Reading | Cloze Comprehension

Mr Wong's reading groups have been doing Cloze activities to test their vocabulary, comprehension and word skills.

They followed links to different cloze activites and it led them to a website with information about a topic. In the text their were blanks where words would be, and the students had to type in the word that fits in the blanks.

Mr Wong's reading groups used their knowledge of english vocabulary to write in the word that they think is most accurate. There were five different Cloze activities: Moving House, Gap Year, A New Culture, The Great Wall of China and Doing a Gap Year.

Mr Wong's reading groups enjoyed testing their comprehension skills and filling in the blanks.

LI: to practise comprehension skills.

LI: to test grammar knowledge.

 

Inquiry | Presentation

Our Inquiry task was to create a presentation of our shelter design to persuade the client (Panmure Bridge School represented by Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie) into building our structure.

The requirements of this presentation were that all members of the company had to speak, maintain print design rules, include images and graphics, the material testing result, shape testing result and the model that our company has made. 

The first thing we worked on was thinking about what aspects of our shelter design we should present. Our company first talked about the shape of our design and why we chose that shape. We continued writing down information about what the shelter can resist, the benefits of our shelter, the shelter materials and why the purpose of those materials.

We also added graphics to give the audience a visual reference and then our company began writing the script. Each member of the company was assigned a two or three sentence part to speak in the presentation.

Our company enjoyed recalling the information of our shelter design and putting it into a presentation. One thing I think we could improve on is balancing out who was speaking and how much each member of the company was saying.

LI: to create a presentation of your design to bid for the building contract. 

Maths | Testing Knowledge

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups have been focusing on creating a quiz to challenge their partner. We made three different challenges to test our partners knowledge.

The first quiz we made was on a google form. It had to include questions relating to fact families, additon and subtraction. The requirements for this quiz were there had to be 20 questions and the answer had to be written, not chosen.

The second quiz we made was also on a google form. It had to include questions relating to strand knowledge (measurement, money, time, fractions and everything else we have learnt). The requirements for this quiz were there had to be only 15 questions and the answer had to be chosen, not written.

As for the third challenge, we could choose to make this on a slide or draw. This DLO had to include one challenge where a person would need to do physically do something in order to find the answer. A challenge example is: measure the height of a chair.

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups enjoyed coming up with questions to test their partners ability and skill to solve a problem.

LI: to use knowledge to test knowledge.

Reading | Novel Study Understandings | Anaylysing Books

 Mr Wong's reading groups completed and finished their novel study on a Roald Dahl storybook.

They read through the final chapters of the book that they chose and made text-to-self, text-to-text and 

text-to-world connections. They also completed their story web and finished a comprehension task with it. 

In our blog post, we talked about what happened in the final chapters that we read. We used descriptive

language to inform the reader of the events that took place.

As it is the final week to complete our novel studies, LS1 should have a complete understanding of the book and learnt how to do a novel study.

LI: To study a novel.

Inquiry | Model Materials

LS1 has been learning about emergency safety shelters for Inquiry. For the previous and current week, our focus has been on what materials we will use to build our shelter, and how much of that material we need.

LS1 first thought about the shape of their company's shelter and what the shelter is going to protect against. By using that understanding of their shelter, they thought about the materials that they would use for the walls, the ground, the windows and doors (if they have any); and the inner wall layers.

Once they decided on the materials they would use, they needed to calculate how much of those materials they would need for their shelter. The measurement could not be in weight. Measurements that were used often for this task were cubic centimeters and cubic meters.

LS1 enjoyed thinking about which materials they would need for the shelter, and measuring how much material they would need by using their understanding of material properties.

LI: to prepare materials for construction.

Writing | Kapa Haka Performance

On Monday, Panmure Bridge School all went to the hall to experience a kapa haka performance, which was presented by a small kapa haka group.

The kapa haka group performed an entrance ceremony by blowing into a horn and introducing themselves in Maori. Then, the visitors performed their haka.

Once they finished their haka, they informed us about three different Maori tools; the poi, the taiaha and the ti rakau.

In return, Panmure Bridge School's kapa haka group (boys) performed a haka to thank them for performing for us.

Panmure Bridge School enjoyed watching this performance and learning about different Maori tools. This was a great opportunity to learn more about the Maori culture.

LI: to experience and learn kapa haka.

Reading | Novel Study

Mr Wong's reading groups continued their novel study on a Roald Dahl storybook.

They read through certain chapters of the book that they chose and made text-to-self, text-to-text and 

text-to-world connections. They also continued their story web and completed a comprehension task with it. 

In our blog post, we talked about what happened in the chapters we read.

By the end of each week, LS1 should have come up with a new understanding of the book and learnt how to

do a novel study.

LI: To study a novel.