Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts

Friday, 28 September 2018

Wellington Zoo Information Report

We were learning about how to write an information report.
I found it easy to decorate it, to make it look eye catching.
I found it hard to make everything the correct size so that it all fitted.
I really enjoyed researching a specific place that we are going to visit later on in the year.
Next time I need to make sure that everyone in the team has an equal contribution to finished product.
My Blog Post shows I am a Smart Learner.
Now here is the finished product.


Wellington Zoo Imaginative Story

My Play Date At Wellington Zoo

We had just finished the tour of the zoo, when I saw flash in the corner of my eye. I went around to have a look. But what I didn’t notice is that the whole class left and they didn’t even notice that I was missing. Time had past, the zoo had closed, no zookeepers, no nothing, only animals.

I started to get quite tired so I climbed into the sleeping lions enclosure. I thought that it was going to be safe to sleep in the corner of the cage, until I realized that I was on the wrong side of the fence,  I was now in with monkeys and no they were not quietly sleeping like the lions they were wide awake swinging around on every vine in sight. I tried to scurry away but legs started to fall asleep so I just kept going slower and slower until I decided to hide in a bush and sleep.

The next morning I was out of the bush lying on the ground with 5 monkeys piled on top of me. I kicked them off and got out to see that the zoo was closed. Yes, there were zookeepers but they were all inside having a meeting. I told myself that it was time. Time for adventure. I started by getting control of the massive Indian elephant, I rode around the whole of the zoo feeding feisty lions, yeah, I was going to ride them too but they didn’t seem to friendly at all. The elephant got put back and it was time to slide on ice with little blue penguins. I got a bit cold so I moved on to eating a sandwich for breakfast with my friend the brown capuchin. I wanted to visit the monkeys again so I got some exercise and swung on their vines. 

In the end I had the time of  my life. I mean who wouldn’t like to race a cheetah, bounce with kangaroos. Slide down giraffes long necks, sit on warm rocks with baboons. And best of all, sit in the sun with sun bears.


Reflection
We were learning about how to create an imaginative story about our Wellington location.
I found it easy to write my story.
I found it hard to come up with an interesting ending for my story.
I really enjoyed writing an imaginative story, because we do not do this that much.
Next time I need to brainstorm right from the beginning.
My Blog Post shows I am a Smart Learner.



Friday, 22 June 2018

The Everglades - The River Of Grass



The Everglades - The River Of Grass
In Room 4 we have been focusing on inquiries. We started off with writing inquiries then we moved on to reading. This post is about my reading inquiry.
Our class goal is to take the key information then summarise.
I personally think that I did a pretty acceptable job doing it. My favourite section of the whole thing was reading the book, because I love reading! I had trouble finishing because I was also trying to finish my second writing inquiry at the same time. I took a bit longer to finish because, I took most of the info and summarized it, instead of just taking parts of the info.
Have you ever been to the Everglades? Let me know down in the comments below.

Thursday, 21 June 2018

The Bike Outing - Adrenaline Writing



The Bike Outing - Adrenaline Writing

Room 4 were given a video and were told to write about it. I chose to write about a person that was doing an extreme bike ride.

Our class goal for this activity was detail, like adding in adjectives, nouns and verbs. My favourite part of the whole experience was actually writing about what I saw. Ms Dods helped me out with most of my writing, but soon I got the hang of it and was up and going again. We also did another piece of adrenaline writing, this one I called Lunch. It was about a lion trying to catch its food, the buffalo. I had trouble along the way making it 3 paragraphs and adding detail, but in the end at least it got finished.

Have you ever been on an extreme bike ride before? Let me know down in the comments below.

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Zac Efron - The Star Of High School Musical



Zac Efron - The Star Of High School Musical



This term Room 4 have been focusing on the arts e.g singing, dancing, acting, cooking.

I decided to do an actor called Zac Efron.

The easiest part for me was collecting the information, because there were so many websites about him.

Our class goal was to grab the key information then summarise. I think that I did a pretty good job

summarising my info. After came the decoration for Zac Efron I wanted to watercolour an old

fashioned camera. I think that it looked awesome.

Quick question, can you guess how many movies Zac Efron has been in?

Let me know in the comment section below.

Monday, 18 June 2018

Anna Pavlova - The Greatest Ballerina Known


Anna Pavlova - The Greatest Ballerina Known


Lately Room 4 have been working on the arts writing inquiry. I personally chose a lady called Anna Pavlova.
Our class learning goal was to get the key information then summarize. To summarize you have to get the key info the turn it into your own words. Plagiarism is the word for when you copy and paste strait onto your own work.
My favourite part was the design segment. Something that I learnt along the way, is that you don't always have to have a capital letter for mum and dad. Sentence structures are also very important.

Can you guess how old Anna Pavlova was when she died. Comment below if you know the answer.