Shapes

In room five for maths we have been learning about shapes. Tane and I made a Screencastify about a few shapes.

The Plastic Ocean

In room five we have done another story about plastic a bit like the plastic toy shop writing. Our goal was to write in present tense and make sure our sentences have detail.. We had to pretend that we were working at the place or being a visitor. The picture we got this writing from will be below. We had to use sights, sounds, smells, feelings and sensations. Here is mine. 

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The Plastic Ocean

As I walk across the bridge I notice that there are lots of crunching sounds so I glance over and see that there are loads of bottles like the height of mini Mt Everest. I spot some people who look like they are in plastic land. I think to myself that would be so boring if I was doing that. I decide to go and have a look down there and straight away I see huge sacks are placed under the bridge packed to the brim with plastic bottles all shapes and sizes. 


The plastic is the depth of a girls knees and looks as if it is an ocean built by plastic. I spot the mother of the kid and see she’s holding a knife. A big whiff of dusty air splashes into my face like I am at a water park and a ride just finishes and water goes everywhere. A lady looks like she is cutting the tags off and putting them in baskets. I feel sad for them… Then a guy walks up to me and says, “Eh man you’re trespassing” says the guy. From what I can see is that everyone there looks depressed mainly because they probably have a low pay job. As I walk away I think to myself “how many of these are there in the world?” because this plastic junkyard is not healthy for the environment.

Jenny Somervell, Author Visit

Yesterday room five and room six had an author visit. The author we had visit was a New Zealand author called Jenny Somervell. She read us a few of her books and one of them was called The Day Dad Blew Up The Cow Shed. She also read us one of her other books called The Eel Hunt. All of her books are based upon true things that happened in her life. Another thing she told us was the process of making a book and how she makes her books. Here are some photos of our visit.

 
 
                             

The Plastic Toy Shop

In room five for topic we have been learning about plastic. We were given a picture to look a and it looked like a toy shop. We had to write a story about what it would be like if we were to go to that shop and look around in it. Here it is. 






The plastic toy shop
As I walk into the store it feels as if the whole structure of the shop is being held together with plastic stuff. Plastic soldiers, plastic planes, plastic Doras, plastic guns and much, much, more are packed on the shelves, top to bottom. The Doras are freaking me out with their eyes that stare deeper and deeper into my eyes and worst of all they NEVER BLINK…

I’m trying to choose my toy but all the typing from the keyboard sounds like they are having a spending spree typing all their details. It is getting on my nerves. Thinking about all the plastic and how it is going to get thrown away at some point makes me sad because all of the animals will die by mistaking it as food.

The colours are blinding me: neon colours of fresh toys from the factory. Gaudy colours are creating an impact that I have never seen before like it is melting my eyes until they pop out of my head.

Stealthily I walk around the shop trying not to wake up the person who is sleeping on the counter. I notice that there a loads of rip off nerf guns and there are loads and I mean LOADS of guns on the wall.

THIS SHOP NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN OR CALM DOWN ON ALL OF THE PLASTIC THAT THEY HAVE IN THE SHOP.

Symmetry

Today in room 5 we did something a bit like our fraction art called line symmetry. A line of symmetry is a line that splits a shape in half. Say you had a cake and you split it in half, then cut a line down the middle that would be the line of symmetry. We had to make different shapes for example: shapes with three sides, shapes with four side and shapes  with more than four sides. Here they are.

Reading Profile

This term we had to make a reading profile. We had to write how we went with our goal from term 2 and our goals for this term. Here it is.