Friday, 15 June 2018

My villain Hot Dog Man

For Design and Technology we have to do a project when we make a 30 second video using lots of pictures to make it. We had to make a character out of plasticine to use in our video. We do this project in pairs of 2 and my teammates name is Connor. Our character is a big hot dog.  His name is Hot Dog Man. We are almost finished this project and I learnt that making stop motion videos are really hard and really fun to make.

Friday, 11 May 2018

Wonder

In class, I am reading a book Called Wonder. Wonder is a great book for everyone. Wonder is a book about a boy named August and August has a facial difference. He gets Made fun of at school. Auggie has a mom, dad, sister and a dog.

What stood out for me the most for me is how Auggie Doesn't care about people making fun of him and how he is brave enough to go to school with his facial appearance. Auggie has friends to help him through it all. 

The story taught me to not be rude to people no matter who they are, what they do or what they look like. Lots of people at Auggie's school are rude to him, but some of the children are not rude to Auggie. You don't have to be nice to them you just must not be rude to them.

I think Auggie has the most because Auggie is brave enough to go to go to school every day. Not many people would go to school if they looked like that. Auggie is for my favourite character because I think he is a real inspiration.

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Friday, 16 March 2018

Poetry ILT 2018

Last week we had an ILT (Integrated Learning Task) and we had to do multiple task involving poetry.


 Poetry  is a peace of writing that  sometimes poets write with feelings and emotion. Poetry also sometimes enspires the hearts of others. Poetry sometimes are quotes that inspire and motivate people.

When I write poetry I feel like its like drawing your emotions with words. I like some forms of poetry, but some forms of poetry I find boring and not fun. My favourite form is the Haiku.

People write poetry because poetry is fun and they can sometimes be sad and they write down their emotions. Lots of people write poems as a job and sometimes become famous for writing poems.

I like writing poems when I am sad because writing my emotions down makes me feel better and it also is fun for me sometimes and replaces my sadness with joy.

I had seven activities over the three days. The first task was the choral verse when our class acted a big play about being the same. The second task was terminology when we were given words and we had to find out the meaning of all of them. The third task was Poetry writing when each person from my group had to write a poem. I wrote a haiku. The fourth task was blackout poetry when we got a page from a novel and we had to black out words to make a poem. The fifth task was the poetry slam. We had to make a poem and act it out in front of the class. The sixth task was analysing poems when we had to read a poem and answer questions about it. The seventh task was imagery when we had to read a poem and draw a picture about the poem and write it was about.

All the tasks were fun for me and I enjoyed them allot. They were very fun. I learnt lots about poetry over the ILT and I hope I learn even more in the future to come.

My favourite task was the blackout poetry because I liked the challenge of finding a poem on a page from a book. It was also fun because we made pictures from blacking out the other words.
My least favourite task was the poetry slam because my group changed my poetry slam without telling me so I could not do it.

I think the imagery was the most challenging because I had to read a poem and draw a picture of how you feel about the poem and write a little bit about the poem.

I felt happy with my imagery and I feel I drew the right picture and writing for me.

I felt proud performing in front of others because I said all my  parts correctly but I did feel a bit nervous in front of everyone. I think our class poem was the best of all of them.

I learnt lots of new words like onamatopoeia,  stanza, console, assonance, analogy and personification.

I learnt that I am good at poetry and that I can express my feelings on a piece of paper and that I feel the joy of poetry. I feel that poetry is a joy in my life.



Friday, 23 February 2018

Cricket Star

Today I am going to talk about Dale Steyn and how he inspires me. I love cricket a lot, because cricket is my favourite sport. I am a bowler just like Dale Steyn. He inspires me and one day I want to be just like him. Dale Steyn is my favourite cricket player because he is one of the best bowlers in the entire world. I love the way he bowls because I like his technique. He influences the world. He represents his country South Africa and represents his home team the Titans in Pretoria. Dale Steyn is also a very good batsmen like I want to be when I get older. Dale Steyn is injured, but I really hope he gets fit quickly so he can come back and play for South Africa. Dale Steyn has had lots of injuries in the past, but I hope he does not get injured any more because I want him to play for South Africa so we can win because India are beating us at the moment so we need all our players back like Faf Du Plessis, AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock and Dale Steyn.
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