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The City Of Ember

The City of Ember is a dark, poor city. Kids get jobs at 12 years old! A girl named Lina gets the job of a pipe works worker. A boy named Doon got the job Messenger. They traded jobs and now Lina has the job of a Messenger and Doon is a pipe works Worker. They embark on their journey as a messenger and pipe works worker.

This book helps my class with our inferencing and predicting skills. We use the clues in the book to predict what happens in the future and we also inference how the characters feel at times in the story. We predict what will happen in the next chapter.

Multiplication Strategies

Reflection:

I found the place value strategy easy because I'm very good at my place value. I think I need to work on  the compensation strategy because I get confused with adding then subtracting (compensation).

Writing Sentences in a variety of ways

Reflection:
I found this quite hard, because I didn't use much varietys. Talking about it helped me. My next step is to try put down more sentences.

My Daffodil Art

Reflection:

I found this art fun. I am Proud of my work. My next step is to use better and more colours.

My Daffodil Diamante Poem

Reflection:

I have Been Learning to write a Diamante Poem. I found this work easy because my plan helped me come up with words. My next step is to use better words to make it more interesting.

Mathletics Gold Certificate

Volcano Art

Mathletics Certificate

My Speech 2014

Reflection:

I found this piece of work interesting. I learnt some things about bullying. Next time I think I should add more detail to my speech.

My Basic Facts Progress

Cry of the Taniwha Prejudice Example

Reflection

I have been identifying personalities in the book 'Cry of the Taniwha'. This piece of work is about a character named Matt. I found this work easy because I understood the book really well. My next step is to identify more traits about the character to help me understand the story better.

Decimal Place Value Maths

Popplet - Natural Disaster Brainstorm

Reflection:

I have been learning to record my research in my own words. I found summarising the information into my own words easy because my group helped me. I found this helpful for my narrative writing because I learnt a lot of facts about tsunamis. My next step is to use more interesting words to replace boring words.

Pepeha Art

This is my Pepeha art. First we drew a draft in our sketch books, then we drew it out on a  long piece of paper, then we traced it with vivid, next we coloured it in crayon. We needed to blend colours together. After we dyed the work.

Mathletics - Gold Certificate

This is a Gold mathletics award. I got 1329 points. 

Comparing - Fractions

  Reflection:

I am learning to comparing fractions. I felt that this piece of work was easy, because I understand how to do this, when my teacher taught me. I was successful with this because I understood this work. My next step is to compare harder fractions.

My Special Place Writing

Reflection:

 I was learning to use my senses to add detail to my writing so that I can make my writing more interesting for my reader. I found this work easy because I've done interesting writing before. What helped me with being successful with this learning was seeing an example and also doing a plan, because I knew by seeing an example, I had yo make my writing interesting. My next step is to use this skill in my other writing.

Show Don't Tell

Reflection

I was learning how to write about my feelings without saying it directly.  One thing that worked well for me was using the planning sheet and remembering what had happened.  One thing I could do better next time is use more interesting words.  Overall I think this piece of work was challenging.

Understanding a Character's Impact

Reflection

I was learning to understand the characters impact on the story. I felt curious about this learning. The thing that helped me most was was comparing characters because I wrote down lots about Leslie. My next step would be to use there same ideas when I read other books.

Concentric Circles Art

This is my name art. We used warm and cool colours on a background of concentric circles.

Comparing Characters

Reflection:

I was learning to compare characters. I compared Jesse and Leslie from Bridge to Terabithia. I thought this learning was easy because they were both very different to each other. My next step is to learn about who I am more like and what I have in common with these characters.

Make and Break - 20

I was learning that numbers can be made and broken up in a number of different ways.  I found it easy because I thought of lots of ideas for the number.  My next step is to learn more hard ideas so it can challenge me.

Kennings Poem

  

We are learning to write a Kennings poem. I felt good about this piece of work. I felt good because I thought I would struggle but I didn't. My next step is make more sentences. 

Did you ever poem

We were learning how to write a Did you ever poem.  I felt happy about doing this piece of work.  I am proud of my poem because I wrote two poems, but this one is better than the other one. My next step is to use better nouns and verbs.

Welcome to my Blog

Hey there, my name is Trista.  Welcome to my learning blog.  I'm from Elm Park School.  My favourite colour is purple.  My favourite subject is reading.  I like to play sports. I hope I get lots of lovely comments from you.