Reading

 L.I To explain in fewer words what the text is about

Creatures of the deep live in total darkness and can thrive  in icy cold conditions. Some creatures have organs that glow to attract their prey.

Interseting fact: The water becomes  totally dark at about 900 meters.

ASB GetWise

 L.I To be wise with your money.

Today our getwise instructor Marlon taught us how to be wise with money, we played a game were we had to see who could get the most fun points while on our trip to Fiji. The twist was that we were on a $1800 budget. In my group it was me, Chris, Lukah, Oscar and Vayan. Marlon taught us about credit cards, debt and insurance, he also gave us advice to be smart with money. He said its better to buy insurance as it covers any bills.

Pulleys

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find out about pulleys. 

We have been learning about simple machines. There are 6 different types of simple machines. This week we learnt about pulleys. Our DLO shows our labelled diagrams of a pulley system. A labelled diagram is an information picture.

Pulleys are simple machines that helps lift heavy things.

25 Word Summary: A pulley is used to transfer heavy loads easily by force by hooking one end of the rope on load and pulling on the other.

Did you know? I knew about pulleys since I was year 6.

A Moment in Time Poem

LI: To use the language features and structure of published poem to help use write our own poem.

We looked at the language features and structure of a poem called ‘A Moment in Time’ and used our experiences from camp to follow the structure and collaboratively create our own moment in time poem. To describe what we heard, what we saw, how we felt and what we wondered we used our senses, adjectives and adverbs. Ajectives are words that describes nouns. Adverbs are a word that describes an action. I found this task interesting and fun because I used a really cool website called word hippow to make my groups work better.

Setting

 LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader.  

A setting is the place, time and environment of a story to help a reader make a connection to your narrative you need to use your words in away that helps them form a picture of what you are describing in their mind.To do this we looked at an image and thought of 10 words that described and showed what we could see. Once we had thought of the adjectives or adverbs we used our smart searching skills to help us find synoymns that made our descriptions clearer. I found this task interesting because I learnt more interesting words.