Sputnik 1,2,3//The Space Race

Today My reading group were reading a book called space race. The space race book is about the soviet union launching the first satellite before USA. The book was very interesting because I learned more words like flopnik and sputnik. Sputnik means Traveller in Russian and Flopnik means failed traveller in Russian. The first satellite that soviet union launch was called sputnik 1 and many more satellite that were launch by the soviet union. The satellites were Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2 and Sputnik 3. My group then created a slide about those three satellites we all worked and different things some of us work together to write down stuff like timeline and explanation. I was writing about Sputnik 3 and did you know that it was 23 inches but weighted 184 pounds. Then we presented it as a group to each other and our teacher and we got some positive feedback. We needed to work on some stuff but I believe we surprised her.

A boy on a bike

This week we were learning about a book named a boy on a bike. The book is about a boy and his dad that travels around New Zealand to raise money for the Saint John's company. The boys name was called Mac he wanted to ride around the North Island on his bike to make people know he is serious about raising money for the Saint John's so they can buy ambulances and other gear. Our task was to reflect where mac went to and what he did. I think he was so brave to stand up for the Saint Johns company to raise more money for the Saint John's company to get more ambulances and more gear.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

This week Marieta, Sakina, Matthew and I worked together to create a DLO of a story called "Te Tiriti o Waitangi". In other words The Treaty of Waitangi. For this task we first read the story then moved on to doing the DLO. For this DLO we did a few reading activities which were vocabulary, summaries and seeing it from both sides. For the seeing it from both sides we needed to choose a question from the learning conversation slide.

SSR Selfie

LI: To explain what happened in the book. 

This week I did SSR Selfie I read the book "The Adventure of John Blake" then I explained it on a google slide. I read a book about a kid named John Blake the book was interesting. In the google slide I have a picture of the book I read and a explanation about it on the side of it. The purpose of this was to explain a story that makes the audience feel interested in the book. I am very sure if you read the book you would enjoy it because of the conflict and the backstory. 

Idiom

LI: To learn a whole bunch of idiom
This week for reading we were learn about Idioms so we first started by learning what are idioms then we had to get into groups after that you had to find Idioms in books and websites then you had to look at the list our teacher sent us and check if the word is on it. So when we found a idiom we had to find the meaning of it in the book then find the real meaning for a example cut to the chase the real meaning for cut the chase is when you talk for to long but you haven't got to the point but the meaning of it in the book is when a company was taking to long for a Stuart Levine to publish his back.

Find Draw Animate Act

LI: To find and make examples of words.
This week we were learning about different words. So for our task we had to make a copy of the Find Draw Animate act google slide and find,Make a animate, Draw and act. So there was two websites we got the words off and it was a year six vocabulary list. So we also had to get into groups of threes and create videos and explanations about what the word means. The four words we have to finish first was  Thwart, Opulent, Encroach, and Fetid. Thwart means stopping someone from completing something. Opulent means something expensive.  Encroach means someone that needs privacy but someone is not giving him privacy. Fetid means something that smells.

Inferring thoughts and emotions

LI: To infer whats happening.
This week for reading we were learning how to infer so our task was to watch a video then infer how the characters or people were feeling. Inferring is when you get hints from the text and then putting them together to get the final answer.  So we first started by siting on the floor and looking at the TV to watch the video after we watched the video together as a class we inferred what happened in the video and what was the emotions and thoughts. Then after that we got into our groups and inferred something together. Then after we showed the teacher we did it by our self we also had to add what time it was when your image of your inference showed then you infer what you saw. So I added extra words to the image so it can look like the birds are talking gin real life. So then I started to infer what was the emotion and what the birds were doing the first three slides were made just as a example.

What can you tell?

LI: To infer information from a picture.
This week for reading our task was to infer whats happening in the photo. So we had to get into partners but one of them had to be from a different reading group. After we got into partners we had to make a copy of the google slide then we work individually we just got into partners to tell each other what you infer. Some photos were a bit hard because you ran out of things to infer. Also after inferring you had to make a arrow pointing at where your talking about. 

U-Turn//Interactive Storybook//Conflict and resolution

LI: To make a book interactive.
LI: To analyse a story for its conflict and resolution.

On Thursday Mr Wong's reading groups has to create there own Interactive story book and conflict and resolution. So we first started by siting on the floor then he showed us his interactive storybook as a example and it was amazing. Then he said to us to first read the book then do the conflict and resolution google drawing then after that I could do the interactive storybook. 

After we finished talking about what to do then I went to sit on a table after that I read the book then I asked my friend if he understood the book so we can talk about it's conflict and characters. Then I made a copy of the conflict and Resolution google drawing and then I did the task on it. After I finished the conflict and resolution google drawing I then did my Interactive storybook and in it I had to include three English vocab, Three Maori vocab,Three figurative language and two idioms. 

After I included those questions I then helped my friends with it then I felt great that I managed to finish my work for reading.

Conflict and resolution

LI: To analyse a story for its Conflict and resolution.

This week for reading we were reading about a book named Painted hoe. In the book it talks about the past history of New Zealand. So in the book it explains what happened when the Europeans arrived at New Zealand when the Maori people were here. This book is probably a information report. The Maori  people and the Europeans remind me of the book sparks because in sparks Dillon doesn't want to share the scooter just like how the Maori people didn't want to share New Zealand. 

Conflict and resolution

This Is the DLO   BOOK

LI:To analyse a story for its Conflict and resolution.

This week for reading my task was to make a copy of a DLO Mr Wong made and then finish off reading the book the we were learning about and putting the conflict between characters on the story then we had to explain what else happened in the story. So the conflict started at the first page of the book. There were three conflicts in the story and one of them were that Dillon didn't want to share his scooter with Harley the second one was that the mum wanted Dillon to give Harley a turn but the dad disagreed and said that Dillon should just enjoy his birthday present. The last conflict was when the dad wanted Harley to have a turn so he told Dillon but Dillon refused so then the dad had snatched the scooter off Dillon and gave it to Harley to have a turn as Dillon was storming into the house. 

Reading Notes

LI: To explain what happened in the story.
This week for reading we had to create a reading notes and we had to read a book then we had to explain what happened in the story so before we started reading we had to answer these questions then we had to answer the questions while reading. Then we had to answer them after reading. Then we were done with the book.

Cuchulainn

LI: to identify the purpose of narratives.
This week for reading we had to think of a culture myth and write about it. I wrote about Cuchulainn from ireland. So I had to create a DLO about cuchulainn explaining what happened in his past his life is very interesting cause when I was researching about him I found intresting factts about him and its in the DLO. I hope you learned more about this Irish myth.

About Maui

L.I: to find information about Maui
This week for reading had to make a DLO explaining who Maui is. It was similar as last week about the tengu. So We first had to answer these questions on a google slide Mr Wong shared to us before we were reading the book then while we were reading the book we had to answer more question then when we finished we had to try and answer the questions Mr Wong told us to think of a answer. Then after that we made a DlO about Maui and explained who he was and what he was.

Tengu

LI : To learn about the tengu and the history behind it

This week for reading we had to read a story about a magical goblin but it was named tengu. So when we were reading the story we also had to come up with answers for the questions or teacher told us. After that we had a conversation with Mr Wong and told him the answers of his questions. After that we had to get in pairs or groups we got into groups and created a DLO about the tengu we also found images of how a tengu looks like.

Reading

LI:Work on the Prior Knowledge section
This week for reading we first started by learning what to do show we had to make a copy of the google slide Mr Wong told us to do. In the google slide we had to think of strategies to do when reading as you can see in the google slide me and Xavier made has Reading strategies to do while reading or to do before reading. Then we had to make a venn Diagram showing the difference between Myths,Legends and Fairy tall also what they all have in common on it we wrote That Myths and Fairy tall both include magical monsters. On the google slide me and Xavier prefer to Predict before reading the book. If you don't know what predict means it means to think about what is going to happen in the story before reading it.

Visualisation

The document

LI: to visualise and question scenes in a book.

This week for reading we learned about Visualisation Mr Wong first told us what it means then made a google document so we can do what it says on the document. We first had to find a book then read the book after that we had to take one sense out of the book and put it on the google document. We had to write what number page was the sense on and then we had to draw on a piece of paper how the sense is described as then lastly we had to put the title of the book on the google document but we had to do to books.

Quiz/Man and Sea

This week for reading we were reading a book named man and sea when we finished reading the book we had to create a quiz for other people to play it and know more about the story my quiz was very hard but if you read the book you will understand my questions.

Kahoot Code :311873

Infering

Document

Video

Video two

LI: To infer information from a text.

This week for reading we were learning about inferring. Mr Wong first should us some video and taught us about inferring. Inferring is figuring out something by using hints from the author and your prior knowledge.  So we had to make a copy of the google doc Mr Wong shared to us and we had to do some inferring.

Why do our muscles get tried?

LI: To self- monitor understanding of words and phrases.

This week for reading we had to make a video recording our self and explain the new words you learned in the book and what the book is about. We did a keyword list that shows the words we don't know and wrote beside it the meaning of the word. The word I learned about was fatigue which means when your muscles get too tried from exercising too much.