Show not Tell

This week we have been working on describing and we have been focusing on show not tell. Our teacher gave us a picture of a scared cat and then we had to describe it with out telling that the cat was frightened or scared. I kind of liked the activity because you got to write paragraphs and I like writing paragraphs. We had to use our senses, simile or metaphor and precise nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe.  Can you find my simile?

My Treasure

WALT: Use conjunctions to join our ideas together.
WALT: Include descriptive detail.

This week we had to describe a personal treasure. What we did was we had to use at least a couple of fanboys on our paragraphs in our slides. I think that this task was interesting and fun and made me think more on description. I think I was ok at this task although I think I could do better at it. I think what I could do better next time is that I could describe my object even more and do bigger paragraphs. My precious/treasure item is my teddy bear as you probably saw in the slide. 

Comment below what your treasure/precious item is. 

Descriptive Sentence Writing Week 2

This week we have been looking at nikau palm trees and started writing about them. We wrote about the trunk, the leaves and the seeds. We also did a topic sentence and a concluding sentence for our paragraph. For our blog we picked two of the sentences we did and here are mine:

The nikau palm tree is native to the New Zealand. It has a lumpy trunk, green and spiky leaves and little brown seeds.

Nikau palm trees have tiny little brown seeds. They are brown and look like acorns and nuts.