Duck Overboard Summary

Summarising the Main Idea

L.I. To look for keywords and phrases

Good readers notice key words.  Here are some clues to help you find key words:

• Key words are directly connected to the topic
• Key words are often repeated in the title and the text
• A key word helps you to remember an important idea

Use this table to help you summarise the main ideas in a text in your own words.  It is important that you use your own words to show your understanding and to avoid plagiarism.  If you don’t know what some words mean, look them up.

Keywords from the title Duck

Keywords from sub headings Stupendous storm, Washed off of ship to sea,Rubber ducks,Hong kong,Tacoma,washington in the united states,January 1992, Arctic ice pack and the great britain.

New words I need to look up

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

What? Rubber ducks,stupendous storm, Washed off of ship to sea,spread around the world,survived by the mercy of elements,100$ reward.

Where? Hong kong,Tacoma,Beach,Washington in the united states,Arctic ice pack,The great britain.

When? January 1992

Who? Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Mr Ebbesmeyer

Why? Stupendous storm,rubber ducks spread around the world.

How? Stupendous storm.

Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less. In January 1992 a big storm struck from the sky and hit a boat and rubber ducks were sent of  to sea from Hong Kong.

L.I to identify the main ideas in a text.

This week I did the four w's and H and made my own summary within 25 or less words about Duck Overboard. I haven't wrote a lot about the story but its enough for the start. The rest is if you find one of these rubber ducks you will be rewarded with 100$. Some people have already found some so be quick and find one if your lucky!

Raz Kids

This week I was reading The Mystery Wind. This book was amazing and was about a girl wanting to save her village and a magical wind came and granted her wish. If you want to find out more check it out on Raz Kids.

Commenting

This week I commented on Fui's blog. Her blog post was amazing and you should check her blog out too! Remember add a question to your comment and have a positive one also! Her post was about her adverts and is very nice. So I REALLY recommend to go to her blog!

My groups Cooperative game.

 This week for inquiry we had to make up our own game. I was working with Victoria,Chavda and Fui. Our game is called Group Sculptures. You can play this game if you want or check out everyone elses in my class. My favorite game out of everyone's was Mele's group. It was fun and the rules were simple.

Rotation,Reflection and Transformation

 This week we did maths. For maths we had to make a slide show or video to show how to do rotation,reflection and transformation. I worked with Chavda and we did this slide show but she did most of it as I was sick at home but was glad she started it.

Advertismement

Analysing a Print Advertisement:

What product or service is being advertised?

• Scotch Tape

Who might be interested in the product or service? Who is it trying to attract? Young people? Old people? Male? Female?

• All

Is there a catchy phrase or slogan for the product? If so, what is it?

• The scotch and tape and little do you know it is a sticky stick too!

What message is the advertisement trying to say about the product?

• It is a very strong tape and can be used to hold big amounts of somethings together.

How does the language or image used grab the reader’s attention?

• The large amount of hay being held by only 2 long straps of the scotch tape.

How may the advertisement make the user feel?

• Amazed by how strong they are trying to say the scotch tape is by how it is holding together a massive amount of hay. On one small truck.

This week me Victoria and Chavda were working on advertisement.I liked this one the most because the picture amazed me and the scotch tape could hold that much! This was a fun reading activity to do this week. We had to write about all the details also

New Zealand History

This week we went up stairs to work on our task. Thank you so much Mrs Anderson for teaching us this week also.  We had to skim & scan. We skimmed through New Zealand's history and scanned to get the information we needed. We noted our information we found down on our pieces of paper. At the end we had to make our own questions and we had to find out what or how it happened or why it did. The question I asked was why did Australia want  to join up with Nz when they became the common wealth. Another question our group was curios about was who let women vote.