Wit review

Grit writing!

What would be persistence,determination and resilience all in one word? Grit of course! Grit is about not giving up straight away when you don’t get it right, you need to persist when learning gets tough.  To not get distracted and to stay focused! If you don’t persist you don’t get things done which means you won’t learn! Dedication pays off! Remember that.

In class one of the times I have used grit is…

In maths when I was learning how to add hundreths with tenths in decimals, because I didn’t know and there was no learning video so I tried to but got it wrong then I asked mr A because I didn’t understand. After that he had a workshop on rounding to help me and I understood that really well.

One of the times I have used grit in my life is….

In a netball game, when the opposition team had the ball and were passing to another player. Half way through the long pass I thought I wouldn’t of been able to intercept but I persisted by jumping as high as I could,and not being in the middle to be by the player who is being passed too. and in the end I got the intercept which caused us to get a goal!

Reflection- Jumping straight into the action.

This week in writing the LnP’s are learning about ways to hook your reader in the first sentence. This week I have learnt the 3d way to hook your audience which is jumping straight to the action.

Jumping straight into the action in the first sentence is about right then and there, when the action was happening. Not before or after right when it was happening.  I wasn’t here on Wednesday so Eliala taught me and showed me her writing.

I thought about something exciting and hooking to start my sentence with action. I decided to do the roller coaster at Rainbows End theme park in Auckland. Here is my writing :

I felt the air blow out of me awhile I tipped upside down. My hands gripped on so tight it was like I had super glue on them. We finally got back upright when I heard mum shout at me “Shanelle hold on tight!!”. I looked in front of me, my eye’s went wide open. Wooooossshhhh!! We zoomed down this what looked like a step as hill. I screamed my head off!

Plan views in math!

This week I have learnt what a plan view is,how to interpret plan views from a model made from a cube and also make a model from someone else's plan view. I found it quite easy once I did the first practise work, although some of my answers were wrong I found out why and fixed them up.

The second practise work book I found very hard. I didn't understand how you did it. Eliala,Tia and I went and talked to mr A and asked him. He said to build the model from the plan views on the page first. We built the model and then we realised the question was asking us to take off a cube and still have the same plan views. We found that quite easy, but then we had to add one on which made me kinda think that I couldn't do it .

We tried a lot of places to add the cube on but they didn't have the same plan views.... After a bit we thought that you couldn't add any cube on to the shape to make the same plan views.

Drama!

Yesterday for the second time Mr A introduced us to ‘Dramaaaa!’. We did a warm up to start off with (Which was really fun) . You had to pick a person to go with, I picked Michaela. Then Mr A gave you a letter and you had 2 minutes to find out everything you could mime starting with that letter.

Mr A gave Michaela and I the letter B. We came up with Beer (Like the alcohol), And a bear. Also we got Bench that you eat on. But the catch was you only had 30 seconds on the stage to mime what you came up with. The rest of our class guessed bear,beer but they didn’t get bench. Emily put her hand up and guessed “Eating breakfast?” She was close but it was bench. In the end we got 3 points.

I really enjoyed doing drama and I think that all schools and classes should be doing drama.

Len Lye Centre Visit...

My eyes said it all. High ceilings made me feel like an ant (not that people don’t call me one already). Voices echoed throughout the building. Of course there was noise with rooms 10 & 11 in the new Len Lye Centre.

We got lead into a dark room with different pieces of artwork that I haven’t seen before. Movement and sound surrounded me. There was a lot of really unique artwork in that room but one caught my eye in particular.

My favourite piece of artwork that I got the opportunity to really have a good look at was called something similar to ‘Grass’. Stainless steel strings swayed across in different directions. It made me feel very graceful. The bottom of the artwork was polished wood that shone in the light.

I really enjoyed going to the Len Lye Centre, Len Lye was very original and added sound and movement, Which really hooked me in to see more.

Doodle 4 Google !

Shanelle Candy

Dinorassic World

My doodle for google represents Dinosaurs and their existence on earth as a living creature. If I got to travel back in time I would most definitely want to see dinosaurs, they have something special about them. But I would not want to be eaten by a Dinosaur!