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Walt: write an interesting recount

Instructions:

1. Open the Fiafia writing doc. This is where you are going to write a recount about your experiences of Fiafia last week.

In your recount, include language features/ descriptive language you have learned about, and practised using this term. Some examples of language features and descriptive language you could use to engage your audience:

• • Alliteration (e.g. softly sings)

  • Onomatopoeia (e.g. Splash!)

  • Emotive language (e.g. cheerful, excited)

  • Adjectives (e.g. The energetic Senior Hip Hop group...).

  • Adverbs (e.g. The Senior Samoan Group danced confidently)

By doing this, our audience will understand what happens at a Fiafia, and imagine our experience at Fiafia last week.

Remember to proof-read your work carefully before publishing it on your blog!

Links:

Fiafia writing doc

Walt: improve our writing by fixing the punctuation and grammar.

Instructions:

1. Choose a piece of writing you have done this term which you would like to improve.

2. In groups, we are going to look at this writing and work together on improving the punctuation and grammar. We will also suggest ideas of how we can make our writing more interesting.

Links:

Walt: write an interesting recount

Instructions:

1. Click on the year 5 & 6 camp link (on the right) to complete the task.

2. You are to create a presentation recounting all of the amazing things that you did while you were on camp last week.

Links:

Year 5 & 6 Recount Presentation

Remember to include as many important details when recounting camp. That way your audience will understand all of your experiences. You want your audience to feel like they were on camp with you.

Make sure to make your presentation look professional and interesting. Use different colours, backgrounds and photos.

Don’t forget to delete my notes on each page before you publish your presentation on your blog! :)

a) Flag of New Zealand, licensed under public domain.

b) English: Silver fern (black, white & blue) by Kyle Lockwood, licensed under CC Attribution 3.0 New Zealand.

Walt: Write a reflective blog post about our learning. When writing, we are learning to think carefully about the audience who will be looking at our work.

Walt (google maps): through finding out about volcanoes around the world to pin on a map, we are learning to make meaning of a range of texts by identifying main ideas in them and then translating the information and ideas that we learn into our own words.

Instructions:

• 1. Every time we post on our blogs, it is seen by a lot of people from around the world who want to follow our learning. EVERY time we post a learning follow-up or creation to our blog, we should write 2 paragraphs which explain our thinking, understanding, and learning for this particular learning experience. Use the planning doc to plan your blog post before uploading it to your blog.

Note: this doc also includes instructions of how to upload your google map to your blog, along with your 2 paragraphs.

Links:

Blog post planning doc

Walt: use feedback, from our peers, to make our writing clearer, more meaningful, and more engaging.

Walt: confidently organise our ideas by using a range of sentence types and lengths, and by being creative with how we begin our sentences.

Instructions:

• 1. As a class, fill in the brainstorm (look right).

  2. Since you last saw this piece of writing, I have fixed the punctuation mistakes, but now I need your help to make my writing clearer, more meaningful and more engaging! A good place to start would be to focus on how I have formed my sentences. Can you give me feedback and help me recraft my work?

  3. Open up your 'Our own story' doc from last week. In pairs, give each other feedback on how sentences have been structured. Think about:

• Sentence types used

• Length of sentences

• How you have begun sentences

• Combining sentences two related simple sentences

Links:

Recrafting Sentences

Walt: understand the features of narrative writing. Walt: write stories with a complete orientation, problem, and resolution

Instructions:

This week we are going to learn how to write a narrative story.

First we will practice planning our story and thinking of possible characters, settings, and problems.

Later we will choose from a few of the ideas we came up to create our own short story.

Walt: plan a narrative text, thinking carefully about who we are writing for and why?

Instructions:

• 1. As a class, listen to the story of the mountains of the North Island and how they were formed.

  2. As a class, discuss the setting, characters, problem, and resolution of the story.

  3. Plan for writing your own narrative about how Maungarei (Mt Wellington) was formed.

Things to think about:

• • 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch)

  • Feelings/ Emotions of characters

Links:

Writing a narrative

Walt: use punctuation accurately

Instructions:

1. Click on the link (on the right) to complete the task.

2. Write a paragraph (which will then go onto your blog), describing the experience of attending 'Duffy Theatre' on Tuesday afternoon.

-Think carefully about how we use our punctuation.

-What was enjoyable about it?

- What did you learn?

- How did you feel?

Links:

Fix the Mistakes! Activity and Writing Doc

Duffy Theatre

Walt: improve our blurb from last year Walt: write sentences with different beginnings

Instructions:

Welcome to 2016!

A year has past since you last wrote your 'About Me' blurbs on your blogs! We need to improve our blurbs so they represent us, our families, and our interests for 2016! We need to ensure our blurbs meet our cybersafety guidelines (we will talk about this)!

When we write our blurbs, we need to think about a number of important things. We want our blurbs to be:

• • Unique! Make your blurb creative and different to everyone else's blurb.

  • Relevant! What makes you, you in 2016?

  • Short and sharp! Grab the attention of our audience and make them want to read more.

We also want our blurbs to flow. We do this by:

• • Using a variety of sentences! Make sure you start your sentences in different ways.

Links:

Planning & Writing Doc

Examples:

Aaron

Sela