Collaborative Comprehension - Battle of the Somme

This week everybody our class worked on the same topic. We each get a partner to work with. I worked with Joseph. For one of the collaborative comprehension activities we read the Battle of the Somme event and then answer 10 questions based on the story.This is really sad because lots of soldiers died.

Informal To Formal

Today for reading our group turned informal words into formals words. This DLO explains on what I did to change the informal language into formal. The sentence on top is the formal language and below it, it is formal. For example - formal language is used when talking a teacher, boss and writing a letter. Informal language is when you are talking to you friends. 

Narrative Poem

For reading our group have made a DLO about Pam Ayres. She is a comedian, English poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of radio and television program. I wrote 3 facts about Pam Ayres and my favorite joke about the narrative poem she made.

Today for reading we learning about informal words and formal words. Our task was to delete the informal words on the first letter to Mr Johnston, then delete the formal words on second letter to James letters. You can use formal letters by writing a greeting card, email a work mate or your boss, parents and grandparents. I understand that informal letters is use to message friends and family and glossary list.  The top example is a formal letter because it uses ' I am writing to complain', 'condition of the playground' and 'a great deal of litter' and the bottom example is an informal letter because it says 'How are you', 'dead busy' and 'to get ready'.

Willow - Film Study

Willow -

Opening Sequence

L. I. - To understand how narrative elements are used in film

Watch the opening sequence...

Answer these questions:

What is a prologue?

A prologue is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background detail

Who are the characters introduced in the prologue?

Princess Aloradenan,Queen Bawmorda  

What is the setting of the main story?

The setting of this story is the Moses story.

How is humor used to stop the scene from being too over the top?

Don’t touch it, we don’t where it came from.

Yesterday we did a film study. The movie that we watch was Willow, this movie is a about an evil queen tries to kill the baby princes because she is the only one who can defeat the evil queen, but fails. I have answered some questions based on the movie. I have enjoyed doing film study.

The Man Made World - Labeling

Today for reading our group Pakatoaa and Ponui have worked together to complete this task. We labeled a book which is called The Man Made World. Both groups collaborate and communicated to complete labeling this book. There are a lot of things in this book that we have labeled. We made sure that we have put the right label in the right place. I have fun doing this activity  because we learnt some new words while doing this activity. 

Hipposandal DLO

This DLO shows you the parts of a hippo sandal. It is also labeled. We read a book about horse shoe and answered some questions about it. I learnt a lot from this activity.

New York

This week for reading we were reading a story about The lost empire. After finishing answering the  question. We then created  DLO showing a map of New York and 6 places that we would want to go when we visit to New York that include Empire State Building.

Facts About Vikings

Today for reading our group read about Vikings. The book talks about what Vikings do when they raid and what they do to the goods and the people. I enjoyed reading this book with my group. After reading the booking with our group and then we did word link. Word link is about a person telling a topic and the next person will relate to the link that person said. We then created a DLO about 5 facts about vikings and I included a photo that shows where they came from. The fact that I found interesting is - Vikings believed that when they die they will go to a place called ' Valhalla'.

The Unicycle Craze

Today for reading we read a story about The Cycling Craze, it was about some of the things that we used in the olden day. We were also learning about the different types of cycles, there are three types of cycles and they are unicycle that means it has one wheel, bicycle that means it only has two wheels and a tricycle which has three wheels on it .

Wild Boar

Today for reading we created a DLO about Wild boars and read a story about it. There are many kinds of Wild boar specially in Asia. Wild boar is a very dangerous animal. It is similar to a pig and a bear. I wrote 5 facts about a boar and some information.

Raurimu Spiral

Today for reading our task was to find information Raurimu Spiral. I found some interesting facts about the Raurimu Spiral. I used my smart searching skills to find information about the Raurimu Spiral. I found out that It was constructed in 1905 and finished in 1908.

Read Theory Progress

This read theory results shows you my Read Theory progress for the month. I have worked my way through to level level 6 and it is my highest level currently. I am trying to reach grade 7 - 8 and I will do my best to be in that grade. I will practice my reading to achieve my goals of reaching level 7 - 8.

How To Survive A Cow Attack

Today for reading I created a DLO to show how to survive a cow attack. To get the information I need, I read an article called A Shortcut. Link.  

Hineheauone

The Maori legend, it is the story about how the first women made and was named
Hineheauone. We made this in story board that. Carl and I work hard and 
we use teamwork to do this. The story is really interesting to 
know a story about  the first women to live in earth. 

Memorial By Shaun Tan

For reading our class read memories by Shaun Tan. It started of with a kid telling a story about their family memories, memorials and remembrance about the unknown soldier. He talks about his Grandad planting a tree when he comes back home from war at WW2, his Dad at vietnam and world war 2 - 1918. It also talks about the kid defending the tree because people are complaining about it and the statue is tilted. Full presentation

Making Connection - Snowboarding

Today we read an article about snowboarding.I learnt that in 1994 snowboarding got popular and in 1994 snowboarding was declared as an Olympic sport. We did text to text, text to world and text to self. I learned a lot of new interesting facts about snowboarding that I didn't know before. I really had fun doing this activity.

Making Connection - The Olympics

Today for reading our group read a book called "The Olympics". We talked about how does the sport work, how many kinds of sports are there. It talks about what is Olympics like in the olden days. We did Text to text, text to world and text to self. 

Skiing On Sewage

Today for reading, our group read about skiing on sewage. It's about recycling sewage water to make snow because of climate change and helping our environment. People from Los Angeles recycled water sewage to water golf courses in 1929. Some people didn't agree about using the sewage water for making snow.

Making Connection

This week for reading our reading group has been learning about the winter Olympics. We talked about how snow works and we did Text to text, text to world and text to self.