The Worst Thing About My Sister

Author - Jacqueline Wilson

Illustrator - Nick Sharratt

Genre - Adventure

Main Characters - Marty, Melissa

Summary - Marty and Melissa never get on. When Marty wears a dress her Mum made her everyone wants one as well. Her Mum needs a room to sew and to store all her clothes. She uses Marty's room as her sewing room, so Marty has to move into Melissa's room. Will they ever get along? 

I would definitely give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

I would recommend this book to people who like adventure books. The age I would recommend this book for is 9 and up.  

Mouse House Hunter

Author - Elisabetta Dami

Genre - Adventure

Setting - Mouse Island

Main Characters - Geronimo, Thea, Trap, Bugsy Wugsy, Benjamin, Grandad William Shortpaws

Summary - Sally Ratmousen has said on the TV that the Rodent's Gazette was failing so they would have to sell their business? What will happen next? 

I would definitely give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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

Lily Alone

Author - Jacqueline Wilson

Illustrator - Nick Sharratt

Genre - Adventure

Main Characters - Lily, Pixie, Baxter, Bliss

Summary - Lily's Mum doesn't really care about her kids. She goes to the bar every night and tells her kids that she'll be back at before midnight but that never happens. She never comes home until like 3:00 in the morning. When she was there one night she finds a friend who lives in Spain. She hasn't told her friend about the kids, so she goes away to Spain without them. What will the kids get up to?

I would definitely give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

I would recommend this book to people who like adventure books. The age I would recommend this book for is 9 and up.  

Recycled Creature

For the school Family Fiesta, Mamaku has to create a sea creature to show on display. There is also a judge who judges who's creature is the best, 2nd best, and 3rd best. 

Bonus Reflection W9 T1

Here is my results for my speed test. 

Family Fiesta Poster

We had to make a poster advertising the Family Fiesta. We had to include: when (date/time) and what's happening. We also had to make it colourful. 

Numeracy Reflection W9 T1

This week for numeracy we have made a slide with instructions of how to do 2x2 digit multiplication. Here is one of my instructions. 

Step One

Explanation (words)

• Use columns showing place value
• A line between the equation and the answer

                       H  T  O    

                           2 4

                       X  5 6

                                                

Literacy Reflection W9 T1

This week for literacy we have been doing word work and writing. For writing we have been writing our camp reflection in paragraphs. I found this writing quite fun.

Writing

We went to lots of places there to learn about different things like mining, history and lots more. On the way we went to Mitchell’s Gully Goldmine. One of the workers told us about the mine and then we went on a bush walk which was an old minecart track. Then we went for a toilet stop at Constant Bay and then headed to the Nile River for a swim. The water was ice cold but we still swam and jumped of a massive rock into the water. When I got out of the water I could hardly feel anything, I was so cold. Once I had got dressed I went to play on the swing that was hanging from a tree with Katelin. When everyone had got out of the water and had got dressed we went to the Seal Colony at Cape Foulwind. We walked to see the seals and then walked a bit further to see signs that told you how far away other countries were. When we got back to the beach we got into groups and made a sand sculpture. My group made a mermaid. The next day we went to the Westport i-site/museum and then to Denniston. We learnt a lot about mining that day and also the history.

Every night while some of the parents were making tea we went down to swimming pool for about an hour. On the way home we went to the Blacks Point Museum in Reefton where we learnt about mining but also about the Victorian times. After we went to the museum we went to the camping ground to have a play and something to eat. Simon and Dad were kicking up the ball that we were trying to catch. Then we played a game of touch with Damon reffing.

Word Work

Clover Moon

Author - Jacqueline Wilson

Illustrator - Nick Sharratt

Genre - Adventure, History

Setting - Victorian London

Main Characters - Clover, Meg, Clover & Meg's step-siblings, Mr Dolly 

Summary - A girl called Clover lives on a poor street in Victorian London. She had a Dad who worked early in the morning till late at night and didn't really care about Clover's problems. Her Mum had died when she was little. She had a step-mum who was really mean to her. Clover had a secret friend, crippled Mr Dolly. How will Clover cope with her Dad and step-mum. 

I would definitely give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

I would recommend this book to people who like well written and great books but are prepared for a sad part. The age I would recommend this book for is 9 and up. 

Numeracy Reflection Week 7 Term 1 2017

This week for numeracy we have been learning about long multiplication. In this DLO I made up easy equations but when I went on to Maths Buddy they were really hard. Here is my DLO. 

Literacy Reflection Week 7 Term 1 2017

This week for literacy we had to start a SEEC paragraph about Shantytown. We had to write sentences for each 5w's (who, what, when, why, where). Then we had to write an introduction about 'what' Shantytown is. Here is my DLO. 

We also got to do a spine poem for our writing. Here is my DLO explaining what we had to do and our work. 

For Word Work I have decoded my words. Here is my work. 

Spine Poem

Word Work

Literacy Reflection Week 5 Term 1

This week for reading and writing we had to choose a topic that we had to read books and online articles about. I chose to do 'Wakeboarding'. We record notes from what we read. We also had to do a Coggle write down some of the ideas as well. 

For word work we have a different activity to complete every day of the week. Here are the activities that I did. 

Numeracy Reflection Week 5 Term 1 2017

This week we found out our PAT Maths results and set some goals for ourselves. We had to write on a google drawing what our goals were and how we would achieve them. Then we had to put them on our portfolio. Here is my drawing with my goals on it.