6 polish swimmers sent home from olympics

LI: To find the important information in a current event.

This week for Reading we learnt about author's purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to Persuade, Inform, Explain or Entertain (PIE).

First we looked at Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the Current Events DLO and answered these questions:

What 

When 

Where 

Why 

The article i was reading about was called 6 Polish swimmers sent home from olumpics.

Tech

 LI: To try and get the mBot to draw a star shape for Matariki

This week the year 8s of LS2 coded the mbots to drive in a star alligned path. To make the code we used different action codes (moving, wheels, etc). We used a code that allows the mbot to move forwards, left and right, and the seconds the mbot has to do the task at. We drew a star on a large piece of paper and we tested our mbot on the paper. After we have tested our first one we made changes to further improve our mbot code. 

Matariki

 LI: To strengthen our connections to Matariki.

Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition.

To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities.

I found out that you can see matariki on the north east of the sky.

I enjoyed finding more about matariki because i can know more about it in the future.

Greek Gods

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the Greek gods

Today David shared his reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. 

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. We earn CARE award badges in year 7 and 8 to show that we understand our school values. In this activity we used our smart searching skills to find information to help us complete the table.

I found this activity cool and interesting because I got to learn diffrent things about greek gods and got to identifiy the diffrent greek gods and godess.

The Greek god I found most interesting is Ares because he's is the god of war and courage and I respect that. His life story is also intresting.

Peace

 LI: To edit our writing using DRAFT.

This week for writing we wrote abstract noun poems in pairs. We were learning about abstract noun. abstract noun our something that exists but cannot be touched. Our abstract noun poem was about Peace. An abstract noun includes the 5 senses (Touch/ feel, taste, hear, see and smell), punctuation ( Capital letters, .), complex sentences, metaphors and similes After we finished writing our poems we used the DRAFT (Delete, Rearrange, Add, Fix, Talk)  process to check our poem with draft we can make correct errors in our writing.

Rock Paper Scissors

 LI:To learn jow to cod the micrbit to play Rock Paper Scissors and understand how to flowchart matches the code.

Link to DLO

1. When we shake the micrbit. It will choes a random number betwen 1 and 3.
2. I ahev to make a variables called hand and set this to the random number.
3. If the unmber is 1 the microbit will choses paper. 
4. If the unmber is 1 the microbit will choses Rock. 
5. If the unmber is 1 the microbit will choses scissors.  

Sadness

  LI: To write an abstract noun senses poem.

For our writing task this week we are working on poems and metaphors. Our metaphor poem was about sadness. A metaphor is describing something as something else without using “like” or “as.” an abstract noun is a noun describing an idea, for example see, taste, feel, smell and hear. We  worked on this task as a group. After coming up with our poem we create a DLO.

This task was fun because we learned how much creativity we have.