My first Haiku poem

 WALT: Write a Haiku poem. It is a poem based on syllables and follows a pattern of 5-7-5.

                                Haiku Poem about Tazzie (My dog)

                    

                                                  Tazzie is a dog,

                                     Who likes to play with others.

                                           She likes to lick me.

My hybrid animal

WALT:  write an accurate description of 2 animals merged into 1. 

Can you guess my Hybrid animal?

A Sish is a funny character. Its fur/skin is an indescribable texture. The Hybrid animals tail sways when it gets excited. Its fur is very dirty. It uses its 2 legs to drag its tail along. It can't run very well since it has to drag his tail everywhere. The tail is very slimy. It has dull grey eyes and it struggles to see at night. It is a creature that you would usually see because they are slow. Other people call it a Shish. There are lots of different names for this Hybrid animal, but the most common name is a Sish. 

They use their legs to stomp on their prey. If they get attacked, they lift up their tail to smack the predator. They get knocked out for a good hour. Sish has very good eyesight. For example, if you were at the beach and you could see a boat out at sea, a Sish can see exactly what's on the boat and how much people there are.

My report writing on Mountain Lions

 A Mountain lion is a animal that are found in steep, rocky canyons. You can find Mountain lions in South America, Canada and the U.S but is very hard to spot them. 

Mountain lions live in United States. Mountain lions have big front teeth that are so yellow it is the first thing you spot when they open their big jaw. When they prowl they have a huge lump behind them. The leg goes into a position which forces one of the shoulder bones up into the air. This causes a lump. It is very handy to scare predators away. They have big yellow eyes with big pitch black pupils. Their jaw has a big, bright white patch with lots of fur sticking out of it. The white blends into a beige colour and the beige colour turns out to be the colour of a whole Mountain lion. 

Mountain lions are usually very shy. They are only really active at dusk, dawn and night time. People don't usually see them unless they are up to seeking at night. They are very stealthy. You would think that they get a lot of food. You are right! They usually hide behind long, dry pointy grass. When they pounce, they bite straight into the spinal cord. It causes weakness in their prey and their muscles stop working. Then the Mountain lion can eat their prey. If necessary, they would eat small bugs or small portions of food. 

Mountain lions are also called Cougars, pumas and panthers. They are North America's largest animal. They weigh 200 pounds. A Mountain lion is large American wild cat with a plain tawny to greyish coat, found from Canada to Patagonia. It is unlikely and difficult to see or to find a Mountain lion. In these times, people still do not know if they hunt in packs or alone. Mountain lions are so solitary that people don't know enough facts for a whole story!

To conclude, I think Mountain lions are animals that want to protect their habitat and family members for as long as they can. 

Room 4 Reading (Wombat Stew)

 In Room 4, Sharon has been teaching us Cybersmart every Wednesday. 

We are learning about Screencastify. THis is my first time having a go at it.

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Report about Friday

 On November the 6th, Room 4 and Room 1 went on a field trip. My room, (Room 4/Year 4) went to Margaret Mahy Playground to get into our groups for the trip, eat morning tea and have a play. Margaret Mahy had a big, towering, shining silver slide with enormous green hills which had small little chameleons that you hold onto while you use all your might to get up to the slide. There was a ginormous net that you can see right as you enter the playground, but it is covered by a wood platform that had a big slide that had a faded green colour all over it and unnecessary graffiti on one side of it. 

The slide is all twirly and it is pitch black when you go down. There is only light when you reach the very end. After everyone  finished playing all of us headed off to Turanga, the library in town. It was so big that it looked like it was heading up to the clouds! When we entered we were greeted by a staff member that welcomed us in. All the adults headed upstairs so we followed. There, we saw a whole pit of different coloured lego. It looked as though all the lego had been dumped in. 

There was a small slit in the wall that everyone went in. There were big containers that were shaped like lego and they were all different colours. There were roughly 5 or 6 tables. All the year fours choose a table to work at. There was a staff member that told us what we were going to do. Our challenge was to build a native bird out of lego. I built a Kiwi. After that we had free time and I did lots of things including;

Going down the slide at the play area

Looking around

Went inside the little tree where you could read

My favourite part was the couches/beds. They were pillows that were foldable. You could lay down on them or you could fold them into a couch. I made a bed out of it. I just layed there, staring out the window behind me

Once our time had gone up playing at the library,  we walked to the museum. When we entered the museum there was a cave that was a golden beige colour. It looked like it had never been polished once! There was a guy that told us to put our bags in little compartments. After that we sat down as the guy told us what we would be doing. It started to get a bit loud so he took us to another place which wasn't so loud. He told us that we would be playing some games that the Māori played. The reason why we were doing this was because games were not invented in their times. Māori had to use things they could find outside to try to entertain themselves. 

After that, the guy said that he would take us to his classroom. In his classroom it had TV's that Māori used and lots of other things they used. There were also games that Ancient Egyptians made. There were games like snakes and ladders there too. Those games are very old. After the lesson we got picked up on the bus and picked Room 1 up. It was such a fun day.