Poetry (Writing)

Description:

This term we were writing cinquans. We had too write ours cinquans (which mine was about Christmas.) Then Troy shared us in in a google slide we then had to pick a slide and put our cinquans and free verse poetry in the slide then put pictures that matched your poem.

Feedback/Feedfoward: Well done Serena you have used great language features and have used the

Christmas tree shape, you have also chosen great subjects and showed feelings throughout them. Grace😄

Evaluation: I think that I did a good job because I think I used good language features. I used lots of adjective which made the poem more interesting.

And I have used all the rules of the cinquan rules.

Our writing slide:

Inquiry

Description:

For term 4 we have been doing inquiry there were a lot of different options but we had to narrow them down to three. My top choice was impact project with Rebecca my second top choice was graduation with Troy. Then my last one was was 3D printing and designing with James. I got my first impact project with Rebecca


Update:
This is when we were doing the Friday explorers. We got the year 1s and 2s to come to the art space and we taught them some science and I read them a book. Our goal was to have a smile at the end of  kour thirty minutes we asked them if they enjoyed themselves and all said yes!!!

Last day of inquiry evaluation:

What do you think you accomplished? I think that I made the children happy and I think that they learned something new.

What was the most frustrating/challenging thing? Probably the last lesson Katelyn and Milania went to the movies for road patrol and I guitar so it was just Yassmine and she didn't have the right thing so on the day of the Friday explorers we had to think of something on the day.

What was your proudest moment in you inquiry? 

When all the kids said aww when we sad the had to go.

What did you think was going to be easy but took longer?

I thought that the planing was gonna be easy and that I could do it in about five minutes but you actually have to put alot of time and effort.

Free verse poetry

Description:
This term we got to pick out of thre choices Troy free verse poetry Elly report and Rebecca descriptive writing. I chose to do free verse poetry with Troy I thought that it would be something different and not only that but also I thought that the little tasters we did poetry caught my eye.

Evaluation:
I think that I'd did a good job on describing and painting a picture into someones mind.
I think that I could work on making it a tiny bit longer.
My goal for next time is to make my poems longer and more rhymes.

Big idea:
Spin spin 

Splish splash 
Water soaking 

Rides

Making me sick
Thick air 
Loud laughter
Delicious sweet caramel
lights on off on off

Cold night

Flickering lights

Living life to the fullest

Disneyland the best day of my life

Troublesome jones questions

What is greg's full name? Gregg full name is Gregory Darcy Jones

How would you feel if your dad left a long time? I wouldn't be used to it and be worried about him.

Book Bash

What made me choose this book is because the blurb and the title.

What appealed to me was the title the word troublesome made me want to read it.

What hooked me in was also the blurb the adjectives and the word police car made me want to read it.

I think the story is set at the school because in the blurb it said that there was a new kid that could pick on. I think that Jone is the boys name because the title is troublesome jones. I think that Jone is a really boy because of the title and the blurb.

The title sounds like there is a boy and is always in trouble.

The front cover looks like they bunted the truck over because it looks tilted. 

The blurb really hooked me in because when it said police car I thought that it would have a lot action in it. My favourite genre in books are action or comedy so I thought that this book would be perfect. The blurb made me really think that there will be a lot of different suprises through the story.

I think that the story is set in quite a small town where everyone knows every one and that jones the boy wasn't brought up well with maybe only one parent looked after him but not very well. I also think that they dont celebrate Christmas or his birthday because he is alway in trouble.

Pae Tamariki sample

Description: On the 31st of July we did this thing called Pae Tamariki this is when  Kapa haka groups around the manawatu regin come together and show everyone there skills at the regent. You can compete if you want to but we didn't.


Big idea:

At Pae Tamariki, I felt nervous on at the start but as went through I got used to it and then I was just having a normal feeling when a usually sing which is HAPPY!

I felt most proud of  getting everything correct because just before it started one my friends told me to change one of the words because it wasn't right but I got it.

I found the ka pana pana most challenging because the leading part can be long and I didn't want to take breaths in the middle of a word.

I managed this by taking really big breaths when it was every body else was doing there part.


At kapa haka I next want to get every word perfect in the new song haere mai.






Feedback/Feedforward 

I think your post is great and that you are a great singer. I think you should be proud because you did really well at the regent. Keep up the great work. Rosalind

Maths sample

Description: In term 3 our maths topic is multiplication and division. We do a thing called a box method  that is for big times tables. I think that I am very confident with using that strategy. We are also doing another strategy for our division I am also confident on that too.


Big idea:

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Feedback/Feedforward

Serena I think you are doing really well and you are very confident in your workshop and you really know your strategies and you have nothing to work on. Bella

Evaluation:

I think I did a good job because I can easily explain my strategy and get it. I know I'm getting better because I have a good understanding of what I'm doing.

Pop art

Description:

We have been learning about pop art with Kate. Pop art is when you have for things and they all have different pops of colour. you can also do word pop art too. Famous artist that make pop art are Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, and David Hockney.

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Big Idea

We had to make a stencil the cut it out then with a ruler split the paper in to 1/4 and the put all the stencils on. We then had to paint and outline with vivid. I chose a music note because I am really passionate about music.

We were meant to use bright colours that pop thats why its called pop art.

Feedback/feedforward:

I think that Serena did well at painting simple and something she could do. Next time she could be more creative with the colours.

Evaluation:

I think I used a good variety of colours that pop. But I think that I could have made it all look the same.

Writing sample

Description: In writing Rebecca gave as a picture and we had to get all of the ideas out of the picture. We are working on planning trying to get every ideas possible this will help us by making our story be more intersting. We also had to do a story moutoin which says things like what is the problem in the story? What is the solution in the story? Things like that.

Big idea/image:

My goal is to use a plan structure!

Feedback/Feedfoward

I think your story is funny and cool but next time you could work on describing the setting so it can be even better! Katie :)


Evaluation: I think I could have described the charecters a bit more and there persnality.

Production sample

Description: Every Friday we plan and make our wearable arts for production we got to chose out of the groups the first one we went to was out of Africa with Kate the second one was elements with Troy and the last one was superheroes with Rebecca. I thought that I would do out of Africa im doing a giraffe costume here's a plan.

Plan:

Mood board:

We have been doing even more wearable arts time so now we all have improved in our costumes. Here is an updated photo!

Reading sample

Description: This term we had two choices to pick out of summarising and questioning I picked

Summarising. Summarising is when you have a long text and grab the keywords so you can make it smaller this is useful when your telling someone a story but you want to take up all their time. If you want to read the article here's a link http://tinyurl.com/puqvqmh.



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Big idea: The sample that I did was a story wheel that has helped me by visualising and writing. Drawing definitely helped me grab the key words so now that I have a few keywords I Can put that into my writing.

Feedback/Feedforward: Well done I really like the way you have grabbed the keywords out of this article and I don't think you could work on anything. Grace

Evaluation: I know I am getting better at summarising because I went to my friend and gave her the long article and showed her mine and she read both and said I have everything the long article has but shorter.

Kapa Haka

Description:
Every Monday at 2:00 we go to kapa haka. Kapa haka is a place we you can grow knowledge of the maori culture. In kapa haka we sing and have actions, there is a special performing group called te matangi. This Thursday te matangi is performing a song for matariki.

Big idea:

At kapa haka I enjoy helping people learn about the maori culture.

I am most proud of becoming a kapa haka leader and leading the song.

I find singing in front of a large crowd because sometimes I get scared that I'm going to sing out of tune.

I am managing this by practicing at home and going over all of the songs.

A good goal for me is to practice pronouncing the words properly.

Our school wide focus this term has been around showing excellence. I show this at kapahaka by helping the little kids out if the are in need.

Word jar

Description:
For my tic tac toe if you don't know what a tic tac toe is then it is when you have a few activities and it helps with expanding our vocabulary or our comprehension. The activitie I did was the word jar.

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Big idea:

Bad is a boring word so I thought of a few words that meant the same as bad.

Evaluation: 

I think that I did a good job because I thought of a lot of words that meant the same as bad.

Maths sample

Description:
Lately for maths we have been learning a wide range of diffrent stratigies to help our addition and subtraction questions. I have been working very hard on my maths lately and I have a diffrent stratigies for every addition question. I am in the Elly A and the last stratigie we learnt was rounding and compensating.

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Big idea:

In the number one box I did the partitioning strategy. This is when you break up your number and plus them together. On number two I was partitioning with subtraction and I also did that on the 3rd one. On the fourth one I did the rounding and compensating strategy.

Feedback/Feedfoward: 

I think that you did a very good job at explaining the math in your post. Olivia

Evaluation:

I think that I put a lot of effort into my poster and I think I explained it so that it was clear. But I think could have done one more strategy to prove that I do have wide range.

Writing sample

Description:
In Troys writing group a video called mouse for sale. We didn't just watch a video for the fun of it was an inspiration for our writing. The good thing about this video is that it doesn't have any talking in it so we could make it up a little bit. we used and tried to put in complex sentences in it.

Big idea:

We have been learning about complex sentences in writing. All of my complex sentences are in red.
A complex sentence is when you have a sentence like this for example Serena is a girl she has brown curly hair I cant just use brown curly hair because it doesn't make sense.

Image: if you would like to see the video I have put the video here.



Feedback/Feedforward:I think your story has lots of complex sentences but you need to add more to your story. Harriet

Evaluation: I think that if there were more characters I could have put in more complex sentences. I also think have added more.

Science portfolio sample

Description:
This term our focus was science so all the teachers in poutama gave us a little taste to see which one we wanted to do Elly was doing the digestive system Ebony was doing adaptations and Troy was doing food web and chains so I decided to do food webs. Last week we got our lunch boxes and made a food web.

Big idea:
Everything in our lunch boxes is based on the sun for example the corn chips had the corn which came from the sun and the cheese came from the milk which came from the milk which came from the cow who ate grass which came from the sun.

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Feedback/Feedfoward:

I think you are good at taking a clear picture but you need to get better at 

Explaining what from what.

Evaluation: I think that I did well at completing it in the time give but I think that I could have put in more detail.

Reading

Description:
My goal is to expand my vocabulary. To help me expand my vocabulary I can have re-read a text to to see if I missed something, or I can read a couple more sentences for any clue for example: I stepped cow in dung. It smelt terrible. I could you the the two words smelt terrible that it might be cow poo, another way is to use a dictornary. I know I'm getting better because I have range of different strategies and I know a lot more words.

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Big idea:

My tic tac toe activity was to write words that had Tri at the start of the word.

I am really proud of all of the work I have done in the time given.

Feedback/Feedforward:

I think Serena did well at finding the words but what I think she can work on is making more detail for the poster. By Bridget

Evaluation:

I think that I did well because I came up with a lot of words and I looked up some words to expand it.

What I think I could have worked on was to put more detail into the poster.

Writing

For writing we at to use complex sentences so we watched a video on sea turtles and had to use a compound sentence so I took a photo and look here it is.

Catch me if you can- Defense

Description:

Every week we learn about skills and movement that will help us play sports. This term’s focus has been around defense. We made a video showing some of the goals we have been practicing. I have highlighted the thing I think I have done well YELLOW and one thing I would like to work on PINK.

Body:

WALT: Defensive skills and movements

Success Criteria:

Body Movement

• Weight on balls of feet
• Feet shoulder width apart
• Knees flexed
• Concentration and eyes on ball, head and eyes up
• Push hard off outside foot and go forwards to attack pass
• Quick small feet, stay on balls of feet
• Arms within confines of body
• Take feet to ball
• Land with a SBP

Intercepting:

• Body angled to see player and ball
• Anticipate pass and players movement 

Restrictive Marking

• Meet player as they start towards the ball/where they want to go
• stay close to the attacking player
• Head and eyes up, arms close to body to avoid obstruction/contact

• Angle body so attacking player is ‘pushed’ away from where he/she wants to go
• 0.9m from ball carrier

Evaluation:
I think that I can stay close to the attaker so when he is throwing the ball I can catch it.

Feedback/Feedfoward: I think your video was great. I also think you could stay closer to the attacker. Your intercepting was great.I think your video angle was very creative. You could stay the right amount of steps back in netball from the player. Great Job! Rosalind)

Discovery time

Every Friday we get a few options to show creativity agency excellence agency and inspiration. I chose sewing because I only do hand sewing so I chose to try the  machine instead at first it was a bit scary but then I got the hang of it but some people took to long so I showed excellence by taking responsibility and hand sew it might take a long time but quicker than before I took a picture of the hand sewn pillow and here it is!!!