Kiwi Can Comment

LI: to comment on peoples blog - post
For commenting I had to comment on someones blog - post to help them out if they have any mistakes in there blog - post. I blogged on Elaario's blog post and he was blogging about what he did at Kiwi Can.

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts
For Basic Facts I had to answer questions which are either Addition, Subtraction, Division, and Multiplication. I did Multiplication and Division and it took me 1 min and 33 seconds to finish all the questions.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read one of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kids book series". The book was called "Cabin Fever". It was written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. There are over 10 books in the series.

Haiku Poem

LI: to identify vocabulary and language features for use in writing a poem about feelings
I was writing a poem about feelings. We had four type of poems to pick Diamante, Cinquain, Limerick and a Haiku. I picked the poem Haiku. In the poem we had to write about our feelings and how to deal with it, or channel it, or even change it to something positive.

A Diamante is a poem that has one word at the top and the two lines or sentence under the word is describing that first word. The middle line is a phrase. Te last word one the bottom is described on the two sentences above the word. There are 7 lines in a Diamante.

A Cinquain poem is a poem that must have a one word title. (noun), next it must have two adjectives that is describing the noun, after that it needs three - ing words, after that is has to have a phrase and finally it has to have a synonym for the title.

A Limerick poem is a rhyming, comedic poem. It has five lines. The 1st, 2nd, and 5th line should rhyme, but 3, and 4 rhyme with each other.

A Haiku is a poem that has 3 lines and it involves the seasons. There is a pattern. The pattern is that the first line or sentence has 5 syllables second line has 7 syllables, and last of all the last line has 5 syllables.

Editing Recounts

LI: to revise and edit a recount
We used all our knowledge from the past few weeks and we wrote a recount. The recount we had to write was a Kiwi Can, Kiwi Sport, or Music recount. We then had to get in pairs and give each other our recount. Then we had to edit each others recount. When we've done that we had to check our own recount which was checked and edited, then see the changes that were made. The changed were all worth a specific amount of points

Points system.
1 point for every change/addition made
1 point if an adjective is added
1 point is an adverb is added
2 points if the title was reworked to be more interesting
2 points if the word said is changed to be more interesting
2 points if punctuation is added (Exclamation, Question mark, Ellipsis, speech marks)
5 points if the sentence has been developed using our strategy from 3 weeks ago
5 points if the changes makes TREE more visible
-2 points if a capital letter is used outside of beginning of a sentence and a persons name
-10 points if there is only Full stops and/or commas
-20 points if only adjectives have been added
-20 points if there is under 10 changes and/or the changes didn’t make sense

Chime Bars (Music)

LI: to play songs using the notes C, F, A, and G
We played Chime Bars and used C, F, A, and G to play songs. We did it as pairs, so we had to work together and play at the same time. There were also Piano's to play with. We played the songs, "One Call Away", "Shotgun", and "Lean On".

Summary & Current Events

LI: to unlock Keywords to summarise a text
We had a book to read and we used a template to help us summarise. On the template we had to find or highlight the keywords. Then we had to start writing the 5 W's & H. Lastly we had to try and summarise the book in 25 words. The book I read was called "Turbulence".

We then had a template made from Mrs Anderson. We had an event we had to summarise and write about. The event we wrote about is "Wellington Beaches going smoke free". We had to find the 5 W's and the H.