The Royal Extraterrestrial Exploration Society

The Royal extraterrestrial exploration society
By Peter Friend and Alicia Ponder

For the past 2 weeks we have been reading a book called The Royal extraterrestrial exploration society. It is about people going to Mars wanting to collect samples and natives for the museum in U.K. Half way in the story they meat a martian called Zorah who things they came to become a colony of Mars but she was wrong. In the end they went home with nothing but few photo's of the martian.

Writing Goals

Writing goals

For the past two weeks we have been focusing on our e-asttle test. We had to look at our scores and the one with the lowest number had to be the one we had to write our goals around it. The one I did was Structure and language 

My goals

1. I need to learn to expand my writing into longer sentences 

2. Remember i need have 5 paragraphs not 4

3. Use spell check when it is time

4. To use higher level words

Rubric 1

I am learning to write in different ways. OR I have not used the correct parts (structure) or words for the type of writing.

Rubric 2

I can use some of the correct parts (structure) for my writing. AND I can use some of the right words for the type of writing.

Rubric 3

I have some structure for the type of writing. AND I use most of the right words for the type of writing.

Rubric 4

I have all of the structure and one part may be well developed. AND I use appropriate words for the type of writing.

Rubric 5

My writing is structured appropriately and is well developed. AND I use a range of language features that are appropriate to the purpose.

Rubric 6

I use all the structural features appropriate to the genre. AND I use a range of language features that are appropriate to the purpose and show that I have used them for effect.

STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE

First up

For the past two weeks we have been reading a book called first up it is about a Russian cosmonaut named Major Yuri Gagarin who was the first human that was sent to space. His job was to orbit earth once and come back. He went in a little space craft called Vostok 1 people believed he was traveling at a the speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour and it only took him 108 minutes.

My family is a busy zoo

Last week we had to write about our family's being a busy zoo. Our task was to pick an animal that would represent a person in our family. The easy part was knowing what animals belong would suit my parents. The hard part was finding animals for my three sisters. Next time I need to stay focused and not go off task.

Mission to Jupiter

This week we have been learning how to summaries. Our task was to find key words in our book and put them in the sentence.
Li: To summaries the text
Sc: To identify the key words and put them into paragraphs

Around the world

This week in math we have been learning about planets and how many times it can go around the sun in one year.

Mission to Jupiter

For the past three weeks we have been learning about planets and this week we have been reading about Jupiter. Jupiter is the firth planet from the sun it is the largest planet and it takes it 11.8 years to go around the sun.  The book learn about things we didn't now about the universe like Galileo it is used to take photos of the planets and stars.

Galileo