Synthesising

 Kia Ora. Welcome to my reading blog for the week. We are still doing novel study. The book im reading is called: "The boy in the striped pyjamas". Our goal in reading this week was: Synthesising - Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking & think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking.

Our create task this week was to fill out a table about the characters and synthesise what we think they are like. 

Here is what i've done:

Thank you for looking at my work.  What novel study book would you read?

Infographic

 Kia Ora! Welcome back to my blog. This week in writing our goal was: Vocab - deliberately use written and visual language features when appropriate to enhance writing. Attitudes & Behaviours - present work in a range of forms. Ideas - create content that is concise and relevant to the curriculum task.

Our create task this week was to make a infographic based around the sustainable development goals.

Here is my infographic:

Thank you for looking at my work. What sustainable development goal would you learn about?

Problem solving

 Kia Ora everyone! Welcome back to my blog. This week in maths my goal was:  Solve problems with fractions, decimals proportions and ratios using a broad range of strategies. Use multiplication and division strategies to find fractions of whole numbers. 

My create task was to answer some questions using multiplication and division

Here is what I've done:

Thank you for looking at my work. What strategies would you have used to work out these problems?

Bruno meets Shmuel

 Talofa lava! Welcome back to my blog. This week we are continuing on with novel study. Our goal this week was: Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. The main idea i chose to focus on was when Bruno meets Shmuel. In my create task i had to include these things: 1. The main idea 2. Your understanding of why the main idea is important 3. What does it make you think about?4. Why do you think the author has focused on this idea?

Here is my create task:

Thank you for looking at my work. Why do you think the author wrote this book?

The boy in the striped pyjamas

 Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week for reading my goal was: Identify some text events and features, and discuss what it makes the reader think about. 

We have been doing novel study and the book i'm reading is called: The boy in the striped pyjamas. 

Our create task this week was to make a google drawing and create a table about events that has happened in the story and how it make you feel as a reader.  

Here is my work:

Thank you for looking at my work. If you could read any book for novel study, what book would you choose and why?

Speech assessment

 Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. Last week for writing we were writing and reading our speeches. This week for writing we were writing a self assessment about our speech. The self assessment form is about how well we think we did in our speech and what things we could work on and do next time.  My speech was about Zero Hunger!                                                                         

Here is my assessment:

Link: Speech assessment 

Thank you for taking a look at my work.  What do you think is the hardest thing about writing a speech? 

cantamath!

Talofa lava everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week for maths i did cantamath again.  This week in cantamath it was a bit different from last week. This week we were doing individual  cantamath where we had to solve all the questions our selves. 

Here is a bit about what we do and how it is:

How it is:

For the last couple of weeks I have been doing cantamath. Cantamath is where you get given challenging math questions and you are racing a bunch of different teams to get all the maths questions right the fastest. 

When we first started doing cantamath, I wasn't that interested in it. But after doing it for a while it's not too bad. 

This week we tried out individual teams and I think I didn't do too bad. Overall I am enjoying cantamath and I don't think i'm doing too bad seeing this is my first ever year doing it. 

Thank you for looking at my blog. Would you ever try cantamath?

My speech

 Talofa lava everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week for writing we were finishing off our speeches. We have been working a lot on our speeches. We got to choose our speech from 4 different topics and i chose to write my speech on zero hunger. we didn't really have a create task this week but we do have to show a couple of our favourite paragraphs from our speech.

Here is a bit of my speech:

The reason I like these 2 paragraphs is because I think it is important to know about what is happening when people don't get food but i also think it is important to know how we can help towards this. 

Thank you for looking at my blog. What is another way you could help with this situation? 

Cantamath

 Talofa Lava everyone And welcome back to my blog. This week for maths was a bit different. I have been working on cantamath and what makes a good cantamath team. Some of the questions we are given can be hard. Here is a bit about what we have been doing:

Thank you for looking at my work. Have you ever done cantamath? If so, did you like it?

What is a quality blog comment?

 Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. During cyber smart, We have been learning about what a quality blog post and blog comment is.  The reason we were learning this is because it is important to know the difference between a good and bad blog comment. We need to know this so that we can write good blog comments on each others blogs.

Here is what we have done: 

After learning about this, we have new leanings. We now know the

difference between a good and bad blog comment. Some comments that we thought were good are actually not. So this has definitely helped us a lot.

Do you do / ever have done cyber smart, if so do you/ did you enjoy it?

speech planning

 Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in writing my goal was:  Create content that is concise and relevant to the curriculum task Selects words and phrases to enhance meaning and/or mood. Our create task was to write a paragraph for our speech.

Here is this weeks paragraph:

If you were to write a speech about anything, what would it be?

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Should we be able to eat junk food?

 Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in reading our goal was:  Use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions. Think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking. Our create task was to pick a persuasive text and then make a screencastify about our connections and thoughts about it. The book I chose to read was called: Why kids shouldn't eat junk food. Here is my screencastify:

Link: screencastify 

Thank you for looking at my work. What are your thoughts about not eating junk food?

Zero Hunger!

Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. Our goal in writing was: 

Understand the purposes for writing and how to achieve those purposes

Select and explore significant ideas, developing main points with specific detail.

This week in writing we were getting ready to start speeches. Our create task was to find some hard hitting statistics and rhetorical questions for a topic we were interested in. The topic I chose was: Zero hunger. 

Here is what i have done this week:

          What are your thoughts about these facts?

Are humans an endangered species?

Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to our blog. This week in reading we read a persuasive piece of writing called: Humans and endangered species. 

Our create task was to make a screencastify about our connections and opinions to the text:

Here is what we have done: 

link: Link

Have you ever written a persuasive piece of writing? If so, what was it about?

Spotting the fantastic

Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in reading we were working more on the fantastic's. My create task was to spot  positive and negative sentences that include one of the fantastic's.

Here is what I did:

Link for slideshow: Slideshow

Thank you for looking at my work. Have you ever read any of the books that are in the slideshow?

 

Ratios

kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. this week in maths we were learning about ratios. Our create task was to answer questions and figure out the ratios of things. Here is what i've done this week:

Thank you for looking at my maths. What is the hardest maths strategy you have had to learn?

Hansel and Gretel plot point 1

Kia Ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in writing our goal was: Use a range of written features to engage the audience support ideas with detail(use an adverb to show how). Our create task was to write a few sentences about the witch from the story Hansel and Gretel.

Here is mine:

Thank you for looking at my work. Have you ever read Hansel and Gretel?

Area and perimeter

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in maths we were: With your maths mate, work together to solve the following maths problems. Be prepared to share your problem solving with your workshop group in your share session on Wednesday or Thursday. Here is what I have done with my buddy:

Thank you for looking at my blog. What strategy would you use?

The Fantastic's

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. This week in reading we were learning: This week in reading we will be using the Fantastics to analyse a text and discuss the importance of transferring our knowledge of the fantastics across reading and writing and read like writers. Here is what I did for my create task:

Thank you for looking at my work. What is your favourite book to read? 

Hansel and Gretel

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in writing our goal was: This week in writing we will be using the Fantastic's in our writing and will be reading Hansel & Gretel. There are four plot points in the text, these plot points are based on corresponding illustrations in the book. For each plot point you will have 3 different writing challenges. Our create task was to write nine descriptive sentences using the fantastic's. Here are my nine sentences.

Thank you for looking at  my work. Have you ever read Hansel and Gretel?

Shapes

Kia ora everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in maths I had to do different tasks relating to shapes. My  maths goals this week were: Level 3 - Identify and describe 2D and 3D shapes using mathematical language. Level 4 - Identify and sort 2D and 3D shapes into classes. Define the properties of the shapes and justify the decisions made. Level 3 - Represent objects with drawings and models. This week I had different create tasks. Here they are:

                    

Thank you for looking at my work. Have you learnt about shapes? 

Reading between the lines

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in reading my goal was: Independently predict, interpret and analyse text, 'reading between the lines' to gain deeper meaning. My create task was to read a story and make inferences to the text I have read. Here is mine:

Thank you for looking at my work. What is the longest book you have ever read?

The spies that bind

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in reading my goal was: 

 Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. Identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text. My create task was to make a dlo of the main ideas in the story, why it's important, what it makes the reader think about, and the author's purpose. Here is my dlo:

Here is the link to my whole slide: Slide

Thank you for looking at my work. What is the most interesting book you have read?

Narrative

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week my goal was: use language features specific to the purpose of the text. My create task was to write or perfect a short story by adding in different language features. Here is mine:

Thank you for looking at my work. What is your favourite kind of writing?

Rounding and compensating

Hi, welcome back to my blog. This week in maths my goal was, 

Use a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication and division problems with whole numbers & decimals- Rounding and Compensation. My create task was to make a DLO of my understanding of multiplication and division, (whole numbers,decimals) with Rounding and compensating. Here is my DLO:

       

Thank you for looking at my work. Have you ever used this strategy? 

Reading

Hi, and welcome back to my blog. This week in reading my goal was: Visualise using all of the senses, and talk about how this enriches meaning. My create task was to use a sentence or two from a story and then identify the senses used. I also had to draw a picture of what came to my head when I read the story. Here it is: 

What is the most interesting story you have read?

Place value

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week in maths my goal was, Place value - Use a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication and division problems with whole numbers and decimals. 

My create task was to make a DLO of my understanding with this strategy. I made 2 DLO's, one for multiplication and one for division. Here they are: 

Thank you for looking at my work, Do you find multiplication easier or division?

Tim the turtle

Hi, and welcome to my blog. This week in writing my goal was:  Confidently shape ideas for effect and use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest. My create task was to use my narrative writing from last week, and then make it better by adding in different language features, complex sentences, a good structure, and better vocab. Here is my intro to my story that I made better:

Thank you for looking at my work, What is the best piece of writing you have written?

Perimeter and area

This week in maths we got to choose the difficulty of our task. I wanted a challenge so I decided to do a hard one. My create task was to create a DLO showing my learning on perimeter, area, and volume. here is my work! This is the link to see it: 

Maths

 

Thank you for looking at my work! What is your favourite maths strategy?

Discovering something that doesn't exist

This week in writing we were writing a narrative. We were learning how to plan a good narrative.  I chose to write my story about a turtle. My turtle went on a journey. We had to watch some videos to get an understanding on how to write a good narrative. here is a little bit of my writing!

Thank you for looking at my writing. What is your favourite type of writing?

Reading challenge

Hi, this week in reading we had a "Kaupeka Reading challenge." We had to read 3 books and do 3 different tasks for each book we read. The 3 tasks that I chose to do were, A book review, An acrostic poem, and also i made some test questions. Here are my three tasks and the three books I read! 

         

Thank you for looking at my work. Have you ever done a task like this before?