"Under The Bed"

For this week's writing task we had to pick a writing prompt!

and I choose the under the bed one so we had to complete all of the activites which were: (writing the story, answering the questions which were: What was the noise he heard, what did he see under the bed, what will happen next, how did he feel when he first heard the noise, how did he feel when he looked under the bed, what time of the day do you think it is, have you ever been frightend of anything and why do things seem more frightening at night?. The sentence challenge which was to describe the noise without saying what it is I didn't write much because I couldn't think of anymore sounds for this animal! And perfect picture which was to draw a picture/trace what he seen under the bed!

We also had to add language features to our story which were, Alliteration (the same letter at the start of your senctence - Example: B - Billy bounced a ball), Onomatopoeia (the things like BOOM, CRASH and more, Metaphor (Things that sound simliar - Example: She read the book at a snail's pace), Simile (A comparison using "like" or "as" - example "she was smart as an owl", hyperbole (an exaggeration - Example: "It was like a thousand pounds", Personification (giving human qualities to things) - example: The floor boards danced across the room), Idiom (a phrase that has a different meaning from the dictionary) - example: The test was a peice of cake!"

What I found difficult was thinking of what was under the bed because I had no idea what scuttling meant so I searched it up and it was little footsteps so I came up with mouse! I enjoyed doing all the activites because they weren't just writing they were also questions and drawing!

This is my writing!

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The scuttling noise had disturbed Michael, and he shot bolt upright in bed.
After taking a deep breath, he flung himself onto the smooth wooden boards of
his bedroom floor but it was like his bedroom floor was trying to pull him back but he 
took a peek.. in relief, he saw a little small grey mouse with no tail creeping and squeaking
around the cheese under his bed. He grabbed the mouse and put it into a small container
and as soon as he did that he quietly tiptoed to the kitchen knowing his parents were asleep.
He opened the fridge and grabbed a piece of leftover cheese from dinner, he quietly shut the
fridge and headed back to where the mouse was. He opened the container and stored the cheese
there, he was glad that there was no monster under his bed. 

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Questions: 

1. What was the noise Michael heard?

- He heard a scuttling noise (little footsteps)

2. What did he see under the bed?

- A small grey mouse with no tail!

3. What will happen next?

-  He will keep the mouse as a pet then he hears another noise…

4. What did he feel when he first heard the noise?

- He felt a bit anxious and frightened. 

5. How did he feel when he looked under the bed? 

- He felt relieved because it wasn’t a monster

6. What time of day do you think it is?
- Night time because in the picture it looks dark!

7. Have you ever been frightened of anything? 

- Yes..

8. Why do things seem more frightening at night? 

- Because it’s usually dark and it’s scary at night..

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Sentence Challenge:

The high pitched squeaking sound disturbed Michael. 

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Perfect Picture!

"Lest We Forget"

WALT: Think critically when looking at information in different texts.

For reading we have been focusing on ANZAC day, so for one of our reading activites were about ANZAC mascots so now it's about ANZAC memorials! And this is the second activity that I will be posting out of my eight activties. 

This activity is about creating a poster about the phrase "Lest We Forget." Just saying what it means and including pictures. If you don't know what it means it's just saying that we should at least remember what happened in the war, and what other people experienced and had to face during that war and that thousands of men that died had loved ones who would have been really upset to hear that they have passed away. 

This is my poster!

Different Ways To Celebrate ANZAC Day!

WALT: Think critically when looking at information in different texts. 

For the past weeks we have been learning about ANZAC day and for one of our activites we were learning about ANZAC mascots and know we are learning about ANZAC memorials! So we had to do eight activites which were all related to ANZAC day. So after we have done all of that we had to post two things on the blog so this is one of them which is: Different ways to Celebrate ANZAC day!

So I have came up with three different ideas to celebrate ANZAC day without gathering around because of the covid-19. So my ideas were: We can wear the red poppies, we can have a day where you wear red with your family and donate some red clothes that you don't fit anymore and give it to someone else, and a moment to think about our ANZACs which we can have a minute or so to think about the ANZACs who fought in the war for our country and some of them has loved ones so they would have been really upset. 

This is my slideshow!

Maths Group Strategy!

WALT: Solve problems like: 23 + __ = 71. 

For maths we have been working on tons of strategies, but this time we had to make a DLO explaining our strategy. My strategy is pretty simple because your only using subtracting and adding and it's with the number line aswell. I have a explanation on slide three if you don't understand the strategy! If one of the equations are 23 + __ = 71 your going to have to draw out your number line and switch the 71 to 73 because your going to minus it (it will be explained on the slideshow) and your going to have to go all the way to 71 instead of going to the nearest ten which is 30 you have to go all the way to 71 so 20 + 50 = 70 then your going to have to take away 2 because 3 - 2 = 1 and you wanna get to 71 then you minus all of that 50 - 2 = 48, so your answer is 48!

What I found difficult was to explain it because i'm not really good at explaining! And I enjoyed explaining it actually!

Anyways this is my DLO!

Maori Titles

WALT: Identify how Jesus is Matamua and Tuakana and explain the significance of this.

For this week's task for RE, we had to search up these six Maori titles which were: Kuia, Tupuna, Kaumatua, Matua, Whaea, Te Karaiti, Tuakana and Te Whanau. The after we have researched that we had to make a DLO explaining the meaning of all of them. I did mine on Voki (Which is a site where you can design your own characters and put whatever you want and it can talk!) because I didn't want to screencastify mine (we had to think of SISOMO which was sight, sound and motion because we have a blind person in our class but he can hear really well.) Since voki could only do six hundread characters I didn't write much and also because I couldn't really explain it but I hope it explains a lot. 

I enjoyed learning those different words because I was really curious to know what they meant and what I found difficult was explaing in big sentences because the definitaion of it was simple and I didn't really know how to make it into big words. 

Anyways here is my Voki!

Anzac Mascots

WALT: Think critically when looking at information in different texts. 

Over the past weeks our class has been focusing on war, including the anzac day. We have read different stories about it aswell. So for reading we usually just do our own group work but we are all focusing on one thing which is ANZAC mascots. I read a lot of things about anzac mascots and i've learnt a lot of information about them!

For one of our tasks we had to find our own information and link it to a google doc where everyone else's information are, i've already completed that task now I had to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about what I have learnt from ANZAC mascots! I haven't done the last task but i'm working on it and it was too create your own mascot for the war and explain how it will be useful and I will be posting that soon. 

I didn't really find anything difficult because the tasks are kinda of easy and they're also really fun to do and I can learn new stuff! I enjoyed making a DLO of what I learnt and I would enjoy making the mascots aswell.

This is my DLO!

Saint Maximilian Kolbe

WALT: Recognise how Jesus's work of bringing God's saving love caused him to suffer and die. 

Last week we were learning about two different people who were: Saint Maximilian Kolbe and Father Francis Vernon Douglas. We were learning about that because there work of love brought them to pass just like Jesus. So our task was to create a slideshow showing who was he, what was his cause, who did he upset and why and how did his work of love lead him to death?

We also had to do this thing which was called "sismo." which was sound, motion and sight. We needed to do that because there is a boy in our class who is blind, but he is very good at hearing. So we decided to go onto voki. You can make your character and then just write what you want and it will repeat it, but you can only do 600 letters. I had to restart this a couple times because it couldn't save and I also had a bit of problems with it. Then after we had finished that we had to screencastify it because it wasn't saving properly.

I enjoyed making the voki because it was fun trying out new things even though I had to restart a couple times but that was okay. What I found difficult was fitting my writing in because I could only do 600 letters. But overall I enjoyed it!

This is my voki!

Healthy Food!

Last week we have been learning about nutrition with Sophie, she is from the heart foundation. We also got to go to paknsave to look at healthy items. If you don't know what Nutrition means it's healthy food and it's good for you to eat it instead of the sometimes food, which has a lot of sugar and fat and doesn't have any fibre in it. If you wanna know if it's healthy or not look at the back of what your buying and look for the sugar, if it's over 10 it's not healthy and it will be a sometimes food. It needs to have four ticks to be a healthy food. You will have to look for sugar, fat fibre and sodium.  

There are different types of food groups which are: Fruit & Veggies, Meat, Dairy and Grain. Those are the foods you should be eating but sometimes some of them aren't heathy. There are also your sometimes food which contains: cupcakes/cakes, chips, ice cream/popsicles, chocolate/lollies, fast foods and more! 

So our task was to creating a slideshow explaing the different food groups and what you learnt, we got to do this in buddies so this is the slideshow that I did with my buddy!

The ANZAC Violin

WALT: Use descriptive writing

This week for writing our teacher read us a book called "The Anzac Violin." It was about a guy called "Alexander Aitken" who fought for New Zealand while carrying a violin. He managed to carry it all the way until he was wounded, but one of his crew members gave it to him after the world war ended. Now it's in a all boys high school. So for our task we had to make a table including: See (what can you see), Hear (what can you hear), Location (where was it and was it dusty), Movement (crawling or walking) and Temperature (cold or hot). And we had to describe one of the moments as a diary entry because while Alexander was in the war he wrote diary enteries but it wasn't very detailed so now, we have to make one with a lot of detail. The table was our draft so after we did that we have to make our real copy.

For my diary entry I did the part where he was wounded and was crawling past his dead crew members. I enjoyed putting it all together because I had a lot of great ideas and what I found diffcult was putting it all together. 

This is my writing!

I frighteningly crawl towards my lifeless crew members as the breeze passes by me. I could hear the terrifying gunshots as i’m almost there, I stopped and looked up at the night sky I could see stars appearing as I lay there suffering. Soon enough I opened my eyes everything was fuzzy, I blinked as much as I could until I could see a train I got a fright when the loud engine started..where were they taking me?