Exploring our national current events

L.I: To identify author’s purpose.

These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map.

Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport

L.I: To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me form an opinion.

Today we learned about why we should have masks on public transport. We made a provocation about it. We worked in our table groups to make this. We had different opinions or ideas about masks on public transport and write a yes or no section telling us why we should and why we shouldn't have masks on public transport

Inertia

L.I. To find out what inertia is

Today we were learning about what inertia is. Me and my group has created a Slide about the different types of inertia. The inertia of rest, the inertia of direction and the inertia of movement. Me watched a couple of videos of what it is and what it does.

MRSCGREN

L.I To learn the meaning of MRSCGREN

The plant has a lot of qualities and different features. This week we were learning about the qualities of different living things which is MRS C GREN and our group choose a plant. MRS C GREN means Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Cell, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrients. The thing that I liked about this task is that we all worked on seperate letters to complete the task.

NZ Timeline

L.I: To read the information in the text, think about what you have read and form an opinion

For the past week my group The Kiwi group have been working on an NZ Timeline from way back to the 1840 - 2020. It was fun finding the information for the timeline's. It went from the treaty of waitangi to the on going coronavirus (Make sure to wash and sanitize you hands!) The our teacher (Mrs Anderson) helped us with the evaluation. We picked 3 most important things we researched about (Treaty of Waitangi, Coronavirus and women suffrage) and helped us use this information to form our opinion. One thing i've learned was to look at all the information before make an opinion

Charting our islands

Today for reading we were finding about the early explorers Kupe and Captain James Cook. First we summarised about the word that were important in the story of kupe. Then we asked some questions and picked 3 that we could awnser. after that we found some word's we didn't understand then we used our searching skills to fnd out the words we didn't know. Then for our word bank we had the word navigate and it was difficult to find other words relating to navigate. After that we talked about the problems from the past and the present. Then we linked our Venn Diagram to the slide so when you click on the venn diagram you can see the actual venn diagram. Finally we've  completed our work of with our question matrix.

Kupe v Captain Cook

Our Group (Kiwi Group) made a venn diagram all about kupe and captain cook. We researched about both of them and they were brave men who traveled through the seas to find island to claim as thier own. Kupe was the first to discover the island of New Zealand and captain cook was the second to discover it.

Collaborative Summary

LI. To identify key words in a text and use these words to collaboratively summarise the events in the text.

Today for reading we made a summary about the treaty of waitangi. We had to make a DLO about our 20 words, then we had to chose our 6 important words and turn it into a summary with those six very important words.

To gain trust, the crown asked the Maori chiefs to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Aotearoa. This treaty was meant to be an agreement that gave Maori protection. Then there was conflict over land sales and misunderstandings that took place. The maori also lost land through the native land court. Overtime politicians started to acknowledge this. Later Maori protested about how the government treated them.

Reading Presentation

Today me and my partner Karlos made a summary about what happened in the stone age. When we finished our summary about what happened in the stone age, we also made a kahoot about what and who was in the stone age. We also watched a video to help us understand what was in the stone age back then. The part that I enjoyed was making and sharing the kahoot with my class.

Exploring our national current events

News editors make decisions every day about which current event stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google

Literary Devices

Here is my link to my DLO

Mrs Andeson challenged us to make a DLO on our google docs without opening another tab to find images or links to other sites. It was hard but me and my partner got it done

Major Yuri Gagarin

This week for reading we used our creative skills to create an animation or
an explainer movie about Yuri Gagarin, in groups. My group and I decided
to create an animation. Before we created the animation, we planned it as
a group. On a piece of paper we drew a S to include the information we wan
ted about Yuri Gagarin from the start to the finish. A fact about Yuri Gagarin
is that he was the first cosmonaut to orbit Earth in Vostok 1. After planning
the animation, we started to create our animation. We chose a leader to tell
us our job of creating our animation. We all decided that Chavda was the rig
ht leader of our group. My group and I worked together as a team and help
ed each other to complete our animation. I think that everyone in my group
had great create skills and are really talented in drawing digitally.

Yuri's Diary by Jayden and Jonathan

Photo by Bluesnap/ Free Use

Vostok 1 was starting to move and I felt nervous, scared and very excited to blast off into unknown. My chair was shaking. I heard over the radio, “ready for blast off!” I shouted back “YES SIR!” I really was proud to be a part of the Soviet Union.

I slowly opened my eyes that had been shut tight the whole way up and looked out of the window in front of me. I saw the clouds, oceans and land that made up earth. It was an incredible sight. I still can’t believe no one else has seen this picture!

The rockets boosters detached from the Vostok 1. Time for landing was getting closer,. It got intense and the rocket was falling down quickly. My job was to survive this mission so I had to pull the lever for the re-entry, also known as the escape lever. As my parachute opened I heard a soviet voice say “Hello are you there?” Our conversation went something like this:

“Hello?”

“Thank goodness!” This was followed by loud cheers as I was the first man to orbit the earth and return safely.

This week we read about Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth. To show our understanding of the story Jonathan and I wrote Yuri Gagarin's diary entry for the 13th April 1961, the day after he survived the first manned mission to space.

The Boy On A Bike

For writing we read a book about a boy named Mac who wanted to raise money to the St Johns so he said he was going to ride his bike from wellington to cape reinga. His paresnt thought no so his dad named craig came along with him to ride. He was excited because he thought it was going to be fun and it actually was they camped through the night ate alot and then got back to riding again. They also rode 3,000 kilometers together.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

This week I created a DLO about Waitangi. I worked with Avalon, Sandra and Jayden. We needed to create three summaries about each part of the story. The story was about the Treaty of Waitangi. Maori Chiefs wanted a treaty with the British because pakeha settlers were taking their land and not following any laws. On 6th February 1840 the treaty between Maori and pakeha was signed at Waitangi. New Zealand. After the Treaty was signed by the Maori the British people encouraged the Maori to sell their land because more and more Pakeha were coming to New Zealand.

Find, Draw, Animate, Act

LI: to learn a whole bunch of new words.
For reading we had to do a find,draw,animate and act slide about new vocabulary and understand it as well. The main words were opulent, fetid, encroach and thwart and then we haq dto put it in one of thye slides and draw or find or animate or act it out.

Infering

L.I is to infer thoughts and emotions.

For reading we had to write about what happened in the video for the birds.

Erik the viking raider

L.I is to identify the underlying morals/themes/explanation in Myths, Legends and Fairy tale

This week Me and Leon had to chose a book first out of Born to fly, Erik the viking raider and Odysseus the warrior we had to chose and then read then make a DLO about the book. We chose Erik the viking raider because we thought that it would be great to discover new things about viking raiders and what they do.

Izanagi and izanami

LI: to identify the purpose of narratives.

Counting Kakahi

 L.I to identify keywords from a text
today in Mr Wong's reading groups we did a concept star about counting Kakahi