Dad Meets The Martians

Dad meets the Martians

Retell the story of the poem in two sentences. Dad meet these aliens from Venus. He wanted to drive the flying saucer and the aliens wanted to drive the Ford, so they swapped cars.

What could the storyteller not explain? The storyteller could not explain why the Martins would want to drive Dad's Ford.

List three of the interesting verbs from the poem. Here I have listed three verbs from the poem - Drive, imported and flew

List three of the contractions from the poem and then write them out in full. This is three contractions from the poem that I have found - He’ll - He Will, I’d - I would and It’s - It is.

Today for our reading task we had to read a poem called Dad Meets The Martians. Then we had to answer some questions about the poem. I liked the poem because it was interesting and funny. My favorite part of the poem was when the Martians and the Dad swapped cars. The funny bit was why would the Martians swap cars with Dad. It was hard to retell the poem because I could only use 2 sentences.

Winter Learning Journey

During the holidays I took part in the Winter Learning Journey.  The topic was a Kiwi road trip. We were exploring around New Zealand and we did lots of different activities. Each day there was two activities and a bonus activity. I really enjoyed doing this because I was doing reading and writing at home in a fun way. By doing that some people get prizes at the start of this term. There were 6 prizes given away because our school was so good. The 1st place comers were Daniel and Oh Hsen. Then, in 2nd place came Alex and AJ. Eric and Ofa came 3rd place. Nazella also got a prize for doing the best out of the girls during the Winter Learning Journey. All the other students who took part got a certificate. I think I am going to try really hard to get a prize during the Summer Learning Journey. I am also going to thank Rachel and her team for making this happen. 

Tech - Digitech

Today at Tech our group were starting our very own animated story on scratch. To help us remember the steps we had to check the instruction we made for making an animated story. Our topic was healthy living in the Tamaki community. I think the start of my animated story is great because I got all the steps right. I learnt how to make an animated story on scratch. I enjoyed doing the animated story because it was something new to me.

It Pays To Win

L.I - To use known and try new strategies to answer maths equations.

Today for maths Jeremiah and I have been working on a maths word problem. Jeremiah and I solved question one, two and three. Soon we had to make a DLO only on question three. Doing this maths problem we had to use our timetables knowledge and our addition and multiplication knowledge to solve the maths problem. It was a bit difficult to solve it out because we had to add and multiply big numbers. I had a very awesome time solving our this maths problem.

Hyperbole

For this week our focus was on Hyperbole. A Hyperbole is an exaggerated speech that is not meant to be taken literally.  I have made a DLO with an example of hyperbole and images to back up the sentence. I have also added a definition of hyperbole. I have learnt that hyperbole is an exaggeration and is not true. 

Strategy Practise

L.I: I am Learning to find the answer to division problems by changing them to similar problems that have the same answer.

Today Mataio and I have just started a new strategy for our strategy practise. We managed to get 5 practise equations. I think this strategy will help me in the future. 

Ordering Fractions: Maths test

To finish maths off for today we had to do a test for ordering fractions. We had 4 questions and we needed to get them all right. Unfortunately I got one wrong. At the end I ended up with 75%.