Smog in China

Yesterday we read an short article about smog in China. After that we read the whole text, we then had to highlight some of the text and put S-T (Self to Text, something you read that sounds like one of your life experiences), T-T (Something you read that sounds similar to something else you have read), or T-W ( Something you have read that is happening in the world now). The point of this task was to relate to other things that I've read, seen, or that has happened in the world.

Reading Challenge - Afu

 L.I: was to follow instruction and making sure we had to read for the meaning and understanding.

This week for reading we completed our groups reading challenges, Mrs Anderson split us up into groups, my group was Mere, Ana, Silivia, CJ, Sylis, and Harry. Mrs Anderson put down some challenges for us to do collaboratively. The first challenge we did was explaining our story in twenty-five words. The second challenge was to fill in the spaces, our story tickling fish. Our third challenge was to fill in the spaces. Our last challenge was to fill in the spaces, our story was Fish. My favourite challenge was fill in the spaces and the story was Fish, that was my favourite challenge because it was more challenging than the other challenges.

Reading: Word clines - Afu and Jasmine

Today I created a Google slides with Jasmine about word clines. Word clines is a ladder of words that are for year 1's then it keeps on going and turns into powerful words like for year 8's or year 9's. I enjoyed doing this because it was challenging to change a simple word into a powerful word.

Sketch note

This week for reading we had to do a sketch note about The Sons of Ma'afu. The sons of Ma'afu is a traditional story from Tonga, and it is retold by Feana Tu'akoi. This is a sketch note retold in my own words, and it has pictures and what the pictures are of. I enjoyed doing this sketch note because it took time and I got to put it in my own words. 

Current Events - Afu

Today for reading we learnt about the big sleep out on the news, we had to do currents events about the big sleep out. We do current events so we can know what is happening around the world. The big sleep out is about people going to the AUT University for the big sleep out, they have to sleep in the cold weather on cardboard. We had to read the article about the big sleep out, then we had to right our information on the current event DLO. I think that people should give some money to the homeless because the homeless have deal with rough weather, no food, no warmth, and no home. I really enjoyed doing this because we got to learn about what people are doing for the homeless. 

Buddy reading

Today in the afternoon room 3 and 4 came to LS2 for buddy reading. My buddy was named Pati he is from room 4, we read a book named Early bird. This story was about a cat named Slinky Malinki, he wakes up very early in the morning. What he does is he tries to wake up the family but they would not wake up, he tried something else he pounced on their toes, sat on their head, sang yowly songs and he does other silly things to wake them up. They wake up and tell slinky malinki "let us sleep in peace for an hour or 2." Slinky Malinki tries something else like he bounces on their feet and other silly things, then they wake up and go down stairs, and slinky malinki waited and waited then went to bed. I asked my partner some questions about the story then it was time for them to go. I really enjoyed them coming.

Reading: Advertising - Afu, Paige, Jasmine, Gozan

Yesterday for Reading LS2 had to create a DLO with 25 words and some photos. This DLO shows what we think advertising is, we could only write 25 words not 24 or not 26 just 25 words. We had to find some pictures to put on this DLO. What I enjoyed about this was our challenge, our challenge  was to walk back and forwards to tell the writer what was on the paper that they had to write, we also had to write the correct punctuation.

Reading: Deduction - Afu

Today for reading I played a game called deduction. What I had to do was go to the scrap yard then the cinemas, and meet my friends at the skate park using only 5 sections of the road, then I clicked go. When I finished it told me I did great. I enjoyed playing this game because it's challenging, because you have to choose what path to take.

Reading: Non Fiction - Afu

Today for reading I played a game called Non Fiction. I chose to play because it looked interesting. What I had to do was I had to chose either a children book, news story and toy catalogue page. I chose to do a children book, I had to chose a title, text and a picture, for the title I chose to do all about robots, for the text I chose a interesting text, for the picture I chose a red and grey robot. What I found interesting was that a robot does something automatically ( by itself ).

Reading: Trapped - Afu

Today for reading I played a reading game called trapped. There was two answers I had to look for the right answer and put it in the light side and the other answer I had to put it in the dark side. I think I did good because I answered most of the answers right. I enjoyed playing this game because it was fun and you can learn new things.

Reading: Facts about Peter Jackson - Afu

This week for reading LS2 watched a film about the forgotten silver. The forgotten silver was about Collin McKenzie's films. This is a DLO I created about Peter Jackson, we had to find 5 facts about Peter Jackson. What I found interesting was he is the director of The Hobbit and the Lord of the rings.

Reading: Making Connections - Afu

This week for reading we did an activity about making connections. We had to make comment about text to text, texts to self and text to world. What I found out about China was they closed down the schools which means that they don't have a good education.

Reading: Home reading - Afu

Today for reading I read a book called Disappearing donuts. This book is by Gail Herman. This is book is about a mystery gang ( Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Freddy and Scooby doo). They are a gang that solve's mysteries, the gang goes into a donut shop then the next day, they go back to the donut shop. The owner told them "The donut shop is closing down!" They approached the kitchen and discovered the donuts are gone. Find out what happens next by going to the library. This book is a fiction book because it is not a real story. 

Reading: Venn Diagram - Fifita, Afu, Harry, Juanita, Victoria, and Charlize.

This week for reading we have been comparing Ping-He school to PBS. We had to include how it was a boarding school there and how they had dorm mom's. We had to include the difference's and the thing that are the same. We found out that in Ping-He school for PE you have to do 100 Sit up's 100 Push up's and they had to run around there track 50 times. 

Endangered Species Gorilla - Synthesizing

Today for reading we were learning about how gorillas are endangered species. My partner and I Jessie found out that gorillas weren't actually  aggressive but they are endangered. For our task we had to write down what we already knew about gorillas. One of the things we already knew was gorillas are big and furry. Then we had to read a short story about gorillas, then write what we found out. One thing we found out was they eat 70 different plant species. Then we had to put the information we already knew and the information we found out together to make one opinion. After that we DLO about Synthesising.

Reading: Synthesizing - Afu

We have created a cover for a biography of Anne bonny using what we found out after researching. the new information helped us think about what their picture would look like, what the title might be and what background would match achievements.

Reading - ANZAC

This week for reading we had to write the main idea of a ANZAC poem. We had to work with a partner my partner was June, then we had to read the poem together, after we read the poem we had to write the main idea and 3 details, then we had to do read 3 more poems and find the main idea and 3 details.