The last couple of weeks we have been learning about picture books, More importantly we have been learning what makes a good picture book. Picture books don’t have to be for kids they can be for anyone of all ages. For our picture books we had to make a plan, write the book and then convert everything into the website book creator.

Here is my writing.

Here is a link to my book.

have you ever read a picture book and if so what is your favorite one?

This week for R.E (Religious education) we have been learning about advent. Advent is a very important time in the catholic church as it is the count down to Jesus birthday but for many advent is a countdown to Christmas when you get lots of gifts. To prepare for advent you can do good deeds or make an advent calendar like we have. The modern advent calendars are now filled with chocolate or toys, But the Advent calendars we have made are filled with good deeds you can do.

Here is what I made.

Do you have an advent calendar and if so what is in it?

This week for reading we have been continuing on with our novel study. The novel we have been reading is called holes. Holes is a book about a troublesome kid called Stanley Yelnats. Stanley Yelnats has been sent to a Juvenal detention center called camp green lake for stealing shoes that belonged to a baseball player called Clide Livingstone. At camp green lake they are forced to dig holes all day everyday.

for our create tasks we made them in slides.

here is what I made.

have you ever read the holes book and if so what is you favorite part?

These last couple of weeks for reading we have been doing novel study specifically the book holes. Holes is about a kid called Stanley Yelnats, the name Stanley Yelnats is a palindrome, a palindrome is when a word or a saying is spelt the same backwards as it is forward. As I was saying Stanley Yelnats was forced to dig holes at a juvenile detention because of a crime he did not commit. We have Been making a slide show with all of our create tasks and all of our questions.

here is what I made

If you would like to read the hole book here is a link

What is your favorite book?

Recently for RE (Religious education) we have been learning about Saints specifically the Communion of Saints and the steps of Canonisation (Canonisation is like all the steps of becoming a Saint).  For this task we were required to make a poster for our create task.  The poster was about the four steps of canonization.

Here is what I made

The first step to becoming a saint is the request for Canonisation. The second step to becoming a saint is when the bishop sends a letter to Rome. The third step to becoming a saint is beatification. The fourth and final step to becoming a saint is called Canonisation.

I learnt a lot of new things while I was working on this task such as, did you know that If you want to be considered for sainthood you have to have been dead for more than five years.

Who is your favorite Saint and why?

This week in reading we have been learning about the ancient Olympic games as the Olympic games are starting today. I have enjoyed learning about the ancient Olympic games because there is so much to learn about and there is so much history in the Olympics as they could possibly be over 3000 years old. For our learning task we were given a slide deck that we had to fill out.

here is what I made

One thing I would do differently next time would be that I would add more to the five senses slide because it would have made my create easier.

what is your favorite sport in the Olympic games and do you want to play in them one day.

This week we have been learning about God’s creation and to show our work we made poems. We could choose many types of poems like a haiku acrostic poem or a regular rhyming poem but I chose an acrostic. The poem I created had to be about God’s beautiful creation earth. For my acrostic poem I chose the word nature as nature is all around us in the air we breathe and the trees we see.

Here is what I created.

We created poems so we could appreciate what God had created for us.

Have you ever created a poem and if so what type of poem was it and what was it about?

This week on Tuesday we went to the Groynes in Christchurch. it is called the Groynes because in the late 18 hundreds a part of the stream that was connected to the Waimakariri which is a fast flowing braided river flooded and all of Christchurch was at least waist deep in water, so to make sure that this Never happens again they made these things called Groynes and they were big concrete balls that they made out of cement, that is why it is called the Groynes. A Groyne is something made out of concrete to stop a flood.

At the Groynes we did lots of activities like water bug catching where we would try and catch bugs that live in the water. We also learnt about the food chain, Did you know that if there is even a bit of pollution upstream and it makes it to where all the organisms live it could ruin the whole food chain killing all the species that live there.

Over all I really enjoyed my time at the Groynes and I would recommend it to anyone who is in Christchurch.

This week in reading we have been learning about habitats, specifically fresh water and marine habitats. Fresh water habitats are in places like rivers and lakes. On the other hand marine habitats are oceans and seas. Due to the always changing conditions of the rivers, seas and lakes lots of fish plants and other living organisms have to adapt to their surroundings. These adaptations could be as simple as changing the color of their skin to blend into the rocks as complex as growing longer fins.

this is what I have created

Do you know any more treats that our fresh water habitats face.

This week in writing we have been learning about insects, we had to choose an insect to write about and I chose the red imported fire ant. here’s what it looks like.

I learnt a couple things about fire ants while doing the work. Red imported fire ants thrive in tropical places like central south america even though they were originally from the UK. The red imported fire ant will live in colonies of over 200,000 and live for anywhere from 2 – 17 months but the queen lives for about 2 – 6 years.

We were tasked with making a fact file about the ants.

here is what I did.

What is your favorite insect?