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Friday 25 September 2015

Holidays

It's finally here!
Today is the first day of my school holidays. I am excited to have fun but tomorrow I won't be as happy. This Saturday I will be attending my Nana's unveiling. All week I haven't looked forward to this but I will probably have to go. Anyway I will be posting more stories in my free time bye!

Favourite part

This term my favourite part was last week having our little egg friends.
Goodbye I will probably post more so stay tuned.
BYE!!!!

Tuesday 22 September 2015

My egg friend

Walt: think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount

I used to like egg races until yesterday. Yesterday we had and egg and spoon race.
Races themselves are difficult but yesterday was the top of the top. Check this out.

Egg races are hard because, you really have to concentrate while doing it. You
will probably get the feeling the spoon is heavy because you are moving alot.

We were in buddies and we each got one egg per group. My buddy Lani drew a face on our egg. While my buddy was coming with the egg I felt extremely nervous. I was waiting at the other side of the park and I thought what if I crack it or drop it. But that wasn't the worst part.

My buddy Lani had given me the egg. While I walked through the park I was scared but I sort of succeeded. I was happy but when I was one foot away from the finish line  my egg fell onto the ground. Luckily my egg never broke or cracked.

I think that next time I will go a bit slower so I can gain control over my egg. To be honest I don’t know if I will ever do that again. If I do it again I will probably think about what I'm going to do before I do it.  
Recount Writing

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Write for my reader
I've tried to think about my reader
My writing shows some awareness of reader because my writing is quite clear and I have tried to interest my reader.
My writing is easy to understand and I have tried to tell the reader what it was like to be there by giving details and my thoughts.
My writing really considers audience as reader because I have kept their interest and made them feel like they know exactly what it was like for me.
Purpose
I tried to meet the purpose
My text goes some way towards meeting the purpose
The message is clear in some parts of the recount.
My text fully meets the purpose.
The message is clear all through the recount.
Introduction
My introduction does not yet clearly orientate or hook in my reader.
My introduction gets some buy in from audience and they can understand what I am going to write about.
My introduction hooks in my reader and it is clear what I am writing about.
My introduction wows my reader!
Paragraph Topics
My paragraphs are confused and don't follow my plan.
I have tried to follow my plan.
Most my paragraphs are about 1 big idea and I have added some detail.
My paragraphs have some complex as well as simple sentences. Post paragraphs give details about 1 big idea.
I have followed the paragraph topic in my plan.
My paragraphs have complex and simple sentences. Paragraphs all give details about 1 big idea.

In this task I learnt to white a whole recount in 45 minutes. I found it a bit difficult at the start but I found it a bit easier during the end.

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Onomatopoeia

WALT:  We are learning to use onomatopoeia to help create interest in our writing.

Photo of my word

I slurped a drink at Mac Donald's.

In this task I learnt what onomatopoeia meant. Onomatopoeia is mimic words that help a sentence sound more interesting.
This is a site with the definition of onomatopoeia so you can understand it more than you may already
do.

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Market Day!!!

Walt: write an interesting and detailed recount .
Find , buy , Eat!!! Last Friday we had a market day full of purchasing and selling. I started with 5pt and ended with 18.20 pt . That wasn't even the best bit.


The trade and enterprise group I'm in is kitchen. I made chocolate fudge by myself , the reason why was because my partner was unfortunately at sports. When I  tasted it I found it was quite sweet but still yum. We sold the fudge for 2pt. We had a market day to sell the products that we had made. All yr ⅚ people planned and waited for the market for 8 weeks which is three quarters of this term.


In the morning after assembly we set the classes up for our market, because we planned to have it from after morning tea , all the way to lunch. The kitchen group was outside because we had alot of crumbs and we didn't want to get them all over the floor so it was probably a better idea to go outside.


I bought alot of items. First of all Just before I started selling because I had ordered it I got a big lime ice block someone tried to buy it but I said “ sorry I already ordered”. While I was selling I gave my friend 2pt to buy me some hot chips and I was the first person. Soon after that I had sold out so because we had made and uneven amount we spent some pts. I bought a coaster , drum and a yellow slime. But it was a pity I had to leave before the day ended.


While I was selling I found everyone liked it but it was too expensive so I put it down to 1pt and then more people came to buy more. When we had sold out of fudge my buddy and I went around buying items. There were alot of things for sale we had vases , slime , food , ukulele , drums and custom stationary tools.

If we ever have another market I will look forward to it. Due to our currency I am better at getting more profits and bargains.


Recount Writing

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3
4
Write for my reader
I've tried to think about my reader
My writing shows some awareness of reader because my writing is quite clear and I have tried to interest my reader.
My writing is easy to understand and I have tried to tell the reader what it was like to be there by giving details and my thoughts.
My writing really considers audience as reader because I have kept their interest and made them feel like they know exactly what it was like for me.
Purpose
I tried to meet the purpose
My text goes some way towards meeting the purpose
The message is clear in some parts of the recount.
My text fully meets the purpose.
The message is clear all through the recount.
Introduction
My introduction does not yet clearly orientate or hook in my reader.
My introduction gets some buy in from audience and they can understand what I am going to write about.
My introduction hooks in my reader and it is clear what I am writing about.
My introduction wows my reader!
Paragraph Topics
My paragraphs are confused and don't follow my plan.
I have tried to follow my plan.
Most my paragraphs are about 1 big idea and I have added some detail.
My paragraphs have some complex as well as simple sentences. Post paragraphs give details about 1 big idea.
I have followed the paragraph topic in my plan.
My paragraphs have complex and simple sentences. Paragraphs all give details about 1 big idea.

In this task I wrote a full recount about our market day on Friday last week. I sold alot of things and I also bought alot. I waited until our product was sold out and I made a huge profit.

Tuesday 8 September 2015

My Diamanté poem

Walt: write a poem using nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

Netball,
exhausting , freezing
running , passing , catching

sweaty

In this task we learnt about how to write poems using nouns,verbs and adjectives. 
I did this poem about Netball.

Thursday 3 September 2015

Poems

WALT: write poems when all words star with one letter.

CATS
Cute:Adjective
Cats:Noun
Cuddled:Verb
Calmly:Adverb

DOGS
Dopey:Adjective
Dogs:Noun
Damaged:Verb
Disappointingly:Adverb

LEOPARDS
Large:Adjective
Leopards:Noun
Laugh:Verb
Loudly:Adverb


In this task we learnt to write poems with four words. I loved all of these poems but my favourite was the one about Loepards.

Wednesday 2 September 2015

Adventurous adverbs

Walt:We are learning about adverbs and how to use them effectively.
In this task we learnt to write adventurous adverbs. I put them into Half Maori and half English.
We wrote four different things about completely different subjects.