Literacy - planning (childrens books)

Kia Ora bloggers, 

This week for literacy we have been looking at athuors of childrens books, we looked at Margret Mahy, lynley Dodd and Dr.Suess. Next we made a venn diagram on Lynley Dodd and Dr.Suess. We are looking at these athuors so we can create our own chiildrens book.

Here are the venn diagrams we all made in literacy. Have you heard of any of these athuors?

Bye everyone!

Literacy film noir intro plan

Kia Ora bloggers,

This week for literacy we have been looking at the genre "film noir", some of the conventions include, detectives, guns, rain, and black and white, these are only a few of the conventions and there are many more. Here is my plan

The introduction starts with the parents fighting in the “dream” mansion, (it is called the dream mansion because the “perfect” family of four lives there and the whole town thinks they are perfect) the body is found under the mansion’s stairs after Amanda (the mum) and Mark (the dad)  have a fight and the oldest child mysteriously goes missing into the unknown, the parents then blame each other for the missing her going missing, more and more children go missing each day until they smell a gross smell coming from under their stairs each day they look under there and get closer but not quite getting to the smell.

Pattern problems

Kia Ora bloggers, this week for maths we have been working on pattern problems, we had to figure out the rule of the pattern, the rule for my problem is to add 4 to the previous term. Have you ever made a pattern problem?

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Matariki Art!

Kia Ora bloggers,

In Maori, we have been looking at Matariki and the southern lights/ aurora's, today we started a piece of art to do with these lights. Here are some facts we have learned:

The name Aurora comes from the Latin word that means sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn.

An Aurora is a natural light that appears in the sky, usually, the color is green but can sometimes be either blue or red.

The natural light usually occurs in the 'aurora zone' near the arctic poles, the north, and the south.

Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere.

Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) that get pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

For our piece of art, we started off by ripping a piece of paper to make our hills, we taped that on hand flicked white paint onto make the milky way. Next, we used chalk pastels and drew on the white paper in a pattern with our choice of colors, I used pink, purple, and turquoise Afterward, we used different fingers to spread the pastel to create the lights, after everything has set you to use light yellow paint to create the Matariki stars, and you are done!

Here is mine: 

Bye, everyone!

Weekly work update!

Kia Ora bloggers,

Hopefully, you have had a great week this week, as now we only have 1 day until 2 term school holidays! This week in literacy we have been looking at the genre of sci-fi, and all of its conventions it has within it, as part of our sci-fi genre studies we had to look at what a dystopian world and a utopian world looks like a utopia is a perfect world with nice sandy beaches, modern houses, and healthy plants, one of the keywords in a utopian world is CONTROL because where there is not control can make a difference to whether or not it is a utopian or dystopian world. A dystopian world is the complete opposite, it has run-down buildings, dead plants, and abandoned houses. Our task was to create our own personal utopia, here is mine,

• Malls with free things for my friends and I

• Polished cities

• Live in a big modern mansion with a pool

• A netball court

• Nice unpolluted beaches with clear water

• Be skinny my whole life

• Unlimited credit card

• Expensive cars

• A big walk-in wardrobe with lots of clothes, shoes, and makeup

• Good lighting for tik toks

• Palm trees

• In summer, spring and autumn its always a nice hot temperature and in winter it either snows or is hot

• Good places for photos

• I will have an iPhone 11 and MacBook pro

What do you think of my utopian world? What are some main things you would have in your personalized utopian world?

For maths this week we have started to look at number and algebra, we have mainly been doing number patterns and writing the rules to the patterns, I have found it quite easy to write the patterns most times but just get a bit stuck on the wording for my rule.

Have you ever done number patterns?

Bye, everyone!