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Monday 30 April 2018

From Grotty to Great: how we made an art gallery in our cloak bay.

That title sounds a bit like a novel title to me, but it's not! It's a great description of the way we worked really hard to take our cloak bay from grotty to Great!!

Here are some examples of the finished art works.  See the reports on our personal blogs to see how the process worked to create these. 😎







































Fractions in every day life.

Did you know that fractions surround us in everything we do?

In class today we hunted about to find some, and they weren't hard to find at all! First, Mr Gunn had us get together a group of ten random objects. Then, he had us think about some attributes that could be used to describe the objects in our group of stuff. After that Mr Gunn made us sort the objects into smaller groups using the attributes and finally we had to describe each small group as a fraction. Phew!

On our individual blogs you can see the pictures of our results.


Thursday 5 April 2018

Crafting Writing for an Audience

WALT: craft our writing to suit an audience.

Do you know the difference between writing for formal occasions and causally chucking down a few lines of text for the fun of it? Which has more rules?
More on this in a minute...

Today in the Tui class, we have been looking at ways to share a little bit of who we are using our blogs. Mr Gunn asked us if we knew the difference between formal and informal. We weren't sure so we compared some photos and tried to see if we could work it out for ourselves. Here are two of the pics:

Which one do you think is formal and which one is casual?

We decided that the one on the left is the formal one and the other casual. Do you agree?

Mr Gunn told us that a blog post about our life is more like the cool dude on the right and our explanation or instructional writing is more formal like the sharply dressed man on the left.

Both are cool and each have a particular time and place.

Audiences are bit like the people at the places where these guys are.

The people at the fancy party where that tuxedo man is would expect him to behave very sensibly and follow the etiquette of that place.

At the beach where the other dude is headed, there are way less rules about what you can do or wear.

Our blog posts this week reflect the more casual relaxed type of writing that enables us to share our opinions about things we like in our lives.

You can have a look at our posts by clicking through to our individual blogs using links on the left.