V-bucks Summary

 LI: To summarize what V-bucks are in 25 words.

In this DLO we were asked to summarize what V-bucks are in 25 words. To be put simply V-bucks is the currency that is used in the Fortnite game. V-bucks can be spent on items such as, outfits, emots, pickaxes, and battle passes.  

Console Ad

 LI: To create an ad for a gaming console that we think is best to play games on.

For This weeks online learning we are learning all about online gaming. For our first task we were challenged to create an add for a gaming console that we think is best for playing games such as Playstation, X-box, Nintendo, and many more, The console I chose to advirtise was the PS4 because the PS4 does not lag or glitch making it suitable for playing games without interfernce and also allows you to do other things aswell instead of playing games such as watch movies and many other things.

I enjoyed this task becuase It was fun to explain why we think that a game console is better than another one.

Abstarct Noun

 LI: To edit our writing using DRAFT

Today, we focused on writing abstract noun senses poems. An abstract noun is an existing that cannot be touched or physical obtained such as, happiness, sadness, and anger. Metaphors compare two things without using the words 'like' or 'as'. The five human senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

For this task I worked with my partner  to create a poem using abstract nouns. Our group was given a list of abstract nouns that we can use to write a poem. The abstract noun we choose was culture. We used the five senses to describe what misery sounds, looks, tastes, and smells like while using metaphors to structure a poem correctly.

An abstract noun is a feeling or emotion that cannot be physically touched. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

For example: Happiness is a river of joy that is flowing through my heart. 

The word happiness is the abstract noun and is used to create this metaphor. 

I really enjoyed doing this because I got to work collaboratively and work together in a group and also use powerful words to strengthen the poem to make our poem stand out.

Misery

 LI: To write an abstract noun senses poem

Today, we focused on writing abstract noun senses poems. An abstract noun is an existing that cannot be touched or physical obtained such as, happiness, sadness, and anger. Metaphors compare two things without using the words 'like' or 'as'. The five human senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

For this task we worked collaboratively to create a poem using abstract nouns. Our group was given a list of abstract nouns that we can use to write a poem. The abstract noun we choose was misery. We used the five senses to describe what misery sounds, looks, tastes, and smells like while using metaphors to structure a poem correctly.

An abstract noun is a feeling or emotion that cannot be physically touched. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

For example: Happiness is a river of joy that is flowing through my heart. 

The word happiness is the abstract noun and is used to create this metaphor. 

 really enjoyed doing this because I got to work collaboratively and work together in a group and also use powerful words to strengthen the poem to make our poem stand out.

Dialogue

 LI: To explain and have agood understanding of what dialogue is.

For writing we are learning about dialogue and how dialogue is used in text. for this activity we were given four different scenarios about the story of the little pig we then used the site Ifakemessages.com to write the 5 lines od dialogue to carry on the scenario that we chose. We then put our dialogues onto a DLO and added speech marks and the correct punctation. We then explained what dialogue is and how to use it corectly with punctiation we learnt this by watching a video and thinkg about the perivious activity. 

Cinquain poem

LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a polar bear

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 found it fun to write a cinquain poem about polar bears.

Moment in time

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 help describe and add more detail to our sentences

Adverbs are words that describe verbs such as the lady sat quietly in that sentence there are a combinations of verbs and adjectives where the adjective describes the verb.

 

Settings

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

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 it was fun to use powerful words or adjectives to make our statements more powerful by using word hippo to use powerful words to add to our paragraph.

5 minute of camp

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

 

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. This 5 minute of camp is about me going up on the high beam. The task was to writie a recount thats about five minutes that paints a vivid image of what I am doing my writing about how I felt during this activity. 

I really enjoyed this activity becuase it was fun to think about how I felt while doing some of the activites and it was also fun to becuase it was fun to try and make the recount suspesful and interesting to read about. 

Culture is...

 LI: To write a TEEL paragraph about what we think culture is.

For writing I worked collaboratively to write a TEEL paragraph about what we think culture is the first thing we did was watch videos and take notes about why different cultures are unique and have have different traditions and life styles. We then created a describing wheel or a word wheel that have important keywords that could help us wright our paragraph about culture. TEEL paragraphs are an acronym for Topic sentence, Evidence, Elaborate, and Linking sentences witch creates the acronym TEEL. Culture is the traditions, language, foods, and stories. all of these things are what make every culture different and unique.

I found this activity fun to do because it was interesting to learn about different cultures and there different ways of life or life styles and I really liked to learn about how they can be different but also have some things in common.

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 how TEEL paragraphs are structured. The tittle or the topic sentence should have a clear message of what they paragraphs is about. Then we elaborate by explaining what the topic is about in more detail we then must provide some evidence to backup your point and to prove your point also. then lastly we must link the sentences together for a better understanding of the topic and so the reader can process the information that has been written down. 

I found this activity fun to do becuase it was a reminder and helped me remember how to write quality explanations. 

Illustrated Story

 LI: To write a porquoi (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 creating the images and writing the porquoi story because I got to be creative with the story and using creative ideas to create the story as a group and creating the pictures was also enjoyable becuase we also got to be creative with the colors and the shapes that we used in our comic book.

Why is it important to use the CARE values

LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs.

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 the structure that we are using to write an explanation is TEEl. T stands for topic sentence to hook the reader in make them interested, E stands for elaborate or provide more information about the topic sentence E stands for evidence give some evidence about the topic to strengthen the paragraph.  For this task we worked collaboratively together to create an explanation about why is it important to use the CARE values. Our CARE values at Panmure bridge school are Confident, Attitude, Respect, and Excellence and Innovations. We then created a voice recording of our whole group reading our paragraphs aloud.

Voice recording

Explanation | Making wise choices

 LI: To structure and write an explanation

Why is it important to make wise choices?

Have you ever thought about taking drugs or drinking alcohol or has someone ever forced you or wanted

you to do it?  Some of the major reasons people take drugs is to try to fit in or to feel cool or they go through

peer pressure and end up using drugs, Peer pressure, being pressured by a friend or peer to do something that

you know that is unwise and can have a bad impact on you.

People who take drugs such as Crack, Weed, or  Cocaine use it to feel happy or as a stress reliever to help

forget about something bad that they have experienced but sadly the effects of these drugs do not last very

long so as a result people become addicted and are focused on getting more to feed there hunger in other

words drugs become there number one priority. When people get addicted they will do anything to feed

there hunger. They are tempted to steal money if they run out of it or they will work for people and in return

they get what they want but the consequences are not ideal.

Making a wrong decision doesn't necessarily mean that you are a bad person but is about who you should

start focus on becoming. Taking drugs can also affect your mindset/ way you think can lead to depression

or start to feel anxiety but if younger pupils start to take drugs the side effects could be more harmful the

addiction could be enhanced or feel stronger but younger pupils can also say no and can try avoid these

unwise choices knowing the bad impacts that they can have on there mental and physical health. 

This week for writing we wrote explanations about making wise choices about taking drugs and alcohol and the side effects and consequences of these actions I chose this topic becuase I can use the information gathered from our DARE program. I have learnt the drugs can be a dangerous substance that can be very addictive that can harm our physical and mental body that can effect others that are around us.

5-7-10 Writing

LI: To us 5-7-10 writing strategy to write a story.

Rolling thunder 

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… 

you’re probably wondering how we all got into the frightening situation, well it all started one morning when Vanessa and her two friends, Bryant & Jerall went into the village and they saw a young traveler that looked a bit older than them.  “do you have any stories to tell?” Jerall asked the traveler desperately.

The traveler told the story about the abandoned windmill that lived not too far from here. The windmill was abandoned becuase the old man who lived there noticed that every month huge thunderstorms would occur the thunder would strike once then a while longer would strike again and something would always needed to be repaired but because he did not have enough money to repair the windmill so he went into retirement and died a few years later and left  strange amulet behind that had a lighting symbol on it that when touched would make your hands burn.   

The two kids were scared except for Vanessa. She did not believe the traveler  “How gullible can you guys get this is obviously a hoax” but inside she had started to believe the traveller. “Then how were they supposed to pick it up then?” Bryant asked cuiorsly “ They had to wear special gloves to pick it up. The traveller then took out a pair of gloves and the amulet that was mentioned in the story.

She then told her friends that we are going to go to the windmill tomorrow to see if thy story was really true? Vanessa then pulled out the amulet wearing the gloves Jerall and Bryant thought Vanessa was out of her mind but they agreed anyways to investigate the old windmill.  

The next day Vanessa, Bryant and Jerall traveled up the hill.  Vanessa led them up the hill “up this way!” shouted Vanessa as they were walking up the hill. Vanessa wanted to confront the traveller, while Jerall and Bryant were still worried about Vanessa and were still scared from yesterday. They went on 1st of July because the storms would only occur every month.

They waited until night and they were all sitting apart from each other one the heard the wind howling they all slowly huddled together as it was getting cold they could hear the trees whistling they waited and waited Bryant was angry with Vanessa “we should never have come here into first place!” Bryant shouted at Vanessa “this is all your fa-” as Bryant was about to finish his sentence he was cut off by the huge thunder strike then huddled back with each other.

They were sitting next to a pile of old dusty sacks. “Let's build a wall out of the sacks to surround us” Jerall suggested. They then surrounded themselves with the sacks they then waited and waited then they heard the wind howling again but it was louder they then heard the trees whistling again and it was louder then the sounds began to die down and waited a while longer “I told and they heard for the next thunder strike Vanessa then took out the amulet and waited outside for the next thunderstorm “what are you doing?” Bryant said Vanessa didn’t say anything and waited for the next lighting strike then BANG! Bryant and Jerall couldn’t believe there eyes Vanessa was reflecting the thunder with the magical amulet “come on let's get back to the village!” Vanessa shouted to the others that carefully walked while still reflecting the lighting.  They were all frightened by what had happened then the amulet turned into ash then the magical amulet was not seen again and till that day there were no more thunderstorms

This week for writing we used the 5-7-10 to create a story. we used the pobble 365 sentence starter to start of our story. We had 5 minutes to write the beginning of our story then we have 7 minutes to talk to a friend to share ideas or give advice witch adds up to 14 minutes in total and 10 more minutes to finish off the story.

Ancestor poem

LI: To write a poem to describe our ancestors using the literary devices of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, hyperbole and rhyme.

I tried writing an ancestor poem that talks about my culture and my past. The poem talks about my ancestors and the taonga. Taonga are treasuries or gifts like dance, food, stories, and songs. That has been passed down from generation to generation through practise and through stories and songs. In my poem I used repetition in my ancestor poem as a hook to make it seem more powerful. I used the 5 senses which are vision, sight, hearing, taste and touch, to describe how my ancestors travelled in search of land.

Steps

LI: To practice using suffixes.

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.

Word cline

LI: To expand our vocabulary with powerful words.

For this task me and my partner made a Word Cline. a Word Cline are 5 words that are in order from simple and boring words to powerful words. the words that are in the word cline are similar they mean the same thing put sound different.

These are some examples of a powerful and boring.

Example 1 . This Morning is was cold.

Example 2.  This morning was so chilly that I had to drink a hot cup of coco.

Example 3. This morning it was so icy that i felt like i couldn’t move in the cold

 

weather.

As we keep adding to this word cline words go to boring to more powerful. they can help build our vocabulary and gives more meaning to what we write when we use powerful words. The words go from boring to more powerful as they go up. 

 

Exploring Provocation

This week we have been exploring both sides of provocation. A provocation is an action or feelings that trigger strong feelings about a topic. Our provocation that we focused on this week was 'Should NZ become a cashless Society'. In partners(or groups), we collaborated together to talk about whether or not we should become a cashless society. We thought that we should not become a cashless Society because imagine giving your card that has all of your money to a little kid. It is better with cash because their is a limit. My partner and I have created a DLO showcase this issue in NZ. 

Writing

LI: to identify parts of a narrative.
LI: to investigate figurative language.
WE had to use the characters we made as a group. To make a narrative and each group had to come up with a problem in the story. The two ideas were. Jarell and Patrica steal and alien to solve why he is living I reverse, The are living in LA and natural disasters happen and are trying to figure out why they are happening. we could pick any of the two. we could only right a hook for the story. we had to make the reader want to know more and ask more question about the story.