For the last couple of weeks Te Ngahere has been writing Informational reports about countries. My WALT was we are learning to use topic sentences in our writing, and my country is Australia. I wrote about three of Australia's  most played sports and they are Australian Rules Football, Netball and Rugby league.

WALT: Write an informational report

Australia

Have you ever been to Australia before?

Because if you haven’t did you know that Australia is the world's 6th largest country around. You will get to know about Australia’s history, culture, tradition and the Capital.

Tradition

Australia celebrates some of the world's celebrations like Christmas and Easter. But also Australia has there own celebrations that they celebrate themselves like, Australia day, Melbourne cup and Eureka Stockade.

History

The first person who discovered Australia was an englishman called William Dampier in 1688. But then in 1770 a british sailor named Captain James Cook found a piece of land on the east coast of australia. He named it New South Wales and said that It was For British citizens.  

Capital

Australia's Capital is Canberra, Canberra has forest’s all around it. Canberra’s focal point is  Lake Burley Griffin, that has many sailboats and kayaks in it. On the lake shore is a modern parliament house and Museums as well as a National Gallery.

Conclusion

As you can see, Australia has a long history and also has it’s own Culture and Traditions. If you would like to find out more about Australia, there are some books that you can find like 30 Days In Sydney, Claiming A Continent and more.    

Common Nouns and proper nouns

Last week Te Ngahere was learning to use common nouns and proper nouns, we learnt that the difference of a common noun and a proper noun is that a proper noun is specific and has a capital. We got to chose if we wanted to work in pairs or by ourselves, but I worked with Arihia. Here is our google drawing.

Last Week Te Ngahere was learning to Identify our Reading Goals. We chose our reading goals off our progression sheets from our groups Reading. We needed to chose three goals that showed what we needed to learn that was highlighted red.

Last week, Te Ngahere had to choose three maths goals that we needed to learn. We had to chose the three maths goals from the Ican sheet that Whaea Chrissy and Mrs Pou set up for us. Our WALT was to Identify what we have achieved in maths and our next learning steps. We then had to make a google drawing to show what our learning goals are, here is a photo.