Shapes

A few days ago room five made a couple of shapes out of geometry nets in Math. A  geometry net is a flattened out three dimensional shape like a cube, a prism or a pyramid. When you cut out the "net" you fold it and glue it together and then you can see what the three dimensional shape looks like. Here is a couple of pictures of my finished shapes.

 

Haiku

Today we started making haikus in writing. A haiku is a short poem with three lines. The first and third lines have five syllables and the second line has seven. I did a haiku about my cat Jeffrey who is very annoying and meows and scratches at my door at three in the morning and when you open the door she doesn't even want to come in! This is my haiku.

Jeffery cat. A true story.

Jeffrey cat’s sassy

She's meowing at my door

It is two A.M.

Metaphors!!!

In reading Room Five has been doing some work on metaphors!!. Metaphors are a figure of speech used when words or phrases are applied to an object or action that are mainly different but have a few things in common. An example of a metaphor is this: He is a shining star or His words are pearls of wisdom. Metaphors are like similes but they don't contain the words like or as. I also found out the word 'metaphor' is a metaphor mind BLOWN!!!.

Math

At school we have been doing some math. In math we have been doing FRACTIONS!! for fractions the math group I'm in (the orcas) have done some worksheets. One called basketball math were we had to shoot some hoops and do math and one called chocolate mint cookies where we converted fractions, simplified fractions, do equivalent fractions, decompose fractions and make fractions into proper and improper fractions. But unfortunately we didn't get any cookies. (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Sun Poem

Yesterday and today Room Five wrote a sun poem. The way these poems went is, A comparison for what the sun is like a gold coin, A ing verb like brightly then a describing word like scorching. and it goes on like this for three verses each with two sentences like the one I describe. My one went like this.

The sun is a light bulb brightly burning the sky.
It is an orb of fire masterfully scorching the earth.

The sun is a giant grapefruit shooting scalding juice across the sky.
It is a fire singeing the landscape.

The sun is a golden coin running across the light sky.
It is a spider stalking through the sky.

Water safety slide show

Last year I got invited to help make a funny slideshow called 'water safety'. Ben started making it two or three years ago but'water safety' is almost completely irrelevant to the idea of water safety. Even so here is the slideshow 'water safety'.

Marae Visit

On Wednesday the 28 of august the whole of Good Shepherd school went to the Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae at Unitec. When we got off the busses we had to be welcomed on to the marae with a powhiri before we could actually go on the marae, but once we were welcomed we took off our shoes and entered the wharenui which is the meeting house in Māori. In the wharenui we sat down, finished the powhiri and we sang some Māori songs then we had some food in the wharekai (or eating house), did the haka and left the marae.