E-Portfolio Writing: Giant swing

Describe It - Camp Experiences

Learning Objectives:

Level 3

• Select, form, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
• Use language features appropriately, showing a developing understanding of their effects.
• Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures.
• Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

Level 4.

• Select, develop, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
• Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.
• Organise texts. Using a range of appropriate structures.
• Show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

Learning goals:

• To ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ the reader by painting a picture with words.
• A variety of sentence starters
• A variety of sentence lengths
• Edit and rework
• Effective peer checking and feedback

The children can see the dark blue harness while they walk to the swing.You can hear their hearts pounding while as someone saw the person before them climb down the ladder.In the uncomfortable harness the child walked over to the swing.The terrified student climbed up the ladder and the instructor clips the student in.As the instructor pulls the ladder away the shaky student says Level 3.

Slowly but gradually the terrified student gets higher.The wind is colder the higher the shaky body gets.The student feels like he's defining physics as the child starts to get a bit high for his comfort.It felt as if the harness was not there for the child.You can see the fear on the childs face as the rope stops pulling so he stops getting higher.

All you can hear is a countdown filling the empty sounding air.Then a scream.The student has been released and is swinging from side to side.As the swings got smaller the shaky body got calmer and the student came down.

Student Reflection:
In my writing one of my goals is to use different sentence beginnings and lengths.
I did show this goal here because I had lots of different sentence starters and used different sentence types to help with length.

In my writing one of my goals is to use different sentence types-simple, compound and complex.
I did show this goal here because I used different sentence types in order to help with lengths.

My next step is to support main ideas with details that fit.

Teacher Comment: Troy, this piece of writing really made me smile. I love how you've crafted it to hook the reader from the very start. You've written a moment in time, describing all the senses. You've used a variety of sentence types. Your next step is to use commas in your complex sentences to separate clauses (ideas).

Maths Goal: Add and Subtract Integers

GOAL:Add and subtract integers. Eg 6.4-7.2=-0.6 L4

Medal: I think I did well with positive numbers
Medal: I think I did well with the addition
Backpack:I think I need to work on my subtraction

Bike Safety Blog Post T4 2018

What are the three things that Constable Ken Taught about where we can ride our bikes?
(think - place and time)

1. skate park.

2.bike track.

3.left side of the road 1/2 a meter away from the curb.

Name three important things Constable Ken taught us about how to ride our bikes? (think - eyes and head)

1. hand up means stop.

2. left hand up means turning left.

3. right hand up means turning right.

Describe the three bike signals that Constable Ken taught us.

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What did you enjoy the most about your Cycle Safe lesson? Why?

Maths, E-portfolio Sample, Term 4 2018

Maths, E-portfolio Sample

1. Use two different strategies to solve the following problem:

To get a ‘Great Achievement” award, Rob needs to swim 94 lengths of the swimming pool. If he has already swum 69 lengths, how many more lengths of the swimming pool does he need to swim to get his award?

Strategy One is called place value. 94-60=34                                               Answer: 25

                                               34-9=25
                                              

Strategy Two is called tidey number. 69 up to 70     94-70=24+1=25        Answer:25

                                                   
                                             
                                                    

The KNOWLEDGE I needed to solve this problem included multiplucation and rounding.

2. Use two different strategies to solve the following problem:

A netball team enters a tournament. The tournament costs $16 per person. If there are 9 people in the team, how much will the team pay in total?

Strategy One is called place value. 10x9=90 9x6=54 54+90=144            Answer: 144

Strategy Two is called tidy number. 16 up to 20 20x9=180 9x4= 36-180=144           Answer: 144

The KNOWLEDGE I needed to solve this problem included rounding and multiplication.

3. Use two different strategies to solve the following problem:

Ye Lin is helping clean up her local beach. She and her classmates collect 24 bags of rubbish in total. 8 of the bags are filled with only plastic. What fraction of the total number of filled bags is this?

Strategy One is called multiplication 8x3=24           Answer: 1/3

Strategy Two is called division 24÷ 8=3                    Answer: 1/3

The KNOWLEDGE I needed to solve this problem included multiplication and division. Fractions into hole numbers.

Music - E-portfolio Sample - Term 4 2018

Music - E-portfolio Sample - Term 4 2018

This term we have been learning how to play some new rhythms on our bucket drums.

We learnt to play the down beat where we play on each beat, it looks like this:

Then we learnt to play the front beat where we only play on beats 1 and 3, it looks like this:

We also learnt to play the back beat where we only play on beats 2 and 4, it looks like this:

After we had practiced the beats we learnt to play along with some songs.

What do you think is the most important thing to do so that you stay in time when you are playing on the
bucket drums? I think you need to listen to the beat and play along

Which song do you think would be good to play the bucket drums to and why? Shotgun because it has a good beat and is a good song.

What could you do to improve your bucket drumming in the future?

I need to play to the beat and work out the time between each drum.

Maori - E-portfolio sample Term 4 2018

Māori - E-portfolio sample Ngā hākari (Celebrations) Term 4 2018

Share your Term four classroom whakatauki (both in English and Maori) He aroha whakato, he aroha puta mai. if kindness is sown then kindness u shall receive

Vocabulary: List 8 new words you have learnt this term connected to “Ngā hākari (Celebrations)” eg May = Mei

1. Ra whanau=Birthday

2. Pi=toy

3. Keke=cake

4. Teti pea=teddy bear

5. Rare=lolly

6. Waea parūnu=balloons

7. Waea pukoro=phone

8. Perepere=game

Kei hea to ra whanau? (answer in Māori)  

Ko taku ra whanau i te rua tekau ma iwa o Here-turi-kōkā.

He aha taau e hiahia ana mo to ra whanau? (answer in Māori)

E hiahia ana ahua ke etahi keke.

Writing, E-portfolio Sample, Term 4 2018

Writing, E-portfolio Sample- Reviews

     

• Why is it important to plan before you write?It is important to plan before you write so your writing is not just made up as you go along.Planning is also good for keeping ideas that you like.

• What is the purpose of a topic sentence? The topic sentence is good for helping the reader understand what the paragraph will be about.The topic sentence is supposed to draw the reader in.

What is your favourite part of your review?Why?My favourite part of my review is the fact that he didn't win the race.I like this because it makes it more interesting for the reader.

What are at least three things a review can have?

1.Date

2. Paragraphs

3. Tittle

4. Topic sentence