Synthesis

Today for reading we were learning about how gorillas are endangered species. My partner and I found out that gorillas weren't actually not aggressive but are in fact endangered. For our task we had to write down what we already knew about gorillas. We wrote what we knew we had to read a short story about gorillas being endangered then we had to write new information on the piece of paper.

Shoe Narrative-Jessie and Cecillia

Shoe Narrative

By Cecillia and Jessie

On  a sunny afternoon I was abandoned by the fish and chip shop. I was wondering who will notice me as people will going passed me I realized that nobody wanted me. I could feel rocky bumps just coming  towards me like I was invisible. I felt the wind bursting like a fireball. I felt that I was left behind. When I see other shoes like me I just feel so jealous. I feel like I’m not the only one who has felt like this before. Here I was by the fish and chip shop. I could hear sizzling coming towards me as if I was hungry and wanted to be like humans that can walk.

As the people come out of the shop I feel like that I have no idea what to do and I just feel like that nobody in the world would want me because I have holes everywhere. I just wish someone, anyone could just pick me up and take me home and take me somewhere safe.  If someone really does take me home I’ll be the happiest shoe of all time. As the sun set went down I realized that someone came looking for me but he or she came closer I realized it was a dog who wanted to chew me  up and to be his or hers toy. As the dog took me home the dog showed me his collection of other shoes some of them were like me.

Today for writing we had to write a short story for 15 mins. We had to use the 5 senses and personification to help us point a picture with words. My partner and I Cecillia had to write a sentence each  until the 15 mins were done we had to proof read our work.

Using the 6 Thinking Hats to explore a ballad poem - Ana,Cecillia,Victoria,and Jessie

Today for our activity we had to use the 6 Thinking Hats we had to Synthesize about how Charlotte Anne was the only lady that worked with the men and wore trousers.We thought that Charlotte Anne gave a message to all the ladies in the olden days that girls could do anything more then men.

Writing

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera musculus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

We have been learning to understand the structure for a information report. We needed to highlight the different kind of features different colours.

Synthesizing

This week for reading  we have been learning about Synthesizing.We have learnt that Synthesizing is when you put the pieces together to see them in a new way. For reading we had to  make a Biopic Poster yesterday we did J.K Rowling.Today I created a Biopic Poster  of  G.Washington using what we already knew about them and what we found out after researching.The new information  helped us think about what their picture  would look like,what the title might be and what background would match their achievements.

The Soldier who never returned poem

There’s a bottle of beer in the Waiho Forks bar,

From the rest on the shelf it stands out like a star.

For its shape is old fashioned and it just might be purple

And the label proclaims that its “Ballins Four X”

It was bought a long time ago by a young soldier brave;

On his final leave home, these are the instructions he gave.

“Don’t break it or sell it, just keep it in store,

And we’ll drink it when I come back home from the war.”

He was killed overseas on the Island of Crete

When they battled it out with the German elite.

There’s a headstone but nobody knows where he lies,

If he sleeps his last sleep ‘neath the sea or the skies

But the bottle still remains at the Country Hotel,

A memorial stands to a soldier who fell,

And travellers and locals take time out to think

Of the soldier who never came home for his drink.

And somehow a glow by the bottle is shed

As poppies surround it and edge it with red,

For each Anzac Day there’s a new one to put there

And they lie like a wreath round that bottle of beer.

There are many stone cairns scattered over the land

But I wonder how many are polished by hand.

Though the cap is all rusty and outshines the chrome,

As it waits for the soldier who never came home.

We have been learning everything about the soldiers who fought in the World Wars. We have been learning how to skim and scan and get information from stories and poems.Our Learning Intention is to find the main idea in a poem.

Writing a Narrative - Jessie and Juanita

“Get off the road!” shouted the man in the taxi. James was on his morning jog on a busy road, not caring about what he was running into such as the cars. As he was running he turned his back and saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge wanting to jump.

As James saw the man he ran as fast as he could  trying to save the poor old man’s life, but sadly he was just an inch away too late. The Scotland Yard ran to the scene wanting to know what happened. James sprinted, thinking he would get arrested. He hopped onto a motorcycle driving fast, over the limit anyway. “What will happen to me if they think it was my fault?” he said to himself. They chased after him wanting to know why he ran..

He went home thinking that no one would ever know it was him sadly the Scotland yard   knew. He had no choice but to skip town. He said his last good bye to his family and he said I love you and went on the run. Little did his family know, that James would never return.

He left the city and his family had no idea about it. All they knew was he was being “awkward” around them. They knew something was up so they followed him. Sadly they lost his tracks and they never saw him again.

These past 2 weeks for writing we have been learning how to write an narrative using TOPES-Title,Orientation,Problem,Explain,Solution,Mood words, HCSP-Hook,Character,Setting and Problem. Our Learning Intention is to write an narrative story,my partner Juanita and I were writing about a man being innocent but he was blamed for the event.