Explanation writing - camels

Camels are very interesting animals because they can eat anything big and sharp. Did you know? Camels are able to go several months without water which is a very long time.

At night the desert is, cold, and in the morning its very hot. Camels live in an environment where it’s hot and dry. In the desert there's not that much water, thats why theres not that much trees, because there's hardly ever water to make it grow.

Camels have thick eyebrows, two shield the eyes from the sun. Camels have pads on their feet and chest, two prevent the heat from hurting their feet. They also grow two sets of eyelashes to prevent sand going into their eyes. Camels have big notrituse that can open and close, so it can prevent sand going into their nose.

Camels are found in North Africa and the Middle East.  They can last months without water. In their body they produce fat in their hump. It’s full of fat which helps them have energy when they cant find any food. This helps them keep cool in the day and warm in the night.

Camels have adapted and changed over the time to survive in the hot desert. Camels have adapted to these conditions without any struggling, this is they way the live. They can survive many months and weeks without water or food.

In writing we have been writing a explanation about how camels adapt to the environment. We also looked at how camels change while living in the desert and hot places. We watched 3 videos about camels and also took notes in our books to help us write our explanation.

PechaFlickr - Hikking

 

In writing we have been focusing on the topic pechaflikr. For this I worked collaboratively with Joel and our topic was hikking. For each photo we took turns describing whats going on in the photo, and make sure that the next photo links two what were they saying and makes sense. This was really fun because we got to try something new, this was my first ever time doing a pechafikr.

Adjectives

In writing we have been focusing on adjectives and nouns. For this I worked collaboratively with Joshua. The words that are covered with yellow is adjectives and the words covered in blue are nouns. We had to write about the picture on the side and describe it. 

Let me tell you something about the winter Olympics

Let me tell you about the 2018 winter Olympics. Ninety two countries come together to verse each other. This year the Olympics were held in Pyeong Chang, in South Korea. All the athletes represent a country and they compete to get first place, second place and third place medals in their events. Athletes and coaches work together as a team to win. They all try their very best to win and train really hard so that they will achieve their goals. This was event was held between 9 and 25 February 2018.  The Olympic values they have is Excellence,Friendship and respect.

This morning we worked in pairs to write a 5 minute description of the Winter Olympics. We first sat and talked about the olympics so that we had the same ideas. After that we sat back to back and wrote a sentence each. The hard part was that we weren't allowed to talk about it. We had to read what our partners had written and carry the description on. It was a good way to make sure what we wrote made sense. Brooklyn and I changed some words and punctuation when we checked our work at the end. It was a fun way to practise new learning.

Chinese New Year- Explanation

How Chinese New Year Is celebrated?

The famous Chinese New Year is celebrated around the world. It is celebrated with people cleaning their homes for the start of spring. People around the world put up red posters with poetic sentences on them and put them on their doors. Chinese New Year is also the time where friends and family meet up and enjoy their time together.

Near the end of the holiday people light lanterns and either let them fly in the sky or on let them float on top of water.  In the middle of the celebration people light fireworks and firecrackers. People often give unmarried people and kids red envelopes with money inside.

At night people eat their dinner packed with lots of delicious foods. They celebrate with some specific foods like Shrimp , Noodles and Egg Rolls. These three foods represent a long life,happiness and gold bars. Foods that are common when eating on chinese new year is fish,Wassabi,Kimchi, vegetables , rice and curry. Other cultures celebrate chinese new year because of the special events that happen.

The tradition is also about 12 animals. These animals competed in a race which the Jade emperor will chose its year for it to be celebrated. The recent year 2018 is the dog. Chinese New Year is celebrated because a dragon would arrive on the new moon and goes when the full moon comes up.

People celebrate Chinese New Year to remember the Chinese legend about the Mysterious beast who would visited the town and scared the people in the village… But a old man stumbled towards the village and told them about the beasts weakness. The colour red , loud noises and more. The beast then left on the full moon never to visit again.

We have started to write an explanation about the Chinese New Year. Nyjah and I have worked collaborative together to finish this task. I have learnt a lot about a structure of an explanation. We went into groups of four so we can check each others work. We had joined Savelina and Mele. They had checked for mistakes on our work. This really helped our explanation to be better then it was before.

Remembering our summer holiday

Remembering our summer holiday

L.I. - Writing to recount

Writing using language features to engage readers

Complete these sentences about an event over the summer holiday. Don’t tell us
what the event was just give us enough information that we can know for ourselves.

I wondered what it will be like if I touched the ice cold water

I wondered if it will rain once we get there

I heard the waves splashing towards the rocks

I heard the birds chirp along the seaside

I saw the waves crashing together

I felt the sand in between my toes

I felt nervous because the beach went deep really fast

 Photo by Rmrfstar Public Domain

For our first day back. We started of with doing a writing recount. We had to choose and event that we did on the holidays. And mine was the beach. We had to fill out the sheet but. Cant say what your writing about. We had to try use a similar metaphor or any Langauge feature. To get a bonus points.

Two Word Sentences

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This week for writing our focus was 2 word sentences. We had to chose a two word sentence for example dream big.We used FANBOYS and AAWWUIBBIS to create a Compound and Complex and simple sentences

Idiom

This weeks focus in writing is Idiom. Idiom is a expression that have phrases that can't be taken serious . I have created a DLO about Idiom and some examples. My Example I have illustrated was butterflies in my tummy.

Complex Sentences.

Today we had write Complex Sentences. And learn what complex,compound and simple sentences are example we are going home now.

Five Minutes of camp

On Wednesday at camp our group did the high ropes course. As JR put the harness on me I was shaking. My heart was pounding as I climbed up and finally got to the beam. I started walking but I felt really scared and My body was shaking I

Finally got to the other side. I hugged the pole but then had to walk back. I walked back to the middle and was so scared. My heart was racing as I kept walking. Then I had to lean back and let go of the rope. I let go and went down slowly as my group was cheering for me. Finally got to the ground and was so happy.

Today we had to do a five minute recount on our favourite thing we did at camp. My favourite activity was the high ropes.

Report about me

 LI: To understand the purpose of an information report. Today for writing we had to make a report about our selfs.

Compare and Contrast

LI: To understand the purpose of the explanation. To identify structure and Language features of an explanation text. Today for writing we had to put information into the Venn diagram.

Information Report On Sharks.

Information Report on Sharks

Title:  Sharks

Opening Statement: I am writing about sharks and some of the facts I am also looking at some of the shark names and what sharks eat also I am looking at some shark facts.

Appearance (Looks):

The shark has a very sharp teeth and it has a very long nose it also has sharp fins too

Diet (Food):

Sharks eat Sea lions seals crabs squid dolphins fish too

Habitat (Live): Sharks live in very deep ocean it is in the Pacific ocean

Interesting Facts: Sharks have 40 to 45 teeth and every year 100 or 40 million sharks die.

Conclusion: Some sharks are born with soft heads like hammerhead sharks are born with soft heads so they won’t jame their mothers birth canals and more interesting facts

Today in our writing groups we have been learning about sharks and some of the facts of sharks I have also looked at some of there names as sharks and what sharks eat there are many kinds of sharks like Hammer head sharks fish head sharks tiger sharks and so any more.

Blog Comments

This is my comment to say Thank you to all the schools and our school for commenting on our movie and commenting nice and positive comments so Thank you and for asking us Qustions.

Blogboot camp

This is my blog comment for today.

Whats in my Lunchbox?

What’s in my lunch box?

Is your lunch a healthy lunch? Why / Why Not?

What was the healthiest?

What was the least healthy and why?

What is missing from your lunch box?

I think my lunch is not healthy. The least healthiest is the muffin and the Ding dongs. My healthy food item was the filled roll as it has tomato, egg and chicken. In my lunch box it missing a piece of fruit or vegetable. My lunch is not the healthiest case there’s no fruit in it.