Letter to Grandma

LI: to vary our sentence length to create pace and impact.

We used our reading text ” The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” to use our sentence knowledge creatively in the context.

For this task my partners and I used Simple, Compound and Complex sentence to help us add more impact into our writing. For this letter Bruno express how he miss his Grandma that still lives in Berlin, for more help we used FANBOYS and AWHITEBUS.

These are short for:

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So

Although, At, After, When, Whenever, Where, Wherever, While, How, However, If, Than, Though, Even, If, Eventhough, Because, Before, Unlees, Until, Since and So that.

The purpose of this letter was to show how Bruno in Auschwitz compared to Berlin and how he misses his Grandma that lives far away and is concerned on how he might never see her again.

Bok Choy

We read the text Bok Choy for Reading. This text showed us the prejudices that existed towards the Chinese immigrants in early NZ. It also showed us that it is important to show empathy for those who are seen to be different from us. Our challenge after reading this was to write a letter to Ah Sum to thank him properly, as you didn’t have the right words when you were shivering in his hut.
Something I found interesting about the events in this text was the change of hearts towards Ah Sum and the prejudice behaviours.

Tech

This week for tech, we were working on robotics and setting our codes to a specific code to make it understand. Our first challenge was making our robot travel around a table and in result, it made it harder because of the length and width. We had to set up seconds for the robots movements and I sucsessfully completed  that challenge. I enjoyed succeeding the challenge and the dificulty. I learnt how to work the robots using coding in a proper manner.

Tech

This week for Tech, we learnt about Robot parts and did a quiz about our understandings. We learnt the parts and had a play around the off and on buttons and played around it.

 

Social influence

 

This week, LS2 was learning about social influence and did activities such as, agree to disagree which is when a question is called and for example it was “Is it okay to send photos of other people to your friends without permission” and we went to the part we argreed on. Peer pressure shouldnt be something you have to do. Follow your own path.

Building our Class Culture

In week 2/3, we were learning about leaders and how fierce their leading was. After that, we got into groups of 5/7 and got given squared papers and started enlarging trying to copy and paste it into the white papers. Then, we gathered all the squares together and started coloring it in. Finally, we fixed some mistakes and it came out beautiful.