We listened to the audio book of “The boy in the Striped pajamas” by John Boyne. After every chapter we explored the mood and atmosphere and summarised it into 10 sentences. The mood is the feel of the actual reader and what they are experiencing or feeling. The Atmosphere is the feeling or vibe of the physical location in the book, story or movie. We worked collaboratively to summarize all of the sentences. This helped us practice s/c/c sentences. Some days we used a Gem to help us summarise the prompt and other days we went without it. Something that I found interesting about these chapters is the fact how Bruno and Shmuel held onto their friendship untill the very end.
Digital Art – Panmure Basin
We recently made a tracking and Google digital art of the panmure basin after we finished our basin walk in panmure!
Tree Octopus – Literacy exercise
We learnt recently about the Tree Octopus, The Tree Octopus was a false creature made to check or test our research skills and as a digital exercise in literacy online, we were told to use a specific site that tells us about this fiction animal like why its extinct, how it moves through trees, its name and much more about this creature.
Mood, Atmosphere & Characterisation – Boy in the striped pajamas
We recently learnt about Mood, Atmosphere and different types of characters. We learnt this while reading the story “Boy in the striped pajamas” which is a story about the German strike on the Jews. Shortened, Mood is the feeling of the reader when something happens, the Atmosphere is the feeling of the physical location in the book. The protagonist is the main character in the story who have to avoid obstacles and evolve and learn lessons from the antagonist who is the one opposing the protagonist and is doing almost anything intentionally or unintentionally to stop the protagonist from carrying on. Round characters are characters with more emotions and more active and act like people more than others, and finally flat characters are characters who have low screen time and don’t act that much and only have 1 episode or chapter where they effect the story in a way.
Mood-O-Meter
We were challenged by our teachers to see if we could create a Mood-O-Meter which is our way of checking the mood of 1 or 2 certain characters throughout the story or a chapter. We’ve used this for the story called “The boy in the striped pajamas” which we’ve finished reading and has 20 chapters. In this “Mood-O-Meter” we tried to guess what the main character Bruno could’ve felt throughout the story from the top being Elated meaning super excited and happy and the bottom is to being hopeless or insanely sad.
Learning Journey – 2026
This week we’ve been trying to make our Learning Journey which shows what we’ve been leaning throughout the year! This was also create for our student conference which is where our parents, mums dads come to see what we’ve been learning in class and to discuss what we’ve been learning about and about our class status. We had to add the links to the blogs of different subjects, these subjects are writing, maths reading and then do a 4th of whatever subject we liked from this year which I decided to trace my school photo and add my Christchurch Mural to the background!
Bok-Choy – Letter
We created a letter to the character Ah Sum from the story Bok Choy which is a boyt who got bullied throughout his entire life untill he helps a Boy called “Jacob” from a river, to understand the story more you could go online and read it since it is a really interesting story.
Contrast – Boy in the striped Pajamas
We’ve recently been reading the book about “The boy in the striped pajamas” and we needed to define Contrast. Contrast Is a a artistic art tech used to highlight the differences between two people or places. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, contrast is shown a lot through the lives of Bruno and Shmuel. While Bruno mostly lives a life of freedom and safety and a near complete with a loving family, endless food, and a maid 24/7. He still is curious about where in is. But on the other side, Shmuel is trapped behind the barbed wire of “Out-With”, a Nazi concentration camp where Jews are stripped away from their humanity, starve and there to suffer. The contrast is that Bruno’s biggest struggle is boredom in a life of privilege, while Shmuel’s lifeis a battle for survival in a place of total loss.
Letter to Grandma – Boy in the stripped pajamas
LI: To vary our sentence lengths to create pace and impact.
Me and my partner was challenged by our teacher to create a letter to the grandmother of a boy which goes by the name of “Bruno,” these characters originated from the book, movie or story called “Boy in the striped pajamas.” This story is a fictional POV of a kid during 1942-1944. The challenge was to use different sentences for the structure of the letter then we created the letter, for this we used – Simple sentences – Compound sentences – Complex sentences and FANBOYS.
Gemini AI Reverse Challenge
In LS2 we used our past ai refining skills to generate images resembling the first slide image of a leopard posed laying on a branch looking out. Me & My partner used different effects and styles to generate a image of the leopard. We had to describe the (SDS) subject, description and style. For example, this is one of my prompts to get a better understanding of our task.
Example : A leopard is resting peacefully on a tree branch in the jungle. The picture has a style that makes it look like it was painted with watercolors, giving it a soft, flowing, and artistic look similar to water based art. The overall scene combines the calmness of the animal with a watercolor painting effect that makes the image feel gentle and artistic.