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     

science and stem

LI to identify What we know about science

 This week the year seven went to science. We were introduced are silves. And then we were assigned a seat each. Then we got notebooks and we wrote science words like tube,biology. Then we all had to write something on the white board.We had to come up with science word.Then we got are paper from Miss Sharma and then we had to fold are paper into fours. On the top left we wort science words again.And then on the bottom left corner we had to draw an instrument that evolved around science.Then on the top right side we wrote a question we wanted to know about science.On the bottom right corner we cutted out a picture.And then we had to glued the picture on are paper.Then we glued the paper onto are notebook.

Duffy books in school

Today L.S.2 received Duffy books, we all got them which leads up to this blog post. The books I collected is the dummy meets the mummy by R.L. Stine and amulet book seven. i cant find who wrote this book. The book is great and a huge thank you to Duffy for getting these books and for getting us the books early. It is because of books, Duffy books in particular i like reading i am looking forward to seeing what happens at the end of dummy meets the mummy.