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Friday, November 27, 2020

Letter Writing

November 26, 2020


Dear Mrs Davan, 


Thank you for supporting Te Kauru at the tuia Matauranga roadshow. My favourite part was finding all the information to write on the sheet of paper. I had an amazing time thanks to you.

Thanks again,

Ruby 


Letter Writing

                                                                                November 26, 2020


Dear Mrs Windleborn,   


Thank you for helping supervise Te Kauru at the

Tuia Matauranga roadshow. My favourite part was

finding all the information to write on the sheet of paper.

I had an amazing time thanks to you.

Thanks again,

Ruby

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

CHARACTER WEB

WALT: We are learning to scan a text to find key information

Character web.

Title:TOHES JOURNEY

Author:Florence Keene

Character:Tohe

Time in story: Beginning to the end.













Tuesday, September 8, 2020

The Emperor - Sentence Challenge

  

The Emperor

Sentence Challenge







Which two of these sentences are statements? Which are questions? Which are commands?


The penguin has black fur.

Look at his beak!

Where do penguins live?

The emperor penguin lives in Antarctica.

What do penguins eat?







Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Listening to the land

 Shared Reading Activity

                Listening to the land pg: 25 - 18/8/20


Code Breaker - 

  • Choose a passage from the article - Name of passage.

  • Choose interest 5 words from the passage. You will use these words for each of the 2 tasks from the Code Breaker activities list. [You can find this in your Reading folder in your Drive - Yellow border].

  • Choose 2 tasks from the Code Breaker activities list.

  • Answer each task using your 5 interest words from the passage.


What words have unusual spelling?

  • Mosquitoes

  • Technology

  • Communities


What words are tricky to pronounce?

  • Indigenous

  • Similarities

Friday, August 14, 2020

WALT - We are learning to write cue cards for our speeches

 2020 Speech Cue Cards

1. Starter -                                                               (1 min)

  • My name is…

  • Opinion - I believe that amazing books help me learn better

  • Facts, reasons and questions


2. Attention grabber - Question                               (1min)

  • Books or Movies?

  • Listen to my speech

  • Change your mind


2. Introduction - State your opinion                          (1 min)

  • Uninteresting books

  • Books help me learn 

  • Expand vocab, help others

  • Leave out details, didn't know


3. Body - Reason - Explain/Evidence                        (2 min)

  • The Harry Potter order of the phoenix book

  • Character voices use imagination character looks

  • Read any book anywhere

  • In a bed, on a toilet, top Mt. Everest


4. Conclusion - Final point - summarise opinion       (1 min)

  • Opinion - I believe that amazing books help me learn better

  • Love books so much

  • Improve vocab and read better


5. Ending

  • I just wanted to…

  • Hope you enjoyed as I did

  • Hope I convinced you


Friday, July 31, 2020

How Earthquakes Happen



Reflection: The hard part was inserting the pictures.
Question: Do you know how Earthquakes happen.

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Holiday writing snippet.

Holiday writing - Show not tell.


Writing  Learning outcome.
To rewrite a piece of my recount [Holiday writing] with show sentences and
not tell sentences.


Draft
After we went to the river we went to Shipwreck bay it was so fun I saw a
snapper
in the waves, I went into the ocean it was so cold I felt like a frozen ice block
that
was in the freezer for 80 years, the waves were smashing and crashing and
raging like a wild bull.


Show writing - piece.
I went into the ocean it was so cold as ice I felt like a frozen ice block that
was in the freezer for 80 years, the waves were smashing and crashing
and raging like a wild bull. 

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

WALT: We are learning to describe people and other things 
Eg: The Mad Hatter


The Mad Hatter - Story Starter
 
Can you write a character description of the Mad Hatter?
5 senses:
1. Smell’s like ✔️                            2. Feel’s like ✔️
3. Look’s like ✔️                             4. Taste like ✔️
5. Sound’s like ✔️


He was a most peculiar looking chap and he smells like he hasn’t had a shower or bath in weeks. 
I bet he chews his fingernails, I wonder what they taste like I’m guessing dead skin, dirt, rotten food… and plenty more. 
He looks like he came out of a dump. He wears way too much makeup. 
He sounds like an old man with speaking problems. 
His face feels dry from all the makeup he wears.
Reflection: 

The hard part was to think about what information
I was going to use.

WALT: A School Kit task - re writing a poem of a personal experience.
This is Just to Say This is Just to Say


by William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams &


I have eaten I have put mouse 
the plums traps in my
that were in brother’s bed
the icebox The ones that were
                                                                                        in the kitchen
                                             
and which and which

you were you were
probably Probably using to
saving catch mice
for breakfast

Forgive me Forgive me
they were It was funny
delicious So hilarious
so sweet and so evil
and so cold