Month: October 2023

My Special Taonga

LI: To structure and write an explanation

Our challenge was to write an explanation to tell others about something we value as a special taonga. Our challenge was to make sure what we had written made sense and each idea was explored in a paragraph. My taonga is a special gift that I have received or have been given from my grandma as her ansectors passed it onto my nena parents and kept it going. I value this as a toanga because its something special that was hand made by my nenas ancestors.

I found this activity hard aswell as fun because this was preparing me for my test coming up although I got to explain what the thing was which was a kafa.

What happened down the stairs?

LI: To understand the 5 senses can be used to strengthen a description

Our challenge was to co construct a text using the olfactory, auditory, gustatorial, visual and kinethetic senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. This time we were able to speak and sat facing our partners. 

Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense and had met the language feature challenge.

I found this activity helpful and encouraging because I got to help out my partner aswell as adding in some scary parts to make the story sound instresting as like were investigating things.

 

These Shoes have a story to tell

LI: To use the 5 senses and personification to help us paint a picture with words. 

LI: To understand that personification is to give an inanimate object human qualities

Our challenge was to co construct a text using personification and the senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. We sat back to back and weren’t able to talk to eachother as we were thinking of what to write next. Half way through Mrs Anderson challenged us to include a rhetorical question and a simile or metaphor, An example for this is my rhetorical question was :As my owner strected me another seam ripped, I wonderd why me?.

Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense. 

After that part of the challenge was finished we used the punctuation points game to see how many we have got correct and how many we had misplaced or didnt add them in. We marked eachother’s punctuation against the points table. We then had a chance to check our own work against the points table. That was fun because every point our partners missed menat we could take a point off theirs.

I found this activity fun because I really enjoyed how I got to experience writing back to back without speaking, also I really found it instresting how me and my partner (Keira) added some spice into it which made our shoes sassy.

Equipment and Property

LI: Students will learn how to look after equipment and property.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week for PB4L we created a contract discussing about your Properties and belongings of why they are important and why they need to looked after. This contract is also about respecting your belongings. An example of this is showing respect to those properties they have lent you to use as they could trust you with their equipment which is important to follow these because it’s best to show other people that you can be trusted in borrowing their equipment and also being able to get your equipment back without any damages.

I found this activity entertaining because it tells me about how I can trust people with my properties which also teaches me how this can show an impact on not just you but that person’s family, however people will respect your properties if you respect their property the way you admire something.