Organizing and Researching

 LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology .

Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. 

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about the difference between Athens and Sparta.

I found this activity fun because I love learning about the ancient history of the god's and goddess who have onced ruled the world.

The word/place I found most interesting was … because …

Rock Paper Scissors

 LI:To learn how to code the micobit to play rock paper scissors and understand how the flowchart matches the code.

Link To DLO

1. When I shake the micobit, it will choose random number between 1 and 3.
2. I have to make a variable called hand and set this to the random number.
3. If the number is 1 - the micobit will show the symbol for paper.
4. If the number is 2 - the micobit will shwo the symbol for rock.
5. If the number is 3 - the micobit will shwo the symbol for scissors.
6. Something I found interesting about doing this taks is being able to understand the steps of coding.

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.

Did This Happen

LI:To consider both perspectives 

Our group has been focusing on consider both perspectives. Perspectives means a different points of view. Our group has been gathering information of our topic whether it is true or not.The topic was about sacred spots from Maori mythology.One of the myths our group decided to chose was Waipoua forest,Waipoua forest is the creation story of Tane Mahuta creating the Earth by lying between his parents Papatuanuku mother earth and Ranginui the sky father.Tane Mahuta pushed and stretched his parents apart to fight for the light and space for him and his siblings.Something we found interesting about our task given was exploring our researching skills to find the evidence that is true and not about the myth we have chosen above.

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. This text was about Papatuanuku and Ranginui waking up from eternal darkness in earth's first light, and Tane Mahuta (one of their children) separating them to grant his siblings and himself freedom from the darkness. Tawhirimatea was angry at the separation of his parents.

For this task, we found exactly twenty keywords to build an understanding of the text about. Keywords help us understand more in a short amount of time. Then from those twenty words, we chose six of those words to create a summary on. A summary is a short and brief description of the story so that we can understand the text in fewer words.

I enjoyed this task and found it easy because I am familiar with summarising and understanding texts using the key reading comprehension strategies so I can expand my knowledge of a story.

Main Ideas

 LI:To indentify the main ideas in the text 

For reading we have been focusing on the Maui and Sun story.Our task was to identify the main ideas in the text.Our information we have gathered together is our opinions we have mixed together to create a more explained main ideas.Something we learnt from this activity is to read the text and identify all the different main ideas we might find important to vital.Something we found interesting about this activity is being able to identify the main ideas of a text.

Venn Diagram

 LI:Find as many simliarites and different as you can between the video and the text of " The Beggining.

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. This text was about Papatuanuku and Ranginui waking up from eternal darkness in earth's first light, and Tane Mahuta (one of their children) seperating them to grant his siblings and himself freedom from the darkness. Tawhirimatea was angry at the seperation of his parents.

For this task, we watched a video and read a text based off of the Maori story of how the world came to be (In the Beginning). We labelled the main parts of the video version that are not included in the written version, and labelled the main prts of the written version that were not included in the video. In the middle, we labelled the similarities between the two stories.

I really enjoyed this task and found it easy because I am familiar with identifying the key ideas and comparing the two similar but different texts/information sources.