Navigating Novels - Feedback

This term during reading, we were working on navigating novels. We choose a book buddy to act as a critical friend. Shakaia and I read a novel called "A Winters Day In 1939". The activity we choose to work on was feedback. While reading the novel we had to think of 3 questions we could ask our book buddy so we could help them make a stronger connection to the book. Our questions would challenge them to use the evidence in the text to explain their thinking. We then gave them feedback and feed forward. 

Current Events - The Waitemata Harbour

Today we were focusing on current events. We had to complete a current event about the Auckland Council planning an extra $600m to clean up the Waitemata Harbour. We had to answer when?, where?, Who?, What?, Why?, How? what the different points of views are and what we think the author wanted us to learn from this article. 

Read an eBook Day

Today is read an eBook Day and is a celebration of modern storytelling. This is on September the 18th this year. To celebrate, LS2 read some books using the Tamaki College Overdrive site. Tamaki overdrive has different types of subjects, collections. and levels you can choose from. We can read books anytime and anywhere we want to. If you want more information about 'read an eBook Day' you can click here. #ebooklove

Tamaki Overdrive

Tamaki overdrive is a great website to explore new books and read them online. Its great since you get to choose which subject, collections and level you would like. You also get to listen to audio books instantly in your browser. What I like about this is that you get to choose more than 4 books. I found this book in the fiction sections and this book is called "Mr Stink" and is written by David Walliams. 

Kate Sheppard - Sketchnote DLO

In reading this week, we had to define words that connect with the suffrage movement. We also had to answer what we know about the suffrage movement. Javeylor and I have worked together to complete this DLO. We talked about the questions and also added an image each.

Kate Sheppard

In reading we have been focusing on women's right to vote back in 1892. Javeylor and I have made this DLO about Kate Sheppard and what she did to change the men's choice in letting women vote. We have added important information about what Kate Sheppard did. We have also added her personal qualities. 

Women Suffragette

Since women's voting rights were a big problem in the early 1840's, our reading topic this term is "votes for women". Mia, Nazella, Javeylor, Mishaan, Jorja and I have been working collaborativly to make this 25 word summary about women's suffragette. Watching a youtube video we choose 6 important words and put them in our summary about women's right to vote/women's suffragettes. 

Why Is It So Important To Keep Oral Storytelling Alive?

Maori storytelling is important today because it can pass onto generations. They will know the value of their culture while keeping the Maori language alive.  

Mia and I have worked collaboratively to make this 25 word summary about, why it's so important to keep oral storytelling alive? We listened to 3 different explanations in Te Reo in subtitles. We had learning conversations to why it is so important. Using 6 most important words to make this summary, we thought it was so important to pass the oral storytelling onto the next generation so they will know the value of the culture/language alive.

Visiting Teacher

Yesterday, a visiting teacher, Ms. Apelu came to LS2 to see us work on our reading. We were put into groups and had to write down 20 important words about the plastic free July video. We then choose another 6 words and made a summary about plastic free July. 

Explaining Movie

This week for reading, Fifita, Mia, Nazella and I made an explaining movie about landfills in New Zealand. This movie explained how long rubbish takes to biodegrade. This was very interesting because I learnt many new facts. We should be careful of what we throw in landfills because we will end up with large unwanted polluted landfills in New Zealand. I really enjoyed making this movie about landfills. 

Samoan Tatau

Since this week is Samoan language week, LS2 had to complete a DLO about the traditional Samoan Tatau, or the Kilikiti. In this task I have added information and also have added images. I have decided to learn about the Tatau. 

Summary

Since this week is Samoan language week, we watched a YouTube clip that had a speech about keeping the traditional Samoan Culture alive and the respectful ways of the dances. Mia and I worked collaboratively to summaries the video and selected 20 important words and from there we picked 6 very important words. Using those 6 words we created a summary based on the YouTube clip. I think summarizing is a very important skill to have because it can help you with many different reading tasks like for an example, my previous reading task was based on a reading book that my group had to read and we also summarized the main idea.  

Informed Opinion

In reading today Mia, Nazella, Fifita and I gave our own opinions about sport promotions. I agreed because sports brings joy to people. I also have added pictures of the 1981 South African vs New Zealand Springbok tour.  

Distinguishing Fact From Fiction

In this activity we had to work out the true and false of a distinguishing fact from fiction. Using the information from our novel study we highlighted the true and false facts from the cold war that was happening years ago. 

'ight' Word Cloud

For reading, we were working on 'ight' words. We wrote down words that end with 'ight', 'ight' in the middle of words and 'ight' at the start of the word. We then choose one super challenge and completed it. The challenge I choose was to display all my chunk words into a word cloud. This is my completed cloud. If you would like to use this site, click here. 

Novel Study - Holocaust

This DLO is based on our learning, the novel study. We read a story called, When The Wind Blows and we took some notes about it. We then made a DLO of something new we have learnt. Hajera and I worked together to complete this DLO. We wrote the meaning of holocaust. Holocaust means, an act of great destruction and loss of life. 

Auckland Stormwater Management Infographic

This is a summary of the Auckland Stormwater Management info graphic. The D group, Oh Hsen, Mathias, Calvin, Javeylor, Shakaia, and I have completed this summary by working collaboratively together. This talks about how many drains and manholes there are, and many other things. 

Question Matrix

In reading, the D group have completed the question matrix. This includes questions about the pollution and what we can do. Oh Hsen, Mathias, Calvin, Javeylor, Shakaia and I have worked collaboratively to get this completed. 

Different perspectives

Today our focus for reading was different point of views. Oh Hsen, Calvin, Mathias, Shakaia, Javeylor and I were working collaboratively to compete our work. The article we read was Christchurch police were told to remove 343 liters of alcohol tipped down the drain. Our challenge was to work together and and view both sides of the story. We chose one perspective which was most accurate.Together as a group we managed to complete the task. 

Wai Care - Feedback

Today in reading, we were paired up and my partner was Mathias. We had to give feedback each other about our reading task. One thing I liked about Mathias was that his voice was really loud.