lonely man

Amazing Adobe spark

            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?

week 1 maths 3D shapes

Hi bloggers

This week's we have been making shapes in 3D with the help of isometric

paper. At the start, I was confused but after drawing some cubes I realised that it was just a matter of what angle the cube was in.
isometric paper allows you to draw 3D shapes, the isometric paper has dots so you just have to draw lines to link the dots. See you next week, bye

Hairy Giants

Kia ora Bloggers, This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something. An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference.

For example, when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair nets and this is required in all food factories. The text that we read a snippet out of was ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl. Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr and Mrs Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

 I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr and Mrs Twit.

 Have you read The Twits before? Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters? See you next time!

The secret package

In literacy we have been reading Going solo and while we were reading it, we decided to stop reading it and write what we thought would happen. It was about a secret package.

have you read going solo? I like because a like war. Should I finish it?

Hi for maths, Mr Shaw told us to do some tasks at khan Academy

The snake man vs Green mamba

Don't you just love when the writer puts some suspense in, to get you all excited.

giraffes

This week one of the tasks were to do a little informational report about giraffes. I found it very interesting because normally I wouldn't think about it. Did you like it? Have you learned any thing new?