Monday 19 May 2014

Open and closed doors

Verbs and Nouns

A sentence is a group of words that forms a complete thought. A sentence begins with a capital letter, ends with a full stop and has a subject and a verb (predicate).
Highlight the verbs in green and the subject in yellow.
e.g. You can jump.
1. Miss May laughed at Metui’s joke.
2. My best friend in the whole world is coming to visit.
3. I want to run around.
4. When can you come and play?
Make 2 of your own simple sentences:
1.  Marcus will you teach me?

2.  Can you run fast?
WALT: Write a simple sentence that has a verb and a noun in it.I hope you give me feedback or tell me what I need to work on.Thank you


My school values

Monday 12 May 2014

Writing Self Assessment

Ideas:
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4
Because I can write a lot of sentences about one topic so all my narratives a very long and simple .

Structure and Language:
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4
Because I can use the right structure for the purpose of my writing (one well developed piece of the structure with other not quite clear enough)








Organisation:
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4

I deliberately group my ideas.

- I can sequence my ideas.

- My writing makes sense.

- I may have mistakes with linking words and tense






Punctuation:
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4
I use capital letters for the start of my sentences.
- I use full stops/question marks/exclamation marks/ellipses correctly for most of my sentences.
- I use some other punctuation correctly.

OR

- I always use capital letters for the start of my sentences.
- I always use full stops/question marks/exclamation marks/ellipses correctly for my sentences.
- I haven’t used any other punctuation.







Sentence Structure:
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4
- Most of my sentences are correct.
- I use different types of sentences.
- My sentences vary in length.

OR

- My sentences are correct but can be repetitive.

- I can use simple/compound/ complex sentences with some purpose.

Vocabulary:
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4
- I may  use similes, metaphors and idioms to give my audience more information.

- I am attempting to use new and topic related words in my writing.





Spelling
I gave myself a:
Because:
R4
I can spell most everyday words correctly.

- I can use some spelling rules to write new words.

- I use chunks and sounds when attempting new words.





Wednesday 7 May 2014

Spelling

This game looks easy and the title looks easy but when you play it the

 game is really hard. I never even made it to level 2.

WALT Practice our spelling words:
Afford
Entirely
Metal
Shiny
Attend
Flow
Nylon
Statement
Bullet
Habit
Pear
Thrifty
Cough
Independent
Professor
Underwater
Devil
Lame
Respect
Weave
Reprocessing
World
Recycle
The hardest word for me was all of it because as I said "The game is very hard".





Listening to the teacher