The reason on why I customize my shoe like this is because it has musical colours, Of course music can have any type of colours, but for me music has these colours.
Music has been with me through tough times and sometimes has been the only friend I need when I get home.
To me when I listen through music it’s like my blood and heart dance to the beat, but once I have to stop listening to music I feel i’m back in reality.
LI: To skim and scan to find facts about the Ancient Olympics and make notes in my own words.
We used our reading time this week to find out about the Ancient Greek Olympics. Once we had made our notes and reorganised our information we collaboratively created a presentation.LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.
Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers.
David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about Greek Mythology vocabulary and identify Greek places on the map.
I found this activity quite fun because we could reasearch different parts of Ancient Greece .
The word/place I found most interesting was Delphi because I had never heard of that place before.
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.
LI: to identify the main ideas in the text
Our next activity was to continue our learning with Matariki and Maori Stories.
For this activity we talked about the general important ideas, the 4 very important ideas, and the 3 vital ideas of the story.
The important ideas are composed of 4 specific things that might basically summarise the story. The 3 vital ideas are composed of key parts of the story.
LI: to find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and the text of “The Beginning”.
To continue our learning of Matariki, and the Maori story of Creation our task was to create a Venn Diagram. For our Venn Diagram we compared the differences and similarities between the Video and Written Version of the Maori Creation Story.
A Venn Diagram, is a diagram showcasing the differences and similarities between two different things.
LI: To find the important information in a current event.
LI: To identify the author's purpose.
This week for reading we learnt about the authors purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to persuade, inform, explain or entertain (PIE).
First we looked on Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the current events DLO and answered the questons:
I found this activity fun and intresting because it was fun to fill in the questions and the article I picked was intresting to learn about.
This week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities.
One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading "As Old As Time, A Twisted Tale"
I really like this book because, I found out many different words and the definitions of them in this book, I just finished reading it the other day and it has about 400 pages worth of learning new words.
LI: To show my personal journey through books
LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about
The Treaty of Waitangi was made to bring peace to New Zealand. Our task was to read a text about how the Treaty of Waitangi began. We used used respical reading to help us understand the text more. When we completed reading the text, we were using summarizing template to help us create a short paragraph telling us about the story. This task was really fun because we got to learn more about our past and what happened when the britain came to New Zealand.
LI- To identify the main ideas in a text.
The first thing I did for table mat was write down my prior knowledge, then I wrote down the topic of the book.
Next, I had to find 3 keywords for each box and define one of them that I had chosen. After I found 4 facts that were written down in the book and wrote them down in the boxes.
Second was my making connections, I did 3 types of connections they were text to self, text to text and text to world. I had to get 2 things from the book and write it down then connect it to myself.
For the text to text we had to get another 2 things and write it down then connect it to another book that has a similar text.
This week for SSR Selfie I wrote about book called "Viola Vincent Reporting".
The first thing I did was read the book for 15 minutes. Then I wrote in what title of the book was, next I wrote in who the author and illustrator was.
Then I wrote in who the main characters where and listed three things that happen in the book. Lastly I wrote about what I thought of the book.
This week for reading we did "Making Connections". Making connections is a reading strategy that helps find the meaning in a text by connecting to my knowledge.
I did 3 types of connections they were text to self, text to text and text to world. I had to get 2 things from the book and write it down then connect it to myself.
For the text to text we had to get another 2 things and write it down then connect it to another book that has a similar text.
Then text to world was writing down another 2 things from another part of the book and comparing it to some things around the world
