Summer learning Journey

Today for Summer learning journey we have to interview three friends at school about what they have achieved this year. 

1. Madisyn is proud of going to the west coast athletics champs.

3. Katelin is proud of being more confident at school and sports 

4. Adison is proud of her stay nines at school.

Lorde Poster

For the next two weeks we are going to be trialling the summer learning journey which is an activity that kids can do throughout the school holidays. You can win prizes and books by doing this activity. Each day for the next two weeks we are going to be doing one task a day here is the first task that I have done.

Interactive Image / Hero

This is my hero interactive image that I have made of what I think a hero is. We have been focusing on hero for the past couple of weeks. We had to create our own drawing that shows the five key characteristics we think makes a hero.  We also used a new app that is called https://interactive-img.com/. This is the interactive image that I have made. If you hover over the hot spots it will explain my key characteristics.

My Super Power

This term we are having a lady come in every Monday to teach us about careers. This Monday I wasn't at school because I was sick but our class were asked to  make this and find out "Our Superpower". This is the drawing I made. We had to think about something we were good at and then think of all of the skills we needed or were learning when we were doing this activity.

World Cup Sports

This week on Tuesday we had world cup sport's which is an activity our school does. We get put into groups and have all different age levels into a group there are heaps of different groups and once they are put into groups they are given a country. Each country has to go to 6 games which you verse other teams to try and win 10 points. After you have played those 6 games you get all of your points and add them up. The group with the most points win and then there is second and third. My group that I was in was Russia our group came second out of the hole school. I thought that it was really fun for my last year. 

Persuasive Writing

This term we have been working on pervasive writing today I made a peace of persuasive wring about swimming here it is.

Swimming lessons should be compulsory for every child.

Swimming lessons are lessons that children and adults do to learn how to swim. They learn how to swim so for safety issues and people also swim to get better and better. People even swim to try and be world champions. All around the world people take swimming lessons to get them or their children better at swimming.

I strongly believe that swimming lessons should be compulsory for every child in the world. These are the reasons I think that they should make swimming lessons compulsory.

Firstly, water can kill.

Each day an estimate of about 10 people die from drowning, of those 10 people 2 of them are aged 14 or younger. I think that swimming lessons should be compulsory because if you learn how to swim at a young age there will be a lower chance of people dying. If there is a flood and the only way to get to safety is swimming your going to need to know how to swim right?

Secondly, you will feel more comfortable around any water.

If kids have compulsory swimming lessons they will not be able to make up excuses to not go swimming like most kids do around the world. They do this because they may not be bothered or don’t feel confident enough because they can’t swim well. They will feel much more confident and they will not be scared of water and be able to have fun with family and friends without the threat of drowning.

Lastly, the world with have less deaths.

If all kids started doing swimming lessons the world would have less deaths which would lead to better lives. I think that the world would be a much better place and would be much safer.

I strongly believe that swimming lessons should be compulsory for all kids around the world because water can kill,you'll feel much safer, and the world will have less deaths. I hope you now think that kids should have swimming lessons.

End of term reflection

This term we have been up to a lot of things like PrEP, wearable arts and more. PrEP and wearable arts were probably my favourite about this term as well because they were the only really big things that we did. This term I was very proud of making $1347 for PrEP with the float of $100. Next term my goal is to be up to the standerd that you should be up to for a year 9. Here are some photos from this term. 

PrEP

This week and last week we have had PrEP in our school we have a thing called PrEP each year. PrEP is an accation that we do each year for the hole school to join in with. You start off with making a group and finding out what you want to make you can make up to 2 things in your group. You start off with $300 and you have to buy all of the products for what you are going to make. You also get paid for being at school and making your product but if you are away you don't get paid. There are also responsibility's that people in the group have like the CEO, the secretary, and the treasurer, if you have more team mates you also have workers. Every worker in the group have to work to make the product. There are mini market and big market where you sell the product that you have made. You also get fake money that you get paid with. That is mostly all that PrEP does for our school and what we do with it. My group made Bohemian wall hangers and stickers. Here is our product.

Zoos are harmful

This week we have been working on arguments.
We had to do an argument on recycling first and next we had to do an
argument on video gaming and whether we thing its harmful or harmless.
Once we had done that we had to write our own argument.
I wrote me argument on Zoos are harmful below.

Zoos are harmful.

Zoos are places where people put animals up for display.
They have zoos to show people animals that they might not be able to go
and see everyday. So they put them into a zoo so people can see them and
be safe. Sometimes zoos let you hold snakes,lizards,koala's and heaps more.
You can do to loads of different zoos like normal zoos, aquarium, zoos,
children's zoos, and heaps more. I believe zoos are harmful for the following
reasons.

Firstly zoos are harmful. Zoos can be harmful in many different ways some
zoos are not good in different countries they may hurt the animals which
is definitely bad for them. Other zoos keep animals in tight small places or
away from their other family. Animals need to be with their family so they
feel like they are at home. Other animals don't need to be with there family.
I think that they should not be kept in a small place because it could be
harmful.

Secondly zoos are like jail for animals. Zoos are like animal prison they
keep animals in a place where they are not free to live their normal life.
They are put into cages and then put into a place they cannot get out of
just like prisons. Even at some of the best zoos they are still kept in a cage
and cannot go free. 

Lastly zoos can treat animals the breading machines. There are many
zoos that make animals breed like they are machines which is not fair
for the animals. If animals wanted to breed they would but people make
them and it is not fair. For example Animal Adventure Park treated April
the giraffe like a breeding machine. It's not fair for animals anywhere
around the world.

I strongly believe that zoos are bad for animals,as they are harmful,like jail,
and treat them like breeding machines. I hope you now realise the wrongs
about zoos.

Number Sequence DLO

This week we have been working on making Number Sequences in maths this is my Number Sequence. I found this task pretty easy to figure out and I think it would be easy for you if you don't know too.

Amazon Fires

This year there have been 72,843 deadly fires in the Amazon rain forest. That is a nearly 80 percent jump compared to the number of fires the country experienced over the same time period in 2018. That means that there has been a load more fires then last year which is pretty bad.
Did you know that there has been 72,843 fires in the Amazon rain forest ?

Here are some photos of the Rain forest fires.

Arts

This week we had to finish our calendar art for our calendar art we made a design on aboriginal art. We had to get a stencil there was once shaped as a boomerang, a kangaroo, a snake, a lizard, and small snake and lizard. I chose to do a boomerang and a small lizard for my art. We had to do a practice one on a small peace of paper with our cotton buds and paint. After we had finished our practice one we had to do our one that was going up in the hall. Once we have done that we had to make our real one for our calendar art here is my one to go into the hall.

Enlargements

This week in maths we have had to chose a type of maths to do and find out the art involved and heaps more. I chose enlargements to do for maths and we had to make a DLO for the thing we chose. After have had done our DLO we then had to make our outlines for our art and then after we had to either pastel it or colour it with coloured pencils.

This is the art I made. 

Transformation Puzzle

This week we were doing tasks around recognising and representing transformations. I have made a challenge that I would like for you to try and figure out ! You can figure it out by reading the picture below and following what it says .

This week we also tried out this new game about transformation. We used the game to learn how to get other images into the right square like above. Here is the link to this game. HERE I got up to level 14 what level can you get up too? 

Recycling

This week in writing we have been working on writing a persuasive text about Recycling we did this in groups of two here is our writing .

Recycling is something that has already been used for something else and
made into something new.

There are many products that can be recycled such as glass, paper ,
Some Plastics, And also some Fabrics.

This is a worldwide problem and everyone should be thinking about this
problem before it gets out of hand..

Everyone in the world must recycling before it's too late.

Firstly recycling conserves resources .

Recycling often saves natural resources through conversation by using
materials more than once. Making a ton of paper from recycled stock saves
up to 17 trees and uses 50% less water. For example we could recycle the
paper that we use everyday so we can save more of the trees.

Recycling saves energy.

Everyday we could be saving energy by the products being recycled like
paper, plastic, metal, etc . If we recycle it will be saving energy it will
require much less processing to turn them into usable material.
We could save energy and also the environment.
There is about 50 billion of sewage that flow each year .

Finally recycling helps protect the environment.

Recycling saves energy it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions,
which helps to tackle the climate change which helps the environment.
Which can make the environment not safe for people as they might get sick.
We should recycle so we don't wreck the environment and we save our lives. 

I fully convinced that cycling is a must because the earth is dying and
WE NEED TO HELP! 

Street Map

Today in maths me and my group had to make a Street map . In our Map we had to make streets and houses that were perpendicular and parallel plus more . We had to put houses and buildings which were different shapes . Have you ever made a Street map ? If you haven't its very fun and you also can colour the map in which makes it look much better .

Jake Bailey

Today we had Jake Bailey come into our school and give us a speech about his cancer if you done know who Jake Bailey is you can search him up and find his book . You might like to read his book too. He came into our school and said a lot of stuff about his process in cancer and how he wasn't very scared at the start of his cancer but more grateful that they knew what was wrong with him!


Have you read Jake Baileys book ?
If you want to read his book that he made about "what cancer tought him" Here is a link too were you can go to read it . 

My speech

This and last term we had to do our speeches for 2019 I did my speech on Gymnastics . I did my speech on gymnastics because it is a sport I like to do and I know a lot about . You can chose anything you want to do your speech on and you may do it . If you are going to do a speech make sure your speech doesn't go for to long and isn't boring . I hope you like my speech !

Pest Invasions

This week in reading we have been reading a text about how many years ago people brought stoats into New Zealand thinking it would get rid of the Rabbits but it just made another problem . The problem was that the stoats were eating the native animals like birds, and the birds eggs etc. Here is my opinion continuum about this issue.


I think that they should have thought before bringing the Stoats into New Zealand because they may have found something better to replace the stoats with.  
I think that the stoats are the pests because they were killing the native animals and are not good for the environment .
Please will out the questions below so I can find out your opinions on this topic.  

Thinking Hats

This week we had to read a book about pests and this is another one of the tasks we had to do . 
I think that this task was pretty easy and is good to teach you how to right answers to the questions they give you . 

Pests

This week we have been reading an article on how people bring in other animals into New Zealand and it has made a pest problem . They thought it was a good idea at the start and they thought that it would help the environment but it really didn't help anything . We had to complete this task by finding out what pest it was with footprints and other pictures and facts . We also had to put a couple of facts and some pictures about the pests .

Last week

This week is the last week of Term 2 . 
This term we have been working on heaps of stuff and we also did heaps of fun stuff too .
We went to camp this term and we did loads of fun stuff on camp , camp was also my favourite thing we did this term because we got to hang out with our friends and do heaps of stuff we wouldn't normally do .
We also have team time tomorrow and team time is for people that have done all of there work and are up to date.
We do stuff like bringing your own device, Board games,and sport . I'm really looking ford to next Term I think its going to be really fun .

Wishtree Choice Board

This week we finished the book Wishtree we had to do tasks in between reading the book . After we finished the book we got given a drawing with tasks on it that we had to complete .
Here it is .

 









I have finished two of those tasks and I am going to finnesh the rest later on . 
Here are the tasks I have done .

I really liked the book Wishtree If you have never read it I think you should go and read it or at lest read the blurb .

Spanish Map

This week we have been looking at where people speak Spanish in the world . Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world . I have made a map on most of some of the most popular places that speak Spanish .

What I have blogged about this year .

Today in maths we were learning how to make a graph in a google doc spreadsheet we had to make the graph to see how many blog posts we have done and what about . 
This is my graph about what I have blogged this year and how much I have blogged as well. 
As you can see I have done the most blog posts about Literacy and the least about Blog X and Me/Maori.
I think that I need to do more of those posts and also more posts about maths because I haven't done many of them this year . 

This graph is about the tools I used or need to use this year in some of the colom's I haven't posted any blog posts about them .
My goal is to make a blog post about at least one to two of them this year .