Oscar Witt

My goal with this writing piece was to use a range of adverbial phrases.
Oscar Witt lay drifting in the water thinking about his past. As a puppy he was bullied. He remembered the time when he was had his first fight. Oscar was now a fully grown golden retriever He jittered furiously in the water as he had his flashback, finally he awoke with sweat draining down him and his heart skipping a beat. Slowly and swiftly he swam out of the river. Oscar shook his fur Quickly and quietly with water flicking off of him. The river was one place where he could clear his mind. Oscar strutted on the cold white sand softly and dreamily. Oscar didn’t pay much attention to what was going on around him. He just sprinted silently straight to the forest.

What a dog was doing in the forest I don’t even know but for some reason Oscar like visiting his friend Blake the Badger. Blake lived in a giant hollow oak tree so long it could fit a baby giraffe. It was ruff on the outside but Blake cut a door open and built a home on the inside. Oscar approached the peace full oak tree, the door was already open so Oscar quickly and wildly galloped inside. As soon as he ran inside he was smacked in the face by the smell of fresh plants and leaves. Oscar was greeted by his friend Blake.

“Hey Oscar, did you see the race?” Blake asked

“What race?” Oscar replied.

“The Bill the Tortoise and the Harry the Hare had a race, and with an unexpected twist the Tortoise won! ” Blake ran and jumped on his back. Blake’s white fur reflected brightly from the sun light. Oscar took a deep sigh.

“You know i’ve been thinking” Oscar started.

“That can’t be good” Blake said to himself. Blake started to drink some water from an overgrown acorn.

“And i’ve made a decision I am going to the jungle”

Blake immediately loudly spat his water out of his mouth like a hose.

Food Fight

My athletics goal

Is to jump over the high jump bar. Because I didn't last time and I want to get the speed and teqnuique to jump over

Shrinkage

In Poutama we read a book called Shrinkage. It's about a girl named Pippa who became a criminal to become friends with all the popular girls. We wrote an overall about where we had a limited amount of words. Heres mine.
1. Name of character                                Pippa
2. Two words describing the character    Try hard
3. Three words describing the setting       Small, Stocked, Safe
4. Four words describing the problem
in the story                                               Didn't clear the evidence
5. Five words describing an event at
the beginning of the story                        Pippa talked to new friends
6. Six words describing an event
that happened next                                  While she escaped she got caught

7. Seven words describing 

another event that happened after 

that                                                          She was thinking about mum's disappointed face

8. Eight words describing the 

solution to the problem                           Pippa could take responsibility for her wrong actions

2 stars and a wish

Inquiry with Nic

WALT Develop ideas, skills and concepts in drama
My goal is to be spontaneous

1. Focus - become the character, placement, patience.
2. Accept Ideas and build on them
3. Levels - make it interesting for the viewer
4. Space - balanced, using a mixture of all the space, don’t bunch up
5. Finish on time
6. Be Spontaneous
7. Centre stage - main idea is always in this position.
8. Contribute and participate

I think

My Teacher thinks

Evaluation:

1. I’m most proud that we were all able to work as a team on this because at first we had a pretty rough start working together.

2.I found putting the story together in the right way to act out challenging because, it was pretty hard to make the right choice of who to act and how we do it as a team

3.  My next get it goal is to try out and experiment because i’m not always trying new things and experimenting enough

Inquiry with NIc

With Nic in inquiry I've been acting out the story of David and Goliath. Here is a reflection and my second draft of being the character Goliath.

My Writing

WALT:  Entertain

My writing goal was to use precise and technical language and use other words instead of said.

SUCCESS CRITERIA

I have used a range of precise vocabulary to communicate meaning.

TASK: craft a free-choice piece of writing that shows how I am developing my goal

My First Draft

Evaluation

How has your writing has improved this term?
I think I've improved on using a range of different words instead of basic words like said, walked.

The part of my story I am most proud that I think I was able to draw the reader in to the story in a humorous way because I sometimes don't draw the reader into the story

Next time, I wan't to work on using things like onomatepoeia and alliteration and metaphor's 

Feedback/Feedforward I like how you have added words like yammered and sorrow. Next time you could add more precise words instead of words like said instead you could use words like yelled angrily, answered, replied ect
Mitchell

My Edited Writing

Master Ninja strode outside the tent to see the activity going on outside. A fragment of blue streaked lightning struck the ground with great force. Bang! As the smoke cleared the sight awaited him was very unexpected. It was Thor the God of Lightning! With his hammer in his right hand Thor bellowed  “I am Thor Son of Odin, God of Lightning, I wish to join your advent-”

“No just no you can’t” Harry interrupted

“Alright fine”Thor yammered with great sorrow. 

Thor hurled his mighty hammer away, put his hands on his face, and dashed into the bushes crying like a deer running away from a hunter. They went into the tent and fell asleep. The next morning Leonardo Da Vinci woke up when dawn was just clearing. He glanced around in the tent at the four sleeping men, yes four. There was one extra tiny man with a bushy mustache sleeping in Leo’s bed.

“Agghh!” Leo screamed. Everyone in the tent awoke including the tiny man.

“Itsa me Mario” The tiny man said with an italian voice. 

Leonardo Da Vinci had a complete flashback about Mario they went to kindergarten and primary school together Leo found Mario extremely annoying.

“Me and Leo went to kindergarten yes” Mario said.

“I’ve never seen this man in my life!” Leo roared.

He said this because he wanted to get as far away from Mario as he could. Mario persuaded on going on the adventure. Leo told them that Mario could be dangerous

“Fine then go on you’r adventure with you new friends” Mario shouted. 

He jumped out of bed and stormed out of the tent. 

Inspiring Disabilities

Maths sample

WALT: Recognise and continue number patterns
For maths this term we have been learning a range of strategies to help us solve algebra problems. I'm most proud of the strategy I used and the two questions I used because it's something I learnt at home.
I was challenged by explaining the strategy to make you understand because I'm using letters not only numbers.
Next time I would like to do an even more challenging question.
I like the font and the way you made it creative.
Next time you can work on adding a bit more color. Salah.

Ride over the wall

My inquiry reflection

The Wild West

In this writing piece my goal was to draw the reader and make the reader want to read more.
The 

Wild West

What do you think of when someone says the Wild West. You probably think of outlaws, Indians, gunfights. I can tell you it’s all of these things but much more. I would know because I’m a cowboy. My name is Jack Wiggins I’m 24 years old and I’ve probably got the most bad luck in the Wild West. You see the West is a dangerous place to be in the year 1972. So if you want to know how I stole from the Sherif, killed a dangerous outlaws horse and ended up getting in a gunfight with him, and lit a whole indian camp base on fire and still survived, keep reading this...

The Learning pit

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Criteria:

• Draw the Learning Pit.
• List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit.
• List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.
• Label where good learning happens.
• List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.

Evaluation:

Reflect on a time when you have been in the pit.

• How did you feel when you were in the pit?  
• What did you do to work out of the pit?

Feedback/Feedforward: I like how you used shapes creatively to make your learning pit. You could say if your in the learning pit. Salah.

Ordering fractions from smallest to largest

Finding fractions of a set

Te Reo maori poster

Te Reo Presentation

WALT: communicate a message.

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts.  We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.

Why? We have noticed that our posters are too cluttered and do not communicate a  message well.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message.

Composition:  My poster is balanced.

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I'm proud that I was able to use all of things that I learnt at the workshops on having a successful poster.

2. What challenged you the most and why? The background challenged me the most because I had to put enough yellow but the same amount of purple.

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Using a maori sentence and using more words.

Feedback/Feedforward:

I like your background Josiah and your fonts you really did a good job applying what you learnt at the workshops. Next time you could do a sentence in maori like give me the scissors. Khobi.

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Post Criteria

Your post must have a:

1. Title (capital letters for beginning of each word)
2. WALT at the top
3. Image - something visual for the reader (a picture of your poster)
4. Description:
1. Purpose - why we were doing this
2. Process - what we did & how we did it
3. Learning - what I learned
5. Criteria - did I meet the criteria? (copy from above and add targets)
6. Evaluation - how well do I think I did (answer questions above)
7. Feedback/feedforward from buddy/teacher/parent

Please use the below targets to complete the self assessment:

Grasshopper tennis sample

Grasshopper Tennis Sample

WALT: improve our small ball skills like catching, throwing, and hitting.

Description: We have been participating in a tennis programme with Big John (John Salisbury) from Tennis Manawatu. He has taught us some tennis skills that help with controlling and hitting the ball

Why? To reflect on how we are going with the tennis skills we have learnt. We will share this during our Student Led Conference.

When? Week 8

Who? The World

Task: complete the rubric with targets to show your reflection. Make a comment to the questions below?

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why?

      I'm most proud that I can do the popcorn 

2. What challenged you the most and Why?

           Slicing the cheese because I have to use the side thats hard for me

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards?

          Slicing the cheese

Post Criteria

Your post must have a:

1. Title (capital letters for beginning of each word)
2. WALT at the top
3. Image - something visual for the reader
4. Description:
1. Purpose - why we were doing this
2. Process - what we did & how we did it
3. Learning - what I learned
5. Evaluation - how well do I think I did

Feedback/feedforward from buddy/teacher/parent

My Writing sample

                                    Matter

Did you know everything you can see touch or feel has matter. Even things you can’t see has matter. Matter has three states solid liquid and gas. 

Solids are hard. It is things like tables, chairs, beds, books. Solids are normally hard. In a solid there are these tiny little things called molecules. The molecules in a solid are all tightly packed together so they have no space to run around.

Liquids are fluid. Liquids are thins like water, drinks, rain, tomato, sauce. The molecules in a liquid have a little space to jog around. So this means a liquids floppy.

Gas’s are soft. You can only feel a gas’s temperature. Gas is like steam smoke or clouds. Molecules in gas can run around quickly. This means you can’t feel a gas because the atoms run straight through you’r hands.

Did you know one state of matter can change to another state of matter? For example if you leave a block of ice on a table after maybe a few hours there it will have melted and became a liquid. Thats because while it was on the table in the open heat energy was added to the block of ice. If you wanted to change the water into a gas you’d have to add more energy. Like when you put water in a kettle. The matter in the water are getting more heat energy thats why steam comes out of the top of the kettle.

You can also take away energy from matter. So like if you had water which is a liquid, you could freeze the water which takes away heat energy and adds cold energy. Which turns the water to ice.

In matter there are tinier things than molecules called atoms. Three atoms equal one molecules. Atoms are kind of the same as molecules. Just like molecules when something is a gas the atoms move around quickly. And when something is a liquid the atoms jog around inside. And when something is a solid the atoms in a solid are slow and have no space to run around.

Solids are hard. Liquids are fluid. Gas’s are soft. States of matter can change.

WALT: inform

DESCRIPTION: Write an explanation about something you have learned about energy.

Feedback: Cool that really is cool. Kyan

I think I did very well on this because I was able to put all of my ideas on

state the main point in the first part of a each new paragraph			You have started with a point to clue the reader into each paragraph. These are clear.
include evidence (facts, experiments etc) to support my main point			You have included great examples (evidence) that the reader can relate to. Well done.
explain the evidence and how it proves my main point			You have persevered to try to explain how/why your example proves your point - this is really tricky, well done.
Practise writing a linking sentence to my next paragraph			I can see that you have tried to link between ideas. Linking between paragraphs is a lot harder.
infuse style: topic-specifc vocab, second/third person, present tense, transition words			Great style. Don’t forget to use lots of transition words.

Potential and Kinetic energy

WALT: show our understanding of how energy works.
DESCRIPTION: We have been learning about energy. To share our learning, we have made a video to explain how energy works.
Feedback: Well done Josiah I like the item you used to show potential and Kinetic energy. Zac
I think I did well on this but next time I should speak a little louder.

Integrity Sample

WALT: Show Integrity
Description: This is a panoramic photo of someone picking up a ball and putting it in the right place when no ones looking. Because thats what integrity is.
Feedback: Cool Josiah I can see the integrity showing. Zac
I think we did great because you can see kobe leaving the ball and me and Khobi-Lee picking up the ball and putting the ball back in the right place.

My Mnemonic

Encyclopedia's  Unicorn    Disagree      Oily          That

Elephants            Unicorns   Deranged    Only         Timmy 

Never                  Never        Isaac            I                Has

Catch                  Imagine     Is                  Like         A

Yaks                   Cool          A                  Yogurt     Narrative

Cooking             Octopuses  Great                                     

Lobster               Ruling       Racer                                

Oysters,              Neverland  Egyptian

Pepper,                                 Elf

Eggs,

Doughnuts, 

Ice cream,

And 

Sushi

We have been learning to make a mnemonic a mnemonic is like a sentence made out of one word.
WALT:Make a mnemonic
I think I did well because I was able to do the long word I wanted to do encyclopedia.
 I really like your mnemonic and you have a lot of the description. Salah.

My maths sample

Description: This is my math sample. In poutama we've been learning to use different strategies. In my maths group we've been learning the place value strategy.
WALT:Use different strategies for solving math problems
Feedback: Nice Josiah I like those people you made out of the shapes
I think I was really good at this strategy because I understand it.

What's hot

Spelling test

I did a 300 word spelling test and I wanted to get at least 3 wrong but I got 5 wrong

Tables challenge

I'm not improving but I'm always getting 50/50

Learning partners

Spelling

WALT: Spell
I think I did better than I thought I would do because I got five wrong but I  thought I'd get more wrong.

Statistics

I think in statistics my weakness is the mean and to understand and division so I'll work on it at home.

My learners disposition reflection