Facts about these Plants !!

 

Task Description: Today for Literacy we had a follow up task, and at the very end of the follow up task we had to write facts about one of these plants, instead I just chose to write about all 4 plants :). 

Venn Diagram, No.2

 

Task Description: This is a Venn Diagram of the two stories on Kiwi Kids News that I read. I read two pieces, one on Sophie Pascoe and the other about Wheel Blacks' major loss. As you may have noticed, the similarities between the two texts I read are in the middle.

Why kids shouldn't get paid to go school.

Persuasive Writing - Why kids shouldn't get paid to go school

I completely disagree with this option because I believe that if you had the option of being paid to attend to school or being paid to study, you would choose the money. However, this is not a good decision, we did not go to school to get paid, rather we went to learn and receive an excellent education. Paying children to attend school may result in tough conditions.

There will be lots of options for you in conditions of jobs, but you'll also learn about the privileges of your role ( if going to University ). Many people may disagree, but I believe we are too young to get paid at this age; if money is more important to you than your education, you will most likely fail high school and would be unable to get into university.

Task Description: 

Persuasive writing is something that everyone on Team 5 does in literacy.There are agrees and disagrees in persuasive writing, just as there are in an argument. My topic was "Why kids shouldn't get paid to go school". 

5 facts - Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui

Task Description: Today for Reading we are reading a book called "Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui". Our job was to finish this task off as in list the 5 facts about what we read in the book. Ramanui is a school which celebrates Matariki every year. 

Speech about Leaders

  

Title: My Thoughts about Leaders.

Into: Good Morning everyone, Today I am going to share my thoughts about leaders.

First of all, confidence is the best quality. A leader must have strong self-confidence. A person lacking in confidence can never be a good leader and  a person must be confident enough to ensure others follow him/her. The leader must have confidence in his/her decisions and actions. 

A good leader must certainly inspire others and  a leader must be a role model for his/her followers. They must motivate them whenever possible. Also, in difficult conditions, a leader must not lose hope. 

A leader must have Honesty and honour because it is  very important to earn the love of followers. Above all, honesty is needed to win the trust of the people. 

Good communication is a must for a good leader. This is because poor communication means the wrong message to followers. Furthermore, good communication will increase the rate of work. Also, the chances of mistakes by followers will be reduced.

So now that you’ve finished listening to my story about “ Leader” are you strong, confident and have good communication enough to be a good leader? Everyone has the strength to be a leader. So use your strength and become a leader. 

Task Description: For Writing we've been writing speeches, and my speech was about "Leaders", Today I gave my speech to the class ( Literacy, Rm3 ). I was really nervous, I got my score and it was "19/25" which isn't really that bad. 

Kiwi Kids News - Tornado hits South Auckland

 

Task Description: Rm 3 Literacy had 3 choices to make, I chose to do another Kiwi Kids News article, the article I read was "Tornado hits South Auckland ( aka Papatoetoe )". 

Climate Change - Reading

Task Description: This week for Reading Duff is reading about Climate Change, our job was to finish off the tasks on the slide, one of our tasks to finish was to do a create task. 

Walt : Identify a world problem and come up with solutions 

Oral Presentation - Literacy

 

Task Description: Today for literacy we are doing speeches, over the past few weeks RM 3 literacy has been delivering speeches in front of the class there are more come. People may find it hard to present a speech in front of a big audience or even a small one. 

Kid President  click this link to see the video from Kid President , ( How to change the World ). 

Defending the dark - Literacy

 

Task Description: This week for literacy we read a book about Defending the dark. It is about light pollution, and about not seeing the stars at night when it turns pitch dark in the sky. 

Planet ordering ( smallest to biggest )

 

Task Description: This week for literacy we had to sort out the order of the planets from smallest to largest, Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and Mercury is the smallest planet. 

Rotuma Information Report

Rotuman Language Week

Information Report

Rotuman Language Week Information Reports Noa’ia thats Hello in the Rotuman Language. My information report today will share with you some important facts about Rotuma. 

 Rotuma is located in the Southern Atmosphere. To the North of Rotuma is the island Tuvalu, East of Rotuma is Samoa, South is Fiji, and West is Vanuatu. 

 Population : Routmas total population is less than 2,000 (1,594) people. Within more living in Fiji ( Total 10,000 on Fiji ). 

 The Languages spoken on Rotuma are English and Rotuman. Sadly the Rotuman language is classified as endangered. There are now only 15,000 speakers of the Rotuman language in the world.

 The Rotuma and its language can teach us how important it is to hold onto what is our culture, language and heritage. Yes we move forward to succeed in life with changes in countries and languages. Rotuman people are showing the need to keep our language and cultures alive. To keep your culture alive you could maybe join a club or start a group and practice/learn more of your culture.

 Rotuman Language Supports : Shapes identity, On the United Nations endangered language list, Helps to succeed ancestors wishes for a better tomorrow.

Star - Gazing, Reading // 5 Facts

 

WALT: Using my personal experience, world and literacy knowledge to make meaning from texts.

Task Description: Today for reading we are reading Star Gazing. This story is basically about a girl named Stella who went with the Jealous Star ( Mere ) to find a new home. This book ( Star Gazing ) is an interesting book !. Stella and Mere are out at space, finding a new home for Stella ( basically a new planet to live on ). They ended up getting nothing because Stella followed the seven stars of Matariki. 

Anzac Day - Writing

 

Task Description: This week for Writing we are learning more about ANZAC Day. One of our tasks has a slide where we have to write a message/letter. Read through my slide to know more about Anzac. 

Week 8 - Book Review

 

Task Description: This Morning we had to go on a site named Storyline online. The story I chose was Arnie the doughnut we had to watch the full story/video and we then had to do a book review about it. 

Book Review - Wk6

 

Task Description: Today we watched Storyline online, the story I chose to read was The Empty Pot, we had to do a book review about what we read. 

Personification - Reading

 

Walt: We are learning to use Personification in our writing

Task Description: For another Literacy task we are learning to use Personification in our writing..

Treaty of Waitangi - Reading

Task Description: Today in Literacy Me, my Teacher ( Ms Tipene ) and a few class mates learnt about the Treaty of Waitangi. for more info look through the slides.. 

Wk 1/2 - Reading

Task Description: This week in Literacy Class we learnt facts about our Author each reading group has an Author, My group was Joy Cowley ( Cassia Joy Cowley ) She is an New Zealand Author, take a look at my presentation to learn more about Joy Cowley 

Writing - 5 senses prompts

 

Task Description: This week for writing rm 5 literacy is doing 5 different senses. 

Reading - How big is your footprint