Figurative Language

Figurative Language

This is our writing lesson slides for this week, so this week we have been learning a lot of Figurative Language. Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, Hyperbole and Alliteration are all part of our learning of Figurative Language. We had to try and put them all into different types of poems, I had fun making Onomatopoeia  and metaphor poems. Hope you ENJOY!

Matariki Day Recap

Matariki Day!!!

Kia Ora blog readers and welcome back to my blog, today I will be recapping to you what we did at our Whole School's Matariki Day Celebration we do every year at Pt England School, first let me tell you what Matariki Day is all about.
Matariki celebrates and signals the beginning of Maori New Year, on that day seven stars appear in the sky, these stars are called the seven sisters.Their real names are called: Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Waiti, Waita, Waipunarangi, Ururangi and Matariki. Matariki is a big celebration of people, culture, language, spirituality and history, this celebration brings many family and friends together as one.

At our Matariki celebration at Pt England School we all were splitted into different groups, and they were Cooking, Arts and Craft, Sports and lastly Movie making (Entertainment). We were splitted into these 4 groups not only to have fun but learn the different ways we can express Matariki based on the activities we had. The group I was put into was Arts and Crafts which was actually cool because I like being creative in many ways. My highlight of Matariki was when we were drawing the patterns on our 7 stars and my table of friends I sat with were laughing and giggling when we got marker on our faces and our designs were very funny. My second highlight is learning more stuff about what Matariki is really about, I now have more knowledge of what it is.

In my opinion I think that NZ must celebrate this because if you are new to Matariki, you will learn what it is actually about and the interesting story behind it and this festive celebration will bring everyone together and celebrate Maori New 
Year. Have you celebrated MATARIKI DAY yet?

Language Features: Poetry

Poetry: Introduction to poetry

Malo e lelei and welcome back to my blog. In our writing lesson today we were learning about the introduction to poetry. Poems are a way of describing things that makes the reader feel like they are a part of the story. Things like language features are big in Poetry and there are lots of them such as: 

• Similes- a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
• Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named 
• Rhyme-correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
• Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Hope you enjoyed reading my learning about Poems and Language Features.

Relationship Graphs

Relationship Graphs:

WALT: Understand and create relationship graphs.

Today in our maths lesson we were learning about Relationship graphs, we had to answer questions using the graphs shown in the slides. For the last task we had to create a relationship graph on our own and have a classmate create a story about it. Hope you enjoy reading my work.

Awesome things we did in Lockdown- Pie Graph

Awesome things Room 3 did in Lockdown- Pie Graph

Today for our maths lesson, we had to do a Lockdown Diary and one of the pages told us to write down 5 awesome things we did during Lockdown. As a class we each told our things to the class and then  Mrs Tele'a tallied up the results and now we had to convert it to either a Normal Graph or Pie Graph. Here are the Results of what we did during Lockdown, the popular one was of course Spending Time with Family and that should be on everyone's list because spending time with family is the best thing in the world. The second popular thing was Cooking/Baking food, the third most popular thing was Sleeping in, early, late and resting all the time. What was your 5 favourite things you did during Lockdown?  Hope You Enjoy!

Biosphere 2

Inquiry: Biosphere 2

Talofa Lava and Malo e lelei Blog readers, and welcome back to another blog post of the day. Today for our inquiry lesson the topic we are learning about today was Biosphere 2. Biosphere is a biosphere 2 is an American Earth System science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. It was originally constructed between 1987 and 1991. We had to complete a few slides about Biosphere 2, after that we had to use google drawing to create a poster to show the pros and cons of the Biosphere 2 experiment.

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