space

This term the school’s inquiry theme is space and last week we went to a space dome and we had an expert who came to talk to us about space. These are my recounts. Space!

 On the 8th of May 2018 Drummond School went to the Oreti Hall with Richard and the space dome was there! When room 4 went in we were not allowed to touch the wall because our fingers would mess up the pictures that were projected onto the surrounding ceiling. It was not that interesting because I know most of the facts. But it was funny because I could hear Josh even though he was on the other side of the room. The thing that made this possible was the shape of the dome. The thing I enjoyed the most was that there is a high percentage that we are not alone in the universe!


 On the 9th 2018 of May Mr Esler came and that was the best part of the week because he had a rocket fuel tank made of titanium, one of the strongest metals on earth. He also had a real asteroid that looked like coal. He had a model spaceship that showed how rockets disassembled in space. By elijah

Space

This term the school’s inquiry theme is space and last week we went to a space dome and we had an expert who came to talk about space.  These are my recounts.

Space!

On the 8th of May 2018 Drummond School went to the Oreti Hall with Richard and the space dome was there! When room 4 went in we were not allowed to touch the wall because our fingers would mess up the pictures . It was not that interesting because I know most of the facts. But it was funny because I could hear Josh even though he was on the other side of the room. The thing that made this possible was the shape of the dome. The thing I enjoyed the most was that there is a high percentage that we are not alone in the universe!

On the 9th 2018 of May Mr Esler came and that was the best part of the week because he had a rocket fuel tank made of titanium, one of the strongest metal on earth. He also had a real asteroid that looked like coal. He had a model spaceship that showed how it disassembled in space.

By elijah

Pet Portrait

Pet Portrait ( with words)

This week room 4 had to do a pet portrait this is mine I hope you enjoy.

WALT:

Describe techniques authors use to identify specific language features

Activate nouns to as a language device

Describe pets - using the picture as a talking point, framing the responses as activated nouns,

Use sentence beginners with a sub-ordinating conjunction

It’s oval, hairy body connects the head to the tail. The four 25 cm leg's are good at jumping on a couch for a cuddle.  When you look at it’s deep black eyes you will instantly fall in love. As a red droopy slobbery tongue comes out of the round head and licks you on the face. There is a   10 cm  nose with a mouth below it. If you are being annoying to it it will show it’s sharp teeth and growl at you. Her straight fluffy neck is fun to cuddle with. I like its cute floppy ears hang down.

It has 2 cm coal like black hair all over. There is a white strip running down the neck. When I pat her smooth fur my hand guides fast across her body. As I say “shake” her painful hook claw hits my hand. If you look at her fur you will see it is lying down like hair tied up panytail. I like the feel of her soft silky skin when I rub her tummy.

As soon as she see her food she will bark with excitement. When she is having the leftover lump milk she the growl at  will at the lumps. My pet creates a high pitched growl when someone goes near her biscuits. After her morning run she is breathing hard. If my pet got attacked she would whimper. She sniffs loudly when she see someone she doesn't know.

We all love her

novel study

This week room'4 did a novel study on a cretin book we read I did the bad guys because it has a lot of action. here is my novel study I hope you enjoy. If you have a novel study you can know what to do when you read this one.

elijahs Character portraits

This week room4 had to right a righting about a special person in our life that doesn't stay at your home so I did my teacher/principal because I felt she was easy to do.

We had to write specifically about skin,face,hair,voice,actions and personality. I hope you enjoy.

Her smooth tanned skin shines, when the sun hits it. The clean soft white skin stretches out where the veins hit.  Her rose red skin moves,  when she is laughing at me and josh’s arguments. The perfume small hitting us like  wind. The wrinkles on her feet going flat when she is walking around.

The big smile every day, as I walk through the door in the morning. The friendly look on her face smiling, when she is taking  at  assembly. The red lips being covered in crumbs at lunch when she eats. Her forehead wrinkles are sitting like a racetrack. The rose red checks going white again after a while of laughing like a little kid.

Her long dark hair waving at the bean table every day. Her black smooth hair is always tidy for us in the morning. The perfect straight hair slowly, turning gray whenever I look at her. Her never tied up hair scratching her back when she is talks to us. When I look very carefully I see some little red streaks,running through the hair like a blood flowing through the veins.

Her voice is engaging you to do all your work on time. The calming voice takes away my stress at writing. Her funny voice tells funny jokes, to are school. Her interesting voice telling us what to do at assembly. The way she slowly tells us what, to do at a year 6 outing. Her medium pitched voice talking calmly when, we do something wrong. Her fast movement speed when she needs to do something quickly. When she is listening to a boring story she put her hand on her checks. When her nose is itchy she itches the outside of her nose with her knuckle.

I remember her the most because she is my teacher. She influences others by encouraging room4 to finish to finish ther novel study, and writing . This person is special because she is my favorite teacher/principal and she works, hard for our school . The thing I treasure the most about her is that she is loyal to what she does. I think she is the best person to do because she is nearly alway near me to help me - I just need to look at her, even though sometimes she makes me use two popsicle sticks sometimes so I trade these in and can only ask for help two times!

the fog

I am learning to create an image in my mind, with a noun ( frost)  depicting the weather at this time of year in Southland.

I am then learning to write a description for this image,  using strong, appropriate and effective verbs to activate the nouns and one or two similes.

When I awake, it has appeared  like a white cloud dropping instantly to the ground

It covers our paddocks like a thick fluffy blanket,  sheep  camouflaged instantly

Bright headlights of the cars shimmer through the blanket of white, instantly warning of their presence like a lighthouse  guiding incoming boats

A once silver and black trampoline, merged with the wooden fence

Fog appearing, like a white cloud dropping instantly to the ground

prose Piece Two

Piece Two

Writing : I am learning to write a piece of prose-  a sketch with detailed words, about a particular PERSON , that is very important to me

I know I have achieved this when I can describe this sketch of this person,in specific detail. To do this I need to:

• Use specific nouns
• Activate the nouns with strong verbs

My special person has brown freckles which pop out of nowhere. Freckles covered nose sneezing a lot . forehead Wrinkles sit unevenly on his cheeks. Golden Hair smudging when he has his headphones. Red cheeks enlarging  when eating food at lunch.,Stuck Tongue liking a frozen pole at winter, Hairy Moustache growing a little bit more every day. When I stare really closely, microscopic sized freckles squeeze into little grooves. A special person, my friend.

memoir poetry

On the 31/7/17 room4 had to write a memoir poetry about a book we read and I read the book once -

In my memoir poem I needed to add adjectives, nouns and verbs to describe the scene and sitution the character was in. Here is mine. What do you think?

The orphanage was filled enough.

It had lots of homeless kids , uneventful food and dirty water.

There was a big cafeteria, it is filled with soup and lots of bed,s standing still.

There was a small riot starting there was a big kid’s head being pushed in toilet and horrednous nazis searching ….

Im horrendously Sad, scared, bored

Doing everything important , to save some souls..

100wc

Today our success criteria was to right a 100 WC about a book we read. I chose to right about the book Once. I hope you read the book after you read my 100 WC good bye.

                                                   once

All i see is flames all around me  when I jump out I get knocked out I wake up and cry for my mum and dad  I look beside me and see a boy he said”go to sleep it will be a big day tomorrow we will find your mum and dad”. I go to sleep when I wake up I say”I need to pee and I want breakfast” he let me do a pee and have some water and bread he goes to see what the noise  is a machine gun is pointed at me so scary...

100wc

this week room 4 did a 100wc an are book we read I read once it was about the Nazi   

                                           once

I was running the flames were getting clearer I look if i can see people I can’t see anyone the fire is still miles away so I don’t think I would be able to see any yet when I got near the flames I a gunshots I see  people on the ground. I know if I put a feather near the nose it will move if there alife if not dead!!! I put the feather on the man's nose it does not move then when I put it on the woman's nose it doesn't move then i see a girl.

Elijah's hollidays

This morning, we wrote 5 basic sentences about our holidays. we looked at a range of different connectives that will improve are writing. A connective is a word that joins a simple sentences, eg such as, never the less, in sprite of, but etz. Next, we spent time improveing are basic sentences by using connectives. Do you use connectives? if so , which one?

In the first week of the holidays I went to kid zone. I waited 30 minutes at a ride then they closed it never the less I still went on it.  In the last weekends of the holidays I went to see Spider Man Homecoming while having popcorn. Nearly every day my family had to go to hospital to see my papa. He just had his gallbladder removed and he's been in hospital all holidays until now.

First Aid DLO

After our session with Felicia from St John's in Schools we realised we had learnt a lot. We thought...how can we share what we have learnt? So we brainstormed lots of ideas...from making movies to presentations to art projects. Eventually we split into groups and decided what we want to create.

My group was Josh and Blake and we decided to create an i-move to share our learning.

room4's digital dig

This team room 4 did a digital dig to help us be smart learners and lave positive digital footprints.

Novel Study: How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters

This novel study was hard because I needed to pick the right book when we start so we can get through it easy. The reason I picked this book is because I was doing it for speech board and watched the movie of it. Hope you enjoy!

100wc: Now What Do I Need?

This weeks 100wc prompt was: What do I need now? I was focusing on: changing the opening of a sentence and to be level 4 on our punctuation ladder. Here is an image of it:

All right I am going to the the shop; let's go! I need to get prepared; there was Just a nuke (big gas bomb) warning!!  I jump in my car and drive to the shop. No one is here… then as soon as I get in the shop I look behind me and in seconds the shop is flooding with people. As fast as a cheetah, diving through the crowd I snatch my food off the shelf. But what do I need now? Then suddenly I hear a jet flying over me… then I drive into my secret underground laboratory...                          

100wc

This week's 100wc was that the weather changed dramatically. We have been leaning to use better words and semi-colons.

It was a great afternoon I just made my lunch; I  go to watch tv and I hear it will be sunny then I run outside and jumped off a cliff… into water. But meanwhile at my house they had a tornado warning!! Then when I get up in the morning I hear lightning and loud winds when I look out my window a big tree goes flying through my window… after I walked away to my storm shelter put when I walked past my tv and the weather told us that your storm shelter will not be enough…

Lions Maths

This month Room 4 did Lions Maths because of the Lions Tour in New Zealand right now. It happens once every 4 years and every 12 years they come to NZ. We had to lots of adding, budgeting and keeping out costs below the budget, which was $10,000. Did you go to a Lions Game? Have you kept a budget before? It was hard!

speech board

Every year Drummond Primary School does Speech Board. Speech board is a thing where you do a powerpoint in front of an assessor, you have to do a poem, read at least 150 words from a  book. The teacher will pick your category. We did mini beasts. You use your brain to remember your poem off by heart and to do your speech perfectly. You also might do a phone call. The oldest do a welcome.

You can get a Fail which is the worst, Pass is the second worst, Commended is the third best, Highly Commended is the second best and the best is Distinction.

This year I got the best one - it is Distinction. It took me six years to get this and  I am really surprised that I got this because I had some muck ups in my speech. She must of been nice to give Distinction. It was fun because that was the first time that I got distinction!

misry egg

100 word challenge


the egg ???
Crash! We hear a car crash when we get there I see a big egg cracked open and the lid is gone… There is goo every where when get some goo off the ground and we fell same thing hard  it is the car.  We close the road then some one complained because people are snowballs at her window when the cops got there it was not a little kid throwing snowballs it was the lid of the egg had a cadnon on it and it was shooting the goo at it so we shoot it and it blow everywhere.