Commenting Threads are an ongoing conversation that includes a greeting, positive feedback and an open question. The difference between an open question and a closed question is that a closed question can just be answered with 'yes' or 'no'. An open question contains a more detailed answer, which gives the reader more to think about.
SSR Selfie is an can do that encourages the reader to summarise a text that they have read. SSR Selfie also gives information about the title of the story, the author, the illustrator, the main characters, three events that happened in the story, the readers thoughts on the book, and new words the reader has learnt.
The basic facts boxes is a can do that Mr Wong created for LS1 to know their basic facts fast. There are two challenges within the can do and they are called: Brain Box, and Speed Demon.
I completed speed demon to 10. Then, I did 10 rows of addition and 10 rows of subtraction. I didn't get any of them wrong but my time was 7 minutes and 43 seconds. I could have done better and not get distracted easily.
LI: To rapidly recall basic facts
For the past three weeks, LS1 has been collaborating with each other to complete an art piece of the Gruffalo cover, which is the text that we have been using to practice the strategies inferring, connecting and visualizing.
This week we wrote a recount of our daily routine.
First, I chose a day of the week to write a recount on. I chose Saturday. Then we wrote down key phrases and words that relates to our daily routine such as: 'brush teeth' or 'eat breakfast: cereal or pancakes'.
Then we turned those key phrases and words into proper sentences using past tense. (words like woke, walked), first (words such as I, me, us, we) and the structure (TREE).
Governing topics are things when parties wish to put action when they are allowed. The important topics to me are Education and Health.
Education is about how the government should spend money on schools.
Health is about keeping people safe and healthy and providing more money and stop getting sick to help during the current pandemic.
If I voted and choose a governing topic, I would pick education and health. The reason why I pick education is because I am still at school and still learning new things. The reason why I pick health is because I need to keep myself healthy under our current situation.
LI: to choose important governing topics by summarising all topics
Rounding is a skill in maths that usually use addition and division. Rounding means to circle the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, and more.
Addition and divison are both strategys the are used for rounding. To round, the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set of numbers like 12346 then, add all of the numbers, 16 is the answer.
After, divide the number by the amount of numbers you've got so, 16 divided by 5 is 3.1. So 3.1 is the mean.
Here comes the rounding part comes in, so if the numbers are 5-9 they are called high five and the numbers that are 1-4 they are called four floor. Look for the last digit, so 1 will be in the four floor after, you round it to the nearest ten so 1 became a zero because it rounds to the nearest ten, so the final answer will be 3.
This investigation shows how long it takes to complete a phsical activity. Once a person finished the activity they find the mean, the median, the mode, and have to convert the times in seconds, minutes, hours, and have to round the times to the first or second decimal place.
Rounding can help people to add and divide to make maths easy or hard depending on what level you are at.
LI investigate units of time.
The basic facts boxes is a can do that Mr Wong created for LS1 to know their basic facts fast. There are two challenges within the can do and they are called: Brain Box, and Speed Demon.
I completed speed demon for 10 and I did 10 rows of addition and 10 rows of subtraction. I didn't get any of them wrong but my time was 7 minutes and 43 seconds. I could have done better and not to get distracted easily.
LI: To rapidly recall basic facts
Maori Language week is a time during September that New Zealanders use Maori in their everyday lives.
The theme for this Maori language week is "Kia Kaha Te Reo Maori" which means Let's make the Maori language strong".
This activity tells what is Maori language, and how the Maori language began. Approximately 48 years ago, a request with 30,000 signatures was presented to the NZ Parliament so that Maori can become NZ official language.
Thanks to NZ History for the information.
LI: To learn Maori History.
Rewriting a story uses ideas from the orginal text to create a new story that flows.
To rewrite a story there are three guiding questions to change the story they are: where they live, where they meet the mouse, and what would the gruffalo favorite food be.
The fox was changed into a wolf because they are similar. The underground house changed into a rocky house because wolves make their dens on rocky surfaces. Instead of roasted fox, the gruffalo's favorite is wolf macrooni.
Rewriting a story can help your imagination grow better and it can help the brain give ideas to write a story.
LI: To rewrite a narrative.
This activity was about making a safety action plan and how to assess risks.
First, we revised what hazard and risk mean and what the risks levels were. Hazard is the object that can cause harm. The risk is the chance that the object can cause harm. The risks level are low, likely, possible, elevated, and extreme.
Then, we wrote our own safety plan on a simple activity. We wrote down what the activity was, the class level, the number of helpers, the number of students and where the location of that activity. For every 10 students, there is one helper.
Then, we gave answers to the following questions: What could go wrong?', 'What could cause it to go wrong?', 'How could we prevent it?' and 'Whose responsibility is it?'.
Then, we thought about writing the emergency plan which is the process if the risk were to overcome a much serious situation.
This activity was a bit hard to come up with ideas for the risk and consequence and more. The purpose of this activity is to be able to recognise the level of a risk within an activity and the consequences if that risk were to happen.
LI: To assess risk with in asimple activity.
Making connections are the links that you make between books, the world and themselves. There are three connections they are text to text, text to self and text to world.
Text to text, means to make another connection with other books. To make a text connection, the reader gets a idea from another book and compare that idea to the current book. An example: The owl invite the mouse to his tea party my connection was that the army invite Mulan's dad to fight.
Text to self, means to make a connection to yourself. To make a text to self connection, the reader gets a idea from the current book and make a connection that you experienced before. An example: The snake was impatient while the mouse was talking, my connection was my sister is impatient while I am talking.
Text to world, means to make a connections with the world. To make a text to world connection, the reader gets ideas and compare the ideas with the world. An example: The mouse was brave enough to go to the owls invite, people are brave enough to go through a situation that has hard obstacles to overcome.
Making connections can help people link ideas to other ideas and lets people build their understanding about a text.
Rounding is a skill in maths that usually use addition and division. Rounding means to circle the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, and more.
Addition and divison are both strategys the are used for rounding. To round, the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set of numbers like 12346 then, add all of the numbers, 16 is the answer.
After, divide the number by the amount of the numbers you've got so, 16 divided by 5 is 3.1. So 3.1 is the mean.
Here comes the rounding part comes in so if the numbers are 5-9 they are called high five and the numbers that are 1-4 they are called four floor. Look for the last digit, so 1 will be in the four floor after, you round it to the nearest ten so 1 became a zero because it rounds to the nearest ten, so the final answer will be 3.
Rounding can help people to add and divide to make maths easy or hard depending on what level you are.
LI investigate units of time.
A setting description describes what a place looks, smells, feels and, sounds like. The setting description is about the log pile house from the gruffalo.
When describing the feeling of some people often uses adjective such as: soft, smooth, and rough. This helps the reader understand the texture of something.
When describing the smell of something people often uses adjective such as: stinky, smelly and more. This helps the reader understand the scent of something.
When describing the look of something people often uses adjectives like: bright, grey, and young.
To describe the sound people uses adjectives like: loud, silent, and more.
A setting descriptin can help give a idea to the reader and it also helps the reader to link with the setting because there is more information covered about that setting.
