My follow up questions for reading.

Why do you think the people in the article didn’t want to start packing up their holiday gear and not going back to school? The people in the article didn’t start to pack was because they were going on a trip on the jet boats. And going back to school.

In the story there are some words they use.. What do you think these words mean? These words are NOT just in one place! They are used throughout the text Dreary Job: Dreary Job means starting your dream job you’ve wanted to start for maybe a while. Or a long time. Heavily Laden Car: Heavily Laden Car means you have a heavy car. Clambered: Clambered means like your climbing in the boat. Churning: Churning means like your tummy is turning around in circles and making you laugh too much.

How do you think the boys felt when their Mum and Dad told them they were going Jet Boat riding? The boys were probably excited to go on a boat ride.

What was the name of the Jet Boat driver? The name of the boat driver was Brian.

What are life jackets? Life jackets are to save people and if don’t have one on and you don’t know how to swim and start to sink that’s when you need it and if have one on that’s good because you don’t sink too much.

What was one of the safety rules that the driver told them? The safety rules were hold tight and don’t put your hands out of the boat.

Who was too little to go on the boat? What was he allowed to do though? Eli was little one he wasn’t to go on the boat, so Brian let him stand in the jet boat as it was being reversed into the river by a huge tractor.

What did Brian do to show a hand signal? And what did it mean? The hand signals meant that it is showing what the person was doing and what they are showing what to do. And Brian twirled his fingers in the air, it meant we were about to do a 360-degree spin in the middle of the river.

What happened to Finn when they were on the boat? What happened to Finn when they were on the boat: Finn ended up scrambling around on the floor of the boat.

How does a jet boat work? Look at page 8 to find out this answer. A jet boatworks with a engine to start with by sucking water through the screen underneath the boat and shooting it out the back of the engine in a high- speed jet stream. The pushes the boat forward.

Labs Graph

   Maths

1. What has the least votes?

      Inquiry and cybersmart

      3)Are there any that have an even amount of people who like it.

         Inquiry and cybersmart

      4)Compare 2 of your options and write how many the difference is.

          Science and maths

Maths has 10 more than science.

I have chosen to do a graph because I wanted to learn how much people like the subjects and how many people didn’t.

Screencastify. Roses are red poems.

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  I did a Screencastify about my Roses are red poems because our teacher told as to do a different text from the journal we were reading but I did the poem because I like poems they rhyme really well sometimes.

Commenting Like A Master!

We are learning to identify a quality blog comment?

Taking Care Of A Fox

                           

Top tips for blog comments.

it is always good to make a compliant to people even your your friends.
be positive and pacifistic to make nice compliant to people.
it is really nice to make a connection to people.
always end with a question!
try and a conversion going if you want.
proofread your or a comment.
at the begin at a sentence you away's need a capital letter and you use punctuation at the end and 1 ! mark and more words.

Watch This Space!

Independent Learn Task:

Watch this space!

Make a copy of this document and answer the 10 questions.

All of the answers are in the article that you have read, so make sure that you go all the way through to find the answers.

Please write your answers in full sentences - not just one word. For example question 1 : The name of the highway that is talked about in the article is…

Question 2: In the article is says that one one side you see…. And on the other you see…

What is the name of the highway that is talked about in the article? State highway 88 in Dunedin.

2. What does the article say you see on each side of the road when you drive into Dunedin?   On one side of the road there’s a great view of the harbour and on the other side there are houses and bush-covered hills.

3. What did people do first when they wanted to upgrade the roadside? They wanted to plant some trees and shrubs to make it beautiful and nice.

4. Why couldn’t children paint the concrete wall? Because it was 50 meters long and 4 meters high and it was very dangerous and there would be lots of traffic going past. Full sentence?

5. What is a professional artist? And who was the professional artist from the article? The artist was Janet de wagt a professional artist is who would usually do paintings For the museum.

6. What were the names of the two students that were talked about in the article and what school did they go to?   Paddy and Declan Smith go to chalmers school.

7. What were the choices the children were given to draw? Ethier a sene near your house or one near your school.

8. What did the two boys from the article choose to draw? Paddy draw a train on its tracks he also drawsome fish and rock in the sea Declan chose to draw the rugby clubhouse and fields that are just down the road from his school.

9. What did the professional artist park beside the wall that she was painting? Janets red Zephyr.

10. Why was it important that the wall was painted? Because some people wanted to upgrade the roadside.

Teacher Comment:

This was something I did for last week. How good do you think I am?

Figuring out what 8+9=

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