Literacy

Literacy

Galileo’s Timeline  WALT: Identify words that help us understand what we are reading.

 1564: Galileo was born - In Pisa  About 1574: Galileo and his family moved to Florence  1608: The toy Spyglass was introduced  1609: Galileo pointed his homemade optical tube to the moon and changed the world’s view on the universe.  1610: Galileo discovered Jupiter and found out that it has four moons.  1610: Galileo also discovered that Venus has phases like are moon.  1610: Galileo published a book about his discoveries called Sidereus Nuncius meaning The Starry Messenger.  1616: Galileo was arrested and given a life sentence.  1642: Galileo died, blind and lonely.  A great list of important events in his life. Well done.

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Tricky Plurals

WALT: Recognise different ways of making words into plurals. Rule: If a word ends in -sh, add es

Nouns flashes bushes sashes wishes gashes finishes brushes blushes

Verbs rushes washes fishes

Comment: Good Work Kimberly. NS Using these in your writing.

30 Minute Writing Sample <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> WALT: describe a character.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Teresa

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Teresa is my oldest and most favourite cousin. She lives in Levin, but she lived in London for a bit.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Teresa is quite short, used to have long black hair but she cut it and now it’s pretty short, she is also four months pregnant with her first baby it’s pretty exciting.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Teresa has a bubbly personality, she is extremely caring and loving she’s also great with children. Teresa is always helping people like my Grandparents, the rest of our family and her friends. She likes to spend time with us and take us to the markets in Levin when we are staying over there.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> When she to London she met Henry, and they started dating and when it was time for her to come back to New Zealand he decided to come with her. After they had been togther for a couple of years he proposed on Christmas day she was so happy and said yes and I was their flower girl. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Before she got married her name was Teresa Telesia Watters and now it’s Teresa Telesia Ngobi.I know that Ngobi Is spelt wrong but I don’t know how to spell it.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Teresa works at courier services in wellington they help pacific islanders get a good education. She is part Samoan (on her mums side) and part Scottish (on her dads side) Teresa and I have a great relationship she’s always spoiling me and things like that, she is such a great person to know, we are lucky to have her part of our family.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Your cousin sounds like a really interesting person - she has a great job. Don’t forget to check for capital letters for names (Pacific Islanders, Courier Services, Wellington). A really good piece of writing.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kyimabela <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> WALT: Describe and create an imaginary creature. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Description: The Kyimabela is a bit like a butterfly. Kyimabela has round orange eyes with red eyelashes, she has four purple wings that come out of her blue bug like body. She sounds like a humming bird and if you get to touch her she is extremely smooth. Kyimabela always wears necklaces cause the make her smile a beautiful smile. The Kyimabela has a very mischievous personality.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Habits: Kyimabela likes to sneak up behind you and tickles the back of your neck, she also likes to steal your wallet and go and spend your money.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Habitat: The Kyimabela lives at the bottom of the garden, she moves from garden to garden every night. Kyimabela’s favourite type of garden is a lavender garden so watch out.



<span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Busy Bee!

Colour: Yellow, black, red nose, black/white eyes Feel: soft, fluffy, cuddly

Busy Bee is the colour of all bees. His yellow is as yellow as the sun on a bright summers day and his black is as black as a stormy night. Busy Bee is as soft as a white cloud. His six legs are black, his feet are yellow and so are his ears and tail. The best part is his bright red nose the sticks out of his cheeky face.

Autumn Poem

Leaves silently fall down through the long, dark night. Children run through the fallen leaves, sounds of laughter, leaves crunching under their feet. The wind blows another shower of lifeless leaves over us. Shades of red, yellow and brown flutter around us like a monstrous tornado. Autumn has arrived.

Eagle As the huge eagle swoops down to the rippled water’s edge, his strong, plane like wings are spread out like a child pretending to fly. He’s focused on something up ahead; with an evil glint in his eye, he spreads his tail out to help him slow down for the catch.

The bright, sunny yellow of his face blends into the pure white of his long neck. The tip of his wings are spread out like black fingers, pointing the way to go. The rest of his strong body is a mucky brown, like he’s been sitting in a mud pond; his feathers are ruffled like the need a brush. His hard, wrinkly feet are ready to catch his prey, all of his talons are out and look as sharp as a knife point, they’re as black as night with white marks like stars.



<span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">I'm doing my speech on 'How to be the perfect wife' You will have to decided whether or not this is the perfect wife!

CREAZA! Our teacher found this amazing site called CREAZA where you can make cartoon strips. We did a Little Red Riding Hood with a twist. We had to make it out as another character was 'The Bad Guy' so here it is.

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