Sunday, July 30, 2017

Writing Letters

Monday 31 July's Learning


Today we are going to begin our letter writing, this will follow on from the discussion and planning from last week. We are aiming to use this Unit Standard to be able to write letters of request to the SLT at Greymouth High School and to some members of our wider community to help us in various ways to be able to plan for our day out on the flood wall. It is my aim to have you all actively involved in the planning and required paper work for this opportunity to learn outside the classroom.

LI: We are learning how to write a formal letter of request.

SC: I can make notes on the model to identify the way the letter goes together.
SC: I can begin my own letter following the correct format.
SC: I can write my first paragraph identifying and explaining my own ideas.


Lesson Sequence

Class Reading

Letter writing activity.

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Our Great Place.

Monday 3 July's Learning.


Today we are going to begin our new unit of work, ' Our Great Place'. In this unit you will continue to develop your literacy skills with opportunities for a variety of reading and writing activities. The context for this study will be focused on our own community which I have referred to as, 'Our Great Place. ' During this unit, you will have several opportunities to work towards your next Level 1 communication English credits. In particular, we will be working towards completing the requirements for your Literacy Portfolio with the spoken interactions section. You will also have an opportunity to achieve the Unit Standards, 'To the Letter', and writing a short report.

Tutorials this week will be running at lunchtime to help those of you who still need to complete the reading and writing tasks of your literacy portfolio.
Times are; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday lunchtimes.
This must be completed by the end of Term 2.
Well done to those student who have already achieved this.

Nearly there team!

Lesson Sequence

Class Reading
Introduction to the new unit, 'Our Great Place'

Individual Activity. Task in Hapara

LI: We are learning about our local environment, and developing  this context into a literacy platform.

SC: I can correctly identify all the  places, symbols in the slide show.
SC: I can describe a selected slide comprehensively.
SC: I can select an image, discuss  my connection  to it.
SC: I can use my ideas/notes to  write about my personal connection with this place.