Reading



Term 4:

Yesterday (7.12.11) was the 70th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbour Bombing. The Pearl Harbour bombing was when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, 1941. This bombing brought the United States into the World War 2. For me, this was a very emotional topic to research. The thing that got to me most was the gas bombings. Children today are still disfigured from the effects of the Hiroshima Gas that the Japanese so tragically dropped on Pearl Harbour.

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As you may know, the Rugby World Cup, 2011, held in the one and only, best country of the world (NZ) has come to an end, with the All Blacks (The NZ Rugby Team) were the winners - of course. So, the first thing we have done in Writing for Term 4 was to put together a news sheet about the highlights of the Rugby World Cup. I did mine on the All Blacks winning the Cup, the Welsh doing their country proud, Aaron Cruden (All Black) showing NZ what he could do, The Opening Ceremony, and watching all the matches with my family at home.

Below is my News Sheet: http://www.slideshare.net/upload

Term 3: We have now completed a book review on a Novel of our choice. I chose to do GONE - By Michael Grant. Below is my presentation:

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Recently, the anniversary for the Twin Towers has come up. Therefore, we had to make a new sheets on the aftermath of the Twin Towers. You could also do the Christchurch Earthquake aftermath, but I chose the Twin Towers. Below is my newsheet:

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So far we have done a reading Webquest in groups. Below is my groups presentation:

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Term 2:

It is now the start of Term 2 and my reading group are doing novels. We are reading The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. We will be watching the movie too. Below is a document on the Webquest:



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In groups of four, we have completed the boy in the striped pyjamas webquest. My group was Ella, Maddie and Letitia. We put together a wikispace with all our information, below is the link:

Boy In Striped Pyjamas Webquest Wikispace

Hi, for reading at the moment we have been doing multicultural activities on NIE. NIE used to be in the newspaper but we can now access it on our laptops which makes it a lot easier!

We have also been looking at the long finned eel and the history of the Wairarapa, it's wildlife and more! <span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We went to a special exhibition on the Wairarapa, it's history and wildlife. I put together a slide show so you can see what I learnt:

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<span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is my very first reading activity for 2011! Its on Armadillos. Have a look and see what you think!

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<span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">After the Armadillos reading activity we did one on Snakes. It is below:

<span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We are now doing a Reading Fairytale Webquest. Georgia and I have almost finished putting the presentation together, I'll post it on here as soon as possible!

<span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ok, this is Georgia and my webquest presentation. Mrs Stevens gave us a 5P on it!!!! Ella and Liv also got a 5P so have a look at our class wikispace http://www.fabulous14.wikispaces.com to see their presentation too.

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<span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It is now the start of Term 2 and my reading group are doing novels. We are reading The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. We will be watching the movie too. <span style="color: #eb2424; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In groups of four, we have completed the boy in the striped pyjamas webquest. My group was Ella, Maddie and Letitia. We put together a wikispace with all our information, below is the link:

Boy In Striped Pyjamas Webquest Wikispace