Greek Mythology

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the Greek gods

Today David shared his 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. We earn CARE award badges in year 7 and 8 to show that we understand our school values. In this activity we used our smart searching skills to find information to help us complete the table. 

I found this activity fun and enjoyable because we learnt about diffrent kinds of gods and finding facts about the gods. 

The Greek god I found most interesting was hestia because she Maintained fire

Luxury

L.I To use metaphors and the five senses to describe the abstract noun.

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. 

Success Poem

Descriptive writing

LI-To understand how to use descriptive words to make your writing mor intresting

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 . 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 with descriptive words to make the text exciting to read. And has more information to describe a turtal with powerfull descriptive words. 

LI: To consider both perspectives.

We were tasked to read the story about Lake Taupo to understand if the story was fact or story makes sense by saying if the story is true or fake. We wrote our opinion to see that why we picked which side to see if it was right or wrong. We wrote that taupo says according to legend which means it happened but actually is true.

Main Idea

 LI: To identify the main ideas in the text.

  

First to start off the task we watched a video about how Maui slowed down the sun.After watching the video we wrote down the main ideas that happened in the video into this DLO. After finding the inportant Ideas from that we find the four very important ideas. One of the four very important ideas is that Using the flax for ropes slowed the sun. When you find the four very important ideas we found the three vital idean from the four very important ideas. I found this task fun because when you find main ideans from the text that means that you understand the text throughly.

Summary

 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. We used the summarising DLO to help us write what we think happeneds in the in the story is true. First we needed to find 20 inportant words from the story, then we had to find the 6 most important words from the 20 important words. After doing that we used those six words to make a short story about the story. I found this task intersting because I got to summarise a story in fewer words, meaning I understand what they story is about.

Venn Diagram

LI: To find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and text of “ The Beginning "

This week for reading we have been focusing on the differences of two types of ways a story can be said. This week we were finding differences and similarities from the video and text from "the Begining". This text was about our group finding things that are different and simaler bewtweeen the too. In the video verison it shows the seperation of mother earth and father sky, and in the written version it's explain the love for the two. I enjoyed this task because I got to see the differneces and similaritites bewtween two storys.

Lever Diagram

LI: To find information about simple machine 

For inquiry we were learning about simple machine.We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines, there are six types of simple machines. Our challenge was to create diagrams (information picture) to show our diagram, we alo summarised it in 25 words..Simple machines are able to help humans in ways that they, themselves may not be able to. A lever is a simple machine used to lift objects with less amount of force. A lever is a stick that’s able to move backwards and forwards.

Screw

 For inquiry we were learning about simple machine.We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines, there are six types of simple machines. Our challenge was to create diagrams (information picture) to show our diagram, we alo summarised it in 25 words..Simple machines are able to help humans in ways that they, themselves may not be able to. A screw has three main parts, the head, the tip and the threaded shank. It’s also known as an inclined plane with a wedged tip.

Wheel & Axel

 For inquiry we were learning about simple machine.We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines, there are six types of simple machines. Our challenge was to create diagrams (information picture) to show our diagram, we alo summarised it in 25 words..Simple machines are able to help humans in ways that they, themselves may not be able to. A wheel and axle is a two part machine. First the axle is attached to the wheel so it’s able to move very smoothly

Wedge

 For inquiry we were learning about simple machine.We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines, there are six types of simple machines. Our challenge was to create diagrams (information picture) to show our diagram, we alo summarised it in 25 words..Simple machines are able to help humans in ways that they, themselves may not be able to. A wedge is one of the six simple machines. A wedge is also known as an axe. A wedge is also used to stop doors from closing and is able to break things if a lot of force is pushed into the wedge.

Pully Diagram

 LI-to find information about simple machines

For inquiry we are working on simple machines. We created six DLO's about the six simple machines. This DLO is about a simple machine called the pulley. A pulley is a type of simple machine that helps lift an object with less effort used. If more pulleys are used the less effort is used. We created our own drawing of what we see a pulley as.

Inclined plane

 For inquiry we are working on simple machines. We created six DLO's about the six simple machines. This DLO is about a simple machine called the Inclined plane, an inclined plane is An inclined plane is one of the simplest machines.It’s also known as a ramp. A ramp helps your load move  easier to higher levels. We created our own drawing of what we see a pulley as.

This Labled Diagram was fun to work on because we got to learn what the inclined plane is used for.

Class room Expectation

LI: To know what classroom expectations are.

For PB4L we have been talking about what LS2’s expectations were in our classroom. Expectations are set in schools because they help students prepare themselves for their learning.Today we talked about what LS2 expectations are and what we can do to to make sure we know what our expectations are. In LS2, since we are the older kids in the school it is very important to have expectations because the juniors will know what expectations

Current Events

LI: To find the important information in a current event.

LI: To identify the author's purpose.

 This week for Reading we learnt about author's purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to Persuade, Inform, Explain or Entertain (PIE).First we looked at Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the Current Events DLO and answered these questions:

• What is the article about?

• When the article was created?

• Where was the article was made?

• Why the author wrote the article?

• How it was made?

• Why do you think the author wanted you to learn from the article?

Cinquain Poem

 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 ive learnt diffent words to match the person move or type.

Reading path way

 This week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities. One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading because it really intresting by reading books that are fun to read and to explore.

How to stand up to bulies

Today i completed an activity for my silver cofidence badge. The activity I chosed was how to stick up to bulies & how to be cyber safe. We made a DLO of how to stick up to bulies so that people can know if someone bulies them they know what to do. I tried this activity because it can help alot of people who get bulied so that they can be safe with out being harmed.