Cooking On Fun Friday

This Friday we got to choose what we made. My group made mini pizzas. In my group was David, Rhys, Lincoln and me. My group had different flavors on their pizza and I had no pizza. I had no pizza because I didn't feel like having any. 

Taonga Puoro

Space Timeline Reading Task

Space timeline Reading tasks.

Term 2 Weeks 5-6

Purpose of this reading activity is to: increase our knowledge of space
exploration and understand how our knowledge and ideas about space have
changed over time (science). We are also learning to read non-fiction texts and
use our writing skills to share our understanding of this topic and our ideas
(literacy). Throughout this task we will need to use the skills of ‘Thinking’ and
using ‘Language, Symbols and Text.’

Learning Intentions

I am learning to skim and scan text to identify the main ideas.

I am learning to locate the key sentences and questions in texts.

I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the main ideas in text.

I am learning to summarise the main ideas in the texts I read.

(from the Karoro Programme of work for Reading)

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.

-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

-I have put my answers in chronological order.

Focus

We are looking at using non-fiction text to increase our knowledge in our science topic; SPACE.
Your aim is to read and understand the timeline reading and use this knowledge to complete the
reading activity below.

First, Read the timeline cards. Click here for the space timeline pdf

Second, We will discuss what you have read. This will be a good time to ask questions about anything
you are unsure of.

Third, do your reading tasks.

Fourth, complete your reading activity. Remember to proofread, check spelling and punctuation. Then
do a self assessment and a peer assessment. Check it with a teacher.

Reading Activity

View and read the space timeline on the classroom walls.
Think about how how our theories/ideas and understandings about the
universe and Earth’s place in it has changed over time.

Answer the following questions.

Your answers need to be full sentences.

After you have answered all the questions please put them in
chronological order (time order, oldest first)

5) What are two things that Galileo discovered? Galileo discovered
Jupiter's moons and lunar craters. Galileo made the first telescopic
observation of the night sky.  (1610) ✓

9) Who discovered the first asteroid? The first asteroid Ceres was
discovered by Giuseppe piazza    (1801) ✓

2) What was Sputnik 1? Sputnik 1 was a space satellite and this is what started
the space age.    (1957) ✓

3) In what year was NASA founded?  NASA was founded in 1958.
And what does NASA mean?  NASA means National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. ✓

6) Who was the first woman in space? Valentina Tereshkova was the first
woman in space. And where was she from? She was from Russia.    (1963) ✓

4)Where did Mariner 4 fly past?  Mariner 4 flew past Mars. (1965) ✓

7) In what year did Apollo 11 land on the moon? Apollo 11 landed on the moon
in 1969.  ✓

10) What country launched Voyager probes 1 and 2 into deep space?
America launched Voyager probes 1 and 2 into space. (1977) ✓

8) What happened that led to all space shuttles being grounded for 3 years?
Space shuttle Challenger exploded after launch. (1986) ✓

11) When was the international space station completed? The international
space station was completed in 2010. (1986) ✓

1)How long did it take for the Cassini probe to arrive at Saturn? It took nearly 7
years to arrive at Saturn!   (2004) ✓

12) What was interesting about New Horizon’s information about Pluto? Pluto
is 50 miles larger than we first thought. (2015) ✓

YOUR OPINION

After reading this information...

1. Who do you think made the biggest contribution to our understanding of

space? Galileo Why? Galileo made the first observation of the night sky.
Galileo discovered jupiter's moons, lunar craters and the different phases of
venus.  (summarising key ideas)

    2) What do you think was the most important machine or invention in helping
us investigate space? The telescope. Why? It helps us make observations of
the night sky. It can see stuff that are really far away. (summarising key ideas)

    3) What would you like to investigate about space? Black holes. Why?
Because I don’t know much about them. I find black holes very interesting.

Self and Peer Assessment.

Self and Peer Assessment

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.

-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

- I have put my answers in chronological order.

Success criteria 1: I have have scanned text to find key ideas
(I have been able to answer the questions).

        

                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved

Me
My partner

Success criteria 2: -I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

      

                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved

Me
My partner

Success criteria 3: I have put my answers in correct chronological order.

        

                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved

Me
My partner

Cooking On Fun Friday

This Friday we got to make vegetable soup and scones. In my group was Jack, Cailin, David and me. Me and Jack were making the scones and Cailin and David were making the vegetable soup. 

My Planet Writing

Create and Describe Your Own Planet -

Description writing task

Term 2 Weeks 5-6

Purpose of this piece of writing is to:

Learning Intentions

I am learning to use language features to make my writing
interesting and engaging for the reader.

I am learning to use topic-specific vocabulary.

I am learning to include Te Reo Māori words in my writing.

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have used some language features to make my writing
interesting and engaging (simile, metaphor, alliteration,
onomatopoeia, rhyme)

-I have carefully chosen some topic specific words to include
in my writing.

-I have used some Te Reo Māori

Focus

We are continuing to look at descriptive writing. This week you are writing a
descriptive piece of writing to promote your imaginary planet. You aim is to
convince people to move to your planet. You want your writing to allow the
reader to be able to imagine what it is like on your planet.

First, we will look at an excerpt of a video describing the moon from the Avatar
movie. Click here to get to video= Pandora.

Second, we will discuss together what you will need in your work to make it
successful and look at how to plan our work. Then you will plan your work and
check with a teacher before you start writing.

Third, do your piece of writing.

Fourth, complete you piece of writing. Remember to proof-read (check spelling
and punctuation) and edit (does it make sense? do you need to change any
sentences?) yourself and with a buddy and fill in your self and
peer-assessment. Check it with a teacher.

My Writing

Kamino

Kamino is a planet made of  kātao (water) in the outer Alex of the
Alex galaxy. If you go to this planet you might get lucky and get
cloned in cloning facilities! You would be allowed to look at the
armies being made. There is a low chance that droid gunship might
attack and that might be bad and a high chance a whole fleet of
droid gunships, tri fighters and vulture droids and droids and
droidekas and that's not so good.  It rains alot but the droids are
waterproof.

To get to my planet you need to be in a spaceship that can enter
hyperspace. When you go in hyperspace you are going faster than
the speed of light. In hyperspace you would be going 299,792
kilometers per second! (I had to get this hyperspace information
from the internet). My planet is 100,000 light years away from earth.
100,000 light years is 9.46073e+17 kilometers.

Kaminoan live on Kamino. They have a long neck, they are very tall,
have long legs and they have long arms. Kaminoan live in cities on
the kātao (water)which are also cloning facilities.

The cities have floaters so that the city doesn’t sink into the ocean.
When one of the floaters breaks then there would be a big evacuation
because the floaters are very very big. There would be lots of people
evacuating the facilities because the facilities can hold 10,000,000
people.

I think that you should go there if you are alright with nearly being
shot by a laser.         By Alex

Cooking On Fun Friday

This Friday we have been cooking. Today we made a chocolate sponge. We needed to mix all the stuff up and wash the stuff that we used. It was yum. My team worked well. I think that I need to work on helping a bit more. I think that to help a bit more I should read the instructions. 

This is a photo of my group. 

Best Part Of Me

Learning Intentions

I am learning to use language features to make my writing interesting and engaging for the reader.

I am learning to think carefully about the words I use so that my writing is descriptive and engaging for the reader.

I am learning to add an appropriate visual to my work

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have used some language features to make my writing interesting and engaging (smile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme)

-I have carefully chosen some interesting words to include in my writing

-I have some descriptive words in my writing (adjectives)

-I have added a photo to my writing

My hands   

My hands are like hidden hands. I like to hide them. I don’t know why? My hands like to be quiet, hidden in my sleeves. My hands come out when I’m writing. They come out like a tortoise coming out of its shell.

Cooking On Fun Friday

On Friday we will have a tech challenge. This Friday we had a cooking challenge. 

The challenge for this Friday was make a pizza and in my group was Phoebe, Jack, David and me. We needed to make the base and get the toppings ready and put the toppings on. 

The pizza on the left is my groups.