Writing Sample term 2, 2020

Last week we did a writing sample. we had 15 minutes to plan, 30 to write, and 15 to recraft.

 Choose to write mine on a experience that i had at my year six cross  country.

hear is my writing sample.

Year six cross country

The day is finally here. You have been waiting and preparing all year for this moment. Pacing back and forward, you can’t sit still, this is because of all the nerves building in your stomach. Your race is nearing to start and the thoughts on how you are going to do are clouding your mind.

Trying to remember your stretches and drills, you hear the chatter of your fellow classmates and the current race in action. As you are called to the starting line, your gut tenses. The thought of holding your reputation puts pounds of pressure on your shoulders. All you want to do is get the race over and done with, but watching the last of the year six boys hobble past to the finish line makes your patience wear thin. Taking deep breaths to keep calm is all you can do as your ambition to win grows bigger and bigger by the second. Looking over your shoulder you see a line of determined faces ready to race. Butterflies return to your stomach as you try not to get wounded up. The thought of upping your six year reputation to seven is what keeps your determination going.

Suddenly, the crowd noise dims and all your attention is on the next three laps of Waitiata park. To your right, you hear the starter quieting the spectators, then you hear the calls…

“On your marks”….

                        “Get set”…

                                     BANG! The stater block goes and you are off!

this is my marking.

Blue=Miss Willocks score. Purple= my Next Learning Step.

Yellow= My Pick For Planning and Recrafting

Deep Sea Diorama

This week our task to start off with was making our very own diorama.

Lately we have been reading a novel as a class called "Dark Life" by Kat Falls, which is about people living under the sea and their lifestyle. On monday and tuesday we were set to read chapter  2 and 3. After that as partners or solos we needed to pick a part from the book with lots of description on the scene. Once we picked the scene we replicated it into a diorama. But before we started creating it, we planned what we wanted it to look like.

 

I mostly enjoyed painting our box and seeing it come together. But it did get difficult and a bit fiddly having two pair of hands working in a small confined box.

Overall I am proud of the work and final result that me and my partner produced. 

 

Geo City! Week 8

The task last week that we had to do was our own Geocities.

When doing this task, we were required to cover a 400cm2 grid with 3d shaped buildings and draw on roads and settings. During this, we learned about different shapes and their propoties. 

To start off the project, we filled out a booklet which involved most of the shapes we had to create as well as we drew a birds eye view of the school. Next we had to decide what square we were going to be doing (Aka: suburb, city hall, business district.) I had a suburb. With your section you also received certain shapes that you needed to incorporate into it.

I really enjoyed making different shapes and actually seeing the shapes finished on the paper with detail and looking like actual buildings. I was most proud of making complex shapes like rhombus and trapezoid.

Sadly, I did not finish because I was helping every one else because I new how to make the boxes and that prevented me from completing my own city.

  

But I am very happy with the buildings I got on the board.

week 7 term 2.

My first week back. 

I enjoyed seeing my friends again and getting back into action. we had a little briefing on the restrictions but not much. It was basically like coming back after a longer school holiday. 

I was nervous getting back but it was pretty easy. The teachers were pretty onto it, which helped a lot.

All the tasks that had we last week were very similar to what we did in level 4 and 3, at home, except we did some things differently and new task were added, like blogs. 

I did complete the majority of them. But, being honest, I did get a little bit behind because I was a bit unorganised.

One of the task that I enjoyed last week was one that was introduced and that was the typing club, but I also liked doing my prime, as usual. On the other hand, I did get  flustered with my Mathletics an keeping up with my Write That Essay tasks, that was all though.

Some of the blockers that interrupted my learning last week were catching up with my friends because I had so much to talk about!  That did stop me from completing my prior knowledge task, because every time I sat down to do it I ended up doing something else.  So in coming weeks I am going to attack my learning by doing one task at a time.

One thing that I am going to share is  my prime. I was learning division of whole numbers by fractions, and problem solving of fractions.   

Nau mai, haere mai!