Culture Significance : Reading

 

Hi there! It's nice to see you on my blog! Let me tell you a bit about this weeks learning. This week my class had an online meeting at 9 am every week day. My class would have a number talk and we would also read a book. When the google meet is over we either head to our reading slides, writing or math's! Since this is my reading I'll tell you a bit about it. My reading slides involved : Reading or listening to the text, your point of view, traffic light vocabulary activity and lucky last our flipgrid! On our flipgrid we had to record yourself and say 1 of your new words that you learned. The traffic light activity was when you would write words you know, words you think you know and words you don't know at all. My word was Pad. Pad - A type of cushion created by a type of soft material for comfort, protection or stuffing. I have heaps more on my slide so go check it out!

I really enjoyed taking my flipgrid and doing the fun traffic light activity!

Question for this post : What's a word you've never heard of?

Writing ( During Lockdown )

 

This week for writing we had to persuade the reader to either think we should have Kapa Haka or to not have Kapa Haka. What I personally think is that Kapa Haka should be at school for more cultural and more excitement at PCS! What we had to do for writing is to either print out the planner or you could do it digitally! I chose to print out the planner sheet so it's much easier for me to write with and use!

Question for this post : During Lockdown what do you mostly do? Play video games or do school work?

Reading (During lockdown)

 

This week my whole school had to stay at home because of lockdown. Most of us in my class had to finish off our work. I was sick Tuesday and then we went into lockdown Wednesday. I joined the meet and we all had a little talk through about stuff. I went to finish my work but first i was reading and watching some books and some videos. Then I read epic for 10 minutes and then i finished most of my DLO's.

I really enjoy working during lockdown because you get longer breaks, more food but you don't get to see your friends.

Question for this post - Do you enjoy working during lockdown like me?

I think we should! Writing T3 W2

 

So this week for writing we had to write a formal letter to someone about what we want to change. I decided to change PCS uniforms to either mufti once a month or your house colour T-shirts (something we have at school for cross country). I thought we should at least have some days of mufti or your house colour T-shirt.

Reading W2 T3 I have something to say!

 

This week for Reading our Topic was based off : I have something to say. What we had to do was read a book called School bells . It's about changing the school bell. If we had finished reading the article then the next day we would read 1 book of our choice each day and also read 10 minutes of epic. After that we would do something facts VS opinions when we would read the facts and opinions and we would write in the boxes FOR animal testing and AGAINST animal testing. I read the text and I typed in what i thought the answers were. Then we had to think of an issue of something bad like littering, plastic, animal testing and transport. I decided to do Auckland transport because of how they keep stopping in random places and replacing the railway tracks. I wrote 5 facts about Auckland transport and asked some people to type their own viewpoint. I  asked Dani and Brooklyn for their viewpoint and so they wrote in the boxes their viewpoint. Finally we had to create a DLO about your issue. I wrote somethings that i thought that was some facts i liked about Auckland transport.

Ti Rakau

 

This Week We Did Something Called Ti Rakau! Ti Rakau Is A Maori Game That Includes Sticks And Hand Movements. On The Last Day We Got To Create Our Own Ti Rakau Movements! Dani Brooklyn And I All Decided To Add 1 Of Our Own Actions In Ti Rakau! Dani Decided To Do The First Verse I Decided To Do The Second Verse And Brooklyn Mixed The Verses Up A Bit! All Of Us Really Enjoyed Creating Our Own Te Rakau But Some Time's It Got A Bit Tricky Sometimes We Kept Chucking It To The Wrong Person Because We Were A Group Of 3, Sometimes We Would Get Hit By The Ti Rakau Sticks And Sometimes One Of Us Would Get Really Silly And Made Us All Laugh. I Probably Mostly Enjoyed Playing Around With The Ti Rakau Sticks And Creating New Movements In Ti Rakau!

Stories, Dance And Culture - Reading

 

This Week In KH ( Kauri Hub ) We Had To Create DLO's And Make Either A Dance Or A Song Or Recreate A Dance Or A Haka. I Decided To Create A 5 Second Song.

I Enjoyed Creating A 5 Second Song

Question For This Post : Would You Rather Create A Song Or A Dance?