STEPSWEB

 

Sensational StepsWeb

StepsWeb is a programme that helps our learning in all areas of Literacy.

This is how much time I have spent on Steps so far this year.  You can also see what my accuracy levels are like:

REFLECTION: I think Stepsweb is a good learning tool for kids of all ages to learn more phonics, reading and comprehension. 

NEXT STEPS: I think I need to work on my phonics knowledge.

Neptune my reading sample.

 

This slide is all about Neptune the god with facts and you will have to test your knowledge on the quiz...

I really hope you enjoy until next time... SEE YA.

"My shadow" poem response

 My Shadow:

The connections I made to the title when you are being copied and shadowed without you knowing.

The poem is organised in four stanzas each one has four lines and the rhyming pattern is AABB AABB AABB AABB.

The tone of the poem is sad, pale and sleepy because it sounds sad and annoyed at their shadow following them.

The poetic devices are similes and personification. There are similes when it says "like an India-rubber ball" and when it says like an arrant sleepy-head". There is personification when it says "he's a coward" and "lazy little shadow".

I think the meaning is always watching your back and making sure that you are protected where ever you go. 

I wandered lonely as a cloud poem response (By William Wordsworth)

 

The connections I made to the title was when your friends ditch you and you are trying to find a new friend or two. That's sad cause if I was like that I would want a warm hug from Olaf.

The poem was organised in four stanzas each with six lines and the rhyming pattern was ABABCC ABABCC ABABCC ABABCC.

The tone of the poem for me was happy and at the same time sad and pale. I think it was happy when it says "golden daffodils" and I think that it is sad when it says "They flash upon that inward eye" and pale when it says "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills".

The poetic devices in this poem are personification, simile, hyperbole and alliteration. There is alliteration when it says "but be" there is hyperbole when it says "ten thousand I saw at a glance" because well there are not that many daffodils so it is an exaggeration there is another one when it says " a host of golden daffodils" because daffodils are yellow and how can they be hosts?. There a simile when it says "continuous as the stars that shine" and there is lots of personification like when it says " fluttering and dancing in the breeze" and "tossing their heads" and the waves beside them dance" there is two more the second to the last one that I found was "outdid the waves in glee" and last but not least "and dances with the daffodils".

I think the meaning of the poem is thinking about not losing your friend and what you can see around you when you pay attention to the things in our world.  

Sympathy poem response.

The connections I made to the title were when something happens to your friend and you feel sad for them and show empathy and know the right things to say.

The poem was organised in three stanzas each with seven lines and the rhyming pattern is ABAABCC, ABAABAA and ABABBCC.

For me the tone of the poem makes me feel sad because it's about a bird trapped in a cage. (I love animals and I could never dream of hurting them!) 

The poetic devices in this poem are rhyming, simile when it says "the river flows like a stream of glass, alliteration "heaven he", personification when it says "cruel bars" "beats his wing" "bird sings",  metaphor when it says "caged bird feels" because it is comparing when you are in a situation when you feel like a caged bird and hyperbole when it says "I know why the caged bird sings" because he can not know.

The meaning of this poem for me is when you show sympathy to someone you care for who has been in some hard times.

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Returned soldier poem report

The connections I made with this title is when a soldier comes home and everyone is celebrating his return and mourning over the dead.

The poem is organised like this: 2 stanzas in the first one and it has 8 lines and the second has 12. The pattern of the poem is AABBAABB AABBAABBAABB. 

The tone of the poem was this: It makes me feel sad and curious about the war because it is talking about a soldier going to the war and coming back from it.

The poetic devices in this poem were rhyming, hyperbole, simile, alliteration, personification.

What I think the meaning of the poem is the war and how bad it was to have in our lovely world.

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Poetry

 

I like to write poems because they are an easy way to explain/express something that you are learning.

Sea otters

ANZAC

ANZAC facts

This slide will show you 3 facts that I thought were interesting!! 

Reading poetry

Reading

So cool that we can read,

So cool that we learn,

It's like a big bead,

That can make a turn.

  It’s a really big need,

It's nothing you can earn.

Now I made it a bit cooler by adding a background!

Beetle sting-ray

 They can live in water or long grass
   They can grow to 142 cm long and 23 cm wide
       They eat worms and dirt
          To get around they swim and fly!

If you want to do this just click the link:
https://education.abc.net.au/res/i/L755/index.html

My Octo-beetle

                                     This is the Octo-beetle.
                                      She lives in Freezing water.
                                        She is 45cm long 23cm wide.
                                           She eats algae and waterweed  
                                              She swims and crawls to try bite you!!!

Maya Angelou"s cool video

Maya Angelou on Biteable.

Maya Angelou was such an inspiration that my teacher choose her for us to learn about, she is an inspiration for me because she never gave up on her dreams!!

Civil Rights Movements aim to give everybody an equal right regardless of color skin color, gender, nationality, religion, disability or age. The aim of the movement which peaked in the 1960s was to ensure that the rights of all people are equal and are protected by the law. Civil rights include a number of things, for example, the right to free speech, assembly, a fair trial. You can read more about this and the amazing people that helped to make these changes below. As always have fun learning and enjoy.

My Creature.

Name: Venum (ven-um)
Lives: In a Forest up a tree!
Size: 15 cm long and 10 cm wide!
Eats: Flax & feathers & flower stalks.
Powers: Sting/kill and fly up to 200,000 miles per five seconds

#NZ WARS!

#NZ WARS! on Biteable.
This is about the NZ war!

Underwater

This is my underwater city I made, I put a lot of things to make it colorful!

Guy Fawkes Q?

                 
I was learning about Guido Fawkes/Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. 

Guy Fawkes.

Guy Fawkes on Biteable.
At literacy, we watch the video about the gunpowder plot and then we had to come up with a question and put it on a DLO and share it with you guys. I took ages to think of a question but I did in the end.
Hope you enjoyed it!

Tonga

Tonga on Biteable. this will tell you about the land of Tonga!