Our task for reading was to create a summary of Waltzing Matilda. We learnt about the poem Waltzing Matilda and what happend to him. We created a summary and used words that rhymed and we wrote what happend from the start to the end in a short stanza.
I enjoyed this task because the poem was fun to read and hear.
LI: To understand the story within the poem
LI: to understand both sides of an perspective
For this activty, we were set on a task. A task that was easy and hard at the same time. In our reading groups, We read a story about Shearers Strike, ( Waltzing Matilda ) After we answered all the questions, We got to make our own opinion based of what we read, We made a perspective A perspective B and our own Opinion. As reading this story, it was pretty sad, because it says workers were not getting enough, for the job, they were getting paid not enough money to feed there familys, So some workers quit, and they told other workers to stop working, and they stopped. Butt they had to go back to work, because they didn’t have much money to feed there family.
I enjoyed this task because the story was interesting and it was interesting to learn about what happend in the shearers strike.
This week for reading we learn about an old man who was famous for his poems that he wrote and we made a Google video with us saying his poems and we used AI to generate the images to match the poem. After that we created a mood board on that poem and the poem I did was rain.
For reading we learnt about how Malala Yousafzai protested for the rights of girls to educate. She was a sixteen year old girl who said a huge and powerful speech to the world on why girls should educate, she had been stopped by the Taliban by getting shot on her head, but that didn’t stop her from delivering that woman should be educated and boys and girls should be equal. I created this poster of her quotes, and one of her quotes were “One child, one teacher, and one pen can change the world.”
LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation
We read the text ‘Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology and were given the provocation – Should the Government of today(2021) apologise for the dawn raids of yesterday (1970s)? to explore and discuss in our groups.
To show our thinking we created a DLO that reflected both sides of this provocation and your opinion.
Something I found interesting about this text was every single person has a different opinion, and back In the days things weren’t good they were horrible because of racism.
LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation
We read the text RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and asked to create a DLO that explores and discusses both perspectives of this historical event in our groups.
Something I found interesting about this text was I learnt how the Polynesian Panthers fought for their rights and gave us what we have today which is freedom from many disasters that happened yesterday.
On Thursday we had a trip to the Museum to learn about new things, and to look back into what yesterday was like. For the learning part we learnt about how volcanoes erupted, and the type of rocks the eruption formed. Then we had to make an backpack choice where we were living near a volcano and it was about to explode and we had to pack the important stuff we needed before we evacuate and they gave us thirty seconds to fill our bags up. Our group packed some essentials we needed and left some we needed and other groups packed everything even the useless stuff, the teachers checked the bags and corrected our mistakes it was funny.
I enjoyed learning about new things and also I enjoyed touching the type of rocks especially obsidian for the first time.
LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.
Before we take part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century
Something I learnt from this task was that Mary Annings first fossil was a rare dinosaur and she found it at the age of 12 with her brother.
Way back in the days, there were dinosaurs in the world, and they all went extinct due to a meteor shower. Now there are people who are called Palaeontologists and what they do is study fossils and see how history was in the dinosaur age. We created a DLO explaining what a fossil is and the two types of fossils, which are Body Fossil and Trace fossil. A Trace Fossil is a Trace the dinosaur left behind for example, Footprints, nests, and feeding traces. A Body Fossil is a preserved part of an dinosaurs body like, head, legs, arms, claws, jaw, etc.
I enjoyed learning about dinosaurs and fossils and it was also interesting as well.
LI: To understand what a Palaeontologist is and what they do
For inquiry we learnt on a topic about Palaeontologists. A Palaeontologist is a person who study’s and looks for fossils that are buried in mountains, rocks, and the ground. We wrote a 50 word summary on palaeontologists and it was hard to get rid of words that we needed and find words that fit in to make sense.