Last Wednesday my class went to school camp. We went to Living springs.My highlight was going to the indoor rock climbing wall. Here is my camp reflection

Where have you gone on school camp and what was your highlight

Last week the year 6’s had we stayed at living springs for three days.

Here is my slide for more information.

Have you been to Living Springs, if you have What are your thoughts on it?

For the past few days in reading we have been working on a text called king and country, which is about Anzac and a kid called Tama going to war. we had to try to understand the text and do a few activities with it. I have done a T chart, and a letter about Tama apologizing to his mum about going to war here is my projects.

Question: What do you know about Anzac day?

Today we had to make a T chart about King and country. We were learning to analyze the purpose and the message of the story. There was the mother/Whaea and the son/Tipu. The Whaea wanted all her sons to stay at home with her instead of going to war and the sons wanted to go. I really liked the task. Here is my work:

What do you think is the best one and why?

Last week when the year 6 went on camp we did something called Self Smart. We had to do our self’s, and  I have rated myself on what I  think I  am. I had a lot of fun rating myself and finding more about me.Here it is:

What type of learning are you?

Yesterday we did a slideshow about camp. We went to Living Springs for our camp I really really enjoyed it We did a bunch of activities my favourite one was archery tag. Here is my slideshow about camp. What do you know about Camps?

For the past week we have been reading King and Country. King and Country is about a boy that wanted to go to war but couldn’t. We are learning to understand the purpose and the message of the story.

Here is my chart

Do you have relatives connect to WW1?

We have been reading and learning about Tipu and how he wants to fight fo r the English but he is too young, Rongo, his older brother, goes to war, their Mother does not want them to fight. She doesn’t want this because:

1. Because 50 years before they had been at war with English,

2. She doesn’t want them getting hurt.

If Rongo sent a secret message to his Mother and she wrote back it might be like:

Whaea is Mother and Tama is son!

Question: Have you heard of war?

This week room 9  we have been learn to work with texts and to understand the text. We read a book called King and Country it was about two sons and a mum and her kids want to go to war and she doesn’t want them to go. here is my T-chart . I also did a secret note to the sons Mum if I was there.If you had a choice would you go to war?

In the last week we have been reading about a book called King and Country, and we were learning about the author analysing the purpose of the message and the massage is teaches us that some people wont to go to war and some people dont.  here is my T-chart and the letter the son in the story king and country wrote to his mum…….

Have anyone in your family gone to war, and what generation are they?

This week we have been phase 3 English asks students to move beyond just understanding a story to analyzing purpose and message and to understand how Maori took part in the First World War. There was a mum were her oldest son went to war and there was a younger brother who wants to go. I made a t chart on both their opinions.   As an extension I did a secret letter from the older brother named Rongo. Here they are. Do you have any relationships with WW1?