Katie's learning

extended abstract I can take action to improve the water cycle in Canterbury In this project I was working with Jacinta and we decided to create…A story book Here is a link what we made. Our book! In this project we decided that our success criteria were:   A good Children’s Story needs... Why is this important? Theme and plot It needs a plot and title or the reader will get confused and stop reading. A point, lesson and promotion There needs to be a point to the story and a lesson so when the person has finished reading they have learn’t something Story structure It will need structure to it as well because or there won’t be the main part of the story. Characters Make up your own characters to make the story more interesting! Setting It needs a setting. It could be in 1905 at war or the year 3000 in the future! Overall our project met/do not meet this criteria because...It has a good theme and plot (going to the beach). ...

Music Paste this into the blog post I can describe the characteristics of music in songs from the past and present and from different genres. Over the past 9 weeks I have been learning to describe the characteristics of music from songs of various times and genres. I can name and define these characteristics of music… (list them below and explain what they are) 1. tombra 2.harmony 3. rythem 4. melody 5. form What did you find most interesting during this topic. I found…….. listening to the music interesting because……I like listening to music it calms me down Which characteristic do you find yourself picking up on when listening to your own music now?form When I listen to my own music I often hear……… form because of the order of the song(explain how you can hear it)

The activity I did was Girls Football My highlights of Koru Games are: 1. Playing Hornby High because they had GREAT sportsmanship. 2. Watching the prizegiving because Oaklands boys A team got a gold medal. I am proud of our teamwork because at training we didn't do so well. Next year I will give another position a go because I am just hanging back at Defence.