Decorate A Christmas Tree

 

We were learning to write what we were thankful for this year and write it into the box. Next, we had to decorate the Christmas tree on the left-hand side. Using a wide variety of ornaments with letters or just plain colours, lights, tinsel, holly, and different stars.

I found it easy to choose what I was thankful for this year because our year six camp didn't happen too long ago. Therefore I remember our teachers telling us that had been struggling to find something for us to do.

I found it hard to decide how I should have ended my message because I'm not great at wrapping up short messages like this one. 

I really enjoyed selecting which decorations I placed on my Christmas tree because one of my favourite things to do is decorating. There was a wide selection of decoration to place on my tree, and I chose red and yellow lights, three huge ornaments, and one bright yellow star.

Diving Giraffes

 

We were learning to write a recount about diving giraffes, we watched an animated YouTube video that had diving giraffes in it. We had to pretend that we were journalists, slowly observing  what was happening. We had to use onomatopoeia, alliteration,  good verbs and adjectives, to make sure that our writing was level 3.

I found it easy to set where my story took place, when my story took place, and what was going to happen in my story. I also found it easy to place good describing words like "magical". The same goes for verbs, I used "sprinted", "leaped" and, "clattered".

I found it hard to use a variety of sentence starters because I couldn't really think of. I kind of stuck with "they" for sentence starters. I also found it hard to decide what title to use.

I enjoyed describing what the giraffes looked like because adjectives are my strong-suit and I work really well with them.  I enjoyed writing the " what are we witnessing here!?" because I like writing things that are dramatised.

Next time I need to try and add more onomatopoeia and similes because I didn't add so many in this piece of writing. That is my goal for the next piece of writing I write.

Onomatopoeia Fireworks Poem

 

 

Onomatopoeia is describing a sound that you hear such as " POW" or "SPLAT".  That was one of our  focuses for our poem. Our learning asset was whai whakaaro\ thinker. 

A few parts were hard for me because finding the right words to rhyme with the words that I wrote in my poem were quite difficult because the sentence fireworks are always fun, you never want it to end,

but you just have to be patient and wait until next year. That sentence didn't rhyme so that kind of let me down in my poem. The easiest parts of being a thinker were adding onomatopoeia in to my poem as well as repeating it at the end of my poem. Next time I need to add better adjectives to describe my poem.

Te Whare Tapa Wha: Pink Shirt Day 2021

 

Te whare tapa wha is the four walls that keep you whare safe. The walls are Taha whanau- Family and social, Taha tinana- physical, Taha Wairua-spiritual, and Taha hinengaro- Mental and emotional. Each wall is called a pou. The whare is you and the four walls are what helps you stay standing and if someone hurts you physically or emotionally your wall will fall down and you have to do what you love tp fix and put it back together.  

Our learning asset was to be a thinker.  That means that you have to think hard about the images that you place in your slide because it has to be the truth about what you believe in, what you do to stay active, how you stay connected with your family, and what makes you happy.

I think that I thought hard about all my images because they match my personality as well as how I think.

Also next time I think I should try to have more thoughts about adding maybe four images because I found it really hard to choose between some of them. 

Ancient Creature

 

 

I was focusing on being a communicator and to share my ideas through writing and trying to add smiles, alliteration, adjectives, verbs and other level four criteria. I had to describe my ancient creature with lots and lots of detail and describing words.

Next time I need to think about more alliteration because I don't think I added quite a lot because like have interest in my writing.  

Famous New Zealander\Jacinda Ardern

 

I learnt more skills as a communicator because I was able to communicate with other people on my table and we shared our ideas with each other so we could all type our five questions and our notes. 

I used Kaiwhakarite to finish all twelve of my comic panels and had it finished on time to post on my blog. It was fun creating my comic because using a different resource to show my learning. Comix is fun and easy to use because there is wide variety of props and objects to add to your comic strip.

I was a researcher to search up my notes to add to my comic strip. Researching different questions to find out more about Jacinda Ardern helped me to find better ways to present my learning. I think that the questions I asked were good ones because I had gotten an answer to all of them. 

Then & Now

I asked questions to Mrs Leggett to find out how school was back then because she had desks and we don't. Another thing we don't have is a blackboard. Teachers don't need a blackboard because they can plan it all on slides the night before and show the children the next day.

I think that I stayed organized with all of my ideas because I set them all into paragraphs. I thought that I had a good time brainstorming ideas because I had a lot of ideas to put in my writing. I know I can research if I am unsure about something.

I communicated with the readers of my story because I used screencastify to record my story. I also used images to show my thinking as well as comparing what it was like in the 1900's because there is a very big difference. Therefore I am a communicator.

I organized my ideas\information I had gathered into different paragraphs to show my thinking and I thought that I kept on track of time because I finished my presentation pretty quickly. I self managed myself.

When I think about how well I wrote my story I thought that I could have completed my task faster if I sat with my friends sometimes and not all the time. Now I know that I can self manage myself more.

I showed Kaiwhakarite because I finished on time and I also I asked for help by my teacher Mrs Hall to see how to add my screencastify to my presentation.