My wild self

Last week room 18 made our wild self using this website http://www.buildyourwildself.com/. My ones name is The lio-pol-wal-ark-at-crocodile.

Here are some facts about my one.

Polar bear ears -It gets cold in the Arctic (down to -37 °C). For warmth, my polar bear ears are small and covered in fur even on the inside. When diving, my ears close to keep cold water out.

Rodrigues bat wings - my Rodrigues bat wings are very different from bird wings. Bird wings are made like human arm bones. But my bat wings are more like really long fingers. Creepy long fingers!

Nurse shark fins - I can use my nurse shark fins to rest in the shallow water during the day, so I am ready to hunt the seafloor at night. That means I'm a nocturnal hunter.

This is my photo.

Worlds Worst Children Response

This term, Room 18 has been reading The World's Worst Children by David Walliams.  I've really enjoyed the book. Room 18 has been doing reading responses on the different children. The picture below is my picture of Nigel Nit-Boy with his nits swarming to the broccoli.

Here are some sentences about the book.

Nigel Nit-Boy is a boy who loves nits because he has had no pets, he treats his nits like pets.  At school one day, Nigel heard of a girl called Tina who had nits too.  Nigel chased Tina through the playground so that he could get her nits. Once Nigel had Tina’s nits and the school cat’s nits, his aunt made him a Super Nit-Boy outfit.  He got his nits and his costume ready and he set off to school. First he ordered his nits to attack his headmaster because Nigel wanted to get revenge on him for giving Nigel detention. After the headmaster, Nigel was going to attack the dinner lady because she had always insisted on him eating yucky green broccoli.

Reading in Unusual Places

This week at our school is Book Week. We have been busy reading to ourselves, our peers and younger children from our school, dressing up as our favourite book character and completing a quiz about books. Our challenge at home was to take a photo of us reading in the most unusual place. Here is my photo where I am reading with 9 month old twins, Bryn and Morgan.

Maths - subtraction

This week we have been revising our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For home learning this week, I have the problem 57 - 29 =? Here are my two strategies: place value and reversibility.

Reversibility

57 - 29 = ?
29 + __ = 57
29 + 1 = 30
30 + 20 = 50
50 + 7 = 57

I need to add 1, 20 and 7 because they're the numbers I added on above.

1 + 20 + 7 = 28  therefore the answer of the question 57 - 29 = 28

Place Value

57 - 29 = ?
57 - 20 = 37
37 - 9 = 28

So the answer to the question is 57 - 29 = 28

Wearable Arts

Wearable Arts...being on stage!

I heard the audience clap crazily as Room 18 & 21 entered the black catwalk.  

I heard the song Happy pounding on the stage.

I saw the silver shimmery curtains glittering in the bright colored stage light.

I felt the hot breath from my white spray paint mask going back on my face.

I felt my big suit falling down onto the cold black catwalk.

I wondered how long it will take to get to the end of the long catwalk.

I wondered if my group put all their effort into my group's vast spray can.

Writing instructions

This fortnight for writing we have been writing instructions on how to look after a dragon. I hope you enjoy my one.

How to care for your pet dragon.

Feeding your dragon:

Give Fred 10 watermelons every hour between 7am-7pm. Check Fred’s water bowl if it is under the 2 litre mark get the hose and fill it up to the top. At the end of the day give Fred 1 blue whale while making sure it has been cooked for a day. The blue whale delivery is on Monday. When the truck is here and he doesn't give you 7 blue whales call the company on  334 2467. When you give him food put it anywhere and Fred will find it.

Playing with your dragon::

If you want to play fetch throw the blue ball but do not have a tug of war with it or your arms will get burnt. To get the ball you need to say “Drop” and Fred will drop the ball. Or you can play tag so say “tag time” and you are in. To tag him throw the pink ball at Fred. When the game is over say “Tag game over”. Go inside and let Fred sleep.

Taking your dragon to the pool :

Put Fred on his trailer and drive with the trailer. Do not worry if Fread breathes fire on anyone. You have to put the pink togs on Fred. You have to look at Fred all the time or Fred will hide and you will never see Fred again . When you have had 1 hour play, tie a leash around Fred’s collar and pull Fred out. Say “Steam room” and let Fred go into the steam room for 20 minutes. When he has had 20 minutes go in and pull Fred out. Then take the dragon home wet and he will dry himself.

Training your dragon:

Everyday say to Fred to fly but you need to be on Fred’s back . When Fred has had 5 minutes say down and Fred will go down. If Fred does not come down you are trapped in the sky for 1 week. Fred will come down for food. You could call me and i will come to get you down.

Grooming your dragon:

Every day put Fred in the bath with no water in it, so Fred can’t run away . Then groom for 11 minutes and then say good boy and let him out. If Fred’s nails look 1 metre or over put Fred in his harness, it is on the table . Get the chainsaw which is in the bathroom and cut them off. To give Fred a bath put some water in the bath make sure it is cold or he will burn himself. To get Fred in the bath yell “Bath” make sure he has i cup of bubble bath mixture in it. Put Fred in the bath and make sure Fred washes his wings . Use the blow dryer to dry Fred.

Putting your dragon to bed:

Every night at 7:30 except Friday Fred can go to bed at 12:24. Take Fred to his room. Ask what book and Fred will give you a book to read . Read the book to Fred, when done put him to bed. Say sleep silently tonight. If Fred doesn't go to sleep say “Sleep now or no blue whale tomorrow”. If Fred doesn't sleep say “No food tomorrow” and then he will definitely go to sleep.

Exercising your dragon:

Every day take Fred for a 30 minute walk on his leash. When you get home say bath time and Fred will have a bath. Or you could take Fred to the Dragon Park and say 1 hour. When Fred has had an hour say “Home”.

Thanks for looking after Fred while i am away or otherwise engaged. I am very sorry if he breaths fire on you but i do not care if he did or didn't. I hope you would not mind doing it again.

Maths problem solving multiplication,

In Jackson's Studio on Monday we used the iPad learning app Show Me. Show Me is where you turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard so you can record tutorials. We used Show Me to record a strategy for solving a multiplication problem.

The strategy that Shae and I chose was reversibility .

I hope you learn something from our video.

Writing a Friendship Recipe

This fortnight room 18 has made biscuits, written a
Revolting Recipe, and a Friendship Recipe. Here is my Friendship Recipe.

How to bake the perfect friend!

Aim

Follow these steps to make the perfect friend.

Ingredients

150 g of kindness
1 cup of excitement
1 kg of cleverness
1 tablespoon of sportiness
½ a cup of talking
⅔ of a kg of trying
1 cup of growing
Green and pink powder

Materials

1 metre round bowl
Drill with stirring attachment
Soft rolling pin
Blunt biscuit cutter
Fire
Rope
Tray

Instructions  

1. Put lots of logs on your fire.
2. Put the kindness and the excitement in the bowl.
3. Then add the cleverness, sportiness and talking into the bowl.
4. Add the trying, green and pink powder and the growing.
5. Then stir with the drill until it is pink and green striped.
6. Roll out, then put on tray. Cut with a biscuit cutter.
7. Put rope around them and then put on fire for 2 hours.
8. When the time is up, take them off the fire and untie the rope. Enjoy!

Spelling Sentences,

This year for Home Learning Room 18 completes their spelling sentences each week and we have to use these conjunctions.  



Here are this week's sentences. If it is bold it is my spelling word and if a word is underlined it is the conjunction I used.

1. I suddenly discovered that it was snowing although it was the middle of the hottest season - summer!

2. Lunchtime is only 55 minutes long because if it was any longer we wouldn’t have enough time to learn.

3. I turned around so that I could see the beautiful sunset better.

4. I am going to eat food until I am full.

5. I played with my Lego while Mum was knitting tiny little baby booties.

Animal Report

This term room 18 has been doing Information Reports on animals. I did wasps. When I was doing this I found lots of cool facts about wasps.

Here is my Information Report:

Do you know that there are more than 75,000 identified species of wasps? Hymenoptera is the scientific name for wasp. Wasps are Insects, the Queen lives for 1 year but all the others live for 12-22 days. They grow up to 3.8 cm. Wasps are a dull black or brown to a brilliant red, yellow or blue in colour. They are not nocturnal which means they are awake during the day time.

Wasp live in almost every country of the world. They make nests out of mud and some use wood. Wasps live in nests with 10,000 or more wasps. They really like warm spots, banks, attics and house roofs.

Wasps have two pairs of wings, antennas, smooth bodies, no hair, black head and they have a thorax. They also have 3 pairs of yellow legs. Most often they have a long slender connection between the abdomen and the thorax. Their bodies are dull black or brown to brilliant red, yellow or blue in colour. They grow up to 3.8 cm and they can fly.

Wasps eat other insects, fallen fruit, plants, spiders, caterpillars, ants, bees, flies and nestling birds and nectar.

Wasps do not collect pollen, unfortunately wasps can sting more than once. The wasp stings are rare because they only sting when they get annoyed at you, or when you hurt them. When other animals or people go too close they get attacked. Wasps will charge at anyone within 7 metres. Wasps have a really fast wing beat of 117-247 beats per second. They do not store food.

Wasps only have one baby in their lives. Wasps lay eggs and their baby is called a larva.

Wasp have 10 predators such as dragonflies, robber flies, hornets, centipedes, spiders, blackbirds, magpies, starlings, and humans. Humans are only predators when they sting us because we kill them and when people get wasp nests out of their houses.

Wasps can sting you when they are dead but only female can sting you. Step by step how to treat a wasp sting.
Step 1. Wash the wasp sting with soap and water to remove the venom.
Step 2. Put a cold pack on to stop as much pain and swelling as possible.
Step 3 Keep clean and dry. Wasp stings should take 2-3 days to go away.

I think people should treat wasps better because wasps will only sting when you annoy them, it’s like getting told off. When you see a wasp in your house it is probably because they are looking for a home.

Bibliography

https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/wasps-live-42bb51880f25c67b

http://a-z-animals.com/animals/wasp/

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/wasp/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp

http://animals.mom.me/wasps-reproduce-7160.html

http://www.desertusa.com/insects/wasps.html

http://www.peta.org/issues/wildlife/dealing-household-guests/wasps-bees/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp   

https://askentomologists.com/2015/09/23/why-cant-male-bees-or-wasps-sting/

http://www.wasp-removal.com/wasp-lifecycle.php

http://www.healthline.com/health/wasp-sting

Māori Colours

This week, Room 18 has learned some new Maori questions.  We have learned how to ask each other "What colour is this?" and "What colour is that?"  We have also learnt the colours in Māori.

Mā - White

Whero - Red

Karaka - Orange

Kōwhai - Yellow

Kākāriki - Green

Mangu - Black

Pango - Black

Kikorangi - Blue

Waiporoporo - Purple

Parauri - Brown

Kiwikiwi - Grey

This is a video of a song about the colours in Maori.

Try to ask and answer these questions about the colours.

He aha te tae o tēnā?

What colour is that?

He ______ tēnā. 

It is ______. 

He aha te tae o tēnei? 

What colour is this? 

He ______ te tae o tēna. 

It is _______ (That colour is _____).

Maths problem solving - Division

In Jackson's Studio on Monday we used the iPad learning app Show Me. Show Me is where you turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard so you can record tutorials. We used Show Me to record a strategy for solving a division problem.

The strategy that Micah and I chose was reversibility .

I hope you learn something from our video.