Limericks

In class we have been learning about Limericks. A Limerick poem is a poem that has five lines it has a type of rhythm. It also has to have a rhyming word at the end of every line, two rhyming words in the first two lines and the third and fourth lines have to have a different rhyming word at the end and the last line has to rhyme with the first and second. Here is a Limerick poem that I wrote.

                  Polly
There once was a girl named Polly.
Who bought a very big dolly.
She sat it on her shelf,
Next to the elf.
And now she's very jolly.

Free verse poem-Dancing

We have been learning about all sorts of different poems in class. This is my free verse poem.

           Dancing

She has pink bows in her hair.

She rushes past like a speeding motorbike.

Her jumps are so perfect like they were meant to be.

The dancers pirouette is as fast as a hurricane.

The slight move she makes has noise.

The stage set like she was put with it.

Then she suddenly jumped into scary music.

The dancers body in the making.

Lunch time

In class we have been learning about onomatopoea
We wrote a poem with onomatopoea in it. This is how mine goes.

LUNCH TIME

The children munching on their tasty lunch.
Munch,munch,chomp,chomp.
The teacher letting the kids go.
Psh,thump,cachoo,zoom!
The children playing with the ball.
Shoo,shoo,shoo,shoo.
The running children.
Thump,thump,thump,thump.
The children falling over.
Bump,thump,wump,clump.
The children talking to each other.
Pss,pss,pss,pss
The children walking into the classroom.
Bump,bump,bump,bump

A network of friends

Friendly

Ready to help

It's nice to be around them

Everything is happy

Nothing stands in your way

Doing things for them

Science fair investigation

Aim

Does mould grow faster on different types of food?.

Hypothesis

I think that some foods will grow mould faster than other foods because mould needs moisture to grow on.


Apparatus

2 slices of bread spinach
3 strawberries spoon
yoghurt knife
beans clear food wrap

My results

All of the foods that I used grew mould except the toast because it had no moisture. The strawberries grew the most mould and it grew mould the fastest.

Conclusion

My hypothesis was correct because I said that some foods would grow mould faster and that was just what happend.

Science fair

Over the last few weeks our class has been doing our science fair. I am doing mine on mould. My hypothesis was correct. I said that mould would grow faster on different types of food. I have been growing mould on
bread,toast,strawberries,yoghurt,baked beans and spinach. I did it for a week and my strawberries grew mould on it the quickest and they turned out to be very disgusting. I had a great time doing it and I took pictures for my results.

Myths and Legends

Over the last few weeks we have been writing our own myth with a partner in class. Our myth is called 'Why the snake has no arms or legs'. It is about a snake who was always getting bullied, so he went down to the lake and wished there were no bullies. At the lake Snake found crocodile and lizard (bullies) and they said, "Meet us down at the lake tomorrow". Snake went to bed and had all these nightmares about the fight. When Snake woke up he was feeling very scared but at the same time brave. Snake went down to the river and saw crocodile and lizard. They said, "Are you ready to rumble?". They were going around in circles and then crocodile lunged and bit snakes arms and legs off. Now that's why snakes have no arms or legs today. 

Edward Tulane- my thoughts

My favourite part of this story was when Maggie (Abilene's daughter) went into the doll shop and found Edward on a shelf and started hugging Edward. This was a very happy ending because Maggie was the daughter of Abilene and Abilene was Edward's original owner.

During this story Edward experienced many feelings for the first time in his life. When he found someone that loved him, he would feel happy and when he lost someone he would feel very sad. I have experienced many feelings like Edward. I feel very sad when I lose someone but you just have got to open your heart for someone else. 

Edward was very brave and he never gave up hope. He always looked on the bright side of life. I think that is the perfect thing to do when you have lost someone.

practice post

we are practising at home.

blog session

I had a blog session with my Mum. It was fun. We learnt a lot.

Myths

Each week in our class homework we read a myth and do an activity on it. There are 15 activities to choose from. I have read four myths and done four activities. It is quite a lot of fun. My favourite activity was to rewrite the ending of a story. I was quite good at that. I will be doing my fifth myth next week.My favourite myth that I read was The man eating lion. Our teacher has got lots of myths that we can read. Some of the myths that I read are so well described that it feels like I am in the book. I have got a whole book of greek myths so there are a lot of names that I can not even pronounce but luckily when I can't pronounce a name I can flip to the back of the book and there are all of the names in the book and they write the sounds so you can work out the names as you are going a long. Like the name Heracles, I couldn't pronounce the word so I flipped to the back of the book and sounded it out and I flipped back and kept reading.
Here is some of my work.

Dear Diary- what I think about bullying

Bullying is a really bad thing to do. When I see someone getting bullied I try to do something. I really have never bullied in my life. I don't see why people do it. Do they do it for fun? Do they do it for pleasure? I don't know, but people shouldn't bully. It is a horrible thing to do. When I get bullied occasionally, I never let the bully get away with it. I go and tell a teacher. I hate it when I get bullied so I would never do it to anyone else.

Maui and the sun

We heard a lot of versions of Maui and the Sun, but I'm going to tell you the first one that we read. Once upon a time there was a boy named Maui. He had a lot of brothers and he was the youngest. When him and his brothers went out to fish, the sun always went across the sky too fast. They decided they would go to the edge of the world to catch the sun and try to slow him down. They travelled many days and many nights. When they got there, they built two sheds to hide in. When the sun came up Maui beat it hard and the sun said, "What did I do?"Maui told the sun to slow down and the son agreed.

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I am a Year 4 student at a school in New Zealand.