My PBL Writing

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* All writing must be done 1st. The photos, pics, diagrams etc are done after when you choose how to present your report. 1-2 paragraphs Put it in your own words Include a few keywords/topic words	* All writing must be done 1st. The photos, pics, diagrams etc are done after when you choose how to present your report. 3+ paragraphs Put it in your own words Include some keywords/topic words	* All writing must be done 1st. The photos, pics, diagrams etc are done after when you choose how to present your report. 4 + paragraphs Put it in your own words Include keywords/topic words

NIKAU HUB GOAL FOCUS:

Structure

I use text structures to organise my writing effectively for its purpose.

Non-Fiction Report Text features               Non-Fiction Report Text Structure

My Goals (x3) are:  (insert link PV Kidspeak Writing Progressions)

1. I write simple and compound sentences using varied conjunctions.
2. I write sentences that usually make sense.
3. Vocabulary - I use specific words and phrases appropriate to the topic.
1. Adjectives - classifying, factual, opinion
2. Nouns - Proper, common, collective abstract
3. Subject words

Contents

1.   What they are
2. What do they eat
3. Their Habitat
4.    Life Cycle
5. Facts
6. Glossary
7.    Sketch
8. Acrostic Poem

Monarch Butterflies

What they are.

Butterflies are a insectes that can fly. Also they have white and black and orange spots  they have patterns. All butterflies can be different colors. Butterflies have two antennae  to sense and smell things that they might eat. Butterflies are 12 inches big.

What do they eat?

Butterflies eat all types of yucky stuff.They eat nectar, tree sap bird droppings,

liquids and rotting fruits. They eat mucky mud and they eat pollen. Butterflies eat by drinking nectar from flowers by using its tongue and sucking it up. Butterflies are helpful to the environment by getting pollen from flowers and carrying it other places and makes flowers bloom and other plants grow.

Their Habitat

Butterflies live in mountains and regions. They hide under rocks and hide under leaves and fly into trees that have holes in them. Butterflies can die if they are in the rain for to long.they live in wetlands,grassland and mountains. Butterflies and moths live and have babies in different places such as salt marshes, marsh gloves,sand dunes,lowland and forest, rock surfaces and flat ground.

 

Lifecycle

First, a female butterflies lays lots of eggs. Second, they come out as a caterpillar (larvae) and they eat so, so much food and get fat. Next, when they are fully grown they go into a pupa (cocoon) by curling up and spinning into a silky cocoon.  Last, come out of the pupa and become a beautiful butterfly.

Facts

Monarch Butterfly Fact File

• Butterflies eat nectar with their tongue and they eat tree sap.
• Butterflies live in wetland,grassland,mountains and regions.  
• Butterflies fly anywhere they won`t to.
• Birds eat butterflies.
• Snakes eat butterflies.
• Butterflies are atchley caterpillar.

Glossary

Bloom/āhahā - when a flower opens up

Regions - a part of the world

Sense - using smell, sight, touch, taste and hearing

Female/uwha - a girl

Wetlands/kūkūwai - a land that is wet like a swamp, it has been underwater

Acrostic Poem

When a butterfly comes out of cocoon

It goes to eat

Nectar is its favourite food

Growing everyday

Sometimes birds eat me