Critical Thinking....

Kia Ora Bloggers,

in today's post, I will be talking about reading. If you didn't already know, one of our reading groups has been basing their learning around 'Novel Study'

A novel study is where you read a book and then you answer comprehension questions and you might do an activity or two around that. The two books we have are "My sister lives on the mantelpiece" by Annabel Pitcher & "The boy in the Striped Pyjamas" by John Boyne. I have been reading the book by John Boyne. If you would like to see the things I have been doing and need to do, here is the link.

Over the last week, we have been finishing off everything as well as, answering and thinking about very critical questions. We had to get into groups of three, we each got given a pile of 'Critical Literacy Questions' and we had to choose the 4 questions that we thought were the most relevant to our book.

This took a little bit of time but it was very fun. I think that the questions my group chose were very on point. Afterwards, all of the groups got together and did a vote on which were the best. We had discussions about the different questions and they were very interesting.

Our 2nd session on this, is where we were given 3 questions to answer, and after we answered them, we had to share it creatively. So, I decided to ask somebody to do this with me and we just made a video of us answering the questions and having a conversation about it, here blog is here: Grace's blog

 Here is our video:

Thank You for watching and I hope you enjoyed as much as I did.

If there are any other ways you think I could have shown my critical literacy, please tell me.

See you next time and thank you again, for reading.

Nga Mihi,

- Julia

Holes: My Advert

Kia Ora Bloggers,

in today's post, I will be sharing some of my 'Holes' work.

'Holes' is our class shared story and it is where we do activities based off of the book.

This week we finished the book and we had something different to do than usual.

Normally, we have comprehension questions and some vocab work, but this week we had to finish any unfinished work and then do an activity where we made something advertising the movie to the book - 'Holes'.

It was hard to think what to do and how to represent it but I did finish it after the hard struggle of not knowing what to do... 

So, I made a little animation/trailer to the movie on Slides and here it is:

I found it kind of easy because I have done some animation work before but it is kind of tricky. Also, I didn't do proper animations, I just used the "animate" tool.

I really enjoyed doing this and it was something new and different which is always an extra plus.
I think I will do more animations more often, but I will try to keep them simple, just like this one.

I hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time!

Nga Mihi

- Julia

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Kia Ora Bloggers, Today I am posting about my reading work that I have done.

I have been reading "The boy in the striped pyjamas" for novel study, and I have had to do activities and DLO's (Digital Learning Object). So, I will be sharing you my response work (Where I respond to chapters 3 & 4), and my other DLO I had to make to show I am actually understanding and reading the story as well as my comprehension work. Hope you enjoy.

Here it is:

I hope you enjoyed & thank you for reading. See you next time, Bye.

Rimu Class - Hooked on Books!

This weeks in Yalhurst we have been having a Hooked on Books Week. We had this so that we could expand our reading genres and different authors and the books we read get us hooked but we don't read all oth ebook so we have to put our name down  on a list if we want to read the rest of the book. So everyday we get a new book and we don't know what it is until we find out, each day in a different way and creative activity.

On day one it was simple - the teachers pulled a name out of our stick box, The book was called The Honest Truth and it is about a boy who has cancer and runs away. We had to create a recount of what it would be like if we were Mark (mark is the one who has cancer). We also had to make a slide about routes and I found it quite easy because it was a simple task.

 On day two (Tuesday) we played pass the parcel and on the first round it stopped where Gracie and I sat and Gracie opened it, and it went until the last layer (it went forever) and the book was called Space adventure and it is where you get to choose your outcomes and decisions, and it is really fun, we then had to create a persuasive piece of writing about which planet we thought that the person should live on. We also made a pick - a path about it.

 On day three (Wednesday) we had to put together a digital puzzle to learn what the book was called and it was called 'The first hippo on the moon' and before we say the books pictures we got a piece of writing and buddy up with someone and create batik artwork, at the end of the day we got to see the real pictures in the book. We also had to do some optical Maths work where we try creating optical art where it is an illusion.

On day four (Thursday) We had a treasure hunt to find the book and it was wrapped. The person who found it got to open it and it was called ' A Fish In A Tree' it is about a girl who has trouble reading but won't admit to it. We had to read what it was like for someone with dyslexia and how hard it is to read. It is very hard to read and understand words. Here is a link to that. Did you find that Dyslexia sit hard to read? - I know I did.

Today (Friday) we had a vote what book it was but we didn't know which one won and then names got called out and we had choose what box (A, B or C) and we had to choose until it was the correct one. It was called 'The Person Controller' and I have already read this at home and it is fantastic. We haven't done activities on this one yet.

Overall book week has taught me a lot to do with genres and authors and other literacy and maths activities. Some activities were hard and some were slightly easier. But overall this week has been fun. sometimes you think a book won't be good and it ends up being great. This book week in our School has been amazing, you should try it.

Here are some photos:

Novel study

These slides are of what I have been doing for reading so far this term. We have been doing Novel Study where we have to complete 5 must do's and 2 can do's and make a slideshow out of them. It has been hard work but I have enjoyed it. I have been reading hatchet, It is not one of my favourites but It has been ok.