Under the Bed

 Under the Bed 

One of the online work we could do was writing. For writing there were prompts on our class site where we could choose from to write about. One of them are about a picture of a pup lying down on the ice and there were some questions and some activities that we have to work on first then we could start writing about the prompt using a story starter that is already in the slideshow where the activities and the prompts are. The prompt that I used and worked on was a picture of a boy peeking under his bed. 

Here is what I did:

Question time:

What was the noise that Michael heard?

The noise that Michael heard was a sound of little footsteps that was disturbing him.

What did he see under the bed? 

What he saw under the bed was a huge terrifying eyes with a red long smile below his red ghastly eyes.

What will happen next?

Michael thought It was a gigantic horrifying monster but little does he know there was also something beside him that will make him more terrified.

What did he feel when he first heard the noise?

He was disturbed at first but he also felt nervous about what the sound was.

What time of day do you think it is? 

Night because it is quite dark but there is a lamp that is shining bright on the floor above his head.

Have you ever been frightened of anything?

Yes, whenever I see an insect I sometimes get scared if it's big and it crawls or flies, I just lose myself. 

Why do things seem more frightening at night?

Because it's dark and it's so quiet that you could imagine seeing a monster.

Sentence Challenge:

Scuttling, loud hissing, howling

Picture perfect:

Story Starter: 

The scuttling noise had disturbed Michael, and he’d shot bolt upright in bed. After taking a deep breath, he flung himself onto the smooth wooden boards of his bedroom floor and took a peek… 

Suddenly Michael jumped up with surprise as he saw the most terrifying smile he has ever seen. He bounced up onto his bed and covered himself with his blanket. He wanted to sleep so badly but as he was about to sleep he forgot to close his lamp and saw a huge shadow shining upon his blanket. As he turned around to his side he took a huge deep breath on a little hole he made so that he can breathe because his blanket is so thick that you can’t breathe underneath but you can kinda see through it. When Micheal turned his back to the other side, he saw that the shadow wasn’t there anymore. He took a little peek above his blanket to see if it was actually gone. It was really strange for him because he was always told that there was something under his bed but he never believed. Michael is very fearless, so he got out of bed and bent down but all he saw was his missing teddy bear. He grabbed it and glanced on the floor. Looking at it so deeply with his big eyes and saw that there was no evidence of the monster with the huge shadow he saw. It was like it never existed so Michael went back to bed and was falling asleep so fast that he forgot to look to the other side if it was there.

'Lest We Forget'

WALT Think critically when looking at information in different texts. 

While doing work online, for reading we have been learning about ANZAC and how they fought in war. In our class reading site there were some activities about ANZAC that we have to do and finish. After we have done the activities, we will need to post 2 activities in our blog. One of the activities that I did was to make a 'Lest we Forget' poster about the ANZAC war. We had to think about the information we include and images.

Here is the poster that I made:

Maori Titles

WALT identify how Jesus is Matamua and Tuakana and explain the significance of this.

This week is the last week of the term and we are doing online work as school is cancelled because of the virus. We can do work if we want but its best to do some. For R.E we were learning about Maori titles independently and there was some few different Maori titles that we had to find out what it meant and create a DLO after that to teach others about the Maori titles.

We also had to add some sound into our DLO as last week we learnt about SISOMO, we need to make sure that other people that are blind or can't hear, can see or hear. SISOMO stands for Sight, Sound, and Motion. 

Different Roles

Kia Ora, 

WALT identify how Jesus is Matamua and Tuakana and explain the significance of this. 

On Wednesday for R.E we have been talking about what a Matamua is and what a Tuakana is. As a class we have been talking about the different roles in our family. Ourselves, siblings and parents/caregivers. We also talked about what our role is and how do we show it. After, we had to make a DLO about a diary entry about a normal day with our family. We were also allowed to put what time we do things by just putting different hours and writing what we do during that hour. 

 Here is the DLO about a normal day with my family:

ANZAC Mascots

WALT Thing critically when looking at information in different texts. 

This week and last week, we have been looking at different stories about ANZAC and this week we are looking at ANZAC Mascots. First we read a journal story about the First World War Mascots. After, there was some links to some information about ANZAC Mascots that we had to read through to get some ideas for our DLO that we are going to make after we have found our own link to any information about ANZAC Mascots and put the link in a google doc that Ms Wilton shared to all of us, but after that we start our DLO. 

Mascots are used to represent a team or a group of people. They are also there to bring good luck and have great success through things. When making our DLO, we have to make sure that we use the link that we found to put information in our DLO about ANZAC mascots. After making a DLO we had to create our own mascot and tell how it can be helpful to other soldiers. Others decided to mix their mascots like a dog's head with a kangaroo's body and any mascot can be helpful to any teams. 

 Here is the DLO I made about ANZAC mascots and how they can be helpful:  

 Here is the Mascot that I created:

Strategies

WALT Equal additions.

 This week for maths, in my maths group we had learnt about equal additions and Ms Wilton also gave us a sheet to practice on it first and then she told us to try and teach others to do the strategy too. So we had to make a DLO to teach others how to do the strategy we have learnt. We also had to explain how to do the strategy and make sure that people can understand it and that they will try and use it. 

  

 

Maximilian Kolbe

WALT Recognize how Jesus's work of bringing God's saving love caused him to suffer and die.

Last week we have been learning about Maximilian Kolbe and Father Francis Douglas by ourselves. We had to make a DLO on which person we were gonna do, and most of us choose to do Maximilian Kolbe and only few of us did father Francis Douglas. We also watched a clip about Maximilian Kolbe and what he did in life. 

We were chose to do our work individually and while we were making our DLO's, Ms Wilton told us about SISOMO (stands for SIght, SOund and MOtion) it is for people who can't see or hear so Ms Wilton also introduced us to this site called Voki where can you could make videos of characters talking and you just need to write what you want it to say and it will say it for you. There was also questions that we needed to answer and it was about Who they were, what was their cause and more.

Since you could only have 600 characters on Voki, I decided to put the rest on a slideshow so that I don't have to make another character and that I won't have to make it confusing for the reader.

Here are the rest of the information about Maximilian Kolbe:

Different Ways to Eat Spaghetti

WALT use 'I think that means' to understand the ideas in the text.

This week for reading our reading group read a story called The Best way to eat Spaghetti. It's about a boy called Max that was having trouble with eating his spaghetti, that's when his family started to butt in and was trying to show Max different ways to eat spaghetti. Max's dad preferred to use a fork and spin and twirl the spaghetti and eat it. His Mother preferred to cut it in pieces and eat it. But Max's brother showed him a proper way to eat spaghetti and he bent his head down on top of the bowl and slurped all the spaghetti up. Then his little sister was frustrated and used her hands to eat the spaghetti up. Max was also frustrated and told them all to stop, then he took his bowl of spaghetti to the kitchen and ate his spaghetti all by himself.

Also for this week, we had to do five activities according to the story and one of them that I chose to post on my blog is a poem about eating spaghetti. It took me a little while to think of a poem but I managed to look for some ideas and finally made one.

Poem about eating Spaghetti

Once you eat Spaghetti,

Gives you more energy,

It’ll splish, splash and splosh

Oops-

Now my food is squashed

Diary Entry

WALT use descriptive language 

This week for writing, we read a book called 'The ANZAC Violin'. It's about a guy called Alexander Aitken who brought his violin to war. During war he would sometimes play his violin to his comrades and would keep it safe when it was time to go. He was a New Zealander who fought for America in war. In the story he also wrote a diary entry about his in life in war. When Alexander got wounded in war, he left and never came back but he started to make a diary of his own telling others what he came through in war. The that violin he owned was taken by a school after he died in 3 November 1967. 

On Monday after we read the story, we started thinking about making a diary entry of our own but on Alexander's point of view. The part my diary entry is about is when Alexander is in war trying to help his comrades. Before we could start writing, we had to plan it out first and make a attribute chart and add words that we could add into our diary. In our attribute chart we had to put what we could see, hear, location, movement and temperature. Using this we could start writing a little bit about our diary entry.

What I enjoyed was writing a diary entry about war. What I found difficult was trying to think of a way to start and end my diary entry.

Here is a paragraph of my diary entry:

As I attentively took my wounded leg out of a misty deep hole, I thought for a moment and looked back at it. I can clearly hear the deadly screams of my comrades seeking for help. I was feeling too agitated trying to move away from the powerful gunshots passing by and the roaring engines as they roughly crash into each other under the scorching sun. I stood my back really straight to help myself gain more energy, but right at that moment the deadly screams suddenly faded away as a colossal bomb landed in the middle of the hole making an enormous thud sound.

I couldn’t take it anymore, my wound was getting much worse as the pain couldn’t handle it. I tried to move away from the fire that the bomb caused, but my eyesight was too blurry and my ears started to ring so badly that it was threatening me. I pause for a moment. 

Suddenly, I unclearly saw a man starting to walk smoothly upon me, giving me a hand. But the only thing that I could remember right at that moment, before I could fall onto the sun baked grass that was burning my leg so dreadfully was. I felt like falling into a pitch dark hole with absolutely nothing around me.