Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn the different tennis techniques.

For tennis we learnt how to volley the ball around we had to hit the ball without it touching the ground and we then did relays with your partners. 

Kiwi Can

LI: to understand what respect is.
We are learning about respect we then talked about what you do to be respect full and how you can respect other people around us. and we then played rock, paper, scissors. and if you lose then you have to play with some one who is on there knees and if you lose then you are out and the other person can stand up. we then played animal choir and we split into Pigs, Dogs, Cats and Tigers if he pointed the water bottle at us then we have to sing your song.     

10 words 5 definitions

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

Guided reading

LI introduced during session and on needs basis.

The reading task I was was working on was to find 10 words in the book that I did not know the meaning of and then finding the definition for only 5 of the words that I had found. the ten words i found were Brandishing, Clutching, Idiocies, Mileage, Sawdust, Penicillin, Ignorant, Formidable, Delve, And Glacial. and I found 5 meanings for only 5 of the words. and i then had to find 10 words that can describe Matilda who is the main character

Macrons

LI: To learn what macrons are used for

We had to get into a new group and we had to to watch the video that explain why Maori People ask where you are from they say it because there is an  understanding that is shared by Maori that everyone is linked and can be related to one another. By asking where you are from, you are looking to make connections to that person.

We then watched a video that explains what the macrons do and what they are used for. there are used to  drag out, stretch, or make the sound of the letter longer we then had to finish of the activity it was to translate the Maori word into English and then we had to write the Maori word but with the macrons in the words.

Smart and legal

LI: to understand the legal use of images

We are learning how to find legal images to use. and we ha to get into groups of 4 and we had to read everything on the slide that talked about how to find legal images we had to read to three different ways. the first one is the slow way, the second is the faster way and the last way is called the very speedy way.

After that we then had to come up with a group name your one was Legacy and we had to get as many points and your teacher had to ask use questions and we had to answer and try to remember what we read. we then had to make a Poster and we had to use one of the three ways to find legal images to use for our poster and we had t to then write what we learnt about finding legal images.

Figurative language

LI To identify the parts of a Narrative
LI To investigate figurative language

For writing we are learning about Figurative language we learnt about Simile's, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, and lastly understatement. A simile is Comparing two things using the word like or as. a Metaphor is Comparing two things without using the words like or as. Personification is Giving human qualities to objects. Hyperbole is Over exaggerating to show strong feelings. And the last one we learnt about was a Understatement it is An expression with less feelings shown
Opposite of a hyperbole. After we learnt about them we had to find examples and write them down and then we had to write a definition down.

Author research

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

LI introduced during session and on needs basis.

We are doing novel studies and we are reading Roald Dahl books and the book i'm reading is called Matilda. and we had to read the novel and do one activity and blog about it and the activity i did was author research. I had to write about Roald Dahl about his family how he became and author and what was his life before he was an author and facts about him. 

Fun facts

1. Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot in WW1
2. He invented over 250 new words
3. Many of his characters in books were based on people he had meet in real life 
4. He spent over four hours writing every single day.
5. Did you know that Dahl was a spy