This week we are look we are looking at the rour mysties of the roasy because it is octeber the month of Mary. The three Mystries are called The Joyful mystries, The Sorrowful mystries, The Glorius mystries and The Lumonis mystries. We made a google drawing for one story in each of the mystries then we put it on a slide together. This is my slide.
Describe your favourite moment from the entire production, from the first rehearsal to the final bow.
My favourite moment was the first tech rehersel we did when we had mics and the wings and lights.
What was one new skill you learned, either onstage or behind the scenes?
To perfom to the whole audince and don’t have your back to them.
If you had to describe the show to someone who didn’t see it, what would you say in just three sentences?
Orphan boy escapes workhouse and joins a pickpocket gang. He gets caught and taken to a home then gets stolen back by the gang. He goes to rob a house and gets caught on purpose to save his friends. Then the police come and aresst the gang leader Fagin and they all live happily ever after.
What was your favourite scene from the production?
My favourite scene was the police oficer scene.
Last week in reading we had to pick from three diffrent subjects to read about then do a create on. The options were Zoos being good or bad, are electric cars the future and should kids be allowed on social media.
I choose to do mine about zoos. I had to read two articles and a video talking about this topic all of these articles plus the video had diffrent opinons. After we had read this we had to brefly summrie each aritcle then write a paragraph about what article we found the most convincing.
After we finsh all on this we made a venn digram about the pros and cons of zoos. This is my task:
In English we have been looking at New Zealand disasters we looked at three major disasters – The Christchurch Earthquakes, The Ballantynes fire and The Wahine disaster.
I dicided to do the Wahine disaster. The Wahine disaster was a disaster that happend 57 years ago and it was a freak incident involving a boat and a storm. Our task was to write a infomation report explaning our choosen disaster.
This is mine:
Have you ever head of these disasters?
The week for reading we are looking at climate change. We read about how climte change afects the weather and we watched videos on the diffrent kinds of floods.
Then we filled out a slide that had What I already know, What I want to know and what I have learned,
Next we used words from the text that we didn’t know and wrote the definiton and a compound sentence using that word.
This is my slide:
Have you learnd about climate change?
This week in writing we are learning about fairy tales, myths, legends and folk tales.
On Wensday we wrote a short story and had three options to write about:
The Modern Twist: Choose a classic fairy tale, folk tale, myth, or legend and imagine it happening in the present day. How would the characters, setting, and events be different? Write a short story (2-3 paragraphs) describing a key scene from this modern retelling.
The Villain’s Side: Task: Every story has a villain. Choose a well-known villain from a fairy tale, folk tale, myth, or legend. Write a short monologue (a speech where the character talks to themselves or the reader) explaining their motivations. Why did they do the things they did? Do they think they were right?
The Magical Object: Task: Think about a magical object from a fairy tale, folk tale, myth, or legend (e.g., a magic wand, a talking mirror, a golden apple). Imagine you have found this object. Write a short story (2-3 paragraphs) about what happens when you use it for the first time. What do you try to do? What are the unexpected consequences?
I chose to do the villains side. I did the Evil Queen from snow white and did her side of the story click the link to read my story:
For writing this term we have been making a writing workbook we have been doing complex sentences, expanding sentences and sentences and fragments. We have also been doing punctuation like capital letters, full stops and commas.
Sentence Structure
The first slide we focesed on fragments and made fragments into full sentences with a buddy. The second slide was also about fragments and diciding witch sentences were fragmemts and witch were sentences. The third slide we unscrambled sentences. The forth slide we did expanding sentences from a simple to a complex. We did the same thing on the Fifth slide. On slide six we expanded sentences using because, but and so. On slide seven we identifed the indepent clase a sentence that can stand by itself and a depent clause that can not. The next activity we did was turning a simple sentence into a compound and a complex sentence. Our last activity we filled in the blanks.
Punctuation
The First activity was to fix the punctuation in the text. The second activity was to put comma in the sentences. The third activity was to put speech mark were they need to go. The last activity was to make a comic mine is on slide 16.
What is your favorite activity?
Last week in RE we made a song about lent. We were in group and made the songs on Suno, we wrote what we wanted it to sound like and be about then it made two songs for us. My group and I chose a song and put it on a google video this is our song!
I hope you enjoyed our Song
Have you ever used Suno?
Last week we made a map of New Zealand and listed five places in the North Island and five in the South by there Māori names and there English names.
After that we put pictures of landmarks for that place. This is what I made:
(Click on it to see it better)
Have you been to any of these places?
This weeks gospel was Lk 21:25-28. 34-36 this is the gospel. We talked about what it was about and a phrase that stood out to us. After this we answered some questions on our slide these are my answers.
What word, phrase or sentence stood out to you and why?
“Every power in the sky will be shaken” Because I think it is God’s way of telling us to prepare for the second coming when it happens.
What does Advent mean and what do we do during the season of Advent?
Advent means Coming. In Advent we prepare for Christmas.
How will you prepare your heart for Advent? What will you do?
I will follow my Advent calender.
Did you read the gospel?