Luxury

  L.I To use metaphors and the five senses to describe the abstract noun.

Here is a link to my DLO if you would like to see it closer

Our task was to create a DLO of writing a poem using a  abstract noun. Abstract nouns are things that we can feel but we can't physically touch it.The 5 senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell and feel. First we had to pick a word from the list. And me and my group choose luxury. After we picked the word, we looked for a structure  in a example of given to us.After writing the poem we had to make a poem of us describing the word we have picken.

We really enjoyed this activity, because it taught us how to create metaphors and poems, using abstract nouns. 

Misery

 LI: To write an abstract noun senses poem.

For this task we worked collaboratively to create a poem using abstract nouns. Our group was given a list of abstract nouns that we can use to write a poem. The abstract noun we choose was misery. We used the five senses to describe what misery sounds, looks, tastes, and smells like while using metaphors to structure a poem correctly.

An abstract noun is a feeling or emotion that cannot be physically touched. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

For example: Happiness is a river of joy that is flowing through my heart. 

The word happiness is the abstract noun and is used to create this metaphor. 

The five senses are: hear, touch, smell, feel and see. Each of these five senses are what many humans are able to do. 

A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

I really enjoyed doing this because I got to work collaboratively and work together in a group and also use powerful words to strengthen the poem and make our metaphor stand out.

Writing

L.I: To understand how to use and correctly punctuate dialogue when writing.

For writing we were we did dialogue. We picked a sitaution and created a conversation. The situation I picked to create my conversation was when the wolf was furious that he couldn't bust the brick house.

After creating a conversation we created a DLO on what is dialogue, and where the punctuation go.

Dialogue is a conversation between two people or more.

I enjoyed this activity because when writing the dialogue we got to use this interesting website called Ifaketext messages.

Cinquain Poem

 LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star

We have been learning to write cinquain poems to help us strengthen our connections to description. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.

I enjoyed this activity because I got to chose any sports star in the word.

A Moment in Time Poem

LI: To use the language features and structure of published poem to help use write our own poem.

We looked at the language features and structure of a poem called ‘A Moment in Time’ and used our experiences from camp to follow the structure and collaboratively create our own moment in time poem. To describe what we heard, what we saw, how we felt and what we wondered we used our senses, adjectives and adverbs. Ajectives are words that describes nouns. Adverbs are a word that describes an action. I found this task interesting and fun because I used a really cool website called word hippow to make my groups work better.

Setting

 LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader.  

A setting is the place, time and environment of a story to help a reader make a connection to your narrative you need to use your words in away that helps them form a picture of what you are describing in their mind.To do this we looked at an image and thought of 10 words that described and showed what we could see. Once we had thought of the adjectives or adverbs we used our smart searching skills to help us find synoymns that made our descriptions clearer. I found this task interesting because I learnt more interesting words.

5 minutes camp

 L.I To recount a 5 minute snap shot of one experience you had at camp.

I was shaking as I took my first step on the ladder. My heart was beating faster than before, there were butterflies in my stomach and my whole body was shaking.  

Next I was climbing the staples by then I thought I was going to come down but when I got to the top I said to myself don't look down I ran to the other pole it was scary at first.

 After that I tried to do a push up but I couldn't go down and the rope was tight so I skipped the challenge. 

At the end I started to feel like superman coming down slowly it was a fun experience.

Last week we went to camp at Kokako lodge. My 5 minute snap shot shows my personal voice and I have tried hard to paint a picture with my words to describe what I was doing and how I felt. I felt this activity fun because I face my fears of heights.

Choices Explanation

L.I To right a explanation.

Why did you drop that piece of plastic? Do you know what you are doing by dropping a piece of plastic?

Did you know that the sea animals are dying and we are the ones killing them. If you want to be eating plastic and chips then keep dropping your plastic & if you want to eat fish and chips then stop throwing your plastic on the ground because it will go to the ocean.

Birds are getting strangled in the nets and eating the plastic that we throw on the ground. We have to help the sea birds by putting our plastic in the bin and taking the plastic out of the ocean.

Even sea turtles are changing their shape because people are throwing the plastic can holder on the ground and the wind blows it away into the ocean and is getting stuck around the body of the turtle and the turtles are eating the plastic we are putting in the ocean.

Most of the sea animals are mistaking the plastic as food. Did you know that a turtle got a straw stuck in its nose and a vet  had to get it out.

If we keep dropping our plastic we won't be able to swim or have fish and chips again we might have plastic and chips. I don't want to have plastic and chips. We have to prevent the plastic from going into the ocean so we can care for the sea animals and the ocean.

6 Sentence story

L.I. Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative

I couldn't believe my eyes when my best friend James put his hand up and answered a question. James is usually shy and always asks to go to the toilet just to get out of the room. Unfortunately I was the one who got told off because, I never answered a question the teacher asked me. I am sweating and my heart is pounding while the teacher is yelling at me. The next day I told the teacher that I was sorry and that I was shocked.

Today my group wrote 6 sentence stories to help us take risks with our writing. We did this by sharing our ideas and writing sentence that drop hints about what was happening in the picture we chose to write about. We helped each other by suggesting ideas to each other to make our stories more interesting.

Hotcake Recipe

LI: To structure and write a procedural text.

For writing we have been learning how to write a procedural text. To do this we used the recipe we followed at Tech. This procedure tells the reader how to make hot cakes. Before we wrote this we worked collaboratively to order the pictures Mrs Anderson took of us making the hotcakes. Once we had done that we matched each photo with a verb. A verb is an action word and tells anyone following the recipe what they need to do. After that we use the verbs as sentence starters and collaboratively wrote a list of instructions.

How animals protect themselves

L.I To find and write three interesting facts from a non fiction text in my own words.

This is about how animals protect them selves some animals protect them selves some protect them selves by making them selves look bigger than there other predators.some roll up into a ball and and some can camouflage.  

Gingerbread man

L.I To retell the story of the gingerbread man.

Today we had to retell the story of a gingerbread man.The old lady was making a gingerbread man but she told the little boy to watch it the little boy was watching it but he was daydreaming.And then the gingerbread man pot out of they oven and the gingerbread man ran out the little boy two well dodgers , Two ditch diggers ,  bear , wolf but he did not run out the fox because the fox was lying to the gingerbread man and then the fox grad the gingerbread man and eat him all up.

Word Cline Sad

 

LI: To find 5 interesting words that increase in intensity (have a stronger meaning) as you move up the line.

 

Today we used the thesaurus to make a word cline for the word ‘sad’. As the words go up the line they become more powerful. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote today using my word cline. My favorite sentince I wrote was On one day I felt lugubrious because I did not get to see my friends.

Writing

LI: To find 5 interesting words that increase in intensity (have a stronger meaning) as you move up the line.

Today we built a word cline for the word ‘big’. As the words go up the line they become more powerful. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote today using my word cline. There were enormous waves splashing on the soft sand.

Writing

L.I To learn how to write a narrative.
We wrote a narrative about a ship that blasted a pirate ship down.
My favorited part is when they shoot down the ship.
These are the parts of a narrative Tittle,Orientation,Problem Events and Solution.
The sorry we had to write was a story about a naval ship that had a whole in the hull. The hull is the body of the ship.

The three little pigs

We had to write our own version of the three little pigs or work as a group we decided to pick to work together. 

Three little pigs work

Video

Rugby players

This week we have been combining all of numeracy and literacy skills to complete multiple tasks about the RWC this year. For this literacy task we had to match a player in the rugby world cup to a position that they play. We had to add pictures to show the players and some facts about the players.

Writing

L.I To create a persuasive advertisement.
I was selling Mr Wong a yamaha motor bike most people picked a car but other people picked some thing else like a wig or hear products.

Writing

For Writing we had to learn about Loaded words and Emotive Language.

Loaded words mean Loaded words are words that have strong positive or negative meanings.

Emotive Imagery means Image.

We also had to make a slogan.

Writing

For Our Writing we learned about Describing things. We had 5 slides with pictures we had to write describing  words about the 5 pictures. The 5 pictures were Flowers,Dessert,Tiger and a Cinnamon Rolls.
We also had to write sentences with the words that we have found about the picture.