Jonah.

  

 WALT use studies of the bible to gain an understanding that we all need  God's help, mercy, love, and we are all called to forgive others.

 

The Bible records many stories about "forgiving". The Lord Jesus also taught us this: when we forgive men when they sin against us, our heavenly father will also forgive us. However, it's hard to forgive from our hearts. With God’s help, you can forgive. 

 

Your assignment is to research "forgiving", in the bible and share what you learned. You will need to use reference material such as biblegateway.com or search engines to locate stories of forgiveness in the Bible.

 

Begin by brainstorming possible topics and bible references

 

Create your own framework to record bible references you will read, key events within it, and your thoughts. In week 8 you will use this to write what you learned from the bible about forgiveness. 

How did I go ⚫   ✅    ✅✅ ✅✅✅	My self-assessment
I can use reference material to locate starting points (bible stories) relevant to forgiveness	✅✅✅
I can create a framework to record my key ideas and notes	✅✅ I didn't do one about this topic though.
I can read the bible independently	✅✅✅
I can use my notes to write about what I learned about forgiveness	✅✅
Teacher comment

Fraction Action

 

Ki-o-Rahi reflection 2022

Yesterday, our class went to a ki-o-rahi tournament.

It was fun but tiring. 

It was my first time going to a tournament.

Here is my reflection on it.

Figurative Language

 This term, in our literacy, we have been learning about figurative language.
When we were doing this, we were writing stories to help us understand it more.

For all of us to understand it very well, we all did a figurative language quiz.
Here is the quiz and my answers.

 

I find Idioms hard because I don't know much about them.
As for the rest, I find them easy.

Water Questions

Our topic is water and science. During this term, we were reading and researching about rivers; how they work, what's wrong with them, and other things like groundwater.

We use the sub-headings, headings, pictures, diagrams, graphs, lead sentences, and keywords to help us read the text.

We read three texts about water and rivers. We used information and answered questions our teacher has set for us.

Here are the slides that contain my answer to the questions. 

 Last week we went on a trip to the Waitangi River to measure the velocity.

Here is my graph on it

This graph shows that the velocity is  20.21 seconds. 

Let me show you my thinking:

16+18+21+18+17=90

.63+.10+.03+.60+85=2.21

90+2.21=92.21

92.21፥5=18 r2.21

18+2.21=20.21

That is why the velocity of the Waitangi river is 20.21 seconds.

Thirst

 In class, we are learning to use figurative language and other stuff.  

To ensure we knew this we carried on a text, Thirst. 

This is my carry-on from Thirst.

Hot Task Week 6 Creative Writing (Alice’s)

Task: Write the last event, solution, and ending of the story, Thirst.

Remember to include show not tell, interesting sentence types and figurative language

Characters

Ryders - mood/feeling - sadness, guilt

Dad  - mood/feeling - disappointment

Mum - Mood/feeling - disappointment

Brooke - mood/feeling - sadness, guilt

Thirst carry-on.

His voice rumbled through the trees, scattering the flock of birds that had been perched at the cans quenching their thirst.

Most exciting part

I looked at dad, fear throttling me. I was done and dusted, literally. 

Dad was searching for me all around. “Ryder! Ryder! Come here!” I shivered at the thought of what he was going to do. My eyes were too dry to cry. I tried holding in a sneeze, but it was no use. The sneeze echoed through the maze of branches and alerted Dad to where my world would end. His eyes darted in my direction. He found me. 

Kind of exciting part

Dad and Mum looked at me, their eyes piercing into my poor soul. The more they looked at us, the more the guilt grew inside.

I looked at Brooke, already drenched in tears, like a baby without food. Then Dad started, “I know you want to help this family, but you need to understand what your mum and I already face enough for you two, ok? Now,  I need you to apologize to the Carters and do something nice for them.” In only a matter of time, our doorbell rang, DDDDRRRING!

It was Mrs. Carter.

Resolution/Solution/Ending

She got straight to the point. “Hello, I know this is short notice, but do you know the thief of our water?” Now was my shiny, golden chance. “It was me, miss, b-b-but I’ll do anything! Just don’t get my mum and dad fired.” I knew she would get dad and mum fired. I knew she was going to start throwing things at us. I knew she was going to throw a tantrum. “Whatever do you mean? I just wanted at least someone to own up, and, wow, I won’t fire your mum or dad!” My face melted. The rain clouds scratched the sun out of the sky. Then, something trickled down my face. Rain.

The End

Something I could work on is using more interesting sentence types.

Using show not tell.

 I have been learning to use show not tell by using Figurative Language. 
By using this, Lenore and I have changed a piece of writing to make it mine and Lenore's own.
This is our piece of writing

 The Rip

    Gold = show not tell that's in the narrative  

   

WALT use ‘show not tell’ when we write a narrative  

How do we do this team?

By describing characters' looks, feelings, thoughts, and actions
 By using figurative language well 
Dialogue - main characters and others.  

There once were two brothers who were not at all alike; they were different in every way. The younger brother stayed on the sand, collecting shells and building sandcastles. The older brother was always in the water. The older brother liked to swim with his friends, diving and tumbling, bombing and snorkeling, swimming and surfing. During the day the older brother liked to go on lots of adventures but the younger brother would stay safe on the sand. Sometimes the older brother would creep up to the younger brother and drag him into the water because he knew that the younger brother despised the water. “Oh come on you little chicken it’s only waves,” teased the older brother. Whenever they were together they fought and argued, all the                                             

One morning their mother grew annoyed with them,“ Like cats and mice! Go play outside, and play together please.” Jack was slouching the whole way to the beach; through the dunes, over the little hill, and to the beach

. “Ugh. Why do you have to be here?! You’ll make everything boring,” Jack moaned. “You know what? You're such a wimp! You’re afraid of everything! That's why Mum told us to go outside.” fumed his brother. Soon, Jack went to grab his surfboard and surf with his friends.

A little while later, Jack yelled to James, “James, if you don’t hurry up, you’ll miss this wave!” James scuttled over the sand to the brim of the ocean, he was trembling with fear.“ B-but…What if I drown or get eaten by a shark?” “ Ugh, you’re lame! If you don’t come and swim with us, I’ll pull you in“ teased Jack.

James squinted at the ground, then looked at Jack. he looked as if he was getting dragged by a rip. He said his prayers and waited for his brother to come back, but he knew Jack wouldn’t come back even if he was a dolphin when he came into the water. What could he do? So James started to go into the chaos-y waves and even started to swim

Fierce waves started punching James in the gut while floating around. Sharks, whales, demons of the deep - was James gonna survive? His mind longed to turn back, but his heart wouldn't let him survive if he swam back, leaving Jack to drown. Waves pushed and tumbled Jack further from the shore and soon he started to feel sick to his stomach, “Why am I getting caught in a rip while my friends are safe on the shore?” Jack thought to himself and started to swim back to shore - wasting his energy.

James was starting to worry about Jack until he came across a person( with dreadlocks ) on a surfboard, SPLASH! The dreadlock surfer crashed in front of him( he looked as if he had swallowed two or more whales! ) “dude, what are you doing out here?” “Well, my brother is caught in a rip, can you please help me?” “Okay dude, but you should go back man, it's dangerous out here” but James shook his head, he wasn’t going back till’ his brother came back safe and back onto the shore like the rest of his friends.

 Jack saw some chubby guy coming towards him and started waving his arms frantically in the air and wailing. His voice was supposed to shout and ask for help, but he kept swallowing water. He felt his consciousness go away from him as he fainted. 

Once Jack woke up, he found himself on the shore, safe and away from the ocean. Jack got up and looked around only to see a guy with dreadlocks. “Who are you? Where’s James?” Jack scoffed “Jack! I knew you’d wake up!” Jack surprisedly looked up to see James running to him with a huge smile on his face.

 “Let's go home, together please.” James and Jack chuckled quietly and started racing back; through the dunes, over the little hill, and

back to the front door. When they got home, their mother was setting the table, then looked at them, puzzled, “You two are oddly quiet, are you okay?” James smiled at Jack, and Jack smiled back.

The end

Something we need to work on is making sure the story works out nice because we kind of rushed the last bit.