Fabric Bags And Beeswax Wrap

This term we have been making Fabric Bags And Beeswax Wrap. We made these because we want to help the environment by reducing our waste we can use  Fabric Bags instead of plastic bags and use Beeswax Wrap instead of plastic wrapping paper. I really enjoyed making the beeswax wrap. I thought it was fascinating when I melted the beeswax because it just disappeared.

Reducing Waste

Infographic

Where To Next?  Connected, Level 4

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us and the negative of positive
impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our own lives to help our
• environment.

Literacy

Task: Create an infographic showing people how they can reduce their waste
in their lunchbox.   

Our co-constructed success criteria:

-Have a strong title/hook

-Use convincing language and images

-Have simple things people can do

-Use images (free to use)

-Use bullet points/ short sharp information

-Use correct punctuation and spelling.

Maui And The Sun

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practise and perform a
play. This is using our oral language and reading skills in literacy. Our key
competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main events in your play in three
paragraphs. You must plan your writing first but it is up to you how you do
your planning.  You must also write a fourth paragraph about your experience
of practising and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which begin with a main idea and
contain supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas are clearly related
and where there are links within and between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing e.g. colons : and
semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can/have

-summarised the play in three paragraphs

-made links across my paragraphs

-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).

Once you have finished your writing highlight these success criteria green if you have
met them and can show them in your work. Highlight green in your work where you have
met these success criteria.

At the start of this story the sun was moving too fast so
Maui, a powerful demigod, said to his 5 brothers,” I WILL SLOW THE SUN” and his brothers said ,”You cannot tame Tamanuitera. He will kill you.” But then the 5 brothers agreed that they will go with him.

 In the second part of this story they made magical ropes
of flax as strong as 1000 men to capture the sun with.
They started walking off. They only traveled at night so
Tamanuitera would not see them. After days of walking
they finally arrived at were the sun rose. They built a
wall of clay and when the sun rose they threw the ropes
And caught Tamanuitera in his fiery hair. Then Maui jumped up
and hit Tamanuitera with the magic jawbone of his ancestors.
Tamanuitera shouted in pain. Maui said ,”Will you go slower in
the sky if I let you go.” Tamanuitera gave up. He said ,“I will.” Maui said to his brother's ,”let go of the ropes.”

In the end of this story the sun has slowed down.

I think that I worked well in my group. Next time I could
improve on really getting into the character and acting
because this time I got a bit shy. As a team we did not
work well because at the beginning we were arguing but in the
end it worked out really well because we focused and got it
done. When my group did our play it went surprisingly well.
As a group we did well at looking at the audience and not
turning our backs to the audience. We participated and
contributed by working well as a team and working things
out when it was not going so well for the group. I really
enjoyed making the props and I thought it was cool that I
got to be Maui.  

The Beekeeper

Quick Write Number One - The Beekeeper

For the next two weeks we are going to work on ‘Quick Writes.’  This is  where you are given something to write about (a writing prompt) and you only have 10mins to write as much as possible using this writing prompt.

For our writing prompts we will use either images or short videos.

The purpose of this is to practise writing fluently.

When we look at our writing prompt we will have about 10-15 mins to discuss it and brainstorm some ideas and vocabulary.   

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

When we are writing we need to think about…

1. What do I want my reader to see?

2) What do I want my reader to hear?

3) What do I want my reader to smell?

Tips:

-look closely at the picture or video

-think about the three key questions and the learning goals

-give yourself time to plan and write

Do your writing here             

I walked up to the beehive as calm as a cat stalking its prey. I lifted up the honey frame and smelt the sweet yummy sugary honey .  

Elections Topic

This month we have been working on the elections and My friends and I have made up a political party and we made a poster.  Here is our work.