Lesson 12 - Recount - A moment in time...

Learning Intention - To include powerful adjectives, verbs, adverbs and emotive words about a moment in time last week when you were at camp Kaitawa or being the leaders in school while the year 6's were away on camp.

Success Criteria

• To included a range of descriptive words, adverbs, verbs and tense.

• I will have used emotive words to explain and describe how it felt to be away on camp or being the leaders in Team Toroa.

Lesson 4: Tracking & Linking our mahi

Learning Intention - to link my mahi to the tracking sheet

Success Criteria - To have link my mahi to the tracking sheet

To do this I need to check that I have...

• put my writing in my Writing folder of my Google drive

• My document is named and dated

• Copy the link from the URL omnibox Ctrl C

• Highlight your name then use Ctrl K (Kangaroo K) to open link box, paste the link Remember the shortcut Ctrl V when pasting.

Click here to view the tracking sheet and link your mahi.

Lesson 3 - Recount

Learning Intention - to write a recount about the experience you are having riding our school bikes on the tracks.

Success Criteria - to write an informative and descriptive recount that paints a picture in the reader's mind about riding the school bikes around the tracks. Writing must include planning, correct tense, use of punctuation and a variety of sentence starters.

• Watch the video below of the some of the Toroa tamariki using the skills and pump track.

• Brainstorm with your writing buddy the order of events and personal highlights from this experience. (Writing Buddy list here)

• Record key information in a brainstorm; who, what, when, where, see, hear, feel

• Sequence your recount using 1, 2 , 3 planning

• Remember to add a Title and Date to your Google Doc or Writing book

Link your Mahi on the tracking sheet.

Fast finishers activity - Post a reflection to your blog about using the school bikes and how we check them to keep ourselves safe before we head off to the tracks. Hint - A- B- C- D & Q!

Extension Activity - Watch the video below of the rain falling in a puddle. Create a list of describing words of what you see. Parts of the video are in slow motion to allow you to see the effects of raindrops hitting the puddle. What happens to the surface tension? Record your ideas in your writing book or in a google doc in your writing folder.

Term 1 - Recounts

Lesson 1: RECAP!

What is a recount?

The purpose of a recount is the retelling or recounting of an event or a experience.

Success Criteria - to write an informative and descriptive recount that paints a picture in the reader's mind. Writing must include planning, correct tense, use of punctuation and a variety of sentence starters.

• Record key information in a brainstorm; who, what, when, where.

• Title, Date, 1, 2, 3 Planning in Google Doc or Writing book.

• To include a variety of language features;

  1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Past tense

                    • Include senses (hear, feel, see, smell and taste)

                    • Descriptive (adjectives-describing words or verbs-doing words)

                    • Paragraphs

                    • Punctuation (full stops, capital letters, comma, speech marks, question mark)

                    • Simile (compare something to something else using like or as)

                    • Full sentences that make sense

                    • WOW or rich words

                    • Sizzling start and clever conclusion

                    • Facts

                    • Alliteration

                    • Onomatopoeia (sound)

                    • Adverbs (ly)

                    • Nouns (names)

                    • Spaces between our kupu