Who Am I?

For the past previous week LS2 have been working on a challenge called Who Am I? This challenge is like Where Am I from but instead it is based on famous people around the world such as Tenzing Norgay, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana etc. There were 10 people and for the task given we were to write down who they are, where there from, why are they famous, quote (if they have one), 5 facts about them, their country on google maps, their flag, and a picture of them. This was a lot of work which is why I was working with Ofa and Alex. 

Reading - Poem (Did I Miss Anything)

Did I Miss Anything?

Question frequently asked by students after missing a class

Nothing. When we realised you weren’t here

we sat with our hands folded on our desks

in silence, for the full two hours

Everything. I gave an exam worth

40 percent of the grade for this term

and assigned some reading due today

on which I’m about to hand out a quiz

worth 50 percent

Nothing. None of the content of this course

has value or meaning

Take as many days off as you like:

any activities we undertake as a class

I assure you will not matter either to you or me

and are without purpose

Everything. A few minutes after we began the last time

a shaft of light descended and an angel

or other heavenly being appeared

and revealed to us what each woman or man must do

to attain divine wisdom in this life and the hereafter

This is the last time the class will meet

before we disperse to bring this good news to all people

on earth

Nothing. When you are not present

how could something significant occur?

Everything. Contained in this classroom

is a microcosm of human existence

assembled for you to query and examine and ponder

This is not the only place such an opportunity has been

gathered

but it was one place

And you weren’t here

(Tom Wayman)

There are two ‘voices’ in the poem.

Who do you think it talking in the Nothing verses?

I think Nothing will be the Students.

Who do you think is talking in the Everything verses?

I think Everything will be a Teacher.

Choose 5 interesting words from this poem and explain what they mean.

• Revealed - Revealed means that unknown or secret information.
• Disperse - Disperse means that something is spretting out.
• Significant - Having a particular meaning
• Microcosm - Microcosm means a small group.
• Existence - Existence means that something that exist or alive.

Take ONE of the verses in the poem and illustrate it.

Verse one -

Find out 5 facts about the poet Tom Wayman.

1. He was born in 13th of August 1945 at Hawkesbury, Canada.
2. He has published 21 poetry.
3. He wrote a first poetry in 1973. (When he was 28 years old)
4. Wayman’s father was Pulp Mill chemist
5. He has written Poetry, Novels, Short Fiction, Anthologies and Criticism.

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For reading we read the poem about Did I Miss Anything. I learnt that this poem has written by Tom Wayman. I had fun doing this activity because question were quite hard and I need to illustrate the verse. For this learning I worked with Carl. 

Reading - Labeling

Today for reading my group Ponui and Pakatoa worked together to labeling the books. The book we read was called Man made World. The reason that we chose to put the labels on the colossally and world page was it has lots of thing that we can label. For example inset, bold print or illustration. 

Reading - Kaimanawa Horse

This is the second challenge for the today's reading session. For this activity I need to create a PMI chart and writing about Kaimanawa Horse and also need to answer Do you believe calling animals. The PMI means Plus, Minus and Interesting chart. I learnt that scientific name of Kaimanawa is Equus ferus caballus. 

Reading - Hipposandals

Today for reading our group read the poem about Horseshoes. After we finished reading and answered the question we move of to the making DLO. For this activity I need to make the DLO that shows labeled Hipposandals. One of the thing that I learnt was Hippo is the Latin for Horse.

Reading - Eeling

This week for reading we were reading the poem about eel. Then we made a DLO that shows how to do eeling. I think this DLO helps for you how to get the eel and what tools we need.

Wheel Words

Today for reading we were looking at Wheel Words. For this game I need to find a words. I manage to find a 8/10 of 4 letter words, 6/6 of 5 letter words, 2/2 of 6 of letter words, 2/2 of 7 letter words. 0/1 of 9 letter words. Next time I want to find a 9 letter words.

Read Theory

At  reading we did Read Theory. Read Theory is a reading system and then you got to answer the questions that was related to the book. I answered the 4/8 question because most of the question's was very hard to answer.

Current Events

For Inquiry Freeman and I created a DLO about what happening in the news recently.

This is a current even about the Chinese Government banding the sales and killing Elephants

and Rhinos for ivory. Freeman and I thinks that this was a good decision because we want

elephants to be more active around the world.

Key ward summary

Text:SR-71_ ‘’Blackbird’’

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

Who? Clarence Johnson

What? SR 71_Blackbird’s top speed is 3,540km/h and unit cost is $33,000,000=USD Lockheed SR-71_Blackbird was made 32

Where? SR 71_Blacbird was made in the United States   New york to london's fly time is 1 hour 55 minutes

When? SR-71_Blackbird’s first fly is 22 December 1964

Why? To spy on people

How? With stolen titanium (from Russia)

the text in 25 words:

Clarence	Johnson	invented	the	blackbird
Lokheed	Lokheed	to	fast	United states
spy	people	was	made	in
minutes	time	spy	New york	london
top	speed	and	is	with

Information report

LI:To identify features of an information report.
Today Information to the Chrome books.

Main Idea Summary Fra

LI:To identify features of an informationreport

[Miki] [All Blacks win big at World Rugby Award] Current events

LI:WALT use De Bono’s thinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Key word summary

LI. how can we  Manu Tukutuku in 25 words

Flying Free

 LI: To use QAR to help answer comprehension questions.
 LI: To infer/summarise information from a narrative Today.

Current Events: 6 hats

WALE: use De Bono`sthinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Miki Find Draw Animate Act

LI: to find and make examples of words.
This week I did a find,draw,animate,act.For this activity I had to find words I had to find words I did not know. The words I did not know is in this slide show. The thing I found hard was trying to say the words.

New Zealand team welcomed to Olympic village

Title:New Zealand team welcomed to Olympic village

        Questions:

1. What was raised?
2. Which team arrived at Rio first?
3. When is the opening ceremony

Answers:

1. New Zealand Flag
2. Football Ferns team
3. Rio 2016 opening ceremony kicks off at 11am(NZT) on Saturday 6 August.

LI to find the main idea of a text.
 ニュージーランドのサッカーチームかにふゅんが一番にオリンピックビレッジに着きました。ついた日は７がつ２４です。すべてのニュージーランドチームがオリンピックについてわけでわありません。でもニュージーランドの選手は123人に増えています。
オリンピック2016開会式は８月６日の土曜日午前11時で（NZT）でやります。

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