These Shoes Have a Story to tell

One day a boy named Jerald was walking down the road. He had found some dirty shoes filled with dirty water. He picked up the shoe and poured the water out of the shoe. Then he decided to take it home. He asked if his dad could clean the shoes and he said yes. After that day he went to school and he said to his friends. I am getting new beautiful shoes. His friends didn’t believe it was beautiful. Those shoes aren’t going to be beautiful, his friends said. Once his dad finished cleaning the shoes. Jerald came and was really happy when his dad finished cleaning the shoe. After that day the Jerald was excited to show his friends his new shoes. When Jerald came to school, everyone was surprised and shocked about his shoes. Some people were jealous because Jerald is shoes was amazing and magnificent. Jerald had people to be his friends and they all would always look at his shoes and sit next to him. Jerald had the best day ever and was very happy to have his shoes.

 LI: To use the 5 senses and personification to help us paint a picture with words. To understand that personification is to give an inanimate object human qualities

  • Our challenge was to co construct a text using personification and the senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. We sat back to back and weren’t able to talk… Half way through Mrs Anderson challenged us to include a rhetorical question and a simile or metaphor…
  • Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense. 
  • After that part of the challenge was finished we used the punctuation points game to… We marked eachother’s punctuation against the points table. We then had a chance to check our own work against the points table. That was fun because every point our partners missed menat we could take a point off theirs.
  • I found this activity … because …

Down the Steps

I was walking through the forest as I came across a small cabin. Little did I know the cabin had a lot of secrets to hide… The door groaned open slowly giving me an uneasy sensation. I walked down the stairs and I caught my auditory senses snapping at my ears as I heard a peculiar sound. That very sound was so loud it sent shivers down my spine. “WHAT IS THAT HORRIBLE SMELL?” UGH!! I said, I could smell mold coming from the stairs as if someone or something had been here before. I quickly noticed the walls were closing in on me. I struggled to make my way through the walls as they were closing in faster and faster, my claustrophobia got the better of me,  but luckily I made it. As I got closer to the sound it got louder and louder. I caught a glimpse of a shadow and red eyes glaring down at me as if it was prying at my soul. I turned around but the walls blocked all of my possible ways to escape. I looked back around again and the shadow was gone. I continued to make my way through the abandoned basement, I ran rapidly down the stairs. The figure screeched at me with a deafening tone. My ears struggled to maintain balance throughout the screech.

  • Our challenge was to co construct a text using the olfactory, auditory, gustatorial, visual and kinethetic senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. This time we were able to speak and sat facing our partners. 
  • Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense and had met the language feature challenge.
  • I found this activity great because of how we worked together

Current Events

Today We were working on current events.

I were looking for places that had events in. I was looking for places that were interesting and wrote about it on my google maps. The most interesting thing that had happened was that an indian person has smashed 273 walnuts with his head.

I enjoyed this task because it was interesting to see what places had interestings things to happen.

CyberSmart | Blog Comments

Today for cybersmart I wrote a draft reply on a google slide. There are 3 types of comments that you can say to the blogs. First is you are greeting the blogger and being nice about their blog and what you like about it. Second is respond, when a person comments to your blog you respond a nice comment and answer the question. Last, you have to question the blogger about how they blog their post or asking a question.

I enjoyed this because it is nice to comment to a persons blog.

Procedural Writing

LI: to write a clear intruction that show how to make a hangi.

Today we unpacked how to follow and write a set of instructions. To do this effectively your instructions need to be explicit and the steps to follow ordered. Each step begins with an instructional verb and should be written in a way that is easy to understand.  I enjoyed this because I liked how the hangi was made in instructions.

Equipment needed:

  • a shovel
  • a lighter
  • hardwood like mānuka (because it’ll burn longer)
  • volcanic rocks
  • food tray
  • cloth bags
  • leaves
  • hook tool
  • gloves

Ingredients needed:

  • meat- beef, pork, lamb, chicken and ox.
  • vegetables – potatoes,carrots, taro leaves, pumpkin and kurma.

Te Reo Maori

Today we were doing Te Reo Maori.

We looked at the pictures and most of us knew those pictures. We looked up for the pictures names, The people that are in the pictureare famous because some of them were the royal family.

Next we answered the questions that says who the famous people is mother and father.

I found this Great because I got to know what the famous people is name was. This was interesting.

Moko Ika Hikuwaru

LI: To learn and illustrait a taniwha using our imagination.

 

This week we made a Taniwha with our imagination. We made our Taniwha pink and lives in the volcano, the details is lava, the treasure chest, the 2 other volcanos, the star and the rocks. Some rocks are flying out the volcano. Me and my partner added detail to the Taniwha, the Taniwha had wings and scales on his body, it has 6 legs and 1 tail. Our Taniwha is pink and is protecting the treasure behind him.

I found this activity great because I like making art with my imagination.

Main Ideas

LI: To identify the main ideas in the text

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we have been learning how to find and collaboratively decide on the main idea in a text by negotiating. We read the text Lester and Clyde. This was a text about the consequences of pollution. Our group think the main idea was yellow words highlighted.

 

We found this activity helpful because it helps our brain get smarter and better at writing good sentences.

Tamaki River

This week we have been learning about what rivers are, their unique attributes and how to label them. We then created a DLO about the Tamaki river and its history. Did you know, The Tamaki River was originally called Te Wai o Taiki, meaning “The Waters of Taiki”. The name Taiki is a shortened form of Taikehu, the name of an ancestor of Ngāi Tai.

Using our knowledge that we acquired, we showcased the features of the Tamaki river using an aerial map. We then compared the Tamaki River with a prominent river in the world. Our group chose to look at Tamaki River.  Finally we made a comparison of the two rivers.

Explanation Writing

LI: To understand the structure and language features in an explanation

How did Goldilocks upset the bear family?

To upset someone it’s to make them disappointed, worried, or unhappy. In the fairytale Goldilocks and the three bears. She makes unwise decisions. Have you ever broken into someone’s house? 

Goldilocks found a cottage and entered into private property without permission from owners. Goldilocks was disrespectful and has no self morals which is shown when  she ate the bear family’s porridge. She sat on the baby chair in addition she ended up breaking the chair leaving it in pieces.

When the bears got home, they were shocked to find their porridge eaten and  the baby chair was broken. Imagine how upset you would feel getting home to find someone had broken into your house!

To help us understand how to write an explanation we looked at the purpose, the structure (what it looks like) and the language features. An explanation tells us how or why something is the way it is. To help us understand this we learnt about cause and effect. Cause and effect is an action and a reaction. We used the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears to help us understand this. Here is our explanation that describes how Goldilocks upset the Bear family.

This activity was fun because I learnt a lot about this story. I never read the story called Goldilocks and the three Bears.