Skye Tigers on the Prowl

WALT: picture what words in a text are saying

Skye How the Turtle Got its Shell!

Skye Tautai

This week we have been learning about how to respect one another and to not be bully's. Yesterday as a group we were talking about this text and as well as reading the story as a group. Please feel free to leave a positive comment.

Walt : make inferences about a text

Book Review!

WALT: condense key ideas and rephrase in my own words!

 

Story:Pinata Day
By: Jill MacGregor
Story Review by: Skye




A Pinata is made of card boxes, balloons, cartons. They are used for special occasion. They make Pinatas for Birthdays and special occasions. All ages will enjoy smashing the Pinata. Inside a pinata is sweets, Chocolates. I agree that people use Pinatas for different occasions. Making a Pinata is hard because you have to wait a few days to decorate the pinata because of the wet glue.

Skye Tivaevae

WALT: paraphrase ideas in a text

What kind of tivaevae would you like to see?

Information web!

WALT: Find and summarise key information

Skye Lights! Camera! Action!

WALT: Find and summarise key information

Skye and Saane Drought

WALT: Summarise the main ideas from a text

Skye Animals at War

WALT: make inferences to build a deeper understanding of a text.

Sexist

Today we have been writing about sexist. And what does it mean.

Justifying an argument

Justifying an argument

WALT: justify our ideas using conjunctions

Author A:

I strongly believe that students need school uniforms.
Students need school uniforms because they show people what school they go to.

Author B:
All of the students look tidy because they are in the same school and it’s like free advertising
because when people see the uniform they think of the school. So yeah, school uniforms are good.

Author B:

I firmly believe that school uniforms should be banned. School uniforms are costly and
they put a lot of pressure on the student’s caregivers.
Children need new school uniforms every time they grow and change schools.
With some items of clothing costing a hundred dollars or more, the cost involved
in buying a new school uniform is huge! It is particularly difficult for families with
two or more students, as it is hard enough to feed a large family let alone buy an expensive
school uniform every year for each child. School uniforms should be banned for the benefit
of parents everywhere!

Which argument do you think is stronger? Author B: because this has given us more information.

aWhat vocabulary do the authors use that you would like to steal? Pressure , involve , difficult ,
and enough.

What did you like about the paragraphs?I loved that they used lots of information
about why we don’t did uniform and why we need uniform

What do you think the authors could improve on?They could put pictures up next
to the writing .I think that Author A could improve their writing and use more information.

Highlight the signposts (topic sentences) the authors use in purple.

I strongly believe that students need school uniforms. Students need school
uniforms because they show people what school they go to.

Highlight the conjunctions or connecting words (for, because, and, but, as…)
that the authors use in blue.

Skye Literacy activity Thursday

Walt: Use and explain several strategies for finding and learning the meaning of unknown words

Walt: Find specific information in a non fiction text

Skye Zapped Comprehension

Bus stop bother

Toku Pepeha

The tree of life

Walt: make connections across multiple texts

Julieanna and Skye Native Birds Poster, Week 9

NZ Native BirdsWalt: make connections across multiple texts

How to Recycle

Year s&6 camp

Skye doing your bit

Walt: make connections across multiple texts
Today we are learning about recycling.