E-Portfolio Information Report

We are learning how to write an information report using the information we gather through research














One of my personal writing goals is:


Find and record information needed for writing.



Evidence I am developing this in my writing:


By constructing a well-informed plan.









Insert an image of your final / teacher conferenced draft:









Publish your Information Report here:





Walruses


The walrus is a very large animal that has tusks (that grow to 1.5 meters) used for hunting and transportation. A walrus can travel from 7-35kph in water and on land the speed of an average person running. They can weigh from 0.8 to 1.7 tons and grow up to 3.5 meters long!


Walruses are the kings of the sea (except for sharks and narwhals) and will eat anything in their paths like shrimp, crabs, sea cucumbers, sea birds and clams. However, walruses have a strange way of extracting clams from their shells. Instead of breaking the shell by snapping it backward, it sticks its toungue in sucks really hard by retracting its toungue and the clam slips right out!


As some marine animals do, walruses migrate. There are two types of walrus, the pacific walruses, and Atlantic walruses. Pacific walruses migrate from northern Russia, east through the Bering straight (between Canada and Russia) and down south to the lower Bering sea. However, Atlantic walruses travel from eastern Canada across the Atlantic ocean to western Greenland.


Overall, walruses are quite big and have some admirable qualities so a walrus could be considered reasonably awesome.

Matariki Poem

WALT write Matariki poetry

Haiku

Maori holiday,

The new year of all the tribes,

Maori holiday

Hey Deer! / Moose!

Hey Deer! / Hey Moose!

So, it was a NORMAL day, in the NORMAL woods and, I had just NORMALLY drunk some NORMAL milk. Shroup! BANG!!! My door crashes down and some not NORMAL tubby, white bear walks into my house. He tries to shoot me with a weird gun that shoots snow globes, but I karate kick it back at him, (since I'm a 3-time black belt) and he gets trapped inside the snowglobe! I run over and pick up the 'Snowglobe-a-Tron 20000 and 2' and try to shoot it. Weeeeeelllllllllllllll ( long well) it turns out I was holding it backward. Ppshueerugelll?!? Wow! I'm inside a snowglobe, sweet...
IM GONNA BE STUCK IN HERE FOREVER!!!!!!!! Wait a second, why is the mountain coming to me? CRUNCH!! When I wake up, I'm in my house, except something is different. There's a shovel. On a rubber handle. So I take it and go outside, and start shoveling the snow. Wait... there wasn't snow here before, was there? I look up and I see a child's face flicker across the sky. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

E-Portfolio: The Raft

Describe It - Camp Experiences

Learning Objectives:

Level 3

• Select, form, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
• Use language features appropriately, showing a developing understanding of their effects.
• Organize texts, using a range of appropriate structures.
• Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

Level 4.

• Select, develop, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
• Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.
• Organize texts. Using a range of appropriate structures.

• Show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

Learning goals:

• To ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ the reader by painting a picture with words.
• A variety of sentence starters
• A variety of sentence lengths
• Edit and rework
• Effective peer checking and feedback

The surge of air and biting cold sent chills down spines. Like a sparrow with broken wings, people dawdled across the water in the rafts. The sun gleamed across the crystal lake. The trees waved a friendly hello.

The bundles of joy swung through the air with excitement. Ripples pierced the lush blue liquid as stones skimmed across it. Children shivered like a camel in Antarctica. Every second became a minute as the day passed by.

Kayaks streamlined through the water. The wind blew like a giant fan. Clouds suck out the sunlight from the land. People retreat to their cabins as darkness fell over the earth.

Student Refection: In my writing, one of my goals is to use different sentence types- Simple, Compound and Complex. I did/ did not show this goal here because I used several of each sentence In my writing, one of my goals is Organise writing according to the text type. I did/ did not show this goal here because I have written a decent recount. My next step is to brainstorm more. Teacher Comment: Flynn, I like the way that you have used a variety of effective vocab to paint a clear picture in the reader's mind. You have done an amazing job of creating a descriptive story well done. Your next step is to spend more time brainstorming so that you can organise your writing according to the text type. Miss Hurley.