Chocolate for breakfast

 Kia ora koutou, welcome back to my blog.

This week we in the Tumu hub have been learning about balanced argumenmts. Our learning intention is, explore different text types, and use use language that is suitable to the topic, audience and purpose and use text features that is appropriate to the purpose. We were tasked to fill in a document about a balanced arguments text this week with the name of the book, arguments against, arguments for, and your opinion. Here is mine!!!!

I hope you enjoyed my poster. What is your opinion on chocolate for breakfast????

Baby- Builders

Kia ora Koutou! Thank you for reading my blog today I am going to share with you my paragraph from the film partly cloudy. In our chunk, we had to include one rhetorical question, one prepositional phrase, and one hyphen. If you you don know what one is, here is what they are.

If you haven seen the film here it is:

The chunk I had to write about was 1:05 seconds into the film to 1:27. Here is what I wrote:

Up in the long blanket of bright blue sky, there was a jungle of clouds, but not just any clouds, baby-builder clouds. These clouds created babies of all sorts, human, dog, cat, chicks and more. One cloud named Misty created a Caramel brown puppy, but the puppy was so bouncy Misty had to create a bone so it would be quiet!  The cloud above Misty made a Baby Boy. This cloud was a girl and had three big buns in a line on her head. The baby cried so much The cloud had to make a football and a helmet to make it happy.Then the stalk got ready to fly away and deliver it. Will the baby make it home safely?

I hope you liked it. If you think I should change something, please tell me!!  What do you think happened after the end of the film?

Bad vs Good blog comments!

This week, I partnered up with Zoe and we  have been learning about what makes a good blog comment vs what makes a bad blog comment. We learnt that a blog comment should include the following:

• Positive sentence

• Thoughtful sentence

• Helpful sentence

• Name at the end

Here is a google drawing showing our learning about what makes a good blog comment

We learnt that bad comments don't include the following:

• Positive sentence

• Helpful sentence

• Thoughtful sentence

Did you like our blog and learn something new from it?

 

Finding Fractions

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today I am going to share with you my new learning on Finding Fractions of whole number. I created a poster to share all of my new learning:



I hope you like my poster! Thank you for reading this blog, Bye!

Have you used this strategy?

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.

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?

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?