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:

                    

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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:

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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

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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:

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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: 

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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:

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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

 

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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!

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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! 

         

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