Research Tag

Research Tag

Choose a country and write a question about it.  For example what foods do they eat in Romania?

Topic: France

Big idea:Food

Now go and find a book that you think could answer the question and fill out this information.

Book title: France

Author/s:Kremena Spengler

Publisher:Capstone Press

Date of publication:2005

Keywords found: Foods

Page #’s: 15, 24, 25

Key pictures found:Grapes, truffles and baguettes

Page #’s: 15 and 25

Triangle Shoot

Line Shoot

Today I play Line Shoot and i got 100

Library skills

Matching Parts of a Book

L.I. Know the different parts of non-fiction books

Each part of a book has a special name which you need to be a familiar with.

1. For each description below find the matching term in the box.

2. Write in the correct term in the space provided.

Index = Alphabetical list of all the topics in a book with the page number where the information can be found.

End Papers= The first and last pages of a book.

Illustrator = The person who prepared or drew the pictures.

Introduction= Information about the book found at the beginning of a book.

Dedication= Words about a special person found at the front of a book.

Author = The person who wrote the book.

Glossary=  List of special words used in the book with their correct meanings.

Spine = The flat narrow outside strip of the book.

Publisher = The company who made the book.

Cover = The outside of the book.

Spine label = The label which identifies the book on the shelf.

Bibliography = A list of more books on the same subject.

Contents = A list of the titles of the chapters.

Shape patterns Answer book

Shape patterns

Simple Machines A3 poster

Today I made this poster about simple machines. There are 6 machines. There are wheel,the screw,pulley,wedge,inclined planes and the levers.,

Digitore

Choosing the Right Book

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ?

Yearbook of Population

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992?

Stanley Gibbons Stamp Cataloger

3. How to look after a puppy?

Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from?

Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Whine disaster?

Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games?

Guinness Book of Records

7. The size of Noah’s Ark?

The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power?

A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run?

Encyclopedia of Athletics

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy?

Myths and Legends

Study ladder

addition triangle

I had 1:15 minutes to do my addition triangle.

XtraMath

I got 29/36 in 3 minutes I take 5 minutes sometimes.

Aunty birthday

Aunt birthday

On Saturday I made a cake with my Aunt.

Went to my Aunt house. I went with my Mum and brother

We made the chocolate cake with the icing and hundreds and thousands and the hundreds and thousands is sweet and the chocolate icing is sweet

We sang the happy birthday song and my aunt blew out the candle.

It was a lot of fun and we ate the cake which tasted very good.