What Do You Know About Mood And Atmosphere

 For the last few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning about mood and atmosphere. We had 3 texts to pick from, they were called The Promise, Mirror Image and Brave Flower. For my story I picked The Promise, The Promise is about 5 kids that are trapped in a bunker and there are bombs going on outside and they are arguing when the right time to go and get more resources. With the story we had to pick a small extract from the story and find all the language features like metaphors,similes, concrete nouns,verbs and adverbs. When we found a language feature we would try and find what mood the sentence made for example  The colours in the bunker were muted, fading in the grey shadows. The author uses the words muted, grey and fading to make a mood of gloom, and then we had to write why. When we finished we had to right a script to explain what we learnt for a DLO. Can you analyse a text for its mood and atmosphere?

Here is my script so far.

The Best Teacher Ever

At the start of the year we were so lucky to get a new teacher Whaea Shanna. Whaea Shanna is a really  funny  teacher and she loves sports. Later in the year Whaea Shanna gained confidence and got more interactive with us students. All throughout the year we have been doing a lot of P.E and sports and it has been really fun. Whaea Shanna has taught us  lots of skill in P.E like passing and catching using our teammates but also she teaches us Math, T-shaped and more. Whaea Shanna is one of my favourite teachers we have had at this school. Do you have a teacher as great as Whaea Shanna!? 

What Do You Know About T Ball

 n Te Ngahere we have been learning a game called T Ball. T ball is like cricket theres a fielding team and a batting team. If your on the batting team you hit the ball and when you hit the ball you drop the bat and run to the 1st base. If the batting team make it all the way round the field they get a home run. The fielding team have to try get the ball and get it to the base before the person on the batting team gets there. One hard thing was catching the ball also it was a bit hard hitting the ball off the t ball stand because sometimes you hit the stand and not the ball. An easy thing about it is throwing the ball to the base. Have you ever played T ball?