Venn diagram

Kia Ora blogers

This week we made a Venn diagram on Christmas in New Zealand and we could choose one country to compare it with out of Sweden, Mexico and England. I chose to compare NZ with Sweden. Here is my Venn diagram 

PAT reading test

Hello bloggers
Yesterday I did a PAT reading test and I got a score of 26 /35. I am now sitting on a stanine 5 for my reading. I did really good in all areas. Here is a photo of my work

Poetry lesson number 5

reading poetry 2

1: That rhyme is a main ‘clue’ that a piece of writing might be poetry.

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2: What rhyme is.

Treaty of Waitangai

Reading Week 2 Term 1 2018 This week’s goals: Learn: How to recognise, ask and answer literal questions. Success criteria: Read texts and be able to think of a literal question based on that text. Use the key words What, Where, Who and When as sentence starters for your literal questions. Answer literal questions posed by other people. Create:   DLOs on which to record answers to questions/activities based on the Treaty of Waitangi. (from several sources). Scroll down for more information and links

In order to show that you have met the learning goals above you need to do 2 things with this sheet. Step 1. Find your named box and write a literal question that could be answered by someone who has just read your text about the Treaty of Waitangi. Step 1 will be completed while you are with the teacher.

Cerys: When did the British decide to protect the Maori?   The British government decide they need to protect Maori people in 1830s.

Amethyst ~ Who was Henry Williams?

Moses; How many Maori rangatira signed the waitangi treaty? Over 500 rangatira signed the treaty of waitangi

Honey - Who was William Hobson?

Reagan: Who gave William Hobson advice  about the treaty.

Annelise: What is the Treaty of Waitangi?

Charlie R Who else wanted to take over NZ? The french wanted to take over New Zealand.

Kyle: When did the British announce supreme power over New zealand?

Traeh: Who was the first chief to sign the Treaty of Waitangi?

2. Once all of you have written a literal question in your own box, you each need to make a copy of this document.  Put your copy into your Reading folder in your Google drive. Using your new document, you need to answer each literal question until every box on your new document includes a literal question and its answer.  You will complete Step 2 independently after you have left the teacher. Tomorrow you will have another session with your teacher and your work will be marked.

poetry vs prose

Learn: The difference between prose and poetry.

Create: A DLO which shows short texts sorted  into two groups; prose or poetry and which includes at least one image.

Kiwi Kids News

Kia ora,

This term every week for one day, we pretend that we are news reporters because we do this thing called Kiwi Kids News. I hope you like it.

This year we are learning about myth and legends our theme is Learn from a Myth, Became a Legend. We had to explain the difference between a myth and a legend - I choose a myth.

Ganesha the god of India

Is it a myth ? The story of  Ganesha. Yes

The story comes from a culture.	It has non-human characters like gods.	It can have some real characters like plants, humans and other animals.	It is set in a certain place.	It explains a certain phenomenon or says why things are the way they are.	The story has a narrative structure with a problem/solution.
Country-India Hindu religion Cerys	Yes the gods are Ganesha,Lord Shiva and Parvati mother and father of the universe. Charlie gave us this answer.	Elephant ,boy tree Amethyst and Magic	In India Alxe	Why the god Ganesha haves a head of an elephant Charlie	Kanye said the boy upset Lord Sivar and Lord Shiva copped off the boys head .   Then Matthew said Lord Shiva replace it with an elephant