How to care for your pet dragon

In Room 18 we did some writing called how to care of your pet dragon. I wrote some instructions to tell you how I would of take care of my dragon. My instructions are below. 

How to care for your pet dragon.

Name: Blue   Gender: Male

Feeding your dragon:

What you need: 3 apples (a day.) The pills on the counter. Grab an apple from the cupboard and place it in front of him. Say “Go” when you think he is ready for his food. Do this 3 times a day. Get the pills that are on the counter. Very slowly approach your dragon so you don’t scare it. Shout “Open” and the dragon should open its mouth. Take 1 pill out of the bag and throw it in the dragon's mouth. Pick the pill up again, if you miss the dragon’s mouth throw it in again until you get it in but you better go fast before he breaths fire (do this every morning and night).

Playing with your dragon:

Take the dragon out to the backyard. Show it the ball. If he nods play fetch, if does not nod talk to it softly. Ask if he wants to play hide and seek. You might need to ask twice. If does want to play hide & seek start counting to 30. Once  he runs away go find him. When the dragon is seeking hide in a easy spot but still not too easy. If the dragon starts to whine and howl get out of your hiding place and go inside. If he wants to keep playing, keep playing. How to tell if he wants to play: Sits by the door. Scratches the door. Howls. Whines. Howls and whines. Is really playful.

Taking your dragon to the vet:

To be safe the dragon needs a check up once a month: Get his lead and collar out of closet. Put the collar around Blue’s neck (don’t do it too tight but tight enough so he doesn’t get out). Connect the lead to collar without hurting the dragon. Walk down to the vet. Make sure the lead is short when you walk in so he doesn’t scare the other animals. Wait for the vet to call Blue’s name. When in the room pick up Blue and put him on counter. Make sure you calm him down before the vet touches him. Once finished at the vet, go to the pet store down the street and buy him some treats. Feed him one. Walk back home.

Training your dragon:

Get the cones out of the closet. Set them up outside. Get some treats and take the dragon outside. Talk to Blue and say run around the course. If he turns his head it means he doesn’t get it so run around the cones then ask him again. If he does it clap. When he comes back give him a treat. Go inside when he whines. Also teach Blue some basic tricks like sit, stay, roll over and come. Say the word that you want him to do if he doesn’t do it say it again.

Grooming your dragon:

Turn on the bath. Make sure the water is warm. Find the bubble bath in the bathroom cabinet. Put in a pinch of bubble bath. Mix the water around until bubbly. Get the dragon and put him in the water. Get the bar of soap and clean, leave his face til last. Make sure you clean under and over his wings. DO NOT GET ANY WATER IN HIS MOUTH! Get a cloth out of the cabinet. Go to the kitchen. Get special water out of pantry. Pour a little bit of water on the cloth. Gently wash his face without getting any in his mouth. Close the door. Take the towel that is on the rack and dry him (don’t forget under the wings). Open the packet of dragon treats (the one with the big dragon on the packet). Feed him one (this is a special type of dragon treat that clean your dragon’s teeth).

Putting your dragon to bed:

When the clock turns to 8:00 shout “Time for bed!” If he is tired he will walk over to his bed. If not tired, play chase until tired (remember when he is tired he will walk over to his bed and lay down). When the dragon has laid down give him his fire-breathing pills so he doesn’t breath fire in his sleep (and burn down the house). Pull blankets over him and sit next to him until he is asleep. If he wakes up in the middle of the night ask what is wrong and he should show you. Every once and awhile he will wake up and complain about a sore stomach. Get the fire-breathing pills and feed one to him. Do steps 4 and 5 again if this happens.

Exercising your dragon:

Everyday your dragon would want some exercise so walk him. Get the lead and collar out of the closet. Put the collar around the dragon’s neck (not too tight). Clip the dragon’s lead onto the collar. Go outside and walk around the big block. If he runs ahead say “STOP” and he should stop. If he tries to go inside before you, say “No” and he should wait. When back inside take the lead and collar off and put them back in the closet.

Show Me Maths

This week we used our maths to make a Show Me video. I made this video with my maths mate Sammy. The question that we had to work out was 49 x 3 we used 2 strategies, place value and rounding and compensating. 

Watch the video below to see how we worked it out.

Friendship Recipe

This week in Room 18, our class have been writing about a friendship recipe. We had to write a recipe about what ingredients we would put in and how to make it. This is how I would like my friend to be. I hope you enjoy.

How To Bake The Perfect Friend

Follow these simple instructions to bake the perfect friend.

Ingredients

1. 1 cup of kindness
2. 2 cups of goofiness
3. 1 Tbsp of laziness (powder not liquid)
4. 1 ¾ cups of trust
5. Tbsp of blue or green (you choose) food colouring
6. 1 Tsp of sportiness
7. 1 cup of energy  

Material

1. Wooden spoon
2. Baking tray
3. 1 large bowl
4. Baking paper
5. An oven
6. Rolling pin
7. A GIANT person cookie cutter

1. Preheat the oven to exactly 170°C (150°C if fan forced).
2. Prepare your baking tray by putting the baking paper over it.
3. Stir in your kindness and goofiness into a bowl.
4. Stir your trust into the same bowl and stir until creamy and pale.
5. Grab your sportiness and energy and put them into the same bowl, stir until pale.
6. Put your tsp of blue (or green) into the bowl until it is the colour you put in.
7. Mix well with the wooden spoon.
8. Get 2 pieces of baking paper and lay them on a flat surface.
9. Put the dough onto the baking paper and sprinkle the laziness over the dough and rolling pin so it doesn’t stick.
10. Roll the dough until it is one or two centimetres thick.
11. Put the cookie cutter onto the dough and push on the cuter.
12. Get rid of all the excess dough outside of the cookie cutter.
13. Lift gently onto the baking tray.
14. Lift your baking tray and put it in the oven.
15. Wait 15 minutes or until skin colour.
16. Wait a couple of minutes for your friend to cool down when cooled it should pop off the tray.
17. Have fun with your new best friend.

Sentences

Every week in Room 18 we have to write down 5 spelling sentences. We not only have to write down the sentences but we also have to get the meaning from the dictionary. 

Here are my sentences for this week:

Spelling Words	Dictionary Definition	Complex Sentence
Spelling Word Example: departed	Leave, especially in order to start a new journey.	I departed for America so that I could be reunited with my family.
Spelling Word One: Receded	to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point;withdraw.	When I was sitting on the beach I noticed that the waves receded back to sea because the tide was going out.
Spelling Word Two: Exasperation	an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.	My mum looked at me with exasperation when I told her that once again I left my bag at school.
Spelling Word Three: Drenched	to wet thoroughly; soak.	I tramped up the rough hill while it was pouring down with rain so when I got back to the lodge I was DRENCHED.
Spelling Word Four: Dormant	lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid:	The speaker suddenly woke the dormant crowd by singing then he started to speak again and they all went back to being dormant.
Spelling Word Five: Emerged	to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity:	One night every year, one ghost EMERGES from the grave to haunt a little boy named Billy.

  

Animal Report

For the last week we have been learning and writing about an animal. My animal I chose was a Flying Snake. First we had to gather all the information and put it on a document in our own words and then we wrote the report. 

                                    

Here is my report:

Did you know their are 5 types of Flying snakes? There are the Paradise Tree snake, Moluccan snake, Indian snake, Golden Tree snake and the Twin Barred Tree snake. The Flying snake’s scientific name is Chrysopelea and also the snake is a reptile. They can grow up to 1.2 meters but some of them can only grow around 61 centimetres but the smaller the better because the smallest are the best gliders. The Flying snake belongs to the family Colubridae because they are mildly venomous to their prey but are perfectly fine to humans.

The Flying snake is found in lots of places but mostly in the jungles of south and southeast Asia. They live in jungles so they can climb and glide off trees to be protected from predators. All the different types of Flying snakes live in different places. Here is where some of them live, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, parts of the Philippines, Singapore and southern Thailand.

The Flying snake has a long thin slender body. Most have slimy yellow scales on their back which are framed with black edges. Some have a stripe of red going down their back or have a bunch of red on the top of their head. They can camouflage into the ground so they can get away from predators easily.

The Flying snake is a carnivore this means they only eat meat. They have small fangs that poison the animal. Their poison is venomous to humans. They only eat rodents, lizards, frogs, birds and bats. They also don’t have the right kind of teeth to chew animals so it eats them whole.

The female Flying snake lays 6 - 12 eggs in May or June but the eggs hatch in June. The hatchings are 15 - 20cm long and their colours are the same as an adult but just brighter.

Have you ever wondered if Flying snakes really fly? They don’t really fly, they glide from tree to tree. They flatten their body up to two times their width from their head to the bottom of their tail. Once they have flattened the body it goes into an U shape to make it like a parachute so they can glide down to safety. Some Flying snakes can glide up to 100 meters without touching the ground but sometimes that doesn’t work out and they crash land, on land.

Flying snakes have a lot of predators but their main predator is King Cobra. To escape from him they use acrobatics or gliding. Also their colours sometimes scare predators away. Some snakes roll over or play dead when confronted by their predators.

I don’t think many people have heard of the animal Flying snake that’s why I wanted to do it for an animal report. I thought before I started this report it was just a boring little snake that had a cool name but then I learnt that it glides and it doesn't like the King Cobra and lots more. I hope one day I could learn more about Flying Snakes so I could teach other people more about it.

Bibliography

National Geographic

Creationwiki

Mom.Me

Animals, Animals and more Animals

Second opinion doctor

Wondergressive

Māori Colours

In Room 18 we have been learning the colours and how to ask what is this colour or what colour is that.Today I will share my learning with you by sharing how to say it in 
Māori.

He aha te tae o tēnā?

What colour is that?

He ______ tēnā. 

It is ______. 

He aha te tae o tēnei? 

What colour is this? 

He ______ te tae o tēna. 

It is _______ (That colour is _____).

Colours in Māori

Mā - White

Kikorangi - Blue 

Kākārki - Green 

Whero - Red 

Mangu -  Black

Parauri - Brown

Karaka - Orange

Kowhai - Yellow 

Show Me

In Jackson's Studio on Monday we used the iPad learning app, Show me. Show me is where you can turn your iPad into a interactive so you can record tutorials. We used Show me to record a strategy for solving a division problem.
The strategy that Noah (my maths mate) and I chose was Place Value.

I hope you learn something from our video.

Māori Learning

For the last two terms our class have been learning some Māori questions. We have also been learning some basic Māori words like tina which means lunch. Here are some questions in Maori.

Days of the Week:

Rāhina - Monday

Rātū - Tuesday

Rāapa - Wednesday

Rāpare - Thursday

Rāmere - Friday 

Rāhoroi - Saturday

Rātapu - Sunday 

Ko te aha tēnei rā?  (What day is it today?)

Ko te ______ tēnei rā  (It is ______ today).

Feelings:

Riri - Angry

Hari koe - Happy

Mataku - Scared 

Whakama - Shy/Embarrassed

Ngenge - Tired

Wera - Hot

Makariri - Cold

Pai rawa - Fantastic

Pouri - Sad

Hiainu - Thirsty

Hoha - Bored

Hiakai - Hungry

Kei te pēhea koe? (How are you feeling)
Kei te _____ ahau (I am feeling _____).

Weather
Ua - Raining 
Paki - Fine
Wera - hot
Kapua - Cloudy
Makariri - Cold

Kei te pēhea te āhua ō te rangi? (What is the weather?)
Kei te ______      (It is _____).

Hope you enjoyed my work!

Spray Painting

Last term Room 18 went to the Spectrum art museum and learnt about spray painting. We all made our own by

making a stencil with masking tape. Then we spray painted over the masking tape. The next day we peeled off the masking tape.

Here's the one I did:

                                
Hope you like my art.

Maths Strategies

In Room 18 this week we have been working out multiplication problems using 2 different strategies. We had to choose out of 2 questions 28 x 6 or 36 x 18 (which I did)

This is the way I sorted this problem out  

  Strategy 1            36 x 18 = ?          Strategy 2.

+(36 x 2)= 72                                             10 x 36 = 360 

36 x 20= 720                                            8 x 36 = 288

720-72= 648                                             288 + 368= 648

                              36 x 18 = 648

Multiplication Strategy

In Room 18 we have been learning how to do some multiplication questions using two different strategies, there is the strategy place value and rounding and compensating. Here is a place value strategy that I did with my maths partner.

"The Legend classes (when combined with their buddy classes) had 48 children in each of the four houses how many children altogether?

(I know that there is eight classes altogether including buddy classes)

48 x 8= ?

40 x 8 = 320 

8 x 8 = 64

320 + 64 = 384

Camp Letter

Here is a letter I wrote to my parent helper on camp. In the letter there is a recount about the sensory trail which was my favourite part about camp. 
I hope you like it!

23 May 2016

Dear Pip

                                                                                                                                       

Thank you for coming to Arthur's Pass camp. Without you this camp would not have been possible. I really appreciate how you helped make dinner and helped out with our team challenges. Thank you for being patient with me on the sensory trail and helping Beech with the scavenger hunt. I really appreciate everything you did on camp.

Here is a recount I wrote about my favourite moment from camp.

“DUCK, you are going to hit a tree,” shouted Miss Scott. I started to walk, slow and steady as Dave the guide had told me at the lodge. I held onto the rough rope and started to walk. I came to the first obstacle, well maybe not for some people but definitely me. There was a root sticking out of the ground, oh wait there were lots of roots but there was one huge root sticking out of the ground, I forgot to step and at that very moment I got scared to death. An adult caught me but it had startled me so much. I kept on going hoping there was no more obstacles.

After I walked for a little longer “Ow” I cried I took my hands off the rope to see what it was, I felt it, it felt rough like bark until I thought about it. We are in a forest in Arthur's Pass, of course it was a tree. I kept walking slowly and steady until a parent said “STOP Sally stop, just wait for a second.” I knew straight away that there was a bad obstacle up ahead because Juliet went before me and I had to stop and wait for her. “Wow” I knew then why I had to wait this was really tough, it’s a break in the rope and it was really hard to find the rope again. I tried to do it for about 2 to 5 minutes and I too started to rage but I’m pretty sure the adult that was there was getting annoyed at me for raging so she directed my hand to the rope.

I kept walking until I fell into a hole, I fell into a deep hole. It was very tough to get out of there without letting go of the rope. I slipped over while I was trying to hike up the hole. Of course I kept one hand on the rope but the other one fell off and for the rest of the day my hand was very muddy. I kept walking following the rope.

“What is this” I thought as I felt something wet and freezing cold when I was further down the track. I tried to climb over it, no that didn't work, around it, nope still didn't work, I tried over again and this time it worked. As my bottom was moving across the wet and cold thing slowly I thought what could this be. I remember every obstacle that Dave told us about, the break in the rope, climbing over a rock, a big hole, hmmm which one could it be. I know, it is a rock. Right now my bottom is sliding across a wet and freezing cold rock. Finally I finished sliding over that rock now I have to keep going to the end and who knows how long that will take. I kept walking until I heard a “RAAA” at first I was a little bit scared but when I heard “Jaden you were too early” I wasn't scared any more I was just glad that I finished the sensory trail.

                                                                                                                                 The sensory trail was awesome even though all the obstacles were hard but it was still one of the most funniest things I have done. One day when you go to Arthur's Pass I would encourage you to give the sensory trail a go.

Pip, I appreciate you helping me with the sensory trail and leading my hand to the rope. Without you I would still be standing there trying to find the rope. Once again, thank you for helping out at Arthur's Pass camp. What was your favourite moment from camp?

Yours sincerely,

Sally

Camp Poem

We just came back from camp at Arthur's Pass and what a time we had. We went there on a train it took 2 and a half hours to get there and when we got there we settled into our cabins and did lots of cool things like...

Hut building, 2 BIG walks, charades, blindfolded pictionary, sensory trail and lots more. 

 This is a poem about the sensory trail.

I heard

The water rushing as I leaped over a stream with my big heavy shoes.

I heard

Miss Scott shout "DUCK" as I was nearly about to hit my head on a branch.

I saw

Nothing as I followed the rough rope with my sturdy hand.

I felt

Scared as I didn't know how long the to the end.

I felt

                       Something cold and wet as I tried to get over it.

I wondered

How far to the end as I was getting tired of tripping over.

I wondered

How close the other person was to me.

Manga art

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning how to draw a Manga.

The video that taught me how to draw this Manga character will be below. This one is my favourite one because it is really easy to draw.
On the right is my finished Manga character, this is how yours should turn out.
Hope you like it!

Show Me

In Room 18 we have been learning about the Show Me app.

On Show Me you create a video about something that teaches another person on how to do something.

Me and my maths buddy James sorted out how to do a maths problem using the strategy of reversibility. 

Hatchet Response

This term we have been reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Hatchet is about a boy named Brian. Brian went to visit his dad but unexpectedly the pilot had a heart attack. The plane crashed in the Canadian woods so he had to learn how to survive. This is my favourite Hatchet response because it is where Brian had to try and make a fire. He used dry grass and twenty dollars to try and make his fire and eventually he did.

Storybird

Over the last couple of weeks, our class have have been doing a poetry anthology about change over time in Christchurch. We have all created a E-book on Storybird, I hope you enjoy my story.  

Welcome to my 2016 Learning Journey

Welcome to my 2016 Learning Journey,

I am very excited to share with you my Learning Journey this year. Please check my blog as I will be posting regularly, feel free to leave a comment.

Thanks

Sally