Home Learning Challenge

This is my home learning challenge, that I did.
My home learning challenge was to create a challenge of your choice. This challenge is to find some people or searcher any culture.Also this was all about the boats,and this is a culture is  Maori.  I did this with my Mum and Dad.

My Space Inquiry

Explanation about the Moon

Explanation writing

WALT: I am learning to write an explanation.

Success criteria	Me	LB	T
I have used an interesting title that tells the reader what my writing is about
I have used a general statement to introduce the topic
My writing explains how one thing leads to another
I have used time connectives to show the order of the process (first...next…)
I have organised my text using paragraphs
I have linked together 2 or 3 sentences to show cause and effect (so…if…this causes...this makes...because)
I have used technical vocabulary
I have used capital letters, full stops and commas

Use this chart to help you to write an explanation on the 8 phases of the Moon.

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The phases of the Moon

Have you ever wondered why the Moon can look different every night? There are eight key phases that the Moon goes through every 29.5 days, which is the same as one month.

The Moon rotate around the Earth about 29 days.Also the Moon has different phases.Did you know that there are eight phases,the phases are New Moon,waxing crescent,First Quarter,Waxing Gibbous,also Full moon,Waning Gibbous,Last Quarter,Waning crescent.

The New Moon is covered because there is no light in the Moon.Also you can not see the New Moon that well.The New Moon is dark because you can see it that well of the shape.Also the New Moon has the out line that you can see but not all of them.

Information report about Mercury

We are learning to write an information report about a topic related to space.

By Friday 5 June you need to have written and edited your information report on a topic related to space so that it is ready to be published.

Here are some ideas to write

• Jupiter
• Astronauts
• Earth    
• The Moon
• Eclipses
• Stars

My topic is:

Mercury

You need to attend one workshop with the teacher on an area that you feel you need help with for your writing. Here is the timetable where you will make your bookings. There is space for seven people in each workshop so book in quickly to make sure there is space!

Start researching and plan your writing here: (remember to write notes in your plan). Click here to see an exemplar of a plan.

Introduction:
Main idea: Appearance Mercury look like the Moon.	More detail: Size 328.5E21 kg (0.055 Earth mass). Mercury is the closely planets to the Sun.	More detail:  Mercury energy Mercury has almost no atmosphere  to trap heat,
Main idea: Mercury is grey	More detail:	More detail:
Main idea:	More detail:	More detail:

Success Criteria for writing. Click here to see an exemplar of an information report about Mars.

Level 3	Student Targets:	Yes!
Audience and Purpose	Identify my audience and purpose for writing.
Content/Ideas	Write clearly and include all important information.
	Add factual detail to expand my ideas.
Structure: including punctuation and grammar	Use different sentence starters.
	Join some ideas using conjunctions such as: when, while, after, since, until, if, because, although, that
	Organise my ideas into paragraphs and sequence my ideas so that my writing flows.
	Use subheadings for each new paragraph to tell the reader what it is about
	Check that I am writing in the present tense (for example: the sun is a ball of fire; the stars are shooting through the sky)
	Use a range of punctuation correctly.    (.,?!)
Editing	Identify and correct most spelling errors.
	Improve my writing so that it is more enjoyable/informative for the reader.

Start your writing here:

Mr Mercury

Information

Did you know that Mercury is 328.5E21 kg (0.055 Earth mass).

Appearance

 The planet Mercury looks a little bit like Earth's moon. Like our Moon, Mercury's surface is covered with craters caused by space rock impacts.Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Size

The size of Mercury is 2,440 km,Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system.The closest planet to the sun,is Mercury.

Mercury engine

Earth, it appears to move around the Earth its orbits in about 116 days.Besides you know that the Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbit the Sun.In fact did you know that Mercury is hot,because Mercury is next to the Sun,that why Mercury is a hot plnaets.

Facts about Mercury

Did you know that Mercury is one year on Mercury is only 88 Earth days long.Also Mercury