Reading

WALT: work collaboratively to have a better understanding of what we read.

What we have been doing: reciprocal reading, taking turns at clarifying, predicting, questioning and summarising.

My next step is to do more of the clarifying, the clarifyers job is to make it easier for other people to understand and they use synonymous, definitions and reading strategies eg. To retread or to read on.

Olymipcs Writing

WALT: Write a Recount/Reporp about an Olympic champion/champions 

I did the Report Here's mine.

The Sun Was Shining As Bright as the fire on the on the Olympic torch. The men's 800m sprint on the 13th of August  in Rio 2016! Let's see who's in on the race! We've got  Amel Tuka from Bosnia & Herzegovina in lane 1, Boris Berian from the US in lane 2, Žan Rudolf from Solenia in lane 3, Kléberson Davide from Brazil in lane 4, Ayanleh Souleima from Djibouti in lane 5, Antoine Gakeme from Burundi in lane 6, Musa Hajdari from Kosijabra in lane 7 and last but not least, in Lane 8 David Rudisha From Kenya!!!

“Now we have our eight athletes but we know only one will win a gold medal going down in history!” Says Carl the lead commentator! The track was the same dark red rubber the athletes love “Yeah about the track I hate the feeling and colour of it!” Says David. The race was amazing the athletes really gave it their all!!! The places are David from Kenya with gold, well done! Taoufik from Algeria well done, man he was sweating like a pig!!! And Clauton from The US with bronze. In the end everyone should be proud!

For more information search for 800m athletics Rio 2016 men on Google. 

My next step is to write more descriptive words.

Holiday Recount Writing

WALT:Write a recount about something you did in the holiday.

 Holiday Writing

The trip was a long four and a half hours… My Mum, Dad, Tess the dog and me. We’re traveling to Wellington, The car was packed full of bags. Dark times… But it will be alright when we get there. Friday was coming to an end, night time was among us. The car started to get cold so Dad turned on the warm AC.

FINALLY we got to the place we’re staying in. My extremely loud Auntie Jan welcomed us with a “HELLO!” When I picked up my bag I had forgotten how heavy it was and dropped it straight away, but I managed in the end. A few hugs and kisses later we were setting up my bed, Well I guess you could call it a bed it was just some foam and a sleeping bag.

It was pretty comfortable though!

The next day was one of the quick ones I woke up to a smell that could have awoken the heavens! A fresh delicious smell of Bacon, Eggs, Crusonts and pancakes! Mmm, Mmmm, Mmm, MMM! When you saw my plate you couldn't even see the white. It had pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, scrambled eggs with spinach and a crustont with eggs in it. To make a long story long I ate like a pigeon. (I ate really slowly) Tomorrow Will Be fun! First spraying my hair, then a hockey game! Awesome.

The start of this day wasn't the best of all days, I woke up with a cramp in my leg, and I tell you that is not a fun time! But the pain was soon gone, unfortunately my Mum (the one spraying my hair) was pretty cranky but she tried not to show it. Nine minutes later I was outside with dripping green hair, but then the hair dryer came in. After breakfast we were in the car listening to ‘Once I Was Seven Years Old’ through the green wireless speaker. At the hockey game I was pretty hungry because I only had a small bowl of coco pops so my Mum gave me 10 bucks and I went to get some hot chips and a drink. The chips were delicious but the sauce ruined them! After the game I went pokèmon hunting and caught a Meowth, a Zubat, a Wartortle and a Venonat. But. After that I had to go to bed…

My next step is to write a bit less on catching Pokemon...

Olympic Poem

In our independent class we were set out to do an Olympic Peom here's mine.

Tom's Video on Thursday, 4 August 2016

Mrs L Writing

WALT: write an imaginative letter from another planet using the correct letter format.

Use interesting sentence beginnings and a variety of sentence lengths

Use adverbs and adjectives to describe details in my sentences

In Mrs L's writing workshop we are in the letter writing group. In the letter writing group we got to do a letter from an other planet. We were focusing on sentence staters and the lengths of those sentences.

Here's mine!

82 Clover Rd

Colver

SeloSelo

BoyBoot

57 school Rd

Clive

New Zealand 

Dear Humans of Earth

Hello Humans we are pleased to inform you that by the time you are reading this ,or not I'm not sure how far your planet is from us, your planet is the last planet with life on it in the universe.

Our Sun is a red supergiant star so it's going to turn into a black hole. Well we call black holes cloolwertraited dark matter.

Please PLEASE don't send help. Trust us you will die. You'd be dead as a rock. Even if you think you won't die you will. We can't risk 7 billion of you getting speggetafyed.

Yours Truly.

Bob

PS If you do come bring KFC.

PPS There is still life in other universes… Duh.

 

My next step is to describe the sentences more.

Earth To Mars instructions.

Task: write a set of instructions on how to get from Earth to a planet of your choice.

WALT:

- a chosen planet’s location in the solar system.

- a chosen planet’s distance from earth.

- planets you will pass by to get to the chosen planet.

- obstacles that may be on the journey, e.g. Atmosphere, moons...

I was a Practitioner.

I often participate, communicating about my Inquiry learning.

Next time I need to put in an intro and put a summery in.