Hobbies for happiness 😁

Last week for reading we talked about hobbies for happiness. We disscused hobbies that make us happy. Dance is one of the hobbies that makes me happy. For my DLO I created a list of Top 10 Hobbies for happiness. Heres my DLO: 

What hobby makes you happy? 

Change you Mindset!!

In week 5 for reading we have been learning about mindset. We have been learning about how to show grit and have a good mindset. We had to find someone thats shows grit and has a good mindset. I did Simone Biles. Simone Biles had to show grit at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when she decided her mental heath had to come first. This must have been hard decision at such a world level. She decided to do some events still and came back with 2 medals.
For my DLO I have created a poster about mindset to hopefully help other people change to have a growth mindset. Here is my DLO:

Do you find it hard to have a growth mindset?

Reading W8 T2

This week for Reading our goal was: Select from a wide range of genre when reading independently. We had to pick 3 articles from kiwi kids news and explain our thoughts on the article and why. Here are the articles I picked and my thoughts on them.

Straw invented to stop Hiccups - (Marketing and sales) I think this is a really good invention because hiccups are really annyoing and hard to stop. The price seemed pretty reasonable and I would defently buy it. It didn' give me much more infomation about.  

Medsafe approves Covid-19 vaccine for over 12-year-olds - (World news/Health) I think that its really cool that younger people can now have vaccine. It said that schools and community hubs will play apart in helping give the vaccine. In New Zealand there are 265,000 children in the 12-15 age bracket. So there would be lots of vaccines to give. I really enjoyed reading this article. 

Swimming NZ to send 7 swimmers to Tokyo Olympics - (Sport) The article was about the 7 New Zealand competiters going to the Toyko olympics. Erika Fairweather a 17-year-old is a contender for the youngest New Zealand athlete at the Olympic Games. This was intresting to read but there wasn't that much infomaion which meant I didn't learn that much. 

What article seems most intresting to you? 

Reading Week 9

Hello and welcome. For Reading our goal is: Make connections between texts, using more sophisticated texts. We had to read to articles about famous landmarks. One from Christchurch and one from anywhere in the world. I choose the Peacock fountion and the statue of liberty. I then had to identify the connections between the them. Here is my work: 

Do you think that I made the right connections?

Reading Week 4

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Last week for reading our goal was Use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions

Think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking. We had to record a video with someone having a persuasive conversation. Me and Eilish did ours about Should dogs be banned from the beach.

Here is our video:

Are you persuaded by our video? 

Reading T3 W3

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Last week for reading the goals were Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. Think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking.

We had to read a book about robots coming into the world. We then had to record a video with someone talking about your opinion on them. I did a video with Sophie.

Here is the video: 

Hope you enjoyed the video.

Do you thnk robots would help the world? 

Reading Week 2

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Last week for reading we were focusing on the fantastics. (I explained what they were a couple blogs back). We had to fill out a slide show about positive and negtive intent. Here is my slide show: 

Have you ever heard of the fantastics? 

Reading T3 W1

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week for reading the goal was Being able to analyse a text and closely notice intentional writing choices authors make has 2 major benefits, it helps your own writing and helps your ability to gain deeper meaning. We had to read the book little red riding hood and then highliting every time there was a *fantastics*. For our create task we had to read several books and find the 9 fantastics in them.

*The fantastics are 9 different things you can find in a text like:

Here are my tasks: 

Have you ever heard of the fantastics? 

Reading Week 4

Hello and welcome to my blog. (I'm not sure why this didn't post ages ago but here it is) For reading our goal was Identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text. We had to read a text and then fill out a template about the text. I read a book called Six. I then filled out the template. Here is my task: 

Have you ever done something like this? 

Reading task Week 11

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week for reading our goal is Independently predict, interpret and analyse text, 'reading between the lines' to gain deeper meaning. We had to read text then fill out a template inculding our inferences on the story. I read a book called How to fall. Here is my task:

What was your favourite inference I made? 

Reading Task W10

Hello and welcome to my blog. This week for reading our goal is Making connections - use prior knowledge to connect to the text. Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. We had to read a text then make conections about it. I read a text called MeMe and Me. Here is my DLO: 

Have you ever done this goal? 

Reading task W9

Hello this week for reading our goal is Visualise using all of the senses, and talk about how this enriches meaning. We had to grab a sentnce from the slide (which is from a book) and then draw a picture of what it made us think of. Here is my DLO: 

What did the sentence make you think of? 

Reading Tasks T2 W8

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week for reading we had the chance to show our work towards the goal, select from a wide range of genre when reading independently. We needed to read 3 or more texts all in a different genre. I picked a non fiction book about Mcdonalds , a picture book about Pig the Star and a graphic novel called The baby-sitters club #5. For each book we had to do a task showing how we understood the goal. The teachers made lots of different tasks for us to choose from like a postcard, a A to Z list, a acrostic poem and many more. Here is my work for each text I read: 

Reading Task 1

Reading Task 2

Reading Task 3

Have you read any of these books? 

Reading Week 7

Hello and welcome back. This week for reading our goal was Independently predict, interpret, and analyse text, 'reading between the lines' to gain a deeper meaning. We had to watch a short flim and then create a poster showing what it means to read between the lines and parts of the flim that weren't clearly stated. Here is my poster: 

What did you think of this poster? 

Reading task Week 5

Hello and welcome back. (Im not sure why this didn't post ages ago but here it is)  For reading our goal was Use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions.  We had to read a artical and then do a 321 create task. A 3, 2, 1 task is where you ask the author 3 questions, 2 facts you found and 1 opinion. I read a atrtical on E scooters. Here is my poster:

What do you think about E scooters? 

Reading task Week 3

Hello and welcome back last week for reading our goals were Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important and Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. We had to read a book based on the war. I read harrys war. We then had to do DLO, I did a what when why template here is mine.

What did you learn from reading this?

Reading task Week 2

Hello and welcome back. This week in reading our goal was to Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking, and make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions, using more sophisticated texts. We were asked to create a DLO on fake and real news. Here is the poster I made:

Have you ever come across fake news?

Reading task

This week for reading our goal was Make connections between texts, using more sophisticated texts. We had to read 2 texts and fill out some questions about them. Here is mine:
Reading Task
What did you find intresting about this?

Treaty of Waitangi

This week in reading we have been learning about Waitangi. Our goal was Think while while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking .We had to create a Timeline about the events that happened round Waitangi. We also had to write a statement about something new we learnt. Here is my Work

What do you know about Waitangi? 

Caritas Reading Task

Hello Welcome back to my blog. This week for reading our goal is Use prior knowledge to connect to the text. We had to create a poster about Caritas helping Papua new Guinea. Here is my poster.

What have you learnt from reading my poster?