William Pike

Last week on Friday all of Te Ngahere were doing activities based on a man called William Pike. We also watched a webinar about him. He told us about climbing Mt. Scott and a lot of other things too. We made a google drawing with our answers to some questions that had been set up for us. Two of the questions were related to a story we read earlier in the year. I enjoyed it and wish to do it again. Here is my drawing.

My Reading About the Story: Curse of Being Pharaoh

Earlier in the term, the class did a presentation about a story called Curse of Being Pharaoh we had to answer comprehension question. I really enjoyed making the presentation. The questions for this activity were fun to do while you summarized what you read. I would like to do it again on a different story. Our WALT was WALT answer comprehension questions.

My Fabulous Four Shot Video

Link: Four Shot Video

A few weeks ago we started a new project in Te Ngahere. It is called Lights! Camera! Action! I am really enjoying it and making the awesome films. The films had to be made out of a four shot video. My group Molly, Mishaela, Lucy, Astin and I made our one on the senior playground. The shots are called establishing shot, long shot, medium shot and the close up. Our WALT was WALT tell a story with four shots. I hope you like our video you can also see it on YouTube.

My Important Informational Rebel Report

For the last five weeks of this term we have been writing informational reports. Our WALT has been WALT write an informational report but since we got to workshops the WALT sometimes changes. The first piece of writing we wrote about a country of our chose and each paragraph was a different topic. My four subtopics were currency, leaders, population and the language. After that we wrote others. I wrote about animals in the second, sports in the third, famous women in the fourth and I am working on famous men now. The country I have chosen is Norway and all of our reports will be about our chosen country

My Proper Nouns and Common Nouns Drawing

 
Last week in Te Ngahere we learnt how to use proper nouns and what the difference between common and proper nouns are. Our WALT was WALT know how to use common and proper nouns. The purpose was to use capitals for the correct words because we are writing reports about countries and Te Ngahere are not very good at using proper nouns.

My Reading Goals

Last week Te Ngahere made our reading goals for term 3. Our WALT was we are learning to identify our learning goals. To select our new goals we had to come down to the mat as a reading group and say what we did not know how to do our what it was. Then Whaea Chrissy shared the document with us and then we had to ctrl c ctrl v them onto our goals presentation and date them. After they were greened on the hand in sheet we were then allowed to make the google drawing, as you can see.

Wonderfully Weird Writing Goals

Last week Te Ngahere made our term 3 writing goals. Our WALT for this was we are learning to identify our writing goals. We had to go to the writing toolkit and find what rubric we are.  I need to learn rubric 6 for organization and rubric 5 for sentence structure. Then we had to check last terms goals and see what we had not learned. I am getting really good at using my semicolons and metaphors, next term I think I will have accomplished them.