My Marine Mammal Information Report

We have learning how to write an information report. Here is my report on a New Zealand Marine Mammal.

How To Look After Our Rocky Shore

We have been using our reading skills to learn about our rocky shore. Here is some work I did showing how we can look after our rocky shore. 

Rocky Shore Animal Work

We have been using our reading skills across the curriculum to learn about the rocky shore. Below is some work I did about a rocky shore creature that I was interested in. 

My Sea Week Writing

For sea week we wrote about why the ocean is important. Here is my writing work. Please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment. 

My Chance and Probability Work

This term we have been learning about chance and probability in maths. Here is my DLO (digital learning object) about chance and probability. Please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment.

Day And Night Explanation

For reading we have been learning about space and our solar system.  We learnt about why we have day and night.  Here is my DLO (digital learning object) about why I think we have day and night.

My Taniwha - Writing

For the past two weeks we have been practising using descriptive language in our writing. We have been trying to paint pictures with words. We all got to invent our own taniwha. We all drew our own taniwha and then we had to write about it and describe what it looks like, what we do with our taniwha and what our taniwha is like. Then we read our work to a buddy and they had a go at drawing our taniwha.

Create and Describe Your Own Creature

(Nogard)

WALT: be descriptive in our writing.  

Look at the description of a Nogard.  Now Create and describe your own creature that you will then be able to read to a buddy so that they can draw it.  Your description must be as detailed and clear as possible so that when you share it with others they will be able to visualise and draw you creature. Use lots of adjectives (describing words - big, small, round, green).

You must .....

• Have a name for your creature
• Start from the big things and work your way to the smaller things
• Describe the shapes
• Describe its neck, body, tail, wings etc.
• What does its head look like?Think about its eyes, nose, eyebrows, mouth, teeth
• Describe its legs/flippers/fins etc.
• What colours is it?
• Any extra details on the body like scales, spikes etc.
• Keep it simple and clear!
• Use correct punctuation and spelling.
• Check that your sentences make sense.

Remember that a good writer ‘paints’ pictures in their reader’s head with words.   This is what good descriptive writing does.  

Phoebe

 Eel Guardian

Have you ever heard of a taniwha called an Eel Guardian .

Well I have. He is the guardian of the sea moana and  he protects all the sea kararehe.

The Eel Guardian has a and eel body. The Eel Guardian has

a mawhero dragon head and at the top he has some scruffy  hairs.

He has an eel body that is coloured in a pattern that goes mawhero, light kikorangi, karaka, kowhai and tawa. The Eel Guardian has a triangle with kakariki and dark kikorangi stripes at the end of his body.   

The Eel Guardian has kakariki korus in groups of three, twice on his body and some kikorangi maori waves from the bottom to just before his head.

The Eel Guardian has an evil eye on the side that is facing us.

My Eel guardian takes me on trips to lollipop land where we eat lollipops, and it has a  marshmallow castle with chocolate rivers and pools that we can splash into. We go  to Hokey Pokey Town where we slip and slide on hokey pokey ice cream.

  

Korbans Picture Of My Taniwha                                       My Picture of My taniwha

Peer Evaluation   Name of Peer: Korban

What I think you did well:  I think he did the colour pattern and the detail good.  

What I think you could improve on: I think you could it a bit bigger and more longer.

Self Evaluation

What I think I did well: I think I did the explained information well.

What I could improve on: I think I could add some more detail.