Muriwai's Learning Blog

Muriwai’s Writing Learning Story Personal Profile We have been writing personal profiles. In my personal profile, I tried to hook the readers in by using my hook and make the readers work something out for e.g, I told the readers my name and told them I was going to tell them about myself. I was good at sharing information about myself in an interesting way for e.g my family and what I was good at. Also, I told the reader that I wanted to be a animal instead of a human I used paragraphs in my writing to make it clearer and easier for the readers  to read it. The next steps I want to use another way of making the reader want to read more, like putting  in anecdotes or examples, and carefully  choosing language to create a picture for the reader. Also, I need to write really interesting hooks to hook my readers and use  clever dialogue. My personal profile is about what I'm good at, what I like to do and where I'm from. ...

Muriwai’s Technology Learning Story In technology, we are in group 3 music. The teacher played some songs to  check if we knew the song, artists and instruments then every group in  music had to pick out a song. We chose our instruments then we practiced  until we got our instruments right I played the piano my group's names  were Porirua and Tru. Porirua had the drum and Tru had the guitar. Next steps I want to try to learn 3 instruments next year in technology and I want to try to get one of the papers we put into the music box. I was good at the piano but when we performed and recorded our band, I  was scared. I was good at answering the questions in my book about the  songs we tried to figure out at week one of technology. In technology, the things that were hard for me was asking the teacher  for help when I was stuck on the piano and playing the piano when we  performed.

Muriwai's P.E Learning Story When we go outside and play games we play dodgeball I am good at sharing  the ball to my team so that we can all get a turn with the ball in dodgeball Next steps sometimes I stay out of the game because I don’t like the game but  I want to get into games that are hard for me so I can get better at sports and  I want to get better at catching in dodgeball and in tea ball When we played tea ball I liked to play as a fielder whenever I have the ball I  give it to my team so it will be easier to catch the batters. I don’t like to be a  batter because I can’t bat that far but this term I’m getting better at taking risks I was good at throwing the ball hard and low so the other team can’t dodge the  ball I throw or catch me out. Next steps I want to participate and take risks step out of our comfort zones and reflect on our feedback performance and get feedback so we can improve.

Muriwai's Art Learning Story In my surrealism art it was hard to draw the face shape I kept on drawing the face shape until I liked it. I drew over the lines with pastel so I couldn’t see the other lines I drew I tried to make it look like me but with different colors then I outlined my face.  In my surrealism art, I swapped my mouth for a banana because it is one of my favorite food  When I was drawing my surrealism art I kept looking at my personal profile to help me to swap something in my face with what I like and what I like to do.  I was good at coloring in my face and the back round and I was good at drawing the eyes nose and the mouth and I was good at using unusual colors for facial features. The colors I used were black, yellow, brown, red, green and skin color because those are some of my favorite colors. Next steps I want to be able to include lots of detail and put something about the person inside or near their portrait and combine se...

Muriwai’s Reading Learning Story When you read do you get a picture in your head? My book title is The boy at the top the mountain The author is John Boyne My book text type is a fiction A problem when I was reading this book was that I didn’t know what the story meant because  there were long words. I couldn’t think of what those words could mean. I am good at reading because I can analyse and synthesise in lots of books. In The Boy at  the top of the Mountain I analysed  and synthesized  and came up with my own idea - it was when the boy was in his bed he couldn’t sleep because he had bad dreams about strangers  coming into his house. I look for clues in the book and I can  locate important information . I can do this by focusing and I can find clues in the story. What I want to learn in reading next time is to infer information. I want to become a good reader and so I can read higher text levels and read big books ...