Literacy about Planet Earth from Room 9

Raedence:
Wind, Clouds, Rain - Weather!

Raedence and H.j saw lightning outside their house along time ago.Weather can be every where.

Wind can move softly and wind can move strongly.Thin clouds sometimes can mean the weather might change.The dark grey clouds mean that the rain is ready to come out of the clouds .Rainbows are made when rain and sunshine combine.

My report tells about something new, important, unusual or interesting.	✔
My piece has a headline.	✔
My headline gets the readers attention and tells about the main idea of the newstory.	✔
The introduction comes next. It is short and tells who, when, what where.	✔
The rest of my writing tells more facts.	✔
I told about the news happening to someone else.- I have not used “I”	✔
I have not wasted words.	✔
I have underlined and corrected my spelling.	✔
All my sentences start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.	✔

Saving the nature trail

I used the toolkit because I am being literate.

Erana:

Wednesday  2nd  November

Me and my classroom went on a tour to the nature trail it was pretty slippery.Room 9 decided to fix the nature trail room 9 questioned and talked about what room 9 could do for the nature trail room 9 decided that there could be flowers and a anther path to go some where else.

James:

Natural disasters in NZ!

There are lots of disasters. Sometimes they can cost lots of money to fix and it is scary for towns/citys when they happen! There is earthquakes, tornados, floods, forest fires, volcanoes and lots more in NZ! Sometimes earthquakes can make floods because they might break the water pipes underground! Also, they could break a wall around a river and then it starts to flood! Did you know that Hamilton is quite safe from earthquakes? There have been 20 earthquakes in NZ (New Zealand) 2010 to 2016 (2010-2016). There has only been 1 in Waikato at Taupo! Christchurch has had 4 earthquakes (2010 to 2016). Only talking about ones with a biggter magnitude of 60. Also not talking about aftershocks. Did you know that tornados can spin up to 300 mph? Also, did you know that tornados often come from very very early in the morning to bedtime? They still come at other times. Tornados can also be named twisters or whirlwinds.

Newspaper Report Writing Rubric Level 1/2

	Friend	Myself
My report tells about something new, important, unusual or interesting.		✓
My piece has a headline.		✓
My headline gets the readers attention and tells about the main idea of the news story.		✓
The introduction comes next. It is short and tells who, when, what where.
The rest of my writing tells more facts.		✓
I told about the news happening to someone else.- I have not used “I”		✓
I have not wasted words.
I have underlined and corrected my spelling.		✓
All my sentences start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.		✓

Tawhiti:

Word work:

Cyclone a system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure, with an anticlockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.

Severe (of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense.

Dew tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapour condenses.

Rain the condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling visibly in separate drops.

Satellite an artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.