Reading Activity

This Is my Reading work :)

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LEARN : We are learning to ask open ended questions or Thick questions about the text we read.

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RETELLING :

Its about this little girl and her calf who is named Polly, they have been friends for a very long time. And the little girl has to fight to keep polly alive and stop her dad from putting the calf down. She succeeds but not for long.

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Purpose - Can retell the main idea.

                -  To infer - what does the author want the reader to understand.

   - finding evidence to support our inference.

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WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR WANT THE READER TO UNDERSTAND :

I believe that the author wants us to stick up for what we truly believe in. LIke for an example, in the story the little girl fought for her little calf because she believed in Polly.  

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QUESTIONS :

1. What kind of cow was Polly/ What breed ?
2. What kind of school did the little girl go to ?
3. Where is the school located ?

I am confident that with the learn and the activities that I have completed that I understand my learn.

Reading Online - Sunshine Activity

- Sunshine Online : The Bike Race:)

I had read the story about the Bike race, had to write a News report about it. That was obviously how I showed I understood what I was reading because I was able to write a report on the book.

- This is a screenshot on the News Report I had written.

Reading Work

- Sunshine Online - Book : Holiday Farm :)

This activity was about putting words into the correct column. It all was linked to Syllables. These words were all included in the Book : Holiday Farm.

Activity 2 : This activity is called Missing word, I had to fill in the empty spaces with words, so that the sentence would be completed. This is linked to Comprehension work.

- My task was to fill in the missing places with the words on the side.

Activity 3 : I had to fill in a word cross with vocabulary words.
This is an image of the word cross.

In doing this activity I had shown that I have understood what I had read because,

 I was able to complete these activities.

My Comprehension Activity.

This activity is to assure that I 

understand what we are doing in P.E for fitness.

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What is Cardiovascular Exercise.

I am to answer these questions in full sentences.

1.  What is the health benefit of the cardiovascular exercise?

- The health benefit of cardio, is lowering our blood pressure and

2.  What is cardiovascular exercise?

- It is a type of exercise that helps make your heart and lungs stronger and also help our muscles become strong.

3.  What happen during the cardiovascular exercise?

- During Cardio it continuously delivers oxygen into our muscles.

4.  What do you need to do to give your heart a proper workout?

- Exercise for a fair amount of time.

5.  How do you know your exercise is an effective workout?  

- You check your heart rate before you start your workout then when you finish, then check your rate again and see if it has improved.

6. How can you measure it.

- You measure your heart rate by holding your pulse and seeing how much it beats per minute.

Book Review on The Worry Website

- My Library book, The Worry Website

Friday 13th of September

My Book Was Entertaining

Title:  The Worry Website

Author:  Jacqueline Wilson

Date started:  Monday the 16th of September    

Date finished:  Friday the 13th of September

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What was the book about ?

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A site called The Worry Website where everyone called put down everything that was bothering them or hurting them

What did you like about the book ?

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I liked every part of it.

What was your favourite part ?

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The part when the teacher created the website just so that everyone could express what they were feeling.

What would you rate the book out of 5 ?

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✰✰✰✰✰ - I rate my book 5 out of 5

Book Review on 45 + 47 Stella Street

Friday 16th of August

- My Library book, 45 + 47 Stella Street

My Book Was Boring

Title:  45 + 47 Stella Street

Author:  Su Kent

Date started:  Monday the 2nd of September    

Date finished:  Friday the 6th of September

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What was the book about ?

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The book I read was about a street named Stella Street, a  lady named Old Auntie Lillie died. But all the local children loved her.  When she died her house got sold to a couple of people who loved the colour WHITE.

What did you like about the book ?

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That the main character named Heni was happy and proud of her physical appearance.

What was your favourite part ?

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When I read the part where Heni’s best friend has actual electric hair.

What would you rate the book out of 5 ?

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✰✰✰✰✰ - I rate my book 3 out of 5

I am David

This term my class and I have been reading a book called 

I am David.

In I am David the book so far is about a boy around the age of 12 or 13
escaping from a concentration camp with the help of a guard. 

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I am learning to LEARN, CREATE & SHARE.

The LEARN is for me to learn something, to CREATE is to use what I have learnt to put it into something that is presentable. e.g. - a picture, power point or a review.

And to SHARE is to share/present what I have created out of my learning.

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I have created a Picture 

of what I have read and what I have understood about the book.

Book Review on Tigers Milk

I have learnt to create a 

Book Review on a book that I have read, 

to show my understanding of the story.

This Book was Entertaining

Title:  Tigers Milk  Author:  Christobel Mattingley

Date started:  29/07/13 - Monday 29th of July 2013   

Date finished:  1/08/13 - Thursday 1st of August

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What was the book about?

Tigers Milk is all about a little boy named Antony who stayed with his parents,  but then one day his dad got really sick and had to stay in hospital and his mom needed to be there by his side. 

So then Antony’s mum decided to send Antony to his granny’s house in the country - 

( Antony’s dads mother ).  Antony really wanted to be like his father so he did everything and anything to be just like his father.  He had even drank Tigers Milk  to be like his father.  Antony was very tiny for a young boy his age and that's why he wanted to be like his father,  nice and tall with long stringy legs and arms.

What did you like about the book?

What I liked about the story was the fact that I could connect to it,  also the fact that I could also feel how Antony was feeling about wanting to be taller and to be bigger for his age and hating the fact that he’s so tiny for his age.

What was your favourite part of the book?

My Favourite part of the book was when Antony would eat,drink and do all the things his father did, just to be taller.

How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.

(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

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My Book Review on Do NOT PUSH

Choose a word to describe your book.

My Book is Crazy

BOOK REVIEW

Title: DO NOT PUSH  Author: KYLE MEWBURN

Date started: 26/07/13- Thursday 26th 2013

Date finished: 30/07/13 - Monday 29th 2013

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What was the book about?

The book I have chosen to do my book review on is mainly about the importance of obeying Rules and Signs.

In the book the main character is a young boy named Cam who was a very adventurous boy who enjoyed exploring the forest they had at the back of their house.

Until one day he found a big RED button connected to a steep cliff that had in big bold letters written DO NOT PUSH underneath it. He had never disobeyed rules of signs before, but then he decided to disobey a sign just that once. So he pushed and ran home, when he got home he realized that everything was bogus. Everyone was doing the complete opposite to the right thing. On the road the signs changed from saying Slow Down to Go FASTER, the local bins on the roads went from saying Please do not litter to LITTER. But then he remembered that when he pushed the button it completely changed everything.

Until he admitted that life is really crazy with out the correct rules, so he ran back to the forest pushed the button and then ran back home and then out the door to see if everything had changed back to normal. Then from then on he promised himself that he will never ever disobey rules or signs from then on.

What did you like about the book?

That the message of the story was all about the importance of obeying rules and signs and never to disobey them because then you could ruin life for not just yourself but for everyone.

What was your favourite part of the book?

The part where Cam had realized that life was far more better with rules and signs, and then he decided from then on the he would never disobey both rules and signs.

How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.

(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

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The Matata Flood

L.I - I am leaning to relate to the feelings of how the characters are feeling in the text, and be able to write a paragraph in how they are feeling.

The text I was reading about was based on the 

MATATA FLOOD.

It was based on a true story.

- I shivered in the cold weather as my parents were putting my sisters and I  up in the attic where it was the safest place to be. I held my two sisters close to me and I was anxious about knowing if we may or may not live. I looked out the window and the water was surrounding all building and the clouds turned from nice blue skies to dark grey blackish clouds. I was horrified.