Plastic Straws Opinion

This week for writing we have been learning the differences between fact and opinion. A fact is something that can be proven and a opinion is a personal feeling that can't be proven because it is your own.  I have created a provocation explaining my 2 sides of why we should and shouldn't ban plastic straws. Both sides have evidence that I found not only on sites, but, video clips. I believe that plastics straws should be banned because we have done nothing but kill our marine animals 

Comic Strip

This week LS2 have been creating activities, since book week is being held. For this activity I have created a comic strip that retells one of Aesop's fables. My comic strip included a fox and a berries tree. At the bottom of my drawing I have added the moral of this story, The moral of this story is about how you shouldn't eat berries if you see them in a forest or you could get sick.

Favourite author

This week was book week. l created a DLO about my Favourite author and answered some questions. Margaret Mahy is my favorite New Zealand because she creates adventure books nad mystery books too. My favorite book by her is called The changeover because it is about how a girl is really bad and has to change over and has to become a witch to save her brother. This reading DLO talks her life and many other. 

Tech

This week at Tech we were making Tie salad l was working with mele to make this. First l did the salad which had lettuce, tomatoes and cabbage. Mele was chopping up the chicken then l did our sauce which had sugar, vinger, lemon juice and fish juice. Mele then started cooking the chicken and l was just cleaning our kitchen area then when the chicken was brown we took it and put it inside of the bowl with the salad and the sauce. We mixed it and it look really nice put before we could eat it we had to clean our dishes and kitchen area around us. After we cleaned we got to eat our food it was really nice my favorite part was the chicken.

Reading Pathway

This week was Book week so we created a reading pathway about our journey our what we used to read when were were little to now. My favorite book when l was young was Hairy Maclary, There was an old lady, The curse of the cheese, Ghost and Amulet. l enjoyed creating this because l could look back on the books l use to read when l was young. My favorite book is Amulet because it has so much adventure inside of it and mystery. This shows alot of what l like to read and many books l use to read my favorite books are comics because they have pitchers and words at the same time.   

Speech - Bringing our phones to school

Bringing our phones to school

Hi, my name is Avalon and l believe we, as intermediate students, should be allowed to bring our phones to school. Making sure we always have them, not using them to go on inappropriate sites, take silly photos or to be mean to other phone users I’m sure is something teachers don’t want to deal with and I understand changing to this rule would take a lot of planning and thinking, but I think its planning and thinking that should happen

Some people believe that having your phone at school will distract you with schoolwork. In my opinion that isn’t true  because we might need our phones to call our parents in an emergency or something. Making this change in our school would be awesome it would mean we would be safer when we are walking to and from school because if something happens we can call someone to pick us up.

Having your phone on you is important for us because we would know we are safe.
Some teachers say no because why would they need it when you are supposed to be
coming to school to learn new skills and ideas to get far in life. I disagree with teachers
because my phone doesn’t stop me from learning.

Finally I want to say that  l hope l have made you think about  allowing us older students to bring our phones to school and in return we can show how responsible we can be with our phones.

This week we were making speeches we picked our topic on what we wanted to talk and persuasive people about l chose to talk about why intermediate students should be allowed to bring phones to school. The thing we worked on was eye contact to our audience when we are speaking so can grab the audience attention to look up at you. Another thing we had to use was expression by using hand movements and face expressions. The key about saying a speech is to have confidence when you speech in front of the class or a little group. My feed back to myself is that l did well on saying my speech to a group l said it loud and clear to my group and they liked it. l need to work on improving on looking forward and make sure to slow down when l speak so people can understand.

Tiny House

This term we have been learning about Perimeter and area. Perimeter is the distance around the shape and the Area is the amount of space it takes up and how many squares there are inside. Me and Angela worked together to create this tiny house we used math paper, glue, sale tap and a ruler to rule everything and make the lay out of our house. l created all the furniture and things that went inside of our house and Angela colored our house. Our Design came out really good and l really like it my favorite apart about it is the kitchen area. 

Phonics

This week we did phonics the first thing we did was a list of words and finding the ake words in a story. We created different ake sentences one of mines was l ate a chocolate called flake which was really yummy. Then l created a Paragraph that had 5 different ake words inside of it this is mine. This morning I woke up and thought of having a milkshake for breakfast, so i got up and went to my kitchen and started to make it. My milkshake had ice cream, crushed ice and many more yummy things. Then in the afternoon I decided I wanted to bake two cheesecakes they would have chocolate flakes when i was making one of them made a mistake. We lastly evaluated short texts by reading a short text and answering questions.

Swimming

This term we have swimming for our kiwi sport. James was our coach today and he was teaching us different freestyles, breast strokes, floating on our back and stream line. We had a competition about who can swim to the end of the pool without touching the ground. This was really fun my favorite part about swimming this week was how we got to do freestyles. 

Hour of Code

This week we were playing a coding game which was based on mine craft this is the certificate l got for doing all the levels. We first went on a site called hour of code this had a lot of coding games. We played the Mine craft one which was really fun we used the codes on the sides to move forward. turn left or right and keep going forward until goal. There would be mazes and things and we would have to use the codes to get to what we needed to. There were 12 different levels to this game and l completed them all they were easy and then got easier on the way. 

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we were learning about emotions and how we feel our topic was resilience. We played a warm up game which was role plays l was with Mele, Angela, Sandra and Maritea. We got a paper which said jumping off high diving board we had to role play it without talking our main forces was to do our facial expressions so people would know if we were scared.  My favorite part about this week was being able to show our  facial expressions to show how we feel to others.