Lonely Joe

Kia ora bloggers,

This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell.  When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences.  We want to show them - not tell them.

For example:  Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realised he had just missed the bus.  But instead, I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realised that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now”  You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated.

Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man.  We used Adobe Spark to do this.  

Have a look at my video and see if you can make some inferences about what I have written.

Do you think the elderly man is happy?

Awesome Orientating

Hi Bloggers,

For numeracy this week, we have been learning about grid references and we have been working on 4 and 6 digit grid references.

We learnt that we read across the bottom of the grid first (Eastlings) and then up the side second (Northlings). 

Our task today was to look at an aerial map of our school, write down the 6 digit grid references for the letters that our teacher had put on it, and then go in hunt of those points.  At each point, there were 1 or 2 letters.  Once we had them all, we had to come back into the hub and unscramble the letters to figure out what it spelt.  The secret sentence was ‘Happy Birthday Zoe’.

I really enjoyed the task.  Have you ever had to use grid references before in real life?  What was it for?

See you next time,

Terric work

Kia ora Bloggers,

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something.  An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and
add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference. 
For example,  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that
this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair
nets and this is required in all food factories.

The text that we read a snippet out of was ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.
Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr and Mrs Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr and Mrs Twit. 

Have you read The Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!

Buzzy Bee Bots!

Kia ora Bloggers,

For Numeracy this week we have been looking at compass directions.  We have worked on reading maps using the 8 main directions - North, South, East, West, North-East, South-East, North-West and South-West and then we moved onto using Beebots and our knowledge of compass directions to get a Beebot through the grid to various locations. We had to programme the Beebot with our own algorithm, using forwards, backwards, turn right, turn left and N, S, E, W.  It was important that we regularly tested our algorithm to check we didn’t need to de-bug (find a problem and fix it).

Here is an example of my algorithm: West 2 squares South 2 squares west 2 squares south 2 squares north 2 squares east 3 squares south 1 squares east 1 squares west 2 squares north 2 squares west 1 squares

Have you ever written an algorithm for something?  Have you ever had to use a compass for something?

Fabulous Friyay work

Kia Ora Readers and Bloggers today for our friyay tasks I made a poster on all my six favorite vegas. It was really fun making it. Next week we go back to school! I am kind of sick of online learning. Do you like online learning?

Hi, I'm back! for our other friyay tasks we had to make an overweight pet. It was really fun making it! I used google drawing to make my overweight cat. How this cat moves around it rolls instead of walking cause its to fat! Do you have an overweight pet? what's its name? See you next time!

The Blessed Soldier!

Kia Ora Readers and Bloggers! This week we have been learning about Roald Dahl, particularly the book Going Solo! He went to Africa to work for The Shell Company and he has many adventures there. Some of these are really funny. He then joined the RAF to fly in WW2 I have recreated a part of the story where his plane crashes in the desert. He manages to survive although he is blinded by the crash and badly injured. He does get his sight back eventually. I had so much fun making this animation and I think it's one of my best animations. Have you made an animation? what is your favourite animation? see you next time!

Wonderful Work

Kia ora Readers and Bloggers, today I'm going to show you some of my work. In maths, we got to design our own dream house it was so fun! Have you designed your dream house?

For literacy, I made a Roald Dahl Animation with Fletcher It was really fun making it with him. The animation was about Why shouldn't try and run over a black mamba snake. Have you made an animation before? what is your favourite animation? See you next time!

Beautiful bird house

Kia Ora Readers and Bloggers, Today I made a birdhouse it looks really cool! What materials you need is Cardboard, Tape, glue and wrapping paper! It was quite hard but I still completed it. Have you made a birdhouse? what have you made a birdhouse out of? 

Cool Colors

Kia Ora Readers and Bloggers, Today for our friyay tasks we had to choose some activities. I chose this website called Color Push. It is really fun you have 90 seconds to make a cool painting. You should try it out. Have you tried Color Push? What's your favourite painting?

Super Stained Glass

Hey Readers and Bloggers! Today we had to do Friday activities. Today's activities were about tech.  one of the activities was to make custom stained glass, it's really fun! what you have to do is draw shapes on a piece of paper, then you colour it in, lastly, you put cooking oil on the back of the drawing then pat it with a paper towel. It looks really cool! Have you made custom stained glass? Is it fun? have a nice day and a nice lockdown!

Great Giraffe facts

Hey Bloggers and Readers! Today we had to do a blog post. I did my blog post on the work I had done this week. My work was on giraffes, We had to do an information report on giraffes have a quick read on my task. If you have any feedback please tell me it would be most appreciated have a nice day and a nice lockdown. Do you know facts about giraffes? What's your favourite animal?