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. 

Summary - Mr Fox steals food from the nasty farmers. The farmers, Boggis, Bunce and Bean, aren't very happy about Mr Fox stealing the food so they want to try and shoot him. Are they going to shoot Mr Fox and his family? 

I would give this book 5 stars out of 5. 

I would recommend this book to people who like animals and like exploring. The age I would recommend this book for is 8 and up.  

World's Worst Children 30BC Book Review

Author - David Walliams
Illustrator - Tony Ross

Genre - Humour

Main Characters - Dribbling Drew, Bertha the Blubberer, Nigel Nit-Boy, Miss Petula Perpetual-Motion, Peter Picker, Grubby Gertrude, Brian Wong who was never ever wrong, Windy Mindy, Earnest Ernest, Sofia Sofa. 

Summary
Stories about the world's most disgusting children in the world like kids who have lots of nits in their hair to kids who pick their nose and put their bogeys into a ball. These stories are very funny but very gross. 

I would give this book 5 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who like humour and gross stories. The age I would recommend it for is 8 and up. 

52 Storey Tree House 30BC Book Review

Author - Andy Griffiths
Illustrator - Terry Denton 

Genre - Adventure/Drama

Main Characters - Andy, Terry, Jill

Summary 
13 more stories have been built on the tree house. A curse has been put on Jill and her animals. They need to take Jill to a prince to wake her up. What will happen when she wakes up? Will Andy and Terry write the book and get it to Mr Big Nose on time? 

I would give this book 4 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who like going on adventures and like tree houses. The age I would recommend it for is 8 and up. 

39 Storey Tree House 30BC Book Review

Author - Andy Griffiths
Illustrator - Terry Denton 

Genre - Adventure/Drama

Main Characters - Andy, Terry, Jill

Summary 
13 more stories have been built on the tree house. Terry has built a Once Apon a Time Machine that writes books for them. The machine takes over their tree house. Will they ever get back into their tree house? Will Andy and Terry write the book and get it to Mr Big Nose on time? 

I would give this book 4 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who like going on adventures and like tree houses. The age I would recommend it for is 8 and up. 

26 Storey Tree House 30BC Book Review

Author - Andy Griffiths
Illustrator - Terry Denton 

Genre - Adventure/Drama

Main Characters - Andy, Terry, Jill

Summary 
13 more stories have been built on the tree house. They meet mean old Captain Wooden Head. What will he do? Will Andy and Terry write the book and get it to Mr Big Nose on time? 

I would give this book 4 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who like going on adventures and like tree houses. The age I would recommend it for is 8 and up. 

13 Storey Tree-house 30BC Book Review

Author - Andy Griffiths
Illustrator - Terry Denton 

Genre - Adventure/Drama

Main Characters - Andy, Terry, Jill

Summary
13 storeys have been built on the tree house. The problem is that the sea-monkeys are taking over. What will they destroy? Will Andy and Terry write the book and get it to Mr Big on time? 

I would give this book 4 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who like going on adventures and like tree houses. The age I would recommend it for is 8 and up. 

Malory Towers First Term 30BC Book Review

Author - Enid Blyton
Cover Art - Nicola Slater

Genre - Narrative/Drama

Main Characters - Darrell, Gwendoline, Alicia, Sally, Miss Potts, Mamzelle Rougier, Mamzelle Dupont

Summary
It is Darrell's first term at Malory Towers, a boarding school. She meets lots of friends and they play tricks on the teachers. One of the girls is really mean to them and they try and trick her as well. Darrell loses her temper and something goes wrong. At the end she becomes friends with a new girl Sally.

I would give this book 4.5 stars out of 5.

I would recommend this to people who like playing tricks on people but don't like bullies. The age I would recommend it for is 9 and up.

Book Week 2016

Book Week 2016

This week was Book Week. Book Week is where we do different activities to do with books. Here is what we did for Book Week.

Every day we had a challenge to find a golden ticket that had been hidden around the school. The person who found it got a prize with lots of books. 

Before Monday every class needs to have a door decorated. The door has to be something to do with a book. My class is doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the BFG.  

There was a colouring competition that you can take from the library. You had to hand it in by the end of the week. There was prizes for each syndicate. 

When you issue a book out from the library you can guess how many lolly worms are in the jar. If you guess the right number you get the whole jar of lolly worms! I guessed 125, I think!

On Monday at lunchtime we got to go out on the court and draw our favourite character from a book. I drew Willy Wonka. He was a stick person because I had to go and do the PE Shed. 

On Tuesday we buddy reading with our buddy. I only got to read with my buddy and another kid for about 5 minutes because I had to do an ICAS Exam for a while. 
After school at 6 o' clock we got to go to Nga Manawa in our PJ's and read stories and show our parent/s the new library. Some people got spot prizes. My sister got a cook book for a prize.

On Wednesday there were no activities that happened but the golden ticket was still there to find. We still got to work on the door display. 

On Thursday we had Wacky Thursday. We got to dress up wacky. I had a lot of things that were wacky. Here is what I had.
Hair
Shoes (Odd)
Socks (Odd)
Pants (Pajamas)
Suspenders 
Clown Nose on my head
Tutu

Today we had Book Character Day. Book Character day is when you dress up as a character from a book. I dressed up as 'The Very Cranky Bear' with antlers, mane and stripes. Every year the teachers dress up as characters from a book. They act out a part of the story. This year they acted out Harry Potter. My Mum is a teacher so she dressed up as one of the characters. She was Professor Snape with a pretend wand and pretend book of potions.  

Thank you Mrs Costello (our librarian) for making Book Week so fun!

Numeracy Reflection W3 T3

Numeracy 

This week for numeracy we had to add two more slides to our DTO Decimals and Fractions slide. We had to show the teacher that we understand and know how to Visualize equivalent fractions and Fractions in a simplified form. 

It was a bit hard trying to explain how to do it. I learnt how to Visualize equivalent fractions and how to do Fractions in a simplified form. Here are the two slides that I completed. 

Olympic Reflection W3 T3

Topic

For topic this week we had to have 5 Olympic activities completed. This week I started and finished 3 activities which were a NZ 

Paralympian profile, an inspirational story about someone that has competed in the Olympics before and a Compare and Contrast activity where you had to write what things were different in the ancient Olympics and what things were different in the Modern Olympics. 

It was a bit tricky trying to write the Inspirational Story because you had to write it in your own words. The Compare and Contrast sheet was a bit tricky as well because you had to find lots and lots of information.

I learnt lots about the Olympics and some of the NZ 2016 Athletes. The most interesting fact that I found out was that the Para-Athlete that I studied was blind and deaf. Here are some of the activities that I did. 

Amanda Cameron Para-Athlete Profile

Kelly Holmes Inspirational Story





Compare and Contrast 

Week 2 Olympic Reflection

Country Study
We had to choose three countries and write about their landscape and where they are. My three countries are Malawi, Mongolia and Belarus. Here are the DLO's about them. 

Belarus

Malawi

Mongolia

Athlete Study

We had to choose three athletes from the NZ Olympic team and write information and fun facts about them. My three olympians are Lisa Carrington, Lauren Boyle and Chloe Tipple. Here are the DLO's about them. 

Lisa Carrington

Lauren Boyle

Chloe Tipple