Woodend Camp

On Tuesday last week we went to Woodend Christian Camp. It was so much fun. Here are some activities we did: team building, climbing wall, archery, orienteering, go karts and a couple of more activities.

My favourite was orienteering because on the way me and Angela just kept on talking with Mr Rule and Mrs Hall. The best thing was that we were in a forest.

In my bunk room I had Ella, Caitlyn, Zara, Annabel, Jordyn, Amber M, Meg and me. Me and Jordyn went to sleep at 1:00 o'clock at night because we were eating BBQ chips and talking. Then in the morning we woke up at 5:35.

Literacy week

What?

This week was literacy week. We did many things such as a Scavenger hunt, Dress up day, Stop drop and write, Stop drop and read, Golden ticket, Library activities, Guess the teacher, Guess the book, Soraya Nicholas - visitor author.

So what?

The thing I enjoyed the most was stop drop and write because you can use your imagination and write as much as you want every time I wrote 2 pages every time that is pretty impressive.

Oaklands School future

This is mine and Matina's design for the future of Oaklands school. We have made a picnic area which we want in the future of Oaklands school. We have also made a rubbish bin. We liked the idea to add in monkey bars and flowers.

Dream big our future school ~ picnic area ~ Dania and Matina

 What

This week me and Matina made a project for the future of Oaklands school 

So what 

we have created a picnic area for the Kauri team and the Kakano team. We have also made a rubbish bin beside the picnic tables so once you have finished the your food you can pit it in the bin. While your eating you can do the monkey bars to.

Now What

Me and Matina hope our design will be at oaklands in 2018

word study blog

Word Study - Blog 1 term 3

What?

I am learning to understand how words are formed using roots, prefixes and suffixes.

So What?

I have learned that words that have the root hydra- and aqua- mean water. For example hydra - hydration

I have learned that words that have the root spect- mean look / see. For example spect - prospect

Now what?

I feel that I have a(beginning, good, really good, spectacular, an excellent) understanding of the root words aqua-, hydra-, and spect-

Writing reflection

WHAT?

This week I am reflecting on one of my writing goals

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to:

* use a variety of sentence starters

This week I have been focusing on how to write a drop-in clause

SO WHAT?

Here is an example of a drop-in clause

Mr Forman is our teacher.	He loves his red car.
Mr Forman, who is our teacher, loves his red car.

Mr Forman is the subject of the sentence.

We change ‘He’ to ‘who’

We place commas around the clause we ‘drop-in’

MY EXAMPLES:

Here are two examples of a drop-in clause that I have created.

[1]Dania, who likes to play with her chickens, is awesome.

[2]The footballer, who was singing barbie girl, was kicking the ball.

NOW WHAT?

I rate my understanding level at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My confidence level with using these types of sentences independently in my writing is

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My writing goals for term 2

IALT: improve my writhing by learning how to ;

* organise my writing into paragraphs
* use a variety of sentence starters
* use the correct language features of a narrative dialogue 

use a variety of sentence starters 

To help me with this goal that i am using a 'Sentence starter menu'

It will help my writing to be more interesting and to hook the reader in more.