Showing posts with label improved-posts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improved-posts. Show all posts

Monday, 24 March 2014

Published product

WALT: publish
Today we got to make the finished product. This is my finished writing about caving.

Caving
As I tipped toed through the dark hollow entrance I wanted to back away. It was the entrance way to go caving. I turned on my headlight and clenched my torch in my crying palms. As I crept past the
crayfish in the swaying water puddles, I could hear the darkness laugh at me. Not the laugh when you see something funny, the kind of evil laugh in the movies. I walked slowly squeezing through the tight spaces in the dark damp cave. Then CREEK... I heard a creek. I didn't move. I was as frozen as a tv on pause. I realised it was just the sounds of nature trying to frighten me.

Suddenly all the torches went out. I might have to follow along. All was dark. Then I saw light. The light of glowworms! I see the beauty rule me. It was like millions of stars invaided the cave. It was amazing. I could not wait to tell my mum and dad about this.

The glowworms made me feel braver. Then I heard we had to crawl under. We had to crawl quite low. As low as you can crawl! The ceiling lowerd down and it was difficult. The rocks below me were wet so my hands got soaked. I was also wearing track pants so they got wet too. Just as I thought that I could get up the ceiling hit my back. When we got out of the low ceiling my legs were jelly.

Then I saw the light overwhelm me. It was the exit. I could hear the sun congratulate me. Then we got to choose if we wanted to go through the damp hollow mess again. I wanted to give it a go.

Once again I crept in the damp cave. This time I opened my eyes wider and saw the beauty of the dark world inside. I felt braver and confident. My eyes got dragged on the crayfish in the puddles. I got so distracted by them that I fell in one of the deep puddles. I heard my foot crying as it soaked right in.

We carried on and this time we noticed stalagmites and stalactites. The stalagmites and stalactites
were small like ants. Then we saw the glowworms once again. They were as beautiful as ever. Now we noticed lots of things about caving. I wished that we could go again.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Valentines puzzle.

Here is a valentines puzzle where we pair the boys and the girls. Here are the answers.
Ben and Victoria.
Brandon and Jasmine.
Logan and Jessica.
Dylan and Sydney.
I worked these out by the help of Troy.
This is how I worked it out.
I will type it because I can't take I pic of my work.

Working out:

We had to list all the boys names and next to the boys names will be the first letters of the girls names.

Ben      V JE JA S
Brandon   V JE JA S
Logan       V JE JA S
Dylan.     V JE JA S

Then we look on the clues on the pic below.
Clues:
Dylan did not send a card to Jessica
Benjamin sent a card to either Victoria or Jasmine
Victoria did not receive a card from Logan or Brandon
Neither Logan nor Brandon sent a card to Sydney
Brandon would never send a card to Jessica

We had to use the clues to help us.
Since Dylan did not send a card to Jessica we can cross her of Dylan's list.
Dylan V JE JA S
Since Ben sent a card to either Victoria or Jasmine we can cross out Sydney and Jessica of his list.
Ben V JE JA S
Victoria did not receive a card from Logan or Brandon so we can cross Victoria of there list.
Logan V JE JA S
Brandon V JE JA S
Neither Logan nor Brandon sent a card to Sydney. Let's cross her of their list.
Logan V JE JA S
Brandon V JE JA S
Brandon would never send a card to Jessica.
Let's cross her of the list.
Brandon V JE JA S

Dylan V JE JA S
Logan V JE JA S
Brandon V JE JA S

These are our last results. Let's sort them out.
Since all  Dylan is the only one with Sydney not crossed out. So we can cross out Victoria and Jasmine.
Dylan V JE JA S
Now we know that Dylan sent a card to Sydney.
Do the same and then you will get the answer above.
I hope this will be helpful for you. If you have trouble write in the comments and I will help you work it out with a reply. Here is the link if you want to do your own valentines puzzle. Just refresh the page to get more valentines puzzles.



Kotahitanga

I made a word cloud about Kotahitanga. If you want to know what Kotahitanga is just look at this word cloud. It is a bit fuzzy but I can't do anything about it. Kotahitanga is a Maori word that's means unity and togetherness. I guess it is a term value. Word clouds are something a poster with random words on it. It can also be based on one thing. Click here to make your own word cloud. If you want to make your own word cloud it has to be on a laptop because it doesn't work on a mobile device. Here it mine.

Thursday, 20 February 2014

$100 challenge

WALT:ADD
Aye - 31
$100-Afghanistan
?
Chad - 16
This is the hundred word challenge.
Try find spell your name to see the value of your name.
My name is worth $31.
Now I will show you my working out. Once again I have to type it.

Working out

What is the value of your name?
A = $1
Y = $25
E = $5
1 + 25 + 5 = 31

What word is worth $100
A $1
F $6
G $7-
H $8
A $1
I $9
S $19
T $20
A $1
N $14

$1 + $6 +  $7 + $8 + $1 + $9 + $19 + $20 + $1 + $14 = $100

I actually don't know the most expensive country.

What is the least expensive country you can find?
C $3
H $8
A $1
D $4
3+8+1+4= 16
To be honest I actually searched on the internet the shortest country name.