Water Worries

 

How is glass made?

Structures of an Explanation!

Task Description: Today in our literacy lesson today we had to order the paragraphs into the right order. The topic was about ' How is glass made'. Mrs Stone gave us a challenge that whoever can sort out the writing will get a prize. It took me time to get it  after many attempts but finally at the end I got it. Mrs Stone gave me some lollies as the prize.

WALT: Use the correct structure of an explanation writing.

 

Eleven!

TASK DESCRIPTION: 

Today in our Literacy class, we read a book called Eleven which was by Sandra Cisneros

WALT:

Infer meaning from a text

Inferencing

WALT: Learning to make inferences based on images and short stories

ICT Outdoors by Catherine Lunjevich

WALT: Infer meaning from a text

Malo e lelei, today for our new reading task we had to read ICT Outdoors by Catherine Lunjevich. This book was about a school girl who thought that reality was all about the internet and computers. She notices that her favourite teacher was not acting like her normal self. The school girl had to help her teacher to go back to her normal and loving self.

Saving McDonalds by Hilton Avery

Task Description: For our 2nd reading task today we had to read a book called Saving Mcdonalds which is a book by Hilton Avery. This was a really interesting book to read that was about a camp for boys. We did our normal stuff as well like the Grammar Check activity. For our last task, for writing we had to write a paragraph about one reason students should attend camp. ENJOY!

Time Warp by Seb Darr

Task Description: Today for Literacy we read a new text today which is called Time Warp by Seb Darr. This book is about a school boy named jack who dislikes the subject History. As he rides back home he rides into a tree and blacks out for a while. Once he woke up he thinks that he ended up in the middle ages, he also thought that he entered a TIME WARP. Did he or did he not?

Roland Fish Rises Up by Mary- Jane Stewart

Roland Fish Rises Up

by Mary-Jane Stewart

Today's new reading text is called Roland Fish Rises Up. This book was very fun and interesting to read. It was about a school boy named Roland Fish who is not popular, smart or fits in. He gets picked on a lot by Tim O'malley (School's big bully), but Roland doesn't let that take over him. We did our regular stuff like our grammer work, highlighting subjects, verbs and identifying what sentences are Independent and Dependent and how many clauses are there in a sentence. For our paragraph writing we had to explain a moment on what we have to do if someone picks on you. ENJOY!!!

Monday Mornings By Marco Fazzi

Task Description: Today we have a new reading book called Monday Mornings by Marco Fazzi. This book is really interesting to read. We are also reflecting back on Subjects, verbs, clauses and types of sentences. For our last activity we had to write a paragraph that describes ONE MOMENT in a teacher's life outside of school.

A Brush with the Dark Side!

WALT: Use correct sentence structure

For our next Literacy task, the book we read was A Brush with the Dark side. This book was about these two boys (Jeremy and Sam) who suspect that their teacher (Mr Foster) is from the dark side. They spy on Mr Foster to catch him on the spot but to find out he was just setting up an Aquarium. Or was he?...

If only by Hilton Ayrey

WALT: Use correct sentence structure.

Today I had just finished my google meet with my Literacy class. We reviewed back on what we learnt last lockdown which was about Subjects, Verbs, Sentences and clauses. This reading task was based on the story: If Only by Hilton Ayrey.

Downriver

My Fight by Sarah Penwarden

WALT: Summarise key ideas from a range of texts

Today in our reading lesson, we had to read a new book called My Fight by Sarah Penwarden. This book is about some school boys during maths class and then they start fighting in lunchtime as well.

Bootcamp by Shanna Fa'aita

Walt:Identify common themes from a range of texts.

Task Description: Today for our Literacy Lesson, we had to silently read a book called Bootcamp by Shanna Fa'aita. This book is about a Uncle named Joey and his niece named Liyah, Uncle Joey struggles a lot through life like his Love Life, Job, Money, Family and House. To cheer him up he goes to bootcamp with his Niece Liyah. But one day when they were about to get Break fast, they bump into a few old mates of Uncle Joey that look very doggy and dark. What would you think would happen after?

A Game of Cards- New Vocab

A Game of Cards- New Vocab

Mrs Tele'a was reading us a book called 'Pounamu Pounamu' by Witi Ihimaera and one of the chapters were A Game Of Cards. While Mrs Tele'a was reading she was writing new vocab from the book  onto the whiteboard. She was also asking us what they meant it you already knew, after she finished reading the book she told us to make a google drawing of the new vocab we have learnt. The words with the star next to them are the ones I already know, there is also a map of Rongopai Waituhi because that is where the story was placed. Here are the meanings of some new vocab.

1. Rapidly- Very Fast
2. Blaring- Very loud, that would make your ears hurt
3. Weep- Not crying loud but cries very quietly
4. Flecked- Small dots or parts

Characters: The Game

Task Description: Today in our reading lesson we had to complete a few slides about the characters we read about in one of the articles or stories.My story was The Game by Cassandra Tses, we had to list the characters in the story and pick 1 character and use google drawing to create an image of it. The next thing was that we had to choose a character who has a lot to say and then write what is the most important things they say. For the last task of the slides with a buddy or friends, we had to record yourself having the same conversation from the story using screencastify. My group that I did the screencastify with was Lani, Zoe and I. Here are their blog so that you can check out their work as well. Lani's Blog  Zoe's Blog

Comparing Stories- Stand Up and Black Lives Matter: Lesson about Racism

Today in our Reading Lesson today I had to complete a venn diagram, in that Diagram I had to compare 2 articles I read about. The Articles I read were Black Lives Matter: Lesson about Racism by Bethany Reitsma and the other one was Stand Up by Dylan Owen. The first article is about a teacher in NZ, Auckland who taught little 6 yr olds about Racism, she told them it's not about the outside and what you look like, it's about your heart and mind. The second article is about different protests in NZ and what they were about. In the Middle I had to write what their Similarities were together: Human Rights, It teaches us a lesson/something new and everyone's lives matter.

Term 2, wk 1, Reading Task

Art of the Sentence

WALT: Analyse the structure of a sentence
Today in our literacy lesson we had to read a few sentence and then highlight the subject GREEN and the verb Blue. In the writing part we had to construct sentences from the pictures that were given for us.  We had to make sure that the sentences contained one IDEA.

The Art of the Sentence

WALT: Analyse the structure of a sentence.

Today for my reading lesson today we were learning about parts of a clause.

We had to highlight green the subject and blue for the verb. The subject is the person or thing and the verb is what describes what the subject is doing. A verb can also be a thinking/feeling and the words

'is', 'have' and 'be' are also types of verbs. Hope you enjoy looking at my slides :)