Rugby Pitches

This week in maths, we answered math problems about the area and perimeter of rugby pitches. Nidhi, Eyaka and I were working together, to solve these questions. Most of the questions were easy, but some were sort of hard. After we answered the questions, we created a DLO about one of the questions and explained how we solved it.

Advertising | Team Jerseys

This week in writing to understand more about advertising, we created an advertising poster to sell a RWC (Rugby World Cup) item. For this task I worked with Joel, Miiana and Sandra. The item we decided to sell were the rugby world cup team jerseys. For this poster, we tried to include as much different and convincing sentences and language to persuade others to buy the team jerseys.

RWC Stadium Capacities

This week in maths we answered some math questions about the capacity of RWC (Rugby World Cup), since it was the international rugby world cup. In groups, we worked together to solve these question. I was with Mele and Marieta. After we solved these questions, we created a DLO of one of the questions and explained how to solve it. Some of the questions were harded, but we still tried to figure out the answer.

PHN In Panmure Bridge | Care Awards

This week for care awards, I decided to do one of my attitude activities, which was about PHN in our school. PHN stands for public health nursing. Public health nursing is when registered nurses come to schools and areas around our community to check if anyone has a sore throat or any scars, to keep them healthy. I learned a lot about PHN when I did this activity for attitude.

International Current Events

This week in reading, we explored the international current events. We plotted each international news on a google maps. For the currents events, we thought about why the stories were on the news, where it took place and the different types of news, like magnitude, timeliness and more.

Let Me Tell You About...

LI: To understand more about using commas. This week in writing, we learnt more about commas, by writing about our favorite cultural celebration including commas. My cultural celebration is Eid. We first wrote for 5 minutes, then shared it with a buddy for 7 minutes and wrote for another 20 minutes. 

Let me tell you about my favorite cultural celebration, Eid. Eid is celebrated on Monday, 3rd of June. Every year, when it’s Eid I always wake up early and get dressed quickly to go to the mosque. As soon as I see my parents I say,” Eid Mubarak”. When we arrive at the mosque, I quickly greet my relatives and talk to them for a while, until we start praying. After we pray, I rush to the table of food. On the table of food, there are biscuits, chocolate, juice, muffins and many more.

Once the mosque finishes, we all go around to different people’s houses. My favorite part of going to their house is the desserts they provide. I get full, but still, eat. My favorite dessert, when I celebrated Eid this year, was the honey cake and the cupcakes my sister made. At my relatives houses, I talk to them and tell jokes and riddles to them. I have a lot of fun celebrating Eid with my relatives.

After, we go to their houses, we come home and eat. Sometimes we go out and eat at restaurants. My family and relatives give me presents and money, because it is a tradition. My most favorite part of Eid is enjoying my time with my family and earning all these presents and money. In the end, we enjoy our time together.

Duffy Role Model Assembly

This week, there was Duffy role model assembly. A guest called Jamie Wall came to talk to us about his job as a sports commentator. Jamie Wall has wrote a book called "Brothers in Black", which is one of the top best selling book in New Zealand. Jamie was inspired by reading the Men in Black book of the rugby history in NZ. Jamie Wall has been reporting about rugby on the Maori Television, news hub, stuff and many other companies. As Jamie is a sports commentator he will be leaving to Japan to report the rugby world cup for the Maori Television. Once Jamie talked to us about his job, he handed out our Duffy books. The Duffy books that I got were "Lost In Antarctic" and "My D-Days". I am really excited and look forward to reading my books. A big thank you to Duffy for providing our books. We really appreciate it.

Exploring Our National Current Events

This week in reading we explored the NZ national current events, the different types of these current events and thought about why these stories appeared on the news. Newspaper editors make choices about the current event stories they write, everyday. On a google maps we plotted the location of where the current event stories took place.

Provocation & Opinion

 

This week for writing, we learnt about provocation. A provocation is a action that makes someone feel a certain way or feeling. For the past few days there have been an announcement that a supermarket has stop selling energy drinks to kids 16 and under. In my opinion I think that it is a good idea of stop selling energy drinks. My DLO shows the different perspectives and my opinion of not selling energy drinks to kids 16 and under.

Explanation:Should NZ Ban Plastic Straws?

Have you ever thought about what a single plastic straw could do to our environment? Well you’ve probably used plastic straws all the time. You probably haven’t realized, that you have been harming creatures using plastic straws!. Well plastic straws can be really harmful to many creatures. Can you guess how many years it takes for plastic straws to biodegrade? Well did you know that plastic straws take about 500 years to break down. These years are more than our lifetime.

If you think about it, there are many micro plastics in oceans around the world, which can poison and effect these poor creatures. On the news, have you seen many creatures getting hurt and being harmed by plastic straws?. If you have, do you ever feel sad, would you ever give up using plastic straws?!. Plastic straws can be really harmful to these creatures. Do you want to see creatures to stop breathing and start bleeding?. This is what plastic straws can really lead to. Creatures swallowing plastic straws can even affect them from digesting food!.

Almost everyone in this world, uses plastic straws while others have done the right thing and stopped using plastic straws. It's time for us to make a big change and ban plastic straws. About 65,000 plastic straws have been laying on the beaches in NZ. Plastic straws lead to a lot of pollution. Between 5 to 10% of plastic straws are being filled up on beaches. Plastic straws are a waste of using, because once you use them, it’ll be thrown out, so why have plastic straws?

Plastic straws are harmful, dangerous and poisonous to these creatures. In a few years there will be more plastic than creatures. Think about all the fish that would be gone in a few more years. How are we going to have fish and chips if there aren't any fish? How are we supposed to eat our favorite dish that includes fish, but there isn’t any fish? This is what plastic straws can really do to these creatures.

This is my opinion of plastic straws! I won’t change my opinion for the fact that these poor and helpless creatures are being hurt. We need to and we should ban plastic straws immediately!, for the safety of these creatures.