Writing Explanation - My Idea for a fun Weekend

WALT - plan for a piece of explanation writing
Success Criteria:
    - Fill out the Explanation Plan
                - Use the Title - My Idea of a Fun Weekend                - Include an Introduction
                - Write 3 paragraphs with different Information to explain your
                   Fun Weekend
                - Write a Conclusion

Title	My Idea of a Fun Weekend
Introduction	Today I am going to explain to you 3 main  ideas of having a fun weekend.
Information 1st element	The first idea out of my 3 ideas i have is making diy crafts with your siblings or your friends. The reason why I have picked this is because it is a fun thing to do in the week and you can be creative by drawing, painting and designing your artwork.
Information 2nd element	Next is an idea i have come up with is going to the swimming pools with your family. I know some people might have write something like this but I am just writing this because most people love to go swimming in the weekends. You can spend time practising swimming lessons and also playing in the water.
Information 3rd element	My last idea of a fun weekend is to make or cook something in your kitchen. Making something is the weekends is a cool thing because make anything you want. You can make cookies, pizza, cakes, cupcakes all sorts of yummy treats you love.
Conclusion	This is now the end of my ideas for  a fun weekend. I hope you use these ideas for weekend and I hope your weekend will work out great!! The most enjoyable and best idea for a fun weekend must be making cookies or whatever treats you want eat.

This is my explanation writing. We had to explain ideas of having a fun weekend. Our literacy class had to explained the title, introduction, info element 1, info element 2, info element 3. After we have finished we had to post it to our blog.  

Explanation writing : Why People Need to Drink Water

WALT - Plan for a  piece of explanation writing.
                  - Use the' Title-Introduction-Information-Conclusion (TIIC)
                       structure.

Title	Why People Need to Drink Water
Introduction	Today I am going to explain why people need to drink water and to stay hydrated throughout the days.
Information 1st element	People need to drink water so that they can be hydrated. If you are not hydrated and not drinking water that much. It will lead you to headaches. Humans also need to drink water because it is good for your health and it will help you survive.
Information 2nd element	We also need to drink so that we don’t have high blood pressure, it is also good for your skin to do it’s job of regulating your body temperature through sweating. If you drink more water. It will get out waste quicker.
Information 3rd element	Don’t drink too much water before you will have fatal diseases and it will cause the level of salt, or sodium in your blood to drop low. It is a condition called hyponatremia. That is also called water intoxication.
Conclusion	This is the end of my writing and I hope you've got more ideas of why water is good for you and why drinking too much water is not good for you.

This is my writing template that I have finished from week 3. I have to write an explanation about why people need to drink water. 

Water Wise

WALT -   I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world.



Today I have posted my reading presentation about water wise. My reading group Matai has been reading about water cycles and where water comes from. We had to answer the following questions and answer them. This is now my finished presentation.

Word Problems Wk3

WALT -  Continue a sequential pattern and find a rule 



This is my word problem presentation. We had to answer the following strategies to solve word problems. My maths group Tapaono has to finish this presentation and postit to our blogs. This is now my finished presentation.

The Kete of Knowledge

WALT - Make connections between our prior knowledge and examples within the text in order to understand more abstract ideas in the text.




Hi and welcome to my first blog post of 2017. This week's blog post is about The three Kete of knowledge. We had to answer the following questions on the presentation. My reading group Matai has been working on a poster and we have been finishing it off so that we can post it on our blog.