Hippos

This week in reading my group read a book called Under Cover Of Darkness. It was all about lots of different nocturnal animals. After we had read the book we had to pick one of the animals to do a small poster on. I chose to do hippos. The reason I chose hippos was I didn't know much about them and they are my dad's favourite animal. On my poster I wrote about what hippos do in the day and night, what they eat and how they got their name. Then I drew some pictures. One of a hippo opening its mouth. Another one of hippo tracks and the last of a hippo's head half above the water.  Here is my finished poster. 

Possum Problems

This week my reading group read a book about possums. Once we had finished reading the article in our books we had to write lots of reasons why possums are bad for the NZ wildlife. Here are my reasons.

1. Possums eat most of our native plants and birds. This is one of the main reasons are native plants and birds/animals are becoming more and more endangered.

2. Possums can carry a disease called bovine tuberculosis which they caught from infected cows. Cows can recatch it from possums if the sniff or lick them.

3. Possums have a massive effect on wildlife so people try poison and shoot them. But there is a problem. Hunters can accidentally shoot or trap native wildlife and sometimes native wildlife eat the poison.

4. In my opinion we should try get all/most of the possums deported or try to run more over.

5. Possums are destroying our native bush. There are no predators to eat or hunt them so they roam free with no worry.

In conclusion possums are very bad for our native animals and plants. They are very dangerous and if we don't do something about them soon all our wildlife will disappear for good.

Author visit

Today we had an author visit. The author that visited us was Raymond Huber. The reason he visited us was because he is taking part in the Storylines book tour. He has written lots of books including Flight of the Honey Bee, Sting, Wings, Gecko and Peace Warriors. I have read a few of his books. He talked to us about his books and he also talked to us about how he writes his books. It was really fun and I can wait for the next author visit.

Wordsearch

Today I made a word search with all my spelling words. First I drew up a grid. Then I wrote my words in. Next I filled in the gaps with extra letters. Now my word search was complete, all I needed was someone to find the words. Anna and Frankie did my word search which took them about ten minutes. Here is a picture of my word search.

My Slides

In reading we have been learning about Pasifika myths. My group read The Turtles of Namuana. We then had to pair up and do a slideshow about it. Namuana is in Fiji. I chose The Turtles of Namuana because I like turtles and also because I liked the myth This is my slideshow.

The Turtles of Namuana

I made a wanted poster because in the legend The Turtles of Namuana, Princess Tinicoboga and her daughter get kidnapped. This is a wanted poster for the men that kidnapped them. I made up their names and appearances. We did this activity because we have been learning about Pacific Island myths and legends.

Book Week

This week was Book Week at my school. We had a Book Fair in the library, which is where you can buy books. There were lots of different competitions. I entered two of the competitions. One was the benefits of reading and the other was a fifty word story called a dream. Also on Friday we had a book hunt which was lots of fun. Another thing we did on Friday was dress up as a character from a book. My friend and I went as Mr and Mrs Twit. I really like Book Week because there are lots of fun activities related to books, like the benefits of reading. Book Week was really fun and I can't wait for the next one.

Canada

Recently in reading everyone has done a study on a country. I choose to do Canada. Here is my work.

Diary Entry

My reading group are reading books about the war. This is a diary entry I wrote as if I was a soldier at war.

5/9/1915

The bullet in my heart

It was a hard day today. Jimmy got shot in the leg. He’s going back home and the nurses think he might survive. They got the bullet out. I spent the afternoon digging out a new trench with some of the other blokes. I’ve been here for two weeks now and it seems like more men are dying each day that goes by. I feel like the war will never end. I feel as if the rest of my life will be full of bullets, guns and trenches. As if I will never be free of this horrible world.