Heidi the Octopus

Hello everyone,
For the last week or two, we have been reading about an intelligent octopus named Heidi. We read an article about her. It was about her changing colour in her sleep. The colours she change to and from apparently meant that she was trying to catch a crab. Then, we had to complete reading tasks about Heidi.  My favourite part was making the venn diagram. The hardest things was writing the story about If I had an Octopus.  The learning behind this was to do creative writing and to find the main idea in the text.
Here they are:

Choose 3 vocab and find meaning and put in own words

Documentary

A documentary is a movie, television show that explains real

life events such as eras and life stories.

Planet Earth is a documentary which explores the natural

behaviour of animals.

Cephalopod

A cephalopod is a mollusc of the family known as the cephalopoda.

They have tentacles joined to the head.

I saw a cephalopod while I was in Rarotonga.

Recognise

Recognise means to identify something or someone that

they have seen previously seen or known.

Everyday day I come home, I always recognise my chicken, Leonna.

Once upon a time, I was on a school trip to Kelly Tarltons, when suddenly a pink fluffy octopus caught my eye. She seemed depressed, as if she didn’t want to be there. I told her to sneak out. She told me her name was Sandy. Soon, Sandy slithered slowly up the wet slimy glass. Slop! Her sticky suckers drop on my dry hands. She felt like a pile of disgusting slime. "Hey!, what are you doing" A firm voice yelled at me. "N...n...nothing." I replied nervously. "Good!" He answered. "What the?" I thought. Sandy had camouflaged! I gave her a slimy smooch on the head. "YUCK!" I yelled! She tasted like salt and chemicals!

Flick! Suddenly the lights. Flicked dark! I was lost! Sandy told me she knew the way! So I told her to show me to the exit and to freedom. We skipped down the hallway with joy! Sandy had a big smile on her big head. Finally, we reached the exit.

Splash! we dived into the cool, refreshing ocean like playful dolphins! I heard Sandy blowing big underwater bubbles of joy. Before I left Sandy, I asked her to clean my smelly toes the stunk for weeks. Soon, she vacuumed up the smell and dirt with her suckers. I hugged her slippery, fluffy body one last time before, I said, goodbye.

Tinana Shield

Kia ora,

On Tuesday, Kaikohe East came to compete with us for the Tinana Shield.  We chose to play soccer and netball. We only had to win the soccer game to keep the shield.  Sadly, we lost the netball game. The score was 0 - 12. Next, we were on. The game began. Their defences were good. But we still won. Lawrence scored us our goals. The end score was 2 - 0.  Kaikohe East did a haka at the end of the game and then we did our haka back. My favourite part was playing in the game. The hardest part was getting past the defences.  The main goal for this game was to keep the Tinana Shield.
Here are some pictures:

Comparing Good and Evil Characters

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This week, we have been comparing characters. We read text about Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.  We put the information we found about the princesses into a matrix. We had to find their personality, physical appearance clothing. After that, we compared the princesses in a venn diagram. We did that to the evil people in the stories. Next, we wrote what we noticed about the evil and good characters. My favourite part was filling out the matrix. The hardest part was finding the personality of Mother Gothel. The learning behind this was making comparisons of evil and good characters.