Genre Writing

Genre Writing

At the moment in MLH ( my class ) are starting a  Genre Writing challenge,  until the end of the year. Every week we try complete  two pieces of writing, identifying what genre it uses.  Here is my piece of writing for this week, I have completed. 

Genre Writing - persuade

A day at the beach I definitely think is NOT as good as a day in the mountains! Would you rather be at the beach or the mountains? Well I know that I would rather spend a day in the snowy mountains. If you go to the mountains you will be able to be in the fresh air, looking at the view while snowboarding.

Firstly I totally believe that people should spend a day at the mountains because you get to see the views and doesn’t most people like to see the views of the ecoed semicracly covered in frosty  snow. Being on a mountain in the fresh air would be healthy for your well being, when your in the outdoors.

Also if you spend a day in the mountains you will maybe be able to learn how to be able to snowboard and/or skee down the snowy mountains. Snowboarding and skiing are adventurous activities. Being on the mountains will teach you new things. 

Lastly I believe that if you visit the mountains you will be able to see snow.. If you lucky enough you might also see snowflakes and that would be cool. 

After all of those reasons I hope that you also believe that you should go to the mountains for a day rather that a day at the beach, because you get to see a good view of all of the snowy mountains, you get to see snow and manye snowflakes and last of all you might learn how to snowboard and/or skee. If you visit the mountains you will get to see new things, visit new places, and go on new experiences. 

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Kapa Haka Performance

 Kapa Haka Performance

Wind forcely swang my hair back and forth as I walked through the school gates. Today I felt ready to shine at the school kapa haka performance. Rushing to the hall, I carried my bodics to get changed into. After I was changed I ran with pride to my teacher to get my moko stamped onto my face. My teacher stamped an inky moko stamp on my chin. Pushing with might I pushed against the teacher, so the moko stamp showed a clear, inky moko on my chin. I had to leave it to dry before I could touch it, otherwise the moko would smudge and that wouldn't of been good. Feathers got placed in my hair through the hair tie. 

Following the leader I walked outside to the hall. Because of alert levels, at alert level 2, unfortunately parents could not come and watch our performance, lucky Matua canaan came in to our kura to video our performance. I tried to line up in the lines as straight as I possibly could. I felt proud of my self. 

Koka B said" cameras on" and the kaia yelled the first command. Everyone's actions were symmetrical.  Voices bounced of and on the walls making our performance loudly strong. Our first song we sang was utaina. When I came to the second round of utaina the boys did the utaina haka and the girls sang utaina. The girls and boys competed  to try and make their haka louder than the girls singing. To be honest I think that the girls and boys were just as loud as each other.   

We than sang  Ka waiata followed by the poi, kapana, haka, toiea. Then the performance was over. I was happy that our rupu had done an awesome job. My favourite song was toiea, when the voices echoed of the hall walls.  We all did our part to make this an awesome kapa haka performance. 

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Green Team Performance

 Green Team Performance

Suddenly ... out of know where, a dressed up (person as a crayfish) crayfish walked bounced onto the stage. She was called Nanny Kora ( nanny crayfish ). MLH was at Ilminster intermediate watching a play. Nanny Koda started  by telling a story to her moko ( little kora/ crayfish ) about humans dropping rubbish and that the rubbish that some people have dropped in a skate bowl will float out to our oceans. It made me think out of the box and made me think deep about how much rubbish we would get in our oceans if everyone drops their rubbish. 

My mind thought hard and deeper as the play got more and more interesting. Through out the play the people who dumped their rubbish in the skate bowl were starting to learning a lesson, that everyone should not dump their litter otherwise our oceans will be filled with  rubbish.  Have you ever herd the saying : there is more rubbish in our oceans than stars in our galaxy? That saying relates to the dumping rubbish! Back to the performance, after a little while aliens turned up and they were turning the skate bowl into a rubbish dump, by throwing all of their things that have already been used into the skate bowl. The skaters were not happy about that  and they tried to tell the aliens to pick up the rubbish they had dumped I the skate bowl.  I didn't  think that they should be telling the aliens to pick up their ( the aliens ) rubbish when the skaters have dumped their ( the skaters ) lillie rappers into the skate bowl. 

The aliens did not listen, so the skaters took them to Nanny Kora. Immediately they listened and obeyed Nanny koda, so they picked up their rubbish. The aliens didn't think that it was a fair situation, so the skaters went  and  picked up their lollies rubbish they had dumped earlier on, to make it fair.  After everyone had picked up their rubbish the ocean was clean again and the sea creatures were finally living in a clean place. 

I think that after watching that Geen Team Performance, that we should all do our part to keep our oceans clean, for us and the sea creatures! Let's all try use the three r's, reuse, reduce, and recycle, all of the time! I felt that we should all make a positive change to our environment. 

Here are some photos from the green team play. 

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Workshop EL3 Reading

Workshop EL3 Reading

Today I participated in my el3 reading workshop. 

Our teacher handed  us a piece of paper of a grid. Also our teacher gave us some school journals. As a group we had to communicate and try find out what type of writing text that the author has used in the piece of writing. I highlighted the answer I thought. There were five options; Narrative, Report, Poem, Play and Procedure. 

Also we had to highlight what we thought was the author's purpose to write this piece of writing. The options were; To inform, persuade and entertain. Some pieces of writing was very hard to figure out. On the right of the author's purpose, we had to fill in why this makes the piece of writing a... ( Poem, Narrative, Report, Play, or Procedure). 

Here is a photo of the grid I filled in. 

Have you written a story before? What was your purpose? Were you trying to Inform, Entertain, or Persuade people? 

That was what we were learning today in our el3 reading workshop, How to find out what type of text the author has used and what was the authors purpose and what the author needs to have used to make it that type of writing. 

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Finding Out What Is the Type Of Writing Feature The Author Has Used.

                   Finding Out What Is the Type Of Writing Feature  The Author Has Used. 

Today in my reading workshop we had a challenge to complete. My teacher handed a book in my hand, I was told to find out what writing feature the author has used in the piece of writing. I was in a group of three. We all held the same book trying to find out what writing feature the author had used. 

Soon enough we found out what the writing feature was, it was: poetry, that the author has used.  The author's name is called Alan Bagnall. There was a maroon coloured title, that read: Practising For My Film Audition. 

I Know that this is a type of poetry because is has: langue features, creativity, Rhyming words, it has short lines of writing. This piece of poetry has one full stop in the text. 

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With this type of text there were, rhyming words, a title, alliteration, creative. 

Division Maths

                                                                         Division Maths 

What is division math. Division maths is a type of maths when you divide a number in to parts. There are different ways you can find out a division question. In some division questions you have to have remainder because they number is not perfectly even. Here is an example of a division question that needs remainers in the awnser. 

Try answer the question. 

Here is my answer to the question ( 4 divided by 99). 

Did you get the same answer? 

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Maths WorkShop

                                                        Maths WorkShop

Today in my maths workshop we were learning to find patterns in a maths question. I was told to write a a grid that showed six squares. I rote numbers one to five in the top boxes.  Underneath the high boxes we had to find out the answer of the first pattern. We were using ice bloc sticks but the question on the big screen made the question using matchsticks. The question was: If you had  a triangle and connected 11 more tryangles to the single triangle how many matchsticks would you have to use. Instead of connecting 12 triangles together and finding the answer that way, we were told to find patterns through the numbers of the grid shown in out maths book.  

At first I found the questions a bit hard to understand, but after a few questions I had got the rhythm of the patten mastered. Our teacher kept changing the shape to make our minds figger the question and multiply the shape of the number.  I had to keep trying and never give up. When I tried to find patterns, I would use my multiplicative thinking to find the easy ways of answering the question. 

                                Here is my work I did in my maths book today in the workshop. 

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