Descriptive Writing and Linking Paragraphs

For the past two weeks of Term 3 for writing, we have been working on using our five senses and linking paragraphs. We had to write what we think the man in the picture can see, hear, feel, taste and smell, and write it in our perspective (I chose to write in third person view). But before we began writing, we went through a slideshow telling us how to write a proper paragraph.

I found it hard: Linking the last sentence from the first paragraph to the next one.

I found it easy: Finding adjectives (describing words)

I found it fun: Brainstorming the ideas for what we see, hear, feel, smell, and taste

WALT… 
-Use paragraphs to link similar ideas together
-Write in structured, well developed paragraphs that flow well from one to the next within the text
-Use linking words and phrases to link paragraphs for effect

He feebly stumbles to the cold wooden floor, on every attempt of getting up, he fails, his legs were too weak and couldn’t carry him, despite how skinny he looks. As every thunder passes by, his scars would appear, additionally revealing his skin covered in blood, what was covering it was his old, stained clothes, it looked like it hasn’t been washed in ages. He wondered what he would have to do to get this over with, but nothing, his mind was full of negative thoughts rather than thinking about how he would go on. As the rain falls, I could see the littlest light smoothly touch his skin, as the rain gently patted the window panes.

As the raindrops drip, he thought to himself, what would his family be doing right now? The kids would be outside, he remembered what he and his youngsters would do on a rainy day while leaves are fluttering across them. He imagined himself with his daughter and her older brother, holding hands in a circle, dancing and singing joyfully in the rain. His wife would be cooking dinner. He asked himself, "How did it all go downhill?"

Boring Street

This week for reading, we had to do an activity digitally from the story that we read called "Boring Street". I chose to do the first activity which was the one that we had to draw what we think the boys in the story looked like, then we had to write every information that we find about these boys.

I found it fun: Making the characters

I found it easy: Finding information from the story about the boys

Dumbo

Dumbo

From the past few weeks, we learnt about Dumbo. The story 'Dumbo' is about a baby elephant called Dumbo (even though he's supposed to be called Jumbo Jr. or Baby Jumbo) that was separated from his mum, as Mrs. Jumbo (Dumbo's mum) attacked the people in the circus. However, Mrs. Jumbo was just trying to protect Dumbo from the people that were being mean to him and calling him names, that's why she ended up hurting the troupe members. Dumbo tried his best to get her back, with Milly and Joe's help. The two kids soon then found out that Dumbo can fly with his large ears, he got inspired to do this when Milly and Joe gave him a feather, he sniffed it, sneezed, and next thing the kids knew, Dumbo was flying. Medici and the other people of the troupe decided to include Dumbo in their next show, (they didn't know that Dumbo can fly that time) his role was to put out the fire that was set in certain places, but things went wrong. The platform went up in the air while Dumbo was on it, and the troupe couldn't put him back down. Gladly, Milly was on the rescue, she gave Dumbo a feather as she remembered Dumbo could fly just by sniffing a feather. Her idea was excellent, Baby Jumbo finally flew with his ears, the crowd was amazed. I think Dumbo will soon try to find his mum.

I enjoyed: Making the characters' names

What I would like to do differently: Put more details on what the animals in the circus can do to entertain the audience.

What I found interesting: Making the characters by tracing them

The Perfect Gift

For reading from the past few weeks, we have been doing a slideshow about our reading activities. We had to choose five activities out of the ten of them. The title of the story that we needed to do two weeks ago was "The Perfect Gift". It was about a man who worked from home, and a stray cat that found the right house that she needed because winter was there. But when the the cat had to move houses as spring was approaching, she tried her best to find the perfect gift for the man as the cat wanted to thank him for taking care of her, so she somehow came up with a brilliant idea on what to give the man instead of giving him fancy things that he didn't need to use because he was already rich.

What I found hard: Doing the 'Seeing Both Sides' activity
I found it easy: Getting all the facts of the characters in the story
I found it fun: Making the Pictures
 

Ascension of Jesus

For R.E we have been learning about Jesus's Ascension. The disciples didn't believe Jesus when he said he was the Chosen One, but when he rose up to heaven and returned back on the third day, the disciples started praising him and they believed him. The hotel represents when Jesus went home to prepare, then the dove and the fire represents the holy spirit, the white candle and the holy water represents when Jesus told his disciples to spread the word, Jesus on a cloud represents him going back to heaven, and the cycle repeats on and on.

I found it hard (and fun) making the pictures
I found it easy thinking about how to describe the drawings that I made

Pink Shirt Day

"Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying."17th of May is Pink Shirt Day. If you don't know what Pink Shirt Day is for, it was when two students stood up for this boy that was getting homophobic bullied and harassed for wearing pink. We celebrate it by wearing pink on this particular date to show 'anti-bullying'.

Mother's Day Character Description

This week, we had to make a character description for the significant female in our life, I chose to wrote about my mum. I found it hard using the 'show not tell' in our paragraphs. I found it easy sorting the sentences into the right paragraphs, and I found it fun using Tagalog words for some sentences instead of English.

WALT: 

• Write a Character description
• Use ‘show not tell’ in our writing

My mother has dark brown eyes that shines like a star, medium-length hair with light brown highlights, a round face, soft angled eyebrows, long eyelashes, button nose, and thin, pink lips. But most of all, she has a great heart that warms everyone’s soul, and she has a smile that brightens up our day.

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, and your forever friend.” She’s my friend starting from the beginning, she was always there for me, especially when my dad was about to give me a ‘palo’ (smack in Tagalog) whenever I did something stupid. She always listens to my problems (and jokes) even though it’s ‘walang kwenta’ (even though ‘it doesn’t make sense’ for her) and to be honest, she doesn’t give the best advices; “Just ignore them” or even sometimes, she’d say “You’ll be fine” - but at least she tries to comfort us.

Sometimes the way my mum acts affects how we act. If she’s grumpy (like when she is when she gets back from work), to be honest we turn grumpy too. But as long as she’s happy, we’re delighted. If she tells us to do something in a grumpy voice, we act grumpily, and she would ask us in a bad-tempered tone “Why are you grumpy? I’m supposed to be the grumpy one here because of how you two behave!” Well yes, sometimes it is our fault why she’s grumpy (When we don’t do what we’re told to) so it’s not her to blame.

My mum is very organized, her perfumes are in a shelf, as well as her stuff that she puts on her face (facial creams, facial creams, and more facial creams), because of that, she doesn’t like it when we’re messy. If she sees stuff lying on the floor, expect her to yell at you, and mind you, if you don’t do what she says within a minute she’ll throw your stuff in the laundry (used or not used) or in the bin, and she’d lecture you about leaving your things unattended.

I don’t feel bad at all (Just joking, I do) when she does all the ‘gawaing bahay’ (chores) while my dad, me and my brother are being “helpful” people (not.) “Anak! Can you please help me do this?” says my mum and we reply with “Wait lang Ma!” (Just Wait, mum!) until she gets annoyed with it and she’d warn us that she’s gonna take our gadgets away from us if we don’t get in the ‘kusina’ (kitchen) in a minute.”

Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who carried me physically for 9 months, and for 12 years financially. Without you, I wouldn't have wrote this

- Love, your daughter,
  Angie