When reading books, the genres I love to read are –
* Mystery
* Friends & Family
* Historical Fiction
* Biographies
I like reading these types of books, like historical fiction and biographies because they tell me interesting information and facts. Mystery because they can hook me in, and family friends because it makes me feel happy.
I would recommend reading Front Desk from last year in grade 4. It was about a Chinese family moving to America, and how the girl makes friends and gets threw the problems of the motel.
I am right now reading ‘Finding Serendipity’. It is about a girls mother being the most famous author in the world. And when she goes missing Tuesday (the daughter) and her dog Baxterr, go to the magical world of Vivienne Small, one of Serendipity’s books. (Baxterr is spelled with a double rr for a reason I can’t tell you).
“Where is he?” questioned Balthazar, “Who is he?” Melchior exclaimed, stepping forward. Finally Caspar stepped forward too, “What is he?”.
This was when the wise women, Veda as Balthazar, Lizzie as Melchior and Me as Caspar. We were performing the Nativity! There were two Mary’s and two Joseph’s, and many other characters, such as the shepherds, the wise women (us) and four Narrators. We performed it tothe year 2s and parents on the 3/12, and to Hedley Sutton on the 2/12.
A challenge throughout the performance was, when we were performing to Hedley Sutton, they had a microphone, but only one. So everyone had to keep swapping it. I chose, instead of using it I would just speak louder, and that’s what I did. So did Lizzie and Veda.
Overall I really enjoyed writing the scripts and practicing it with everyone in the class.
What are the character traits you think some characters have?
In Measurement and Geometry we are looking at calculating the perimeter and area of regular shapes.
Perimeter is the length of the border around the shape. Area is the amount of squared space inside the shape.
In the real world using knowledge of this would help you when building a house or buying a house, since the house is made more expensive of how much the house covers.
In integrated we are learning about weathering, erosion and deposition. We are also learning about natural disasters.
Let me explain those interesting words. Weathering is the breaking down of the land, some examples are, wind, water etc. Erosion is the moving of the land, it can be moved by also water and wind. Deposition is where the land ends up.
Today 4T walked around the school for examples of this process. Here are some of my photos:
“YAY!” Cheered the class, we had just won CBM, Comment Bonanza Month.
CBM is when each class who takes part has to get more comments than each other. We had to teach others how to write quality comments. These are the classes who took part,
4T, 4HB, 4D, 5B, 5Q & 5S
It was tight between 5B, as they had 610. But luckily we had upped our game when we went
down. So in our close win, we had 625!😄
Everyone was excited when it was presented, since our goal had been completed. To keep the 4T winning streak!😁
“My favourite book is ‘The Happiness Box’.” Replied Gabby. She was one of the other persons that had their favourite the same as mine, ‘The Happiness Box’.
We’ve been judging the Eve Pownall Shortlist this term. The books in this range were,
Waves
Sorry Day
Bouncing Back
The Happiness Box (my favourite)
And Make Believe.
Sadly I was not here to read ‘Waves’ and ‘Sorry Day’, since I was in New Zealand. Back to the information.😄 The criteria we used to judge these books were, good information, good visuals and of course layout.
This is my sheet
The reason why I chose ‘The Happiness Box’ is because,
The visuals were beautiful and realistic.
The layout was presented in a creative matter, it was like a fiction book.
The information had sources at the end and it was detailed. This book was actually about another book that was created in war time.
I gave everything 10/10 for those reasons. So my final score was 30/30.
