Godwit Popplet

This is an image of Latham's, Reon's, and my Godwit Popplet on its appearance, diet, habitat, and predators. This is the second part of our Flight topic for inquiry. We are learning about the Godwit because it is a native New Zealand bird, and also is one of a group of birds that fly long distances to migrate. We also learnt that Godwits stop for rest in China/Korea when they start migrating, but on the return journey they don't rest at all, flying straight from Alaska straight to New Zealand. There are 5 other activities after this one where we will find out more about the Godwit, since we've only found out the basics so far.

Blog comment

This is a comment I made on Pt England Rm 6's  movie based on "The hunt for the wilder people" called the hunt for the manaiakalani people. It was a very good movie, although it's a pity that we can only view it on our chrome books since it wasn't shown when we went to Hoyts cinema.

Hyperbole DLO

This is my DLO on Hyperboles, which are exaggerated sayings.

Recount Quiz

Today we had a quiz about recounts, focusing on the tenses of a recount, the different types of views and making sure we knew it had too be in chronological time order.

Measurement Activity

Yesterday we started on our silent measurement activity. For this activity, we had to make groups then prototype paper plane designs individually, either getting the designs that we use from our memory or online (YouTube, Paper plane websites, etc), then test how far they can fly by throwing them from different areas such as the senior playground, the LS2 balcony, or the field, then get the good ideas from each prototype and eventually make a super plane as a group that will fly further than the other groups super planes. We have already made and tested our prototypes, and today we are moving on to the combining part of our designs, and also making our groups super plane. The hardest part for this activity is that all of our instructions were given silently, with us looking at a presentation.

Wright brothers Main idea

This is my DLO on a Wright brothers text which is about how they were the first to achieve controlled flight. We found out the main idea of the text and then read the bullet points to find out three facts that supported the main idea. I chose three facts that were related to how they improved their plane and how they became interested in flight.

Spirits movie plan

Facts about spirits

How might spirits find a host?

Spirits don’t really have a method for finding hosts, they just choose somebody who looks like they did before they died, as it makes them feel alive again. Other spirits could be conjured up but that is not a very safe choice to make!

Why might spirits haunt places?

Sometimes when people who pass on and their family has owned it for generations they tend to return to the homes. Most people can contact spirits or contact people who can see spirits or they feel a presence which could be good, but it can also be bad!

How could you get rid of a spirit once it has found a host?

You can kindly ask it to leave. Some spirits don’t think they're dead so explain to them that they died. Use your imagination to see people you love. If it is a bad spirit then you need to seek help from a priest or a demon expert. Is it possible to see spirits?

Psychics can read and see spirits, and they can also talk to them. Other people are gifted and have the ability to see spirits.

We are putting our information in a moving DLO (Movie)

Our movie is about a book with a curse placed upon it and the boy, (Thomas) who finds it opens it up and weird things start to happen! The movie we are making is called Monster Book 2: The Curse Begins.

Movie plan:

Latham will do voice overs by reading the questions for each chapter.

Intro:

Latham does an intro about halloween of the past

Characters:

Thomas

Sylis

Time: October 30th 1999

Event: Hallow’s Eve/ Halloween

Beginning:	Middle:	End:
Game at the beginning Sylis is reading the diary Thomas comes along and sees Sylis reading it, Sylis turns, hides it, and runs away	Weird things start happening to Thomas, (Hauntings) Thomas locks himself in rooms to keep away. Thomas sees the dolls moving and grabs the phone, and then somebody on the other side starts whispering.	Thomas manages to knock Sylis out and gets the book, the spirit goes back into the book, Thomas glues it together to trap the spirit   and they rip it up.

This is Lathams, Sylis's, and my plan for a movie about spirits, our topic of choice.