Word Study - Blog 1 term 3

Word Study - Blog 1 term 3

What?

I am learning to understand how words are formed using roots, prefixes and suffixes.

So What?I have learned that words that have the root hydra- and aqua- mean water. For example hydrate mean to add water or moisture to something to supply something with water

I have learned that words that have the root spect- mean look / see. For example spectator mean a person how look at something

Now what?

I feel that I have a an spectacular, understanding of the root words aqua-, hydra-, and spect-

SLC

 What?
On June 27th it was our SLC

So What?
I shared my writing,reading, and math goals. I was proud of using paragraph. I enjoyed sharing my art.

Now what?
I want to Improve on my vocabulary because I get mix up with my spelling.

 WHAT?

This week I am reflecting on one of my writing goals

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to:

* use a variety of sentence starters

This week I have been focusing on how to write a drop-in clause

SO WHAT?

Here is an example of a drop-in clause

Mr Forman is our teacher.	He loves his red car.
Mr Forman, who is our teacher, loves his red car.

Mr Forman is the subject of the sentence.

We change ‘He’ to ‘who’

We place commas around the clause we ‘drop-in’

MY EXAMPLES:

Here are two examples of a drop-in clause that I have created.

[1]louise,who like to do gymnastic,is awesome

[2]

NOW WHAT?

I rate my understanding level at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My confidence level with using these types of sentences independently in my writing is

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My writing Goals for term2

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to :

-organise my writing into paragraphs
-Use a variety of a sentence starters
-use the correct language features of a narrative-dialogue

Ues a variety of a sentence starters

to help me with this goal I am using a 'Sentence starter meun'

It will help my writing to be more interesting and to hook the readers in more

What?
on Tuesday our class did sun art with Mrs Boston.

So what?
we read the Maui and the sun then we had make our own sun first we had yo draw our own sun then we grab the big black piece of paper and draw our sun with chalk then we coloured our sun with pastils and then we give it to the teacher and they put the black dye.

Now what?
my next art I would like to do some st Patrick day art.

Year 6 camp

So what?
Last week the year 6 students went to Waipara for a 3 day camp

What?

We did some activities like canoeing, raft building and others.
I enjoyed doing the raft buiding because most of the raft sunk and we came last=(
Raft building was the most challengeing because it is most likely to sink
My camp highlight was abseiling.It was so fun because the ninja walk was so much fun.

Now What?
I am going to use the skills and  dispositions I developed on camp to help me throughout the years.

SSR

What?
 I have just finished reading this book as part of my reading goal  which is to  be able to read for longer periods off time and retain meaning

So what
I like about this book is that it has funny thing inside of this book like lean to read with Andy it is so funny

now what my goal is also to read a variety of a genre.This is a fanciy book.The next genre I am going to read is a mystery.