Te Whare Tapa Wha

 

We were learning about our four walls and how we can keep them all up because if one falls we need to use the other walls to fix it.  We had to put our ideas into all the four walls the walls are physical, spiritual,mental and emotional and family and social.  Also we had to add three pictures in each wall about what they all mean to us.

I found it easy to think of the three pictures in the four walls and also to find the exact right picture that I think represents the most.

We were using our learning asset whaiwhakaaro, being a thinker by using images to reflect what each pou means to us and how it makes us stronger, and how it makes me the best me I can be. I used images to reflect what keeps my walls up.

Onomatopoeia fireworks poem!

we were learning to use onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia is a word to describe the sound of something, for example if you were doing a cow it could be MOO or someone jumping into the water it could be SPLASH!  Our poem was about fireworks, we had to explain what fireworks sound like and what you think you'd see if you were watching and hearing fireworks.

I found it easy to add in all the onomatopoeia because I've been to watch fireworks so I know what kind of sounds there are when you listen to fireworks.

I found it hard to add enough detail to make it a big enough poem I also found it hard to make sure Im using similes and alliteration as well as onomatopoeia.

Next time I need to work faster at getting my ideas into the poem and not keep changing every time i think i'm finished.  I also need to get better at making sure it makes sense. 

I was a thinker/whaiwhakaaro, because I thought about all the best onomatopoeia that will fit my writing and make sure it makes sense. I was also a thinker because I used similes and alliteration in my poem as well as using onomatopoeia.

The Ancient creature

 

I was focusing on being a communicator and being able to share my ideas through writing!

I used a variety of sentence starters but next time I think I could level them up.

I used similes to make my writing more descriptive and I also used alliterations and great adjectives to describe.

Next time I plan to use better sentence starters so more people want to read it. 

Famous New Zealander/Lois Muir

  

I was a communicator by asking questions of others and helping them with the learning they found hard.  I was also a communicator by letting others help me with what I could have as questions for my famous New Zealander - Lois Muir.

I was a self manager by using my time well by getting my learning done in time and also by getting my nine  comix pages done.  

I was a researcher by researching online to out about Lois Muir and now I know lots of things about her  and also comix let me present my learning in a different way like for example we write a story about a character instead of  

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