We should allow pets in school - Term 3 week 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This 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 allow pets in schools.

I believe that we should allow pets in school because they can help in lots of ways.

Train pets to do jobs for you: For example if your pencil is stuck up somewhere high then your pet bird will fly up and get it for you.  Another reason is if you get stuck up a tree your cat will go up the tree and then go back down and then you can follow the cat down.    

Pet fitness: when you get tired of running your pet dog can run for you.  Furthermore if your dog can’t run you could walk it each day and then it would be fit and then it would be able to run for you.  

Pets can make you happy.When you are doing a test and you don’t know a question your pet can calm you down.  Finally when you have no one to play with you can play with your pet like if you had a dog you could play fetch with it or with a rabbit you could play hide and seek on the field.

That is why pets should be allowed in schools.

Skimming reading strategy - Term 3 week 2

WE ARE LEARNING TO SKIM!!!
Walt skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get an understanding of it

• I can decide if a book has useful information I need,or whether I want to read it for pleasure.

These are the things I can do to skim

1.look at the title

2.look at the blurb

3.look at the chapters

4.read the first sentience to see if you like it

5.look at the pictures

See more and watch the video about skimming!

Matariki - Week 10

This is my reflection.  
Yesterday it was Matariki and we all had a workshop to go to and these are the workshops that you could choose from: Sewing, rakau, mural art, poi making, weaving Matariki stars, gardening, cooking and kite making.  
But if you want to do sewing , mural art and kite making you need to stay there for 2 sessions because they will take longer to make.  I chose sewing and at first it was easy, but when I started to make the proper thing it started to get harder and I pricked myself with a needle when I was pinning.  But after all that drama I was fine.  After sewing we did hand games, they were fun and tricky and my buddy was Emma for the hand games.

This is a photo of Emma and me sewing.

This is me

Emma and I enjoyed using the sewing machine especially the big one

      This is Emma.

Little Alchemy - Week 8

This is little alchemy.  
Little alchemy is a very cool game.  When you start little alchemy you start with these items - fire, water, earth and air.  You can make all sorts of stuff.  There is cheats which come up in the top left hand side but wait till it says this - "Are you stuck? Do you need a hint," then click on it.  You can make about 530 items.  You can also make funny items like underpants. He He!

  This is the look of the app.  You can get this game on your tablet , computer , phone , and many more.  This game is even free.

Area - Week 6

In room 12 we are learning about Area: 

Area is very important because when you need a plane that has 20 rows and 15 columns you would not know which one is the one you need. Lots of us didn't know Area yet so we got our chairs and made a bus that had to be 28 s.u.  Then we had to make a bus with 24 s.u and we needed to take away 4 or 5 chairs for it to work.  It was really fun and learning it was fun too.  We were learning about rows and columns.

Example

If you wanted a shape with 10 columns and 2 rows this is what you can do:  You can get the 2 and the 10 and x them like this - 10x2=20 square units and there is your total value of the area inside the plane.
    

Birthdays - Week 5

My pet's birthday!a
On new years day it is my cat's birthday and she will be 5.
In July, it is my kitten's birthday (her name is Milly) and she will be 1.
Spot and cuddles (my rabbits) birthday is in June but I don't know what day.

My families birthdays!
Harlow's birthday(my little sister) is on Boxing Day and she will be 4.
My mum's birthday is on October 28th and she will be 27.
My dad's birthday is on the 30th of December and he will be 32.
My nana's birthday is on the 3rd of October and she will be 54.
My cousin Alyssa's birthday is on April the 10th and she will be 9.
Dianne's birthday is on the 18th of May and she will be 34.

Other people's birthdays that I know.

Ruby.L's is on Christmas Day which would be December the 25th.
Ruby.H's birthday is on September the 14th.
Maiya's birthday is on May the 7th.
Emma's birthday is on November the 12th


AND MY BIRTHDAY IS ON THE 12 OF MARCH!

The Summarising Strategy - Week 4

Keywords help us make big story's short and make boring texts into awesome texts.

You can choose a keyword from a book and you can put it in your writing, but you can't copy all of the story because it is called plagiarism.

Here is an example:

Keywords - Extinct and fossils 

Sentence - Most animals are now EXTINCT because they were killed by people that lived 100 years ago or they were eaten by other birds.

Sentence - Scientists search for FOSSILS to see what sort of bird it is and if it is extinct or not.

And there is an example of keywords!

Thanks for reading! :)


Here is photo of some fossils!