Lonley life

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 you make some inferences about what I have written.

Do you think the elderly man is happy?

Observant Orienteering

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 was 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, Ajay

Buzzing 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 sqaures south 2 sqaures west 2 sqaures south 2 sqaures. north 2 sqaures east 3 sqaures south 1 sqaures east 1 sqaures west 2 sqaures north 2 sqaures west 1 sqaures. 

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

Gorgeous Giants

Hi kiwis,

I have made a pixel art on what it would be like to live on the back of a animal, the animal I chose was a turtle. This is what I think it would look like if i had to live on the back of a turtle.

I don´t think it would be possible to live on the back of a animal because well it just wouldnt work. If we found  some sort of dinosaur sized animal maybe we could but right now there isn´t an animal that would be big enough. If I did live on a animal I would live with my family.

Do you think that you could live on animal? What animal would you live on? See you next time.     

Struggling Survival

Hi kiwis

In literacy we have been reading Going Solo by Roald Dahl. It tells his story from where Boy left off. 

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.Going Solo is a great novel that I would recommend you read. I did an animatin on the story hope you like it? And if you could make something similar that would be awsome. See you next time.

Magic math

Hi kiwis,
I have made two 3d models of areas in the house that I have created. The top one is a study which I think turned out well. And the other one is a kids bedroom. Which has more stuff in it than the study but I think the study is better. What one do you like? Could you make your own rooms? If you want to here is the site. See you next time.

Scary snake

Hi kiwis,
This is my favourite and best piece of writing I have done for literacy. My teachers said it was one of the best ones that day. And it made me very happy. The writing I did is called suspense writing if you have read the goosebumps books you might know what it is. But suspense writing is short sentences, unanswered questions and stuff like that. I would love to see a piece of writing by you. See you next time.

Amazing art

Hi kiwis,
For our Friday task today I chose to do some 90 second art. I have done 6 different pieces of art and my bubble told me what they think about each piece of art. Tell me what one is your favour one? And maybe you could do some 90 second art?. Her is the link to the site that I used. See you next time. 

MooshWorld

Hi kiwis,
there are lots of animals on the planet Mooshworld and I have made a new one. Called the Mushter this is actually quite an old idea of mine so I made it. As you can see it says clan that is because there are different types and clans of Mooshters. The task set by the teachers was to create a new animal. I decided to make mine a card to show its habitat and  different traits. Do you like it? Can you make your own animal? It can be a mix of a few animals or a completly new one. See you next time.             

Exciting Emoji

Hi, here are the answers to my emoji idioms from my post last week.

1. Early bird gets the worm

2. Sitting ducks

3. Batman

4. What dose the fox say

5. Time bomb

6. Raning cat's and dog's

So those are the answers to the emoji idioms. How many did you get right?