Spelling Rules

                                          Short and long u vowel sounds.

              Next to each word identify if the word has a short or a long u

punch-short   fruit-long        threw-long
you-long        through-short   who-short   
blue-long        rude-long
duck-short     rub-short
bug-short       dull-short
us-short         stew-long

Reading Activity

Te Waoriki’s Writing activity

Book: Beans

Main ideas in the paragraphs.

P1.Every Saturday in the winter term he bike's into town to play rugby.

P2. On the way in, he doesn’t get a chance to look around him.

P3. But its great to go off to rugby.

P4.By the time he gets there he's really puffing.

P5.Sometimes it’s cold and muddy.

P6.Then after the game he strip's off and get's under the shower.

P7.He get's a drink from the dairy across the road.

P8.The going home is the best part of all.

P9.He sees all sorts of people in the gardens.

P10.Past all the gardens, about 2 kilometres from where he live's, there’s this fairly steep rise. 

P11.Just as he start's picking up speed on the down slope he get's this whiff of pigs.

P12. And as he goes whizzing down the stretch on his bike, he does this sniff up, a great big sniff.

P13.He's got this book in his liabry at school.

P14. It’s not far to his place after he's taken the straights.

P15.The lemmons on his tree are as sour as sour.

P16. They have an old lady living next to them.

By Te Waoriki.

  

Week 4 Reflection

WHAT: This week we found out what our new habit of mind is it was gathering data through all senses. Also this week we got a visit from Ms O'connors brother, he is from the army. When he came to our class he showed us some videos of road side bombs. The second day he came he took the class outside to teach us some drills that he uses during attacks. The first one he showed  us was called pepper potting. Pepper potting is when you are getting fired at.Two of the soldiers shoot firstly, one of the soldiers drop back five passes and then yell out move a couple times. The next drill was when you are protecting your boss and he is shot. There are four soldiers surrounding him and all four soldiers drop back into cover to work out a plan to go and save your boss. After you have decided on a plan you must run and two of you pick him up and the other two cover them by shooting at the enemy. We also went to gym it was fantastic I really enjoyed doing all of the obstacles. We also got a visit from a man from the ASB bank to talk to us about money.

SO WHAT: This week I learnt that if you use your credit card your'e actually using the banks money that you have to pay back. I also learnt that it is good to save money but it is also good to spend some. I also learnt that Ian Fergusson won six gold medals and four silver medals. This week I think I did pretty good on my behavior goal witch is helping others when they ask for help.

NOW WHAT: Next week I hope to get a hundred percent on my spelling test.Also next week  hope to do buddy art. I must edit my work myself before taking it to the teacher.

Close Reading

Fill in the blanks below with words from this box:
harvest. sweaters. chilly. Sets. migrating. change. November. Farmers. Before.		red . orange. yellow. scarecrows . autumn. Season. Back.  October. Grapes.	Pumpkins. Corn. September . Country. foliage. ground. Coats. Crows.
Fall Fall, which is also called   ___autum________, is the ___season_________ when the leaves change_____________ color and fall to the _ground______________. In North America, it is also the season when kids head _____back_________ to school. The Weather Fall begins with warm weather in ___Septenber___________, but as the season continues into _October_____________ and November________________, the sun ___sets__________ earlier and earlier everyday and the weather becomes ______chilly_________. And so, people put away their shorts and t-shirts and take out their __sweaters____________ and coats_____________. The Harvest In fall, ______farmers______ are busy working in their fields. They have to _________harvest_____ their crops before the cold of winter comes. _____pumpkins_______, now big and orange, are ready for making pies. _______corn_______ quickly ripens on the cob. Wine makers pick their plump, juicy, purple ___grapes____________ from the vine. _scarecrowas______________ stand guard in the fields to keep the ______crows________ from stealing the crops _before_____________ the farmers can gather them.
	The Country If you are fortunate, you can visit the _country___________ in the fall and see the spectacular ____foliage__________ on the trees as the leaves change to _yellow____________, ___orange_________, brown, and ___red___________.  Overhead, birds are ___migrating____________, heading south to their winter homes.

Spelling Rules

                                        
                                                     Short and long o vowel sound
                Next to each word identify if the word has a short or long o vowel sound.


bottle-short    post-long      fog-short
dog-short       toast-long     slow-long
hot-short        hope-long     go-long
knock-sort     gold-short     both-long
gone-short     cross-short    rot-short
soap-long      not-short       toe-long

Word of the Week

Crook is a noun

Crook means criminal, thief

Synonyms for crook are cheat,rogue,villain,robber

Antonyms for crook are police,law

sentences The crook broke in and stole all of the money from the cash register.

 The evil villain set bombs all around the city. 

Week 3 Reflection

WHAT: This week  we did some art. For art we did some finger print painting. Some people did things related to the olympics and some people just did what ever they wanted. Also this week we went over to Room 12 to teach them how to make a terrific backround for a finger print bug picture.First they needed to choose a first colour, after that our buddy needed to choose a second colour to blend with the first colour. Finally it was time to let them dry off. This we got a new habit of mined whitch is Thinking and  communicating with clarity and presicion. My behavior goal this term is to help people when they ask for help. I think that I have done pretty good at it.

SO WHAT: This week i learnt it doesn't matter how big or small you are you can still win a gold medal. I also learnt that New Zealand have a Fantasic rowing team.  When they won I felt pretty devastated for Italy and Slovinia.

NOW WHAT: Next week i hope to do P.E and  more I.T. Also my goal next week is to improve on my behavior goal.