Motivation

 This week for Writing in pairs we wrote a poem. Before starting the poem we choose a word to use for our poem. Our word was motivation, and we used the 5 senses. The 5 senses are, smell, feel, taste, hear and touch.This week for Writing in pairs we wrote a poem. Before starting the poem we choose a word to use for our poem. Our word was motivation, and we used the 5 senses. The 5 senses are, smell, feel, taste, hear and touch. In our poem we used complex sentences, metaphor, simile and abstract nouns. To help us write our poem we also used wordhippo to help find other interesting words. We used DRAFT to edit our poem. DRAFT stands for: Delete Rearrange Add Fix Talk Metaphor A metaphor is a comparison of two things, saying one thing is the other without using ‘like’ or ‘as’. An abstract noun is one that refers to an idea, quality or state (you cannot see, hear, touch or smell an abstract noun). The punctuation we used was full stops and commas. Lastly, a simile is comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’. I enjoyed this activity because we got to create interesting poems.

Mistery

LI: T write a abstract noun senses poem.

Today, we focused on writing abstract noun senses poems. An abstract noun is an existing that cannot be touched or physical obtained such as, happiness, sadness, and anger. Metaphors compare two things without using the words 'like' or 'as'. The five human senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

For this task we worked collaboratively to create a poem using abstract nouns. Our group was given a list of abstract nouns that we can use to write a poem. The abstract noun we choose was misery. We used the five senses to describe what misery sounds, looks, tastes, and smells like while using metaphors to structure a poem correctly.

An abstract noun is a feeling or emotion that cannot be physically touched. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

For example: Happiness is a river of joy that is flowing through my heart. 

The word happiness is the abstract noun and is used to create this metaphor. 

The five senses are: hear, touch, smell, feel and see. Each of these five senses are what many humans are able to do. 

A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

I really enjoyed doing this because I got to work collaboratively and work together in a group and also use powerful words to strengthen the poem to make our poem stand out.

Creative writing

LI: To understand how to use descriptive words to make your writing more interesting.

Our focus for writing this week was to use descriptive writing, which means using words that are powerful, making your text more exciting to read and add more detail into your writing. We were tasked to work collaboratively in pairs to complete this task. Our task was to describe one of the two pictures that we were given. To make this task easier we would use our prior knowledge of sentence structures, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and descriptive words to create a piece of writing that uses descriptive words to make the text exciting to read. 

Cinquain Poem

LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star.

We have been learning to write cinquain poems to help us strengthen our connections to description. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives that describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.

I enjoyed this activity because I learnt lots of words that discribes steven adam.

Me vs My fear

LI: To recount a 5 minute snapshot of one experience you had at camp

Last week we went to camp at Kokako Lodge. My 5 minute snapshot shows my personal voice and I have tried hard to paint a picture with my words to describe what I was doing and how I felt.

I found this activity hrad because I tryed to find words that explan my fellings.

Me vs my fear

Finally, I can take on a challenge that scares me a  lot. Once I was buckled up in the harness I was thinking in my head, Can I do this?  Would I fall off? Is my harness secure. I watched my teammates succeed in fear so they gave me the confidence to do it too.

My legs were shaking once I touched the ladder. I was about to cry. I held on to the ladder tight. I looked to find the steps.

Soon I got on the beam. I grabbed the rope and pulled it closer to me. My legs were shaking like an earthquake . I tried not to look down because that scared me even more.

After I hugged the pole I went into the middle and did a dance. The dance I did was a dab. Then I lowered the beam. When I went down I was happy that I completed the  challenge.

I felt happy when I completed my challenges and now I think I am not scared of heights anymore

Speech

This week for writing we had to say our speech.

My speech was about care giving. My argument that relates to care giving and it's children being allowed to cook. When I was saying my speech I said it fast. I was shy while I was saying my speech.  All I need to improve is not look down at my screen while saying my speech and I need the condfidence.

I enjoyed sayng my speech.

Planning

 This week we started planning our speech.

First we had to come up with a greeting. Then we wrote our introduction. Then we tryed to right a rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is a question you already know the answer.

Next we wrote our opinion. A opinion is what you think. Then we list some facts. We had to write a solution to the problem. 

Lasly we wrote opinion if they don't want to learn how to cook. Brainstorming is having mutiple ideas. 

Brainstorming

This week I have been learning about brainstorming.

Brianstorming is having mutiple ideas. We wrote some ideas why a town should take down a statue of a sheep. One of our reasons are people don't like it. Then we had to do a brainstorm of possible arguement about three subjects. They are school, communty and home. One for home was, I should be allowed to cook.

Setting description

Setting description is used to describe a place in a book or story. 

When writing a setting descripition consider the smell, look, feel and sound.  When discribing the setting it needs to be discribed in detail.

When discribing feel, imagine what the setting feels like. For example use adjictives like, ruff, and prickley.

When discribing sound, think of what you may hear or how the sound acts. For example use adjictives like, loudly, and bepping.

When discribing smell, think of what you smell in the setting. For example use adjictives like, smelly, yuck, and bad.

Setting description is helpful to people reading the story because they are imagining the place and what is happening .

Writing

A character description tries to create an image by a character's appearance, personality and experience.

When describing the appearance it needs to include the face, hair, clothes, body and useful words/phrases.When describing the personality it need to include what kind of person is the character, what do the character say, how does the character behave and what makes the character interesting or different. When describing the experience it needs to include where do the character live, who are the character's friends or family, do the character have any hobbies, talents, and more, do the character have any achievements or secret.

A character description also uses both figurative and literal languages. 
Figurative language is unlocking hidden meanings. Literal language is a direct point and no hidden meanings.

The goal of this activity was to write a character description so that people can describe the areas of a character. 

Figurative languge

Learing was about figurative language, understatement, hyperbole, personification, simlie and metophor.

Figurative language figuring out the meaning of what a person says. 

A hyperbole is exaggeration to show strong feeling or effect. 

Simlie means A simile is comparing 2 things using “like” or As”.

A understatement is expressing with less strength than expected (The opposite of hyperbole).

A personification is giving human traits to objects or ideas.

A metaphor is comparing 2 thing without using “like” or “as”.

Writing

The learning was about synonyms, adverbs, verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Synonyms are words that is almost the same meaning. For example warm, hot, and heat are synonyms.

Adverbs are words that describe the way that something happens.  For example, often, finally, and quickly are adverbs.

Verbs are words that are doing word also as a action. For example say, get and go are verbs. 

Nouns are words that are name, person, animal, place, and thing or idea. For example,  man, woman, and child are nouns.

Adjectives are describing words. For example, warm, cold, and big are adjectives.

This hleps me because I know about them when I read a book or some one ask me a question.

Writing

LI. To inprove our vocabulary  for descriptive Writing
We are learning Advebs, Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives.

Advebs are words that describe the way that something happens.  Like for an example Hardly, sadly, and likely.

Verbs are words that is a doing word also as action.  Like for an example run, pass and throw.

Nonus are words taht are name, person, animal, place, and thing or idea.  Like for an example Hamiltan, Tiger, and Table.

Adjectives are discribing words. For an example, pretty, cool, and weak.

Tiger sharks

LI. To write an information report.

Information report

The learning is information report.  A information report is to inform other people about a certin topic. The structure of information report is, Title, introduction, information, and conclution.

I had to find facts. The fact that I like the most was, they are found near the coast and all around the world but in warm water in the sea. Why because I can go to beach with warm water and go some where deep and look for tiger sharks.  

What is a Information Report

LI. To uderstand the sturcure of a information report.

Homonmys and Homographs

 Homonyms, and Homographs are a special groups of words that many people mix up and get confused with.

Homographs are words that have the same spelling but you say it differently and do not mean the same. Like lead and lead. lead is a heavy metal and lead is to guide someone.

Homonyms are words that sound the same, have the same spelling, but different meaning. For example scale and scale. Scale is fish skin and scale is for weighting people.

Homophones

Homophones are special to writing.

Homophone are words that sound the same but have different spelling and different meaning. For example one and won. one is a number and won is what you win.

writing

Homophone, Homonyms, and Homographs are a special groups of words that many people mix up and get confused with.

 Homophones are words that are spelt differently,  sound the same , but don't mean the same. For example I rode to school. Road is something that a car drives on and rode is when you ride your bike somewhere.

Homographs are words that have the same spelling but you say it differently and do not mean the same. Like lead and lead. lead is a heavy metal and lead is to guide someone.

Homonyms are words that sound the same, have the same spelling, but different meaning. For example scale and scale.
Scale is fish skin and scale is for weighting people.

Descriptive Writing

For my writing I had to do a writing can do. I did descriptive writing.  It when you have describe a photo and using features languages. I described about a little baby that was eating cake.