Waitzing Matilda Poem

LI: To understand the story within the poem.

For this task, we made a DLO of Waltzing Matilda. The paragraph represents the events that happened in the poem of Waltzing Matilda. For the full story, there was a swagman located in the billabong, he steals a sheep and was caught by the troopers. But when he was cornered, he made a decision to drown in the lake because he knew the outcome if he were to be put in jail, as poverty was inside there.

Something I found interesting about this text was how the swagman chose death over being caught.

Waitcing Matilda

LI: To Making Sense of Unfamiliar Text 

For this task our main focus this week was learning and exploring about the shearers strike. Our group looked at the two perspectives of the shearers strike. When we read both of them we formed an opinion of which we thought was a better argument than the other. our main focus this week was learning and exploring about the shearers strike.

Hone Tuwhare

This is what Tejal and I did for google vids(about Hone tuwhare) who is Hone Tuwhare? Hone Tuwhare was a man from New Zealand who wrote poems. He liked to share his feelings and stories through his words. His poems often talk about nature, life, and feelings. People enjoy reading his poems because they are simple but make you think.

 

Procedural Text

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 the 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 fun because we go to caern our Procedurl Text.

 

Group 5A Tonga Word Problem

Our challenge was to create a DLO and make word problems that needed to relate to Tongan language week, for example my question was : if Nia buys 29 bags og taro then her friends givesher 12 more bags of taro. How many bags of taro does Nia have now?

Something I found interesting about this Challange was that I get to celebrate my culture and giving my classmates math word problem challange to solve out.

Poppy

Last Week for our reading we learned about poppys. We use our small research skill to find about poppys and we went to go in groups for this research. We got a piece of newsprint papper and on the newsprint we write down the ideas that were gonna research about. When we finished we made a Google Sildes telling us about Poppys. And then when were done we went up to present to the other groups. When we finished presenting out teacher give us some feedback on our Poppy Research.

Muliplication

Today me and my parther did a Maths DLO. It shows what we have learned in Maths and it about multiplication addition. This DLO has steps to it showing how easy it is to understand multiplication addition.

Dinosaur eggs

LI: To understand how scientists discover, record and learn from fossils.

Our challenge was to become a palaeontologist who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimagine what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image. My partner and I found the skeleton of a Iguanodon. Two interesting fact that I have found out about my dinosaur fossils are that a Iguanodon could grow up to 30-36 feet tall and it is 9 to 11 meters long. Iguanodons was one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and named, and its name means “Iguana tooth” because its teeth resembled those of modern Iguanas.

This task was fun because it had helped me learn more about dinosaurs and what specific species my dinosaur was and what it does .

I had fun learning about the Iguanodon because it reflects the past and it shows what dinosaur fossils looked like when the paleontologists found it.

Once a Panther

LI: to identify the key historical context and events related to the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids as depicted in the graphic novel.

For today’s reading learning activity, we learnt about another connection between the present and the past about the Polynesian Panthers. Me and my reading group read a fiction book about the Polynesian Panthers called “Once a Panther”. Some of the information I learnt is the story of the Dawn Raids between the Government and the Polynesian Panthers. Reading the text added to my prior knowledge that I have learnt from the 2 previous texts connected the history of the Polynesian Panthers.

Paired Research

LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.

Our challenge was to create a DLO that tells others about the dinosaur we found when we excavated our dinosaur eggs. My group and I found the skeleton of a Triceratops what I found out is that a Triceratops has a tiny brain. Something I found interesting  was that Triceratops is 3 meters and 10 feet tall.