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.
LI : To vary our sentence lenghts to create pace and imapct
We used our reading text ” The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” to use our sentence knowledge creatively in the context.
For this task my partners and I used Simple, Compound and Complex sentence to help us add more impact into our writing. For this letter Bruno express how he miss his Grandma that still lives in Berlin, for more help we used FANBOYS and AWHITEBUS.
These are short for:
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So
Although, At, After, When, Whenever, Where, Wherever, While, How, However, If, Than, Though, Even, If, Eventhough, Because, Before, Unlees, Until, Since and So that.
The purpose of this letter was to show how Bruno in Auschwitz compared to Berlin and how he misses his Grandma that lives far away and is concerned on how he might never see her again.
LI:To write a description of life with the Frank family in the annex in 1942
LS2 read a story about Anne Frank and what she wrote in her diary about her experience she had in the annex. Mrs Anderson created a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what life would have been like in the annex, what we think what it felt in the annex and how it felt and how we can imagine ourselves in there. I really enjoyed using Gemini because it helped me on my work and gave me feedback and hints on what we need to added and showed us what we really did good in our text , I found this task really interesting because I never really learned about Anne Frank that much but now I can get the full experience in learning about her and her perspective of her life in the annex.
The annex was quiet except for the floorboards that groaned under foot. They walked with shoes filled with anxiety , every step sending thuds of dust through the cracks, a suffocating reminder of how thin the barrier was between life and death.
As the Germans barged in the house, terror froze our faces. We turned into statues the moment footsteps neared the hidden bookshelf tears tracked silently down their cheeks , but none of us dared to sob. We went immediately quiet once we heard footsteps coming near but then the Germans heard a mysterious noise coming from outside so they went to go investigate. Sighs of reliefs filled the annex. All we wanted was peace and humbleness against the Germans but they never gave us a chance to speak what we wished for.
The space was so cramped, everyday the annex felt like it was shrinking , beds clashing together with hardly any space to walk , each step could make a noise we couldn’t afford to make. When peaking through the cracks Amsterdam was a mess seeing police taking more and more Jewish people to camp.Hearing sirens going past each house scanning the perimeter of making sure all Jewish people are found and taken away, our hiding place was more accurate compared to the other houses that was used for hiding places.
The longer the war, the worse the food gets. We mostly hid in their secret hideout being careful of each step we took to stay quiet of the people who were exploring the library downstairs. Beneath the shadows, Anne Frank fought to keep her spirits from darkening. While the world tried to erase her , she used her birthday diary to pull herself from reality. Every stroke of her pen was an act of confidence, a way to live a full spirited life on paper while her body was behind the bookcase.
LI: To create a procedural text to tell someone how to do something using a sequence of steps, instructions or actions in a particular order.
Our challenge was to work in our dinosaur research pairs create a prototype of our dinosaur’s skeleton. The challenge was to make teh skeleton of our dinosaur and record the steps we followed. Once we had our first prototype we revised and adapted both the prototype and the instructions
We used the language features found in a procedural text to help us write clear instructions so that another pair could follow our instructions and create our prototype.
I think this activity was very fun because we had the privilege to create a dinosaur out of paper and spending time with my partners Hasna and Sweet-E that I really collaborated well with.
For Writing LS2 wrote a pourqoui story that is related to Maungarei. We learnt how to use puncuation and capital letter Skimming and scanning all the words we used all the time and go on wordhippo to find another word to put in our story. A pourqoui story is basically a story is telling you why or what it is about. We organize all of the words we wrote and make it into a whole story combining it together to create a perfect story. After we created the pourquoi we went straight to Adobe Express to created the image of a volcano.We copied and paste each paragraph from the story and put it into the (Describe what you like to see) box to generate a photo you want.
Many hundred of years ago in a country across the sea when dinosaurs roamed around free there lived Maungarei well known as the fire and angry mountain. She has always been angry and no one would mess with her, her rage took over her emotion but one day there were dinosaurs on her body. Waking her up from her sleep angry and bad tempered she exploded in fury when woken from her sleep. As her anger took over she rumbled sending the other mountains around , her running in all one direction being scared that Maungarei is getting angry they knew it was time to protect themselves before she was surrounded by a smoke screen of fury.
Once she turned the land to burn with anger ! Maungarei soon regretted her angry actions and realising how lonely she will become by being angry all the time, she cried with all her heart noticing if she thought about what she was doing she wouldn’t make everyone run away from her with fear in their eyes .
Maungarei always let her anger take over her other emotions. She was a powerful warrior, her emotions were fiery as a volcanic eruption bursting with anger. She wasn’t able to control her outburst surrounding her were her siblings who were always bugging her . She was known as the middle child. She never got the attention from anyone until she got angry and wondered.
After she realised how angry she got and scared every mountain and animals running away with distress in their eyes , looking at the mess she caused she felt lonely and regretted her terrible actions wished the the sun (Ra) to make her calm down and have a sleep for a little bit dreaming everyone will come back to her so she can treat them in a different way she treated them before. The next day she felt so drained she never felt that way before but she knew it was time to take a long rest to make sure she doesn’t damage anyone or anything anymore.
Maungarei is a volcano which is currently sleeping peacefully but it is all suddenly quiet now but everyday we would never know when Maungarei would rise again the answer is we would want to know if she is going to be known as the fiery mountain again or if she controlled her angry emotions and turned them into happiness and peace.
LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there.
For Reading and Writing we were learning about the Trenches in World War 1 creating our own diary entries and Imagining how or what would we do if we were in WW1. Creating ideas and learning new information about ANZAC was so fun to work on. We went onto this site that took us to all of the NZ soldiers diary’s and what they wrought thought the War. We used Google vids to help us record our own diary entries. I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to share my ideas with my classmates and teachers and helping me learn more about ANZAC, Something I found very interesting was that how our class got to discover the site we use to look on Hami Graces Diary and the other NZ soldiers. I realized that how tight the trenches were.
For this activity we were challenged to create a podcast about Reverend Samuel Marsden. We have used our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden as if we were talking to him. On Adobe Express we used the Podcast tool to record our voices and script we collaborated together and had created. For our roles Armani and Amorangi was Samuel Marsden, and the hosts were Jaeliyah, Hasna, and Valencia. I enjoyed doing this fun activity because we all got turns in taking part and we joined our knowledge of Samuel Marsden together and it helped us get more understandment.
I learnt while doing this task was to always use expression in what your saying because it makes it sound better and be confident because if your not confident no one will hear you speak up.
LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling.
Our task was creating a Photo story of our walk to Pt England Reserve by using the photos from the walk. To create a story by using photos we want to put the photos in the right order explaining how fun our walk was I always wondered how long it was. One thing I liked about our walk was playing sports after we walked to Pt England Reserve.
LI: To let others know who I am so they can make connections to me and my place in the world.
Our challenge today was to write and record our pepeha to introduce ourselves. I found this interesting because I get to learn my Pepeha in Maori because I can learn Maori and understand to help people know what it means and what they are saying. Representing the Maori Culture and where your from making you feel proud of where you come from too. No reira tena koutou katoa. Thus my acknowledgment to you all. Thank you for listening to my Pepeha and whakapapa.
LI: To write a narrative from an AI prompt `
This week we got to explore Papyrus AI in Writing. Papyrus AI is a generative AI which has to do with creating things. We used it to help us write a narrative story that incorporated two different fairy tales : Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid. Papyrus asked us for our ideas, and gave us feedback to improve our paragraphs, until we had completed our whole narrative story. Here is my story :
Two sisters were separated and led different lives: one in the deep sea, known as Ariel, and the other in a bustling town, known as Belle. They didn’t know about each other until one day when a fisherman caught Ariel while Belle happened to be walking by. Belle, curious and kind-hearted, stopped the fisherman and urged him to let the mermaid go. Grateful, Ariel returned to the water but soon resurfaced to talk to Belle. As they chatted, they discovered a connection and began to meet every day by the shore, sharing tales of the ocean and the land. Their daily conversations blossomed into a beautiful friendship, and they became best buddies, each learning from the other’s world and cherishing the bond they never knew they were missing.
Belle decided to go swimming with Ariel but didn’t have the money to buy swimming clothes. Ariel remembered that she had swimming clothes she found in the sea and offered them to Belle. Ariel swam down to retrieve the clothes and brought them to Belle. Once dressed, both of them dove into the ocean. As they swam, Ariel took Belle to her underwater home. Belle was amazed at the vibrant coral reefs, the colourful schools of fish, and the sparkling underwater castles. She felt a sense of wonder and excitement as she explored this magical world, marvelling at how different it was from the land.
Ariel bade farewell and decided to go home for now, but she promised Belle that she would come and spend time with her some other day. They knew they would always remember each other. Belle came up with a last idea to throw a party to celebrate their last day together. Happily Ever After. The End.
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