Writing - Week 7 - Term 1

Writing,

For writing we have been working on planning writing using a variety of ways. For this we had to create a planning template for our report/biography. Here is the task.

How do you plan reports/biographys?

Writing - Week 11

Writing,

For writing this week we were focusing on narratives. For this we had to finish off the narrative from week 8 and self asses ourselves. Her are the tasks.

Narrative

Self Assessment

Do you know what a narrative includes?

Reading - Week 11

Reading,

For reading this week we were working on Visualise using all of the senses, and talk about how this enriches meaning. For this we had to chose a text to read I chose, the seeing Hawk. After we did this we had to choose a peice of the text and write down all of the senses out of the five that we felt.

Here is the task.

Do you know what the five senses are?

Maths - Week 11

Maths,

Reading - Week 10

Reading,

For Reading this week we were learning about how to making connections - use prior knowledge to connect to the text. Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. For this we had to first pick one of the books to read, I chose once a Panther after we finished reading this we had to create a DLO (digital learning object) to portray things that we could relate to in our own lives from the book. Here is the task.

What connections can you make from this book into your own life?

Maths - Week 10

Maths,

For Maths this week were focusing and learning to use a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication and division problems with whole numbers- Rounding and Compensating. For this we had to make a resource for people to earn about how to use rounding and compensating. Here is the task.

Do you know how to do rounding and compensating?

Writing - Week 10

Writing,

For writing this week we were focusing on using a variety of sentence structures beginning and lengths to give effect. For this we had to use our narrative from week eight and pick six sentences for the task. After we did this we had to find if it was a simple, complex or compound sentence, after that we had to write a new sentence. Here is the task.

Do you know what a complex sentence is?

Maths - Week 9

Maths,

For Maths this week we had to work on  place value. For this task we had 

to make two multiplication and division questions that we could figure out 

using place value. Here is the task.

Do you know how to use place value on division questions?

Reading - Week 9

Reading,

This week for writing I had to do two reading challenges for this I chose the

book Harry Potter and for this I wrote ten true and false questions and a postcard 

to Harry's mum and Dad describing the eight books . Here is the task.  

T/F Questions. -  Postcard.

Have you ever read Harry Potter?

Maths - Week 7

Maths,

For maths this week we were looking at how to Use an efficient strategy to solve

a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication and division problems with whole

numbers & decimals. Here is the task, PLACE VALUE - PROPORTIONAL ADJUSTMENT

Do you like maths?

Writing - Week 9

Writing,

For writing this week we had to make complex sentences.  

Me and a few other people made a play full of complex 

sentences and act it out live. Here is the task.

Have your ever wrote a complex sentence?

Maths - Week 8

Reading

For maths this week we had to pick a stage of either beginner, stepping up or confident, I chose stepping up. For stepping up we had to answer all the question and then pick a strategy to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) of. Here is the task.

Do you know how to use place value?

Here are the answers to all the questions

Writing - Week 8

Writing

This week we have been looking at narrative's again. First we had to choose the path of either in search of a goal examples: The hobbit and finding Nemo and Myths and Legends and the other path we could choose was there and back again examples: Alice in Wonderland, Where the wild things are and Wizard of Oz. After this we had to make a plan for our narrative. After we had done this we needed to start the draft our our narrative.

Have you ever done a narrative?

Writing - Week 7

Writing

For Writing this week our goal was to confidently shape ideas for affect. For this we had to write a descriptive story about someone I did this collaboratively and we wrote a story about Catbug. Here is the task.

Do you know who Catbug is?

Kaupeka Reading Challenge - Week 8

Reading

For reading this week we've done something different. Our goal was to read a range of different genre's. The Teachers set us the challenge of reading three different genre books and then making a DLO (digital learning object) of the book. The first book I read was called adventure kingdom this genre came under fantasy. This book was about two kids that bump into each other at a run down circus park. For this book I did an acrostic poem.

For the next book I read how to spot a Sasquatch this genre came under comic book. In this book there was a kid called Jay. Jay and a group of other kid's went on a trip to forest to go camping. Jay to this time to try and find the mythical creature, Sasquatch. For this book I did a wanted poster.

For the last book I read a comic called Cat Ninja: the silent master of Kat fu this genre was superhero fiction. In this book their is a constant rivarly between two animals: Cat Ninja and Master Hamster. For this last book I decided to do write down all the different animals in the book and their traits. Here is the task.

What's your favorite book to read?