Passport Activity: Dave Dobbyn Slide Show

For my passport activity I did a slide show about Dave Dobbyn. This slide show was thirty points and I think it was worth it. While doing the slide show I listened to Dave Dobbyn's songs. I really liked "Loyal" and "Slice of Heaven". I really loved doing slideshows and research about Dave Dobbyn.  

Passport Activity: A-Z List of NZ Bands and Artists

For my passport activity I did a twenty point activity. It was an A to Z bands and music artists project. It was really cool to see all the bands and music artists from New Zealand. In the process of doing the activity I listened to the bands and artist's music. I really liked 'Don't dream it's all over" from Crowded House and "Rain" from Dragon. It was really cool to learn about those people.

Passport Activity

For the last four weeks we have a passport activity which means that we have to get two hundred points by doing activities. Some activities gave you fifty, forty, thirty, twenty and ten points. It's really fun because this year you had to learn about NZ music from new to old music. This activity is really fun because I like learning about history.   

Persuasive Writing

Today for in Room 5 we did Persuasive writing about why homework should be banned. I liked this one because in my opinion I wouldn't mind if I didn't have homework, but it would be better if we didn't have any. So we did the main points about persuasive writing, which actually persuades the reader. I hope you like it.

My Mountain Adventure

On a beautiful Sunday my family and I went

to the Devon-port Beach. We all just did nothing

but just chill, skip rocks and building sand

-castles. Eventually we went up the Mountain

near the Beach with some Fish’n’Chips. (Yum!)

After walking up the long and huge mountain it

was so steep! As soon as my family was finished,

I lay down because I was pretty tired… My

Mum and Dad opened up the Fish’n’Chips

wrapping and we ate until all of the food was finished.

As soon as we finished my Sisters (Melanie)

friend (Conor) and I went to the war supplying

rooms for the launchers and stuff… It was empty,

scary but it was awesome!!! When I saw my Brother

(Daniel) he was photobombing my Mum and Dad’s

pictures,it was really funny!

As time went we saw the sun-set,it was majestic!

Eventually the clouds covered the sun-set and I

said,”Aw man the sun-set is  gone”, But then

Conor saw a cruise ship that we completely

missed! It was right in our faces. The best part

was when my Brother Daniel was photobombing

pictures and when we saw the sun-set. It was the

best Sunday ever!

I loved that day!

My Weird Monster

My monster has a rows of teeth with circles and 3 paper thin eyes that can only see straight. It has a square head with ears the size of a ant. The tummy is medium size BUT his I mean it is very skinny. It has a mouth like a spider but no fangs, it’s human teeth. It is wearing shorts. He medium sized hair with a long a long nose that is very unpleasant to touch.

He is very nice and has a feeling as bright as a sun. It doesn’t like to be touched because he doesn’t want people to describe the soft a nice feeling on hair and dusty feeling on its face. It loves summer because he’s a cold-blooded so it makes sense. It doesn’t like books at all. He has a phobia of it, don’t show him it or he’ll faint badly, very badly…

I’ll tell you the weakness’ and powers. Weakness: Books,he hates books because of words.

Powers: It can understand any language (except for words) and breathing in Water.

Fact or Opinion Sheet Copy

For Topic we did a Fact or Opinion sheet that our teacher gave us. We could do it in our sheet or book. I did it in my book because it was a bit more easier and tidier. I hope you like it!

Tuatara Slide

For writing this week Room 5 did a slide about reptiles. I did a tuatara because I thought it was very interesting that they are still dinosaurs and they cute too. I hope you enjoy it! 

Asian Small Clawed Otter

Introduction

Asian small clawed otters is a species of carnivorous
Aonyx on our Earth.
They have small claws that do not extend to the fleshy part of their partially
webbed fingers and toes. This gives them Manuel
dexterity
(the ability to use your hands in a skillful, coordinated
way to grasp and
manipulate objects and demonstrate small, precise movements.)
so that it
can use its paws to feed on mollusks, crabs and other small fish.

Habitat

The Asian small clawed otter is native to South east

Asia, some

of southern India. Including some islands like Sumatra,

Java,Palawan and

Borneo. It lives in freshwater wetlands environment such

as swamps,

meandering rivers, mangroves and big tidal pools, as well

as irrigated

rice fields. It prefers pond areas and bare banks.

Ecology and Behaviour

Asian small-clawed otters are diurnal animals
(active during the day),
found in remote areas, away from human disturbance.
However, some have
adapted to life near villages. They continually groom
their fur to maintain
its insulating qualities. Asian small-clawed otters are
excellent swimmers.
They swim by moving their hind legs and tail. They
‘doggy-paddle’
with all four feet while swimming or floating. When
swimming at a
high speed, they undulate their entire bodies, including
their tails,
up and down while their hind feet steer. They can dive
underwater
for about six to eight minutes. They are often seen
playing (which can be seen at zoos) and sliding on muddy
banks and
in the water in regions where they often visit or live.

Conservation Status

Asian small clawed otters are listed vulnerable on

the IUCN

(International Union for Conservation of Nature), due

to ponds being

replaced by farms, pollution and hunting in some areas.

Characteristics

Asian small clawed otters are the smallest types
of otters in the world.
They’re overall size can range from 70 to 100 cm,
the tail is around
30-35 cm. They weigh around 1 to 5.4 kg. They have
short hair
relatively ranging 2.5 cm, it is soft, dense and velvety.
There nose are
dusky or pinkish colour.

Diet

An Oriental or simply small clawed otter’s diet mainly

consists

on invertebrates, crustaceans and molluscs, but they sometimes feed

on vertebrates and specific amphibians. They feed

on small fish like

catfish and gouramis. The particular amphibians such

as mudskippers

and small non poisonous toads. Crustaceans they crunch

on are crabs,

lobsters as well as freshwater shrimp. Salty seafood that

they swallow

are clams, mussels, oysters and fresh water snail.

Conclusion

So overall Asian small clawed otters are a cute and
interesting type of Aonyx species. They are simple but
complex at the same time. Asian small clawed otters are
the best
and cutest type of otters in my opinion.    

How I Felt Writing My Speech

Writing my speech was fun but not the best. Speeches are not my favourite but it's alright. My speech was about How to become Evil Super Villain. But I felt very confident about my speech going into the semi finals because it had perfect time and a lot of expression, but at least I still participated! So after all writing a speech is hard but fun, that's my opinions about it. 

My Ode To My Kittens!

To My Kittens!

Oh my beautiful kittens! You are the cutest and softest out of all kittens.

You are as soft as a velvet sheet.

Everytime you purr you are a angel of happiness.

My heart smiles everytime you I hear you meow.

Oh kittens, how a adore you!

My Quatrains

1.(A) Monsters have a roster.

2.(B) The main monster was Sam

3.(A) That was a stinky impostor.

4.(B) So the monsters had his lamb.


1.(A) So there was a flower

2.(A) It’s enemy is a mower

3.(A) That killed it’s clover

4.(A)But he can’t go closer

W.A.L.T: Write a explanation slide.

My Memoir

The Circus

The circus was usual enough.

It had

Balancing ropes, face paints, clowns and

 lots of people swarming around the food.

Daniel and I did what brothers do.

Watch the performance in the circus, buy

lots of yummy food, going on the highest ride outside,
playing competitive gaming

and doing bad jokes

Doing nothing important.

Ash Wednesday!

Yesterday the whole school went to mass for the Ash Wednesday Mass! When our class went to the church the doors were wide open. Our class walked in seeing the bright purple colours,it was blinding! Well kind of…

As soon as we sat on the chairs the people were talking and talking until the priest was there. The priest had purple clothes and a microphone under his clothes on his chest.

We were listening to the priest talking about religious things,but i can’t remember what he said. When he said,” We may now stand up”,We sang the first song which is the “The Good Shepherd”.

I heard all of the beautiful singing,it was amazing! I didn’t drink and eat the bread and wine at all because I didn’t have go up there to have it...But I smelt the perfume that the woman were using.

I felt the ashes itching on my forehead,but I got use to it. As soon as we all kneeled down it felt good at first but it didn’t at all for a while… When we got up my legs were hurting so much! (Well not too much). I loved singing the heavenly songs,well my voice was kind of getting tired but it was worth it!

I said to my mind,”When is this going to end because this is a pretty long mass”,But then it ended,the priest did everything that he had to do. All of the people said goodbye to all and left. The school just did normal stuff after that.

I loved the Mass and so as everyone did it is very important and Holy. The whole entire school had a great time!