Year: 2025

LI: To write a multi verse cinquain poem that describes the journey of a sleeping maunga that erupts

For more our learning linking into Inquiry we have been taught what cinquain poems are . What is a conquain poem? A cinquain poem has 5 lines and in these 5 lines each and everyone of them has a different purpose, the first line which is the top line always has to be a noun which is a name or something you can touch. Line 2 needs 2 adjectives and only 2 adjectives that describe the word in the first line which should be a noun. The middle line has to have 3 verbs that most typically end in a ‘ing’ but can also end with a ‘ly’ too, these words are supposed to describe what your noun does and what are there most common actions that they do. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun, and last but not least we have Line 5 this line is a synonym, to the first line, synonym is a word with a similar meaning to the noun! This was a cool way to adventure into our topic in a different way, with what is not normal on a regular basis !

Last week for maths group 4 has been learning how to round numbers to tens , tenths , hundreds and thousands , for a better understanding we have this poem to remind us how rounding numbers work! the poem goes like this ,

 Look at your number.. 

4 or less ignore the rest.

5 or more add 1 more.

here is group 4 DLO on how to round! .

This term LS2 has been doing some reasearch about “Earths fiery giants” aka volcanos , for this assignment we worked in pair so we could learn how to learn with and from eachother , this lead us to making posters about the four main types of volcanos. cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes, and lava domes.

Next we picked out a image that has the same type of volcano – eg; mauna loa is a sheild volcano ) so then we would explain about sheild volcano and about mauna loa volcano!.

I enjoyed this task because i get to learn more about volcanoes!

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LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there.

For literacy we have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC during WW1. We reaserched photos and saw many unsettling things soldiers had to go through in war.

we also watched videos about what life was like in the trenches  we also went through this site called walking with the Anzacs. before we recorded our diary entry framework we of course needed to write our entry and then we used Google vids to recorded our diary, I enjoyed this because it helped me learn about history and what happened in the past.

For Literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden had we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden and the Time Traveller’s Podcast team. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.

We learned that when you are recording a podcast expression is everything! It makes what we have to say more engaging.

For this activity we needed to create a map that shows how long the kuaka birds fly for and where the kuaka birds migrate to.

Kuaka birds, also known as bar-tailed godwits, love to hang out near the water, especially in places like estuaries, mudflats, beaches, and coastal marshes, where they find lots of yummy food.

Every year, as winter approaches, the Kuaka fly north to the breeding grounds of Alaska, stopping off in Korea and Japan for a rest and some food on the way. On the return journey, as our summer approaches, they fly directly to New Zealand, a trip of endurance with no food, water, or rest; nearly 12,000 km non-stop.

Did you know that the Kuaka bird holds the world record for the longest flight?

LI: To draw the lines between the words to show how the connections you have made.

For this activity, we created a DLO showing our Dot to Dot Connections of the Kuaka Bird. We used the scribble tool to connect each word and write down information that is related to the text. For example : Migration and Habitat (The Kuaka birds migrate from Alaska to NZ to have a safe environment). We used our prior knowledge to figure out some information about the Kuaka Bird. Something we enjoyed while doing this activity was collaborating and communicating to each other to grab different ideas and learn from one another.