Animal Court Reflection by Carmen

Last week my group did a play we did the animal court. Now I am reflecting on what I did well.
I used the rubric below to reflect. Our literacy group made up the rubric that is down below. We all thought of ideas about what could be in the rubric and we picked the best 4 ideas. We used this to self-assess afterwards.
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The butterfly effect by: Shanya

Butterfly effect

I have been writing a chapter that I wrote for the book butterfly effect by Stephanie Matuku and the character inference chart next to it. I have drawn a picture of Mrs Anderson when she comes out of the cocoon.

Suddenly, the cocoon was shaking and it became pale and dull, it started to open slowly. Emily said  sternly in a shocked voice “Do you think that she will get us, once she has turned into a butterfly.” Then Henry replied “Yes I think so, because she doesn’t like us at all.” The cocoon started shaking even more, then all of a sudden a lady butterfly came out with pink faded wings and a butterfly gray dress. Mrs Anderson said softly and nicely to Emily and Henry  “Come on Henry and Emily I am taking you to the, shops to celebrate my success,”  then they thought how would she go to the shops without anyone knowing that she was a butterfly lady.They both noticed something different about Mrs Anderson. The thing they didn’t know was that once Mrs Anderson had turned into the butterfly she had became nicer,  because butterflies were nice.

The Butterfly Effect by Ashleigh

Use this organiser for narrative texts that you read.

What are the FACTS?

What did the character SAY?

What did they DO?

What might the character have been THINKING?Infer about the character - make judgements on the character’s personality

When Mrs Anderson became a butterfly, she was an ugly butterfly, she had black wings and gray body. “Mrs Anderson” Emily said it worriedly. Mrs Anderson turned off light and was flying around the house she didn’t want anybody to see her ugly wings. “Do not turn the light on” Mrs Anderson said softly. Suddenly Emily and Henry heard the strange sound “Is it a ghost?” Henry screamed, Emily turned the light on and they saw Mrs Anderson had  black wings and gray body, “What are you doing Mrs Anderson?” they asked curiously. Mrs Anderson was very angry and they also can see the smoke blowing out of her ears. Mrs Anderson quickly turned the light off again, and Mrs Anderson got out of the window and got back to her own spooky house.

Faith's postcard for Reaching Ray's Rock

In this graph it shows Dean's feelings from the start of the story to the end of the story. At first he felt confident but when his Dad said to him that the weather was bad his confidence began to go away. Then he felt really worried but when he was half way up the mountain his confidence came back but he fell down. When he got back up he pushed him self and started to say chants to keep his confidence up. When they had reached the top of the mountain he was very proud and that was the end of the story.

Charlie's Reaching Rays Rock

This Is My Post card To Dean from the story Reaching Rays Rock.This post card from Deans dad to Dean.

And underneth that is how he was feeling over time in the book.

At the Being of the story it is up because he does dont know about the thunder storm.Then its hits the unsure emotion because it is up to dean to decide wether they should turn back or not.Then it goes down to Scared and worried beacase he falls down in the snow and hits himself on a rock that is siting on the ground. Try reading the story to figure out the rest of the points on this drawing.

Maya's Reaching Rays Rock

WALHT: Empathise with a character in a story.

Learning Progression: Connecting - I can make connections within and across a wide-range of texts e.g. empathise with characters in situations, predict possible outcomes

Visualising - I use keywords, and descriptive phrases to imagine characters, settings and actions in novels

Success Criteria: Empathise with the character by considering their feelings  based on the details of the text and the description of the track. Creating a reflection postcard/letter from one character to another from the text.

Reaching Ray’s Rock by Helen O’Carroll School Journal P4 N3 2005

this is a gragh that shows deans feeling over time middle means unsure up means happy an own means worries

Carmen's Reaching Ray's Rock Postcard

WALHT: Empathize with a character in a story.

Learning Progression: Connecting - I can make connections within and across a wide-range of texts e.g. empathize with characters in situations, predict possible outcomes

Visualizing - I use keywords, and descriptive phrases to imagine characters, settings and actions in novels

Success Criteria: Empathize with the character by considering their feelings  based on the details of the text and the description of the track. Creating a reflection postcard/letter from one character to another from the text.

Reaching Ray’s Rock by Helen O’Carroll School Journal P4 N3 2005

This graph shows what Dean is feeling over time. When it goes down the first time it was because he had reached the snow line and it got very deep.When it goes down the second time he has to make a decision whether they carry on or they go back but Dean chose to carry on. When it goes up that's when Dean asked for a photo but Dad said no. The last part when it goes down is when Dean gets knocked of his feet and when it goes up for the very last time is when they made it to rays rock.

My post card

Curie's Reaching Ray's Rock Postcard

WALHT: Empathise with a character in a story.

Learning Progression: Connecting - I can make connections within and across a wide-range of texts e.g. empathise with characters in situations, predict possible outcomes

Visualising - I use key words, and descriptive phrases to imagine characters, settings and actions in novels

Success Criteria: Empathise with the character by considering their feelings  based on the details of the text and the description of the track. Creating a reflection postcard/letter from one character to another from the text.

Reaching Ray’s Rock by Helen O’Carroll School Journal P4 N3 2005

This graph show's how Dean was feeling during his time climbing the mountain such as when the circles are up it means he was safe but when it was down it means he was worried and the middle means he was unsure.When it was above the unsure he felt happy and he wanted to take a photo. But when he fell he felt worried that he would get hurt.

Ashleigh's postcard for Reaching Ray's Rock

Reaching Ray's Rock  by Helen O’Carroll School Journal P4 N3 2005

WALHT: Empathise with a character in a story.

Learning Progression: Connecting - I can make connections within and across a wide-range of texts e.g. empathise with characters in situations, predict possible outcomes

Visualising - I use key words, and descriptive phrases to imagine characters, settings and actions in novels

Success Criteria: Empathise with the character by considering their feelings  based on the details of the text and the description of the track. Creating a reflection postcard/letter from one character to another from the text. 

Deans Postcard by Shanya

Reaching Rays rock

by: Helen O’Carroll

WALHT: Empathise with a character in a story.

When we finished reading the book and having sometime to chat we had to, create a postcard from Dad to Dean or Dean to Dad, reflecting on the experience and how it has changed Dean for the better. The second activity we had to do was a beginning, middle to end emotion activity. We had to consider how Dean was feeling throughout the story. In the begging dean was feeling happy because it was his first time hiking up a real mountain. The middle was about him saying "How about a picture!" and him thinking about the weather made him feel bad. The end was about he reached Rays rock and seeing how far they have made.

Pativai's Reaching Ray's Rock

WALHT :Empathise with a character in a story.



Dean (The main character) at first when he was going to climb Ray’s Rock he was feeling happy then, the weather started to change and he started to feel unsure if he really wanted to climb the mountain.When he took his chance he started climbing and started to feel worried because of the weather.He started to feel really good about himself so he wanted to take an photo but they had to keep on going otherwise it would get worse.He felt proud of himself that he got to get near the top of Ray’s Rock.

This postcard that I wrote was to dean from dad for there adventure climbing up to Ray's Rock.He had so much fun and sometimes he was feeling happy sometimes he was feeling scared and sometimes he felt happy an scared at the same time .