REFUGEE

For the first week back of term three we have jumped right into our learning. For our reading group we have been assigned a task were we have to read little snippets of this book called refugee every week and then we have to answer questions about the part of the book we have read. It is a really good book as far as I can tell. It is about three children and their families in different periods of time, trying to emigrate to other countries to escape from war and starvation. One of the kids and his family are in Nazi Germany, 1939, trying to escape from the treatment they get for being Jews. They try to get to Cuba. On the other side of the world. One is in Cuba, 1994, trying to get to America to escape from starvation in Cuba, and the last one is in Syria, 2015, and I don't know where they are going just yet, trying to escape from war and political unrest in Syria. It is a really good book and it is written by Alan Gratz. Please leave a comment on this post. :D.

Sun, wind or rain

Today I finished a reading task that was called sun, wind or rain. We had to read a book on patterns  that early new zealand settlers could use to predict weather conditions accurately. Then I had to write down what it was called, the pattern, and the explanation. I think that some of the patterns were amazing, including blue cod stones ( blue cod would swallow small pebbles before bad weather) and the white island plume (it would lie flat when there would be windy weather). Me and my family usually watch the weather to see what we will need to wear, and they are pretty accurate but sometimes they are wrong. I find watching the weather ok, but sometimes it's annoying. I also had to do similarities between two different types of clouds. I chose cumulus and stratocumulus. Please leave a comment on my work Thanks!