my reading from term 2

Planning a playground

By Sue Gibbison

Knowledge:list 3 facts from this text

1. So the kids know what they want for their new playground for their school they tried out some other playgrounds in town.

2. Did you know when Matauri Bay School got a new playground there equipment was sent from South Africa?

3. Matauri Bay sits on top of a hill overlooking the sea.

Comprehension:use

                                                                                                                                                     

Application:choose 3-4 technical words from this text and find their definition

Essential - absolutely necessary; extremely important

Attributes - regard something as been caused by

Functionality - the quality of being suited to serve a purpose well; practicality

Author's purpose:why do you think the author wrote a story about wrote a story about this

I think the author’s purpose is that it doesn’t depend how your school looks like or how it is the board of trustees will always find you.

Respond to text: write one thing you have learned about life or people through this text

I have learnt that no matter if you don’t have a flash or fashionable playground the board of trustees is always there for you.

Evaluate make judgments:rate this text out of 10 linked evaluation form give a reason for you rating

I rate this a 10/10 because i found it interesting because when your school is not flash you can always make a big difference to it.

This what I treasure in my school

What I Treasure In Our School

I will treasure the wonderful wall that says ‘together we learn’. It is at the end of the gray concrete court facing kahikatea classes and the color of it is like a rainbow with all of the colors that are on it. It look like a beautiful forest with lot’s of animals that are cute and always happy and  some beautiful trees as well.

At lunch time and at morning tea time my friend’s Nysteen, Chloe,Oriana, Lily-Ray and i go to the wall to play. We play with Nysteen  little tennis ball  and basketball we throw it over the wall and you had  to have someone the other side to catch it.

I like the wall because it fun and it is like a little wonder land when you are in there. It  nice and peacefull for playing games with friends.When i there playing i feel so much fun i would say that it is  most joyful place in the school.

I feel like we should keep the wall because it nicely painted and it the best thing in the school to play in with friends.

My reading about cultural dances

Dances

Of The

World

Heather Hammonds

Making Meaning

Question 1. What are some of the ways dances can be different?

 The culture and the legends behind it

Question 2.Which word on page 2 tells you that the polka is not a slow dance

Farm dance

Question 3.Do all Indigeanous Australian groups perform the same dances

No there are different  collection dances.

Question 4.Why would performing the Bharata natyam on stage be different to performing the haka on a sports field.

Because is normally performed by men and the Bharata natyam is performed by women the haka is supposed to scare people because they use to be for wars the Bharata natyam is graceful they perform on the stage because they are telling a story in action.

Question 5.Why do you think most of the dances are performed to music?

They do it to tell  their history, or express the dancers feeling and about events in their history also to welcome

Question 6.How are the costumes for the ghawazi different to those used in Indigenous Australian dance?

Well the Indigenous Australian costume are actually paint decorations and used for a welcome dance,  the ghawazi costume is for fitness and there costume would show her belly that's why you might call it belly dance.

Question 7.What is your favourite type of dance? Where do you perform it? What do you where?

I would rather dance with the flow,anywhere,I would wear something funky.

My vacation in the Philippines

My vacation

The 19 of July was my sisters and I last day at school and our international country New Zealand.Also this is my longest vacation in the philippines 2 months is a bit crazy for me. While I was having my relaxing  paradise dream in my sleep suddenly I hear my baby sister crying at 2:20am in the morning.So I woke up to help her then my mum rushed in to wake up Sophia then my mum said to me in a relaxed mode “thank god your a wake know hurry up and get dressed to go on our trip, my mum was struggling to  get the baby ready and my sister was lazy and making me do everything while she was showing of with her clothes to all our attenants in the house finally everybody was finished trying to look fancy for the air.

when we arrived at the airport we finally had our breakfast we just had simple but it was so good we had sausage roll a hot choco and strawberries our lovely parents had coffee and toast also Maya had milk From New Zealand to Sydney and arrived in Manila were so excited!!!! .    We looked up at the list and we were next so while we were waiting we went to one of the stores to see what we could do on the plane we finally found something and checked it out we thought it was cool so we brought it for Sophia and I after waiting for thirty minutes we had jumped on the plane and the plane we were on was the Qantas we were on the plane for 3 hours.

Know we are on our next flight to manila we are having one night on the plane but we are so lucky to have  a tablet size screen right in front of us it has every new movie that is going to come for e.g jungle book ,ninja turtles and secret life of pets  it's so cool.We have arrived in Manila Yay!!

My mum dad baby sister left us to go to travel to Asia ,Cambodia and Thailand while we stay at our grandmother's sister's house her name is Mary she is 37 years old with a 10 year old daughter and she is my aunt so it’s kinda weird so I stayed with her for four days

Two months later………….

Yay we arrived in New Zealand  

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