Something Alive. Reading

This is my create work that I've done for Reading, my group Hillary was focusing on inferring meaning from text. This a girl that is Japanese but was born in New Zealand. Now let my create work talk all about this one girl in New Zealand.

Myths and Legends, Reading task

Myths and Legends

WALT: infer the story’s message and use evidence from the text.

Click here to read this legend

http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/learn/article/read/item/N80dv9qsH_Q/chinese-stories-history-monkey-king-came-to-be-journey-to-the-west.html

Click here to read this myth

https://startshining.com/surdas/

1. What have yo learned after reading these stories,? I'v learnt that Surdas family are not participating with Surdas, and also the monkey king was an immortal king.

2. What do these stories tell us? It's telling us to always include others and never steal.

3. What is the author trying to convey in these stories? A discipline place and a comfortable space

4. What's the message? Be kind to one and other and to never do bad thing that will make your life miserable

Surdas

1. How did Surdas's parents treat him? They treated Surdas as he wasn't part of their family

2. Why did Surdas leave? He left because he wanted to sing with a group of singing boys

3. What doe it teach us? It teach me to not be shellfish and make sure everyone is comfortable. 

The Monkey King

1.Why was he crowned as a "Monkey King"? Because he jumped behind a waterfall.

2.What did eh want to become? He wanted to become an immortal

3. What magical powers did he have? Sun Wukong has 72 transformation which let him fly 60 thousand miles in a second.

And where did he get these magical powers from? He got his superpower from Taoist.

4. Why was he not invited to the banquet? Because he was stealing

5. What did he try to do? He sneak into the place and stole the peach, wine and immortal pills.

6. What were the consequences? To never steal.

Chapter 1 ("I Survived the Japenese Tsunami 2011")

March 11 2011, 2;46 pm.

The wave was tiny, it was getting closer to the japan coast. As it hit Japan it was forming into a big waves, it was very strong that the tsunami was terrariozing heaps of towns in Japan. There was heaps of beautiful villiages getting destroyed, boats was tumbeling around like dice's. There was this one boy that was standing on the street of a small villiage called "Shoghama", the waves sucked him under the water, he was gettign totured by the waves that he had no escape out.

James.K.Baxter research (Reading) ✍️ ✍️

We've been searching about James.K. Baxter for our reading, I've been working hard and focusing on searching up James.K. Baxter. I really learnt a lot about James and this is what I putted together on a google drawing about James.K. Baxter.

G.I. History(Reading)

Today for reading we've been talking about G.I. history. My group "Weka" has been studying about G.I. history as part of our reading. So this is what I've done on google drawing.

Reading (Diagram)

Today I have finish of my reading diagram that my reading group "Weka" have been doing for a week, We had to find a key idea about a guy name William Innes Taylor. This is somethings that I've found from the article I red about William Taylor

📑My Reading log for Cool reading group?? ✍️🌺

Date	Book title/ story title	What I understand from the story	New vocabulary (words) I had difficulty with
10/04/2017	Geronimo Stilton “The Karate Mouse”.	Geronimo Stilton was having a nice quiet day, So he said “I should deserve a nice hot bath”. He was washing his body until there was a phone call, he got out of the bath straight away but he couldn’t see a thing because the soap was in his eyes, he was rushing to the phone he slipped on a soap and he knock his head on the bathroom sink. He answer the phone and it was Bruce Hyena. Hyena said “Geronimo has a 5:00 am karate training with a professional karate trainer Shorty Tao. Geronimo got scared, Bruce just hanged up the phone, Geronimo got so scared because he doesn’t want to cry like a baby..	Rodent’s Gazette
01/05/2017	The bad guys	I understand from this book that there was a group of bad guys going through stores and stealing pets, They were watching the news but they said to himself that they are just good guys and they were trying to save all the animals from the animals pound.	No hard words?
02/05/2017	The bad guys (2)	The bad guys was going to a chicken pound because they want to save the chickens because they want the world to know that they are good guys not bad guys. So they went and saved the chickens but they will continue the story. To be continued……...	No hard words?
03/05/2017	ShoutyKid How Harry Riddles Totally went wild!	Harry was talking about his parents changing the story about him going to church and different kind of places. His parents said “He is going to whipping hall”, but his dad said “no because that is a bad hall and he won’t know if he will get a whip”. To be continue……..	No difficult words!

🤔First reading log for the holiday.👨‍💻💞

I haven't blog my reading log because I was busy through out the holiday but today I think I should let you guys read a little bit of the reading that I've read. So this is my first reading log for last term holiday. Enjoy

My reading about water pollution. Enjoy my slide show.

Thea Stilton and the Spanish dance! SUMMARY

Thea Stilton and the Spanish dance

It was scurrying home after interviewing my local theatre's artistic director. I couldn’t wait to tell the Thea Sisters about their program. Oh pardon me I almost forgot to introduce myself. My name is Thea Stilton and I am a special correspondent for the rodent’s gazette, Mouse island’s biggest newspaper. Nicky, Pamela, Pauline, and Violet Known as the Thea sisters they were my star students. I entered my door there was a package with a cd and a note. The note had something for Me, “Dear Thea listen to the track called “Flamenco”, And you’ll feel as if you’re shaking your tail with us on the streets of Seville, Spain. Call us when you can The Thea Sisters.

To be continued……

Taniwha (lost stories/Reading)

One of the important things is the rock art that the taniwha done

Amanda Symon, curator, Te ana ngai tahu rock art centre

Maerewhenua, near duntroon: a sailing ship, drawn around 1870

A reproduction of the three Opihi taniwha

Read ochre(a sandy clay mineral found in many places places around the world

Answer regarding the article you are reading for the week

Who?	The Taniwha and Amanda is the main characters.
What?	It all about looking towards the taniwha and the lost questions.
When?	It happened a long time ago when the ancestors were still alive.
Where?	It is in Temuka somewhere near a school called saint Joshua school.
Why?	To know about the taniwha back in the days.
How?	Because a person name Amanda she found out the stories about the Taniwha.

2. Pick one hard word to answer questions

What does it mean? (Word meaning)

What does the this hard world mean it is called Maerewhenua

Use it in a sentence

I want to know what does Maerewhenua means like is it a maori word for the taniwha or ancestors.

Synonyms (DIfferent word but same meaning)

I want to know what does Te Ana Ngai Tahu mean like is it a maori word for the taniwha or ancestors.

Beneath the clouds (Reading task)

Beneath the clouds of Venus by John O’Brien

SJ P.2 N.1 1993

WALT: Use a graphic organiser to organise information from a text

WALT: identify adjectives in noun phrases.

Learning about the planets
Fact (Non-Fiction)	Fiction
The clouds were covering Venus. There is not life on Venus and that mean there is no countries like Earth. There are no life on Venus like there are no trees, building and seasons because Venus is the second hottest planet in the solar system.	Swamps under the clouds of Venus. Venus is beneath the clouds where the endless ocean is. There is a floating islands. On the island there is oceans and wave as high as mountains. Venus has no clouds or anything because it is so blank that mean it has no life and that is true.

Imagine you are a science fiction writer and have gone forward 30 years into the future. Tell us what the world is like. What can your phone do and what is the transport like? [Write 1 paragraph]

In 30 years our phone will be funky it will has human beans eyes in the screen. The transports will be floating in the sky and the tire will change into a windmill so it can be going down to the ocean like a submarine. There car will look like a human bean but it just have a hood with some lights on top and a chair too. And 45 people fit inside the car because there are 50 seats in the car.

grandpa what did you did in the war

WALT: Make conclusions about how characters are feeling throughout the text.

SC: Complete a timeline showing grandpa’s feelings with the addition of pictures.

Grandpa, What did you do in the war Poem by Jeff Cook

The writer has written the poem about remembering his time in the war.

The poem has 9 verses. A verse is like a paragraph but used in poetry and lyrics.

Answer with full sentences

eg. Who is your teacher in Room 7?

Correct: Mrs Parker is my teacher in Room 7

Wrong: Mrs Parker

1. In verses 2-4 how does the poem make you feel?
2. In verses 6-8 how does the poem make you feel?
3. Why do you think Grandpa decided NOT to tell his grandson the first things that came into his memory?
4. Make a timeline for each verse of the poem to show how grandpa is feeling. Add an image for each verse also. The first one has been done for you

	Verse 1	Verse 2	Verse 3	Verse 4	Verse 5
	sad hurt terror frustrated pain cause horror mad scary sorry emotional nightmare	sad	hurt	terror	frustrated
	screaming hot stinky leeches flies distrust terrible unwell fear mistake dirtied disappointed

Verse 6 /on the first story of verse 1 the child said what did grandpa did in the war and grandpa got all emotional and started have tears.	Verse 7 /grandpa skin got all creepy. Grandpa said he was crawling through the mud back in the war he had a nightmare and he was full of terror.	Verse 8 /He said again what did grandpa did in the war and he was still causing pain but they brought back the horror.	Verse 9 /Grandpa vision came back but he was still telling the story what happen in the war he said that he was tramping in the jungle,hot stinking with leeches and flies.
I felt so sad because grandpa was getting so emotional.	on verse 2 I had a terror in my eyes and was scary.	I was getting so mad  because the grandson has been causing pain	grandpa was on a boat overseas and he was sea sick

Share your answers only, on your blog.

Explain what you learned doing this task and what you enjoyed and found difficult.