Week 7
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Using our WITS
Using our WITS
Showing respect to others and myself.
We will achieve this by:
We will achieve this by:
Learning what WITS means.
Learning that ignoring people that are annoying you is the best way to get them to stop.
Showing mana all the time and building my own personal mana.
Using positive words to everyone including myself.
Using put ups and not put downs
Knowing what a tiny, small, medium and big problem are and when I need to get help from an adult.
Listening to all my teachers and teacher aides
Caring about others and helping them to achieve/feel better
Success Indicator:
Success Indicator:
I will have less arguments and feel more settled.
People will think I'm a good person and want to be my friend.
Our future will be brighter every single day.
We will get rewards both as individuals and as a class.
Click here to the Hand it In Spreadsheet for Finish it Friday: Hand it In
Each morning we will get our brains moving by learning and practicing small things. It will make us smarter!
This week's Maths Vocabulary
This week's Maths Vocabulary
Estimate - To find a value that is close enough to the right answer, usually with some thought or calculation involved.
Example: Alex estimated there were 10,000 sunflowers in the field by counting one row then multiplying by the number of rows. Another example would be to using rounding to make the numbers easier and coming up with an estimated answer.
Visualise - to form a picture in your head.
Polygon - a closed shape, two dimensional (ie, NOT a cube!) and made with straight lines. So a circle cannot be a polygon.
Independent Work
Independent Work
If you have done ALL your mahi, then you can do these activities (not when doing "can do" sessions).
TIMES TABLES GAMES ONLINE - complete all the activities (before you practice using the games). Get your certificate for ALL of the times tables. Practice until you can do it with your eyes closed! NO GAMES UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE ALL THE ACTIVITIES FOR ONE OF THE TIMES TABLES.
PROTOTEC - Start at a lower level to get your brains going, then go up to the next level to push yourself. Try to get at least 90% correct, keep on trying!
PRACTICE CHAMPS CARDS - Do one card for the day. Don't do the same card twice. Note: The QR codes do NOT work on these.
MATHS BUDDY - When you have finished your ACTIVE TASKS (must be done first) then try the Weekly Revision.
POLYMATH - Play by yourself! Choose home if the option comes up.
Silent 'e' plus suffix rule
Silent 'e' plus suffix rule
A suffix is a morpheme (part of a word that has a meaning) that is added on the END of a word, like 'ing' or 'ed' or 's'.
When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to a base word ending in a silent e, drop the e.
Example: make+ing = making
When adding a suffix beginning with a consonant to a base word ending in a silent e, keep the silent e.
Example: like+ly = likely
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Spelling Practice
Spelling Practice
Click on the picture to access Spelling Shed.
PRACTICE EVERY DAY.
When you earn enough honeypots, you can change your Avatar on FRIDAYS ONLY, not during the week.
Sizzling Starts
Sizzling Starts
Week 7 - We are focusing on using dialogue in our writing to create a sizzling start.
There are rules with the way we format our dialogue when we write. This helps the reader to understand who is saying what and what is actually being said out loud by your characters.
How to format dialogue in a story
How to format dialogue in a story
1. Quotation marks or inverted commas are used to indicate spoken words. These should be double when indicating direct speech. For example:
“I’m starting to learn how to write dialogue” she said.
2. A dialogue tag is the part of the sentence that indicates how and who says something within the story. In the above example, she said is the dialogue tag. The dialogue tag always stays outside the quotation marks.
If there were a question mark or exclamation point after the dialogue, the dialogue tag would still be in lower case. You treat it just as you would a comma. It would look like this:
“I’m starting to learn how to write dialogue!” she said.
However, when the dialogue tag is before the speech, a comma appears before the first quotation marks. For example:
She said, “I’m starting to learn how to write dialogue!”
3. Separate sentences are used for actions that are before or after the dialogue. It’s important to ensure that what is happening in the narrative is clearly discernible from the speech. The punctuation helps to show this:
Isla entered the room. “Who goes there?” she said.
4. When characters are quoting somebody else in their dialogue, the punctuation changes. This is to ensure that the reader recognises it is not the character's own words. For this, you would use single quotation marks. Have a look at this example:
Luke started to weep. “When you said, ‘This was the worst thing I’ve tasted!’ it hurt my feelings,” he said.
5. New paragraphs are used to show when someone new is speaking.
“Finn, please can you hand me that toy?” Penny said.
“Here, I was finished playing anyway,” Finn replied.
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