In 100 Years Time - By Caleb

Giant Tortoises - By Hayley

Return Ticket Please! by Makaea

Knowledge: List 5 facts you learnt from the text.

1. The first person to walk on the Moon was Neil Armstrong in 20 July 1967.      
2. The surface on Venus is 187c.
3. Scientist think that there might be water under ground on Mars.
4. Mars is so far away that it will take messages four minutes and twenty seconds to reach us.
5. Venus air pressure could crush a human body.

Comprehension Why do spacecraft go to Mars and not Venus? What are the problems with sending people to Mars?

Spacecrafts go to Mars because the pressure on Venus could crush them. The surface on Venus is 187C hot enough to melt lead. Mars is one of the planets that people can survive on. At night the temperature seldom reaches 5 c. On Mars dust storms can last for months.

Application Choose four specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. Spacecraft means a vehicle used for travelling in space.
2. Astronauts means a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.
3. Oxygen means a colourless, odourless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
4. Temperature means the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.

Analysis Would you like to go on a trip to Mars? Why, or why not?

A reason why I don't want to go to Mars is because of the dust storms and how cold it gets at night. I can't breath oxygen. A reason why I do want to go to Mars I'll be the first kid that went to Mars. I get to experience a different planet. A might get to prove that there was life on Mars.

Synthesis- New Ideas Create a poster/infographic/google drawing about what you have read to put up in the classroom. Include information you have learnt from the text.

Buzzy Bee a choking Hazard - Kayla

Knowledge:List 2  fact from the text  

1. The buzzy bee toy is only known because of when Prince William came to New Zealand and had a buzzy bee toy.

2. Did you know that there are heaps of babies that are choking on the toy buzzy bee.

Comprehension

The main thing is that the people that make buzzy bees should make sure that no one can eat anything off of it and make it more safe so if babies but it in there mouth nothing would fall off and choke them. This story should be called the buzzy choke.

Application:Draw three frame picture strip

Babies normally put stuff in there mouth but

You should watch your baby everything it put in its mouth!.

If you buy this test it be for you let your baby have it because parts might fall off and your baby might put it in it mouth.

When you get a toy for your baby make sure that the toy is made so no wheels are going to fall off.

Analysis: Make a flowchart with at least 4 things in it

Synthesis: New ideas write one thing you would changes

The one thing that i would change is that the people that are buy it get to see how's it made and if it made correctly.

Evaluate: Make a judgement and rate the story

I rate this story 8 out of 10 because i don't like reading stuff that have babies choking and that the people who make them should make them better.

Nippers-Chloe

NIPPERS  

Article and photographs

By jill macGregor

Knowledge  

1.  didn't you know that there were junior surf clubs. 2.

2. I didn't that in the junior  surf  club they had to clean the beach.

Comprehension

They had to smooth out the ground for the lifeguards to clean the beach.

 

Extraordinary Earthworms - Nikita

Knowledge.1 .There are more than one thousand kinds of seaweed.2. The biggest seaweed in New Zealand can grow up to 70 metres high.3. The smallest seaweed is as small as your little finger nail.4. Seaweed is an algae that grow in the sea.                                                                                                                                                                             ComprehensionThis book is about undersea gardens it has seaweed,coral,fishthere is more than one thousand seaweed types in New Zealand the smallest seaweed in the world is the size of your little finger nail and the biggest seaweed is 70 meters high. Air bladders help to hold the blades upright in the water the blades are the leaves of the seaweed they take in sunlight to help the seaweed to grow.

Camping down the line week 8 Cody

Knowledge: List all the characters in the story and what they are.

girls

Mum and girls

boys

Dad baby and boy

Comprehension Retell the text in your own words. (At

least 4 sentences)

They were going camping when it was pitch black like this box. But they did not know they were right beside the railway tracks.They lit up the gas lamp and they had tea the twins put their lettuce on the ground.they went to bed.

In the middle of the night a train went past they thought they got run over but they didn't. The kids slept in the car.  

Application Draw a three frame picture strip of one part of this story. Include speech bubbles

Analysis Create a FLOW CHART of the main events in sequence - (there should be at least 6 idea

Synthesis- New Ideas Create a new front and back cover for the book. Give it a new title and write a short summary.

Omapere childern delighted - Brad

Omapere Children Delighted By New Playground.

Knowledge

1.The opononi area school were the first to use a brand new playground on Opononi's  waterfront.

2.The old playground at freese park on Omapere's waterfront had been showing its age and no longer met the needs of local children.

3.This new playground looks exciting I hope it will extend the bodies and minds of Omapere's young people mr carter said.

Prone to erosion means something very likely to be flooded and washed away

I think the author has written this page because the kids did really interesting with all the playground business

I rate this book 6.5/10 because they just mostly talked about playground's