Summary - Shipwrecked by Sharon Udy

I think this book was about a man who lived in Fiji,and who sailed out in the sea and then  far away from  shore. His boat soon started breaking down and sinking. He managed to grab a flipper to swim. He soon felt coral on his feet and knew that he must be on a reef.Then he thought to himself there must be a lagoon on the other side, then  land! .Later in the day he woke up on an island. He ate a couple of coconuts and found another island that was nearby so he swam and swam all the way there. When he finally made it to the island he realised there were people there. He  was later rescued from the island.

                        True story

Using correct punctuation marks

“Here we are at last,” moaned Matthew.

“It’s a great place,” said mum.

“I hope it has wifi because I want to watch John Cena.”

“You’ll be lucky. We will be busy doing lot’s of activities,” mum said.

“This is not my idea of a holiday,” Matthew moans.

learning to use correct speech marks

“ Tag you're it ,” I say.

”No, I’m not ,” she said.

“Yes you are!,” I shout loudly.

”Tag you’re it now I tricked ya,” she giggles.

”Hey you cheated. I’m not playing anymore.”

Kaitiaki of the stream main ideas

                        Main ideas

Pg 1 -  I think that the main ideas on the page is telling us about the Mangapouri stream being polluted and a man named Pataka Moore talking to people about the importance of the stream and how it could be made healthy again.

Pg 2 - I think that the main ideas on the page is telling us why the Mangapouri stream is special to the hapu and community of Otaki and all things that lived in the stream.

Pg 3 - I think the main ideas on the page is telling you why the stream is important and how the Maori people used to use  the stream as their fridge.

Pg 4 - I think the main ideas on the page is telling you about how the adult tunas swim for a long period of time to the warmer waters of the South Pacific to lay their eggs and then sadly die.

Pg 5 - I think the main idea on the page is telling you about how the Mangapouri stream and other waterways near the Kapiti area were full of tuna.

Pg 6 - I think the main idea on the page is telling you what happened to the stream from the storm water pollution.

Pg 7 - I think the main idea on the page is telling you ways that we can help make the stream healthy again.

Grandma's house / Narritive

                       

Mom drops me off at my grandma’s house because she thinks I need to spend more quality time with her. I gaze at grandma’s white and brown cottage. I notice paint peeling off the walls and windows. I could easily chip some of them off.

Ding dong. The door creaks opens with an irritating  sound.

“Hi grandma” I say with excitement.

“Hello darling it’s good to see you back again” grandma says. I see that grandma has gotten more frail since I last saw her. She uses a cane to walk.

“Poor grandma” I say to myself.

She says her eyesight is getting quite bad so she wears glasses now.She finally tells me that she has been living there ever since she was 16 and now she is 68.

The smell of freshly baked cookies tickles my nose. My mouth starts to salivate. Grandma is half way to the kitchen  and asks me in her kind,loving voice, “Are you hungry dear ? because I have just made some cookies from scratch”.

I was about to reply with YES! please that sounds delicious when BANG!. I also hear her cat Toby yell MEOW!. I run to see what all the ruckus was about when I see grandma on the floor near Toby’s tail. I stand frozen while staring at grandma. Toby purrs while rubbing his soft fur on grandma. I hold grandma’s hand and softly whisper, “It will be okay I’m here for you”. I can’t stand looking  at grandma in pain so I sprint to her old phone and dial 111. The ambulance soon arrives and sadly takes pook grandma away. My mom and I start to  flood with tears. While grandma is gone we treat Toby with pride and joy because he reminds us of grandma.

After a couple of days grandma is back home again ready to spread her love and joy to the world . She is a lot more careful and  looks out for things. Like Toby, other family members and I feel blessed that grandma is okay so we celebrate. We tried to buy grandma a new home but she says that the old cottage reminds her of her husband and father who had sadly past away.

Nonsence poem

  Fin found a pin from a very    

   small tin it poked his chin

    and caused a sin! He fell

    fell in a bin and hurt shin

                 YOUCH!

    he yelped without a single

                    grin.

Using WeVideo to record my reading.

Today I recorded myself on Wevideo to see if I have increased my fluency and expression.

Reflection / mirrow

Instrument I would like to play

Famous Brazil Olympian

My new Olympic logo

Nonsense poem

    My friend Claire the bear ate a pear      

    While sitting on  a chair and gave

      me a stare but I didn’t care the

      air brushed my hair and a flare

        of light of light made me a

                   bit scared

  

My strategy to solve this problem

     T O

     26 + 44 =  70

    /   \    /   

           20  +  6  + 4 = 10   20 + 50 = 70

                                       

I know that 26 has 2 tens + 6 ones. The 6 ones needs 4 more ones to make a tidy ten. So 20+10=30.From 30 I now need to get to 70.I know that 30 + 40 =70. So 40 + 4 =44.The answer The answer is 26+ 44=70.

                                                          

Narrative

                      

My friend Mavis and I had just arrived at Tamaki River.It was looking calm as ever.I realised how quite it was because all I could hear was myself breathing.

                                

Mavis was looking at the sky naming what the clouds looked like when she stepped forward and tripped over  a rock. SPLASH! She was in the river. I panicked, so ran to look for help.

I found a bunch of empty milk bottles and chucked them to her to help her float. She grabbed hold of them and swam back. She couldn’t believe that she had fallen into the river.We left soon after that because we didn’t want anymore trouble.

                                

                    

      

Brazil / Olympics

Multiplication arrays

For this post I had to show how I solved this multiplication problem.