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.

Topic 5 - Flower power

L.I: To learn how to dissect a flower. For science today we learned how to dissect a flower. Before dissecting the flower you need to have your tools and it is:

• Knife
• Cutting board
• Flower

We removed one petal and one sepal. Pinch the ovary and cut the style straight.

After that we prepared a pollen slide and saw it under a microscope. I enjoyed this activity because we got to learn how to dissect a flower.

I also learnt that a hibiscus has a a female and male gametophyte.

 

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. 

Forming an Opinion

 L.I: To consider both perspectives.

We were tasked to read the story about Lake Taupo to understand if the story was fact or story makes sense by saying if the story is true or fake. We wrote our opinion to see that why we picked which side to see if it was right or wrong. We wrote that taupo says according to legend which means it happened but actually is true.

I found this activity enjoyable because we got find information I haven't found about and I thought the text was interesting.

Summarising

 LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about.

  

For reading, we have been focusing on summarising text information such as stories, articles and other texts. The text we used for this reading task was the traditional Maori story of how the world came to be. We used the summarising DLO to help us write what we think happeneds in the in the story is true. First we needed to find 20 inportant words from the story, then we had to find the 6 most important words from the 20 important words. After doing that we used those six words to make a short story about the story. I found this task intersting because I got to summarise a story in fewer words, meaning I understand what they story is about.

Main Ideas

 LI: To identify the main ideas in the text.

  

First to start off the task we watched a video about how Maui slowed down the sun.After watching the video we wrote down the main ideas that happened in the video into this DLO. After finding the inportant Ideas from that we find the four very important ideas. One of the four very important ideas is that Using the flax for ropes slowed the sun. When you find the four very important ideas we found the three vital idean from the four very important ideas. I found this task fun because when you find main ideans from the text that means that you understand the text throughly.

Venn Diagram

  LI: To find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and text of “ The Beginning "

This week for reading we have been focusing on the differences of two types of ways a story can be said. This week we were finding differences and similarities from the video and text from "the Begining". This text was about our group finding things that are different and simaler bewtweeen the too. In the video verison it shows the seperation of mother earth and father sky, and in the written version it's explain the love for the two. I enjoyed this task because I got to see the differneces and similaritites bewtween two storys.