Stretching sentences

For our Writing challange me and my reading groups focus is currently on compund and complex sentences. Me and my friend partnered up and collaborated our ideas together so that you can understand the difference between Compund and Complex sentences. We also had a super challange which was really cool and interesting to complete. Our super challnge was to write a letter explaining how Bruno felt looking out of the window and seeing countless people wearing the same exact thing over on the otherside of an endless fence. This task was really fun and nice to complete.

Letter to Grandma

LI: To vary our sentance lengths to create pace and impact.

This week for our writing task we used our reading text Boy in the striped pajamas to try ang get a understanding of what Bruno could have felt when he was moving away from berlin and his grandma. After we had a talk about what we noticed about his behaviour after he left berlin, we wrote a letter to grandma acting as if we were Bruno. After we wrote the letter we used Gemini Gem to check our writing such as checking if it sounds like Bruno, If we inchluded feelings and checking if we compared Berlin to Out with (where he has moved to) this task was really amazing, i think the boy in the striped pajamas really catches my attention.

Bok choy- group 2

For group two´s reading task we read the book Bok choy. After we read the book we chattered together in a group about what we assume about the charecters and what we can tell about someones personality or humor. And then we answered the questions about the charecter and what they mean when they say stuff. Ah sum was the main charecter, he saved a little boy from drowning out in the water. Ah sum took the boy to his little hut offered him food and kept him warm. And we used our imagination and pretend we are they little boy and wrote a thank you letter!

Dear Ah Sum

 

Thank you for saving me from the river and keeping me nice and warm ever since you pulled me out of the river. I’d like to thank you for keeping me safe and bring me back to my family  you for bringing me back because my mum would have felt so worried for me because she would have not seen me for a long time. I’d like to invite you to have dinner with us some time, If you want it does not have to  be dinner it can be the next time you come around and bring some cabbage that you grow in your garden.

 

Building Our class culture

For art we got into groups of 6. We got a picture of a Leader. and we folded the paper into 6 sections and cut them into 6 cubes of the picture. Each cube had a part of the persons face. We did the same to another piece of plain paper. With the six pieces of paper we re drew the picture of the leader that we got onto it. We measured on how big the pieces were and drew it on about the same size with a grey art pencil. After we matched up all the pieces we put them together basically like a puzzle. After that we used the colouring pencils to color in the colours that were in the original picture. And lastly we cut the face out and tapped it all together. With that we made a picture of Will ´ilolihia combinding our imagination and using alot of teamwork and helping one another. We learnt about what he has done and how he fought for equality and justice to the Maori´s samoans tongans and all pacific islanders and protested against the dawn raids with a group named the Polynisian Panthers.

What were they thinking?

LI: To explore the different expectations the people who were there the day the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840

To understand the ‘why’ behind 1840, we stepped into the shoes of the signatories. We used speech bubbles to represent the formal negotiations and thought bubbles to capture the underlying hopes and concerns of the participants. This helped us visualize the complex gap between what was promised and what was expected .

Something we found interesting was the diversty of thoughts among the Māori rangatira. We realized that not everyone was in agreement; some saw the Treaty as a necessary shield against lawless settlers, while others’ thought bubbles were filled with suspicion about losing their independence and traditional way of life.

 

How to honour the Treaty Of Waitangi

LI: To understand what honouring the TOW means.

For inquiry me and my class had a mission to create a DLO that tells us what u can do to honour the treaty or what other people do to honour it. Me and my friend buddied up and found out what you cand do or words you could learn to honour it. Did you know you could also respect and honour the Treaty of Waitangi just by reading Maori words and try to learn to pronounce and speak simple words in Te reo Maori. This is the DLO me and my classmate worked on together and combined our ideas to make. I hope that you can take some of our ideas for yourself to help remember and respect the Treaty of Waitangi. I think it is important to remember it because of the hard working Maori people that signed the TOW and because it is my culture so i should be able to know and speak about this to respect my culture.

Leap of curiosity

Curious owl
At the rise of the moon, the wind gushed at the trees. Leaves sway as they fall to the ground. Branches flowing at the state of the wind. The baby Owl rose from his sleep. Confused he looks up at the rising moon, wide eyed, staring ahead frozen in place not moving his eyes one tiny little bit.

Eventually mama owl awakens from her sleep. Quietly removing her big brown beautiful wings from her eyes. Revealing her face. She then whispers “It is time to fly. ” in a calm, contained tone.

The baby owl looks up at his mum confused ¨Fly? But i dont know how t-¨ before he could finish speaking the mama bird flapped her wings and flapped and flapped until she took off in the air.
He watches his mum slowly disappear into the darkness of the night. Scared and helpless. He tried desperately to flap his wings but he failed miserably. After multiple attempts he eventually gives up. He sighs and goes back to sleep. 

After what feels like an eternity he wakes up from his sleep because a big gust of wind hits him so hard that he nearly gets blown away. Luckily his claws were sharp enough to grip and dig into the branch he was standing on.
He then finds this an opportunity for him to finally fly. So he flaps his wings. And he flaps and flaps until he finally gets lifted of the ground and glides with the air. He flies and glides and eventually he finds his mother.
His mother takes one glance at him and smiles. ¨You did it son! Im so proud of you!¨ he also couldn’t believe it. He did it! He learnt how to fly! Him and his mother both majestically flew away gliding with the air.

This week our teacher read us a book named Fly by night. I buddied up with one of my classmates for this project. We got two pieces of paper and wrote down a babble gabble. Basically something re writing the story in small pictures that doesnt have to look pretty but still explained what the story is about and how it went. On the other piece of paper we wrote down facts about owls and we also took notes on it about owls aswell just so it could be there if we forgot anything. This task was really enjyful and really funny. After that task we went onto a google doc and wrote down a simmular story to the book Fly by night or we could write down and structure the same story of what happened in the fly by night book and learn how to structure a narative. I enjoyed drawing the pictures on the babble gabble.

LI: To correctly structure and write a naraitive

Social influance

LI: To evaluate peer pressure, digital interactions, and social influence.

This week in Inquiry, I learned about social influence. I found out that it’s when other people can change the way you think, feel, or act. I practiced noticing how my friends, family, or even people online can affect the choices I make. I also thought about how we sometimes copy what other people do or try new things because we see them doing it, like trends on social media. Learning about this has helped me understand why I make some of my choices and how the people around me can have an effect on what I do. I’m getting better at noticing it and thinking for myself.

 

Group 2 Johnny Pohe

 

  • LI: To understand how historical context and identity (being the first Māori pilot) influenced an individual’s choices and service.

This week for reading our teacher taught us about Johnny Pohe. Me and my group got together and shared our opinions to everyone and im glad that we could all share our ideas and everyone would listen and be inclusive. After we read a book we went and answered questions that were asked about the book and about Johnny Pohe. We shared why it is important to learn about this subject and why we think we should have more knowledge about this. I am glad that we could collaberate without anyone feeling left out and i enjoyed sharing my ideas and people actually listened. After we answered the questions we made a DLO explaing our opinion and what we think he shouldve done and what he shouldnt have done.

How to use Gemini AI

This DLO that i have created shows you how to use Gemini. Some people might not be familiar with this so me and my class made a DLO explaining what it is and how to use it the correct way. This DLO explains what is it? What does it do? Well just because it is an AI that helps you improve your grammer but it has alot of expectations that comes with it. Make sure that you dont abuse it and ask silly questions or ask it to do your work for you. So before you have a use and checkout Gemini make sure you have a good read of this DLO and make sure you understand what is expected and whats not. Enjoy!