Laughing Owl Report.

For the past week my class had been learning to write reports.

Our class decided on doing animals that were extinct.

I found nothing hard because the Owl was easy to be researched because it has so much information about it.

Laughing Owl

Description, Classification: The Laughing Owl known as Whekau (Maori name.) went extinct in 1914, it’s a white faced owl with yellow and brown looking stripes in their feathers and fur. They were known to be as big as a Morepork, adult ones used to be different shades of brown only. Their classification was Sceloglaux.

Habitats: The Laughing Owls likes to roam around in the open country, maybe because it might be easy to find their food or prey. The owls were also found in forested areas, that might be because that's where most insects and other different animals live.

Diet: They usually eat beetles, weta’s, birds and geckos more than 250g and rats and mice, they liked to eat insects or different types of birds.

Threats: Their predators were the reason they went extinct, mostly humans came hunting for them. Most of the Laughing Owl predators were wild mammals.

Dynamic fact: Their breeding season is mostly in October but sometimes in September.

-Manvi

Penguins - Fact File.

Since yesterday we were reading about penguins, we had to write a fact file and identify the main ideas in the texts.

I decided to just go with regular penguins and basically put all the species in one fact file.

I enjoyed reading the book with my group and discussing what we thought was wrong.

I found nothing hard because we had the book at all times and had people in our groups to work with.

Next time I would do it on one specific penguin so people can learn something new about penguins.

Maui Dolphin - Fact File.

For the past few days we are learning to write reports, This was part of it but it was for reading and we had to write its facts.

I enjoyed looking for the facts and writing them down into a google drawing.

I found nothing challenging because I had written everything down already on my book.

My digital learning object shows that I am getting a good start at writing reports. 

Next time I would change my animal or my native insect.

July Reflection.

We are reflecting on July and what happened during July.
We reflect on every month so we can go through our learning and success.
I found it easy to fill in the little boxes because I knew every activity we had been doing.
I found nothing challenging because everything was easy to understand and we got examples from the teacher.
My digital learning object shows I know how to reflect on my learning.

David Walliams - Fact File.

This week we were learning how to write fact files.
I found it hard to a quote because all his quotes are very inspiring.
I found it easy to write about him because we got so much information about him.

My digital learning object shows I am getting better at making fact files.

Next time I would change the book writer and write about more writers.

Faith Poster - New term, New value.

For the past few days we got a challenge to make a poster about Faith for the most generous prize, 25 blessing beads for your house colour!

I found it easy to learn about Faith because it's simple to share the love of God to other people by helping and being a good friend, but most of all believing in God and earning his trust.

I found it quite tricky to write how it feels like.

We currently moved onto term 3 so we set a new value and actually writing about that value as well.

To make the poster we had to have certain things like add a quote from the bible, write what it sounds like, feels like, and looks like.

Learning how to recraft Reports.

This week we were learning how to write reports.
We got a level  3 piece of writing/report about Lions and it got jumbled up so we got a partner and rearranged the paragraphs in what we thought sounded right. Once we finished, our teacher told us about adding the classification, description, habitat and the dynamic fact! "Dynamic fact" means a fact that doesn't fit anywhere, it's just a random fact. Habitat, means a place where the animal lives or comes from. The description is how it looks like and what it is and the features. Classification is like the family on what the type of Lion is called. We learnt that each paragraph should be only for 1 topic, Me and my buddy know what we did wrong which was not really stuck to one topic each paragraph. I found it easy to make our own paragraphs without knowing that we had to do one topic on each paragraph.