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Tuesday 7 November 2017

The OceanMaker

Yesterday our class were learning about what a narrative is and what a narrative needs. Then we had to watch a short animated video and base our story off of that.

What does a narrative need?

  • Beginning
  • Middle
  • End
  • 1st or 3rd Person Point of View
  • Personification
  • Similies
  • Metaphors
  • ISPACE
  • Problem
  • Solution

Here is the Video -
(Watch until 1:46 then pause it, read my story. Then you can go back and watch the rest.)









This is the Success Criteria -

Name    Laura                                                                  Peer Marker: Chloe
Success Criteria - Narrative
Features of Text
Student
Peer
  • I have included a beginning, middle and an end.


  • I have created a setting by showing with my words or using who, what, when & where.
yes

  • I have included a problem & solved it (or created good tension)
yes

  • I have written a satisfying ending.


  • I have written in either 1st person or 3rd person.
3rd

  • I have used descriptive language throughout  (sets of 3, alliteration, similes, personification, metaphors) and provided detail to my story.
I tried

  • I have used a range sequencing connectives. (time words or phrases)
yes

My Personal Target/s:
Power words
Sentence Starters



What I think I did well:  I think i did well paragraphing.
What my partner thinks I’ve done well: using big words to de
What I think I need to improve next time: I think next time I need to add more adjectives and interesting words.
What my partner thinks I need to improve next time: maybe  some ISPACE in


Here is my story - 

Today was Tuesday the 13th of May. It has been a dry, tiring day in the desert. Macy was a tall, courageous girl with a bright and bubbly personality. She wasn’t afraid of what might happen on her missions. Instead she was hopeful she would find something mysterious; leading to investigation.
Today Macy was in the middle of nowhere looking for any indications of life. She was flying her plane when she heard puttering noises coming from the failing engine. She had no way of fixing it before the plane crashed. So she pulled out her binoculars and searched the area for a place to land. Her eyes were red from rubbing them. She was exhausted. That’s when a light flickered. Frantically she grabbed her binoculars once again and lifted them up into sight. That was when she saw a lighthouse in the distance. She began to grow hopeful, hopeful of what might be in there or if there’s anything to help her with her mission. At that very moment the light from the lighthouse pointed towards something. She turned around. It was pointing towards a rain cloud.
The thought of seeing rain made Macy pleased because there obviously hadn’t been any rain here for a while. The plane bounded through the sky, that’s when she realised what had happened. The engine had malfunctioned; causing it to crash into a building. She didn’t know what type of building it was until she got out of her plane and looked around. The smoke caused her breathing to be a struggle. Eventually she had made her way out of the cloud of smoke and into the open air. She walked through the sand. Within minutes she realised what building she crashed into. The Lighthouse!
She walks into the lighthouse and begins to investigate the premises. Huge, hairy spiders creeping the stairwells. Waddling up the stairs. She makes her way to the tip of the lighthouse and sees a dog. The dog sprints towards her, pushes her down to the ground and begins to lick her sweaty face. Macy calls the dog and he begins to follow her lead. They walk down the stairs, around the corner and out the door.
Suddenly, the dog sees the big rain cloud. He leaps into the sky and flies over to the cloud. And boom out of nowhere he grabs the cloud with his sharp teeth and drags it over to this big hole where it looks like an ocean used to be.
Thankfully the dog annoyed the cloud so much it began to rain. They were filled with joy!
The End



Thank you for reading my story. It would be very helpful to have feedback on what I did well and what I could improve on.





Friday 20 October 2017

Uru Mānuka logo design

This week our class got given the task to design and create 4 logos each and present them to the class.
The logos are for our cluster Uru Mānuka.
I used Google Drawings and Logomaker.
I would really like your feedback on what I did well and what I can improve on and maybe any tips for next time?







Monday 14 August 2017

Timetable



Here is my timetable. 
My timetable shows what I have to focus on and what I'm working on that block.


Tuesday 8 August 2017

Book Award Day



Today our class went to St Margaret's to see 6 finalists from the NZ Book Awards.
They gave us a description of what the books were about and some read a snippet of the book.
Here are some of the Authors/Illustrators:

Tania Roxborough - She is a children's writer who has written around 25 books.

David Elliot - Is an Award winning Author and Illustrator
who has written and illustrated 7 picture books.

Leonie Agnew - The Impossible Boy
It took 8 years to write this book.

Simon Pollard -  is a successful children’s book author, spider expert and natural history writer.

Jenny Cooper - is an award-winning illustrator of more than 70 children's books.

Des Hunt - Sunken Forest is his book. It is based 60 years ago. It is based on him when he was 13 years. He went to a Summer Camp and Lake Waikaremoana. It is surrounded by bush and has a great walk of NZ.

My favourite author was Des Hunt because I found his description of his book very intriguing and he had a lot of interesting photos about what his book was about.








Thursday 3 August 2017

Netball Zones


Wednesday 2nd August


On Wednesday we had Zones for Netball.
We played at the Rolleston College Netball Courts.
The games started at 10:30 AM.
And each game went for 5 minutes each way.

We had a lot of fun playing our first few games until it started to rain.
It was a lot harder to play while it was raining because the ball was very slippery.
We were meant to have 5 games but only ended up having 4 because the last game was cancelled.





Monday 24 July 2017

The Holidays



During the school holidays, I stayed at home most of the time. I went to the mall twice but that was about it. 
In the first week it snowed. It snowed all night and morning. The next day my Mum wouldn't let me go outside in the snow with my sister because I was sick.
So I stayed in bed. 

I was sick mainly all holidays so I didn't do much.
On the 19th I went bowling with Hannah, Prudence, Grace, and Bree for Hannah's Birthday. I enjoyed spending time with my friends for the first time all holiday. Later on we went back to Hannah's house and did Karaoke. Then we had dinner; it was a Pizza Cake.
Then we watched a movie. 
We had gotten about 20 minutes into the movie and I ended up getting a migraine so I ended up going home.

The rest of the holidays I spent most of my time in bed sleeping, and listening to music.



Wednesday 7 June 2017

Thursday 1 June 2017

Friday Sport



On Friday the 26th of May, our school went to Hornby High for Friday sport. When we got there the Year 5/6 Hockey, Netball, Football, and the Year 7/8 Netball got off. The Year 7/8 Football stayed on the bus because they were playing at Wycola Park.

Our Team (Year 7/8 Netball) had 3 minutes before our game, so we quickly warmed up and got our bibs. We were versing Prebbleton Gems. We then got into our positions to play. We had a very good 1st half, we were winning 7-4 and had a lot of great intercepts. We went off for about 2 minutes, had a drink. I played GA (Goal Attack) and Ariana was GS (Goal Shoot) so we were shooting together. By the time we had finished the game we had won 11-7. Grace got most improved for not passing to Ariana. And I got Player of the day. 
That was our game!




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Wednesday 24 May 2017

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Who Views My Blog?

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.






Reflection

Friday 12 May 2017

Road Safety Week

This Week is New Zealand Road Safety Week. 
I had the task of creating and finding activities for our school to do.

This took a lot of time to prepare because I had to figure out which activities were suitable for each class.

Here is the doc I made to show the teachers which activities they're doing.



Kahoot Quiz for Everyone:





Te Kakano & Te Pihinga


Play a road safety game with cones.
Set up different scenarios with cones and boxes as vehicles, with zebra crossings, and get them to do the right things. Eg. If you want to cross the road to get to the ice-cream shop, you have to?

‘Stop, Look, and Listen’





Traffic Light song:  ↘

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Colour in the Road Safety Signs: ↘


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Te Mahuri:

Create Posters for Road Safety, with pictures (stop signs, zebra crossing etc.) and explain what Road Safety is.





Rimu:

Answer questions about it.

Video: (The Boy who didn’t look for a safe place to cross.)


Get someone in to talk to the class about road safety and why it is so important.




Wednesday 10 May 2017

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.




Reflection

Friday 31 March 2017

NZ Artists

For the past few weeks our class have been finding information about New Zealand Artists. We had to choose 3 artists and find a biography about them.
I chose: Rita Angus, Kristina Webb, and Mike Glover.
Here is my Presentation



Friday 24 March 2017

Digital Dig

This Week for Cybersmart we started the Digital Dig.
We had to find out keyboard shortcuts for our Chromebooks. I found this pretty easy because I already knew some of the shortcuts.
But I didn't have enough time to finish it all.


Wednesday 22 March 2017

Meeting Jamie Duff

This afternoon our school got to meet New Zealand SprintCar Champion, Jamie Duff!

We got to ask him some questions and get some pictures taken with him. After we got back inside some of our class got to go outside to the carpark to see the GIGANTIC truck.













Friday 10 March 2017

Tennis Ball Presentation

This Week while our teachers were away, Mr Robertson gave us the task of creating an advertisement about tennis balls, and why our tennis ball is the best.

I was in a group with Base, Bella, Prudence and Lucy. Our tennis ball name was Swoosh by Ekin Tennis.



Here is Our Presentation.





Wednesday 22 February 2017

How To Use The Search Button

This Week for Cybersmart we were asked to create a Google Drive Explanation to teach others how to use Google Drive. Here is my Google Slide on How To Use The Search Button.


Friday 17 February 2017

YMS Hero Values at the Swimming Pool.


This Week Prudence and I created a Google Slide on how to be a YMS Hero at the Swimming Pool.
If you haven't seen my other post explaining what a YMS Hero is, here is the link:



Here is our Google Slide.
Feel free to leave a comment!












Friday 10 February 2017

Spaghetti Challenge

On Tuesday our class had been given the challenge of making a tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows.
The Year 8's had already done this challenge at Tech so we had a bit of an idea of how to do it.
There were 30 pieces of spaghetti and 10 marshmallows per group. And 30 minutes to create your tower.

Our idea was to make boxes with triangles to balance it and then stack them all together, but it didn't go to plan so we basically just gave up. 

Here is a photo of our group trying to make our tower.🤣







Wednesday 8 February 2017

Kawa Of Care

For the past two weeks Rimu Class have been learning about Kawa of Care. Kawa of Care is a website where you can find out information about how to keep you safe online and also how to keep your computer safe at school and at home.

Today we got given a task of either making a video, animation, poster etc. explaining one of the things we learnt about the Kawa Of Care.

Here is our Video.
Hope You Enjoy!