Informal to Formal Letters

Today for reading we are learning how to change an informal letters to formal. The yellow one is the informal, because it use 'took forever'. The blue one is formal I remove the 'took forever' and replacing it with 'service is quite slow'. Changing informal letters to formal is very easy, you just need to change some words to make it really formal.

Niuean Language Week

This week is the Niuean Language Week. Today I made a DLO that shows name of the fruits and name of the Animals into Niuean Language. I think this DLO helps to learn some Niuean Language. For this activity I worked with Miki. Click the words that you want to listen so you will know how to say it the sounds.

Tech Reflection

Today for tech we are now finishing our design and transferring it to a wooden board. Some people is carving it and some of us is catching up. My design is all about my country, I did different types of patterns and I also put my flag, which is flag of Philippines.

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi can we are learning about respecting our school, teacher and other students. What are rules in our school? No phone aloud, No lollies, Only water. Why do we have rules? we have rules so we can make our school better, cleaner and safer. Our Care Values in our school, Confidence, Attitude, Respect and Excellence and Innovation.  Should we drink fizzy drink at school? No, because it is a policy that we should obey. Should we have rules at our School? Yes we should, because it will make our school safer and better.

National Shakeout Day

Today is the 2018 October the 18th which is a National Shakeout Day. We learnt that if the Earthquake comes we need to do three simple step which is Drop, Cover and Hold. For this activity I worked with Miki and Reneir. One of the thing that I learnt was first Shakeout day was on the 2012 October the 18th. I think it is very important to know what we need to do when the earthquake comes.

Narrative Poem

Today for reading we are learning about Narrative poem at the start we read a narrative poem that was written by Pam Ayers, she is a famous poem writer, song writer and also a comedian. Narrative poem is a story about someone or the narrator. Some narrative poem is only a joke and it shouldn't take it personal. 

Formal and Informal Letters

Today for reading we are learning about formal and informal letters. The first one is formal because it uses, 'I am writing to complain' it is very formal to use it and it also uses 'a great deal of litter' instead of 'loads of rubbish'. The second one is informal because it is talking to a friend and it use words like, 'dead busy' and to 'get ready', 'dead busy' is informal language that what it makes the second one informal letter. You can identify if its informal or formal by looking to the language it uses in the letter or text message. You can use informal language if your talking to your friends or family also you can use formal language if you are talking to your teacher, boss and workmates.