Friday 25 September 2015

Little Egg Friend

WALT: Think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

Our teacher has been getting us to do weird things. First noodles, then blindfold now egg friend race. How could our teacher get more silly.


Image result for egg with facesBefore the race, we had to get into pairs and our teacher would give us a friend, a egg friend. Once we got a egg friend, we had to give it a name and face. After the whole class had  done that, we were given the instructions to stand up and line up outside. Nobody had a clue what we were doing until…  we ended up at the park.


Every pair got a spoon and then our teacher told us we were going to do a race with our buddy. Everyone had to decide in their pairs, who was going to go first through the playground. Me and my partner decided that I would go first. Once I started, I was coming first until I took a risk. The reason why I took that risk (climbing up the climbing wall) was because I did not know what I could go the easy way.


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When I took the risk, I dropped my egg friend, Pweggy. When I dropped Pweggy, she started to cry with yolk and it look like she got smashed in the nose, which looked painful. After I was finished and it was Presayus’ turn to race, she did not crack Pweggy. When the whole race finished, we all went back to class. Our Pweggy had to go into the bin.

Over all I thought it was a good race. Pweggy experienced the playground and a smashed nose. Even though she did not make it, I was happy for everyone else who’s egg buddy’s make it. But what you did not know is three of the eggs who survived, got eaten by our teacher and my friend (Htet Htet) is still angry at him for eating the three eggs.

My Recount Rubric
Recount Writing

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Write for my reader
I've tried to think about my reader
My writing shows some awareness of reader because my writing is quite clear and I have tried to interest my reader.
My writing is easy to understand and I have tried to tell the reader what it was like to be there by giving details and my thoughts.
My writing really considers audience as reader because I have kept their interest and made them feel like they know exactly what it was like for me.
Purpose
I tried to meet the purpose
My text goes some way towards meeting the purpose
The message is clear in some parts of the recount.
My text fully meets the purpose.
The message is clear all through the recount.
Introduction
My introduction does not yet clearly orientate or hook in my reader.
My introduction gets some buy in from audience and they can understand what I am going to write about.
My introduction hooks in my reader and it is clear what I am writing about.
My introduction wows my reader!
Paragraph Topics
My paragraphs are confused and don't follow my plan.
I have tried to follow my plan.
Most my paragraphs are about 1 big idea and I have added some detail.
My paragraphs have some complex as well as simple sentences. Post paragraphs give details about 1 big idea.
I have followed the paragraph topic in my plan.
My paragraphs have complex and simple sentences. Paragraphs all give details about 1 big idea.

In writing this week, we had a mock test. That means that we have having writing tests coming up so this is a warm up. We marked our own writing on this rubric above.   

Highlights Of The Term!

WALT: Write a detailed recount without teachers help.


This term has been awesome! I got to be apart of the production. Also, our team had an awesome term because of our term topic, trade and enterprise. We got our own money, business' and more. Our teachers are great for making this term really cool. I also want to say a big happy birthday to my teachers (who are sort of my teachers who teach me).


I have learnt to write a detailed recount with my teacher and I decided I should try to write a detailed recount by myself. I think I have done well. Comment do tell me how I went. I hoped you enjoyed!

Thursday 17 September 2015

Problem Solving-Week 8

WALT: Multiply and divide decimals by the power of ten.



In maths this week, I learnt about rounding to the nearest ten. I did my best, but if I got one or both wrong, (if you have the time) post a comment.I hope that you can use the method of rounding to the nearest ten.

Problem Solving-Week 9

WALT: Know North, South,West and East really well.



In maths this week, we learnt about the four different ways. They are, North, South, West and East. We learnt which way is opposite each other and other things like that. I learnt that North is opposite South and West is opposite East. When answering question like in the presentation, you would have to know which way is opposite each other.

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Onomatopoeia

WALT: Use onomatopoeia to help create interest in our writing.

In the spooky night, a lady went to the door and 
The door opened it self.

This week in writing, we learnt about onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is a word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to. When you pronounce a word, it will mimic its sound. For example; "splat" went the drink onto the ground, there goes the alarm again "buzz". Click here for more examples of words.

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Market Day!

WALT: Write an interesting and detailed recount.

On the eleventh of September, Team four had our Market Day, which was awesome! We bought, sold, advertised, sold out and more. Everyone got PT’s and Pieces from selling and out of their bank. The kitchen business got money very very easily.   


Our six business’ Toys, Kitchen, Custom Stationery, Jewellery, Musical Instruments and Homeware. We have been working towards that day all term. Before the Market Day had happen, all the business’ had been creating loads of their products in their smaller groups. Some of the people in our team got lots and lots of money, but the others got only a little because their products sold out.


The Market happen between morning tea and lunch, so had to set up our stalls before Morning Tea. We went to our business’ and set up a table and put our products on. After Morning Tea, the Market started and everyone got loads of customers, sold lots of products and got lots of money.


I was the first to sell and I was doing well until the end of the first half. I made four PT and sold five of my products. My partner came by once or twice and was cheering for me, which was nice. Towards the end of the first half, my product sold out and I couldn’t sell any more. When my partner came for the swap, she made way more money than me and I was really happy for her. After I had finished selling at my stall, I went to shopping which was interesting.


Once the Market had started, I was at my stall selling my product. When it was my turn to buy, I went to every business and bought something or to picked up my order. I bought a drum, bow and arrow and some loom band key rings. I picked up my name label sticker, Maths book cover and fudge cake. After I had done all that shopping, I had no money left. I did not want to go back to my stall to sell so I just advertised my friend’s product until the end of the Market.

The word for the Market Day for me was probably, interesting. This is because, well I was selling I sold out and well I was buying, I ran out of money. It was really strange that I ran out of something during both halts of the Market. I really hope that my small group will finish all our orders before the end of the term (which is next week!).




Recount Writing

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Write for my reader
I've tried to think about my reader
My writing shows some awareness of reader because my writing is quite clear and I have tried to interest my reader.
My writing is easy to understand and I have tried to tell the reader what it was like to be there by giving details and my thoughts.
My writing really considers audience as reader because I have kept their interest and made them feel like they know exactly what it was like for me.
Purpose
I tried to meet the purpose
My text goes some way towards meeting the purpose
The message is clear in some parts of the recount.
My text fully meets the purpose.
The message is clear all through the recount.
Introduction
My introduction does not yet clearly orientate or hook in my reader.
My introduction gets some buy in from audience and they can understand what I am going to write about.
My introduction hooks in my reader and it is clear what I am writing about.
My introduction wows my reader!
Paragraph Topics
My paragraphs are confused and don't follow my plan.
I have tried to follow my plan.
Most my paragraphs are about 1 big idea and I have added some detail.
My paragraphs have some complex as well as simple sentences. Post paragraphs give details about 1 big idea.
I have followed the paragraph topic in my plan.
My paragraphs have complex and simple sentences. Paragraphs all give details about 1 big idea.

This week in writing we have gone back to writing recounts. We first wrote our introduction and marked that. After we had written the whole text, we read it twice and marked ourself. We marked each others paragraphs, one by one. It was very time limited and felt like a test or writing sample.