Greek Mythology

This week for reading, we had to choose a Horrible Histories book. When chosen, we read the whole book, then we made a DLO sharing the information we gathered. Te Pounamu and I chose the Groovy Greeks. Talking about the greeks had a number choice to choose from, the spartans, athens, trojan and Greek God. We chose to talk about the greek gods because it shared some interesting facts.

Exploring our national current events

News editors make decision every day about which current event stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made news and plotted the location on an google maps. I was working collaboratively with Julian, Te Pounamu and Jayen. 

Waltzing Matilda

This week for reading, we talked about the main idea about Waltzing Matilda. We also had to back up our main idea by writing down true details from the text. We then made a summary DLO about Waltzing Matilda. In this DLO we added 20 important words, which we then narrowed down to 6 most important words out of the 20. Using those 6 words, we had to make a summary about the poem, Waltzing Matilda. The poem was about a Swagman who stole a sheep from a farmer, which the farmer than called the troops to catch him. The Swagman was well aware that the troops was under his tail, until he escaped them and was never seen again.

Literary Devices

This week for reading we were challenged by Mrs Anderson to make a DLO about Literary Devices but only on a google document. This challenge was quite hard because usually I make a DLO on google drawing which google drawing has lots of creative things. In our DLO we showed explanations, examples and a picture to give the reader a big thinking.

Here is the link to my DLO.

Night Light

This term for reading we were reading books about space which is our topic for inquiry. We read lots of different books like, The Problem with Pluto, Return Ticket, Please!, Night Light and a few more options. There were also 6 main responses, each response had different challenges for us to use the information we gathered by the text. We also had to comment on people's responses to learn how to have a Dialogic Conversation. As you can see the DLO that I have created is a challenge from 1 of 6 selections of responses.

WildBoy/Brando Yelavich

As I read this book, it had many incredible things such as him traveling around the whole New Zealand coastline to donate charity, many tips about survival skills and important life lessons. This DLO shows a summarized text about a teenage boy named Brando Yelavich.

Colloquialism and Slang DLO

 During reading today our group learnt about Colloquialisms and Slang. By creating this dlo we were able to make a stronger connection about these two language we have learnt about. We have worked together by talking about our understandings together as a group.

The Unfinished Drink

This DLO is all about a man who unfinished his drink, he died and didn't get to finish his drink, he died during the war, this story is also a narrative. I felt sad and happy about this story, i felt sorry for him because he died during the war and didn't get to finish his drink, I also felt happy because his friend kept his promised.

Family Tree

This Family Tree is from a book called memorial. This book is about Memories, this book also about world war 1 and 2. As you can see I have a family tree which contains all of the narrator family members in this book.

Animal Roles

Did you know in WW1 many of the mascots were animals. The mascos were also like a best friend or a companion to a soldier and did a great job at lifting people's spirits. Horses, Donkeys, Dog and others were really helpful back at WW1.

Treaty of Waitangi

   Today at reading Mataio, Jeremiah and I  were reading the treaty of waitangi books and were researching about it, to find out about the benefits about the the treaty of waitangi and the negatives. This task wasn't challenging because the resarching was easy and fun.

P.B.S News Report

LI: To use a range of comprehension strategies to go deeper into a text.

This week on Thursday I have been working on my reading for the Must Do Task List. People were split up into four different groups and had to create a newspaper article on a topic out of business, entertainment, sports, international news and nation news. I worked on entertainment with Sakina, Jay den did business, Chris and Joseph did sports, Aden did international and Peter did national news. We had to search for websites that had relevant information to our choice of topic, would be interesting to read and the date for the article that we  rewrote was between a certain time.


                                 

Tonga Vs England/Breaking News

This week on Monday I have been working on my reading for the Must Do Task List. As you can see I have some information which tells us the rugby league game starting with Tonga vs England. I give credits to Jack for making me swords and for helping me. As can see the google drawing looks like a news paper breaking news information, which I wanted it to to look like.

Making Connections Animation/ Details

This week on Friday I have been working on my Reading for the Must Do Task List. As you can see I have a video with some animations and some details. The person who I got help from was Jack Lee for giving me his dog. My Topic would be making connections and reading.

Main Ideas

LI: To use a range of comprehension strategies to go deeper into a text
This week on Friday I have been working on my Reading for the Must Do Task List. As you can see I have made a google presentation filled with answer. I chose Leader Ship because its much easier and I want to learn all about leaders. This was hard because I had to read the whole book which my eyes got tiring.

Flip Grid Video

This week on Monday I have been working on my Reading. Since there was no Must Do Task List for Reading, I just blogged this just so that people can understand what to do properly for writing. As you can see there is a link that leads to a site called Flip Grid which is a site where you can create perfect videos. As a group we created a video and talked about Kate Sheppard. The people in my group were Jack, Alex Victoria and Nyjah. The reason why I worked with was because Mr O sent us to work together but in a ordinary group.



Link Video

Group Photo

POV

LI: To make connections, identify main ideas, summarise, evaluate and synthesises facts through learning conversations.

This week on Wednesday I have been working on my Reading for the Must Do Task List. As you can see I have made a POV which stands for Point of View. What I made was a presentation filled of my point of view about Kate Sheppard. Kate Sheppard was a lady who inspired Women to vote and your see why on my Point of View. The person who helped with this amount of detail and this point of view was Jack and Alex because they were giving me some ideas to write about on this Google Slide presentation.





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Kate Sheppard Poster

This week on Wednesday I have been working on my Reading for the Must Do Task List. As you can see I have made a poster that has information about Kate Sheppard and has photos of her. What I did was to make a poster filled with information about Kate Sheppard which is what I did correctly. I also attributed a photo which could not come up with the Domain, Did you know that Kate Sheppard is on our $10 dollar note in New Zealand. Kate Sheppard was also important to New Zealand and you will see why on my poster that I made.

Fact or Opinion

This week on Thursday I have been working on my reading for the Must Do Task List. Today what I was doing trying to find some Fact and Opinion on the video that is on the Learning space one reading site. The person that helped a lot with this work was Chris because he was giving me lots of ideas.

Fact Or Opinion

LI:To separate fact from Opinion

This week on Tuesday I have been working on my Reading for the Must Do Task List. Today we had to work in our reading groups and find facts or opinions on the Lorax video. The person I was working with was Chris. This is the Link to the video - Selling Air