Sigmond Slitherforth my reading work Term 1 Week 9

Sigmond Slitherforth (A Poem)

Sigmond Slitherforth

1. What might the surname ‘Slitherforth’ mean?

I think that it is his last name for a bit of a joke and slither because snails slither and forth because he has forty brothers and sisters.

2. What is the MAIN thing Sigmond did in each of the six chapters of this poem?

1. He got told of from hi love of speed. 2. He had to be like the others or he would have to leave. 3. He couldn’t take it anymore so he got banished. 4. He met a slug that said he could help. 5. The slug got sigmond to jump in a giant bucket full of oil, that made him really fast. 6. He zoomed past his family and he was a big suckses to make it all the way to space. He left a message to his family

3. New and tricky vocabulary.  On a copy of this table complete the meaning for each of these words. LOOK at the text to help you work it out. Use a dictionary if you need to. Write the meaning in  YOUR OWN WORDS, to show that YOU understand.

Word	Page	Meaning
Distraught:	Pg 7	Frightened, scared, or upset.
Dignity:	Pg 8	Having respect.
Reformed:	Pg 9	Making changes in something.
Antenna:	Pg 9	A small little pointy stick at the end of an insects head.
Debating:	Pg 11	To argue about a subject like at court.
Banished:	Pg 11	To be told to go away from somewhere and never come back, and that it was a legal for them to enter again.
Mottled:	Pg 13	Something marked with colour.
Emerged:	Pg 17	Came.
Admonished:	Pg 19	A sign of not licking what someone has done in a rude and firm way.

My maths goal term 1 week 7

This is my maths goal from term 1 week 7. I have completed my fractions and have moved on to another stage. I am very proud of myself and I hope you enjoy my screencastify of my goal!

Please comment on my this post about if you think I have improved on my fractions or not!

My writing about Scarlett the skater.

My reading work!

This is my reading work from term 1 week 6. I did my blooms tasks and I had to do a video of my group doing some hip hop moves that I might put on my blog later this term.

Reading

Hip hop moves

Analysing b

Comparing the characters.

Evaluation a

Rating the text

I would rate this text a 2, because I didn’t like the fact that it was all about hip hop and that is not my thing. I also didn’t like the first task that we had to do. As well as that I like non fiction books.

Application a

Writing a what am I?

You can hear me,

You an see me,

I am not alive,

I can not move on my own,

I can keep you calm,

But sometimes I can swear.

What am I?

Comprehension c

Writing a summary

In this text Astrid was shy at her dance and she copied Libby at the front leading the dance hip hop group. Astrid soon felt good in her place with the rest of her group. Then she got really confident, and kept going with her dance in front of the class. She got so confident she was ready for her auditions the next day.

Knowledge a

Listing five main things that happened in the text

• Astrid arrived at her dance.
• Astrid tried going at the front of the class.
• She got rid of her fears.
• She got ready and confident for her auditions.