Advice blog

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.

Task Description: I had to complete this presentation. If you don't know what this is it is a advice blog. It is where you get a question from somebody and then I have to give that person advice. So then I had to post it on my blog with a Title, Walt, Task Description and labels.

Te Taiao o Tamaki

This years topic at school is Te Taiao O Tamaki, so that means we will be focusing on that phrase this whole year. Te Taiao O Tamaki means The environment of Tamaki in english. At school because Te Taiao O Tamaki means The environment of Tamaki in my class we been learning about native trees, native birds and also native insects. When we learnt about native trees, we also learnt about endemic, native and introduced.And and we learnt about native insects we also learnt some birds I've ever seen before.

Task Description: I had to write a blog post about the focus of Te taiao o Tamaki. Then I have to post it on my blog with a title, Task Description and labels.

Bird Identification

Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard.

Task Description: We had to complete this presentation. Then we had to post it on our blog. But we had to post it on our blogs with a Title, Walt, Task Description and labels.

Newspaper towers

Walt: write a recount about our experience.

Have you ever made a skyscraper out of newspapers before? Do you think you would succeed or fail. Did you know that we were constructors today.

While I was sitting down on the mat I was just playing around with Mr Goodwin’s draws. Then suddenly Mr Goodwin came into class, he nearly caught me. So after that he was explaining the instructions to us, then I was like “what”. In my head I was like “no I don’t like newspapers”. Then that whole time I wasn’t very excited.

In my group it was Me (Makayla), Naomi, Daisy, Amelia, Paikea and Trendy. So after the instructions Mr Goodwin gave each group a paper and a pencil to plan how our tower was going to look like. So while my group was planning I was just sitting down and doing nothing while the others worked, But Daisy, Amelia and Naomi were so brainy that they came up with a lot of ideas for our tower. But Trendy and Paikea were like me and just sat there.

So after we planned how our tower would look like Mr Goodwin told us that we could start building. So we started building accorded to our plan, While my team was making the tower I was doing the tape. But while my team already had tape I was looking around at the other teams towers they were so creative. But then I was just looking around when Daisy said Makayla I need tape.

After Daisy asked me for tape she taped it on then suddenly the timer went off. But when we let go of the tower it fell,  but the only tower that stood was Justice's group. I was so disappointed of our tower. But I was still happy, because at least we tried.

Task Description: We had to write a recount about the experience that we did yesterday, and yesterday we made newspaper towers. Then we had to post it on our blog with a title, a Walt, Task Description and labels.

Eating chicken flavoured worms

Walt: write quality introductions.

Have you ever tasted chicken flavoured worms before? Well guess what my teacher had so much coffee, that he fed us that. I wasn’t expecting that at all.

 Image attribution:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Bamboo_worms_food.jpg

Introduction Rubric
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Hook	My introduction is boring. It is difficult to read.	My introduction is easy to read and has some interest for my audience.	My audience is hooked into my subject, it grabs their interest so they feel like they want to read more.	When someone reads my introduction they are left feeling intrigued. They can't wait to read more.
Orientation	My introduction does not tell the reader what my writing is going to be about.	My audience has some idea about what I am writing about.	My audience is clear what I am writing about.	My introduction lets the reader know the direction and purpose of my writing.

Task Description: In this lesson we did a writing experience to do with eating chicken flavored noodles, but pretending they were worms. We wrote each sentence of our introduction separately, and then marked ourselves against the rubric above.

Native to NZ

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.

Task Description: We had to go on our class site and go to reading and click on our group. Then we had to read the readings we had to read, after that we had to do our task. When we did our task we had to post it on our blog with a title, walt, labels and a task description.

About my group

Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard.

Task Description: 
We had to read the texts that is on our class site. Then we had to make a copy of this presentation. After that we had to make our own theme, then we had to answer the questions in each slide. Then we had to post it on our blog with a title, WALT, labels and a task description.