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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Creepy castle

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog! This week on Monday, Mrs Earl our amazing Principal came into the class and taught about Shade o meteres, Vocabulary Vaults, Averbial phrases, repetitions and rhetorical questions. Although I wasn't at school that day, I had some great friends to tell me EVERYTHING!

Shade o meter:
A shade o meter is a way of finding out better ways to write boring words. You put the not-so-good word in the middle, and think of new ways to say it. The worse words go underneath and the better ones go above. Here is an example of a shade o meter.
Vocabulary Vault:
A Vocabulary Vault is a thing that is sort of like a shade o meter, it changes not interesting words into interesting words. Here is an example of a Vocabulary Vault:
Adverbial Phrases, repetitions and rhetorical questions:
An adverbial phrase it telling what time of the day it is. For example: As the sun sets. Or: When the dawn awakens.

A reputition is when you repeat the same thing in a different way. You don't say the same thing, you say it again but in another way. For example: The wind is cold. The wind is freezing. The wind is turning people into ice., See how they don't say the same thing but they sort of do?

Rhetorical questions are when you ask a question that you don't mean to be answered. They say something like: "When will this rain stop!?", because no one will answer,  "At 2:00", will they? so you don't really want them to answer a rhetorical question.

Once we had learnt about all that, we had to create a 9 sentence story about one of these two pictures:



I chose the one on the right. My story is a short paragraph that I hope to add more onto soon, but for now this is my story:


As the Moon shone brightly the girl walked up the castle. She was as scared as a cat. She walked closer getting goosebumps as she walked. Opening the door of the haunted abandoned castle, she walked inside, and said, “Hello? Anyone home?” The girl turned on her torch and shone it everywhere. She was standing in the middle of a haunted freezer. At least, it was like that. But then she heard a growl. It sounded like it was right next to her so she ran up the creaky stairs.She was scared. She was worried. She was terrified.     Will she survive?

Thank you for reading my blog.  What do you think should happen next to the girl? Please give me some ideas.








Thursday, June 11, 2020

Cool Quiz

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog! This week we were tasked to create something to show our learning about using reversibility to solve division problems.

I created a quiz because I have never done one before and wanted to try something new instead of just a boring old poster. Here is my slide.





Click the button to play the quiz!

Have you ever played a math quiz?

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Etiquette Emails

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog! This week we have been learning how to write a good email, or, etiquette email. We learnt with an example of a perfect email, and posters, articles and videos of how to write a good email. Then when we were with full knowledge of email writing, we created once again something to share our learning. This is the slideshow I created.



Thank you for reading. I hope you learnt something new.

Has this helped you with email writing? If it has, what has it helped you with?

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Dazzling Division

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog! Today I am going to show you my learning about using place value to solve multiplication and division problems.

I created a poster to share my learning, about division. The poster includes my new learning, with the strategy I learnt. This strategy is easier for me because I can work it out in my head and in a book.

This strategy is quick, easy and fun! Did you learn anything new from this blog?

Marvellous Math Multiplication

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog! This week for math we are learning how to solve multiplication and division problems using place value. This is my poster of how to do multiplication.








To solve this I needed to brake up the question to make it easier to solve. Then using my own knowledge I worked out the answer. This way made it faster to solve things in my head and in a book.

This strategy is quick, easy and fun. If someone asked you to solve a math question, which strategy would you use?