Tag: Reading

For our literacy project, Me and my partner made this Mood-o-meter to track Bruno’s emotions in Chapters 19 and 20 of the book “The boy in the striped pajamas”.

Bruno starts Excited about his plan and Happy putting on his “costume.” His mood drops to Sad when it rains, and he becomes Worried inside the camp because it is not what he expected. Tragically, when crowded into the gas chamber, he innocently thinks it is just a shelter from the rain. He stays loyal to the end, holding Shmuel’s hand as his “friend for life.”

“This week in reading, we have been studying mood—the overall feeling or vibe of a story. For my project, I created a Google Slides activity that tracks Bruno’s mood throughout The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I used four images to visually demonstrate his changing emotions and the shifting mood of the book.”

LI: To use AI to create an image that shows the contrast between events or characters.

For reading, we have been learning about the concept of contrast, which basically means looking at opposites. A great example of this is Bruno and Shmuel from the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. While Bruno looks healthy and well-fed, Shmuel looks thin and bony. For this interesting activity, I created a Google Slide featuring a contrasting image of both characters and wrote an explanation listing the differences between them.

LI: To vary our sentence lengths to create pace and impact.

This week for writing, me and my partner wrote a letter to Grandma based off the reading text “The boy in striped pajamas.” Our challenge was to write a short letter with three compound sentences to Grandma in Berlin, while acting as if we were Bruno. We used important sentences, like a simple and a compound sentence to strengthen our writing.

A simple sentence is a short, but powerful idea that is independent (can stand alone), and using it in your writing makes the reader think very sharp and direct.

A compound sentence uses two simple sentences, which is then joined by a bridge or a coordinating conjunction  (FANBOYS – for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) to connect both ideas.

For reading, we were learning about a leader who changed New Zealand forever, by just saying two words ”Kia ora”.

Her name is Dame Naida Glavish also known as the ”Kia ora lady”. She encouraged everyone to speak and embrace their language/culture. She is an inspiring lady that never gave up, she stood up for what was right and in the end she accomplished her goal. I have created this DLO using ten words to summarize important events that happend in her life.

This week for reading I made a ven diagram about the differences and  similarities about mars and earth

This week for reading we read about the solar system and then we had to write it in a summary.

Since it was a long paragraph we had to do it in 20 words.

if you want to read it clearly click here – 20 word summary

This term for reading I had to make a ferret on Google drawing as apart of my guided reading               ( problems with wallabies) this took a lot of time creativity and was hard to make.

Im really proud of how it turned out and I cant wait till I make another one!