E.M My Brother's War- Novel Study.

 Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello, everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a Perfect day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy we were are doing Novel Studies! So each reading group was assigned a Novel. In my reading group, The Kiwis, we supposed to read this book called My Brother's War. The book is about two brothers, William the older braver one that agrees with war, and Edmund the younger funny humorous, one that disagrees with war and They will both stand for what they believe in, even if it drives them apart. I would defiantly rate this book a ten out of ten, I would also give it a five-star novel! The book had death, happiness, Family, Friends, Connection, War, Intensity, and many more things, that you would want to find in a good book. I love this book and think it was very interesting! The slideshow down below has all the activities that I did for the book, and other things too! This whole book and the slideshow took me about 8-9 days to finish entirely. I also found this Hard because it took a long time and sometimes I was confused about what to do. I also found this fun and exciting! Fun Fact: Humans have jumped further than horses in the Olympics. Wow! That's crazy! Please go down below and check out the work I worked hard on and a lot of time out of my day on, I would really appreciate it if you would! (If you have read up to here, good on you!) If I could make my work any better and make it more BTB (Better Than Before.) Make sure to write it down below! P.S If you want to click on the Blue links down in my slideshow, just look underneath this blog post to see them. Thanks, bye

Eden. 

E.M Gallipoli Campaign.

 Hi everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, for our Novel Studies, for our last slide, we were supposed to pick one of the subjects and do a presentation about it. The subject that I chose off the slide was the Gallipoli Campaign. I chose to do three slides. One of them was What was the Gallipoli Campaign, What were the cause of the Gallipoli Campaign, How many Soldiers went to Gallipoli. This took me about 1 day to finish. I also found this easy because I have the internet, and I can search things up. I also found this fun and quite fun. Fun Fact: Glitter was made on a Ranch. Wow! I wonder why they made Glitter, and what was it intentionally thought to be used for? Please go down below and check out my work! If I could make anything better about my work, and make it more BTB (Better Than Before.)Make sure to write it down in the comments! I will also fix it on my next blog post! Thanks, bye,

Eden. 

E.M My Brother's War- Word Study.

 Hi everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we are doing Novel Studies! The book that I am reading is called My Brother's War. The book is about two brothers, William the older braver one that agrees with war, and Edmund the younger funny humorous, one that disagrees with war and They will stand for what they believe in, even if it drives them apart. I was so happy that I finally finished it! I almost finished the whole activity for the book! The book is very good and I rate it 10\10. So this blog post is about one of the tasks I have to do. It is called a word study. For the world Study, we were supposed to read through the entire book and find words that we don't know or are unfamiliar with. We were supposed to Find the page that the word was on, The context in which you find it, Your best guess on what the word means, The meaning, and the word in other forms, and your own sentence of the word. We were supposed to pick a minimum of 25 or more. I did 35 words. This took me about 8-9n days to finish, I also found this hard because it took me forever! I also found this frustrating and a bit boring. Fun Fact: Movie trailers originally played after the movie itself. Wow, I cannot imagine that happening! If I could make this blog post BTB (Better Than Before.) Make sure to write it down in the comments! Please make sure to check out my work down below! (If you made the caption up to here, your the best!) Thanks, bye, 

Eden.

E.M Remembering- In Memory.

Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a cool day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, We were supposed to read three books that are about Anzac that Miss Farr gave us to read, then we were supposed to do three activities for each book. (Nine activities in Total.) I am currently on my third and final book, and I am also on my last task for T-Shaped Literacy! This is exciting because that means I'm finished with all my school work and don't need to do any of it in the school holidays, and Yay! It's the last week of school for Term 1. Only three more terms to go. The category that I chose was: Remembering and the activity I chose was: Do you already know anything about this book or had any experiences related to the text. If so write about them. So In-Memory is a book about Remembering all the soldiers that died for us and served our country. It is also about when each town comes together and remembers the soldiers, which I did and experienced when I lived in Wellington, I used to go with my mum's Mum, Mum, and older sister. This took me about 20 minutes to make, I also found this easy, and a little bit fun and relieved that I'm finally finished all my work for the term! Fun Fact: There were active volcanos on the moon when dinosaurs were alive. If I could make my work better, or BTB (Better Than Before.) make sure to put it in the comments down below. Please go down below and read my work, thanks, bye, Eden.

One of the experiences that I experienced that is related to the book was when my family and I went to go to the memorial thing in Wellington mostly every Anzac. We would stay at my Mum's mother's house the night before Anzac, then in the morning we would go to the Anzac Memorial and stand there and sing songs. I remember many people there and some people were crying. ( I felt kinda bad for them.) This relates to my book because my book talks about some Anzac Memorials and it talks about what kind of memorial statue's there are. I don't really remember what memorial statue there was in Wellington. Overall I had a great time and I was always excited to go there every Anzac. 

E.M Applying- In Memory.

 Hi everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great awesome day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to read three books and do three activities for each book. So I'm on my third book and I'm also on my second activity. The activity I chose was from the category Applying. The activity I actually chose was: Write words for a Jingle about the book to encourage people to read it. This took me about 5 minutes to make and finish, I found this fun and enjoyable, I also found this hard because I had to think a long time about what wors would be in the Radio Jingle. So I hope that this Radio Jingle would encourage you to read the book. Also, the Jingle is underneath this caption. I hope that you like my work! Fun Fact: Cows don't have Upper Teeth. Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, bye, Eden.

(Tune.) New Zealand, New Zealand, you should read In Memory by Jack Phillips now!. (Singing ends.) It's all about Anzac and the War, very Educational. New Zealand, New Zealand you should read In Memory by Jack Phillips now! (Ends.) 

E.M The 28th Māori Battalion.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today, and yay it's the last week of school! For T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to research the 28th Māori Battalion. The 18th Māori Battalion was an Infantry Battalion of the New Zealand Army that served during the War. The 28th Māori Battalion was the most famous Battalion of New Zealand. They even have a video! To go and see the video of them doing Kapa Haka make sure to go onto my work and click the fag to go and check it out! This took me about 1 day to make, edit, put links, and finish, I also found this fun and exciting, I also found this hard because we had to make it as interesting and good as possible. Fun Fact: The man with the world's deepest voice can make sounds humans can't hear. That's... just... WOW! I'll show a picture down below of my work, but sorry you sadly can't click on the links, sorry. Please go and check out my work down below, and if there is anything that I could do to make this BTB (Better Than Before.) make sure to tell me down below in the comments! Thanks, bye, Eden.

E.M Understanding- In Memory.

 Tēnā Koe! How are you? I hope you are having a cool day today! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to read three books about the war and do three activities for each book and pick those activities from the activity chart. This is my third book and this is my first activity for the book. The activity I chose was from the category Understanding. The activity was: Draw a picture about how the text makes you feel, and explain in a diary entry how the text makes you feel. The diary entry and the picture are right underneath this caption. This took me about 20 minutes to make, I found this hard because I had to think hard about what to write and I had to think about the feeling I was feeling while reading the book, I also found this fine and ok. Yay, it's the last week of school for Term 1! Fun Fact: Armadillo shells are bulletproof. Wow, that means if you're trying to hunt one down with a gun and you shoot it on its shell, it won't work. (Also please don't hunt Exoctic animals.) Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, bye, Eden.

Dear Diary,

It's Eden here! I have recently learned about Anzac and the memorials that were built for the men and women that passed away in world war 1. I mean don't we learn about it every year, but this year was different. I had just started to realize how sad the story was. The book I learned more about Anzac was called In-Memory. That's where I started to feel sad. They went to serve our country and lots of them did not survive. So I definitely agree that they should be remembered. I am very sorry for those who lost their loved ones. I am quite glad that they put over 500 memorials around New Zealand! The feeling I got reading the book was: Sad. I am very grateful for the people that went to serve our country and gave up their lives for us.

Sincerely,

Eden.

E.M Evaluating- First World War Mascots.

 Hello, everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a delightful day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to read the three stories and pick three activities for that book on the activity chart. This is my second book and this is my second activity on the book. My book is called First World War Mascots by Philipa Werry. The book is explaining what mascots are and remembering what they did and how they helped us. The activity I chose was from the category Evaluating, and the activity was: Explain your feeling to a particular part of the book why do you feel this way? So the part of the book I chose was on page 2 of the book. That part explains what a mascot is and why did the soldiers have mascots. Read how I felt reading this down below this caption. This took me about 10 minutes to make and finish, I also found this easy but hard because I had to decide what part of the book to explain how I felt, I also found this great. if there is anything that I can do better next time, make sure to write it down below in the comments. Fun Fact: The population of New Zealand in 1914 was approximately 1.1 million. Wow! Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, Eden.

When I was reading what a mascot is and why the soldiers had mascots, at first I felt confused because I didn't know what a mascot was and why the soldiers had mascots. Then after I found out what mascots were and why the soldiers had mascots I was completely happy, not angry one bit, because the animals looked so cute and it hit the spot when they said that they had the mascots not only for help but for company. (That's like having a pet.) I was very happy but sad because later on in the book some animals passed away, but when reading page 2 I felt happy and not confused anymore. 

E.M Understanding- First World War Mascots.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope that you are having a beautiful day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we are learning about Anzac and the Mascots. The book I decided to read was First World War Mascots. It's about all the animals that stayed by the soldier's sides while they were at war and how they helped them defeat the other enemies. One of my favorite famous animals that were mentioned in the story was Pelorus Jack. He was a dog that helped a lot, but not in the war, on the HMS New Zealand. So I was supposed to choose something off the chart and I chose: Design a bookmark featuring the title, author, and a summary of your book. Decorate the bookmark with pictures of the book. To show you know about the book make a picture book. Illustrate the main idea of the book. Which I think is remembering the animals that helped in the first world war. I also think it's about the mascots and the book teaches the reader what mascots are and how they help, it also teaches them about animals and some of the animals that served in the first world war were exotic. This is my first task for my second book, just have one more book to go and two more tasks. This took me about 2 hours to make, I also found this exciting because I like doing crafts, I also found this great but kinda boring. Fun Fact: A snail can sleep for three years. All my work is down below. Please check out my work down below and if you have made it this far in the caption good job! You're a good reader. Thanks, Eden.