Who flew first

Jane Gardner Batten Biography

High Fliers

First Flying machine

Captain's Log-On The Runway

Captain’s Log

Text title (and link if possible):	On The Runway
Author:	Unknown

Explain the events of a story and character emotions through one character’s eyes in a diary format. Provide (give) evidence for your statements about events and feelings.

Log Entry:

Louise doesn’t want the cowboys sweat on her.

Evidence: The cowboy is sitting to her right and she is leaning to her left

Log Entry:

The cowboy’s hat was about to drop on the person behind him

Evidence: She leaned even more to her right to see who in second might a large sweaty cowboy hat on their lap.

Log Entry:

The cowboy found the person on the intercoms jokes very funny

Evidence: The cowboy was laughing at all the jokes

Log Entry:

Louise didn’t want to go to Hawaii

Evidence: When the person on the intercom said that they were headed to Hawaii, Louise felt like crying.

Egypt

Emoticon Story-Wonders of Flight

Inferring

L.I: To learn what inferring is.

The robber's mask

This week my group read the book called "The Robber's Mask" (again).

General knowledge - New caledonia

Comets

This week I read a text called comets.We had to do a D.L.O on it.We had to make animations for the words we didn't know.

How to make a non-polluting car

This week I read a text called How To Make A Non-Polluting Car.

General Knowledge-South Africa

Today me and my buddy Jeremiah did a General Knowledge D.L.O on South Africa. What I found interesting was that South Africa has 3 capital cities.I liked reading facts about South Africa.

Neighbourhood Niggle's

This week my group read a book called neighborhood niggle's (I know it say's Neighbour Niggle's Mr & Mrs Fitz).We had to make a DLO on  the book.

Retelling Vegetable soup

 Beginning

Grace said she would make lunch with her Nonna and Papa because the rest of her family went out.

Middle

Grace picked the vegetables and prepared them with Nonna and Papa.

End

When Grace finished the soup she placed it on the table for her family to eat

Extra information

Grace’s mother was the first to comment on Grace’s

soup.

Today I read a story called vegetable soup. I had to a retell the story. We are learning about retelling now.

Grammar worksheet

Grammar Worksheet

Circle the correct article (a / an / the) in each sentence:

1. John wanted to read a / an comic book.

2. The class went on a / an field trip.

3. He likes to read an / the short stories.

4. Lisa put a / an orange on her yogurt.

5. My mom likes making an / the cake from scratch.

6. The dog caught a / an stick.

7. I saw a / an otter at the zoo.

8. I quickly ate the / an cookies.

9. A / an oval is shaped like a / an egg.

10. A/an igloo is made of ice.

Write the correct article (a / an / the) before each noun:     

I ate a banana

I chopped the tree

The termite was an inch

The eagle was huge

A bench is a meter long

The kitten ate a ton of food

A soccer ball was kicked around by professionals

The owl had a beak shaped like an egg

The tiger ate a human

Today we did a worksheet on grammar.This is my finished work on my blog. I had to highlight the correct article in the sentences.

Highlights of China Tour

Today I read this text about Highlights of China.I was practicing predicting the kind of text this was.I predicted that this was a information report.In an information report there are these kinds of words:

Timeless (everyday) words

Technical words

Impersonal words

Here is an examples of a everyday word:

think(thinking, will think,thought)

Taj Mahal

This article is about Taj Mahal. I think that this is an Information report. Taj Mahal was built because of an immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, the Taj Mahal is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage. 

Kyle Mewburn

Tsuru no Ongaeshi (the grateful crane)

This is a slideshow I made because I read a book called Tsuru no Ongaeshi which means the grateful crane.