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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.

swimmming

                             swimming

What?
We did swimming with Leaane who is a Swim NZ instructor.

So what?
A couple of days ago we went swimming with a professional swimmer she didn't come inside the pool she just taught us.

She taught me that if you at the beach in the water, if the water carries you away you should stay on your back so you won't drown.

Now what?
I am now going to practice the things that Leeane taught me so that I am safe.

visit to harold

so?

on Tuesday we went to visit harold the giraffe  

so what?

it was a lot of fun they can change the room into diffrent colours.
we learnt about health they said if you don't have love you are not
healthy.

now what?

we are going to be going to the bus again to learn some more about health and Harold said we can do sing with him in the next session 

Art work with Mrs Boston

                                     Art with Mrs Boston

What?

On Tuesday Mrs Boston came in and did some art.


So what?

We did the sun art of from a Maori myth it was alot of fun 


Now what?

my next step is to add a bit more colour

The titanic

                        reading log

What?

this is the book i am currently reading as part of reading goal which id to be able to read for longer periods of time and retain meaning.

So what?

i liked the part when the ship was starting to go into the water.

Now what?

my goal is also to read a variety of genre. This book is historical. the next genre i'm going to read is mystery.