Bee your best (Reading T3 W9)

 This week for reading I wrote a poem. The poem is about everything a good person should be in my eyes. We learnt what it looks like to be apart of a community. A community to me is 

The goal for this week is "making connections and synthesising." 

What does a good person look like to you

Making A Slingshot (Reading T3 W7)

 Hey! 

This week for reading we were learning when it is important to read everything carefully and when you can skim through whatever your reading. We decided that when your following instructions that you need to read all the steps carefully. I chose to follow instructions on how to make a slingshot.

Here are some photos of me making the slingshot, and the end product.

Have you ever made a slingshot?

Hobbies (T3 W6)

 Kia ora! 

This week for reading we were learning about hobbies. 

Hobbies are something you enjoy, you don't necessarily have to be good at you hobby but you just have to enjoy and have fun doing it. For my create task this week I made a google drawing about 10 different hobbies that help your happiness and how they help your happiness.

Here it is:

What's your favourite hobby?

Mindsets (Reading T3 W5)

 This week for reading it was about mindset and perseverance. We read texts about big athletes and people who overcame big challenges in life but still were able to complete their goals and accomplish big things in life.

For my create task I made up two quotes about perseverance and not giving up. Here are my biggest take aways from the text as well.

What mindset do you hvae?

Inner Peace (reading t3 w3)

 This week for reading we have been looking at inner peace. I read an article about studies and inner peace, after that we made a peace sign with things that make is happy.

Inner peace to me is playing sport, hanging out with friends and my family.

I put sport because when I'm playing sport I'm happy and have fun. When I'm with friends and family i enjoy my times with them and once again I have fun no matter what I'm doing.

What brings you inner peace?

3 different articles from 3 different genres (reading t2 w8)

 This week for reading we are choosing 3 articles from different genres.

I read:

Article 1: Science Straws invented that stops hiccups I think that this is an interesting but great invention because hiccups can be very annoying and this is a great solution.

Article 2: Sports Swimming NZ to send 7 swimmers to the Tokyo Olympics I think its really exciting that we are having these swimmers represent our country in swimming events. 

Article 3: World China Sends 3 Astronauts Into Space I found this really cool and interesting to read. I think this is a cool idea and it will give us a lot of information we may not already know about space.

What do you think about these articles?

Matariki (reading term 2 week 7)

This weeks writing task was to make a star and in the middle write why we think Matariki should or shouldn't be a public holiday. On the outside of the star we had to write text features and events from this article. 

The goal was: Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about.

Do you think Matariki should be a public holiday?

Reading T1 W9 and 10

This weeks reading goal was "Think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking" the create task was to create a ven diagram about The Statue of Liberty and The Peacock Fountain.

What do you know about The Statue of Liberty?

Reading T1

 For reading we had a two week task to make something we think Christchurch needs.

I made a 3D screen room and If you touch a certain image it would tell you about it.

Here is my create.

Would you go into this creation?

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

For this week we found one of the main ideas and/or an interesting part of the book and write why its important and what it makes us think about.

 

What's your favourite book to read?

Robots Taking Over (Reading Term3 Week3)

For reading this week we read a book about robots taking over humans.

I worked with Megan

What do you think about robots taking over the world?

First Reading of Term 3

For reading we learnt about the FANTASTIC's.














Our create task was to read through the Little Red Riding Hood story and highlight which colour represents the fantastic.




What is your favourite FANTASTIC to use?

Synthesising (T2 W10)

My goal this week was to think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking.




Who's your favourite author?

Summarising (T2 Wk9)

My goal this week was summarising,

Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about.

Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. 

Identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text.

For the create task we had to fill in a slide about the book.

Whats your favourite book?

Reading Challenge (T2 Wk8)

For reading this week we had to complete as many reading challenges from a selection as we could I completed 3 challenges.

The first one was an A-Z word challenge
I did this with the book "Wheres Grandma?"

The second was a wanted poster
I read the book "The Great Paper Caper" and did a wanted poster for the bear who was stealing the wood.


For the third challenge I did a new book cover for the book "!"

Harry Potters First time seeing Hogwarts Drawing

For reading this week we had to read a part of Harry Potter I did their first time seeing Hogwarts, without seeing a picture of the scene we had to draw what we thought the castle and scene looked like from what we had read.

My Drawing

My Picture

Whats your favourite way to show your leaning?

Harry's War

We read a book called Harry's War.
We had to fill in this template about what ha[happened in the book.

Whats your favourite book to read?

Reading Term 2 Week 2

For reading this week it was all about finding fake news and information and how to identify whether its fake or not.
We did this challenge online where we were a BBC news reporter, we had to make sure that we did everything fast but accurate and that everything was real.

Afterwards we read 1 - 2 books about fake news and what news reporters do, we also filled out a reading response.






We also made info graphics about ways to know if news is fake and what do look for if you think it might be fake.
This is mine:


How do you stay safe online?