Mounted Games.

This is and my Patu.

This is my report photo

This my mine maps.

Bridge To Terabithia drawing.

This is my Bridge to Terabithia drawing using the Sumo Paint App, it is when May Bell walks in through the bridge to Terabithia for the first time.

By Kiritea Kopa Woollaston.

Am I working towards my reading goals?

A Brief Analysis Of My Reading

Reading Analysis

WALT: make a snap shot of my reading ability using the National Standards learning progressions.

This week we videoed ourselves reading an extract from Bridge to Terabithia. We had to watch ourselves and notice what challenges we faced when reading at 13-14 Year. We had to choose 4 challenges that stood out the most. Then we had to think how we were going to make changes to our reading, by setting goals.

The Challenges I face In Reading Are:

• Reading fluently - I am still reading stiltedly.
• Speaking aloud and reading with confidence.
• Using expression as I read.  I sound like a robot.

The Goals That I Will Focus On In Term 4, So To Help Me Become A Better Reader Are:

• Re-read and practice reading aloud as often as possible.
• Read at home.
• Picture the story in my head.

My Future Dream.

Maori Games

Tautoro School - Tuakana Group 2014

Cross Country Goals

Thank you Hellers

Dear Hellers,

I would like to thank you so much for donating the cheese sausages to Tautoro School (one of the best schools in the North Island). They were the most delicious cheese sausages I have ever tasted. Hellers food is always delicious. For some reason it always tastes better than others. It’s just like biting into a cloud of cheese meat.

Thank you for donating these really nice sausages to us.

Thanks Kids Can

Dear Kids Can,

I would like to thank you very much for what you did for Tautoro School. You have supported us for so long. You have given us hand sanitizer, bars, Weet-Bix, bandages, mouse pads, lice shampoo that come with a brush to get out lice, shoes. We also got jerseys, peaches, yoghurt, tissues and the scroggin. They were really nice. My favourite bit of the Scroggin was the chocolates they were really good. Lastly, I love the bag you gave us. I really appreciated all these gifts that you gave us and so did the rest of our school. 

Thank you again it was really kind of you.

Annotated Reflection

WALT: write an annotated reflection showing judgment, opinion analysis.

SC : 1. Use past verbs that show mental processes i.e think,wondered guessed. 2. Use the Help/Hindered box to structure your writing. 3. Must inform the audience how you improve or did not improve. 4. Must provide examples and explanation on why you became a better writer or not.

My Writing Progress I Made in Term 2. 

 I have seen a lot of progress in my writing since the beginning of the year. I was only writing three or four sentences but now I can comfortably write paragraphs with thousands of words.

I now love writing because I have a clearer idea on what I'm expected to write about, the Read Write App and spelling tools have given me the confidence to check my work by myself, plus knowing that our work has to be published to my blog gives that added expectation to do well.

I think my writing has improved lots because Miss. Simeon gives us examples of what she expects our writing to be like whether we are writing a narrative, a persuasive piece, a report, a poster, a presentation..whatever. I have a better idea of what is expected.

I also like that working on our chromebooks allows us to share our work with friends and work with buddies who look over our work and comment on and give feedback. You can’t really do that if you’re writing in a book.

I like writing especially when I write my story and I get the approval from the teacher that I can put my hard work on the blog. It makes me feel special that people all over the world can see my work.

I have also noticed that when I start writing I’m really hooked on it so that makes me focus. Our teacher also has a deadline on when work needs to be done. No-one wants to be called out in front of the class if you haven’t finished your work.

Before the chromebook I was making a lot of spelling mistakes and my writing made no sense. My hands were always getting sore, I had messy work, I was getting tired of erasing out the words every time and that just made my book messy. Now, I think I have really good typing skills and my work is always neat because of the chromebook. Spelling tools, dictionaries, google, the read&write app and our classroom site with teacher examples are all available at a click of a button. This is one reason why I think I have made really good progress in my writing.

I have learnt to become a better learner through constantly using my chromebook and because of this I want to share my work with the world. Now that I have a chromebook, I am not worried about my presentation, spelling and proofreading and because of this I have become a confident writer.

Careers

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