Month: November 2023

There are many tall buildings, skyscrapers, towers and heaps of taller structures. In reading this week, we have been reading about 2 tall structures. The two structures that I read about were the Burj Kahlifa in Dubai and the KVLY-TV mast in the states.

Two facts I learnt about the Burj Kahlifa was that it holds many records like the Tallest skyscraper to top of spire, Building with most floors, World’s fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h, World’s highest swimming pool and heaps more. Another thing I learnt about the burj khalifa was that it costed $2,491,297,500.00 New Zealand Dollars to build it. That is a lot of money! Two facts I learnt about the KVLY-TV mast is that it once collapsed in 1991 due to the lack of maintenance. It is also the 4th tallest standing structure in the world.

My reading goal was to Make connections between texts and Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about.

For my create we had to make a copy of the doc and put in the differences and simalarities of the Burj Khalifa, and the KVLY-TV mast. Also in the doc we had to write in some features of my tower/building.

• I made Twin Towers
• It has a glass floored bridge and an observation deck.
• It will be 280 stories high.
• It will have an indoor rooftop pool.
• We are going to have a waterfall from the bridge.
• We will have many apartments, offices and restaurants.

Have you been to a tall building before? Goodbye!

This week for reading we have been reading about natural resources. I learnt that Water is a natural resource because Water occurs naturally in the environment and is useful to humans and other living things. My learning goal was to identify several ideas, discuss the author’s stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text.

I learnt about water. Something I learnt about water is that more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is freshwater. Out of that freshwater, almost 70 percent is permanently frozen in the ice caps covering Antarctica and Greenland. Only about 1 percent of the freshwater on Earth is available for people to use for drinking, bathing, and irrigating crops. I chose to learn about water because I really like the ocean and lakes, I also live near the beach.

What natural resource would you prefer to learn about?