Describing Shapes

in room 5 we have been leaning  to describe shapes we. Had to do a screencastify with a younger buddy. we had  say what was the name of the shape, and  if it had straight or curved sides. Also we had to say if the shape had sides that were equal. Last of all we had to say if the shape was a 2 dimensional shape.

HERE IS OUR FUNNY LEARNING SCREENCASTiFY

The Plastic Bottle Mountain

 We are learning to describe the plastic mountain, it is a little mountain full of plastic bottles.  We had to use  present tense, use my senses to describe smell, sounds and sights and have more detail in our sentences.
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 The Big Plastic Mountain

I feel disgusted when I walk into the plastic mountain having to clean up everyone's mess. Green and white plastic bottles are scattered around me and the amount of plastic bottles makes me want to faint. I smell the plastic bottles rotting away, they have been there for days, weeks or months. Half of the bottles I pick up are sharp and have mud on them so I immediately throw them  in the basket. Some bottles have a little bit of soda in them. The amount of bottles that are here makes me think how many people are dumping their plastic bottles. As I trample the plastic bottles, they make a cracking sound as if I’m  using a hammer and whacking the bottles really hard. 

 
                                                                   

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Jenny Sommervell

At Awahono School  room 5 and 6 had an author  come to our school. Her name was Jenny Sommervell. We learned that two of her stories were based on a real thing that happened.  We learned that when you write a story you do not want  people to get up and walk away, you want them to be entertained. The book I like the best is The Eel Hunt.

The Line of Symmetry

The year fours  have being learning about the line of  symmetry with shapes. We had to fold our paper in half then we drew lines on our paper.  Next we cut out our lines then we had our shapes.  We had to do four,  three-  sided shapes  then we had to  make four-  sided shapes  and more than four sided shaped. The line of symmetry  is the line in the middle of the fold and it has to be equal . It's when the shapes  on  both sides of the line are  equal.