Term 3 Week 4: Pets Should Not Be Allowed At School!!

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This is the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

We Should Not Allow Pets In Our School!!

In my opinion I think no school should allow pets!

I strongly believe that your pets could get lost if you are playing with your friends and then you realise that your pet has run away from you!! Another point is you would also be wasting your learning time, if your class and you are looking for your pet.  Another reason is that your pet can jump through any classroom window while you might be talking to your friends. You might not even know what classroom your pet may be in or the classroom may be locked!

Some of the kids might be allergic to pets and they could get really sick and the parents would not like their child to go to the hospital! If the kid might be allergic to pets they could also get really itchy and have really bad rashes. For example  they may be learning and they could get so itchy that they could bleed?

Also kids sometimes can get distracted really fast if they like the thing that would distract them like pets. Instead of learning they could be playing with the pet the whole time or just may be  looking at the pet the whole time. Finally when their teacher gives them a learning sheet to do they won’t know what to do?

You should agree with me that pets should not be allowed at school.

Term Three Week 2: Skimming Reading Strategy

Skimming

WALT skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get an understanding of it. I can decide if a book has a useful imfomation I need, or whether I want to read it for pleasure. 

These are the things that I can do to skim read

1. Find Keywords
2. Read Blurb
3. Read index
4. Find Detail
5. See what page I like

Term 2 Reflection.

This is a Term 2 Reflection about Rippa Rugby!!

I enjoyed Rippa Rugby this year so much because it was my first time playing it and I really enjoyed it. I chose to play Rippa Rugby because I always play Rippa Rugby with my brother and sister. The good thing was that this game had no tackling so you were not allowed to tackle anyone or you would be disqualified. I think I would love to play Rippa Rugby next year. I think the exciting thing that happened was that my group won the semi final. 

Week 11: Things That I Enjoy Doing!!

I like to do lots of stuff that I enjoy so I will be telling you all the things that I enjoy doing. I have told you 6 things that I enjoy doing. Number 5 and Number 2 are my most favorite things that I enjoy.

1. I love to read books, I will tell you some of my favorite books I like to read - Roald Dahl, The Twits, Harry Potter and Wonder.
2. I also like girly things so I am really good at painting nails, I can paint both of my hands but I actually am a righty, I also love to learn new hairstyles -the braids that I know how to do are, French Braid, Chinese Braid, Ponytail, Plait and Fishtail.
3. I love to go outside in my back yard and do some tricks on my monkey bars or swing set, even the slide. But I always end up getting hurt no matter what. 
4. I enjoy spending time with my family in winter and watching a movie. Also my favorite season of the year is actually winter. 
5. Since the holidays are coming, dad said that my family and I will go and play with the snow. I enjoy playing in snow.
6. I also enjoy having a pillow fight with my siblings. My brother is the oldest, and then it is my sister so I am the little one. But I am still tough and I always end up having an argument.

So these were the 6 things that I enjoy doing. Thank you if you comment:)

Week 10: Matariki Day

Matariki

Poi Making

Yesterday it was Matariki day which means means Monday the 15th. My hub is Kauri Hub, we got to do lots of fun stuff but we were only allowed to choose two things, one before morning tea and after morning tea. But after lunch the Kahurangi dance people came in and taught us maori games. There was hand games, String making and Maori Knuckle Bones.
My two activities I chose was Poi Making and Weaving Matariki Stars.
I did Poi Making before morning tea so that means I did it in the morning. Of course I did Matariki Stars after Morning Tea. 
So for Poi Making our teacher was Emma, I know Emma from last year because her daughter is my friend. So the first step was to make the 4 plait and the colours were green and white. We could do two types of different plaits, there was this 4 plait you could do or a fishtail. I chose the fishtail because the fishtail is a plait you can do for your hair and I know how to do a fishtail. So when we were finished plaiting we got some newspaper and tied that in a knot with the string. After that, we got this fluffy thing and put that over the newspaper. We got a plastic bag and put it over the fluffy thing. Then we cut off the rest plastic bag and then our poi was made. 
Then we just learnt how to do some actions with the poi, we also sang a song, it was fun making poi’s.
Weaving Matariki Stars 
After morning tea my activity was weaving matariki stars. I think I found that it was really tricky, I thought that I would do two matariki stars but actually I could only do one. The first thing that we did was we got 4 coloured strips of paper. I don’t remember what colors I got. I wish I had the instructions because I don't remember how to make one. But if I had the instructions I would still need help and practice over and over again to make sure how to make one without instructions.

Week 8: My New Hairstyle!!

My New Hairstyle

On Sunday I got a new haircut. First I will be telling you how my old hair looked like. My old hair was not that fancy, it was really long and I really liked it long. So then I thought I need to cut my hair a little bit and make it really fancy. I went to the Hair shop and told them what I wanted and how I wanted them to cut my hair.  I really liked how they cut it. So what they did was they first cut a little bit of my hair from the bottom, it is still long and I love it. Then this is the part of my hair which I think is quite fancy. So they cut two long parts of my hair from the front and it looks really cool. Here are some photos of my new hairstyle.

Week 6: Area

In Room 12 we have been learning about Area, it is quite fun to learn about Area so I will tell you all about it.
First of all the most important thing to remember is Rows and Columns, I used to get mixed up with rows and columns, but there is a trick to remember and Mrs Miller told room 12 that trick. Rows mean right across and columns mean come on down. The definition is to count the total number of square units inside a shape. The other day we did a really fun activity and we had to pack up the classroom and get our own chairs and we made it as a plane.  When Mrs Miller told us she wanted us to be in 4 rows and 5 columns we put 5 chairs right across and then we had 5 columns. Then we had to figure out the maths of the plane.

Maths: 4=Rows 5=columns
             4x5=20

If you count carefully you will see 20 square units

So that means the plane had 20 chairs.