Ridiculous Reading

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and
wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been
learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced
questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open-ended questions that would help
me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines
coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs
to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next, we got to choose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3
advanced questions about it.  Ours create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I
chose to do it with Renderforest and it was about a book called ‘In His Blood'

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise how important it is to do this when reading to
understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?

Matariki Animation

Hey Bloggers,
Today we made an animation about the Matariki stars. First, we had to watch some videos about the stars and then choose what we wanted to use to make the dlo or a digital learning object. I chose to do it with blake on a slide. Have you ever learnt about the Matariki stars?

Magical Math

Hey Bloggers, today we made an animation on how to work out our math question. First we the question for a friend to answer and once they got it we moved on to either making an animation or an adobe spark. as you can see I chose to make an animation with my friend really. have you ever made a maths question for a friend to answer?

Awesome Koru Art

Hey Bloggers, today we made some koru art. koru art and bone carving is a Maori tradition that has run through 100's of generations in the past. The koru plant is one of the most incredible plants as when the plant dies the smaller ones that hang on is grow and replace the big one. Have you ever made a piece of koru art?

Ironic Comic

Hey Readers, today we made a comic about irony. There are 3 different types of irony. The first one I situational irony, situational irony is when you think something is going to happen but what happened is completely the opposite. The next type of irony is verbal irony, verbal irony is like sarcasm. Verbal irony is when someone says something in a tone that relates to the exact opposite of what they said. The final type of irony is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when you see something that the other person can't see. It's like when people can see a shark coming up behind someone and people are screaming shark but the person can't hear them. have you ever made an irony comic strip?