summer learning journey

  

Today we started the summer learning journey with the year 4 students and we were teaching them how to use the summer learning journey site and the year 4 kids did super power building mision by nanogirl. this took the whole day to finish PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy.

operation chrisma's drop

To write a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words.

 

 

operation Christmas drop is an operation that takes well needed supplies and gives them to islands that are in need the millitiery packs large planes full of them and then they drop the suplise on the island it has been on for 68 years It is the longest-running humanitarian unit conducted by Andersen Air Force Base and Yokota Air Base. This is a project where volunteers and communities come together to provide islands around Guam with essential supplies we need daily.

Exploring our national current events

 LI: To identify author’s purpose.

Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make decisions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Something i found introsting was a 100 year old train was saved by a man named David Robb one of the One of the founders of Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (Motat)

guy fawkes

 

To understand why we celebrate Guy Fawkes each year LS2 buddied up with recorded all the important words from the story Mrs Anderson shared with us. We then chose the 20 most important words and from those words chose 6 words to help us write our summary.  

Why is it important to use are PBS care values?

 LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. We found it interesting the way the paragraphs all connected at the end and you could see the links between the ideas.

The screencastify link of us reading our explanation can be found here:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFI_5Cw45cz6VRXdaTbm_ZSik8S9YwwH/view

                     

Why is it important to use our PBS CARE values?

LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs

                                                 

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. We found it interesting the way the paragraphs all connected at the end and you could see the links between the ideas.

sunflower

last week we got started on a panting inspired by van goth it was of a sunflower it took me just a day to finish  we had to draw the sunflower before panting we needed a panting shirt then we had to wheat until the paint dried when it was dry we hung it up on the wall