Muriwai's Learning Blog

Muriwai's Reading Learning Story My book is called Al Capone and it was written by Alan MacDonald and illustrated by Phillip Reeve. My book is nonfiction and I liked my book because it was interesting and it told facts and true stories about what happened ages ago to the main character Al Capone. And I liked that they told about his whole life like when he became famous. Whenever I go to the library and I need to choose a book I look at the chapter books and I always make sure that I read the blurb before I read the book. Reflection When I was reading this book I was good at inferring what was going on in the story and I was good at analyzing and synthesizing by locating important information. My next steps are to find somewhere comfortable to sit where there are no distractions so I can read and I want to be able to evaluate information.

Muriwai’s Maths Learning Story Manusiu has 20 metres of material to make some tupenu for her family. Each tupenu needs 1.5 metres of material.  How many can she make? In our maths groups, we talked about this problem and my group and I thought that it might have to multiply in it so when we took the the pen we started thinking about how we could solve the maths problem. First, my group wrote 1.5x4=6 then 1.5x5=7.5 and we were trying to find out the answer but it was too slow then I remembered that you can multiply it by 10 to get an answer faster we wrote 1.5x10=15. Then there were 5 metres of material left so we wrote 1.5x3=4.5 and we put 4.5+15=19.5 and the answer was 13 because that was how much tupenu we could make. Reflection I was good at thinking because I was good at recording my ideas that got my group out of the pit and boosted our ideas. I was also good...

Muriwai's Writing Learning Story In my writing, I tried to hook my reader by using interesting words and I tried to make the reader feel like they are there in the moment in time by using present tense and using my hook.  As I’m in the line of boys I look around and see everyone else dancing but me. I hear the music that comes from the drums and the laptop, it makes me feel relaxed, tired and calm. I also feel like I can’t dance because if I get the dance moves wrong then I feel like people are just looking at me because I would not look the same as other people in my polyfest group. I hear the teachers telling me to dance but I don’t feel like dancing, I just want to listen to music. I am sweating because of how hot it is in this library. I hear the voices of everyone singing the song and the happy shouts from the teachers and other people watching. I feel like I have to dance alone and practice before I can even dance in polyfest practice. ...