Haiku Poems

Today we tried to write haiku poems for a first attempt I found it easy.
Rules for writing a haiku are only 3 lines in the poem first line has 5 syllables second has 7 and last has 5. Haiku poems usually are written about emotion or nature and today I wrote it about a Lion.

Writing goals

Today I have identified my writing goals. my goal  is writing an orientation and closing statement and also write sentences that are expanded in language features.  chose these goals because there the next steps I need to work on in my explanation genre piece of writing to get at a higher standard of rubric writing. Next term we will revisit our goals and see if we have achieved them.

Postcards

For the past week we have been doing postcards for other schools in New-Zealand. We had to use different sites such as anagram maker, thesaurus and notely.  We used an object and had to come up with 40 adjectives to describe the item, from that 40 we had to cut down the adjectives that we thought weren't up skilled enough. Then after that we had to write 18 words down on the paper leaving the top spaces free for our anagram word and the name of our item.

reading skill

This week we are learning to summarize.
A summary is a shortened version of a text that contains all the main points.
summarising is a skill that we are learning to help improve our learning skills in reading it helps us when we are researching, gathering and presenting information.

• Look for key words
• Sum the text with all the main ideas
• Remember important ideas  

Rounding

Today in pangarau I was rounding numbers small and large the nearest ten. The easy part was knowing what to do with rounding rule which is 1-4 rounds down and 5-9 rounds up.

Solar system

We have been learning about the solar system.We learnt the time on how long it takes for the planets to orbit the sun and then we halved and quarter the time to see what equation would be.We used multiple strategies such as Division Subtraction Algorithm Algebra Decimals and Addition.The hard part was dividing the numbers to get the right fraction. The easy part was adding up the 1/4 and 1/2 to make a 1/3.

Family koru

This week we had to do a art project that represents our family using koru.