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Monday, 16 May 2016

Thailand Map Challenge


In Inquiry we were learning and researching about Thailand. We also had to learn about the countries neighbours. What we had to do first was to research the questions about Thailand, then we had to use our tools to help us complete this task.

Friday, 13 May 2016

Thinking Hats: Exploring the Ballad Poem


This is a Presentation that my group have created. I have worked collaborative with, June and Mya. We have been learning that women can do anything they want any time any where any place. We use the 6 thinking hats to synthesise about a story that was written by John T. Diamond.

Friday, 6 May 2016

India Presentation


This is my DLO that I have created on Google Drawing which is based on about India. I have been doing some research about India like Looking for some facts. What I found out that was interesting is that it takes 11,963 kilometres from the New Zealand all the way to India. I think that I found this fun and challenging and exciting because it's challenging learning about India and something new like pronouncing words that can be tricky sometimes and by the same time it's fun.

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Identifying A Report



Identifying the structure of an information report

LI: to understand the structure of information reports

Your challenge:

Use the key to help you show the structure of an information report.

Highlight the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion by changing the background colour of the table.

Highlight the other structures by using the highlight function.
Key
Introduction

Body Paragraphs

Interesting fact (to hook readers in)

Title of body paragraph

Description of topic

Topic sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about

Tell the reader what the report is about

Special knowledge to help the readers understand



Conclusion


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.

This week I have been learning what a information report is. I learnt that a information report is when you use structure's, which includes true facts and with a introduction that start's of the topic. What I did here was highlight the paragraphs because it shows what a Intro is and what a body paragraph is .