Literary Devices | Poetry

LI: to identify and understand literary devices (language features) used in poetry.

Today I have completed another task for this week. For this task we had to identify and understand different language features (figurative language) that are needed in a poem. Then we had to make our own examples of them. Here are examples of language features needed in a poem:
simile - A simile is a device where a poet likens a person or thing to something else to create a more vivid impression.  A simile always contains the word ‘as’ or ‘like’.
metaphor - When using a metaphor, a poet says one thing is the other thing.
hyperbole - An unrealistic exaggeration used for emphasis. It is not meant to be taken literally.
personification - When you liken an object to a person or giving the object a personality.  It is a way of speaking about inanimate objects as though they were people.
repitition -  When a word, sentence or phrase is written more than once in a poem
alliteration - Alliteration is the use of words which start with the same sound to create an effect.
onomatopoeia - The use of words that have the same sound as the thing or action being described, or which gives a feeling of that particular thing or action.

Daily Maths Challenge 2 | Harvesting Mussels

LI: To create a DLO showing you working out 3 questions and the strategy you used.

Today I have completed the 2nd daily maths challenge. For this maths challenge the theme was on harvesting mussels. Like the first daily maths challenge there are 3 questions I had put out for me to answer. For those 3 questions I used division (÷), multiplication (x), addition (+), and subtraction (-) to find the answers. I worked independantly to complete this. On the DLO above I explained my strategies.

Haiku Challenge 2 | Poetry

LI: To write your own 3 verse story in haiku version about one of the following topics:  rain, mountains, trees, ocean, summer, winter, and sun.

Today I have completed the second Haiku challenge. Instead of creating one haiku of one topic, I created a 3 verse story haiku of one topic. The topic I chose was rain. This was a diffucult but fun challenge, the difficult part in this is that I couldn't find the words to describe rain. In the DLO above you can see my story about rain. Background story of the haiku was about a girl walking to school and its raining. 

Daily Maths Challenge 1 | Kahoa Lole

LI: To create a DLO showing you working out 3 questions and the strategy you used.

Today I have completed a daily maths challenge. For this maths challenge the theme was about Nana making Kahoa Lole's (lolly necklaces). There were 3 questions I had to answer. They were all the same question but different equation. I also had to show my strategy I used. On the last slide of the DLO I created a brief description on the strategy I used and how I used it. I worked independantly on this activity.

Maori Weather

L.I To learn how to say weathers in Maori.

Liletina and I worked fantastically on this task. We have learned a lot. The one thing we learned the most was saying Maori weather phrases. For this task we translated Maori to English so the reader's can understand how to say the word in Maori. Liletina and I have worked together and finished it together so we can understand how to say Maori weather words.

Haiku | Challenge 1

LI: To create your own Haiky poem usng the following topics: rain, mountains, trees, ocean, summer, winter, and sun.

Today I have completed another poetry challenge. I worked independantly for this challenge. For this challenge I created 3 of my own haiku poems. The topics I chose was Rain, Summer and Winter. A haiku poem is a tradition Japanese poem that consists 17 syllables and 3 lines. The first line includes 5 syllables, the second line includes 7 syllables and the third line includes 5 syllables again. To help me understand how to create a haiku I used my past knowledge in creating a haiku. In the DLO below it shows my haiku poems I have created.

Extra Research | What is a Haiku Poem?

LI: to create a DLO about what a haiku poem is. 

Today Liletina and I completed one of the weekly tasks set out for us. For this task we created a DLO about what a haiku poem is. A haiku poem is a traditional Japanese poem, it consists a count of 17 syllables. The first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the third line is 5 syllables again. Using our smart researching skills we found out that haiku in Japanese is spelt like this 
" 俳句" . Haiku poems weren't always called haiku, the previous name was hokku. Me and Liletina worked together fantastically.