Two word sentence DLO

For writing we have been looking at simple, compound and complex sentences. We learnt that simple sentences are mainly two words, which contain a subject and a verb. We had to write down three examples of a simple compound and complex sentence.

Capitalisation DLO

 

In my writing we had to complete a task on capitalisation. I found this task very easy. I also enjoyed this activity. One thing I found hard this activity was if the places mention was relevant enough to be capital letters. 

Idiom Writing Challenge

For writing we have been writing examples of idiom. Idiom is a figurative speech. It is  another way to use exaggeration. Our task was write down eight examples of idiom and write what it actually means. We then needed to choose one of our examples and illustrate them. 

Hyperbole

My dad had just bought a new car. My dad told me he was going for a ride in 10 minutes and I could go with him. 10 minutes lasted 1 billion hours. We finally got in the car. I was so happy I could run around the whole world countless times. When my dad finally started driving, it felt like the car was going at the speed of light. When I got out it felt like I went around the world so fast. The only thing that I didn’t like about the car was how it was an oven inside.

In writing we have been including as many hyperbole as we can in our story. For this task we had to write a paragraph that consists of five hyperbole. After we had done that we needed to chose one hyperbole from our story and illustrate it.

Hyperbole

My dad had just bought a new car. My dad told me he was going for a ride in 10 minutes and I could go with him. 10 minutes lasted 1 billion hours. We finally got in the car. I was so happy I could run around the whole world countless times. When my dad finally started driving, it felt like the car was going at the speed of light. When I got out it felt like I went around the world so fast. The only thing that I didn’t like about the car was how it was an oven inside.

This afternoon, for writing I had to write a paragraph containing 5 hyperbole's. I have highlighted my hyperbole's. After we had done that we had to illustrate one of our hyperbole's, that was in our narrative.

Metaphor - DLO

This morning for writing we were finding and matching the correct sentences. A metaphor is like a simile but it doesn't use as or like. I really enjoyed this activity because it challenged me by looking really hard to find the metaphor in the sentences.

As Cold As Ice - Simile Illustration DLO

This is my illustration of a simile. We first had to match up the correct similes. We then had to create a DLO with all the answers to the similes. After that we had to choose one simile and illustrate it.The simile I have chosen is, as cold as as ice. Here is the link to other similes.

Language Features Similie

For writing we had to fill in the blanks of similies. E.G He's as busy as a ____. We the had to choose one of the similes and illustrate it. I chose She's as quick as a Bunny. I used photos showing quickness. I used arrows to point at the Bunny showing that the bunny is fast. Here are some examples of similies: 

I am as busy as a Bee 

It’s as slippery as an Eel 

She’s as quick as a Fox 

He’s as blind as a Bat 

She’s as wise as an Owl 

She’s as happy as a Lark 

He’s as gentle as a Lamb 

He’s as slow as a Snail 

He’s as stubborn as a Mule 

He’s as quiet as a Mouse 

He’s as strong as an Ox 

I’m as sick as a Dog

Procedural Text

For writing our Ms Kirkpatrick's group did a procedural text. We had to paper dart or plane. We needed to have the structure of a procedural text, one of them was the rule of three. A procedural text is a how to tutorial just with more information, like a diagrams and captions. A procedural text must have interesting verbs in the beginning of each step. I really enjoyed making a procedural text.

Procedural Text

This is my DLO on procedural text. First we had to do it on paper dart. After that we could choose anything we wanted to. I decided to do how to play handball, because I think it's a fun game. I hope this procedural was helpful to you.

Hyperbole

For writing the whole class worked on hyperbole's. Hyperbole's is a sentence that has exaggeration. E.G I have a million things to do. We all had two sheets. The first sheet was highlight the hyperbole's pink and the non hyperbole's blue. I only one wrong. The second sheet was a little harder, we had to fill in the lines. E.G I am so ______ I could eat a _____. The answer to that would be hungry and horse. We also had to highlight the similes blue. The last part we had to do was write a paragraph with as much hyperbole's we could write. this is my paragraph

Ben was at home waiting for his parents to come back from shopping. “Grandma, Mum and Dad are taking one billion years to go shopping” Ben said. “Just wait patiently Ben” Grandma replied. For time to go faster Ben went on his ipad and played his games. He had  been using his finger so much, his fingers would lose one billion KG’s. Ben remembered he had homework. Ben finished his homework and said to his grandma “I finally finished my homework, I took forever. Ben looked out the wind and saw a very good looking car, it looked like it would cost over one quintillion dollars. He realised that it was his parent’s new car. Ben’s Dad let Ben go in the car and see how fast it can go. Ben said to his dad it went so fast that it went faster than the speed of light and, we would have time traveled if, we went any faster.

Narrative - Writing

LS2 have been practising to write really good narratives. I was working with Harlem and we had to follow a prompt. We had to choose three pictures from a presentation. These pictures was illustrated by Harris Burdick. We had to write three story's for each picture. We were practising this to revisit our narrative. Another reason we did this was to improve in our narrative and write really good narratives.  

Pourquoi writing: How tattos came to Tonga

How tattoos came to Tonga

Many hundreds of years ago across the seven seas there lived a young boy named Magoni in a village with three friends of his. Their names were Carva, Toni and Sione. Magoni and his friends met at the beach of Toloa.

“What should we do? Magoni asked.

“I Don’t know, maybe explore the forest” Sione replied.

“Yeah we should we’ve only been there two time, and we didn’t go that far in” Toni said. Everybody agreed to that.

As they were about to enter the forest, they started getting the chills. After five minutes in they started hearing sounds, Magoni even started sweating a little.

“We’ve never been this far in” Carva whispered to his friends. As they kept walking they saw weird patterns on the trees almost perfectly engraved. They saw The name Tonga on one of the trees.

“Guys this is getting creepy, let’s just go back to the village” said Sione.

They all agreed. As soon as the turned away the heard a bird chirping. They all sprinted out the forest. The chirping was getting closer, and Magoni’s adrenaline was pumping. They all made it out. They went back to the beach. They discussed the situation.

“We should never go in there again” said Toni.

Magoni replied with “I think we should go back, those patterns on the tree were interesting” “NO!!, that was way to creepy” shouted Toni.

“Fine I’ll go by myself” replied Magoni.

It was dinner Magoni’s dad got out the mat and put it on the living room floor. Magoni was looking at the interesting shapes and patterns on the mat. There was one that Magoni really liked. He drew that one on a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. It was now morning.

Magoni went to the forest as he walked in he felt scared and anxious. He kept going in. He finally made it to the engraved trees. He kept walking. “I am going to admit it is a lot scarier without my friends” Magoni whispered to himself. He started hearing the bird chirping. He got really close to the bird and saw the bird the engraving the tree with his beak. It was strange because he has never seen a bird like this, it had a really long beak and dark black eyes. His beak was steaming out with smoke. Magoni Said to himself “This must be why the trees are engraved” He asked the bird if he could get his forearm engraved.

“Stupid me, now I am talking to a bird, how can I get more stupid than this” Magoni said to himself. Magoni’s paper came out of his pocket and he didn’t realize.

The mysterious bird flew to the sky so high that Magoni couldn’t see him. The Bird came back flying down after a couple seconds but, this time his beak with a little red steaming with more smoke. The bird started slowing down, it then landed on Magoni’s shoulder. It started engraving his forearm. He was looking closely at the pattern on the paper on the ground. “AHHHHHHHHHHHH stop it, it burns make it stop please, it feels like I am getting burnt with the devil's fire AHHHH!” Magoni screamed. Blood started shooting out that’s when Magoni past out.

“Woah” Magoni said. He was lying down on weaved leaves wondering where he was. The mysterious bird was right next to him.

“AHHHH!” Magoni screamed

“Get away from me” Magoni said. The bird flew away in the high top trees. Magoni stood up and ran. He ran as fast as he could and finally he made it out. When he arrived home he realized the pattern that he drew on paper, on his forearm. “Time for dinner Magoni come to the living room” Magoni’s Mum said. He went to his parents and showed them the engravement on his arm. His parent’s were shocked. “How did you get this it looks amazing” Magoni’s dad said.

“This mysterious bird came to me and engraved it on my forearm with his beak, his beak was steaming with smoke and it looked like there was fire on his beak” Magoni explained

“I want one of it on my back” his dad said

“Ok if you want but it is very painful” Magoni said.

Three months later. Nearly everyone had their body engraved. They were all thanking Magoni. His friends got it aswell. An ancestor of Magoni’s came to him and asked “What do you want to call that engraving”
“I will call it tatuato” Magoni Replied

Last week was Tongoan Language week we had to write a Pourquoi story (Myths and Legends story). I did a story about how tattos came to Tonga. We first had to choose a topic, then plan the writing. We had to write what the characters 5 senses, E.G Hear: he could hear echoes in the forest. After we had planned our story, we had to start writing our story. We then had to find a critical friend to use DRAFT to edit our writing.

Searching for the different language features

Today we were searching for the different descriptive language features and  we had to highlight it, we also had to write beside it what language feature it is. My partner was Cyrus we found a lot of different language features. We took turns on highlighting and writing. The language features we were looking for were nouns, adverbs, adjectives, metaphors, similes and verbs. All together we found 42 descriptive language features. The most language feature we found were nouns and verbs.

Descriptive Language Features

So we are learning about descriptive language features. We had to give some example to Ms Naicker first. We had to make a presentation or google drawing and write the different descriptive language features. We also had to include the definition and some examples. 

Story Starters

Today for writing we had to do story starters. We had to click the spin button and it would choose a random story. If we wanted to spin one wheel at a time there would be a button underneath it. If you put the sound on it would a spinning sound. After we had chosen the story we got to choose what format we would like to write one I chose notebook. My story was long so I did two pages. My story was write a story about a young movie star who lands on a faraway planet.

Bigfoot information report

Bigfoot

Is bigfoot real? Some people believe Bigfoot (Sasquatch) are real some do not. This will include where people think they’ve been found, where people hear noises and see footprints, people’s sightings and proof sasquatches are real. At the end of this information report you might have changed your mind.  

People have claimed that they have seen a big hairy Bipedal animal. People now call them Bigfoot or a sasquatch. People have been posting videos on Bigfoot, some have taken photos of them. One person has said he has killed a bigfoot. They have taken DNA tests on the dead Bigfoot, and it seems to be real. I think it is real because of the videos and photographs.

Most people have found them in the Pacific Northwest, Hills of West Virginia, Northern California, United States in Washington, Canada, Columbia, Oregon and most of all North America. They are usually found in forests. They can also be found in the middle of nowhere. Some people find them on very grassy hills.

People have heard bigfoot from far away. Some people decide to follow that sound, some of them never return. Many people have heard bigfoot screaming and growling from miles away. Bigfoot footprints are huge. They leave a path with their footprints. The usual size of bigfoot’s foot is 15.6 for it’s length for the width is 7. 2 inches. Bigfoot’s foot is said to be 4 to 27 inches in length and 3 to 13.5 inches wide.

Is bigfoot real? At the end of this information report you may have changed your mind. This has included their footprint, noises, people’s sightings, where they are found and proof it’s real . Some people believe Bigfoot (Sasquatch) are real some do not.

This is my information report on bigfoot. First we were learning about cnflicting information. After that we had to choose a topic. I chose bigfoot. I had to write only one page.

Language features and Structure

This is my presentation on Language features and structure. This is a presentation what language features and structure is. I did this because I wanted to learn the new language features and structure, it was also because we could find the different language features. 

Punctuation DLO

This is my DLO on punctuation. We first had to do it as a class together and find an partner, Mrs Anderson would have a sentence on the TV and we couldn't change the words, we could only change the punctuation. I had to write why it is important to use full stops and commas. After I had done that I had to write examples and tell the differences. I did this because I wanted to learn how to use punctuation correctly.

Punctuation Tweets

This is a slideshow that has Mrs Anderson tweeting, but she needs help because her punctuation is incorrect. I worked on it with John, Evelyn, Tiare and Gozan. We had to work together and correct her tweets. I enjoyed doing this because it helps us learn how to use punctuation properly and it shows why it is important to use punctuation.