Kia ora bloggers,

This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell.  When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences.  We want to show them - not tell them.

For example:  Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realised he had just missed the bus.  But instead I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realised that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now”  You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated.

Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man.  We used Adobe Spark to do this.  

Have a look at my video and see if you can you make some inferences about what I have written.

Do you think the elderly man is happy?

Hi Bloggers,

For numeracy this week, we have been learning about grid references and we have been working on 4 and 6 digit grid references.

We learnt that we read across the bottom of the grid first (Eastlings) and then up the side second (Northlings).  

Our task today was to look at an aerial map of our school, write down the 6 digit grid references for the letters that our teacher had put on it, and then go in hunt of those points.  At each point there was 1 or 2 letters.  Once we had them all, we had to come back into the hub and unscramble the letters to figure out what it spelt.  The secret sentence was ‘Happy Birthday Zoe’.

I really enjoyed the task.  Have you ever had to use grid references before in real life?  What was it for?

See you next time, 

                                                                                                                                                                                                               Hi bloggers today i had to wright  some sentences
                                           about the people in the book called the twits. we had to Wright
                                           sentences like  i think that Mr twit smells bad because he has food
                                         in his beard. 

                                       Hi bloggers today for maths i have been doing directions
                                       with a little bee robot and a map with lines and little picketers
                                       on it. There is little arrows on the bee and me and Leah had to
                                      take it to the house and the pool and the playground. that's  what
                                     we did today. At first we did get a little confused but then we got it.
                                     

                                             Hi to day i had to draw my dog round and label
                                             my dog. He can't run only walk. I put a round body
                                             and a tail body legs. 

Hi bloggers today i did a obstacle coarse it was very fun and how we did it we had the trampoline and
the ramp, the skate bored, a big tire ,and my scooter, also lines,and a egg and spoon. That's what we used to make it.

Hi bloggers last week i made a waka with my dad it was really fun. We made it with a flacks sticks,a craft knife and a old sheet, screwdriver. we carved everything and made some holes to put the little sticks in. 

Hi bloggers this week for maths i have been learning how to work out length,perimeter,area.And for
literacy this week i learnt about giraffes and this is one fact about giraffes giraffes necks are to short to
reach the ground to get water because there legs are to long they have to spreed their front legs to drink water. today i made a sock puppet this is what i needed to make  a sock,cardboard,hear clips, sowing needle, scissors. that's what i needed to make a sock puppet here is a photo.

and when I'm done my work i get to go surfing.