Hello and Goodbye / Poem

 LI: To paint a picture with my words

This morning Miss Sheena joined our online Meet and taught us how to write a Hello/Goodbye poem. This poem shows the contrast between things lockdown made us leave behind and the things lockdown gives us the opportunity to do. I am really goood at poems, as I've already worked with Mrs Sheena before, she also has helped me understand how to structure , what we can see, what type of poem is it. 

I really enjoyed doing this as I learnt how to pain an picture in somones mind using words, also expressing my feelings about lockdown, I really miss school to.

Poetry / Online Class

 L.I Create an Listing Poem about any topic.

For writing for we create list peoms. List poems mean's listing differnt things that links to th topic, as example How to make a firend?, my group create an poem listing differnt ideas on how you can make firends, I really enjoyed working on these as I know what Im doing, I understand what I need to do,I know how an List poem's structures as example an List poem uses only one word at the start of each sentinces, and had full stops and captail letters at each sentince. We did this by sharing our ideas and working collabortivtly and understanding how an list poem works,what it looks like and how you can write one. 

List Poems

 L.I To undrstand what is an list poem. 

For the past few days, Akuhata , Leroy , Rj and I have been understanding and learning about list poems also to understand out writing challenge we're learning with Mrs Sheena. Mrs Sheena has taught us what is an list peom? how you can create an list poem? Click through this DLO, you could understand what is an list poem? and some examples that we wrote of an list poem. We also used our drawing skills to draw some animals , family memebers that describes our poem. 

Meet the Noun Family

 L.I : To create an prestation understanding and showing what is an Abstract Noun Poem. 

This DLO showing above has introduced what is an Abstract Poem , also what are nouns. An Abstract Noun poem is somthing that exist but cant be physically touched. We also introduced the Noun Family , We introdueced it by createing images , and tracing them out , also by writing sentince's examples. Rj , Leroy and Akhuata and I worked collabortivtely by understanding the meanging's. 

Culture

L.I To edit our writing using Draft. 

Our task was to create a DLO of writing a poem using a  abstract noun. Abstract nouns are things that we can feel but we can't physically touch it.The 5 senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell and feel. First we had to pick a word from the list. And me and my group choose luxury. After we picked the word, we looked for a structure  in a example of given to us.After writing the poem we had to make a poem of us describing the word we have picken.We really enjoyed this activity, because it taught us how to create metaphors and poems, using abstract nouns.

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’.

Dialogue

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

For this week's wirting sesson , we learned about Dialogue , dialogue means an converstion between charcters in the story , we first started off by using an website called Ifaketextmessages: Ifaketextmessage.com.  My Partner and I decied by writing the next five lines about how Mother Pig did want the three little pigs to stay with her anymore. Then we created a DLO explaning what is a Dialogue , We decied to write out example we did on our Ifaketextmessages to make it more easier for ourselfs and readers to understand what is a dalogue.  I found thsi acitvty intersting as we learned about what is a Dialogue , Where we put our punctionts as example we put an comma at the end and start of a senetence. We add a full stop at the end of a sentence. We learnt this by watching an video that gave us information on understanding about our punctions. 

Cinquain Poem

L.I : To write a Cinquain Poem to decribe 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 taht 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 enjoyed using Word hippo trying to find words that more deatiled and that describes the preson more as an example Nice -delightful .

A Moment in Time Poem

 LI: To use the language features and structure of published poem to help use write our own poem.

We looked at the language features and structure of a poem called ‘A Moment in Time’ and used our experiences from camp to follow the structure and collaboratively create our own moment in time poem.To describe what we heard, what we saw, how we felt and what we wondered we used our senses, adjectives and adverbs.Ajectives are words that descrube the noun. Adverbs discribes the verbs I found this interesting as I talked about how I felt , What I saw , What I heard and what I wondered well I was doing the High Ropes at camp.

Settings

 LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader.

An setting is the place, time and environment of a story to help a reader make a connection to your narrative you need to use your words in away that helps them form a picture of what you are describing in their mind.To do this we looked at an image and thought of 10 words that described and showed what we could see. Once we had thought of the adjectives or adverbs we used our smart searching skills to help us find synoymns that made our descriptions clearer. I found this interesting because I used word hippo to help me find words that are more deatiled also to paint a picture in your mind.

5 Minutes of Camp

 LI: To recount a 5 minute snapshot of one experience you had at camp.

As I took my first step onto the ladder my legs felt like an earthquake was happening, as my hands turned bright red holding onto the pole trying to put my left leg onto the first staple.

As soon as I got to the top of the pole I slowly took my first step onto the beam, and held my rope tightly as the inside of me was screaming my lungs out. As I walked through the high beam my eyes started to get watery, dripping down my face as I took each step just hoping I wouldn't fall. 

When I got to the other end I hugged the pole and I walked slowly back to the middle of the beam. While I tried walking, I looked down at my teammates who were below cheering and supporting me while I was doing star jumps. 

As I heard "You can come down now..." my body started to shake. Our instructor told me to lean out and sit down as she slowly let us down. When I touched the ground I smiled and clapped with happiness. 

Last week we went to camp at Kokako Lodge. My 5 minute snapshot shows my personal voice and I have tried hard to paint a picture with my words to describe what I was doing and how I felt. I found this task fun to do because I wrote about how I felt when I was on the high beams. I also liked working with my group also my partners by sharing our ideas , helping each other and working collaboratively.

Why do we use TEEL paragraphs?

 LI: To understand how TEEL paragraphs can help us structure our information and ideas in a paragraphs?

We use paragraphs in our writing to expand on an idea. In LS2 we use the TEEL acronym (title, elaborate, evidence and link) to help us structure our thinking. The example on my DLO shows what Topic Sentence means , Elabortate,Evidence and Linking how and why I found this task really fun and enjoying to do as I learned new things and understood what to do.  I also wrote in my DLO what TEEL means and what it does to help us understand writing paragraphs. 

How Tiger got his stripes?

L.I: To write a pourquoi (tell me why or how) story that paints a picture in the mind of the reader.

This Week , For our writing task we created a DLO(An Animated Movie) about the story we wrote last week. My animated movie was about How Tiger got his stripes? for this task I worked with RJ. We started off by drawing the main characters,Main Ideas and the background(Sun.Trees,Beach and Grass. We drew these by looking threw images on google and getting some ideas on how we can make out animated movie. 

After completing my DLO I showed My DLO to Rm 4 and 2, I was really happy and proud of myself that I had the confident to show my work.

6 Sentience's

L.I Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative.

(Story)

Jessica was in big trouble until a big green dragon came to her rescue.

She was surrounded by mountains standing tall up high in the sky. The dragon took off flying through the sky and into the clouds.Unfortunately Jessica was too scared to enjoy the ride.She hated heights and did not like flying on planes.Jessica closed her eyes and held on tight. 

Today my group wrote 6 sentence stories to help us take risks with our writing. We did this by sharing our ideas and writing sentence that drop hints about what was happening in the picture we chose to write about. We helped each other by suggesting ideas to each other to make our stories more interesting. 

5-7-10 Sentiences

LI: To use the 5-7-10 process to write creatively.

(Story)

I didn’t expect that I would stay in my house for six weeks in lockdown because of Covid-19! Covid-19 is a very contagious virus so the government made the decision to ask all New Zealanders to keep safe by staying at home in their bubble.  

To me it felt like I was staying in jail with my family for a very long time! I would wake up every morning waiting for my breakfast to cook before I went on video calls with my friends and class. Every day of the school week was the same. This made the 6 weeks the most boring time of my life. 

What I did like was being able to cook food for my family. I really enjoyed doing this with my siblings. My favourite meal was pasta because I really liked the cheese inside that had melted and mixed into the macaroni elbows.

Today Cassius and I used the 5-7-10 challenge to help us with our writing skills. We could choose any sentence starter from the list and write about anything we liked.

Ancestor Peom.

L.I Astronomers believe they have discovered a supernova at least twice as bright as anything previously recorded.

This DLO talks about my past,culture and my ancestors. LS2 students created poems about their ancestors and made them into powerful poems. The poem I wrote is about who I am right now and how my ancestors have influenced me so far.This Poem has helped me remember my ancestors and how they influenced me.

Steps / Activities

L. I- To learn how to make a sentience builder.

I did a Suffixes task the task that I was learning was a sentience builder. I learned how to build random words into a sentience. This task will help me with my learning and sentences. I also learned how to make sure that my sentences make sense and so the readers can understand what the sentience is.

Exploring Provocation

L.I: To consider bot sides of a provocation.
For Literary we learned about what is provocation. Provocation means when you have a strong sentience that hooks people attention. We learned about if NZ should because a cashless society? We learned two called For & Against.We Worked together and collaborate together. I learned from this task was about are learning Covnetestion Argument.

Plastic Pollution / Explanation / LS2

LI: To collaboratively structure and write an explanation

Plastic pollution in and around our waterways has become a real problem.
Each year the litter we drop  travels out to sea through drains, streams,
lagoons and estuaries. This rubbish in our oceans harms and kills millions
of sea creatures, who get caught in it or mistake it for food.

Why is plastic pollution a problem for our coastlines?

Did you know that plastic makes up 90% of the pollution on the ocean's surface? And most of that plastic waste comes from land, after being carried through drains, rivers and lagoons. This is one
of the major issues right now happening all around the world, as it’s polluting the marine environment and killing over 1,000,000 sea animals every year!...We are in a desperate need for a change.

It’s only getting worse, and we continue to sculpt a bad future for ourselves. New Zealand consumes over 30kgs of plastic a year, but only 1/6 of it is being recycled! Why? Because we choose to throw our plastic on the ground, instead of simply recycling or putting it in the bin.

All the plastic we unconsciously leave floating around on streets and pathways are slowly taking out our innocent sea animals. They mistake the pieces of plastic for food, and eat it… killing them. It even gets in our food, making it not safe to eat.

Let’s make a change, by remembering to pick up the plastic, or any piece of rubbish for that matter that we see lying around.

Afatia, Victoria, Lily, Liletina

Pervasive Speech/Writing

L.I To write a quick Pervasive Speech.
For writing we had to write the explanations with the reasons.  We had  try and change Mr Wong(Our Teacher) mind to think that netball is the best sport by changing his mind to think that netball is the best sport we had to write explanations.
I learned how to write a quick pervasive speech.
How I learned by getting feedback and reading my sentience to see if they are correct.