Do You Know How To Use Apostrophes Properly?

In our class we were learning on how to use apostrophes because people in our class seemed to not use apostrophes properly in our writing. We had to watch a video about apostrophes and also do work sheets, after that we needed to make a poster teaching other people on how to use apostrophes with the knowledge that we had learnt about them. This was kind of hard for me because I didn't really understand it that much but in the end I finished it, and also learnt a lot more about apostrophes as well!

The Llama That Stayed Up Too Late

In our class we had to make a Llama and we had to go through four steps to complete it. The four steps were 1. crayons, 2. Dye, 3. Paint, 4. Pastels. After we had finished these four steps our Llama was complete. Now we had to write a story about the Llama that we had created and it could be the steps we had to do to make it or it could be a made up story about the Llama as well. While I was writing this I decided that since my Llama looked angry it would be about how she didn't get enough sleep so she was grumpy. If you were to make a Llama what would it look like? And what would your story be about if you had to write one?

Uggghhh why can’t I at least get another HOUR of sleep! That’s not too much to ask for. Right?

I never get enough sleep and I think it’s unfair. OK maybe I deserve it, I mean I do stay up a lot but still we should at least start school at 1:00 pm. I do need my beauty sleep after all

.Oh my gosh people are starting to say that I look grumpy and I do not take that as a compliment. I am supposed to be the most cheeriest girl llama in school but now that I have to wake up so early, I've been looking more grumpy lately and acting grumpy as well. But it would be wrong to miss an episode of “Fairly Odd Llamas” I ought to be ashamed of myself if I did that.

Two Years Later…

I am known now as the scariest most grumpiest girl of the school. Everyone is scared of me and I have no friends now all because of what I looked like and acted like after staying up. I also got angry at my friends for saying that I looked grumpy so I pushed them away so then I had no friends. Now I have very bad grades to what I used to have. I used to be the top student in class and the teachers favorite but now I’m famous for having low grades and for being very frightening. All I have to say is, never stay up late to watch anything even if it’s your favorite T.V show in the whole entire world. Do not do it.

5 Months Later…

Hey! It’s me again and I’m back to where I used to be I’m now, again, the most cheeriest girl in school and I have got back to having good grades as well. I realized after a month of being scared of, that I didn’t want to be the bad person in school and I missed my friends as well, I also didn’t like how people were scared of me so I changed. I changed my routine and made sure to go to sleep early so that I could wake up early without any hesitation. I then knew that I should’ve apologized to my friends in school so when I went to school I apologized and we made up. Right after that everything started to slowly change and I regained my position as the top student in class and as the most cheeriest girl in school.

T3 Psalms

In Term 3 our teacher (Mrs Lee) did prayers in the morning for two weeks. Each day she would pick a psalm and we would have to read it and find one verse that popped out at us. We would have to write that verse into a doc. We did this every day, and on Friday we would have 5-1 verses and that would be our psalm. Now we had to make a slideshow and write these psalms onto it and post them to our blogs. So here I have 2 Psalms already. This is unfinished because we will be putting new psalms onto our slideshow every week. I really enjoyed doing this because each day we could choose a psalm that showed what we were feeling and sometimes I didn't know what to choose but I soon found a verse that really stood out to me.

There, They're and Their

WALT identify and use homonyms correctly - Part 1

On Tuesday we had a task to make a poster about the meanings of There, They're and Their because they all sound the same but they mean different things and people can get a little mixed up with it when writing and a lot of people in our class did get mixed up, and mostly no one ever used "They're" in their writing. We also had to make some quiz questions so that we can see that you actually learnt something from this poster.

Quiz Questions

1)  Do you know that that's _______ car?!?!

2) __________ really compassionate.

3) Look! Batman is over ________!

Letter to Mr and Mrs Wormwood

WALT make connections to self, other texts and the world.

In this post I had to write a letter to Mr and Mrs Wormwood who are Matilda's parents and telll them a little bit about respect. If you got a chance to meet Mr and Mrs Wormwood what would you tell them?

Character Description

WALT use prior knowledge and information from the text to interpret different themes in the text.

In my reading group we had to make two character descriptions on two people in our book that we are reading and we are reading Matilda. For the character descriptions I chose Matilda and Miss Honey. Have you ever read the book Matilda or watched the movie of it?

Interviews

WALT ask questions while reading to clarify and focus understanding.

This week we had to read the next three chapters of Matilda which were about Miss Honey, Miss Trunchbull and Mr and Mrs Wormwood. Next we had to interview Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull and ask them questions and after that we had to think about an answer and for evidence we needed to right down what it said in the story as well.

If you have ever read Matilda before what's a question you would ask them?

Interviews

Miss Honey

5 questions and answers

What did you think about Matilda’s limerick that she had made for you?
Miss Honey: I thought that it was quite sweet and it was amazing how she made it up quickly.

Evidence: “The whole of Miss Honey’s pale and pleasant face blushed a a brilliant scarlet…” (Pg 73) _________________________________________________________________________________

 2) What did you think about Matilda when she was talking about how there should be funny bits in children’s books?
Miss Honey: I thought that she was very smart and that what she was saying was also true and that there should be funny bits in children’s books.

Evidence: “Miss Honey was astounded by the wisdom of this tiny girl.” (Pg 75) _________________________________________________________________________________

3) When Miss Trunchbull said she was never a little girl what did you think about?
Miss Honey: I thought that she was talking nonsense.

Evidence: “She’s completely off her rocker, Miss Honey told herself…” (Pg 80) ____________________________________________________________ ____________________

 4) How did you feel when Miss Trunchbull didn’t allow Matilda to be in another class.
Miss Honey: I felt depressed but it wasn’t going to stop me from doing something to help Matilda. 

Evidence: “Miss Honey turned and walked out of the study depressed but by no means defeated…” (Pg 83)
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 5) Did you believe that the parent’s didn’t know anything about Matilda’s extraordinary skills.
Miss Honey : I thought that it couldn’t be true because her father was a successful motor car dealer and he surely would have been intelligent.

Evidence: “The whole thing was ridiculous. She couldn’t believe the parents were totally unaware of their daughters remarkable talents…” (Pg 85) _________________________________________________________________________________

 Miss Trunchbull 

 5 questions and answers

1) What did you think about when Miss Honey said Matilda’s a genius.
Miss Trunchbull: I thought that she was crazy, it just couldn’t be true because Mr Wormwood said she was great trouble.

Evidence : “You must be out of your mind! I have her father’s word for it that child is a gangster!” (Pg 81)
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2) Why do you despise Matilda even though you haven’t met her?
Miss Trunchbull: Well, her father sold me an almost brand new car and he said that if anything bad happens in the school it was probably his daughter.

Evidence: “He said to watch her. He said if anything bad ever happened in the school, it was certain to be his daughter… “ (Pg 79)
 _________________________________________________________________________________3) How did you react when Miss Honey said her father ought to be wrong!?
Miss Trunchbull: It just couldn’t be true she had only taught the girl for a tiny bit when her father has been with her her whole life.

 Evidence: “Don’t be a twerp, Miss Honey! You have met the little beast for only half an hour and her father has known her all her life!” (Pg 81) _________________________________________________________________________________  4) What did you want to do when you were accusing Matilda of putting that stink bomb under your desk?
Miss Trunchbull: I wanted to roast her bottom so she could learn her lesson.

Evidence: “ I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as i did in the good old days! I’d have roasted Matilda’s bottom for her so she couldn’t sit down for a week!” (Pg 83) _________________________________________________________________________________  5) When Miss Honey said that she thought Matilda should be in a higher level what did you think? Miss Trunchbull: She wanted to get rid of her that’s what I thought.

 Evidence: “Ha! Snorted Miss Trunchbull. So you want to get rid of her, do you ? So you can’t handle her?... “ (Pg 82)