Oscar


 * Term 4**

Week 3: WALT: question what we read and its purpose Your task is to think about this story and come up with one or two reasons why the author wrote it.

 What is the story about? Its about this world who woke up one morning and everything changed colour but a blue bird. :-)
What is the hidden message or is there one at all? No there is no hidden message. I wondered if perhaps there was a message about keeping the blue jay in the cage? They had a funny response to the disaster - put a bird in a cage. Is it written to entertain us and if so how? Yes everything changed colour but a blue bird and the scientists are trying to find out how. It was very entertaining, I agree.

What is the moral of this story - OR make a moral of your own for this story: If he was still the colour blue and what it had all meant


 * Term 3**

Mrs Parker wrote: good start Oscar, work quickly to get the activity finished.

Week 8: WALT: use what we have read in a different way

1. Using the graph below, move the animals so that they are in their 'food chain' sequence and write one fact about each animal in the text box.
 * [[image:http://www.skyriderforkids.com/doubletakes/Images/y_desert_dia_hawkpic.gif caption="hawk"]] |||||| [[image:http://www.skyriderforkids.com/doubletakes/Images/y_desert_dia_lizardpic_ro.gif width="121" height="85" caption="horned lizard"]] || [[image:http://www.skyriderforkids.com/doubletakes/Images/y_desert_dia_antpic_ro.gif caption="harvester ant"]] |||| [[image:http://www.skyriderforkids.com/doubletakes/Images/y_desert_dia_podpic.gif width="114" height="97" caption="mesquite pod"]] ||||  ||
 * Hawks eat Hawks, snakes-foxes. || horned lizad is picky |||| Harvester ant eats mesquite pod || mesquite pod gets eaten by harvester ant ||  ||

Mrs Parker wrote: awesome!! :-) Mrs Parker wrote: please finish the grid Oscar.

Week 7: WALT: use what we have read in a different way

Below is an example on a grid to get you started.

|| Hidatsa people from North Dakota, USA || Helped to protect warriors ||
 * **Symbol ** || **Place ** || **Meaning ** ||
 * Burrowing owl
 * Screeching owl || ancient rome || bad luck ||
 * Barn owl || england || predict the weather ||
 * Litlle owl || ancient greek || Wisdom ||
 * Eagle owl || japan || good luck ||
 * Horned owl ||

Term 2
Mrs Parker wrote: Nice to see your image up Oscar. ==

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WALT:Use speech marks correctly
The boys were speechless, Evil Baxen was biting the ground in time with the music. There was a big hole in the floor boards. “Greetings Earthlings,” Evil Baxen said quietly, "I come from planet wax, a planet far, far away. Quickly __// comma //__ I can feel the pulse getting stronger, come on.” “Where are we going?” said Oscar.  “You’ll find out.” __[said Evil Baxen "]__ grabbing Sam’s arm.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mrs Parker wrote: well done on creating atmosphere and your correct use of punctuation. Just go through now and make the final editing corrections pls.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">WALT:Use speech marks correctly
The boys were speechless, Evil Baxen was biting the ground in time with the music. There was a big hole in the floor boards. “Greetings Earthlings,” Evil Baxen said quietly, "I come from planet wax, a planet far, far away. __[Come q__] Quickly __// comma //__ I can feel the pulse getting stronger, come on.” “Where are we going?” said Oscar. “You’ll find out.” __[said ?"]__ grabbing Sam’s arm.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mrs Parker wrote: open your PowerPoint Oscar and copy one of your slides where your characters are talking [ctl c]. Paste it into here. The font will be too large so you have to highlight it and click the Twith a world button. Once there choose Comic Sans Size 12 and okay.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Next right click on your alien in Powerpoint and choose save as a picture. Save into your folder on the server name Oscar Alien no background.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Finally you need to upload that picture into wikispaces. Ask Annah to show you how. :-)