Waltzing Matilda by Mele and Angela

This week for reading we have been looking at different types of ballad poems. The ballad poem that we talked about was the Waltzing Matilda. The Waltzing Matilda poem is a ballad poem, created by Banjo Paterson. Angela and I worked collaboratively to create this activity. Listening to the poem, we used our inference strategy to draw the clues in the poem. In my image I have included the features, of a Swagman lying underneath a coolibah tree. We unpacked the language in the poem and identified what each word meant in it's own context. Above shows the summary that Angela and I have written together. We added 20 important words from the text, 6 most important words, and we used the 6 words to sum a whole summary about our story. 

Ballet - Royal New Zealand Ballet by Mele

Yesterday LS2 was lucky enough to take their first ballet session with Chloe. Chloe is a member of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. We were taught a dance sequence from RNZB's current show ' Black Swan, White Swan' - based on famous ballet ' Swan Lake '. " Commit to the movement to get the best affect" says Chloe. The warm up that we did, included feet and hand movements. We danced to an amazing routine that everyone managed to complete. A big thank you to Chloe for teaching us the amazing ballet skills. Also a big thank you to Fiona (Viliami's Teacher) who organised this event to happen.  I enjoyed doing this routine, because this was my first and ever time getting taught, by a ballet educator. The best part was getting to rehearse our routine over and over again. 

Group Challenge

This week for writing Mrs. Anderson challenged us to write a response that Siri might have said in exactly 50 words. We were to answer, Why is Kokako Lodge a great place to take year 7/8 students on camp? To help us we used our camp diaries, outside the box DLO, LS2 rubric, and our camp photos. As a group, we took part in the learning conversation, by sharing our ideas with each other. To receive points we were to use the selected language features, which were simple, compound, complex sentence, a comma, correct beginning, and end sentence punctuation, an exclamation mark, simile, and brackets. If we used any of these language features we would receive 5 points. Using 50 words gave us 50 points. Extra points were added if we collaborated, communicated, used the LS2 writing rubric, camp photos, camp diaries, outside the box DLO, and if we completed it on time. Altogether our group totaled up to 95 points.