A few days ago LS2 did a servey on why we don’t come to school sometimes and used the data we got from it to create a bar graph that shows all of the reasons and amount of students that chose the reason and created a DLO explaining it. I really liked this task because it was really cool and fun to learn about and create.
Why Maungarei sleeps – (A Pourquoi story): by Unique
Today in LS2 we learnt about pourquoi storys and what the purpose a Pourquoi story serves. We were given the topic of “Why Maungarei sleeps” and create a Pourquoi story explaining why by using a type of story that is also known as myths or legends which is what a Pourquoi story is. We filled out framework to help us write our Pourquoi storys and then put it all together to get the finished product. This is my story below.
Many generations ago when dinosaurs left footprints on the earth, there lived joyful and gorgeous mountain warriors who kept the land safe from bad spirits like Whiro-te-tipua the god of evil, darkness and death. Until this one maunga, named Maungarei, known amongst the other maunga as Maungarei the mighty mountain warrior, let her own anger and rage take over her emotions. She let out an almighty roar every time she fought with the other maunga. This made them not only fear her, but also want to stay away from her.
It was another day, after Maungarei finished her little angry fit she realised that she had become lonely.
“Guys? Where are you all going?”she asked, confused.
“You’re really scary Maungarei so we don’t want to be with you anymore,”admitted the bravest of the other maunga.
“Wait! Don’t leave me alone! I don’t like being by myself. I thought we were friends, I promise I won’t be mean anymore!”she exclaimed, afraid that they were leaving her.
“Sorry Maungarei, we just don’t like you anymore. Haere ra!” a maunga waved her on as they all began to leave. Each one ignoring her pleas and never looking back.
Maungarei watched all the other maunga of Tāmaki Makaurau drift into the distance. She was overcome with guilt and despair. Maungarei looked around hoping this was all a joke and they would come back to her, since her biggest fear was being by herself. A sense of hopelessness washed over her. She knew there was nothing she could do that could stop the distance getting wider. Defeated, she finally laid down and her volatile volcanic core soon subsided forcing her into the long rest we see her taking today.
I created this photo using the generative AI feature on Adobe express. I experimented with many prompts and chose this one because I think it suits my story the best and I also like it the most out of all of the other recommendations. I think this is a very cool feature to use on Adobe since it is very helpful for people who need some help with creating images or even templates!
Diary WW1: Darius
LI – To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there.
On the first week of term two Mrs Anderson’s group for reading have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915, during WW1. Some NZ soldiers were wounded or killed in action.
We looked at some videos of life in the trenches, and explored the Walking with ANZACs site and had a look at Hami Grace’s diary. Doing this helped us put our own diary together.
Then we used Google Vids to record our diary that we wrote before.
I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to share my ideas and learn more about the war. And something U found interesting was how I got the chance to have a look at Hami Grace’s diary.
Our Poppy Research: Donyal
Last Week Miss’s F reading group learned about poppys. We researched about poppys and we had to go in groups for this research. We had a piece of newsprint papper and had to write down the ideas that were gonna research about. When we finished we made a Google Sildes telling us about Poppys. We had a discussion witch slide we are going present, presented the last slide. Then when we finished, we talk about feedback, we were talking about, to at the audience and to talk more louder.
Reading About Volcanos: Vili
Last week for our Reading task was to create a slide show about volcanso and what we know about volcanos. The thing that I loved about the task was we could talk to each other and ask for some good ideas for the slide show.
3 facts about Mount Matavanu: Marwan
LI: To Analyse and Evaluate the Impact of the Volcanic Eruption on the People and the Cities
This week we were tasked from our teachers to make a google video about facts 3 about Mount Matavanu.
First we were given a google doc about living on a lava flow. We skimmed and scanned through the story .
Then in separate groups we answered the following questions using information from the text and commenting on the questions to answer them.
Lastly we made a google video for three facts about Mount Matavanu and recorded our voices on a script to make the final project.