Erosion project from Tai, Calaya

 In class, we have been learning what erosion is and how it works at the Waitangi river and this is made by Tai, and Calaya and presented in class.

Figurative language

In class, we have been learning figurative language

Technology and groundwater-reading for understanding

Our topic is water and science. We have been learning to use Subheading, Text features, Lead sentences, Keywords, photographs, images so that we can try to find the main idea.

Average

 In class we have been learning how to find the average number to heaps of numbers

Self assesment 🤑

  We are learning about Jonah and his forgiveness and what was his reaction towards God's forgiveness.

 WALT use study the bible to gain an understanding that we all need  God's help, mercy, love and we are all called us to forgive others.

 

The Bible records many stories about "forgiving". The Lord Jesus also taught us like this: when we forgive men when they sin against us, our heavenly father will also forgive us. However, it's hard to forgive from our hearts. With God’s help you can forgive. 

 

Your assignment is to research "forgiving", in the bible and share what you learned. You will need to use reference material such as biblegateway.com or search engines to locate stories of forgiveness in the Bible.

 

Begin by brainstorming possible topics and bible references

 

Create your own framework to record bible references you will read, key events within it and your thoughts. In week 8 you will use this to write what you learned from the bible about forgiveness. 

How did I go ⚫   ✅    ✅✅     ✅✅✅	My self assessment
I can use reference material to locate starting points (bible stories) relevant to forgiveness	✅✅
I can create a framework to record my key ideas and notes	✅
I can read the bible independently	✅
I can use my notes to write about what I learned about forgiveness	✅
Teacher comment

New ending

 In class, we have read Thirst, our task was to make up our own ending to the story.

I think I have done the following well: I have enjoyed using figurative language and show not tell in my stories it has helped me make my stories more exciting.

New ending

Dad shouted once more with an infuriated voice.” Ryder you thief, come here now. Stop hiding you little rat!!” Then Ryder heard his dad's voice and his heart started pounding like a hammer smashing against his chest. Blood flushes through his brain like a waterfall. Guilt starting to build up inside of him. What am I gonna do if dad finds me? Ryder thought. Should I run away, or should I just go home and tell mum and dad that I stole the neighbor's water? Ryder decided to face his parents and starts walking home. Walking the sun was crushing my soul like a car crusher in a junkyard. He opens the door and is faced with Brooke. Her face was drenched with tears. Guilt, disappointment, regret- flooded through  Ryder’s being.

“Come into the living room now,” Ryder's mum said. Ryder follows his parents and he sits on the couch, chewing on his nails.  “What were you thinking? Why do you think you can just go and steal someone else's property? You can get me and your dad fired from that job“ scolds mum. “I don’t know mum. I just looked at Brooke and she looked so sad and unhappy. We needed to clean our uniforms because we haven't washed our uniforms for over a month. We haven't even been able to actually shower because we have no water. “

                                                                                   

Ryder listens to his mum and dad and does everything around the house. He is slowly learning his lesson not to steal without asking for permission from the owner of the house and whoever paid for the water. Ryder learns slowly, but in the fourth week, something patters down on the roof. Rain.

Im class we have been reading a journal and this journal is called Thirst, and we had to do a narrative plot planner.

 

Now you see it now you don't

 I have been learning to use show not tell to make my narratives interesting. 

I do this I tried to have Wow words in your story and describe what the characters think and feel.

This is a story I and India have changed.

                        The Ngahere                                        

   

Orientation (Two Brothers) Problem does not get along - one is adventurous and the other is lazy. 

 

One morning Jeziah got angry with his little brother Justice because of his laziness and taking forever to do everything as he’s always gaming and raiding the pantry. Which his mum and brother do not like because they have to pay for everything and they're not rich. Jeziah likes to mock, giving Justice the nickname “Greedy Guts' '. 

 

They were arguing about where they wanted to go. So Mum suggested that they should just go out and enjoy the Ngahere. Jeziah goes out into the Ngahere. He Tells Justice to come with him but Justice doesn’t want to; all he wants to do is play the game all day and eat like a pig. The boys obeyed their mother and went into the Ngahere. Jeziah tries to play a prank on Justice but suddenly Jeziah gets lost. Justice is scared, but he tries to find him not knowing what to do. Knowing he would get in trouble with his mum if he ended up coming. Home by himself. Creeping and quietly walking through the really damp, dark bush trees swaying with the wind, the wind going through the tree’s making it sound like someone screaming.

Justice calls out to him; he answers with” Yes, I'm here, can you help me I’ve rolled my ankle?” Justice does what he can to help Jeziah. There is such a thing as brotherly love with finding his older brother and helping him. Finding their way out of the Ngahere has brought the brothers closer together.

Jeziah realizes that his little brother Justice is really helpful after all and admires the fact that he wasn't so lazy but forgiving and brave. They go home peacefully accepting each other's differences. Jeziah feels proud of his brother and realizes how mum must feel when they are continually arguing. 

Well health being

 In class, we are learning what it means to be healthy. I learned that If you think bad stuff in your head your body is still healthy

In class we do cold task to find out what we already know. Our cold task was narrative writing. This is a snap shot of what i can do in 30 minutes by myself.

We are learning to self -assess our writing so we know what we are good at and what we need to work on.

What I want to approve on is putting better language like figurative language and wow words in my story.

 Name: Taitokerau

Once I went to calaya’s and thems house when they used to live down in Te Iringa and I and calaya were playing on the quad having heaps of fun. Then we had to give the quad over to one of our other cousins and to my sisters Naz and Ryvi to have a turn on. So then they thought that they were cool and went for a ride on the road. So then my cousin was like oh should we go onto the rocky road and try to do some burnouts and stuff. Then my sisters were like yup if you can control the quad and my cousin said yes. SO then they went onto the rocky road suddenly!!!! My cousin thought she was cool and tried to do burnouts and she lost control of the bike and my sister Ryvi fell of the quad then she go scratched up heaps and then her leg got ran over and her cut was so deep u could see her bone in her leg and she was crying so much that she felt like her heart was gonna leave her body.

The mistery shapes

 Yesterday we got given a task sheet to complete with a partner and see if we knew what some of the clues meant and see if we knew what we were doing.

Embrassing forgiveness

 This week we have been learning about how to forgive people and to love your enemies and not (Rapu utu) that means seek revenge  

Courage Writting Snapshot

 

In class, I have been reading about Jesus Christ's life and looking for acts of courage. I then had thirty minutes to write about it.

How can we see courage in the life of Jesus?

Fear is a reaction and courage is a decision; this is a famous quote by Winson. Churchill. Today I am going to talk about someone that is way more famous than Winson Churchill. I will be talking about the son of God Jesus Christ.

We can see courage in Jesus Christ the son of God when Jesus calmed down a storm. When Jesus calmed down the storm Jesus didn’t panic like his disciples did. Jesus stayed calm. Jesus had just woken up from a sleep and asked his disciples where is your faith in our Father God. Jesus just rebuked the heavy wind and the raging waves. He rebuked the storm with authority. So what I mean is when you are going through something not good in your life you just stay calm, have faith in the son Jesus christ and speak with authority when there is something going wrong in your life.

Jesus showed courage when he had  calmed down the storm. He had faith in God and didn’t say that I can't do this. I can't calm a storm down. But Jesus believed in himself and Jesus stayed calm and didn’t think that he couldn’t do it. Because In the bible it says “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. Philippians 4:16 

This can help us when we have storms in our lives.We can be like Jesus and stay calm and not panic and speak to God with authority and we can speak to the storm in our lives with authority and ask him to help us. Not to keep it to ourselves and put more pressure on your life and not tell anyone what you are going through in your life.

To sum up, Jesus is a good example of living a courageous life. He doesn't let fear in his life stop him from doing what is right in his life.

Courage poster

 In class, we are learning about courage. We had to choose a quote that we liked and had to do a motivational poster. I liked my quote because It helps me understand that it takes courage to stand up and get over your fear. It also takes courage to listen to other people too. 

I learned that good poster are eye-catching and have a purpose. In my poster I have:

Layering, cropping, color, custom color, and grouping 

My narrative writing goals

My Writing Goals 

Not yet	Developing	Got it!

My story flows and I use punctuation for effect
I have an interesting hook
I have good organisation (paragraphs help reader with the orientation, problem, complication, solution)
I have used , . ?!  correctly within direct speech
I have short sentences for impact and longer sentences to build detail
I have used wow words (verbs, adjectives, nouns)
I have figurative language ( simile, metaphor, idiom personification)
I mostly use show not tell
I have a wide variety of  sentence starters
I have a 2A, double ly; de;de;  simile; verb, person sentence; 3 ed; emotion word, sentence; P.C sentence. ( comment on them)
I can give, and respond to, peer and teacher feedback to improve my work and my friend’s.
My writing goals are...
To use, . ?! in my story, To learn how to use figurative language ( simile, metaphor, idiom personification), and learn how to use a wide variety of sentence starters.

Wringer

In class, we have been reading a novel called the wringer and it is written by Jerry Spinelli. 

courage

In devotions we have been learning about courage.

Credible-believable

 The great author makes characters with a believable personality

They show personalities through these actions, Dialogue (direct speech), Action, Reactions, Physical descriptions, Thoughts.

I can see this in Beans character, that he is an attention seeker he is selfish and likes to think about himself and not everyone else he is disrespectful, he expects too much and thinks the world revolves around him like when he went to Palmers birthday he stuck his finger into Palmers chocolate cake and didn't even care. Beans leaned across the table, took a deep breath, and blasted away. It shows Beans Characteristics in the story when he leaned over and blew Palmer's birthday cake candles out. The author is mainly using action to show Beans personality.

Propbility

Here is some of my work on probility

Learning combinations