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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High Modality Learning/ SPaG workshop

                        High Modality Learning/ SPaG workshop

                                    What are high modality words?

High modality words are strong words that usually stait your opinion strongly. High modality words are normally found in speeches or other ways, when people try to convince and persuade you to agree with there opinion. High modality words are strong words that are used to convince people in positive and negative ways. They are also words that make you seem certain on your opinion. 

  Here are some examples of high modality words, that I have made.  

                                                                                                                                                          

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First Day Back To School

                                               First Day Back To School

First day back to school. I woke up nice and early in the morning. It was raining cats and dogs. I got ready for school and pack my bag. My family and I swung our bags onto our back and stornched into the car, ready for a big day of learning. I felt nervous and excited to start the first day of term 4. Soon we arrived at school. 

The clouds were crying as I walked through the school gates. My bag weighed a ton when in shrugged on my back shoulders.  As everybody ran into school, it sounded  like a pack of elephants charging  at you. 

Dinning the loud school bell rang loudly. That was the sign that told us it was 9.00 ( class time ). All of MLH ( my class came ) came storming through the open doors of the classroom. I ran to the hall, trying to cover my face from the rain. I had to go to the hall to get ready for the welcoming of the new students joining our kura.  When we welcome people to our kura we sing waiatas and the teachers speak. 

I was very excited. Loud singing danced around the room springing and echoing back and ford. Soon it was time to leave the hall. The muddy grass splatted out the sides of your foot when footprints stomped down. Me and my friends ran through the spitting rain. 

Workshops started and we were soon back to usual routine. I started my weekly priorities confidently. The school day had started. 

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Action Day

                                                                     Action Day

I woke up at dawn, looking ford to an action day at school. MLH ( my class ) were going to go on a big walk up farmland and Otukakara hill, to try and find the start of Hamanatua Awa. Hamanatua is the Awa is in Wainui Beach School Pepeha. 

Once our class room was lined up  on the deck we started our journey. It was a gloomy and cloudy day, perfect for a day of walking. Once we had got to the end of Hamanatua Awa,  we followed the underground path to the hill. 

It took a while to arrive at the hill/ farm land. There was a little river we had to cross. I liked watching everyone cross the river. There were some funny moments when people crossed unsuccessfully.  I leaped over. It was a bit nerve racking. Eventually the whole of MLH got across the bridge. Wet or dry we all got across. 

We soon made it to a nice shady tree, that's where we sat and ate morning tea. Then we were of walking past all of the Cows, Ducks, and Sheep all with their babies. We all had to be quiet when we walked past all of the baby animals just so we don't scar them. 

It came to the time that we had to turn around and go back. But we still got to see when Hamanatua  Awa was very small. I liked walking with my friends. I liked the freezing breeze that flowingly blew by hair back and ford.

Once we got back to school we got changed because we were all very muddy. After that we were aloud to play. I decided to play under knee tag. 

Here is some photos about our walk. 

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Reading Workshop

                                                        Reading Workshop

Every week I participate in my reading workshop. This week, in our workshop we had to film a flipgrid of our self reading the retell that we all wrote last week. I was a bit nervous that I would forget my sentence I was meant to read. But I got ready to do my first attempt. 

Our goal was to look at the camera while reading, just so it looked like we were reading it off by heart. It makes it look better. It also makes people interested at listening to the video because you are giving them eye contact. 

I decided to take my first attempt. To make it look like I was reading the retell of by heart, I would get a sentence in my head then say it.  After I said one sentence I would pause the flipgrid, so then I could have time to memorise the next sentence. It took a little while but I got through it. I took a couple of attempts to get the video that I was happy with.  

I liked doing my attempts. Once I had finished my final attempt and I was happy with it. I posted my video / flipgrid. Then I linked it to the task sheet, so there is evidence that I  did a flipgrid and so the teachers have easy access to the video when editing and checking people's work. 

That was one of the activities that we did this week for our writing workshop. Then we had to rap up a little bit of information about the retell. I liked my reading workshop this week.  I learnt heaps and found out lots of new information I the reading workshop this week. 

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WorkShop Retell

WorkShop Retell 

Early Morning, Jacob was helping his mother stack firewood. Au Sum came along selling Bok Choy, alone, in the small chinese village." I don't know how you can eat that 'muck'", said Mrs Bishop. When Au Sum travelled by selling his Bok Choy. Mrs Bishop was a lady who live next door to Jacob and his family, they lived in the middle of the little chinese village. Mrs Bishop didn't know how to control her words. She thought it was bad to be different to others. 

Au Sum could here Jacob still sneering and had a sudden urge to go fishing and to leave the firewood. He wanted to get away from Mrs Bishop. 

It only took one moment for the river to steal him. While Jacob sunk down the river Au Sum had got hold of Jacob's arm hardly. Au Sum tried hard to save his life. Soon enough Au sum had been able to pull Jacob onto the soft grass, on his back. Au Sum took Jacob to the hut. The next thing Jacob knew, that he was in a darkened hut, next to the hot steaming fire. 

Jacob's mum soon entered the door of the hut. Au Sum greeted her, and told her all about what had happened. " Are you okay Jacob"? Said The Mother. " I'm okay Mother", siad Jacob in a soft voice. Jacob took his Mothers hand and the pair walked out of the dark hut. As they walked along the gravel path, the two of the came across Mrs Bishop. Mrs Bishop said" a lot of bad things about Au Sum, but Jacob and his mother just said good things. Mrs Bishop could never understand how people are different. 

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P.E At School

                                      P.E At School

At the moment, my class been participating in P.E every single day. If you didn't know P.E is a short  version for saying physical education. P.E is very good for your mental health. P.E is one of those things that there is NO restrictions on when you have to stop, e.g: you can do as much P.E as you ever could imagine, as long as your body doesn't explode with pain. 

 P.E can be all sorts of things, e.g: Sport, Running, Games, just anything that is out doors and that is physical for your body. I love being in the outdoor fresh air, especially with my friends & Family. 

Normally after you participate in anything physical things, you need to stretch your mussels afterwards. Just so they don't get to painful for the next day / week. If your mussels get tight, that means you need to give them a good stretch. That will make you be able to do P.E the next day without any of your body hurting. 

I reckon you should start / do P.E everyday or week. Or whenever you have any free time. Being out in the fresh air makes you feel fresh and good ready for your day ahead. 

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P.E In Lockdown 2.0

                                          P.E In Lockdown 2.0

At the moment most of New Zealand is in level three lockdown. That means you can go out of your house for P.E and others reasons. At the moment my family and I have been getting up to a lot of P.E and sport. 

Yesterday we travelled to wheat stone road. As I was biking up the big hills it felt like our legs were burning. I love to be in the fresh air. Finally we got to the top of one of the big hills. I stared down at the bottom of the hill. I could see a lot. 

When we made it to the top, There was such a good view of the whole of gisborne. 

Soon enough it was time to go down all of the hills. That is my favourite part. I zoomed behind my brother still staying on track. My brakes squeaked as I pulled them tight when I flew down the hills. I went down one last hill then I was at the bottom. I was very proud. 

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Online Workshops/Teacher Groups

Online workshops - Teacher Groups

As you know that at the moment the whole of New Zealand is in alert level 4 lockdown. That means no- one can go to school or work, only if you are an essential worker like police, nerce, doctor, firefighter & Ambulance person... and more. Most people still do school but just online with their teachers. I like lockdown so far because we get heaps of time to do our work that needs to be done.

I prefer to do my work at school with my friends but thats okay that we are at home because it's just like a bigger holiday with school work. At Least we can be in our bubble with my lovely family.

Everyday I go onto my class sight and go to the workshop on my level. It is very different online compared to every day school life, but thats okay. I still enjoy the workshops / teacher groups.

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Lockdown learning

 Lockdown learning 

As you know at the moment the whole country New Zealand is in level four lockdown. That means that we can't go to school, so we do everything online just like a normal day, but your just at home instead of school.  Every day I have to do Two google meets for all of my writing, math, reading & Strand groups. I find lockdown very interesting. 

It's very different in google meets -to- normal life. We all need to stay in our own bubble to stay safe and to make sure that the virus doesn't spread and make more and more people unwell. New Zealand's Prime Minister = Jacinda Ardern has made lots of good questions to help keep New Zealand safe!

Some of my google meets have heaps of people in them and some have hardly any! I've liked lockdown because I get a nice break!

Thick & Thin Questions

                                             Thick & Thin Questions

What are thick and thin questions?:  Thick and thin question are different types of questions.  Thick questions makes people think more and different ideas that match to the topic.  Also a thick question means that there may be different thoughts and answers to that question.  Usually when somebody says that's a thick or thin question they normally a wanting an answer. 

Most people use thick and thin sentences every day in daily life.  I love when somebody asks me a thick and interesting question.  Thick and thin questions are a bit different in different ways to  explain and use. 

Try using thick and thin questions in everyday life. There are different ways to use a thick or thin questions. Not all thick questions stat with; is it possible. 

This is a thick question:  Is it possible to come invisible? Using that one question , heaps of people will have different opinions/thoughts. What do you think about: Is it possible to come invisible? My opinion is that you can camouflage and hide in or under something, you could hide in the sea, behind a dark cloak, where white clothes in the snow.   There is heaps of different ways to hide, but you never actually come/ go invisible. 

                                             Have you ever answered a thick question?

Story-Starters

Story-Starters 

 Every week  Moana Learning Hub get to do story starters. They  are very interesting. A story starter is a sentence we need to use at the start of our quick write. I have found the sentence starters very interesting & fun.

 There are success criterias that we have to follow to make sure our stories are high quality, have lots of detail, have interesting & describing words, also to make sure that we include similes, nouns, adjectives, idioms, verbs, adverbs. 

I find the sentence starters very helpful to get my stories started.  Every week Moana Learning Hub need to have finished two story starters. Everytime I start a story starter I use a different sentence to start each piece of descriptive writing.  

Normally we write for twenty-five mininuts then edit for five - ten mininuts to make sure that we have got enough words and sentences in our story starters. Once we have finished both story starters we need to edit and check to make sure that we have followed the Success criteria correctly.  

Here are some slides that show what we use to start our stories and which sentence starters are used every week. 

Olympic Learning

                                   Olympic Learning

                                                  What have we been learning

At  the moment MLH has been learning about the olympics. I have found the challenge quite hard but i've been learning so much new information. The Olympic booklet is a booklet that has heaps of little activities for us to complete. I have loved learning about the Olympics, because I get to find out so much information that I don't know yet.  

                                                      whats in the booklet

In one part of the booklet there are 2 mascots from tokyo ( to show us what a mascot really looks like ), so then we need to design an  Aotearoa mascot, I needed to do heaps of drafts.  It took a long time to do one page of the booklet, because on one page there is so many different activities that we all need to complete.  There also are lots of questions that are very interesting, all about the athletes, sports, results, countries,  age,  opening ceremony, & techniek. 

                                                  Info about the olympics

Did you know that the 2020 olympics were in Tokyo? In the Tokyo 2020 olympics there were 33 different sports but different competitions with'n just one sport. There were 11,090 athletes that competed in the Tokyo 2020 olympics. The olympics go on every four years. 

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Maths Whizz

                                                             Maths Whizz

                                                      What's Math Whizz?

Every week my whole class does maths whizz for 40-60 mininuts through out the whole week. Maths Whizz is a maths web - sight that helps your improve in your maths in all earahs. I find Maths Whizz AWESOME for my learning and helps me improve! Every week, every single person in my class would have had to got at least four credits/gems by the end of the week. In Maths Whizz there are lots of different levels like... Rookie, Apprentice, Pro, Master & Supper - Star.  As you improve you will start to move up levels. I find that Maths Whizz helps me improve in all areas of math! 

                                                   What Maths Whizz Looks Like? 

                As you finish levels you will move down the line then slowly collect gems/credits. 

I really think that you should try have a go on Maths Whizz,  It helps you improve in all areas in your math curriculum.  

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