Margaret Mahy

 Today in Wānanga we had to do another EOTC task.   The task I choose to do was that I had to make a biography about Margaret Mahy. I put some facts in the biography. Here is the biography.

100 Word Challenge

Today we got to do something new, called "100 Word Challenge". What is 100 word challenge? 100 Word challenge is a piece of writing that tells someone about the photo but it has to be in a 100 words. Here is the 100 word challenge and the photo.

100 Words:

Grizzly Bear jumping in a lake for food.
Trying to catch a nice fish to eat.
Big, strong and a fuzzy Bear.
Looks so fluffy and nice but its not its deadly and strong.
Grizzly Bear going in for the catch
Grizzl (Bear) hunting for his family so they can survive the winter.
Water making Grizzl all cold, freezing and wet but not enough to keep him from feeding his family.
Grizzl getting colder the more he is there in the water but he needs food for this cold and starving family. Grizzl trying to get fish, sadly fish running away.

Figurative Language

Today I have to describe what a simile and metaphor is to you. Here is one simile and metaphor from PaperBoy. Metaphor: “Mrs. Worthington and her red hair. That was the dessert of my thinking” (p. 156). Simile: “[Mr. Spiro] sounded official like he was calling a baseball game on the radio”

(p. 30). What is a simile?: A simile is a repranse with like or as, here is a example: The dog was running as fast as a cheater. You can us similes and metaphors in writing. What is a metaphor?: A metaphor is a figure of speech in which word or a phrase is applied to an object or action. Here is a example of a metaphor: Her heart is gold. The activity said we had write a metaphor that best describes Little Man’s relationship with Mam and write a simile that describes Little Man’s communication with TV boy. Here is the simile and metaphor.

Simile: Both don't talk alot like a turtle very quite.

Metaphor: Little Man and Mam are very strong together.

Speaking My Truth Questions

Yesterday in Speaking my truth we got given a piece of paper. We had to choose a character from a story. The story was called "Benny". The characters were Mum, Benny and I. I choose to do I. On the piece of paper we had to put 5 or more questions down the are open not closed questions. Here are the questions I put down.

1. How did you feel after Benny moved school?
2. What are you and Bennys favourite subjects and why?
3. If Benny still talked to you would you bring up the fight you had and why?
4. If Benny still talked to you would it be awkward or?
5. If you could change last week, what would you change?
6. If Benny didn't move would you still got to eastbourne and why?

The teacher made us do hot seating (if you don't know what that is go to another blog it did) and recorded it. Here is a example of hotsetting:

Character Description

Today I am starting a new activity for PaperBoy. In the activity we have to describe 2 characters from the story, the 2 characters I am doing are "Mr Spiro" and "Mrs Worthington". Here is a short summary of the 2 characters. Mrs Worthington: She can be mean and nice if she is in a good mood, there is always weird sounds coming from here house. Mr Spiro: Always nice, always here to talk to you, invites you to talk if you want. I know that because Mr Spiro always talks to little man and always invites him in the story. I know this because that first time little man meet Mrs Worthington she was all rude and strict to little man but later on in the story Mrs Worthington was nice to him and asked him if he wanted a drink and have a little talk.

The Present

Today I watch a short film, it was called "The Present". Here is the link to the video that we did. The film was about a boy with 1 leg and a half and his mother came in to the lounge and gave him a present .The teacher gave us some question to answer. Here are my answers. I think the boy was like "I don't care" and "its nothing special". At the beginning he was like "its got 3 legs what the!" I knowed he was didn't like it because he let go of the puppy fast and his face expression was like ew. He felt that way because he saw that he had 3 legs and he didn't like that. The lesson of the film was that be grateful about everything you get even if its little. It is important to be grateful for what we get bacause some other people dont get the chance to get stuff like that and you might not of even got it.

Benny

Today I had to read Benny it was made by Bernard Beckett, and illustrated by Pippa Keel. The book was about “That day last week shouldn’t have been different, but it was.”. The teacher gave us some questions to answer. Here are my answers.

Benny loved to play rugby and the other person liked to watch league not rugby. Benny was tall and his friend was up to his armpit.

Bennys friend didn't like that Benny moved away from him because he will not see him for a long time.

The mother feels very disgusted that a teen would do that to a kid. I think her reaction was what a normal mother would do if her kid was pushed into the water.

I think that the author's purpose was to let other people give stuff a try or don't be afraid to help.

I think the themes in the story were to be nice to people and not to push them to do something.

Here is a activity I had to do

Village Map

Yesterday we had to make a village map for Toki and his friends because we had an activity that involved making a map, I found it hard to make the animals. I found i easy to make the path in the map

Caterpiller Shoes

Today we had to do a activity because the Kapa Haka group went to Broadfields school and had to do a performs in a different city so we did a  do caterpillars shoes. we had to watch a video then we had do do this here is mine to see what you no what i am talking about hope you like it.

Pigeon Impossible

In literacy today we watched a short movie called Pigeon Impossible. The movie was about a very mysterious pigeon who tried to steal a bagel. Walter, The Secret Agent  needed to complete his mission.He stopped the explosion of the rocket but it didn't end exactly how he wanted it. We had the choice of 4 tasks. The first one was create a wanted poster for the Pigeon. You can do this on your device using slides or docs. the second activity was write another mission for Walter that could be spoilt by the Pigeon. The third activity was write a news report about the situation. You could create this on docs, slides or in your literacy book. And the last activity was create a comic strip to retell the story. I chose the wanted poster. Here is my work

Maths Triangle Activity

In maths this week we had to do this triangle activity. We had to add connect pieces together. There was 10 it was easy to do. it was so fun but it was hard to do it.