Olympics Reading Create Task

this week, we were leaning about the olympics in Tokyo. We had 6 new reading books and, it was Chicken Olympics, Our First Olympians, Game On, The Cindy Limpics, Born To Run, The Ancient Romans Race Again. I chose to do The Cindy Limpics. It was about a girl called cindy who wanted to do their schools athletics but she brakes her leg, the teacher made a game for them and Cindy won. The olympian I chose was Emma Twigg, she is a Women's Rowing Single For New Zealand. This is the fact file I did about her.

Anne Frank Create Task

 WALT: Locate and summarise important information from a range of related text

This week we have the same books but we have to choose a different book. The books are about inspirational people, the people are Anne Frank, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Martin Luther King Jr, Amelia Earhart, Walt Disney. I chose Anne Frank. The create tasks were that we had to write a summary of the book and the make connections with the complementary and challenge text. The 2nd create task was to make a small fact file of the person. The last one was to make a poster of how the person was inspiring.

Volcanoes

 This week we were looking at natural disasters, we had to pick out of 6 natural disasters. The disasters are Tsunamis, Hurricane, Volcanoes, Avalanche, Floods and Land Slides. I wanted to learn about volcanoes like on how they erupt and a fun fact I learnt is that there are different kind of volcanoes like a fissure vent which has a long size of the part where the lava comes out. Hope you enjoy😁 

Private Or Personal Information

Hey Readers

Today we were looking at private and personal information. Knowing the difference between will keep you safe online.

We found the activity at uru manuka savvy sharing.

I give this activity a 4/5.

Halloween Night

 It was a dark and gloomy Halloween night, if not for the moon, it would have been pitch black. Then pumpkins started spouting as I walked out of the old spooky cabin and then I felt the freezing cold autumn wind crashing into my face. I was really frightened because I thought that in any second, an apocalypse of zombies would do a doggy pile on me and start biting part of my body or get eaten by a colossal monster.

Inspiring People

 WALT: Locate and summarise important information from a range of related text.

Our reading create task was to fill out a sheet on our chromebook about our book, complementary text and challenge text. The 2nd was to make a fact file of the person were doing. The last create task was to make and inspirational poster. I'm doing Alexander Graham Bell who made the first telephone.

Matariki Create Task

WALT: Summarise and analyse ideas and information about the text. I think this Walt means gather a hole pile of information & ideas and turn it into a small text will using all of the information you gathered

 Matariki is a group of stars that is a symbol of the maori new year. we have new create tasks to do with Matariki. Legends say that matariki are sisters and matariki is the oldest sister of 6 other stars called Waiti, Waita, Waipuna-a-rangi, tupu-a-nuku, tupu-a-rangi, uru-a-rangi. The 1st task was to make a summary of 2 videos and 2 texts.

Video #1: The video is about the 7 sisters that always annoy other stars, so Matariki’s parents give her and the matariki sisters a job. They had to stay in the sky to symbolize the maori new year.

Video #2: The other video is talking about what some people do to celebrate matariki. People say that it’s a good time to grow crops and get heaps of fish. Some make kites and fly them.

Te Papa Website: some tribes didn’t celebrate at the same time, some celebrate when the first full moon appears. In early june, you can see it early in the morning.

Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui: near the mountain of taranaki

school, they celebrate the come back of Ramanui and Puanga the red star and blue star and the only brothers of matariki as the school is the only true celebrations they say.

We had 4 choices to make for the 2nd create task. The 1st was to make an animation of matariki, the 2nd was to make a Venn diagram of how you celebrate new and the maori new year. The 3rd was to do a word find and make a glossary with the words. The 4th and last one was to read tawhirimatea and re-write the story. I did the word find one.

Glossary 

Waiti: sweet

Wairua: spirit, soul

Maramataka: maori lunar calendar

Whenua: land 

Pataka: storehouse

Korero: speak

Whanau: family

Matariki: maori new year

Whetu: stars

Kai: food

Pipiri: first month on maori new year

Constellation: group of stars to make an image

           Celebration: do something special /

special event

Harvest: farmers gather grain or fruits

Pleiades: 7 sisters

June: month of the year

Past: time before some people were born

Future: time that will come

Reflection: sending back light

Calender: showing the dates of the year