Little House on the Prairie

We have been reading a book called Little House on the Prairie. We had the option to choose what we would like to do out of a lot of choices. Tane, Blake and I chose to explain three facts about our chose animal that lives on the prairie. Here is our slideshow.

Shapes

We have been working on two dimensional shapes. We had to do a Screencastify explaining what our chosen two dimensiona shapes were all about. We chose square, rhombus and rectangle.Here is Lochie's and my Screencastify.

Plastic Bottle Mountain

We are learning to describe. We were given  a photo of a gigantic pile of bottles. We had to describe what it would be like if we were one of the few people cleaning up the bottles. We had to make sure we were using present tense, using senses including: sights, sound, taste, smells, feeling, sensations. Still we had to make sure we extended our sentences to add more detail. Here is my writing and the picture.

Plastic Bottle Mountain

I look around the mountain of plastic and feel pressured into cleaning up the bottles because our family needs the money. My sister is stumbling around the garbage patch as I pick up a rather large bottle and put in the basket. My mother is cutting off the labels of of the hundreds of bottles. I start to stand up to go to another area of bottle mayhem. I can hear people strolling by behind me but no one is stopping to help.  Gigantic plastic bags are perched behind me and I feel like  they are about to topple onto me. There is something like a bike behind the bags, but it looks like it only has one wheel. There is a old bridge overhead  with old clothes and chains hanging from it. I feel like the rusty chains are about to fall on me trapping me next to the worst smelling bottles ever. 

As I look around  I feel outraged that people just threw their plastic bottles out the window of their car when they don’t want anymore. Still, even worse, they leave us to clean it up. Does humanity even care about the world? Now I know why people are going into space they're trying to find a new planet because they trashed this one.

Reader, even you can help change our plastic problem. The problem is all the people who want to save our planet are just a one man army, but if we combine we can make a difference. If we don’t do something soon then our planet will become known as the big ball of plastic. Next we would all be baked from global warming and then all life on earth will become extinct.

Jenny Sommervell

On Tuesday Jenny Sommervell came to our school! She is the author of: The Day Dad Blew Up The Cow Shed, The New Old Truck and: Eel Hunt. Here is a photo of us with Jenny Sommervell.

The Plastic Toy Shop

We are learning to describe. We had to describe a picture of a toy shop with plastic all over the shelves. We had to act like we were there at the time describing what we saw and felt. I think I still need to work on my present tense instead off past tense. We had to describe what we smelt, what we saw and all the other sensations. Here is mine. 

 Plastic Toy Shop

Colours lash out at me as I stroll into the toy shop where there are tons of toy weapons and cartoon characters posing all over the shelves. In the toy shop there are all kinds of plastic toys: plastic planes, plastic guns, plastic land animals, plastic sea animals, plastic cars, plastic motorbikes and much, much more! The luminous colours swarm around me as I scan the shelves for something interesting I would like to buy. 

The bright neon toys jump out at me as I stare at the shelves feeling like they’re all about to fall onto me making me tumble to the ground. I am amazed by the shop of complete plastic, while my mind is being flooded with colourful toys. I feel like I’m drowning in a gigantic ocean of plastic figures stocked on the shelves. All the toys seem to be staring at me as I gape at the rainbow filled shelves. The shelves are cluttered just like my brain as I enter the toy stuffed  store. The fluorescent store is filled with exotic colours everywhere. I am surrounded by small plastic toys, so many that there could be thousands.  

I smell the plastic rubber everywhere. As I stroll in different areas of the shop I smell something different every time. 

I can hear typing of the computer keys every 0.6 seconds. As I look at the shelves I can still hear the keys typing. “So irritating,” I think to myself “Is she trying to annoy everyone?” I ask myself. “You know what? I’m outta here,” I whisper. I never really liked plastic anyway.

The Line Of Symmetry

We have been learning where the line of symmetry is. We had to create shapes with the line of symmetry down the middle. The line of symmetry is the line that cuts the whole in half (it goes down the middle). The task was to put at least four shapes in each piece of paper, there were three categories which were three sided shapes, four sided shapes and more than four sided shapes.   We put the categorised shapes on their own piece of black paper then took a photo. Here is Isabel's Sophie's and mine.

My Reading Profile

This term we had to do a Reading Profile. I did my Reading Profile on a book called Spirit Animals. I enjoyed putting summoned spirit animals as the background. Here it is.