deeper questions

Kia ora bloggers,

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 chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with voki and it was about a book called ‘cicadas ’

https://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=16603786&chsm=42dda8317423ade54c3b4da5f0e9c5ca

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realize 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?

Weeks blog post

Hi, bloggers here is this week's blog post.

For maths, we did a worksheet on liner numbers and spatial patterns.

here is my one we marked it after and I got at least half of the questions correct. 

  

   

And here is my inquiry work it is on global issues. I am doing my work on clean drinking water which is a big problem in third world countries https://water.org/.It is a work in progress.  

  

And for literacy, I made a book cover on book creator for my fractured fairy tale, called the three little farmers.

If you could fracture a fairy tale what would you change?

wonderful world issues pictures.

Kia ora this week we looked at some world issues art, there were a couple pieces of art and we had to choose which one we would write a paragraph on. I chose this one, it shows a man not letting a poor child get any water.

I hope you enjoy it.

here is a place to donate to help get clean water in third world countries https://water.org/donate/.

Samoan art

Kia ora bloggers this week we made Samoan art. 

We made one of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa is the Siapo or Tapa.  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time-consuming, because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped, and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth.  

There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan cultures such as nets, coconut leaves, shells, and flowers.

Here is my design. Hope you enjoy it.

The background is brown dye.

irony comic

 Kia ora this week in inquiry we have been learning about irony here is me and my friends comic.
I think I did pretty good.

  The irony is that it looks like I'm doing work but I'm looking at memes instead. it's ironic because its The opposite of what you expect. this type of irony is situational irony.  [:

have you ever made a comic strip? ]

Tremendous three little pigs.

Kia ora bloggers today for literacy we have been working out the main points of a story. The points are the climax, rising action, background, falling action, and resolution. We did it on rohal dahls revolting rhymes book where he changes up the fairy tale. The fairy tale we chose was the three little pigs. What we had to do was make a castle and put our writing around it. Here is my on  hope you enjoy. [: