Organizing & Researching

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.

Vision Board

 A vision board is a poster that displays what your goals are and how you are going to accomplish them, In total I have 6 goals that I would like to accomplish.

The six goals That I have are things that I have just started working towards since the beginning of the year, Those goals are:

- Learning how to play the piano fully

- Becoming a fashion designer

- Making my first unique clothing line

- Getting into Epsom Girls College

- How to paint Sunsets, Forests, River, etc

- Helping my mum with her buisness.

These are goals that I want to accomplish before the end of the year.

Greek Mythology

 Today David shared his 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. We earn CARE award badges in year 7 and 8 to show that we understand our school values. In this activity we used our smart searching skills to find information to help us complete the table.

I found this activity Very educational because I learnt about different types of gods and facts about them

The Greek god I found most interesting was Posiden because he had control over the whole ocean.

Envy

 LI: To edit our writing using DRAFT

An abstract noun is something that can’t be physically touched, as in a feeling (Happiness, fear, love, etc.

This week LS2 have been learning about Metaphors and Abstract Nouns.  

This poem has been created by me and my  pair,  for this poem we were asked to use DRAFT(Delete, , Rearrange, Add, Fix, Talk) in our poem. 

We used the 5 senses(Smell, hear, taste, feel and see), Punctuation, .)& Complex( it when u add 2 ideas together, and one idea doesn't make sense without the other idea)Sentences

Jealousy

LI: To write an abstract noun sentence.

An abstract noun is something that can’t be physically touched, as in a feeling (happiness, fear, love, etc) also the 5 senses. This week, LS2 have been learning about Metaphors and Nouns. We got into groups and were introduced  on what is nouns , what we see in the poem ( the structure) and the 5 senses. Our group created a Metaphor about happiness; Happiness is the blooming rainbow that shines when the sun comes out after the rain. A Metaphor is a comparison of two things without using ‘like’ or ‘as’. We created our own poem as a group about Jealousy.  

Inquiry Summary

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. 

 

Main Ideas

 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.