WHAT?

This week I am reflecting on one of my writing goals

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to:

* use a variety of sentence starters

This week I have been focusing on how to write a drop-in clause

SO WHAT?

Here is an example of a drop-in clause

Mr Forman is our teacher.	He loves his red car.
Mr Forman, who is our teacher, loves his red car.

Mr Forman is the subject of the sentence.

We change ‘He’ to ‘who’

We place commas around the clause we ‘drop-in’

MY EXAMPLES:

Here are two examples of a drop-in clause that I have created.

[1] Maxim, who likes to play soccer, is awesome.

[2] The dinosaur , who was singing Barbie Girl , was chasing the boy.

NOW WHAT?

I rate my understanding level at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My confidence level with using these types of sentences independently in my writing is

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

   My writing goals for term 2

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to ;

* organise my writing into paragraphs 

*use a variety of sentence starters  

*use the correct language feathers of a narrative dialogue 

Use a variety of sentence starters 

To help me with this goal I am using a 'Sentence Starter Menu '     

Year 6 Camp at Waipara

On the 22 of February Rm 10,11 and some people in Rm 24 went to the year 6 Camp at Waipara. On the bus it took us about 1 hour to get to Amberly to have a stop for a toilet stop. After that we headed for to the camp. Then we got into our groups . The groups were Tahi,Rua,Toru,Wha,Rima,Ono,Whetu . Those are numbers in Maori. I was in Rima witch is five in Maori . Two of my friends (Logan and Ashton) were in Toru (3). Daniel B my other best friend was the leader for Rua (2). Then after we got into our groups we went to our first activity. My first activity was abseiling this activity doesn't involve water . This activity is where you have to climb down a rock wall with a harness of course because then you would fall down and hurt yourself and you wouldn't be aloud to do  certain activitys. After all the groups finished the activity they were doing we met everybody where we got into our groups,  we had some cookies/biscuits. then after that we went to the lake to have some free time swimming. Some people thought that there were eels in the water, but there were non which was great. It also had a rope swing which also was fun to have a go on it. Mr Forman was the first one to go onto the rope swing. There are two different rope swings, a low one and a high one, I liked the high one because you make a really big splash only if you swing and jump really high. Then we got all of our towels and went back to our bunk rooms to change into dry clothes. We all met back near the dining room.

My peace dove

Last week room 5&6 made peace doves. Room 5&6 went to look around in room 5&6 and write down things that you like about that exact person. When your twenty full you go back to the mat. Then Miss Coad started giving us our three peace doves. I only finished two of my peace doves and then in about two days we get our faces to put on top of both the doves and connect them to a piece of string.

WALT:make peace doves

SO WHAT:I learnt that lots of people liked me.

NOW WHAT:my next step is to work more

My spelling

WALT spell new sentences using new words from our notebooks.

I decided to go to a picnic with my family.

I was getting an Xbox one on my birthday.

"I'll eat some food" I told my mum!

I'm going to my friends house.

I knew my mum would come to pick me up at school.

It took 15 minutes for me to wait for my mum.

We went to the palace.

When I was outside, suddenly I heard a loud noise.

I wanted to get an i-pad mini.

My mum bought a toy for my brother.


My next step: is to use these words more often in my writing so I don't forget how to spell them.

How I woke up with wing's

On day I woke up with wing's, white wing's. I thought to myself "was I turning into an angel". What should I do? Tell my mum how I woke up with wing's? Actually I probably shouldn't because she would scream a-lot. Could I fly?I'l try to?Should I tell any of my nice friend's? I would like to fly to a fantastic country that isn't somewhere in New Zealand. I thought to myself "are those wing's fake, probably  they were fake or maybe they were?

What? WALT write a story how we woke up with wing's

So what? i learned how to use discriptive language 

Now what? my next step is to use more discriptive language 

Maxims word work

WALT: Learn how to spell new words correctly

decided decided decided decided decided

On Friday I decided to go to the restaurant for dinner. 

 I decided to go to the park with my friend. 

Next Step: Use this new word in my writing.