Piggbook Metalangauge

Today we started learning about a story by Anthony Browne, called Piggybook.

As you can see the cover a has puns and metaphors.

Mrs Piggot is piggybacking Mr Piggot, Patrick and Simon, SUPPORTING them.

And this book is about how they turn into pigs when Mrs Piggot leaves.

Here is the work I have done on this book, explaining some of the words.

Piggybook Metalanguage

Metalanguage	Dictionary Meaning	What I Think that that means!!!	A picture
Representation	The act of representing	Showing someone or something and explaining it
Construction	The act or art of constructing	How the book is put together and how the words are connected	This picture does not help
Stereotype	Sociology. A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group	A widely held belief about types of people that are cliches, with a simple understanding. An example is: If you wear glasses, you are a nerd. If you are Asian, you are a bad driver.
Discourse	Communication of thought by words; talk; conversation	Talking about things.
Feminine	Pertaining to a woman or girl	How people think girls should be like.
Masculine	Pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men:	Muscular looking people.

The Wild Deer Debate: Locating

This week we are doing some reading comprehension. It is on a debate about if deer should stay or not. Here is the PDF file version: drive.google.com/file/d/0B2crh7K1KlPJVkFqTG84Y3J4SXFVQWRqMU5VRXR2ZExoQzFr/view

Here is my locating work.

The Wild Deer Debate

In this article there are two sides to this debate-those that want deer to stay and those that don't Four opinions are given. Use this organiser to locate those for and against deer, with their reasons.

For	Against
Buck and Luke don’t think the small damage by deer is a big problem. They like it when they have healthy, lean meat in their freezers. They think that deer should be able to breed freely so people can keep hunting them.	Mike thinks aerial hunting is the best way of getting deer. He also thinks 1080 would also work well, but would be controversial. He thinks that if he had the conservationist job before they came, he would have said NO to the import.
Warren thinks that deer hunting is a good sport adults and children can do together. He thinks that hunting is a good job to have. He also thinks that hunting is not just killing deer, but the whole experience.	Debs and Michael think that in a perfect world, there would be no deer in NZ. They think that if there were no deer in NZ, the flora and fauna could live safely. They think poison might not be a good approach, since people will probably rebel more.

Chapter 16 of The Boy in Striped Pyjamas

Today at 9:40, Miss Hines read to us our class novel: The Boy in Striped Pyjamas. We then answered these questions about the book. 

Weekly Reflection: NINTENDO SWITCH TRAILER IS OUT!

For nearly a year and a half, people have been waiting for the Nintendo switch, first known as Nintendo NX, to be revealed... AND THE TRAILER IS FINALLY OUT! Look below to see it.

This is probably the first game console that I have ever wanted to buy, because I wanted to actually wait for it. Nintendo has hinted it to come out March 2017, and I am starting to save up some money for it! The price is foreseen to be around $600.

TOPIC
For topic, our class is now supposed to be making anything to do with the Titanic. Cameron, Nikalai and I have decided to create a small presentation and a comedy video based on the movie. I am really excited!!!

NUMERACY
We did lots of mathsbuddy. We scratched our pencils onto pieces of numbered paper (basic facts). And we did the last maths tests.

Weekly Reflection!!!

MATHS:

I did a lot of revision, since tests are coming up. By revision I mean completing tasks on MathsBuddy.

WRITING:

For writing I had to write a few explanations. I (and the rest of my class) wrote one explanation on frogs, and started one on sleep. Below is the explanation of frogs.

(nearly) All about frogs

OR The lifecycle of a frog

A frog is a tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping. They are green and sometimes brown, and live in swamps and/or ponds to lay their eggs. Some frogs may be be poisonous enough to kill, while others are as murderous as small stones. So for this reason DO NOT attempt to touch a frog you don’t know about.

(Above: A poisonous dart frog, or Dendrobatidae)

The lifecycle of a frog is a very strange process. First, two adult frogs (male and female) have to mate, then the female will have to lay her eggs in a pond. The eggs sometimes would merge together to become embryos, and others may not even get past that stage. The embryos will then sit there for six to twenty-one days to hatch. The embryos start to look more and more like tadpoles, with poorly developed gills, tails and mouths. After hatching, a small tailed black spot, or a tadpole, will come out and start clinging to a water-plant, as to not getting washed away and killed.

After a while of being out of its embryo, the tadpole would get some external gills to breathe underwater with. Its tail would also get longer and longer, while it would develop hindlegs. After this stage it would look a little bit more like a frog, just without front legs.

About four or five days after that stage, the tadpole would start to live of food from its tail, slowly making it disappear. A couple days later the tadpole would have very small front legs. Then the front legs would grow, the tail would become shorter and shorter… and behold! A young frog would appear!

Now, the tadpole had become a frog. It would go on with its life, eating flies, jumping about, maybe even accidently eat a tadpole. But then two frogs would find each other, mate, and start the whole lifecycle all over again! Then the frogs will die. Yes, sadly all life must come to an end.

As you learned in the explanation above, a frog’s life cycle is a quite interesting one. You also learned about what a frog was, where they live, and how they lived. Now go outside and see if you can find one!

READING:

We actually started a new class novel last week, called 'The Boy in Striped Pyjamas'. It is turning out to be quite a good book, and I hope that there is a good ending.

OTHER:

Also this week, I have completed a Main Star. It was to make a Christmas treat, then give some to your classmates, friends and/or teacher. I made some Lego gummies. The blog post for this is under this reflection post.

See ya, Simon - Make your own cover

Today, we started reading a novel called 'See ya, Simon'.
Miss Hines then forced us to make our own covers.
Truthfully most of the time I was staring at the screen doing nothing.

Week 1-2 Reflection

TOPIC

Our topic for this term is money. We have started using banqer.co, which is a site for kids to find out how money works. The different stuff in the site includes: Real estate, tax, income, property insurance and much more. We then had to create a slide about where our taxes went. Here it is.



Numeracy
Now for numeracy, in the first week my group learnt about finding the volume of cubey shapes. Here is the slide I made explaining how to do this.


Literacy
For writing we started writing poems. There is no need to explain, just read these beautiful poems I wrote.

My Colour Poems

Red

by Kyle

Red looks like your victim’s fresh blood strewn across the floor

Red sounds like the screams of the people trying to escape

Red smells like the flaming, sinking ship beneath you

Red tastes like apple juice

Red feels like the warm glow on your skin, reflecting the humongous city that was put to an inferno.

Brown

by Kyle

Brown looks like my old dog Skippy’s handsomely soft fur.

Brown sounds like the little kids singing and dancing in the muddy dirt.

Brown smells like the aroma of mud wafting off my little chickens.

Brown tastes like the sweet, sweet treat of chocolate that can make one’s day.

Brown feels like the muddy ground.

Cinquains

Stick

Brown, sticky

Drops on ground

Boring, doesn’t feel anything

Twig

Military

Strong, young

Guns shooting people

Lots of nervous people

Army

Gum

Weird, sticky

Leaking from gumtrees

Makes you feel strange

Adhesive

Thank you for looking at this reflection!

Main Stars- Complete home learning for the rest of the term

Here is the proof that I finished all my maths online:

And here is the proof I finished literacy online:

Lastly, all my other home learning is in the recycling bin, and now perhaps it's a new piece of paper.