Two weeks ago On Wendnesday Our school went to the pnamure basin and walked around the whole Basin and had some stops to learn about what the basin was and what lived in the basin and every thing around it One thing that I learned was that that there was a myith of a Taniwha named Moko ika hikuwuru that lived under the bridge that connects the two parts together.
Our task was to research about the North West Esat South Tree Octopus, but with a twist we could only use the one site that Had all of the facts about Tree Octopus. One thing about this task that I will never forget is that don’t always trust the one site with all of the facts that you find because they might now make sence to other people and some times you might not know what the different words mean and always use more than one site if you want to find some infomation for a topic. In the end the topic was just made up topic but it had a real site with information.
This week for Maths, group 2 of LS2 has been revising on Decimal Addition Algorithm, We will be explaining via text and visual.
Today was our final lesson for sewing, One thing that I liked about sewing was that I could make it for my loved ones or friends that are close. One thing that I came to that was hard I always put my name on the board so that my sewing teacher knows that I need help with my project and after we are finished with our project we could give our final project we could go to the person that we wrote down from our stockholder and get feedback for them, after we finished with our project we can make little bean bags and with them with either rice or weat. . This is my final project.
LI: To vary our sentence length to create pace and impact.
For this writing this week My partner and I was chalenged to use our reading text The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and write a letter from Bruno to his grandmother we were also challenged to write this letter with the vocabulary back in 1942., We have used a lot of simple sentences and compound sentence to help us with with challenge.
I enjoyed this challenge because we made some mistakes and we had to go back and check to see if it made sense, and we also made sure that it looked like a 10 year old wrote it to his own grandmother. Our favourite part of this challenge was that we could use FANBOYS, because it helped us write these sentences with more detail. I also loved that part when we could describe what the new house in Out -With was like.
A simple sentence it a one idea that can stand by its self and it is a good begining to a paragraph.
A Compound sentence is a sentence that needs two simple sentences to make the sentence stand. Which is just two ideas pushed together.
We were challenge with 2 question that were connected to the text the Anne Frank and we made a DLO to answer the questions. Something that we always do with these tasks is we show respect for both sides of the story.
For Reading we read ‘Painting the Town’ by by Renata Hopkins. This text was about how Christchurch has painted murals all over the city to bring back happiness to the city after the 2011 earthquake destroyed 80% of the CBD. My mural shows where I am from and what I identfiy as.
I used a Gemini Gem to help us add detail to a narrative. Our Gem asked us questions that made us think of different ways we could add detail and description to our narrative. When I finished I used the Storybook feature in Gemini to create an illustrated version. This was a bit harder to do because I had to keep adjusting the prompts to get as close to my original narrative as I could.
We read the text Bok Choy for Reading. This text showed us the prejudices that existed towards the Chinese immigrants in early NZ. It also showed us that it is important to show empathy for those who are seen to be different from us. Our challenge after reading this was to write a letter to Ah Sum to thank him properly, as you didn’t have the right words when you were shivering in his hut.
Something I found interesting about the events in this text was that back in those days they did not have what we have now, and their house were made of small rocks and put together to make a little hut for them to live in.
We explored Nano Banana, the image creator on Gemini. Our challenge was to use an already created image and our prompts to see how close we could get to the original image.I learnt that we have to make more use of the words that we use and be more specific with our prompts adn to try not to use the same words multipy times.
Original image Our Image
