Book Review - Battle!

Walt: Make connections between a text , ourselves and the world.

Review by: Leilani

Auckland, New Zealand

Year 7

Book = Battle

Author = Maria Samuela

Fiction

In this story it’s all about a couple of kids at school having a dance battle. This dance battle is very serious, so serious that the main character lost something very special to himself. How? Well let’s find out!

During the story the main character was having a dance battle with this really good talented, Timiona ( the main character. ) got his name pulled out of a hat to battle that one very good talented girl. He had confidence in himself and ended up winning the dance battle. But he loses his great-great grandfather’s special medal! By the end of the story he finds his medal which is mum had the whole time.

I really enjoyed this weeks book because this text was all about a dance battle, i’m sure that Timiona was going through a very tough time wondering where his medal was the whole time. I would recommend this book to kids my age as there is many feelings throughout the book.

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Task Description:

As for today's task Campion got to work on a new story. We had many tasks to complete, and here's one.

For this task we had to create a book review, this book review was about our new book ' battle. '. This book review was very interesting as I got to write a book review to share with others.

 

Geometry - Orientation!

Walt: Understand and use positional vocabulary.

Task Description:
For this weeks task we are learning about geometry - orientation. What could this be? Well continue reading to find out.

This week we got to do orientation. Which means we made maps , answered questions related to maps , and had to understand the main directions words mean. The first slide we had to understand meaning of a couple of words before starting to create maps or understand maps. By understanding the words we were given we will know more information about using a map and answering questions or even creating questions. 

We also got to answer questions from a pre made diagram of a made up class. The questions that came with the diagram of the class room were easy as I understood what the questions meant. After we got to answer some questions we got to create a diagram of our own class! This task was fun as I got to made a diagram and I got to answer questions. 

Our next task was to use another map we were given and answer another set of questions on the following slide. These questions were difficult because I didn't understand what they meant and how do I answer them, for the answers I tired as best as I could.

Our last task was to create our own map with around 10 streets and 8 main features on our map. Once we drew out our map we would have to give directions to get to all 8 features for our buddy to complete.

I really enjoyed this weeks math's task because I got to map makes , answer fun questions and got to work with people in my math's class. I hope we got to opportunity to work on these types of math's task again.

Fairy Tales

Walt: Create interesting openings/introduction.

Task Description:
This week for literacy we got to learn to create interesting openings/introductions for our writing. Why? The reason why we had to learn how to make very interesting openings is to hook the reader. 

In this task we learned different opening's to hook our reader in different kinds of way. Hopefully you all will enjoy this task and learn something new!  

The Grateful Crane!

Walt: Interpret figurative language.

Task Description:

This week we are reading a new book called " Tsuru no ongaeshi , The grateful crane." This book we read today is based on a beautiful Japanese Crane gifting an old couple from helping the Crane from a trapped net.

Our task this week was to understand our book this week. By answering questions from the book we were given. The questions that our teacher gave were easy as I did understood the book this week.

Another task we had to do is create a book review based on this book. When I was writing my book review I re wrote the story to share with younger kids at my school. 

I really enjoy doing this task as I got to do a lot of writing and answering questions. If you didn't know I really enjoy writing and so I wrote a lot in our task this week. 

Warm up! ( Homework Writing! )

Walt: To create a good writing about how bad homework is.

Warm Up:


Homework is terrible. I hate homework. I work pretty hard in school, and so I don’t know why I have to do so much at home, too. There is a lot of other stuff I’d rather do than homework. I wish we never had to do it anymore.

Our Version:

Homework will forever go downhill, whether it’s writing , reading or maths. It’s unnecessary-unneeded-un convenient and a complete waste of my time. Basically it’s half of my energy wasted on random knowledge. Don’t teachers think 6 hours is enough time to do learning? Well I guess not!

The Grateful Crane - Review / Re-write The Book!

Walt: Interpret figurative language.

Task Description:
Welcome to a new blog post for term 2! This term in reading we are learning about figurative language. In our new task i'm sharing with you all here is a review on our new book this week.

This week my group has been given a book called " Tsuru No Ongeshi, The Grateful Crane! ". As normal we have been also given a task. One of our task was to create a book review. Usually I do long writings for my book review, but as we are going to share with younger kids at my school I thought that a poster will be much suitable for younger kids. 

In this task here I created a poster re writing the book we got given. So I basically wrote the whole story but in some places in my own words. I really enjoyed this task because I get to share with others what this weeks book is all about, and I got to learn something new. Which is the Japanese Crane. The Japanese Crane is very beautiful!

Link to images: Here!

Immersion Assembly!

Welcome to term 2!

Immersion Assembly

Today I am sharing with you all Pt England School immersion assembly. At the beginning of every term Pt England School has a very important immersion assembly. What is a immersion assembly and what do you do at a immersion assembly? Well continue reading to find out more.

Firstly , at the beginning of our term 2 immersion assembly Mr Burt explained to us what our theme is , " Where in the latitude are you? ". What could latitude mean? Well latitude means the coordinate of the North and South position. Throughout our immersion assembly team 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 all presented what they will be learning through out term 2. The time then came to team 5.

Secondly , team 5 teachers shared with the school a play. This play was a virtual travel agency. This play included Mrs Tapuke choosing different continents and other teachers dressed up based on what continent Mrs Tapuke choose. Places that Mrs Tapuke travelled to was Africa , Paris , and America. 

Lastly , in all of the continents Mrs Tapuke choose people came to her and explained to her about the continents shes in. For Africa Mrs IIaoa took Mrs Tapuke to explore the Tiger and Leopard , when Mrs Tapuke was in Paris Mrs Stone came in a France accent welcoming her to the Eiffel Tower , and the last place Mrs Tapuke travelled to was America. Which Mrs Moala came in a cute mickey mouse hat since shes a huge fan of  mickey mouses and their at Disney World. After Mrs Tapuke travelled to all the continents she travelled to the adventure stopped.

The whole purpose of the act that the teachers played today was to share with team five students and other students at Pt England School was about what time five students will be learning about in term 2. Team 5 students will be learning about where are we in longitude as well as looking at different continents and what latitude is that continents. This term immersion assembly was fun as each act or movie was interesting based on what that team will be doing. I am excited for all things we will be doing in term 2.