Poetry collection

Through out the year, especially in term 2 and 3, we started writing and creating a collection and wide variety of poems. Poems we have written so far, have been, Sound poems, Diamante, Acrostic, Limerick, Haiku, Alphabet, Cinquain, and Colour poems. My favourite have probably been the Limerick, or Acrostic poem, as you can be very creative (not to say that you can't be creative with the others) But I find that its easier to write, and that I feel I can create a better poem. My least favourite is Haiku poems, as its quite short, and you have to stay between 5 and 7 syllables. However I love learning new ways of learning, like learning a new structure/type of poem. 

After writing the each poem, we transferred, if we hadn't already written the poem straight onto a Google Slide. Added a picture/background and repeated that for every poem so we could end up with a collection like this..

I met a Dragon face to face...

Today I wrote a poem inspired by "I met a dragon face to face" by Jack Prelutsky. The task was to write our own poem using his format, and think about adventures we have encountered while reading. After I wrote the poem on Google Docs, I copied it onto a Google Drawing and added images to help picture my writing. 

In the poem by Jack, the character was 10 years old, however I changed this to my age so it was like I lived the adventures.

By Hayley

Tui Collage

 This term our learning focus is based around plants and native animals. Recently we were asked to try and create a native bird using collage materials. Everyone in class got a different animal to recreate. I chose to do a Tui. To make our collages we used Google Drawing, then using the explore tool we searched up different textures and cropped them as shapes to make our bird. For example... I searched up "Cardboard" and used the texture of that to make my harakeke, and brown silk fabric to make the breast on my bird. Anyways here is my finished result...

Ngahere Writing

To incorporate our study on plants, biodiversity and native bush this term, we recently did some slow writing about our native Ngahere. Slow writing is small 7 sentence writing exercise however it helps to enrichen our writing by using things such as similes, metaphors, questions etc. After writing, I added it to a Google Drawing and from there I placed on a background of New Zealand native bush. Here is my writing...

Would you read Pax?

Recently our class finished reading our class novel Pax. While reading this book, we were asked to share our thinking and predictions about what we think is going to happen in the book. One of our tasks was to draw each character in our reading books (Pax the fox and Peter the boy) With one character per page, then rule the page in half and on one side write what we know about the character and on the other our predictions and what we don't know about them. We also had to visualise and use our imagination as there were no pictures of the characters in the book for us to use and copy while drawing them.

After we read the story we had to write a book report on the novel. To publish/create my book report I used Google Drawings. When I had finished typing the blurb I took photos of my drawings in my reading book, removed the background and added them on the side. Here is my book review... Would you read Pax??

TerraCycle

A few years ago, when I was scrolling through the internet I found a website and company called TerraCycle. After a little bit of reading and researching I found it was a recycling company that recycle non-recyclble waste. I though straight away that this was a really cool idea and introduced the idea to my principal. He also loved the idea, however we never had the time. At the end of last year we quit, and a new fill in principal came. This year I handwrote a letter to him about the idea and though it was amazing, and helped me and my friend start the 

Suez Canal (group reading work)

Today in class for reading and word study, our reading group (the Itlots, the name created by 2 words (it and lots) found in a book and combined together) Mrs Bennett introduced a new reading topic... the Suez Canal! After a bit of reading and researching we were asked to make a slideshow to display work, then share our work onto our blogs. Here is our presentation...