Figurative Language 121119

Jasmine Tokoa

Tuesday 12 November 2019

WALT - create a DLO to teach others about figurative language

SUCCESS CRITERIA - to be successful…… - I must make sure my explanation is clear
- I must define figurative language.
- I must include examplesI can put a link to a video
- I can include an activity to check their understanding

Figurative Language	Literal Meaning:	Figurative Meaning:
Metaphor	“ I’m really mad at you.”	“I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!!”
Metaphor	“I’m starving!”	“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”
Metaphor	“She cried for long.”	“She cried so long she cried a river.”
Simile	“I am well known, and shine.	“I’m as bright as a diamond.”
Simile	“ I smell really bad.”	“I am as smelly as a bin.”
Simile	“My teeth is really white.”	“My teeth is as white as snow.”
Personification	“It was windy.”	The leaves waved to me in the wind
Personification	“The volcano erupted.”	“The volcano spat out lava.”
Personification	“The stars shine bright.”	“The stars winked at me late at night.”
Hyperbole	“I am really tired.”	“I could sleep for a century.”
Hyperbole	“He was brave like a lion.”	“He was a lion in the fight.”
Hyperbole	“She smiled feeling proud.”	“Her smile is bright as the sun.”

Glen Innes Local Pools 121119

Jasmine Tokoa

Tuesday 12 November 2019

Glen Innes Swimming Pool is a significant

residence for the community. It brings children joy,

and lightens their sensational day, with the splash of water. 

Swimming is good!

One of the many things people tend to do is swim.

There is a variety of choices to do in the pool,

such as backstroke, or freestyle. We could also race,

or compete against each other to see who can do it best!

The movement is difficult, but the technique is so much fun!

Swimming also impacts on your health.

Swimming can deal with stress relief,

and help to maintain your heart rate.

The flow of the water is just so relaxing!

Swimming benefits the lungs and muscles,

it also helps maintain a healthy weight.  

It is vital knowing how to swim. 

Swimming can construct joy for everyone,

but without the ability of knowing how to swim,

it is most likely dangerous to be around deep water. 

Why is it important to learn how to swim? 

New Zealand has one of the highest fatal

drowning rates in the whole of OECD.

In 2017 there were 92 preventable deaths.

Most of these deaths were caused by not knowing the skills,

and experience of swimming. In other words,

by not know how to swim. Each person has the right of learning how to swim.

There has been 107 deaths caused each year,

due to the fact of drowning. 

At Glen Innes Pools, learning how to swim is a piece of cake.

We have intructors who explain how to swim,

and what to do in a certain aspect. For this reason,

we can reduce the numbers of drowning in New Zealand.  

As you know, in Glen Innes Pools, swimming lessons for children,

or older folks are available.

Glen Innes Pools is a fun and caring enviroment.

It’s a place of laughter,

where people come at anytime of the day.

Many things occur at Glen Innes Pools,

such as birthday partys, or somewhere to go with a couple of friends. 

Come to Glen Innes Pools!

Reading Comprehension 051119

Jasmine Tokoa 

Tuesday 05 November 2019

The text talks about the Amazon Forest.
In the centre of this forest lies a river which elegantly flows.
The river is well known,
by being the worlds second largest river.
The forests majestic life comes from this river.
It adds to one of the many things why this forest is so unique.
The forest is almost the same size as the continent of Australia.
In other words, 2.8 million squares miles long. Amazing right!

The questions were mixed between another,

yet was quickly for me to answer. From my opinion,

the questions weren’t very tricky,

and I was able to answer it very fast.

I took at least 20-30 seconds to answer each question. 

I learnt that the Amazon forest has multiple layers.

The bottem layer (forest floor) hardly shows any sunshine,

very few plants grow amongst the forest floor.

I found this reading comprehension very fun. Why?

Most comprehensions take forever to read, the paragraphs are long,

and questions also refer as paragraphs.

This reading comprehension came and went like that!

I even got a score of 10/10 to! I enjoyed my time doing the comprehension. 

Birds 121119

Jasmine Tokoa Tuesday 12 Novmeber 2019

She had spent so long with only the birds for company.

Mesmerised by their beauty,

Sarah would gaze at them for hours on end,

in awe of their weightlessness as they fluttered their wings

and rose up; free from the confines of the cage.

Perhaps it was because she had watched them so carefully.

Perhaps it was because she had wished hard to be

as free as they looked when she opened the catch on

#their tiny prison door. When they crouched their legs,

pushing their bodies into the sky each face was lifted.

The wings fled through the warm wind as the air ran

through their fluffy feathers. With the wind in their faces,

the cool breeze felt perfect on a hot, sunny day.

The water glistened, and other types of birds chirped.

The sun shone bright, and the trees danced from side to side.

Sarah stops to see them landing for a drink at the nearest river,

the water looked cool and fresh. It wasn’t just an ordinary water,

they happened to mistakenly drink poisoned water.

The water contains a powerful yet toxic poison.

This poison spread throughout the body fast,

and had a major impact on the birds.

They soon realized they couldn’t fly, or even stand up properly.

They immediately screamed for help.

No one cared enough to help,

30 minutes later they were still screaming for help.

Then suddenly someone heard screaming and

thought it was nothing. But the screaming continued.

River Talks 071119

Jasmine Tokoa

Thursday 07 November 2019

Omaru Creek. The reserve is an opened space.

Back in the day,

children found it as a special place to play, a spot to laugh,

or hang with friends. Over the time,

those specials moments slowly became memories.

Children hardly come out to play, or walk using this space.

Little kids find Omaru Creek boring,

they find the reserve as a waste of space. 

Tamati and the council refuse to sit and watch

their childhood memories fade away.

At the river talks we can learn how to take care of our reserve.

We could learn to change things around,

and create a park using this space.

What a good idea! Right?

I believe Eastview Reserve deserves better, and we could do so much more! 

Speech: Smoking 121119

Jasmine Speech: Smoking 

Smoking, what do you think it does to you?

Smoking can cause multiple impacts on

your life and health. There are many different

ways that smoking can affect you.

Smoking can cause numerous diseases in

your body, it also has the ability of causing death. 

Smoking forms a variety of problems in

your system, contructing intacs in different

parts of your body. It causes multiple organs to

struggle with working properly. It effects the nose,

throat, stomach and even your lungs. It also attacks other things like your vision,

your blood and bone marrow. 

Smoking could also been known as vape.

There is no excuse to vape.

People asume vaping causes less harm,

they are wrong. Vaping causes heart diseases,

as well as smoking.

Smoking causes around 50,000 deaths per year.

By reducing the amount of cigarettes to smoke

in a month or day,

you could also help reduce the number of deaths. 

There’s one main thing in a cigarette

that poisons the body, “Tare.”

For every cigarette you smoke,

you put between 7 to 22 milligrams of tare

into your body. Tare is a chemical in the smoke,

you can’t see it, but you are able to smell it.

Smoking can also cause harm to your lungs,

which is needed to breath. Smoking is an expensive

habit which people find hard to give up.

Every cigarette you smoke reduces

your expected lifespan by 11mins.

A single cigarette contains over 4,800

chemicals and 69 of them are known to cause cancer. 

People might of started smoking because

they thought is was cool, or they had hard

times in life or even just started smoking

because others did. Please, think before you

start smoking, so you can live a longer, happier and better life.

Thank you

Inferences Match Report November 2019

Jasmine Tokoa

WALT: understand the difference between an inferential and literal question

Challenge: Identify the author’s purpose, and language features that help show this.

New Vocabulary During your first reading, share any new words that you do not know the meaning of. Write the word and in brackets put the page number. EG: horrified (23)
commentary(1)	disloyal(1)	greedily(2)	wonky(2)
firmly(1)	grenades(2)	defensive(2)	thrust(2)
distributing(1)	mantlepiece(2)	boundary(2)	gunning(3)
approvingly(1)	shined(2)	Bobbing (2)	Thrust(2)
steadily(1)	beckoning(2)	bitterly(2)	Forcing (1)

WEEK 1 Guided Reading Questions

Pages 2 and 3

Comprehension:

• Page 2: Where did the game take place? What were some of the landmarks around the area? Aurthur Fong Park with the Grey River on your right and Tasman sea on your left. 

• Page 2: Who opened the bowling?

Harry

Inference and Deduction:

• Page 2: Why did G approve of putting Paroa into bat first? Because he called the right toss

• Page 2: Who is G and how old is he? 89 , grandfather

• Page 3: Who is Sandra? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Sandra’s G’s relative. She was giving out laundry holding pills for G.

Organisation:

• In what way do the images support and add to the story? Which image does this best on these pages and why? 

Represents their bond and their love for cricket

Which idea in this paragraph is linked to the

next paragraph? They proudly cheer for the same team.

• How could altering the punctuation in this paragraph change the meaning? It can effect the tone of the author

Exploring Language:

• Page 2: ‘…Match reports in tandem…’ What does this phrase mean? Chocolate finger. Find examples of this in the text.