Very cool Voki

Kia ora bloggers,

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Google Drawing and it was about a book called ‘Wild boy

Why do legs have spasms?overuse and muscle fatigue, dehydration, and electrolyte abnormalities.

What would he bring with him on his journey ?

tent , water, food , hunting gear, phone , charger , cloths.

How cold will it have to be to get mild hypothermia?

32%C to 35%C degrees in your body?

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Marvellous Maths

Kia Ora bloggers 

This week in maths we have been looking at angles . The three main angles we have been looking at are right,acute,obtuse,reflex and line . They are all representing different sizes of angles. We have been using khan academy to watch and learn what our tasks are. For our maths we also use khan academy to do our lessons . 

 

                                                 Have you ever tried out khan academy ?

Dramatic Irony

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This week we have learning about the 3 different types of irony . The three types of irony are dramatic,verbal and situational irony. Riley and me decide to do dramatic irony as our comic. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something one of the characters don't know . Riley and I situation was someone getting a surprise from there friends for her birthday but she thought that there friends forgot. In the end her friends ended up surprising her.

Do you think this was a good surprise for her birthday?

Three little pigs

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This week we have been looking at fairy tales but not normal ones messed up scrabbled tales. the story read today was the three little pigs but different. for our task we had to read the three little pigs and draw our castle and the story line around it. this is mine.

Is this how you would picture three little pig story ?

Lonely Joe

Kia ora bloggers,
This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell.  When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences.  We want to show them - not tell them.
For example:  Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realised he had just missed the bus.  But instead I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realised that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now”  You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated.
Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man.  We used Adobe Spark to do this.
Have a look at my video and see if you can you make some inferences about what I have written.
Do you think the elderly man is happy?

Kia ora Bloggers,

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something.  

An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and 

add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference.  

For example,  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that 

this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair 

nets and this is required in all food factories.

The text that we read a snippet out of was ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.

Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr and Mrs Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr and Mrs Twit.  

Have you read The Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!

Fun Friday

Hey Bloggers

This week will be the last week of at home school because we will be returning on Monday. During literacy at home learning we have been reading and researching about Roald Dahl and his books. During maths we have been doing a lot of different things but mainly focusing on shapes. so here is my work.

1 : Literacy = For literacy we have been looking at Roald Dahl and his life as fighter pilot life in World War 2 here is my render forest on Roald Dahl life. Im unable to put it on so here so if i figure out how to I will post it on my blog.

2 : Math = This week we have been looking at angle of shapes im also unable to show this because we have been learning all of this on khan academy.

3 : Friday Tasks = This fridays task was to do a report of what animals would look like if they we round I think it would be pretty funny but you can see for yourself here is my work.



Im so sorry I have been unable to put photos and video on my blog my computer is acting up so im glad to be going back to school so I can use my chrome book . Are you excited to be going back to school?