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Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts

Monday, 17 September 2018

Writing - Why people build bridges explanation



For the past week we have been learning about structures. Our task was to write a explanation about why people build bridges and reasons why bridges are used. In my explanation I have explained why people build bridges, The materials used when building bridges and why the first bridge was constructed. I found this take very helpful because I learnt that before bridges people used canoe's and ferry's to get across rivers.

Monday, 10 September 2018

Writing - Colons illustration


For the past week we have been learning about colons and how to use them in a sentence. To build our knowledge on colons we watched a video and completed a challenge where we had to fill in the colons where we thought it would fit. I found that challenge a bit difficult, but received help from my friends. After that activity we had to pick one of the sentences and illustrate it explaining why the colon is placed there. I found this task very helpful and know that I have expanded by knowledge about colons.

Monday, 3 September 2018

Writing - Sensory Verbs


Today for writing we completed a quick activity learning to use sensory verbs. This activity gave us a sentence and blanked a word out. We had to find the right sensory verb and fill in the blanks. On my first try my results were 10/11 because I went too fast and picked a verb that didn't make any sense. From this activity I have learnt to take my time and read each question carefully.

Thursday, 16 August 2018

Poem - Writing

Camping in the grass `
hunting for my prey,
Camouflaged during,

Image result for leopard clipartthe night and day.
I’m one of  the scariest
Predators of them all
It’s not because I’m mean,
It’s because I’m scary and tall.
I enjoy playing in the wild,
I enjoy being active
Im known for being fast
and my patterns being attractive.


For writing we were learning about poems and the features
in it. We found different poems about different animals on a
website and noticed that they had rhyming couplets and good
cadence (rhythm). This is my poem about leopards, It wasn't that
great, but I had a go.

Thursday, 7 June 2018

Dialogue - Fake Phone texting


Today we used dialogue to hook in the reader and to practice using our punctuation in conversations. We went on a site to make the messages look like people texting on an Iphone. We thought about the character's names and what they're going to talk about. My characters are Billy and James who enjoys playing my favorite game Fortnite. I have enjoyed  learning about dialogue and is eager to put something like this in my narrative.

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

The lost Tourist

                   The lost tourist
I am excited to travel around the world. It was my summer holiday and I had nothing to do. So I planned to travel around the world with my friends and my first destination was to explore the African jungle.  As I land in Africa we drove down to the jungles with experienced people. I see magnificent animals with colourful patterns along their bodies, While we’re walking I decide to take pictures of the endangered Red Crane. After admiring the Red Crane I had a good look around and realised I was lost. I panicked and had an adrenaline rush. I was confused and scared because I was worried about the dangerous animals around me. After the stress I remember being given a big map from the experienced workers incase I got lost. I was trying to find where we started and which trail we were on. The map was huge, but I managed to find my way to the group.

Today for writing my group Tamaki did 5-7-10 writing. 5 - 7 10 writing is when you write for 5 minutes, Buddy read for 7 minutes and edit for 10 minutes. I have enjoyed writing today because this was my first time writing and describing a picture.


Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Remembering our summer


L.I. - Writing to recount
Writing using language features to engage readers

I heard the waves crawling to shore
I felt the warm sea on my palm
I wondered how the sea will look like in the future
I saw the sun glimmering onto the sea
I felt the cool sand between my fingers
I heard the loud seagulls hunting for prey
I wondered why the sea is salty
File:New Chums beach Whangapoua Waikato.jpg
Photo By Piotr Zurek / CC BY 2.0

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Camels Explanation

How the camel has adapted to surviving in the desert
Have you ever thought about how or why Camels live in the Desserts. Camels can live in the Desserts because they are adapted to living in a hot and dry place. A Camel is a mammal with long legs, thick lips, and a humped back. Adapt is to make changes for a purpose to survive and live in hot & dry place for a camel
 
Pads
Camels have pads on their feet and chest to help them walk and lay on the hot sand, They also have webbed feet to walk on the sand much easier.

Eyelashes
Camels have long thick eyelashes to protect them from getting sand or dust getting into their eyes. They have double layers to secure their eyes even more to keep them safe.

Lips
Camels have thick lips to eat twigs, bones and thorns. This lets them eat cactus for water without feeling any pain.


Even though camels aren’t the fastest animal they can help us get through the desert and carry your essentials.


Did you know? Camels can run up to 40 mph



Today for writing we have been learning about how to write an explanation. We decided to write an explanation about how the camel has adapted to their environment. I have learnt an interesting fact about camels, I found out that camels can run up to 40 mph so if your in a rush and stuck in the dessert don't look further and look for a camel.

Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Learning to use synonyms - Freeman


Today for writing we had to edit these sentences and put in more powerful words. I worked collaboratively with Ofa on this task. We found this a little bit hard because at the end we noticed that not all the words we changed made sense when we read out our sentences. Next time I need to remember to check that my sentences make sense. We thought it was fun finding new and different powerful words to use in our writing.

Thursday, 10 August 2017

A or An

In writing we learnt about A and an and how we use it in a story or sentences. These are my examples for a and an . I have learnt that we use an before words starting with vowels or with a silent h eg: It has been an hour since a slept.

Wednesday, 9 August 2017

A or An

Today we were learning to use a and when to use an before a word. If a word begins with a vowel (a e i o u) or a silent h (eg-hour), we use an. I found this fun because I had fun playing with the images and learnt different things today.

Monday, 7 August 2017

Siblings

Siblings
Siblings like mine are curious and very annoying they always want to see what your doing and always tell on you if you are doing something or broke something special. I only have older sisters but younger cousins sometimes they cry very loud and your ears start to tingle.
49 words in 1 minute
They always smell especially babies when they wear nappies, it's so disgusting changing their nappies I can’t believe they can stand the smell it's so horrifying but babies are cute. Babies have very smooth skin and they are cuddly. When the try to walk it like a turtle stuck on its back but one day they learn how to walk and even run maybe one day punch. Older sisters like mine are always up to mischief.

83 words in 2 minutes

Our challenge today was to write our ideas clearly so that they make sense. We had only 4 minutes to do this in, and 1 minute to check our writing. Our task was called 2 words 1 minute we had to choose one of the words then power write for one minute, count our words carry on for 2 more minutes, count our words, then finish with 1 more minute. It was exciting and challenging for ourselves and I enjoyed it .

Thursday, 3 August 2017

Let me tell you some thing about

Let me tell you something about lunchtimes at PBS. Seconds before the bell rings everybody gets excited waiting for the loud sound to hit their ears. As soon as the bell rings everybody rushes like a herd of bison going through a small door. When we get outside I dig my through the bags to find my lunch, it looks almost curved like a colourful basketball made out of clay. While we are eating we wait for somebody to walk down the stairs with a handball. As soon as we see the little round ball we react in excitement and start running down the stairs screaming like a bunch of little girls in a concert. We mark our square in the handball grid making people howl in anger because they got out and taunt in happiness when they skim somebody out. The juniors run down the concrete hill screeching endlessly like a bunch of annoying bees stinging you everytime you look at them. On the field the senior boys are playing rugby scoring tries and running down the field back and forth like a ninja people jumping and flying through the air. They don’t seem to notice some boys on the ground in pain. All this happens while the teachers are in the staffroom resting and watching us like a hawk from distances away. Even though sometimes we are in mischief lunchtimes are always fun.

Today in Writing we have talked about lunchtimes in PBS and what happens at during this time. One of the important things that I did in my writing was to make sure I used powerful words and language features to hook in the readers. I suggested what my buddy had to delete and add to help him make sure his writing made sense. Next time in my writing I need to proofread carefully and slowly.

Friday, 10 March 2017

Why my blog is unique - Explanation

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A blog is an incredible place where people around the world see and comment on your learning. My blog is unique because it has my thinking and ideas, and it is non-identical to other blogs. Did you know that not all blogs have the same features?


My blog is special because it displays all my learning from 2014 when it came alive. During those years I shared my work 310 times with a global audience. That means I have shared my work 310 times with the world! Around 9,500 people have seen my blog since the day it was born.
Each blog post has 3 main parts to it. A title,  a blurb and labels. My title tells people what my post is about. This is important because when the social media sees it they’ll understand what you did. The blurb is a short summary that tells what I have been learning. This is important because it helps my audience understand what I was learning. I label each post so that my work is easy to find. For example if I post a poem I label the poem in my writing folder.


There is a comments section under each post. The comments help you to connect with other people and their blogs. You use the comments sections to give feedback and feedforward. That means you find out what people liked about your work and sometimes they give you ideas to work on. If I reply we can have a learning conversation. That’s better than writing in a book that only your teacher can see.

My blog is original because it has a timeline of my learning since I was in year four. The best part is that you can't throw your blog away but you can throw your books away.
In Writing we learnt about explanation writing we have been learning about explanations since the past 2 weeks. Fraidoon, Miki and I worked with each other and collaborated to write this. This explanation is about Why our blogs is unique. In a explanation there are 4 mains parts which are Title, Introduction, POIPIO (paragraphs of interesting points in oreder), and conclusion.

Friday, 23 September 2016

Empire State Building


In Writing I wrote a narrative about the Empire State Building
this was my decision for a narritive prompt.I learnt all the Narrative
features and that a narritive is a Fiction story.

Friday, 9 September 2016

Writing DLO


LI: to understand the role of verbs in procedural texts.
Task:
we were reading to different text and we were finding all the verbs
and compound verbs.

Friday, 26 August 2016

Poetry


On Writting LS1 had to make a poetry using Nouns,Adjectives,Verbs and Adverbs we had to work independently.I picked to do a Poetry about the sun.I found out that Adverb means that it is a Adjective describing a verb.This helped me because I learnt to use more Information and I used The Yellow,Shiny,Fat.Gleaming sun Traveled fast down the steep,rough road instead of the sun traveled fast down the road.We all used a imagination and had fun.

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Drone Advertisement


In Writting We made a advertisement about a drone it was persuasive Mataio,Fraidoon and I made this.We included Emotive language.