Reaserching maps

L.I 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 Greek Mythology vocabulary and identify Greek places on the map.

I found this activity interesting because i've learnt more about the places and details of greece history. 

Aciont history

 L.I to organize and research, words that connect to ancient greek. 

This week, David as been teaching and expanding our knowledge about greek mythology. Greek Mythology is a large collection of stories, started in Ancient Greece, about the beginning of the world, and the lives and adventures of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. 

In this activity David has explained that we were acquired to organize these words, into the categories: People, Places, Government, War and Culture. The list of words can be seen on slide three, as well as the organization. We all collaborated together to get this done.

I really enjoyed this activity because it has taught me so much new words. I also enjoyed learning and growing my knowledge on greek mythology. 

Kidness

 LI: To write a abstract noun senses poem 

This week for writing we wrote abstract noun poems in pairs. An abstract noun is something that exists but cannot be touched. Our abstract noun poem was about happiness. An abstract noun includes the 5 senses (Touch/ feel, taste, hear, see and smell), punctuation ( Capital letters, .), complex sentences, metaphors and similes After we finished writing our poems we used the DRAFT (Delete, Rearrange, Add, Fix, Talk)  process to check our poem, with draft we can make correct errors in our writing

Success Poem

LI: To write a 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.

Creative writing

 LI: To understand how to use descriptive words to make your writing more interesting.

• Our focus for writing this week was to use descriptive writing, which means using words that are powerful, making your text more exciting to read and add more detail into your writing. We were tasked to work collaboratively in pairs to complete this task. 

• Our task was to describe one of the two pictures that we were given. To make this task easier we would use our prior knowledge of sentence structures, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and descriptive words to create a piece of writing that uses descriptive words to make the text exciting to read. 

Cinquain Poem

 LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star

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  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 to use words with more meaning.

Compound Sentence

This week for writing  we where learning about verbs and nouns. Verbs are something that u are doing or a action. A noun is a name of a person or a name of a place like for example my name is Afa and i go to Panmure Bridge school. I found this activitie fun and cool.

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 porquoi story that we would illustrate and share with our junior classes. A porquoi 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 doing this story because I got to work collaboratively with my friends and were very creative with our animated story.

Why is it important to use our PBS CARE value

LI:To write a explanation using TEEL paragraph 

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. We found it interesting the way the paragraphs all connected at the end and you could see the links between the ideas.

 

The screencastify link of us reading our explanation can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-AP49JBc3HQF-xj05YX_7yWdG22lcdK/view

Why is it important to make wise choices?

 LI:To structure and write an explanation.

Why is it important to make wise choices?

Did you know there are 8 million tons of plastic that end up in our ocean every year?

Because of this millions of  sea animals die every year. How would you feel if there was a plastic net tied around your neck and stopping you from breathing,how would you feel if a plastic straw is stuck up your nose,how would you feel if you were swimming in plastic.. How would you feel if you were eating plastic. Do you like fish and chips if you do then there might not be any more fish because they're dying from the plastic and if you want to save them and many more sea animals jest by throwing your our someone's rubbish in the bin and remember if you throw one rabbis in the bin you are saving one sea animal.

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we had to write a paragraph  that had to do with plastic pollution did u know that we dropped less plastic than last year .did u know last year we dropped 5 trillion pieces of plastic and this year we dropped  5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean.

Hot cake recipe

LI: To structure and write a procedural text

For writing we have been learning how to write a procedural text. To do this we used the recipe we followed at Tech. This procedure tells the reader how to make hot cakes. Before we wrote this we worked collaboratively to order the pictures Mrs Anderson took of us making the hotcakes. Once we had done that we matched each photo with a verb. A verb is an action word and tells anyone following the recipe what they need to do. After that we use the verbs as sentence starters and collaboratively wrote a list of instructions.

Exploring provocation

LI:To consider both

this week we have been exploring both sides of  a provocation. our provocation should nz become a cashless society?after considering both perspectives sides we think no  because if there was a homeless person we will not be able to give them money and if you were to lose the card and you can not find it how are you going to buy food.
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