For reading I have been learning about kuaka's.
They are type of birds that are called Bar-tailed godwit or the marthon bird. It's called the marthorn bird because it can fly for 33,600, km in 201 days. They go in cycle form, Alaska, New zealand, Australia, Japan, Russia back to New zealand.
LI: To find the important information in a current even.
For reading our activity was current event. The current event we were learning about was Olympics. The Olympics I learnt about was the womens soccer Olympics. New Zealand was play agenst austrilia. New Zealand lost to austrilia 2-1. New Zealand. That means New Zealand is 3rd in their group with the USA losing against Sweden.
LI : to consider both perspectives.
To continue our learning of Matariki, and the Maori story of Creation our task was to create a DLO to explain the evidence and perspective of a maori story. We read about Sacred Spots from Māori Mythology. We used the different evidence from the articles to create an opinion on whether we think it is true or false.
The story we chose to do was about the Tongariro National Park. This story talked about the mountains that surrounded Taupo lake, they were all male except for one. Her name was Pihanga. They fought for the love of Pihanga, only one came out victorious. That mountain was Tongariro.
LI: to identify the main ideas in the text.
To continue our learning of Matariki, and the Maori story of Creation our task was to create a DLO explaining the main ideas of the story of how maui slowed the sun. We watched a video explaining the story of how maui slowed the sun and why.
Maui and the villagers weren’t able to finish off their tasks during the day because the sun went by too fast. They got sick of it so maui and his brother made a plan to slow the sun. They used flax ropes and he magical jawbone Maui was given by his grandmother.
LI: to explain in fewer words what the text is about.
For our Inquiry we were learning about Matariki, and the origin story. Our task was to watch a video on the Maori Creation story and we had to summarise the video. The video was an artist representing and creating the story through sand art.
Our 20 important words had to be the top important words from the video, words that represented the story. Then from the 20 we had to pick the 6 most important words Then using those 6 words we had to sum up the story in a few sentences.
This week for Reading we learnt about author's purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to Persuade, Inform, Explain or Entertain (PIE).
First we looked at Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the Current Events DLO and answered these questions:
What is the article about?
When the article was created? Where was the article was made? Why the author wrote the article?
How it was made?
Why do you think the author wanted you to learn from the article?
LI: To find the important information in a current event.
This week for Reading we learnt about author's purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to Persuade, Inform, Explain or Entertain (PIE).
First we looked at Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the Current Events DLO and answered these questions:
What is the article about?
When the article was created? Where was the article was made? Why the author wrote the article?
How it was made?
Why do you think the author wanted you to learn from the article?
LI: To celabrate reading.
This week panmure bridge school celabrate book week. Books are cool to read. Friday is when we got dress up and be a book character. Some people chose to be a super hero and some people chose to be princesses and some people chose to be wizards. Then spider man came. he talked about why reading cool. He told us reading is a super power. Spider man looked, and saw harry potter. Then harry potter use one of is tricks to make spider man dance fast. so he did. I thought book week was cool and funny.
LI:To show my personal journey through books
To learn about Isaac Newton.
This week in Reading, LS2 has been working towards Simple Machines. Apart of this, we were required to learn about Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton is a physicist, mathematician, theologian and a Astronomer. We were also required to create a DLO with the following questions: Why is his work important? What did he find out? How does his work connect to simple machines.
I found this activity hard because I had to seach and seach for many answers.
This week we had a duffy assembly. Some one came to our school to explian something.
The persoin name was marc. Marc explian about a story. The story was about a kid that can't read. Fred could read right to left. He was moved to a other school and he was bad thier to. When he was growing up he borrow some cars and he didn't give it back. So he was sent to prison. There was a teacher at prison. The teacher taught the Fred to read left to right. Once the Fred came out of prison he start boxing. Fred was the light wieght champion for 5 years. The he got kids. Then he moved to samoa. The wife ran into her cosin. Her cosin was about to get a ten baby. They said we should adopt the. They went back to samoa and take the baby. The boy fred is marc. He told us that you can do it not can't.
Our activity for reading was summarising a text. The text is called For the Ancestors. It's about a girl named Matalena who wanted to carry on her fathers legacy by proving that she a good leader. To show that she was a leader she needed to get a tattoo. In Samoa the word for Tattoo is Tatau. Matalena wanted to get a Tatau called the Malu.
This week I learnt thing about panda. Panda are animal that can eat every day. The biggest panda live in Sichuan province. That place is in china. The panda is diet are, Bamboo. Bamboo has higher fibre no protein. Pandas also eggs and leaves and stems.The most interesting fact I learnt was pandas eat every day.
Today we I summarised a book called The Treaty of Waitangi This story is about Maori asking British for help because other country were going to take of the Maori land. For my task I had to find 20 important words that inside of the book. We had to take 6 from the 20 important words. Then I use the 6 words to make a sentences.
LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about
This week we did same task called QAR. QAR stands for, question, answer, and relationship.
This week I finished three task to help me understand reading just like new. This book is a book about a girl that lives in tonga and talks about the what the wormen ware. For example Kie kie and Ta'ovala
The first task I complete was called Table mat. Table mat helps us find information about the book faster. I wrote down my priro knowledge. Then I wrote down my topic. Then I found six keywords. Laslty I wrote my 4 facts down.
Our next task was making connection. There is three things that makes connection they are, text to world, text to self and text to text.
Text to world is a text in the book that relates to the world. Text tgo self is a text in the book that relates to yourself. Text to text is a text in the book that relates to another text from a different book.
Our last task was called synthesis. I wrote my priro knowladge. Then I wrote down some facts. Lastly I wrote down was my new understanding.
I learnt new things about the book but I it was hard doing all the tasks in one week.
This week for reading we did a task called Synthesis.
Synthesis is a task that has prior knowledge, New information, and New undersatding. Then I read a book called white water action. Synthesis is bring ideas and connecting them.
First we had to fill in our prior knowledge. Prior knowledge is what you know about the book already. Then we had to fill some new information. For example Tasmina is named after able tasmina. He is a dutch explor.
Next we wrote a our new understanding about the book. My new undersatnding is that white water action is named for a person that is a champoin at kayaking.
I enjoyed doing this activity because I learnt knew things kayaking.
This week I had to find conection. for text to text, text to self and text to world.
Text to self is something in the text that relates to youself. Text to text is a book and a aonther book for example Mannaki hodges is a kayaker I relate it to chris pither who a racer.
Text to world is like text in the book that relates to the to world. For example I am slow and there are some people around that are slow like me but I great at other things.
