Week 1- Activity 2- My Hometown

For the second activity I had to think about my hometown and why it is special here is a short description about my hometown.

Auckland is an amazing hometown where many people live. Auckland is special because is the safest hometown for me and you. The wheather seems sunny or not. The places are amazing especially the sky tower. The sky tower is one of the best places you could go. Auckland is great place with lots of places you can go.

Activity 1: The Legend of New Zealand

Today Summer Learning Journey has started which means we have started blogging our challenges. For my first activity I have made a DLO about the top 3 facts in New Zealand we have used the Tourism NZ website to find fun facts about New Zealand.

Meerkats DLO

Today is Book week Mrs Anderson was reading a book called meerkat mail to LS2. It was all about a meerkat named Sunny he lived in the Kalahari desert with his big family. We had to make a DLO about meerkats my DlO was meerkats. I have written 3 facts about meerkats that I didn't know

Alphabets Keys

Ancient Egypt's

Book of world records

Captain Underpants

Diary of a wimpy kid

Eagles

Fancy Nancy

Greedy cat

Harry potter

I Spy

Jack and the beanstalk

Knitwits

Lion in the meadow

Margaret Mahy

Ningas

Olivia

Pirates

Queen's Thief

Roald Dahl

Secret kingdom

Three little pigs

Uglies

Vampire Academy

Where’s Wally

X-Men

Y….

Zac power

Today is book week. LS2 were working on their Blooms / MI matrtix. I was working on the Alphabets because it was one of the easiest to do. We had to write the title of the book or the authors name. The hardest letter for me was Y.

Armistice Day WW1 Collage

Today we were creating a collage of WW1 when the war had ended people were celebrating the soldiers that had survived and came back from the world war people were happy and they were sad because mum had lost there husbands and kids.

Wheel word Week 2

Today in reading the Rotorua group were doing the wheel word for 10 minute. My letter that I had to focus on was 'S'. It was a bit hard because the words that I tried was wrong. And what I found easy was using the hint. I used the hints 54 times.

Formal and Informal Reading

Today for reading we were learning formal and informal language. We described examples of language that would be informal or formal. I learnt that writing a formal letter in language using greeting cards, emails, parent and grandparents and in writing an informal letter is used for text messages, friends, grocery lists and family. On top of the sentence is the formal I used 'I am writing to complain' and 'condition of the playground'. And for the informal I used 'How are you' and 'dead busy' and 'to get ready'.