Learning different types of birds

Walt: make connections across multiple texts. Task Description: I had to pretend this was a job and that job was to learn about the birds in this presentation and say one or two sentences of how to explain this bird.

Newspaper towers

Walt: write a recount about our experience.

Would you want to spend 5 minutes building a tower… out of newspapers?  Well my teacher might be crazy, because he thought that newspapers can stand free. On its own.

When I was told we were making towers made out of papers (from Mr Goodwin) I had no idea what I was going to plan. We had to get in groups of 4-6. Anyways when we were on the mat and I was thinking in My head what to do while he was talking. He nearly caught me.

n our groups of 6 there was Daisy,Amelia,Makayla,Paikea, Trendy and Me (Naomi) . As we got into our groups we got handed a sheet of paper to plan in. We all shared our Ideas into the paper, but some of us still needed to be confident and speak up. We had a great plan to make the paper into little balls and then build up.

As I was talking about our great plan, it failed. So we started another plan we put the little balls at the bottom and then got the other papers and rolled them up, we put them like they were little tubs. We were rushing and rushing because we wanted the big prize (the prize for the winners) . But as the time went by our tower started to fall and our big creation failed.

This was a very fun and noisy lesson making a paper tower is really hard. But the thing I liked about it was the teamwork we had to do to build the tower, because everybody was cooperating with each other and it was really cool. The thing that we need to work on more to build the tower was trying to build it. But it really didn’t matter who won because the prize was glory.

Task description: Yesterday our class got the chance to become builders and we built a tower... a newspaper tower. We had to build a paper tower free standing. So whoever won wins a big prize and that prize was not big nor cool it was glory.

Maths problem

Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard.

Task description: What I did was I had to figure the problem and I had to explain how I did it and show it to you.

chicken flavored worms

Walt: write quality introductions.

Would you be keen to eat a chicken flavored worm? Because I have no idea where my real teacher went?, and today this crazy guy fed us chicken flavored worms. This was no ordinary writing lesson.

Introduction Rubric
	1	2	3	4
Hook	My introduction is boring. It is difficult to read.	My introduction is easy to read and has some interest for my audience.	My audience is hooked into my subject, it grabs their interest so they feel like they want to read more.	When someone reads my introduction they are left feeling intrigued. They can't wait to read more.
Orientation	My introduction does not tell the reader what my writing is going to be about.	My audience has some idea about what I am writing about.	My audience is clear what I am writing about.	My introduction lets the reader know the direction and purpose of my writing.

Task Description: In this task we each got to try chicken flavored noodles but we pretended to make it seem as worms. We each wrote sentences separate and then pasted it into a blog post. We gave ourselves a score out of 1 to 4 as you can see the rubric above. 

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Native to NZ

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.

Task description: My task was to show my learning about the environment of Tamaki. This is also talking about native trees and plants it is also explaining what endemic, Native and introduce Means. I also had to talk to you if I were talking to another person who had no Idea what all of this stuff meant.

About my group

Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard.

Task description: My task was to pretend I was explaining what a camera is to a stranger who knows nothing about cameras.