Baring Street

This week in Room 6 the whole class read a story called "Boring Street" the story was based on how a boy named Ryan moved from his old neighborhood into a new street called Baring Street but Ryan named it boring street. After we read the story we did follow up activities about it.

For this activity my goal was to act like you're looking out a window and you recall the most important event of the story. I choose this activity to make it digital, because it sounded very interesting and I like drawing characters on computer better.  It took me a reasonable amount of time to complete this activity, because I had some pieces of already drawn clothes from other drawings I have made. 

In this drawing Ryan and his friends Ze Minh and Heremia were fixing up the old skate park to make their boring neighborhood fun. I think that was the most important event of the story, because it made Ryan change his mind about the neighborhood he called "boring street".

What I found Challenging: Picking the most important event it the story

What I need to work on: Adding some more detail to my drawings

What I enjoyed: Drawing my characters 

Dumbo

In Room 6 just before Literacy time and after snack we read a book called Dumbo, every day Miss Alice reads it to us as a class. The story is about people and animals in the circus, each character has like a back story.  For Dumbo our WALT is we are learning to make connections between the main ideas in the story, and the world.  Every week after Miss Alice reads us Dumbo we have activities and questions to do about the latest chapters of the story, so far Dumbo has been pretty interesting.

When I do the follow up questions about Dumbo it is hard because I recap the what happened in the story. With the activities I like being creative when I do them, like drawing my own images.

Against the Wind

WALT- Identify complex themes and ideas in texts.

This week in reading my group read a story about how a young girl named Ai Mei who lived her whole life in China with her Grandfather and now she has to leave to New Zealand. She and her Grandfather like kites and they make them. Her and and her grandfather have been together since the day she was born. Her grandfather was sad to let her go. But she goes to New Zealand and she starts to feel homesick because everything is different. She finds it hard to understand because the teachers talk very fast also the rice doesn't taste the same like how it taste in china.


What I found Challenging - Making my character web
What I Enjoyed -  Drawing my poster and adding detail 
What I need to work on - Making my work stand out more

Copy Cat

WALT - Identify complex themes and ideas in texts.

Last week in my reading group we were reading a book called COPYCAT, for me it was an unusual interesting book.

The book was about two friends who are both good at working with computers, then they get a special message from COPYCAT. They open the message without being sure and then a door appears, they go through the door and enter into a game. They try to play  the game with a joystick but then they lose each other and they both thought each other got deleted. But then they find each other and escape the game. But the main message was to be careful online and to always be sure.

What I found Challenging - Managing my time
What I Enjoyed -  Drawing my own pictures
What I need to work on - Finishing faster