Bravery

LI: To edit our writing using DRAFT.

This week continued writing our abstract noun poem about Bravery. We included descriptive words and used  the 5 senses which are: See, smell, feel/touch,and taste.When we finished our poem we used DRAFT to check our work, this means delete, rearrange, add, fix and talk. DRAFT is looking closely at your work and making any changes to improve it.

We used word hippo to look for more powerful words to use.

Metaphor

LI: To understand what a metaphor is and how we use them in writing. 

For our writing task this week we are working on poems and metaphors. Our metaphor poem was about sadness. A metaphor is describing something as something else without using “like” or “as.” We worked on this task as a group. After coming up with our poem we create a DLO.
This task was fun because we learned how much creativity we have.

ML Forming an Opinion

LI: To consider both perspectives  

We are learning about the Taonga of Storytelling, the story that we learnt about was about Maori legend about the mountains. For this task we worked together to decide/negotiate whether or not we think that it had happened using evidence to help support our opinion. We used our smart searching skills to help us find evidence that it happened or didn't happen. We then negotiated whether or not we though if this actually happened and then said why we thought what we thought. 

I really enjoyed looking at how the other perspectives have different ways of thinking.

Main Ideas

 LI: To identify main ideas in the text.

Our group watched the video about the story of Rona and the moon and how the moon took rona away. Today we wrote about Rona and the moon it told us about how Rona was lazy and bossy and made her husband do everything for her. For this activity we wrote down the main ideas starting off with the important ideas than after that we then used our negotiation skills to pick out four very important ideas making sure that we all agree that they are very important ideas then after that we then pick out three vital ideas again making sure that we all agree that they are vital ideas.

I really enjoyed this activity because it strengthened our ability to negotiate with others.

Venn Diagram

 LI: To find the differences and similarities within the different stories.

We watched a video about the maori creation story and we also read a text that was also about the maori creation story, when comparing them together there were some noticeable differences. Our task was to write down the differents and the similarities of the video version and the written version. Our group enjoyed doing this because it helped us know the difference between the two different  

I enjoyed this task to because I found it easy to find the differences and the similarities.

Summary

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about.

For inquiry we are learning about Taonga of storytelling or the treasure of storytelling cultural stories that have been passed down through our ancestors.We learnt about the maori creation story and we also  summarised the story.We used this summarizing template to summarize the video that we watched of the maori creation story.The video told us about the story of papatuanuku and ranginui in the darkness and how they separated and how their son Tawhirimatea sent mighty storms and rain to show his rage. 

I really enjoyed this activity because I found it fun to learn about other cultures stories.

PB4L

 LI: to understand the behavior we should present in school and to juniors.

Today for PB4L we learn the behavior we should present in school and to juniors. This can come into wet day monitors and how we should treat the children. This can also come down to respecting our teachers and respecting our learning expection. For todays session we used a roleplay to explain discussion and wet day monitor examples. We enjoyed this because...

Current Events

 LI:To find the important information in a current event

This week for Reading we learnt about author's purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to Persuade, Inform, Explain or Entertain (PIE).
First we looked at Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the Current Events DLO and answered these questions:

• What is the article about?

• When the article was created?

• Where was the article was made?

• Why the author wrote the article?

• How it was made?

• Why do you think the author wanted you to learn from the article?

I found this activity geat because it is good to know what happen on yesterday.

My Project

This a wooden mannequin.

I am going to make this into a class statue.

I am going with water elf for this project.I did this because I think my class can have a little guardian.

how to stand up to bullies

LI: To stop with the bullying.

 I found this task a bit easy because I know some information about bullying and drawed it on a poster. I made a poster about what to do and not to do when you are bullied.

My Reading Pathway

 LI: To show my personal journey through books

This week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities. One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading the quest for the diamond sword and the rise of Herobrine because it sound great.