Severe Weather

Last week from now Mrs McGuinnetty's Literacy class in Punui-o-toka have been learning about Severe Weather. We chose if we wanted to do a movie, screencastify, slideshow, drawing or a document. I chose a slideshow because its just like a drawing but it has more space to work with. 

Penguin Painting

We have been painting Emperor Penguins using Black, White, Yellow, Green and Orange. Black for most of the feathers and on the flippers, White for the chest feathers. We used the Yellow and Orange for the upper chest feathers. Green was for the eye's pupil. I also used White on some Black to make a glare from it. 

We had to stroke the feathers downwards because who sees an Emperor Penguin's feathers in the other directions?

Antarctica Description

In Literacy I am learning about Antarctica. I went to the Antarctic Center for a school trip. In Literacy I researched all about Antarctica. I wrote a description about Antarctica using all my research. I used the correct structure of a description. It has an Introduction, Characteristics and an Evaluation. I used a hook to make people want to read to the end and some adjectives.

F-F-F-Freezing! Ch-Ch-Chilly! I-I-Icy. Did you know that Antarctica has the most of Earth’s snow and ice?(90%) You should know that Antarctica is one of the seven continents on Earth.

Antarctica is the only place where the South Pole is located just like the North Pole is only located in the Arctic. Russia was the first country to discover Antarctica, this happened in the 1820’s. America was the first country to step foot on Antarctica.

The weather in Antarctica is the coldest weather on Earth. This might blow your mind, but Antarctica is actually a desert because it doesn’t rain at all! Antarctica’s coldest area is the South Pole.

Antarctica is twice as big as Australia. Also Antarctica is twenty-five percent(25%) bigger the Europe. Antarctica is as freezing as my freezer. It’s as windy as Autumn. Antarctica has some of the most highest places with lots of ice shelves, icebergs and ginormous, snowy mountains.

I really feel like Antarctica is one of the last places I would want to go to because I don’t think I will be able to survive there.