Tag: Reading

Duffys Birthday

Duffy has turned 30, and our school celebrated his birthday with special guest from Duffy homes, everyone enjoyed this event which was held this wednesday at assembely.

We also celebrated Duffys birthday with 2 cakes and cannons! To make the birthday feel like a party we all created hats and boxes where everyone made their own designs with their ideas relating to Duffy, I was one of the presenters and when I looked at our amazing school from on top of the stage, it looked very creative and fantastic.


We talked about how Alan Duff first thought of the idea to make Duffy books in homes, he came up with the idea since in 1992 he visited a school, where he found out that the chrliden from that school came from bookless homes, with no book of thier own they didn’t have much interest in reading, he wanted to make this change.

I really really enjoyed celebrating Duffy’s birthday as it was exciting and the cake was delicious, but overall I am very greatful for Duffy books in homes.

Ancient and modern Olympics

We have been learning about the ancient Olympics and for a task in reading we got to compare the two to see what similarity ancient and modern olympics have.

we used the two circle put together to see what they have in common and what they hold to their self, a thing both the modern and ancient olympic have in common is training, although some things has changed both still train just in different ways, and something the modern Olympics does that the ancient olympic didn’t is let women participate.


I enjoyed comparing the two to see the new ideas the modern Olympics that added.

Name of text

LI: To make connections (self, text, world)
LI: To identify the main ideas – negotiation game
LI: To make inferences about the events in the text using the clues provided by the author.
LI: To use the word ‘because’ to remind us to give a reason for our thinking.

Our guided reading text was ‘Our first Olympians’. We worked collaboratively as a group to unpack the text and answer questions using evidence from the text to support our thinking. All our responses were written in the comments tool. 

 

 

Something I found interesting about this text is how our first athletes placed well even tho they traveled for 5 DAYS straight on a boat, came a bit late and they still managed to place well, violet even won a medal 

Information report, Bengal swamp tigers

LI: to write an information report that informs the reader about the swamp tiger.

We used our knowlge skills to find facts about the Bengal Swamp Tiger. Once we had found the information we needed we made notes but in our own words. We had used these interesting notes to help us write our information report. Information reports give readers with information on a chosen topic by providing them with facts.

Swamp tigers or as you may know them as Panthera tigris tigris are beautiful creatures, but as majestic they may appear. Their extremely dangerous, swamp tigers are also known as MAN-EATER, as strange it may be, swamp tigers don’t prefer fresh water, instead they like and live in saltwater in the mangrove forests.

A swamp tiger grows about 1.5x more than your regular tiger , and is around 1,000 pounds in captivity. Did you know that their homes ‘’Mangroves’’ are muddy places and are getting smaller? This is because we add to our house and cities. It’s also due to pollution.

A swamp tiger usually eats meat which makes it a carnival. Tigers are obligate carnivores, meaning they only can digest meat and eat it all the time. An example of the meat they eat is: turtles,monkeys, humans etc.

The swamp tigers are very protective and totoreval about their habitat, as it says in the opening statement, swamp tigers live in mangroves forests, because of this they can camouflage well and this makes it easier to catch predators, are you aware the swamp tigers are natural hunters?.

Overall the swamp tigers are endangered as they have lots of loss in habitat, the pollution we have caused them by expanding the cities has had a huge impact on the rare swamp tigers, we need to take action to this.

Swamp tigers

LI:To create a multi modal DLO that tells others about swamp tigers

For a task we got learn, take notes, and find information about swamp tigers, here’s some information I found out, if you don’t already know a swamp tiger is a tiger which lives in swamps, they prefere hot over cold enveriments, and they are not found in fresh water, they are found in salt water.

A swamp tiger is beautiful and majestic some say, I also think that as most of them has beutiful eyes, a diet of a swamp tigers mostly contains meat, this is because they are carnival.

The swamp tigers are very protective and sneaky animals, they are mostly protective of their territory, and they camouflage well, this makes it more easy to catch predators

I enjoyed this task and it really strengthen my knowledge about a tiger that I never knew existed.

Leaders We Admire

Our task was to pick an leader we admire and explain what they did to earn our respect, the leader I chose was a Maori Leader named Hone Heke, I respect and admire him because when he found out the british government was undermining his Maori people he was one of the brave Maoris who demanded the removal of all british authority over Maori people, even though war broke out he still fought with confidence and fought for and with his People.

I enjoyed this task because I got to explain why and who I admired as a leader.

Provocation

LI: to understand both sides and opinions

An activerty we got to do in LS2 “learning space 2” was to learn about an event with happened in the past, it was about how two men stole and tried to sell badges which were given to those who sacrificed their lives in war, or to those who lost family because of war, we then learnt that their punishment was 13 years in prison, our group first thought that the punishment wasn’t enought and it doesn’t fit the crime, that was perspective A, we then went around as a class and told each other our opioins so we could maybe change how others thought, when we had done that we had to make a perspective B, for our perspective B we talked about how the punishment did fit the crime, and at the end we had to combined the two to make our last opinion.

I enjoyed this task because I liked the amount of collaboration.

Diya Creating

LI: To follow the instructions to make your own origami diya (diva lamp).

The photo above shows my origami diya (diva lamp). Our first challenge was to watch the video that shows how to fold an origami diya (diva lamp). Before we could start we needed to use a ruler to measure a 20cm square piece of paper to make our own origami square. I found this task challenging because the paper wouldnt go the way I wanted it to go which made it very frustrating, but above all it was really fascinating learning about a diffrent culture.

I found this activity enjoyable and amusing because one of my favourite things to do in class is art and ceative things.

Phares dans la Tempete, la Jument

LI: To use your smart searching skills to find the story behind this picture

Our challenge was to write create a DLO that shows where this lighthouse is and what the story is behind the image. We found out that the Phares dans la Tempete, la Jument is a lighthouse in Ouessant and it is world wide famous as the story which comes with it, the story is how there was a lighthouse keeper what was caught in a really bad storm and there was a holicopter which in his mind was there to save him, but instide it was there to take pictures, because he thought it was there to save him he opened the door to take a look but then and there la jument got his world-press famous photo.

I found this activity interesting because if I never got the chance to learn about this I would have never knew somthing like this could ever happen.

Inchcape Rock

LI: To find and summarise the story behind the poem – On a fine day a ship sailed calmly on sea, No danger in sight the ship rocked among the waves, Abbot of Aberbrothok had placed a Bell on inchcape rock, Marners heard the warning bell when the rock was hiding.The sun which shone beautifully setting on the blue sea, the bell which laid on the inchcape rock was seen.The time of spring gave Sir Ralph a wickden idea, Sir Ralph felt the cunning urge to break the bell, Sir Ralph leaned over his boat cutting the inchcape bell, The bell lowered down as all the bubbles burst around, Sir Ralph sailed away, and scoured the sea many days, The sun stopped shining as darkness and dampness took over, Sir Ralph takes his stand as darkness took a hand, “nothing can be seen” one said confusion came upon them, wind drifted them onwards until the inchcape rock was seen, SIr Ralph teared his hair and, crust himself in agony as below Sir Ralph could hear the bell ring again.

Our challenge was to unpack the story behind the 17 verses of the poem Inchcape Rock by Robert Southy. The part I found interesting was when Sir Ralph got a wickden idea when he felt the cunning urge to break the bell, I found this part very interesting the reason being it gave a interesting plot to the story which gave me a better reason to keep reading so I could see what happened next.

I found this activity thrilling because it was interesting finding new words to use in my 10 word summarise.