Persuasive writing

My reflection
I found that persuasive writing is sharing information or your opinion on something and letting people believe your opinion if they want too.

My Reflection

I felt it was fun because I like to past the photo and meaurement things.I thing I will remember how to do it now.

Matariki Soup Video

My Reflection
I think making a video was really fun because I learnt how to record my voice and put it on my own video. It is good to remember my friends in Room 30 and when we made our own restaurant. I like the music I chose for my video.

Fing By Heidi And Mia

My reflection.
I was reviewing a book called Fing.  It was written by David Wallims.  I put background music on and  recorded.  I did it with my friend called Mia. In our video we said, "Hi my name is Heidi and this is Mia".  What was tricky was to remember the words.

what makes us kiwi?

My reflection

I am learning to find out what make us kiwi.I found it interesting that kiwi have a fizzy drink called l&p. This was my first time using padlet.

Comparing The Past And Present

Our amazing performance!

Showing Support for Christchurch Love Room 30

What is room 30's Favourite dessert?

What is Room 30s favourite dessert?

Welcome

Hi my name is Heidi. I am in Year 3 with Miss Tordeich. I hope you enjoy my learning journey :)

I am Learning to Solve Subtraction Problems by Counting back from the Largest Number.

I am in Toru for maths and we have been learning how to solve subtraction problems by counting back from the largest number. We do this by holding the largest number in our heads and using our fingers to count back.

My Reflection

I think that it is a bit tricky to keep the big number in your head and count back on your fingers, but I am trying my best. Counting backwards is a good way to solve take away problems.

I am Learning to Find Information from a Text.

I am in Max Group for Reading. I am Reading at Orange Level 16. We have been learning how to find information from a text.  We read the nonfiction book Guinea Pigs and made a mind map to show the different facts that we learned.

My Reflection

It was easy to find the facts in the book, especially because my neighbour has two guinea pigs. I liked reading about guinea pigs. I like them because they are cute.

I am Learning to add Detail to my Writing.

Room 8 has been learning how to add detail into our writing to make it more interesting. We can think about the questions: Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why? to help us add this detail.
We have recently started swimming again and chose this shared experience to write about.

I went swimming with my classmates. I went swimming on Friday and we did jump jam in the pool because we always do it on Friday. We do it to practice how to swim. The water was cold but I still had so much fun.

My Reflection

I am proud of my writing because it is a bit long. I think that I did a good job of adding detail. I think that it is a bit easy to add detail because you just have to answer the questions (who, what, where, when, how, why?). I think that I will try to add detail in my writing from now on to help to make it more interesting.

I am Learning to Draw Patterns.

Room 8 made flower headbands for the Term 4 Wearable Arts Show. We copied and created new patterns to put onto the different petals. We worked hard on our art and had a lot of fun making and displaying it.

I am Learning to Identify 2D and 3D Shapes.

In Room 8 we have been learning about Geometry. We have looked at different 2D and 3D shapes and their different parts. We learned that shapes have different numbers of sides, faces, edges and corners of vertices.

We had a lot of fun making monsters out of different shapes!

I have a monster. It likes to play with my toys. It is an octogon. It likes to eat cake.

My Reflection
I like my shape monster. She looks cute but I tried to make her look a little bit scary.
She is an octagon and if she was 3D she would be an octagonal prism.
I found geometry hard because I haven't learned it before.

I am Learning to Recognise and Read Long Vowel Sounds and Silent e.

I am in Thumper group for reading. We have been learning about silent e and how it changes vowels to make a long vowel sound.

Success Criteria:

- Read words without silent e correctly.

- Read words with the addition of silent e correctly.

- Understand that silent e changes the sound of the vowel.

My Reflection

I think that it was a little bit tricky to read the words without the silent e.

It is tricky because I am used to reading it the normal way with the e, they were not real words without the silent e.

I am proud of how I read most of the words right.

I am Learning to Try My Best.

I participated in the Junior Cross Country. We have been practicing every Tuesday and Thursday this term. I came in 3rd place!

I am Learning to Write a Cinquain Poem.

In Room 8 we have been learning how to write a cinquain poem. These poems have a special order that the words have to be put in. We have practiced writing cinquains in our writing books and published our most recent poems on Spring.

Success Criteria:

- All words must relate to the topic.

- The second line must contain two adjectives.

- The third line must contain three verbs with an -ing ending.

- The fourth line must be a four word sentence about Spring.

Spring

Fun, hot

Playing, running, swirling

The baby animals run

Lovely

My Reflection

I think that my poem is good because I wrote about the animals.

I think that cinquain poems are really hard to write because it is hard to think of the words.

I learned about adjectives and verbs.

I am Learning to Use Punctuation Correctly.

Last week we celebrated Matariki with a pyjama and breakfast morning at school!

It was lots of fun and gave us good ideas to write about. Our focus in writing has been on using different types of punctuation correctly.

I need to:

- Use at least two different types of punctuation.

- Use the punctuation in a way that makes my writing more interesting.

- Put the punctuation in the right places.

This morning we went to the Matariki breakfast. I had my own cereal! My mum did not notice that the teachers had cereal.

My Reflection

I am proud of how I used the exclamation mark right.

It can be tricky to put punctuation in the right places.

Next time I could try and use some different types of punctuation to make my writing more exciting.