Explanation writing about Grandparents

This Friday (19.10.18) is our Greats and Grands day. On Monday (15.10.18) we did a Pear Deck activity on explanation writing. In the activity we wrote 4 things about our grandparents problems and then chose one to write about. One of my reasons was Poor Eyesight. That is what I did my explanation on. Here is my Explanation:

Grandparents Explanation

Grandparents are people who have had children and those children have had their own children. My explanation is about failing eyesight. Do any of your grandparents have poor eyesight?

Firstly, a lot of old grandparents have poor eyesight. Like my Grandad. He has poor eyesight, and that is why he wears glasses while he reads. Grandparents shoul8d (if they have poor eyesight, otherwise what's the point) wear glasses while they read, cook or do regular day activities.

Secondly, grandparents should write in large writing so that they can see it better. They also can read books with large text so they don’t always need their glasses on while reading.

Thirdly, they could get a dog to help them walk around. Guide dogs are very helpful to the people that need help with walking places or loss of eyesight. Guide dogs will walk you around to places so that you don’t have to find your way around by yourself.

Failing eyesight is bad. I hope that my ideas have gotten you encouraged to try one of them. In the future there should be more ways to help blind people or people that don’t see very well, get around, read and do regular activities.

By Georgia

Tongariro National Park

In week 6 in Term 3, we went on  a Ski Trip down to Tongariro National Park. When we came back we made a factual slide on the things we learnt down there. Because it was Te Reo Language week when we did this, we translated every slide into Maori. Here is my friend and I's google slide about the Tongariro National Park.

Ski trip diary

This is my personal recount about everything I did during our school ski trip to National Park in September 2018. It was a blast! Mine is too big to put on here. Here is the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A1k904YbDJzQ7aFY0uGcfjU6j6JWhtZmavo3QlDMLWI/edit

Maths-Temperature

This term we have had Miss Dixon in our class on Thursdays and Fridays. We have been doing a Multi Model for math. This is it completed:

Penguin Report

For the past three weeks we have been doing animal reports. I did mine on penguins. In our animal reports the structure was, Classification, Appearance, Diet, Habitat, Reproduction and Threats. This is  mine:

Wacky Wednesday

Kia ora! Last Wednesday we had our Wacky Wednesday. Wacky Wednesday was a successful fundraiser for our Ski Trip. My stand was called, Mystery Box. Mystery Box got a very loooooooooooong line. We raised lots of money just by ourselves! We got 78 tokens. Altogether we raised about $500 dollars. In my group we had, Kelly, Leonor and Me. Here are two photos of my group during Wacky Wednesday.

Pear Deck Activity

Kia ora

We have been using Pear Deck to help us learn more about sentence structure so that we can get better at noticing where one sentence ends and another one begins. This should also help us get better scores for punctuation. This a screenshot of an activity we did: first we had to highlight the noun and verb parts of the sentences and then we had to decide where the full stops and capital letters should go.