Food Technology

L.I To learn our knife skills.

Today in tech we were learning food technology with Mrs Heka at Tamaki Collage. We were learning our knife skills and we made a colourful fruit salad.The fruits we used were yellow and green kiwifruits,grapes and oranges. We had to remove the skin from the kiwifruit and cut the ends off. Next we had to segment the orange. We also learnt how to measure 1 cup of yoghert and how to wash the dishes. My favorite part at tech was chopping the fruit.

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.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

LI: To retell True Story of the 3 Little Pigs in my own words

Today my group read the True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. After listening to the story we used the retelling pathway to help us retell the main events in pairs. My favourite part was when the third little pig told the wolf 'Your grandma can sit in a pin!' because I thought this was funny.

I made a Screencastify so you can listen to me retell the story in my own words.

Lockdown Memories

LI: To create a digital time capsule of our lockdown memories.

We used images and words to tell the story of our time in Alert Level 4 and in Alert Level 3. The most important part of this time was keeping ourselves safe, being with our families and keeping our learning going. My favourite memory is eating both of my brother's birthday cakes.

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.

Kiwi can

Today at kiwi can we were learning about role models. Role models are people who inspires you and other people. For an example Afa someone in my class he inspires me because he always stops people fighting.The energiser we played was called hammer and the activity's were pitcher it and GKQ.

Past & Present

L.I To learn about gourds and how they were used.
Today I was working in a group of 3 to find out about gourds and how they were used in the past and now. In the past the Polynesian explorers would scoop out the seeds and dry the gourds until the gourds are hard and dry. Now they use the gourds to make bird house's.