Summer Learning Journey

The fist settlers to come to New Zealand must have brave! They had to leave their original homes and sail thousands of miles across the ocean on a special boat called a waka to reach New Zealand. To this day people of New Zealand still use waka's. Instead of using their waka to transport them from a place to another, they sometimes use waka's in special events like sports such as Waka Ama. Waka Ama is where boys and girls can compete in competition's.

Should Plastic Bags Be Used At Supermarkets

18/10/17 - Lucy Walt Use Persuasive structure Should Plastic Bags be in Supermarkets? Plastic bags are an issue world wide, they are killing the creatures in our seas, and they and are killing the birds on land.

 If you think that paper bags are going to help well you're wrong. Over 14 million trees are being consumed a year. In terms of production, producing plastic bags take 4 times as much energy as paper bags. But over the duration of production paper products will create, oil in our seas and 70% more air pollution.

 Burning plastic bags are bad for the ozone layer. It is bad because it will make a whole in the ozone layer causing ultraviolet causing skin cancer and rise of water levels. Did you know that 80% of Americans choose plastic. Plastic bags are photodegradable. This means it takes for a very long time to break down the plastic. The effect of this is that plastic bags may get covered in other garbage causing it to not dissolve so it is stuck there forever.

 Imagine you're eating a plastic bag how would you feel? Well first you would not be able to breath, the plastic bag will get stuck in your lungs and you can’t get it out and then you will die. Sounds horrible, well that is what is happening to our sea creatures nearly everyday, if you don’t want that to happen then stop using plastic bags at the supermarket.

 Last week in Te Ngahere, we were learning to write a persuasive piece of writing. I think I did well with my ideas to persuade people. Next time I need to work on not putting capital letters in random places. I hope you enjoy my writing.

My Amazing Awesome Writing Goals

Last week in Te Ngahere, we created some writing goals on a google drawing. My goals were to add extra information, detail and facts to explain my thinking. I also have, make my ideas original so the reader can connect with them. I chose these goals because, I really need to learn these because when I saw these goals I knew I need to learn them. My own goal is to complete R5 and move up to R6 in the writing rubric.

My Animals of Brazil

WALT: Complex sentences
08.08.17
Animals of Brazil Key: Simple sentences, Compound sentences and complex sentences

Brazil there are many native Animals, here are some you will learn about. In Brazil there are jaguars. Unlike many cats, jaguars do NOT avoid water. [In fact they are quite good swimmers.] Also the rivers hold their prey such as, fish, turtles and alligators like animals. Jaguars also eat large animals such as deer, tapir and much more bigger animals. Did you know that Brazil has a Finger Monkey? The Finger Monkey eats the most strangest thing, they eat butterflies they will eat any kind of butterfly it doesn’t matter [at least they get to eat]. Did you know that the Finger Monkey is the world's smallest monkey known to man? Finger Monkeys are not endangered but they are somewhat threatened. If you're a dog and a fox lover this is the dog for you. Brazil has a long legged dog with a fox head it might sound ugly but it is so beautiful. Wildlife experts has classified they are being near threatened species. Theses animals are not dangerous to humans, they have a skittish nature. In conclusion, what was your favorite animal is it the jaguar, or is it the Finger Monkey or was it the fog [AKA Fox Dog]? `

 For the last few weeks all of Te Ngahere has been working on report writing. We started by choosing one country we would write about. Then we had to choose three subtopics to go with it. Our Teachers set us up with some subtopics.

Common Nouns and Proper Nouns

Last Week in Te Ngahere we have been learning to use proper nouns and common nouns in our writing. We started by making a google drawing with a person, place or thing, and we got to get some pictures.

Maths Goals

Last week in Te Ngahere we had to choose three math goals from our Ican sheets, and put them on a google drawing we created. Our WALT was to Identify what we have achieved in maths and our next learning steps.

My Writing Goals

Last week, in Te Ngahere we made google drawings for our writing goals. We were learning to identify our next learning goals in writing. The first thing that we did was to copy what we had not learnt yet. I need to learn Adjectives, Ellipses, Similis, Adverbes, I am on R5 my Ideas are organised in a basic paragraph. I need to learn how to focus on one idea in a paragraph. I am on complex sentences too.

On Friday Te Ngahere made some nice icy cold ice cream, we made ice cream because the whole of Te Ngahere got 100% in our learning plans. We had to have buddies, my buddy was Sharnee we made vanilla ice cream everyone else did too. The next week after making ice cream we had to write a recount about making ice cream my learning intention was Metaphors. Is was a fun day much more better than doing reading, writing and so on.

Trouble in Space

Trouble in space Once upon a time there were three minions called Bob, Stuart and Kevin, which were off on a mission to get a sample of a star. Bob, Stuart and Kevin were lucky because they had their very own private spaceship, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 BLAST OFF. Bob, Stuart and Kevin’s line snapped, so the little minions were floating, floating out to space, while running out of air. But Bob, Stuart and Kevin were lucky because there was also people trying to get a sample of a star, and they saw the minions so they bounced into action. They grabbed the minions and gave them CPR. But these people were not ordinary people because, there was a spider and tiny tiny troll they were the hero’s. But in the end Bob, Stuart and Kevin all survived and got their star sample. The End When they got there, there was an amazing site the minions saw stars the milky way and colours, lots of colours. Then they found it ... they had found a perfect star. So Bob, Stuart and Kevin went out on a line to get a sample of the star. THEN DANGER FELL!!!!!!!
I created a fiction character my fiction caracter is a spider he is called D.J spider. I was learning how to write a descriptive piece of writing and put it into an animation. I did learn how to write a descriptive piece of writing and it was pretty good.

Christmas MENU

This is my Christmas MENU. While I was thinking about it all it made me so hungry my tummy was rumbling. I hope it does the same to you. Mmmmmm.

Amazing Action World

Last week all the seniors went to  Action World. One of my favorite activity  that I did was the Tight Rope I nearly made it to the end but I only made it to the middle. I also did the big trapeze at first it was scary then it was fine. Last thing it was awesome.    

How to Hang With Your Nana

Hi my name is Lucy and I go to Paihia School. This is my writing turned into a book. The theme was How to Hang With Your Nana. I learned how to do a procedural and the structure and  language features. Hope you like it.

My Two Amazing Toast Storys

Hi I'm Lucy and these are my two procedural writing about how to make toast. The focus was structure and language features. I have two because the first was mixed up so I had to rewrite my story.