Summarising DLO

Today Lyndon and I have completed our summarising DLO. For this activity we first read our book that we chose. Then we chose 20 important words from that book and wrote them down. We then chose the 6 most important word from the 20 words. After that we wrote a 25 word summary also including the 6 words we chose.

Tamaki College Overdrive

Today LS2 have been reading books on the Tamaki College Overdrive. There have been lots of new books that have been added on. I decided to read a book about U.S. Presidents. The Tamaki College Overdrive is useful and really easy to use.

Women's Suffrage Sketchnote

For reading we have been learning about Kate Sheppard and the women's suffrage movement. The suffrage movement happened over one hundred years ago. In our sketchnote we have added in some definitions of words and have answered some questions. For this task I worked with Te Wai, Lyndon and Daniel. We all had to talk with each other about our learning so that everyone knows what we have been learning about.

Kate Sheppard DLO

For reading we have been learning about a really famous New Zealander. Her name is Kate Sheppard. She had a big impact on women rights. In our DLO we had to find out why she is famous, what she did, who she was and he personality qualities. I worked with Te Wai, Lyndon and Daniel. We had to do a lot of talking about our learning so everyone knew what to do.

Women's Suffrage Summary

In reading we have been looking at the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand which was led by Kate Sheppard over 100 years ago. Our task was to write a 25 word summary about what the suffrage movement was about. To finish this task my group and I had to work collaboratively, talk with each other and ask questions. We learnt that Kate Sheppard and the rest of the women that were apart of the suffrage movement had a huge impact on the way New Zealand is today.

Why is it so important to keep oral story telling alive?

Today Daniel and I created a 25 word summary to answer the question: Why is it so important to keep oral story telling alive? For this task, we had to listen to some videos that gave answers to the question. The videos were spoken in Maori so we had to use subtitles. We had to work collaboratively with our partners to complete this task. Our summary had 26 words because it sounded better that way.

It’s important to teach younger generations about Maori storytelling to remember the past. It keeps the cultural and traditional stories alive so they won’t be forgotten.

Haiku DLO

For poetry we have been learning about Haiku's. Haiku's are short poems that have three lines and have 17 syllables in it. We watched a video on how Maui brought fire to the world. We had to write five haiku's that retell the story in order.

Summarizing DLO

Today I completed my summarizing DLO with my group Tiava, Sylis and Mathias. First we listened to a YouTube clip about Samoa and its traditional dances. We then made this DLO and had to write down 20 important words. Next we had to chose 6 words out of the 20 important words. Then we had to write a summery using the words we chose.

Chunky Challenge Word Art

Today I have completed my reading activity. There are three parts to it. First we had to complete the Chunky Challenge presentation. This week the chunk was est. So I had to find words I already know that have est at the start, in the middle and at the end. After that I had to find words I don't know about that have est in it. The second part was where I had to write a simple, compound and complex sentence and there needed to be at least one est word in it. The last part is where I had to choose one out of four activities to do. I decided to make a word cloud using a site I know.

Current Events - Ivory ban in China

For this current events task we looked at ivory ban in China. Ivory is the tusks of elephants. They are used for art and manufacturing. The people who cut off the ivory are called poachers.  I worked with Daniel for this DLO. Daniel and I had to write our opinions on this. Daniel I think that China is making the right choice because the elephants could became endangered.

Ake Word Chunk - Word Cloud

This is my word cloud I have created using all the words I know that have ake in it and all the words I have found out that have ake in it. I did this task to learn new words and sentence structures.

Multimodal Reading

Today for reading LS2 worked on a multimodal about the bar tailed godwit. A multimodal is a page where you can read information and listen to videos about your topic. First we had to name ways of travelling overseas today, 30 years ago and 100 years ago. We also had to write they might of had. Another activity was reciprocal reading. In the reciprocal reading activity we had to make a prediction about the paragraph. When we finished that we had say any words you were unsure of. We then had to ask questions about the text and the characters. Finally we had to summarize the paragraph you read.

Here is a link to the multimodal page. Multimodal Link

R Reading Group Follow Up DLO

In Mrs Anderson's reading group we have been learning about pigeons. We had to form our opinions and decide if pigeons are pest or special. I couldn't decide if they were special or pests because they helped soldiers in WW1 but they have been leaving their dropping in public areas.

Pigeons DLO

This is my DLO that I have made with my group. We recorded our selves saying our opinion about pigeons. We had to decide if pigeons are special or pests. I couldn't decide if they were pests or special.

Online Reading Challenge

In Mrs Anderson's reading group, we had to play the three reading games that was on the reading tumble on our reading page. We had to take screenshots of each game and we had to explain what reading skills we were practicing. For the first game I had to read a story and when I finished, I had to answer questions that were about the story. On the second game I had to read a short story. Then I had to click on each person and they would say something. We had to choose what he said was text to text, text to self or text to world. On the final game I played, I also had to read a short story. Then when I finished I had predict what was going to happen next.

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Pigeon Multi Modal

This term in Mrs Anderson's reading group we have been working on pigeons. Mrs Anderson tried a new way on showing work on our google site. It is called a multimodal page. On a multimodal page you can read information and listen to videos. I think that the multimodal page is easier than google slides because you have to keeping clicking on the arrow to go to the next slide.

Cybersmart

This is my presentation that I have created about cybersmart. We had to type up the five main key words about the topic. I also added screenshots on what came up when I typed in the key words. I learnt that you have to put the main word at the beginning.

Reading Activities

For reading we have been using a site called Into the book. On that site you can choose what strategies you want do. There are some games that will help you as well. Some of the games help you summaries. 

Current Events

Two women Nikki Hamblin from New Zealand and Abbey D'Agostino from USA that were competing in the Olympics fell well running. They both helped each other up. They showed what being a good sport athlete is. They should Olympic spirit by helping each other then winning. For helping each other they got a chance to run in the finals.

Finding Information

These are screenshots of me playing a reading game called Trapped. To play this game the computer would ask me a question about reading and I need to slingshot a cushion into the right answer. When I get all the questions right my character would be free out of the tower.