Reading - Senses - W7 T2

Kia ora everybody.
This is my reading task for this week. We were focusing on the senses, I had read the start of the book named The light between the worlds.

My goal was... Goal: Level 4 - Visualise using all of the senses, and talk about how this enriches meaning.

Here it is:


Thanks for reading, hope you come back for more :)

Writing - Different sentence structures

Hey everyone, for this blog I will be showing you my writing task.

The goal was..

Goal: Level 4 - Use a variety of sentences structures, beginnings and lengths to give effect.

Hope you enjoy my story! :)

“I’ve never liked the beach, even the thought of it makes me shiver. The sand scraping and scratching your legs, the taste of sea salt in your mouth and even just the horrifying smell of BO mixed with sunscreen surrounding you.”

I just don’t get how people can stand to be around that, like, AT ALL. How can’t you hate having waves smashed into your face or have the feeling that a shark is going to aggressively bite off your leg out of the blue.

Anyway, I think my point has been heard, although I still don’t feel like it is being listened to, so let me tell you a story about the most traumatising experience of my life.

If you didn’t already guess, my name is Emma and I DON’T like the water. Here is one out of a million reasons why...

My brother's name is Eric, although if you looked at us you wouldn’t think we are siblings, if you heard us, you wouldn’t think we are siblings. But if you saw and heard us fight then you would straight away, ABSOLUTELY, think we are siblings.

So anyways, on with the story. 

We were on our way to Eric's mid year surfing competition and I was not happy, even though I was eleven years old I was the most loud and obnoxious kid you would ever meet. 

Looking back at it now I feel bad for my parents who had to put up with it for my whole life. We had finally got to the beach and I had finally given up because even my own ears couldn’t handle the noise.

Usually I would sit in the car for an hour and a half on my ipod and would have already snuck some food and lollies in my pocket beforehand. Although this time was different, I was so busy making such a big fuss about going that I had forgotten to bring all my food and electronics along with me. 

I was really desperate to not let the food out on the beach sidetrack me from my mission which was to stay away from the beach at any cost because I could already feel the itchy sand on my legs and smell the horrible stench of the sunscreen.

I always thought that being able to stay away from the beach for the many years I had was a strength, (which it was) but turns out, besides my strengths there will always be a weakness, and mine was…..FOOD!!!

I had to think up the perfect way to go out there without my parents seeing me, but without thinking and in desperate need of food I ran, I ran and I ran and I RAN. I managed to grab a sausage without anyone noticing and then as I was sprinting back, to my luck I saw my brother Eric sprinting beside me. He grabbed my arm and took us both to a halt, trying to act pleasant he exclaimed, “you’re running the wrong way.” He managed to pull me all the way back to my parents and before I knew it I was in my togs about to get ready to learn how to surf on the other side of the beach.

“I was really nervous.” I mean I was being forced into my biggest fear of my life. Just to let you know I had already given up fighting, my arms had been aggressively pulled back and the rest of my body was getting dragged into the water. Although don’t get me wrong, I am probably over exaggerating and my parents did do this out of excitement.

Next thing I know I’m in the deepest water I have ever been in and had a humongous and strong wave coming right for me. 

My heart was racing and my head was pounding, I almost felt like I was going to faint. But I woke up to the sound of my dad screaming at me to get on my board and start paddling back towards the wave. I turned with the thought of being able to swim back. 

“By the way I have always been an average  swimmer but obviously never had the confidence to do it.”

Anyways back with the story, so I had looked to see how far out I was but again my dad had interrupted my thoughts and shouted, “there’s no time, get ready!”

I flipped back around to see the wave rapidly coming towards me and started paddling, although, I was  too late..

“THRASH,” a wave came trembling over my face, I couldn’t breath, I had all of a sudden swallowed a big gulp of water. My eyes were squinted, my arm and legs were struggling to grab a hold of my board. I finally have my board in my hands and attempt to tuck it under my legs, get my body on top of it with the water pushing me down. I managed to pull myself up on top of the water to take a breath and then lucky enough another wave comes, this time it’s so hard that it slammed my head onto my board and from there the rest of the story is a mystery.

Then the next thing I know, I am lying on the beach with my family surrounding me, lifeguards, and paramedics hovering over me.

And that's my story, I ended up getting over the faze of hating water though and am living a great life with a knowing fact, that life is a roller coaster, be prepared for anything.

Hope you liked it, thanks for reading.

Do you like the sea? Why or why not?

If you have any questions just comment down below.

Maths Ws - Scatter Sheet/Chart/Graph

Welcome, everybody, to my blog.
For my maths this week we were learning how to make a scatter chart.

Level 4 -  Complete a Statistical Investigation

Collect and display data on a scatter graph / Talk about distinctive features of scatter graphs.

There'snot much for me to explain here so I'll just straight away show you it. (All the information is on the google drawing)

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

What's another statement you could make?

Blinding Mirror - Narrative Writing

Hey guys.
Today on this blog I will be showing you my narrative piece of writing.
We were given four different pictures to choose from and to base our story on.
We also had to have between 250 - 300 words in our story.
I used 299 words but it took a whole lot of cutting words out to do it - (I started off with 419 words)

The teachers didn't really give us a specific goal to work on this week but they said if they find any writing goals that they think we've ticked off from this piece of writing, that they would tick it off.

Anyway here's my piece of writing...



Hope you enjoyed.

What other describing words would you use to explain how the field looked when she went through the mirror.

Reading 1-2-3 Task

Hey everybody.

For my reading task for this week the teachers gave us something a little bit different.
I call it he 1-2-3 task.
First we had four different articles to choose out of, I chose one about the Arts and Music in primary school.
The author is basically saying that the Arts and Music should be more embraced for younger children and in their schools. The author knows that some kids may struggle with the usual curricular but find that music really helps them with concentration and just learning in general.

To do this task we had to do 3 Questions, 2 Proven facts and 1 opinion of our own.
So it's basically called the 3-2-1 challenge aha.

Because it's a bit hard to read I'll give you a little snippet of each number:

Q2) Do you think that the Arts and Music should be given the same amount of time as the other main curriculars such as maths and reading, or are you just saying that schools should embrace them more?

Fact 1) Playing an instrument benefits creativity, spatial-temporal ability, IQ scores and reading and language. It can also improve motivation and behaviour for secondary school children.

Research: From the website on the link below it tells you all the benefits from playing and instrument and even listening to music. It says it can help your concentration skills, mental skill ect.

Link

(The research is to back up the fact from another source).

Opinion 1)

In my opinion, I mainly agree with this author, and although I know that lot’s of kids don’t enjoy the arts or feel like their not good enough, others need that encouragement to keep going in life.

I think it would be good to step it up a notch and make it a more important thing in kids curricular.

Goal: Use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions.

Here's my task:

Thanks for reading, I hope you come back for more. :)

Do you think they should embrace the Arts and Music more for younger children?

Maths - Two way tables

Hey everyone.

So for my final blog post for this week I will be showing you my maths task that I've been working on.

We were basically learning about two way tables, we had to write at least three claims about them then in our workshop we would talk about the claims and turn them into percentages.

I haven't got all the percentages on here but you could always try to figure out another ways to write the claims but with percentages added in.

Anyways, my question was about girls and boys favourite type of jump in athletics - high jump or long jump.

I decided to make up the numbers so they were totally random. 

(The goal is on the drawing)

Here's the completed task:

Thanks for taking a look at my blog!!!

What's another claim you could put down, adding percentages?

Writing Poems

Hey, welcome back.
Today I'm going to share with you my writing task for the week, my goal was:
Select words and phrases to enhance meaning and/or mood and confidently shape ideas for effect.

In the workshop we were learning about a type of poem called a Diamante Poem. We watched a few videos about them and then watched a video on what makes a poem a poem.

I decided to write two diamante poems and also had to write another random poem. Being honest on my other poem Stranded, it was going to be a limerick but then I sought of just carried on and made a structure of my own.
I ended up writing my diamante poems about Night & Day and also Hockey & Dance because those are two things I can relate to so I can make the words more interesting.

You do not need to make your poem about two different things it could be about sought of the same things just with a change of word, such as Dog & Puppy.

When we were in our second workshop we talked about meaningful words in our poems and why they would create mood. I ended up choosing Storytelling, Mysterious & Golden. I chose these because I felt like they added depth to the poem and went further than your average words.

Next I writ my definition of a poem, I didn't need to do this just like I didn't need to do the second diamante poem but I felt like putting something else extra in.
You may not be able to read it clearly from the picture so I'll just put it here:

My Definition of a Poem:

A poem can be known as a form of speech, a form of words, a form of music and even a form of art. It can’t be defined by just one of these things, it’s never limited. 

A poem’s about being creative and sharing a piece of your mind, or someone else's mind and editing it with your own language and changing it with your own thoughts.

A poem could even be about a story, it’s about finding the deepest parts and turning it into something intriguing to listen to, read, and even see.

When you write a poem it’s about expressing new ideas or feelings and finding the most meaningful and heartfelt words to show.

And that’s how I’d define the word Poem

How would you describe a poem and what makes a poem a poem?

Reading Ws - W4 T2

Hi everybody.
Welcome to a new week of my learning.
The book I read is called How to fall.
This week I have been working on three reading goals. The first task already has the goal on it so here it is:



For this next task it had two goals mashed together, so here's the goals as one..

Goal: Use prior knowledge to connect to the text and make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions, using more sophisticated texts

I have written this on the same book.

Here's the final product:


How would you describe the word Staunch in your own words?

Maths - Tree Diagrams

Kia ora everybody.

For my maths for this week we have been learning about tree diagrams and how tom make them on diagrams.net.
We also learnt some easier ways to solve problems using them.

I solved three problems, one was about a handball game, another was about three chocolate bars, and the last one is about a number plate.

I also did a 3 min screencastify on the number plate one and how I worked it out.

(That's not the same order in the slides).

But here's my finished create task:



What's your favourite strategy to use in maths and why?

Writing Task - Complex Sentences

Hi bloggers, today I give you my writing task for this week.

My goal is...

Use complex sentences that are grammatically correct / proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation.

For this task we got to do some fun things such as playing with independent clauses and Dependent clauses.
The way we did this is that first everybody had to write down an independent clause, next you had to go after somebody else's clause and write an independent clause.
We did the same with the depended clauses.

Some of the sentences we came up with were..

I found a bug - it was tasty.
I watered my fish - but it had already drowned.

As you can probably see we were trying to be creative with the sentences and just have a bit of fun.

Next we had to write a short story with at least four complex sentences throughout it. Besides that you could just have four complex sentences and that could be your whole story.

I decided to change it up a little though so here's my create task:




What's the difference between a compound sentence and a complex sentence?