Swamp Media

For inquiry, we have been learning about media. We have 4r groups, tv, press, online and radio. I was on tv but I couldn't get the video, so here is the Swamp Media website. Swamp Media.

Maths With Remainders

For maths in Shosborn math, we have been learning about short division with remainders. We had to create something to explain division with remainders. This is mine and Skylah's slide. Enjoy!!!!!

Wearable Arts

For inquiry, we have been learning about waste and recycling plastic. I did a Maori costume that I did with Kobe and Riley. This is our speech.

Did you know that it takes 200 years for just one straw to break down, just one?
What will you do now if you go to a restaurant and they give you a straw with a glass? You don’t even need it, you can just drink out of the glass!
Straws are an unnecessary part of society.
Businesses are starting to make a change. McDonald’s, New World and Countdown are all doing their bit to reduce the waste.

The Maori have a strong connection to our land, they call it Kaitiakitanga. It was their duty to protect and keep the land healthy and prosperous.

Our art piece represents the Maori connection to the land, showing the traditional dress of a piupiu, but made with straws. The ‘waste’ band is made of single-use plastic bags.

Lots of places are realizing that if we do a little thing, it will make a big difference in the environment.
What little thing will you do?

Geometry Evidence

For term one math we have been learning about geometry. Here is a slide about geometry.

Themes and Narratives

Hello Readers,

For literacy, we have been learning about finding themes in stories. Here is a presentation of themes in stories.

Vocabulary BITSP

Vocabulary List

Forlorn - Ch.8

Alone and sad.

The boy was smaller than Bruno and was sitting on the ground with a forlorn expression.

At home, all forlorn and sad.

Enunciate - Ch.8

Word does not exist in the book.

Disdain- Ch.8

Unworthy in front of someone

'I'm twelve but he's only nine,' said Gretel, looking at her brother with disdain.

I was disdain in front of the Queen.

Inconsolable - Ch.8

Heartbroken

(of a person or their grief) not able to be comforted or alleviated.

(His departure had come about very suddenly and there had been a lot of shouting between Father and Mother about it late at night, but he was gone, that was for sure, and he wasn't coming back; Gretel was inconsolable.)

I was inconsolable on the floor.

Appalled - Ch.8

Shocked at something.

Bruno looked appalled.

I was appalled by my performance.

Unaccustomed - Ch.8

Used to something.

Shmuel smiled too and the two boys stood awkwardly together for a moment, unaccustomed to being on the same side of the fence.

I was not unaccustomed to the new laws.

Strode - Ch.9

Taking long strides while walking.

Lieutenant Kotler still strode around in his black boots as if there was no one in the whole world of any more importance than him, and when he wasn't with Father he was standing in the driveway talking to Gretel while she laughed hysterically and twirled her hair around her fingers, or whispering alone in rooms with Mother.

I strode across the basketball court.

Evidence- Ch.9

Somethings that could help find a criminal or find something out.

'He did come to harm, Matthias,' insisted Grandmother. 'Take a look at him for your evidence.'

I have found heaps of evidence at the crime scene.

Despite - Ch.9

Outrage

contemptuous treatment or behaviour; outrage.

'Don't be stupid,' said Gretel, despite the fact that she had been told time and time again that she was not to call her brother stupid.

He had cut his leg despite his brother caused it.

Nook - Ch.9

A little desk in the corner of the room.

There was no point in doing any exploring inside. After all, this wasn't like the house in Berlin, which he could just about remember had hundreds of nooks and crannies, and strange little rooms, not to mention five floors if you counted the basement and the little room at the top with the window he needed to stand on tiptoes to see through.

I have a nook in the corner of my room.

Personification

Walking across the footpath, my feet disappearing every step I take, the clouds crying, getting more and more hostile by the second. The sky turning grey and crying more and more.

The clouds striding angrily towards me. Everyone avoiding him, all inside, with a hot chocolate and watching a movie with the family.

I make a brand new friend. He had raisins as eyes, a carrot a nose and raisins also as a mouth. In fact, he is was my only friend until he melted to water, cooked carrot and raisins.

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