Maori Language Week

Morena! 

It was Maori Language Week last week! We had a task (room 6) for the Maori Language week. We had to make a DLO and teach others something about Maori. I chose to teach the alphabet, but its not really teaching it's kind of like showing you guys what letters are in the Maori Alphabet. 

I wrote the alphabet in Maori and then in english so that people would understand. At the end of the book I put a link in that leads to someone elses DLO so that you could see what they are doing. I used Book Creator to make this. This was really fun to do and it was not that hard.

Matariki

Kia Ora!
In class we have been learning about matariki. We had 4 reading sites that we had to read and learn about matariki. Our task was to make a DLO and teach others about matariki and to compare the 4 sites to our DLO. We did this independently.

I made a powtoon and put in some information about matariki. The powtoon I made doesnt have any sound to it, but its ok! ;) Heres the link: Powtoon

Mahinga Kai

Kia Ora!

This week for our reading tasks in class, we have been learning about Mahinga Kai and Poha. Each of the 4 reading groups have different books to read and different topics. 2 groups read about Mahinga Kai, and the 2 other groups read about Poha. I read about Mahinga Kai.

Mahinga Kai is food that you can find around you, Lake, Forest, and anywhere with animals but Mahinga Kai is mostly from the sea. Mahinga Kai is food like some fish in the ocean. If the water keeps getting polluted there will be no more Mahinga Kai so we have to make sure that we do our part and keep the environment in a good state. 

Here is a slideshow that I made:

My Mascot

In class we have been reading some books about anzac stories. We had a task and it was to read into the articles that were on our class site and once we have read them or watched videos about them, we had to make a DLO informing people about anzac mascots. I made a slideshow because it was kind of easier to put all the information I learnt on there. After we finished that we had to make our own mascot. My mascot is mixed with a bird and a pig. I traced some pictures, so that I didn't have to put links in if I didn't use my own picture. 

Here is my Slideshow:

Here is my Mascot:

Reading Activity- Charater Web- Roland Fish

Last week, my reading group (Mars) read a fiction story. It was named Roland Fish and it was about this bully that no one liked. Roland was the guy that didn't like the bully and so he finally stood up for himself and did something about the bully. The bullies name was Tim and everyone was scared of him because he had a sharp tongue. Not physically but like he would expose anyone for no reason so everyone would try to hide. So the activity was to make a Character Web about the main character (Roland) so I put in all the information that I could find out about Roland and wrote it down to remind me. I wrote down some information on Tim too. 

Here is what I did:

Snakes & Ladders

For our Synthesis task this week, it was to make a snakes & ladders game about the story we have read. It is about how kids and aliens were fighting against each other in the story. My rules to this game can be different to any other snakes and ladders. I drew the whole snakes and ladders thing. I'll show you a picture but it might be blury. There are only 70 boxes.

The instructions for the game are on there too!

Gus Sinaumea Illustrator Synthesis

For our synthesis task we had to draw what we see and draw something that we have wrote about. I drew a christmas tree and a person. I wrote a story about like it was when a girl could't figure out what to get for her parents so she made christmas a wonderful time by doing something special. I drew some presents under the tree too. It was hard drawing the person and fun colouing in.

Here is my picture:

The Stag

For reading this week we have a story called The Stag. We had a task that was to make a trap for the stag without having to kill it by shooting it. My idea was to make a big hole big enough for the stag and when it falls into the hole it will make a  noise to attract help then you will know that my plan has worked.

Here is a Demonstration:

Big Daddy Task

WALT unpack sentences faster.
Every week I will be posting something from our Reading tasks. This week we have to post about the task we did. We had to choose one of the Synthesis questions. I chose 7. For that task I had to write a paragraph about what I think Big Daddy's point of view. The book that we were reading this week was The Big Jump. I wrote a paragraph of Big Daddy's point of view.

Here is my paragraph:

It was so high. I could see the classes. But what I was really worried about was hitting the pole at the end. I knew that if I cried when I got down I wouldn't be called Big Daddy. People will call me Cry baby. Sandra tries to help but I just grunt. 

The boy behind me is the only one that will know how I was scared. Sandra and the boy start strapping me again, but I didn't really care. 

I went down with this guy and he got hurt bad. I told the others I had to help him come down because they asked why we took forever. I helped him up which was a thank you. He knew that was the only thank you he'll ever get.

Willow Weavers

Walt unpack sentences faster.
In class for our reading task as you know we have been posting information webs. This time I got a teacher to go through my work before I posted it to see if I wrote enough information. I also got two other students to see if there was enough information. One of them said its good. The other said that I just need to make sure I don't repeat.

Here is my mindmup:

Let me know if there is anything I need to work on!

Zookeeper for a Day

In class for term four the class started back as normal. For our reading tasks I fogot what an information web was but then I looked back to my work from last term and then I found it a little bit easier to understand. At first I thought we had to make a story map but we had to make a Information Web. A information web is information about the story. Our story was a non-fiction story. It was called zookeeper for a day.

Here is my Mindmup:

Maori Language Week

In class we had a task. It was to complete 3-4 tasks of some of this te reo maori work. I haven't finished my slideshow yet but I will be adding to it and I will be completing my tasks. We don't have to finish all of the task but we do have to finish 4 tasks and we can complete more of those tasks if we have time.

Here is my Work:

My Infographic

In class lately we have been making infographics about our reading passages. This is a group task that all groups have to do. The passage that my group got this week was How do waterspouts form? We get different passages a week. We looked at an example of a inforgraphic and it gave me a good idea. I don't have that much pictures and I only wrote two of the stages to forming a waterspout because maybe you could guess what happens next.

I enjoyed making the pictures. I found it hard to think of what piece of information I should put in.

Here is my Infographic:

The Machine

In class for our reading task we are doing our group task independently. We do it on our own but comment on each others blogs once we have put it onto our blog. This week we had to do a story map. I did my story map on a mindmup. This is what we have been doing for this week in our reading sessions. I forgot to put the solution. It was that what Billy wanted to invent was already invented.
Here is my Mindmup:

What Causes Rainbows?

This post is about our shared slideshow task. Our passage was about What causes a Rainbow? I used canva for this. I commented on three peoples work but I forgot what it was. My feedback was to change the colour of the wrods and to explain a bit more of how a rainbow is formed.

This is the shared slideshow:

Shared Slideshow Week 6

We have been doing our shared slideshows lately a lot. There is some people that have not finished their slide but if they are late then they can't fix it anymore. My feedback I got was to make sure that what I write made sence because there was no full stops in one text box so that is what made them confused. I gave feedback on two people and I said if they could just put different information in seperate text boxes so that it makes sense.

Here is my DLO:

Shared Slideshow Week 5

In class for our reading task we have this shared slideshow. This shared slideshow is for our reading group. We had to make an infographic about what we had learnt. My passage was about volcanoes. We had commented on each others slide. My feedback was to check my spelling. I gave some feedback to some other people. I can't remember what I said but it will be there in the slideshow. We only had to comment twice but there was a person that had their post on last so I commented on their one too.

Here is my DLO:

Shared Slideshows

In class during our reading time we have this shared slideshow which is for what your group has to do. It is a story web but we do it after we finish our two other activities. We make our story webs on Mindmup. There is three other people in my group. We had to comment on each others work and comment what they could improve on. My feedback was to check my spelling, to explain the about the characters. You may see that some people have not posted to the slideshow. That is because they have not been working that fast.

Here are the Shared Slideshows: