Metaphors

This week we have been learning how to write metaphors. Metaphors is kind of like similes except you can not use than, as and like or other wise they are not metaphors.
Here is my metaphor:

Simile writing

We have been learning about similes. We had to choose one element of the weather or a few elements and create a poem using at least 5 similes. I chose to write about snow.

Here is my work:

Similes

For the last couple of weeks we have been learning to right similes. There are three different similes, than, like and as are the three similes.
We had to choose a picture from a document and write the three different similes about the animal we choose.
I did a Kakapo and Tuatara
Here is my work:

Shadow art

Kia ora
Last week we did an art activity with the theme shadows.
We made a picture of ourselves and had to cut it out with black paper behind it to make a shadow
Here is my work:

Poetry No.5

Like similes and as similes and than similes

We have been learning about similes. We matched these pictures to make like and as similes.
We change our like similes into as similes and as similes into than similes  by making a copy of our like simile document.
Here is my as simile document.

An owl's eye is as round as a plate.	An elephant's trunk is as long as a girls hair swaying in the breeze of the wind.
A flagpole is as tall as a tree trunk.	A soldier is as strong as a lion.
An overflowing rubbish pile is as stinky as a sock.

Here is my like simile document.

An owl's eye is round like a plate.	An elephant's trunk is long like a girl's hair swaying in the breeze of the wind.
A flagpole is tall like a tree trunk.	A soldier is strong like a lion.
An overflowed rubbish pile is stinky like a sock.

Here are my than similes.

An owls eye is rounder than a plate.	An elephants trunk is  longer than a girls hair swaying in the breeze of the wind.
A flagpole is taller than a tree trunk.	A soldier is stronger than a lion.
An overflowing rubbish pile is stinkier than a sock.

Swimming T1 2018

This year we have been learning and practising streamlining our arms as well as our legs. We have also been learning our breathing skill and techniques. Swim safe also come in  and teach us some survival skilsl so if we are stranded somewhere we know what to do.
I am good at rainbow arms
I need to work on breathing on my side.
I am capable of swimming a length of the school pool with rainbow arms.

Maths Graphs

We have been learning about graphs. I used the information from this sheet of paper and made a graph showing the number of books read by students in year 5.

My Graph shows that Naomi read the most book of the 6.
Ned read the least of the 6, he read 22 books.

If all 6 students add their books that they read together they would have 188 books.


We also created a line graph to show the temperature over the week.

This Graph shows that Friday is the hotest day of the week.

Thursday is coldest day of the week in my graph.

Monday and Wednesday are the same temperature.