Art work -

For summer learning jurney we created art works on this site. I picked the liberty statue the artist of that is frédéric auguste bartholdi.

I changed the color background to dark blue because it would look sunny.

I enjoyed coloring in the librty stature.

OAR - Reading

 For reading we carried on doing QAR. QAR means Question-Answer relationship. There are 4 things for QAR they think and search for,on my own, author and you and right.

Think and search means the answer is in the text  but you may have to look for different places to find it. 

On my own you can come up with your own answer even if you did not read the text.Right there means the answer is right there in the text.

Author and you mean there's no answer in the text you have to come up with your own background.

The book we did was change our school uniforms. The book was about changing their uniform for good reasons. 

We had to put the right question into the right QAR boxes. After we put them in the right boxes we had to answer the questions.

I liked learning new techniques and new strategies for reading. QAR helped me with different sorts of questions like on my own and think and search questions. The QAR task was very hard.

QAR - Reading

For reading we learned about QAR. QAR means Question-Answer relationship. There are 4 things for QAR they are think and search,on my own, athuor and you and right.

Think and search means the awnser is in the text  but you may have to look different places to find it. 

On my own you can up with your own answer even if you did not read the text.

Right there means the answer is right there in the text.

Athuor and you means theres no answer in the text you have to come up with your own background.

I enjoyed learning new thing in reading like QAR.

LI: to speactate your fact to opioan.

Reading

 For reading we were learning about making connections and skimming and scaning.

The first activity we did was table mat we had to find facts,keywords,definition,prior knowledge and key questions. 

The second activity we did was making connections there are three meaning for making connections they are text to self, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is when the text has a famliar thing to your self. Text to text is when another book has a famliar idea. text to world is when everyone in the world has a famliar thing from the book.

Synthesis has three main texts. They are prior knowledge, new information, and my new understanding.

Prior knowledge is when you already know something. New information is finding facts that you already know. and my new understanding is that you're answering why you think it happened and explain how your knowledge has grown.

I enjoy learning new strategies in reading.

LI: to skim and scan

SSR Selfie

For SSR selfie the book I did was robots. 

The author is Chris Oxlade. The main topic was about how robots are made.I learned no words. My most interesting word was atlantic.

I enjoy learning new reading strategies.

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

Synthesis

Synthesis has three main texts. They are prior knowledge, new information, and my new understanding.

Prior knowledge is when you already know something. New information is finding facts that you already know. and my new understanding is that you're answering why you think it happened and explain how your knowledge has grown.

I enjoy learning new strategies in reading.

LI: to skim and scan

Duffy Theatre - bex meets milly

 We watched a performance by duffy theatre group about the coggen. A coggen is a mythcal creature that is a mixture of a cat, dog, and chicken.

Before the show, the actors introduced themselves. Then we sang the Duffy song.

Then the actors performed for us.

Lastly the duffy group held a question and answer session.

I enjoy watching the Duffy theatre.

Reading - table mat - making connections

 For reading we were learning about making connections and skimming and scaning.

The first activity we did was table mat we had to find facts,keywords,definition,prior knowledge and key questions. 

The last activity we did was making connections there are three meaning for making connections they are text to self, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is when the text has a famliar thing to your self. Text to text is when another book has a famliar idea. text to world is when everyone in the world has a famliar thing from the book.

LI: To skim and scan.

Reading

For reading we learned about skimming and scanning

Skimming is reading topic sentences to get a basic idea of a book or text and scanning is looking for keywords to find information you need.

We skim and scan on this book called ants on the march.

Next we pick three key words from the book and do one definition.

SSR Slefie

 LI: to summarise and retell a text.

For SSR Slefie i picked a non fiction book the book is called Poppy field. The main topic was about poppy the book is about world war fighting and poppy.

Reading -

LI: to skim and scan.

For reading we learned about skim and scan.

Skimming is reading topic sentences to get a basic idea of a book or text and scanning is looking for keywords to find information you need.

We were skimming and scanning on this book called meet the kakapo.

We had to find the three main key words then pick one to do a definition on. After we had to attributed an image for our key words.

Then we got 4 facts for the main topic. My facts talks about what there favourite food and what type of bird is it.

Connections

LI: To To identify and describe connections.

Connections are when something has a smallar idea as something else.There are three main 
 connections and they are text to slef, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is when the text links to what you do. For example- In the story the gruffalo the owl likes to drink tea. my connection is i like to drink tea.

Text to text is when there are stories that have similar ideas or themes. For example in the story the gruffalo the fox is an evil animal. in the rahi and patupairehe the patupairehe is evil as well.

 Text to world is where the text links to a big theme we would see sround the world and everybody does. For Example- In the story the gruffalo the squirrel tells a story to their children. People get told a story by their  elders because the elders describe what they did in there time.

Connections can help you link smallar things to yourslef, text and world which gains you a better understanding.

Reading

LI: to do inferring.
For reading we learned about inferring.

We did  two activities for reading. The first activity was fact and opinion. We wrote facts for each character in the story and wrote down the opinions. For example the fox was afraid when he saw the gruffalo.

 Lastly the activity we did is character trait. A character trait is where we had to describe a character in the 
 book.

Visualization-The grufflao

LI: To visualize the parts of the story.

This week we were learning about visualizing. 

We had to vizualize the story of the gruffalo and this animal named the nogard we had to draw was in our head we had to draw each part of the story.  

SSR slefie

LI: to summarise and retell a text. 

For SSR Selfie the book i chose was Energy we had to write down what the athor and list three main

facts down.

Rahi and the Patupairehe

LI:  summarize using visualising and inferencing.

This week we were learning to summrise. 

We also needed to link visualisation & inferencing to help us. 

We filled in a story web to summirse each part of the story.

 I used my visualisation from week one to help seperate the parts of the story.

I used my character inference traits to use adjective and evidence to help summerise diiffrerent parts.

Using good adjectives unlocks meaningful information and I can summerise quicker.

Connecting all 3 strategies helped me to understand the story, character & keywords.

Reading- Rahi and Patupiarehe- Fact or Opinion

For reading we learnt about fact or opinion. A fact is something that is true and a opinion is
what you think it is.

First we did a fact and a opinion for rahi and the patupaiarehe we had to write four things on each side.

Lastly we had to make a character trait for rahi and the patupaiarehe and rahi we had to write what we think he is and write why thery are brave or smart.

The leagend of rahi - Reading

For reading we were learning about visualizing. We used this story called the leagend of rahi we had to close our eyes and visualiz the story. Then we had make six boxes on our paper we had to draw what we think in each boxt then we had to answer the questions.

LI: to retell the text using visualising strategy to sequence events

Reading

LI: To pose questions, and locate the answers in the text.

In reading we were learning about QAR questions we did ten or more questons. There are diffrent questions they are right threre questions think and search questions, athur and you questions and on my own questions.

Right there questions means you can find in the text. Think and search questions are when it in the text but you can find it somewhere else. Authosr and you means the author ask you a questions you have to answer it. On my own questions when the answwer is not in the text and you might have an answer.

QAR Questions helps you increase your reading skills for on my own questions think and search questions author and you questions and on my own questions.

Reading

LI: to pose question and locate awnsers in the text.

There are four QAR question they are Right there questions, think & search question,Author & You and On my own questions.

Right there question is when you can spot it in the book and Think and search question conneting the right dots

Author & you questions Are not in the book and on my own questions are not in the book as well and you can ask anyone.

QAR is a strategy to help you know where to find the answer and how to answer the questons.