Informational Report Writing

For the last 5 weeks in Te Ngahere we have been writing Informational Reports. Our class WALT has been write an Informational Report but as we have been going to other workshops it has changed to WALT use semicolons and hooks in my writing. First we choose any country we wanted (mine was Cambodia) then we choose 4 subtopics- population, leaders, currency and language. After that we wrote other reports on our country including: Native animals, Climate,  landscape, Historic events, Sport, Natural disasters and  native plants. I choose Cambodian animals, climate, landscape and I am now doing one on sport.

CAMBODIA
Do you know much about Cambodia? If you don’t this is the perfect piece of writing for you to read!  It will tell you all sorts of facts in including Cambodian money, population and current leaders.

Cambodia is located in Southwest Asia. With  a Longitude and latitude of 12.5657° North, 104.9910° East. The capital is Phnom Penh.

Over the world different countries use different currencies, in New Zealand we use the dollar but in Cambodia the use money called Cambodian Riel. The Cambodian Riel is very different from the NZ dollar.  You could not use NZ money in Cambodia because the amounts of money are not the same. For example the NZ dollar equals 3066.56 Cambodian Riel.

Cambodia is a small country about 181,035 Square km in size, with a  population around 16,098,161. Cambodia has a density of 85 people per square kilometer.

Norodom Sihamoni is the leader/King of Cambodia, and  has been since 29 October 2004. He was awarded many awards: Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor,Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, Honorary Citizen of the City of Prague and Silver Medal of the City of Paris.

Around 16 million people speak Khmer. Khmer is commonly spoken in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

common and proper nouns

Last week in Te Ngahere we were learning to use common and proper nouns our WALT was we are learning to use common and proper nouns in the correct places. We had to buddy up, I was with Freya we made a 3x4 table down the side we wrote person, place, and Thing. Across the top we wrote Common or proper noun then we put in examples of that. So say we had a person we would write gymnast without a capital and then in the proper noun column we would put Simone Biles with a capital.

Math goals

Last week in  Te Ngahere we made our Math goals.We were learning to identify our math goals.To do this we had to select what we wanted to learning off an IKAN sheet.Then we made a drawing to display our goals, we also provided an example.Here are my are learning goals.

Writing Goals

Last week in Te Ngahere we made our term 3 writing goals. Our WALT was to identify our writing goals. We got our goals from looking at a writing rubric. For organization I am rubric 6 and for sentence structure I am rubric 5. We also looked at our  term 2 goals and updated  them, checking if we have achieved all of our goals and if we hadn't we could put them on the term 3 writing goals.Some of mine are metaphors, alliteration and complex sentence structure. Here are my writing goals.