10 words

 LI:List the 10 words you think are the most important to desribe the event.

1. Nonviolent

2. Peaceful protesters 

3. Leadership

4. Forgiveness 

5. Respectful

6. Grieving

7. Unstoppable 

8. Sacrifice 

9. Risk takers

10. Honourable

These 10 words are the most important words I thought would describe the event that took place that is known as The Mau Movement.Something I found intresting about doing this activity was using my knowledge I knew that would make a describtive word painting wiritng.This was a little bit hard for me because I try using words I knew instead of searching words up but these are 10 words I could think of.

List Poem

 LI:Write a list poem to describe the events and the feeling/actions of the people involved

The feelings behind The Mau Movement

Grieving souls mourn in pain 

While other children and women still remain

Children are screaming in the mist of helpless air

While dying souls are starring in the glare of the lord's prayer 

The overtaking control of many human beings

Are like the surroundings of bangs pleading for scared feelings

Forgiveness is so hard to give to those who are hard to forgive 

But us Samoans are the arms of God so we forgive the negative that people give to those that still remain here.

Many years have passed and souls still grieve but the question is above all the darkness that is still wandering in our golden hearts,why do we Samoans and Pacific forgive so easily?

The answer is that God said to always forgive not because they deserve forgiveness but you deserve peace.

Our people of Samoa, people of the Pacific should not drown in the past but lighten up to remain back in the future.

We should dance and flow with peace that God gives to us and not let the past interfere with the peace.

This is my poem I have written to describe the feelings/actions of peom involved in The Mau Movement .

Soemthing that is important to always remember is that forgiving isn't something that someone sometimes deserve but because you deserve peace after all the pressure.Something I learnt about The Mau Movement that impacted on me is that such ruthless Germans/New Zealanders fired and took peaceful protesters away from their homes and their loved ones.Because they wanted to achieve their independence for the ones who come and through new generations and to always remain in peace.

Cinquain Poem

 LI:Using your skins character to write a cinquain poem to describe them and their reactive styles.

This week is about posting our work that still awaits to be published.This activity is about writing a cinquian poem to describe your favourite skin character.I chose raven because his kind is something I have intrest in,Ghostly character's.Something I found intrest about this activity was writing a cinquain in your own creativty ideas to write a cinquain poem.

Teel Paragraph

 LI:To write a paragraph describing what you would do if you were standing in this season of the game.

This activity we have done during our distance was about Exploring Online Gaming.I have written a teel paragraph about how I would describe if I was standing in the season of the game.This activity is something I have expericenced  about but not the background and history of it.Something I found Interesting about this activity was being able to know about the Online gaming so much people are so into these days.

Writing words

 LI:To solve the problem to find out how many narritive words were written in week 4.

This week our focus is about blogging out fantastic work that we left wandering in our google drive.This DLO explains how I worked out the solution to how many narritive words Mele wrote in week 4.My thinking of how trying to solve the problem is the clues are Mele wrote a narrtive 6000 words in it.In the first week 657 words were written,in the second week 493 words written.In the last clue that left us was 1183 were written in week 4.If you add all the number clues togetehr it give us a total of 2333.If you add 367 our total gives us 6000.Something I found interesting is if you are solving a problem with number use the clues that were left then put them together to create a solution.

Culture

LI:To edit our writing using DRAFT.

This week for writing  LS2  has been focusing on Abstract Noun Poems. Our abstract noun is about culture. An Abstract noun is something that exists but you cannot touch, an abstract noun also comes with metaphors and 5 senses. The 5 senses we use to make our poem powerful is using smell,taste,hear,feeling and see. Something that helped us write our abstract nouns  is using Metaphors , Simile , complex sentences , punctuation, complex sentences and word hippo.The poem starts with a definition of the abstract noun we've chosen and the next sentence starts with it is … using one of the senses.LS2 definition  or using DRAFT is Delete,Rearrange,Fix,Talk.Something I found interesting is being able to work with my partener and learning from eachother.Something I learnt about abstract noun is being able to write a powerful poem that will create a painted picture of words in the readers mind.

Life

 LI:To write an abstract noun senses poem

Today we had a writing task with the whole classroom for Abstract Noun poems.An abstract noun is one that refers to an idea, quality or state.A metaphor is a comparison of two things, saying one thing is the other without using ‘like’ or ‘as’.For this task we also needed to know what the five senses are, they are smell, touch, taste, hear, see.In this activity we learnt how to understand what a metaphor is and how we use them writing.We worked in groups to collaborate on our task.This task was made into a  powerful eye catching DLO.Something we found interesting about doing this task was learning how to properly structure a abstract noun poem.

An example of abstract noun is the poem myself and my group put together by working together and learning from each other.

The five senses are see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. 

A metaphor is a comparison to two things without using as or like. 

An example of a metaphor is where you compare to things together without using like or as.

Something I found interesting about this task was wokring colloborating with my group and being able to learn from what they have to say or show.

Dialogue

 LI:To understand how to use and correctly puncture dialogue when writing.

This week for our writing class we have we recapped what a dialogue text is about, and how to use it. 

This is our DLO we have worked on to reflect our understanding of the purpose of dialogue in writing. 

An example of how to use dialogue is:

“Are you new here?” questioned Mahdi.

“Yes, I am new here, can you please take me to room 7?”  replied James

“Sorry I’m actually new here. I was about to ask you if you wanted to be my friend,” awkwardly said Mahdi.

Something I found interesting about dialogue is that theres more different ways to write instead of saying said.

Cinquain Poem

 LI:To write a cinquain poem thats describes a sport 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 got learn what a cinquain poem was and how to understand the cinquain structure.

 

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. Adjectives is a word that describes more about a noun. Adverb is something that describes a place or time 

Settings

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

As the currents of the angelic navy waves washed upon the shore ,it immediately left drenched seaweed and sand marks behind . The uneven path of rocks bunched together making its way to its mysterious destination . As I slowly approach the currents of the ocean the humble and celestial sunset slowly dissolved into the fluffy clouds. I closed my eyes and breathe into the glorious calm salt air and open my eyes and saw a figure of heaven on Earth , it was like a island of blessing . Seeing a breathtaking view was just a graceful moment anyone could of enjoyed.

• A 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 got to expercience more about settings and how to use powerful words to make my story more descriptive .

5 minutes of Camp

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

Splashing in the beauty of nature .

As I was slowly approaching the beautiful mix of green and blue water in fear, the water was  steadily flowing down and off the waterfall into the river. A voice gently echoed saying ‘’next person ‘’,knowing that I was the next person up . My heart felt like it was beating on the outside of my chest like it was going to fall out and then  my legs started to quiver like the wind overtook my soul  . 

When I took the first step into the freezing water it felt like i set foot into a big deep hole in the middle of the pacific  ocean out of nowhere , As the instructor was holding the kayak  I slowly lowered my body onto the Canoe I felt the Canoe raised  off the shallow and move towards the waterfall like entering a island of a magnificent,waterfall and beautiful flying species .

While the water guided my Canoe towards deepness i quivered so hard while placing the paddle that looked like a double sided ice cream scooper into my hands , when I finally had a good grip on the paddle while my knuckles were facing the beautiful white fluffy clouds in the great light blue sky as the sun slowly going behind , through the white clouds as each person slowly floated off the shallow water and off they went scooping left and right with the long lighted paddle  . 

When I first laid my paddle into the water i was suspiciously drawing near  a tall rock facing out of the water and then i tried my best to try and avoid smacking into the rock but with no hesitation i smacked into it, it felt like my soul was washed outside of my body when the wind flowed past . When I felt the wind cross by It felt like It took my confidence with it but then I breathed slowly and calmly and then confidence hit me that's when I started to get the hang of it and I started to paddle around the rock and slowly paddle towards a roundabout gap near the waterfall . There was seaweed hanging off the side of the wall and it was like swinging forward and backward while following the directions of the wind . 

While I was still trying to overcome my fear,half of my body was scared and wanted to give up but my other half of my body told me to keep going and overcome my fears. When I was still struggling I realized and thought to myself “Just have faith in yourself because  I know you can do It, then I started to believe In myself and have fun because I was by a beautiful waterfall on a beautiful day while birds of Tanemahuta were flying around looking above and beneath and then I knew I had the courage to believe in myself and just go with the tide .In the end of struggling how to have faith in myself all I knew I was missing a bit of faith and I needed to believe In myself even when no one did , but I took a risk and I overcame my fear by putting  a little bit faith In myself  . 

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 acivity interesting because doing a recount of camp is to help me by hearing other people's idea's and what they thoiught andnidd in their recount and being able to have faith in myself .

Why do we use TEEL paragraphs

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

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 about what a TEEL paragraph is and an example of a TEEl paragraph for the reader who is reading the text. I enjoyed this activity because i got to understand more about a TEEL paragraph and to help set an example to others about an example of doing paragraphs and how you can use it . Something i found interesting was writing an example to other readers to understand more about a TEEL Paragraph and being able to use my opinion that can set an example of a TEEL paragraph to others .

• 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...

Illustrated Story

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

Our challenge this week was to create a pourquoi story that we would illustrate and share with our junior classes. A pourquoi story tells us why something is the way It Is Our story tells why/how… This morning we shared our stories with Room 2 and Room 4, and they loved listening to them. I enjoyed how they were respectful and waited patiently because i didn't now I had the confidence to talk in front of three classes but I did it for Mrs Anderson and I chose to make her proud and not let her down , Ellenora was so confident to talk even though she didn't want to but we did our best and we read to Room 2 Room 4 and LS2 .

Why is it important to use our PBS Care values

 LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs .

This week we have been revisiting  explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. I have been working with Hosea and Ellenora on our explanation about our PBS care values Confidence , Attitude , Respect and Excellence and Innovation we have witten 4 paragraphs of teel to every care value and teel stands for Topic sentence , Explain , Evidence and Link .  Me , Hosea and Ellenora use all of our opinion to come up with 4 paragraphs for  teel that represents each PBS care values and we have made an screencastify about our 16 paragraphs of our care values , something i found interesting about writing about an explanation is being able to understand how to write a TEEL paragraph and being able to share my ideas and communicate with others .

Explanation

 LI: To create a  Explanation about plastic pollution .

Why is it important to make wise choices ? 

Rhetorical question : Why do people not care about saving our sea animals from plastic pollution ? 

As a result of plastic pollution our sea animals are  slowly dying around the ocean of our globe from suffering  by confusing food and plastic or  rubbish together and eating the rubbish and causing them to die , unable to breathe and their little bodies filled with a big amount of rubbish . Because of the pollution happening around the world the causes of animals to die in such a horrible way is because people's  careless actions are  harming innocent  sea animals from not making wise choices and chooses to hurt our sea creature without realizing how much animals they are putting in danger . 

 People’s careless action by throwing rubbish and walking away like they aint gonna kill no sea creatures but actually one piece of rubbish or rubbish can affect every sea animal and every person because the germs from someone  that are on the rubbish and you touch it can  give u disease . 

You can stop the plastic pollution that is happening around the world  by making wise choices and putting your rubbish in the bin and realize  how much animals you have made suffer by one piece of rubbish  . We can also help  our sea creatures  live a better life by  having to be a sensible leader and care for the environment by putting our rubbish in the bin and making wise choices , People who litter the wind are able to blow the  rubbish to the drains and the drain full of rubbish leads the rubbish  to the ocean and makes innocent sea animals suffer by eating rubbish or have been trapped and are unable to breathe or eat because of the amount of  plastic they have been eating could be able to block  there oxygen and make them suffer to death .

Today for writing Mrs Linda's group were working together to create a started plan off and then create our own Explanation story about plastic pollution . First we had to come up with an rhetorical question and then write more information about what we thought about our story and then write like what we could help to stop plastic pollution and what we thought about sea animals dying .

Writing 5-7-10

LI: To use 5-7-10 to write creatively

Lightning never strikes twice, does it?

That was the question that occupied their frightened minds as they crouched, huddling together, next the pile of dusty sacks in the base of the windmill…  

While a little group of friends from a nearby village  huddling together in a cold abandoned windmill while there is a big storm happening outside.Many think that It was a good decision to stay in the windmill and hide under something while there is a storm happening and some think that the lightning might strike and leave a fire on the top.

  What might happen next ?  While the little group of friends still huddle In a group of frightened thoughts about if they can be back  at home with their loved ones and have dinner with their little group of family .

 Well I've seen a thunderstorm. It was not a good experience for me and my family. We were in our house while there was light striking from the clouds to the ground and seeing my family frightened from the noises and light had my heart beating real fast to the point I thought something bad was going to happen. The noises of the lighting were like a thunderclap or a peal of thunder.

 What causes a thunderstorm? A thunderstorm is caused by mixing warm air and cold air . What can lighting cause? Lighting can cause heavy rain , Strong wind , Hail and tornadoes .  Seeing people lose homes and their loved ones in a Thunderstorm , Tornadoes or tsunami makes me feel like never being in these situations again .

This week me and Sakshi worked together to do the the 5-7-10 writing challenge . Mrs Anderson gave us picture and a starter to finish our story by being creative and using Draft ( D- delete , R- rearrange, A- add, T- Talk) to make our story more creative and interesting. Me and Sakshi had to write a paragraph individually for five minutes and then talk for seven minutes and give feedback and tell each other what we need to change or what we need to add . Doing this task with Sakshi helped build sharing my ideas and making a creative story .

Maritime Museum Adventure

LI: To write a recount about something in the past. For the maritime museum trip we had to write a recount about the trip we went to on Wednesday the 26 of February. We went to the Maritime Museum because we are learning about explorers and adventures.

In the morning LS2 and room 5 went to the maritime museum because we are learning about explorers and adventurers.First we got told the rules. Our instructor Lee separated the class into two groups, group A and B. Group A stayed back and group B explored the museum. Group A Learnt about the many explorers that travelled the world and then guided us on a tour in the museum. He talked about the many explorers who travelled around the world.

He taught us for one hour then group A and group B switched places and then group A went to explore while group B stayed in the classroom. Group A saw many displays about the boats and about the explorers.

Going into lunch everyone came into the room and got their thing to go to the silo park. We went over one bridge and had to walk a bit more till we got to the silo park. All the juniors were happy and ran to the park as fast as they could carry themselves. 30 minutes passed and we had to leave so we could get into the bus. When we got onto the bus I felt very happy because I learnt about a huge part of New Zealand history and I could see the displays about the boat, explores, and the birds.