In reading, my group created a DLO about different types of characters and how mood and atmosphere are used in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.We also explored how mood and atmosphere affect the way readers feel during important parts of the story.
After reading Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas we talked about what people must felt like having their whole world turned upside down.
I can’t imagine what it felt like during the time they have spent captured but it must’ve felt horrible and terrified.
Yesterday we discussed how we could put their cloth of dreams back together again. This activity was inspired by the book Teaspoon of Light.
We drew what we thought that might be on their cloth of dreams the symbols what they were dreaming, the hope, freedom they had. Their thoughts of being with their whanau was uneasy.
Fredom
Hope
Whanau
Dreams
We listend to the audio book of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. After each chapter we explored the mood and atomsphere.
Mood is what the character feels.
Atomsphere is the vibe in the room.
We worked collaboratively to summarise each chapter in 10 sentences. This helped us practise simple, compound and complex sentences. Some days we used Gemini to prompt us and some days we used
Something I found sad about these times was that most Jewish people lost their life because of hatred and discrimination from the Germans.
LI: Learning to show an expression meter of how the mood changes throughout the story.
For Reading, Mrs Anderson Reading have been reading the book called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. My Partner and I fiigured the mood in the story goes either high or low. Eg: Shmuel and Brunos friend is really high near hyperactive because their really happy about how they had a connection between them, When they are searching for Shmuels papa they felt hopelee because he was no where to be found and they were close to giving up.
This meter shows the mood throught the chapters in the story and why.
LI : To carry out a guided research process
This task, our challenge was to research the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Throughout the process, we investigated questions like, “How do they move through the trees?” and uncovered some fascinating details about thePacific Northwest Tree Octopus.
LI : To create a digital drawing of the taniwha “Moko-ika-hiku-waru”
This week for Digital art, LS2 made a Taniwha named “Moko ika hikuwaru”. A Taniwha is a mythical creature to Maori culture and this specific Taniwha had eight legs. We learnt about this taniwha during Panmure Bridge Schools Basin walk after walking across the Bridge. My partner and I created this version of the taniwha we think it will look like to us, we thought the Taniwha would be dark blue and light blue because it lived in water and we thought it would fit it with the dark and light colour water.
LI : LI: To improve prompts by reviewing and adjusting results.
This week in class, we learned how to use AI with Gemini. I learned that you need to give clear instructions to get a good image. The description is what is happening and where it is. The style is how the image looks, like cartoon or realistic.
We also tried to come up with a prompt that will generate us the exact picture that was shown to us. It took me and my partner 6-8 tries to come up with this photo. This is the closest we think we have gotten.
LI: How to name place and total values up to millions and two decimal places
Place value, is the value of every digit in a number depending on its position.
Decimals are parts of a number which always stays on the right side of the decimal points (.).
If this is difficult a easier way is relating whole number and decimals to money (Dollars and Cents) because dollars are whole numbers and cents are like decimal numbers because they aren’t a whole number.
For this weeks Maths , group 1 is learning how to identify highest common factors. Highest common factors is basically the largest whole numbers that divides into two or more numbers without any remainders. Remember , factors are numbers that we can multiply together to get a number. For example : 6 x 8 = 48.
LI: To vary our sentence lengths to create pace and impact.
For Writing, me and my partner created slides based on what we learned for literacy. What we were explaining was Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences based on the Boy in the Striped pajamas. We also created a super challenge sentence creating a whole paragraph using all those sentences.