Jenny Sommervell at Awahono School

On Tuesday, 28 of August Jenny Sommervell came to our school. She told us about her books and read to us The Day Dad Blew Up the Cowshed and The Eel Hunt. She also told us that her books are based on true stories from her family and her sister was the illustrator for all her books. My favorite book by her is The Day Dad Blew Up the Cowshed because I think it's quite a personal story. She said writing takes a lot of time and work.

The Plastic Toyshop

In room five we had to describe what we saw in this picture of a toyshop using present tense and our senses including smells, sights, sounds, feelings, and sensations. Here is the writing I've done about the plastic toyshop.
              

                                 The Plastic Toyshop

                                           By Rawiri

I walk into a toy shop that’s stuffed with a variety of plastic toys and items including the chairs and water cooler and I start feeling a little dizzy because of all the bright vivid colours. The toy shop is packed with toys that are bright fluorescent colours that lash out at me and sparkle.

I am  just about to faint as I walk down the aisles full from top to bottom with luminous yellow plastic ducks, guns that are spread all across the wall,  velvety brown giant gorillas and Mario, Spiderman and a Smurf all on brightly coloured motorbikes that are rubber band powered.

The flooded store looks like an ocean of neon plastic toys. It is the largest wholesale market I had ever seen in my entire life. I can't believe my eyes. There is nothing but plastic flooding my eyes.

I can’t concentrate with the sound of the clicking keyboard from the shop owner typing on her computer. There is also the sound of people walking in and out of the shop and someone that I think is the shop owners daughter twirling on the spinning chair.

It makes feel so angry to think what will happen to all this plastic when people buy it and just throw it away without caring. This plastic going into the ocean has to stop. So let's stop now!

Line Symmetry

In room five we have been doing symmetry by folding square pieces of paper in half and cutting out half shapes to make different shapes. The shapes we had to make were four shapes with three sides, four shapes with four sides and four shapes with more than four sides. Lines of symmetry are lines that split something in to even shapes, for example if a square is cut in half and the two halves are even then its symmetry.

My Reading Profile

In room five we had to make a Reading Profile about how I went with our reading goals last term, my reading goals for this term, a book I have enjoyed recently and a book someone has recommended me. Here is my Reading Profile.

The White Tower

In the holidays we had find a sentence that describes the setting .  Here is mine.

fraction art

in room five we have been making fraction art to make sea animals with sixteenths, eighths, quarters, halves and wholes with a blue ocean background. I used all five of the fractions to make these crazy fish. The very large fish is a sun fish and I used three quarters and a half to make it.

Reading Plus progress

in room five we have been doing Reading Plus and in week 8 we had to do a screencastify to show how we are going and what we've done.