3v3 Tournament!

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Our reading this week was all about communitys, What makes a community and how can communities help us. We were also focusing on the beatitudes. Our goal was: Making Connections and Synthesising. First we read a "Be" poem. Which was realted to the beatitudes. Then we read about a Man who lives alone for 32 years in a island. 

For the create me and my friend Jasper made a DLO about a Social event that we could do. It also had to have a reasoning about how to would make a community happier. Ours makes everyone happier because everyone will be having a good time and we will come closer because you have to work together. Here it is. 

Would you come to our event?

How to draw a cute little Piggy.

 Ki Ora,

This week for reading we learned about instructions. Reading and Writing were linked this week. Our goal was Purpose of reading - to understand, to think differently. We talked about when it is ok to skim and scan and when it is ok to read the whole thing. When you are baking something or doing instructions you need to read the whole thing or your final product won't be a nice. But if your wanting to decided on 2 books you just skim and scan.

For the create we had to follow these inscrutctions but when didn't know what they were for. Here are the ones I followed. 

Here is what I got.

For our Writing we had to write a set of instructions. that were less than 150 words and less than 8 steps. I made my instructions on how to draw a cute little piggy that I learned how to draw in year 3. It is really simple but is fun and it looks so good if done well. Anyways here it is.

Did you get a Piggy?

My top 3 hobbies in the future.

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This week for reading we kept focusing on being happy. But we learned about how hobbies make you happy. I think they make you happy because they distract you from things that may be affecting your happiness. I also think you don't have to be good at your hobby as long as you enjoy doing it. For the create we had a few options but I chose to do the one where you make up 3 hobbies for the future. Here it is.

Would you do my hobbies?

NEVER GIVE UP!

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This week in reading we have been learning about mindset. We learnd about the 2 different mindsets. Growth and fixed. A growth mindset is when you keep trying at something no matter how hard it is or how much times you have failed at it. Then there is a fixed mindset. They give up after 1 failed attemetmp. They think they can do nothing. 

Then we had to pick a person in life the showed a growth mindset. I pick the NBA Isaiah Thomas. First we need to talk about how Isaiah was only 5 foot and 9 inches tall. The average NBA player is 6'7 and the average player at his position is 6'1. So we was shorter than everybody. But that didn't stop him. Then Isaiah got drafted by the Sacromento Kings in the last pick of the draft. He got drafted 60th of 60. He played a few seasons and got traded to Boston where he went wild. Got 4th in MVP voting and that wasn't even the best bit about the season. Ealir in the year Isaiah's Sister Chyna Thomas died in a car crash. Then when it was meant to be her 23rd birthday Isaiah drop 53 points on the exact day. He must of just had such a growth mindset. He was dertemind to get to the top. 

For the DLO we had to think about our learning and what our biggest takeaway was. Mine was to have grit through everything so I made a little video about my Guinea pigs and how they show Grit. Here it is. 

When have you had to show Grit through something?

  

4 Year Old buys $3500 of ice cream!

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This week for reading our goal was Select from a wide range of genre when reading independently. We had to go to and pick 3 articles from Kiwi kids news that were from 3 different genres. Then we had to read them and write our thoughts about it. Also we had to rewrite the headline. The cool thing we did this week was there was no DLO's.

Title: 4 Year Old buys $3500 worth of ice cream! - Genre: Interest articles.

I think this is funny and sad at the same time. Like how do you let a 4 year old who has Autism on a computer by himself. Also how did you know the address of his aunties house. But luckily people and giving money to the fundraiser. Some shapes that are in this book are. If I could make the title I would change it to : "$3500 worth of Ice Cream bought but by not who you would think." 

Title: Blackcaps into Test Championship Final - Genre: Sport

For me being a cricket fan and liking the blackcaps I quite enjoy how we are in the final. As the time I am writing this it is the 2nd to last day and it is looking like it will be a draw. But it is good how we made it. I would change the title to "Blackcaps get rematch and Lords after World cup lost"

Title: Tornado hits South Auckland - Genre: Weather, National

I give all my prayers to the residents that have had to deal with loved ones being lost or their homes being ruined. I can't believe what I would do if  that happened to me and my family. But what the government is doing is great and I fully respect it. I would change to title to " Tornado Smacks down in Auckland.

Could you eat that much Ice Cream?

Reading W7

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This week for reading we did matariki. We read an aritcle about if Matariki should be a public holiday. If you don't know what Matariki is it's basically a cluster of 9 stars that starts the Maori new year. It is a time of celebrating  with family and friends. Our Goal was : Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. Our DLO was to make a star and at every point and in the middle write if we think Matariki should be a public holiday. Here is mine. 

Do you think Matariki should be a Public Holiday?

Diary of a SUPER SWIMMER.

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This week for Reading we did not have any goals to tick off. We had to pick a fiction book (Which means its fake.) and do a charater web on it. A charater web is like a spiderweb. You put the main charaters name in the middle and then the supporting cast around them. You  have to write a little blurb about what they dod in the book and an adjective to go with their name.We go to pick out of a novel, Graphic novel or a short story. I picked a short story/comic. 

It was called "Diary of a Super Swimmer." It is about a boy named Marcus who can't do any sports but his Dad belives he can. So he signs him up for a swim team. Marcus struggles alot with his swimming and isn't enjoying it. But his family makes him keep going. He does his first race and goes bad, but he the next week we works harder and has another race. Does he win it? Does he embarrass himself? You have to read the book yourself. 

Heres a link if you can't see it.

Have you ever done a Charater web?

  

FANTASTICS!!!

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This week for reading we had to read an article about something and tried to find the Fantastics, Grammaristics and Boomtastics from them. If you don't know what they are I'm here to tell you. Firstly the were made by Jade Considine. They are a wiritng stratergy to make your peice better. The Fantastics include of: Feeling, Asking, Noticing, Touching, Asking, Smelling, Tasting, Imagining and Checking. As you can see the first letter of each of them speel and Fantastics. Each Fantastic is used for different types of writing. Now the Grammaristics and Boomtastics are different. They don't spell out their own name. They include different feauters such as Rhyme, Paragrpahs and other things. My article was about a person coming  to speak about Maori language and how you can get involed. Here is my DLO. 

Have you ever used the Fantastics?

Making Predictions.

 Hello guys today I will be showing you my Reading. For reading our goal was make predictions about the text & look for clues to confirm predictions. We read a book called counting Kakahi and had to make predictions about it. Here is mine. 

Have you ever had to make predictions?

The Biggest Amusement Park IN THE WORLD. PT1

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Hello everyone this is our road it 100 BLOG POSTS. This is blog number 98 so very soon 100 blogs will be on my account. Anyways this week for reading we had to read about Christchruch and how we came back after the massive earthquake we had back in 2011. The first book I read was called reabuilding Christchurch with amazing ideas. It was mainly about how there was a competition in Christchurch to see who could make the best building that Christchruch might need. Some year 7 Girls won it with a dome. The 2nd book was called life in NZ. It was about how we evoled and how we separated from Gondwana. How animals evoled and adapdet. We had to right some points about it. Heres mine. 

Rebuilding Christchurch with amazing ideas

Girls made a dome with Koru sticking out

Some Girls won a contest about a building for Christchurch

Domes are safer than square buildings

The Dome they made had a playground

It was made so people can come together

Eco friendly

Cafe was made out of adobe so it would make the heat passive

Life as NZ

New Zealnad was all animals before Humans came

Some plants and animals are only found in NZ

There was 2 different contetins: Gondwana and Laurasia before the split

Alot of animals had to adapt like Peguins (thick layers)

The Tuatara is one of the only animals that stayed for ages 

The Tuatara barely changed from 200 million years ago

The Moa wouldn’t fly because it had big legs and big bodys

It also had a great smell and it was like a deer

The Weta grew to around 10cm 

It was very similar to a mice

It is one of the heaviest insects in the world

Plants had to get scarer so they wouldn’t get eatan by the Moa

Even though the Kakapo is slow and couldn’t fly it was a serious predator

The Kakapo had great eye vision

Animals died after Humans came because of climate change

Next week we will be creating our own building or place that Christchurch should have. So me and my mate Lucas are doing a Water park / Amusement park.

What would you want to add to Christchurch and why?

  

Last week of Artemis Fowl

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This week for reading we have to finish the book we are reading meaning that this week was the last week of it. For this weeks create task we had to do some synthesizing. Synthesizing basically means something is similar to someone else. Here is mine with 3 of the charaters in the story. 

Do you think you would read this book?

Reading W8 Artemis Fowl

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For the last couple weeks I have been reading a book about Artemis Fowl we have been doing tasks every week I will give you all of them soon but for now I will give you this weeks. We had to say what the main bit of the stroy is here is mine. 

Would you want to be the bad or good guy in a story?

Should kids be able to eat junk?

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This week for reading we had to pick between if kids should be able to eat junk food. Personaly I don't know why someone would think that kids shouldn't be able te eat junk food. No one eats loads and loads of Junk food. If you eat junk food you can still be fit like some athlets are. I don't have anything to share because we did it live.

What do you think about kids eating junk food?

Robots

Hi, How are you guys. This week for reading we go told about how scientists are making robots that will be better than humans and if we like them or not I personality don't like them. But I'll let you see my facts.

What do I already know? I know that this will be about the future I know that will be on how robots and their impact for the future Humans are going jobless 

What do I think I know? I think this will be how Humans are becoming endangered.

Get with a buddy

Powerbill, Expensive, Job takers, Humans become pets, Humans become endangered, We have created great things.

What do you think about Robots?

Fantastic

This week for reading we did some more stuff around the Fantastic and today I am going to show you what they mean. Every letter has their own meaning, they are:

Feeling 

Asking

Noticing

Tasting

Action

Smelling

Touching

Imagining

Checking

For the create task we had to find some sentences that relate to those things from different books here me and my mates one.

Feeling:‘Tell Topp’. But I was scared she’d fire me.”

Asking:  What is it?

Noticing: I start to notice the houses.

Touching: Your feet sink into soft sand.

Action:“He’s working on a very exciting project

Smelling:Bright liquids bubble in the third lab room. They smell delicious.

Tasting: The crummy texture melted in their mouths.

Imagining: Zadie tried to imagine the world outside.

Checking: Noah tried to sound strong, but Zadie could hear the cracks

Have you ever used the FANTASTIC?

What is Normal?

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This week for reading my goal was to synthesising, think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking. Synthesising is the information that you already know + the new information you learned. The book we read was called how to be Normal. For the create task we had to show what we thought at the start of the book, during the book and at the end of the book. Here is mine hope you enjoy.

What do you think is normal?

Reading tasks

This week for reading we had to choose 3 books and then do tasks about them. The task were fun and creative. There was different types of tasks. Today I'm going to show you all 3 of mine. Here is the first 1, the book I chose was called we found a hat. It is about 2 Turtles that found 1 hat. I did a Quiz, I know you might not have read the book but yeah.

What colour was the hat?  

What animals found the hat? 

 What was part 1 called? 

 Which animal put the hat on first? (The left one or the right one.) 

 Why did they leave the hat behind? 

 What did they look at after they left the hat? 

 Why did he want to take the hat? 

 Why did one of the Turtles say “nothing” when the other asked him what he was thinking about? 

 Why did one Turtle ask the other one if he was asleep? 

 What made him change his mind about taking the hat?

For my second task the book I chose was 100 facts about flight/planes. I did a A-Z of it. Here it is 

Air plane

Blimp 

Control column 

Diving 

Engine 

Flight 

Glider 

Helicopter 

International flying

Jets 

KO - pilot with a K 

Landing 

Military jets 

Nose 

Oxygen pipes 

Planes 

Queen in a plane 

Rockets 

Smoke 

Tail 

UFO 

Vertical stabiliser 

Wings 

X - Wing 

Yaw 

Zooming

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For the last 1 I made a book cover for a Steph Curry book. Here it is.

Do you know what team Steph Curry play for? 

The 5 senses.

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This week for writing my goal was to visualise using all of the senses, and talk about how this enriches meaning. We looked at the 5 senses and how we can use them to create a picture in our mind. We chose 1 out of 3 books and had to use the first chapter to find 3 senses. Then we had to get the meaning of the sentence. Here is mine hope you enjoy.

Do you think there should be a 6th sense?

Could the Spinosaurus take the T-Rexs spot as the best Dinosaur.

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This week for reading my goal was to use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions. We got to pick 1 article from 4. I picked the one about a Spinosaurus being the best Dinosaur. Next we made 2 questions from it. After that the create task was to make DLO about it. We had to include the follwing: Questions for the Author, a summary of the book, our own opinion and 2 facts. Here is mine hope you enjoy.

Do you think that the spinosaurus could be the best?

Match Report

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This week for reading my Goal was to Use prior knowledge to connect to the text. Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. We got to choose a story and make our connections about it. This is mine hope you enjoy.

Do you play a sport. If you do what Sport do you play?