Writing

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera musculus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

We have been learning to understand the structure for a information report. We needed to highlight the different kind of features different colours.

The Remembrance Of Private Ted

There’s a bottle of beer in the Waiho Forks bar,

From the rest on the shelf it stands out like a star.

For its shape is old fashioned and it just might be purple

And the label proclaims that its “Ballins Four X”

It was bought a long time ago by a young soldier brave;

On his final leave home, these are the instructions he gave.

“Don’t break it or sell it, just keep it in store,

And we’ll drink it when I come back home from the war.”

He was killed overseas on the Island of Crete

When they battled it out with the German elite.

There’s a headstone but nobody knows where he lies,

If he sleeps his last sleep ‘neath the sea or the skies

But the bottle still remains at the Country Hotel,

A memorial stands to a soldier who fell,

And travellers and locals take time out to think

Of the soldier who never came home for his drink.

And somehow a glow by the bottle is shed  

As poppies surround it and edge it with red,

For each Anzac Day there’s a new one to put there

And they lie like a wreath round that bottle of beer.

There are many stone cairns scattered over the land

But I wonder how many are polished by hand.

Though the cap is all rusty and outshines the chrome,

As it waits for the soldier who never came home.

Anonymous

We have been remembering the soldiers that fought for us in the World War 1 and 2. The main idea of this particular peom is, Not All Soldiers Return From The War.

Writing a Narrative - Juanita and Jessie

“Get off the road!” shouted the man in the taxi. James was on his morning jog on a busy road, not caring about what he was running into such as the cars. As he was running he turned his back and saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge wanting to jump.

As James saw the man he ran as fast as he could  trying to save the poor old man’s life, but sadly he was just an inch away too late. The Scotland Yard ran to the scene wanting to know what happened. James sprinted, thinking he would get arrested. He hopped onto a motorcycle driving fast, over the limit anyway. “What will happen to me if they think it was my fault?” he said to himself. They chased after him wanting to know why he ran..

He went home thinking that no one would ever know it was him sadly the Scotland yard   knew. He had no choice but to skip town. He said his last good bye to his family and he said I love you and went on the run. Little did his family know, that James would never return.

He left the city and his family had no idea about it. All they knew was he was being “awkward” around them. They knew something was up so they followed him. Sadly they lost his tracks and they never saw him again.

These past 2 weeks for writing we have been learning how to write an narrative using TOPES-Title,Orientation,Problem,Explain,Solution,Mood words, HCSP-Hook,Character,Setting and Problem. Our Learning Intention is to write an narrative story,my partner Jessie and I were writing about a man being innocent but he was blamed for the event.

Current Event - Juanita & Jessie

This afternoon LS2 got into pairs  and given an  instruction. Today we were learning about the Bus Strike in Auckland City, we were learning everything we learnt from article's and video's about the bus strike in Auckland. Our learning Intention is to Identify the 5 W's of a Current Event, we had to think about the 2 Point Views clearly so that it was a correct statement. This is an Link to thearticle.

Rounding Code Breaker - Juanita

Thihs week our maths groups word on a code breaker which means to unlock the words with the numbers. Our learning intention was to round whole numbers to the nearest 1, 10, 100 and 1000.

Writing

      We have been doing our writing as you can see. This is just the plan out. We used our imagination and we just said what we thought. We had fun but then again we were focus on our work.
Our Learning Intention was to write a plan for a narrative story.

Writing

• Tite
• James Bond the Innocent man
• Orientation\
• Hook: “Beep Beep” The cars Honked at him.
• Characters: Who are they? What are they doing?
• Jame Bond
• Innocent Person
• Secret agent
• Setting: Where are the characters?
• London
• Traffic Jam
• Problem:  What is the problem? Hint at it
• A man jumping off a bridge
• He's trying to save someone

• Problem
• What is the characters problem? Why is it a problem? What was the character/s doing before the problem happened?
• James Bond tried to save someone but his hand slipped and the man fell of the bridge.
• The FBI thinks it was his fault
• He  is  now on the run
• Explain
• How are the characters going to solve the problem? What happens next? What are the events?
• He jumps on a motorcycle and drives off
• The FBI continues to look for him
• He goes to his house and stays there for a little
• The FBI Goes to his house
• He Takes his motorcycle in the truck and hides

• Solution
• What is the solution? How is the problem solved? Did the characters learn a lesson
• The FBI goes straight past him
• Then when they go past him
• He comes out of the truck and drives off
• He founds a way to prove he didn’t do it

      We have been doing our writing as you can see. This is just the plan out. We used our imagination and we just said what we thought. We had fun but then again we were focus on our work.
Our Learning Intention was to write a plan for a narrative story.

Science At Tamaki College

We have been going to science at Tamaki College. We have to stay behind after tech and go to science, in my opinion I think it is great because we have opportunity to do learning out of school. We have to have a bit of morning tea first, then Mrs Bunce come to take us to her class room to do some science.

How To Write A Paragraph

This is mine, Djae and Jessie. we all work on this together.