Our Text Analysis on how the author has created mood and atmosphere by using a variety of language features

We are learning to identify how authors use language features to create mood and atmosphere through their writing in their texts (stories, videos etc.) Here are some examples of what we have done over the past week. If you have any questions for us then please visit our individual blogs and leave us a comment with some feedback and your questions. We would love to connect with you. Thank you.

Science Inquiry on Planet Earth and Beyond

This week in Room 9 we have started our new inquiry on Science and it's called "Planet Earth and Beyond". We will explore and learn some cool and fascinating facts about our very own planet Earth and other planets and things surrounding the outer space. Some photos of our's showing what we have been up to today.

 

Solving Word Problems Collaboratively

 

In Maths we have been solving word problems working collaboratively (in a group with our classmates). We have been learning to understand the word problem first and figure out what the question/problem is asking us to do and then work it out using a strategy that most of us want to use in our group and talk about why we used this strategy. 

These are the videos we have watched to help us understand how we can solve word problems and the strategies we can use to solve word problems. Hope you find these videos as helpful and informational as we found them. 

  Look at how we have gone about solving word problems since last week.  

 If you would like to view more of these then please visit our individual blogs. Thank you.

Creating Mood and Atmosphere in Writing

 

We are learning to notice or recognise how authors create mood and atmposhere. We will be exploring a variety of texts in the next few weeks and look at how authors use language to create mood and atmposhere in their writing.

Our goal is to be able to create mood and atmposhere in our own writing. Here is a warm up writing task we have been doing this week. If you have any questions then please let us know in the comments section. Thank you.  

   

     

Maker-Y with Nane from Kootuitui Ki Papakura

 

We are really fortunate to have Nane from Kootuitui Ki Papakura come to our class every Tuesday and work with us on coding and robotics. Today we learnt that when we are creating it is important to remember that there is no right or wrong and the idea is to keep trying and if we make a mistake then we just debug and keep working on creating something until we get there.

 

Speech Competition Winners and Participants

On Thursday 24th September we held the senior school speech competion. Each class in the senior school had 3 participants to present their speech in the finals. 

Our topis for the speech competition was "Heroes are ordinary people". All students wrote persuasively to present their ideas, opinions and statements in their speech. All 3 classes in the senior school had their own speech competition in their individual classes first and the teachers selected 3 students from each class to present their speech in the finals. 

Here are our participants and winners. We are so proud of these students and all the students in the senior school for having the courage to present their speeches with enthusiasm. All students did an amazing job. 

Our School Values

We have been creating DLO's (Digital learning objects) to share what our school values mean to us with a wider audience (As many people as we can share it with). We have created our videos using Powtoon.