Friday, 20 March 2020

Vusualizing



Visualising is drawing an image map, mind map, or infographic about text that is diffucult to understand.

To visualise a difficult sentence, break it up in to parts and then draw each part.

If there are any words that are unknown they should be looked up in the dictionary. Childerens dictionarys are best suited for young learners.

Visualising is a good way to easily understand difficult text.

L.I: To visualise a section of text to aid understanding

Thursday, 19 March 2020

Comlex Sentences


Today my group needed to do a complex Sentence. We had to Put aaawwubbis in our Sentence. We needed yo work as a group to get this Finish

First Waka

Originally there were no people in New Zealand came in a series of waka.

The first ten waka were named Kaurahaupo, Takitimu, Matata, Tainui, Te Arawa,
Aotea, Tokomaru, Horouta, Uruao, Arai-te-uru. Most of waka visited the north Island. Some of the places The waka Landed at were Manukau Habour, Tamaki River, Kapua, and Te wairoa. The ten Waka came to New Zealand To discover new lands For People to live. L.I. First waka to land in New Zealand


Friday, 13 March 2020

Place Value Systme


                                   
Place value determines where the value of a digit goes. In the presentation I explained what place values are and how the place value house works and showed two examples. The examples were one place value house (Hundreds, Tens & Ones), and the second example was two place value houses (Hundreds of Thousands, Tens of Thousands & Thousands).

Listening

KiwiCan was about Listening

We played 'bop the cone' to practice for instructions.

We also played 'Chinese whispers' to practise listening and hearing information.

I thought that 'Chinese whispers was hard because everyone didn't speak up.

Thursday, 12 March 2020

Skimming & Scanning



Scanning is looking for keywords to find information you need. Skimming is reading topic sentences to get a basic idea of a book or text. Scanning to find  the right answer to questions from a book. Skimming is used when talking about an specific topic in a book. Our activity was we had to answer questions from a book. To find the answers we had to use our Skimming and Scanning techniques.

Kupe and Cook

Kupe and cook are 2 important explorers in New Zealand history.

Kupe arrived in NZ in the 110's. He travelled by traditional methods on a traditional sail to eat. Myth has it he followed a giant octopus. He did this voyage to find new land NZ Aotearoa after seeing mountains under the clouds.
Captain cook  is a British explorer.

Captain James cook was known of the history's greatest explorer.
Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii in February, 14 1779. Captain James cook was known of the history's greatest explorer.
Kupe is impotent because he was the first documented person in NZ. Cook is important because he mapped NZ and opened it up to the world to access.


Compound Sentence


Today we needed to make compound sentences. We also needed to put fanboys in it. A compound sentence is two sentences stuck together with a coma and a conjunction. A compound sentence can be made by using FANBOYS. FANBOYS stands for and, nor, but, or, yet, and for. 

LI:To write meaningful and interesting compound sentences

 


Friday, 6 March 2020

Explores and Adventuers

Explores and adventures are people who travel and discover new things.

Explores are people who travel to find new thins and record them for the comity such as Captain James Cook,  Robert Ballard.

Adventures are people who travel to take part in something themselves such as Sir Edmund Hillary.

Explorers and Adventures need to have or show many different attitudes and attributes such as caring because if you care for people they will feel combatable and more included.

Both travel to new places and need similer qualities although their goals are different.