Motivation

L.I: To edit our writing using DRAFT.

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.

Success

 L.I: To write an abstract noun senses poem.

Our task was to create a poem using metaphors and abstract nouns. 

A metaphor is a comparison of two things, saying one thing is the other without using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Abstract nouns are things the we can see but we can't physically touch it.

The 5 senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell and feel. 

First, we chose a word from the list, our group picked success. After picking the word,we looked for the structure in the example given to us. Then, we created a poem with the structure. After writing the poem, we created a DLO about the poem.

The word that our group chose was Success.

We really enjoyed this activity, because it taught us how to create metaphors and poems, using abstract nouns. 

Shoes Narrative

For this task we created a DLO about our shoes narrative we wrote about. 

We started by planning our narrative. After that we created the narrative and the title of our narrative was Rusty Souls.

I enjoyed this activity because it didn't take us long to finish the task, we just copy and pasted our narrativ we created before and put it on a DLO.

Using the five senses

LI: to use the five senses and personifications to help us paint a picture with words.

LI: To devise a writing plan.

LI: To use the ideas on your plan to write a Narrative.

For writing we created a narrative about shoes with the five senses and using personification.

The five senses are:

1. Sound

2. Sight

3. Touch

4. Feel

5. Taste

Personification is when you give human characteristics to something non human.

First we made a copy of a the framework of the narrative and answered the questions:

• How did they get there?

• WHat happened along the way?

• How did they feel

• How did they see

• How did they hear

• How did they smell

• How did they touch

After answering the questions, we moved on creating the narrative by using the plan and ideas we have written on the framework DLO.

I enjoyed this writing activity because we created an interesting narrative and enjoyed the narrative

LI: to use the five senses and personifications to help us paint a picture with words.

LI: To devise a writing plan.

LI: To use the ideas on your plan to write a Narrative.

For writing we created a narrative about shoes with the five senses and using personification.

The five senses are:

1. Sound

2. Sight

3. Touch

4. Feel

5. Taste

Personification is when you give human characteristics to something non human.

First we made a copy of a the framework of the narrative and answered the questions:

• How did they get there?

• WHat happened along the way?

• How did they feel

• How did they see

• How did they hear

• How did they smell

• How did they touch

After answering the questions, we moved on creating the narrative by using the plan and ideas we have written on the framework DLO.

I enjoyed this writing activity because we created an interesting narrative and enjoyed the narrative

Dialogue

 L.I: To understand how to use and correctly punctuate dialogue when writing.

For writing we were we did dialogue. We picked a sitaution and created a conversation. The situation I picked to create my conversation was when the wolf was furious that he couldn't bust the brick house.

After creating a conversation we created a DLO on what is dialogue, and where the punctuation go.

Dialogue is a conversation between two people or more.

I enjoyed this activity because when writing the dialogue we got to use this interesting website called Ifaketext messages.

Cinquain Poem

L.I: 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 got to describe one of my favourite rugby players and found out new words like competent.

5 Minutes Of Camp - Achieving My Deep Fear

L.I: To recount a 5 minute snapshot of one expirence you had at camp.

Achieving My Deep Fear

It was my time to shine but I couldn’t do it. My heart was pumping fast, my braveness disappeared, and my fear kicked in. My thoughts were not to do it but my mouth is saying climb it.

I begin taking my first step on the ladder. I already had butterflies flying around in my stomach. But I tried punching and kicking the fear out of me but I couldn’t. Every step I took my heart pumped even fast. I finally was starting to climb up the metal rungs. I had sweat dripping so much it came into my eyes. I finally achieved the metal rungs.

I commence taking a walk along the log, holding the rope tight as possible. All my teammates cheered me on and it made me feel better. My legs were still shaking though, like it was an earthquake. I didn’t look down because I knew I would be so terrified and feel like I'm gonna fall.

I reached to the other pole hugging it like it was my loving parents. I needed to get this done and over with. I walked to the middle and got ready to get back to the beloved ground. 

I leaned back and started to go back onto the ground. I am so proud of myself and felt happy because I achieved my goal. I knew I could do it because my teammates overcame their fear too, I built my self esteem.

Last week we went to camp at Kokako Lodge and stayed there for four days. My 5 minutes of camp shows what did in that one activity. I was painting a picture in my mind to describe what I did and what I felt in the activity.

I found this activity interesting because I got to describe what I did and how I felt.

Maori Performance

 We watched a performance that was did by a Kapa Haka group. 

The first thing that happened was them doing an entrance ceremoney. They used a conch to let the people notice them coming in. The Kapa Haka group introduced three weapons then they used in a dance.

After that Kapa Haka group finshed doing the haka the our school Kapa Haka group did the haka. After all that we played a game called Matau-Maui. There is more information about Matau-Maui.

I enjoyed the performance and my favourite part was the part when the two groups did the haka.

Screen Play

 Screenplays are stories written in spoken parts only. 

The speaking parts are centered in the middle, and underneath the person name, so the actors know what to say. 

When writing a screenplay names of people has to be written in all caps. Also the names of people has to be centered in the middle of the page.

The scene heading has to be written in all caps. For example: SCENE 1 - RUFUS IS PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND. Speech marks are not included in speech.

Screenplays are helpful and important because, it helps an actor rememeber there line.

Go to the end of the second page on this document to see the screenplay. 

Informal & Formal Language and Sitaution

What is formality? Formality tells others when to use formal and informal language.

Formal means times when rules and politeness need to be followed. An example for a formal language: "Greetings Siale pleasure to meet you, do you want to come to a cafe." 

Informal means time when rules and politeness don't have to be followed. An example for a informal language: "Chur toko how you've been, wanna play touch on the field with the boys."

LI: To identify formal and informal language.

Rewrite

In the writing activity we rewrited a small part of the Gruffalo story. The part I changed was the fox scene. The three things being changed is: where the character lives, the character, and the gruffalo's favourite food.

In the original story there is a fox, it lives in a underground house and the Gruffalo's favourite food is roasted fox.

I changed the fox into a jackal, the underground house was changed into small deep cave, and the Gruffalo's favourite food is Jackal pancakes.

LI: To write a narrative.

Setting Description

LI: to write a setting description.

Setting descriptions describes a place in a book or video. A setting descriptions talks about what the place looks like, what it smells like, what it feels like, and what it sounds like.

When describing it's sound think of what you hear. Some adjectives are boisterous, loud, and noisy.

When describing it's smell think of what you smell. Some adjectives are disgusting, terrible, and delightful.

When describing what if fell like think of what that place feels like. Some adjectives are rough, soft, and jagged.

When describing what it looks like you think what it looks like. Some adjectives are moldy, beatiful, and rusty.

Setting descriptions help people to imagine the setting better and enhance their experience of the reading or story.

Gruffalo Character Description

Character descriptions talk about the character's personality, appearance, and experiences.

Experiences describes where the character lives, there family and friends, hobbies, and special achievements. Appearnce describes the characters face and hair, there body, and there clothes.

Personality describes how the character's behave, what kind of character they are, how the character speaks, and what makes the character different.

Writing character descriptions helps practise visualising and using figurative language and descriptive adjectives.

Metaphor

Metaphors are a kind of figurative language. Metaphors are a comparison of two things with a similar quality by saying one object is the other.

One example of a metaphor is: The teacher is a dragon. The main object is the teacher. The comparison is the dragon. The meaning of the phrase is that she is really angry.

People can describe things like: someone voice, weather, appetite, and ect.

LI: To describe things by metaphors.

Similes

Similes are a kind of figurative language. Similes are a comparison of two things using "like" or "as...as".

"Like" similies are used for actions. Some examples using "like" are:

Usain Bolt runs like lighting.
Ken jumps high like a frog.
Elaario exploded like a volcano.

"As...as" similies are used for adjectives. Some examples using "as...as" are:

Josh is as small as a mouse.
Finn is as wise as  an owl.
David is as light as a feather.

Similes help compare two things with figurative language.

Punctuation

For writing we learned about puncuation. We had to understand what each puncuation
meant.

There were two task to complete. The first task we did was to identify the punctuation. We had to match the meaning with the correct puncuation.

The next task was to use all puncuation using in a small amount of sentences. There was 11 puncuation  This challenge really helped me with my puncuation. I finished all the puncuation in three sentences.

I enjoyed this task because it really helped me with puncuation.

Adverbs

What is a adverb?

An adverb descriebes a verb ( doing words ).

Also a adjective and maybe another adverb.

Adverbs help answer the question how, when, where, and to what extent. Adverbs can help describe how, how tells about how an action happens. The word is quickly, Oscar ran  quickly.

Adverb words can end with L & Y like quickly. Quick is a adjective that describe nouns but when describing a verb you add L  & Y to create a adverb.

Adverbs also helps describe when, when tells about when or how often something happens. These types of words are used to describe a verb or an adjective. The word is yesterday, yesterday I went to the park.

Adverbs also describe where, where tells about where something happens. The word is up, look up there.

Adverbs also describe to what extent. These types of words can describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. A word is extremely, the athlete jumped extremely high.

Adverbs are helpful when describing verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.

LI: To learn about adverbs.

Verbs / Physical Verbs, Mental Verbs, State Of Being Verbs

There are three types of verbs.

There are action verbs, thinking verbs, and state of being verbs.

Physical words are action verbs. An example is run, jab, learn, complain, argue, travel,
describe, floss, and more.

Mental verbs are thinking verbs. An example is imagine, dream, think, memorise, understand,
picture, and more.

State of being verbs, there are only one state of being verb but it has many different forms. An example is be, was, am, were, is, and will be.

Verbs are helpful because they describe actions.

Absolute, Comparative & Superlative

Adjectives are words to describe nouns. There are three types of adjectives: absolute,
comparative, and superlative.

Absolute adjectives is describing something by itself. An example is funny,
fast, boisterous, vociferous and more.

Comparative adjectives describes something compared to another. An example is madder,
shinier, more homongus, more extraodinary and more.


Superlative adjective say that something is the highest level in a quality. An example is
fastest, dumbest, most agile, most raucous.


Adjectives can help describe things.

About Me - Ko Wai Ahau?

Malo lei lei, my name is Spelman and I am 11. I am Samoan and Tongan. I have two sisters. I enjoy going out to places with my family and also like the music my parents play in the car. My favourite subject at school is reading. My favourite sport that I enjoy is Rugby. I love eating Carl Jr’s but, I mostly like eating my mom’s cooking. One of my hobbies is to play on the playstation with my friends but, out of all my hobbies my favourite is bike riding with my dad. My goal is to complete my hard work this year and take risks.