Lockdown Acrostic Poem

During week 1 of the lockdown, room 6 wrote an acrostic poem about being in Lockdown to share what we are going through.

First, we made sure we understood what an acrostic poem is. Most of us knew what an acrostic poem was, we just didn’t know what it was called.

We started a new google drawing and wrote the name Lockdown going downwards using WordArt.

Next, we inserted text boxes to write the information for our poem.

After that, some of us added images that suited the topic, and some of us made changes to our fonts and formatting.

We found it easy to write a sentence that started with the letter in the acrostic.

We found it hard to think of relevant adjectives for my poem.

We really enjoyed making connections to my personal life and how I am experiencing being in lockdown.

Next time we need to try adding adjectives and verbs in my writing to make it more interesting for my reader.

Chris' poem.

Term 2 Week 1 Holiday Recount

This week we have been practicing our recount writing. 

We started off with Whaea Debb recounting something she did on her holiday in Queenstown. We discussed the orientation of a recount, having the 5 W's. We then worked on organising our ideas into paragraphs by sequencing the events. We followed this by adding a conclusion about how we felt. Then we reread the writing and worked on adding language features such as verbs, adverbs, and adjectives to make the writing more interesting for our reader.

Here are some of our recounts.

Clickety-Clack Cicada

We have been learning about language features during Literacy. The way we have been doing this is by reading and understanding poems. 

Some of the features we identified in the poems are metaphors, verbs, onomatopoeia, and adjectives. 

This week we read Clickety-Clack Cicada by Jill Brasell.

We found it easy to identify some of the language features such as metaphor, onomatopoeia, and verbs.

We found it hard to locate the nouns because it is an area we think we need to work on more.

We really enjoyed learning about metaphors because they make the story more interesting and help to create an image in our mind about what the author is trying to tell us.

Next time we need to work on discussing the poem more and sharing our ideas.

The Loaves

                 

This week for Literacy we have been learning about metaphors. A metaphor compares two different things.
We are learning about this language feature to help us become better writers.
In this poem, the author uses the language feature of metaphors to compare bread to clouds, and the sky to an oven.

We are learning about writing Narratives.

The purpose of a narrative is to entertain your reader. 

What we already know is a Narrative has to have an Orientation. The Orientation is the setting that has the When, Where, and Who.

It also needs a complication or problem. Which means it needs the Resolution to solve the problem.

We talked with a buddy and came up with ideas for characters, problems, and solutions.

Here is one of our short narratives.

One day, mother horse took her ponies to the forest to look for berries. 

Mother horse saw a big tiger and she ran away from her ponies. 

Mother horse started limping, her leg looked sore. 

The tiger saw the horse but did not see the ponies. 

The tiger ran after the mother horse.

Mother horse's leg was not sore so she kicked the tiger and galloped away.

Welcome to room 6's blog for 2021

Welcome to Room 6's blog for 2021. It is day 3 of our school year and room 6 has been learning a little bit about each other and our teachers. We have been building relationships and friendships and learning how to do things in room 6. 

The first thing we did was be introduced to our class learning site. We found it was similar to our previous sites but different in other ways too.

Next, we constructed our class contract. We agreed on what should be in the contract and that we should try our hardest to not break the contract.

We also updated our blog profiles making sure we had thought about and written down our learning goals for the year.