Persuasive writing ~ Why animals should be kept in zoos

This term for writing Totara 1 is working on persuasive writing. For this piece of writing we could either do animals should/not be kept in zoos or animals should/not be kept in circuses.

 Why animals SHOULD be kept in zoos.

I strongly believe animals should be kept in zoos. Zoos are a great educational source, protect animals from getting endangered or extinct and give animals an enclosure close to their natural habitat.

Zoos are a great educational source teaching humans of every age. They often have a zookeeper explaining each of the animals. They also sometimes have billboards that have facts about the animals on them. As well as telling people facts zoos also inform humans about the dangers for these animals in the wild.

Zoos help the animals from getting endangered or extinct. Zoos help this by protecting them from hunters and poachers. They also have breeding programs designed for the animal. As well as this they make sure the animals live in a friendly environment with health checks. They have enclosures which are like their natural habitat.

Animals in zoos have a replica of their natural habitat. Most zoos are spectacular. And I mean this in the way that they have huge enclosures with lots of room for their animals. Zoos also help the animals where their natural habitats and foods have disappeared. An example of this is where zoos helped the koalas in the Australia bush fires.

Zoos are amazing for both animals and humans. Teaching humans about animals, helping the animals stay alive and giving them a close to natural habitat.

Create a fake

 This is one of the Grandparent choice board activities.

Calendar Art

 AT this time of year we do calendar art. This year the Totara teachers decided to do it on aboriginal art. This is art made up of dots. To get the dots for the inside of my turtle I used tooth picks and for the background I used cotton buds.

Narrative - About the picture

 In lock down one of the things we had to do was write a story based on the picture. 

Chocolate survey

 

Link to responses

Cake

 

Alphabet objects

This was one of the choice activities. For this activity you had to find something around the house that starts with every letter of the alphabet. I have got everything on this list except for the xylophone.

Acrostic #2

This is my second acrostic poem. This poem had to be based on something around you or something you do. I play netball.

Acrostic poem #1

 My first acrostic poem

The journey from beans to bar

For this activity we needed to do a diagram showing the journey from the cocoa beans to the chocolate bar.

Word Map

 This is the second chocolate activity. For this activity we had to chose one of the words given (I chose consumer), We then had to add our definition and how it relates to chocolate. The other thing we had to do was add an image of your words. I chose someone consuming Doritos.

Chocolate on the map

This week T1's reading task was all about chocolate. Here was our first activity.

The chart below shows the two main groups of countries involved in making and using chocolate.

1. The consumers: The people who buy and eat the chocolate

2. The producers: The countries that grow the cocoa plants that chocolate is made from

Top chocolate consuming countries	Top cocoa producing countries
Switzerland	Ivory Coast
Germany	Ghana
Belgium	Indonesia
Austria	Nigeria
Ireland	Brazil
United Kingdom	Cameroon
USA	Malaysia

Part 1: Google My Map

1. Create a new Google My Map. Use this introduction to help you.

2. Give your my map the title: Chocolate on the Map.

3. Write a brief description of what your map shows e.g This map shows the location of the top producers of cocoa and the top consumers of chocolate in the world.

4. On your google my map pin each of the above countries.  

5. Use blue markers for consumers and red markers for producers.  

6. Add a picture and a fact about each of the countries to your pin.

Link your map here

Part 2: Reflection

Now that you have marked all of your countries, take a look at your map and answer the following question.

1. What does this map show us about where cocoa is produced and where the product chocolate is eaten? The poorer countries grow the cocoa and the richer countries consume it. All the countries that grow cocoa are close to the equator

2. Why do you think this is? Give as many reasons as you can.

Area - Cocoa can only grow within 20 degrees north and south of the equator.

Money - People who grow cocoa only profit between $0.50 and $0.84 a day. Richer people will want the normal wage of about $20 an hour. This is why the poorer countries grow cocoa.

3. Which countries do you think benefit the most from the production of chocolate?

I think the countries that profit the most are the ones who use the cocoa to make chocolate or the ones who eat the chocolate. Both Switzerland and Ghana would profit.

4. Why do you think this is? Give as many reasons as you can.

As stated above I said the ones who consume the chocolate and the ones that make it.

Shape poem

 Another poem we wrote is a shape poem. This is basically just a little story in a shape. The story has to be about that shape. I did mine on midwinter Christmas so I used the shape of a Christmas tree.

Memory poem

Another poem we wrote is a memory poem. A memory poem is where you write a poem based on a memory. No words have to rhyme but our poem must start with remember. I did mine on the cooks straight ferry ride.

   

Diamante poem

Another poem we did was a diamante poem. A diamante poem is similar to a  cinquain. A diamante is in the shape of a diamond and has 7 lines. My Diamante poem is on Smile and frown.

Cinquain poem

 This term we have been learning about and writing different types of poems. One of the poem we did was a cinquain. A cinquain poem consists of 5 lines. The first line is a noun, the second is 2 adjectives describing that noun, the third line is 3 verbs, the forth line is a phrase and the fifth is a synonym for the noun. Here is mine on a tiger.

hiaku #1

This week as well as limericks we had to do two hiakus. The first one had to either be on the olympics or on winter I hose the olympics.

 

Limerick #2

 Here is my second limerick.

Limerick #1

 This week my class has been working on limericks we all had to do at least 2. Here is my first one.

Trapping DLO

One of the Matariki activities was to create a DLO showing how the Maori used to catch their food. Here is mine.

Matariki stars - what each star means

 As part of the matariki activities one of the tasks was to explain what each of the stars means.

What is matariki

 One of the matariki activities was to find out what matariki is and what are some other names people call it.

Workbook #2

 Yesterday I completed the first workbook and today here is the second.

Matariki - New years

 As one of the Matariki activities we had to find how other countries celebrated new years. I did NZ, China, UK and Tonga.

Maths work book #1

 This is our first maths workbook for this week.

Matariki - The stars of matariki

 One of our many activities of matariki is to make a DLO naming  the stars.

Matariki - Synthesising

This week we are looking in to Matariki. Our first activity was to write what we already new about Matariki then find out some more then add that to the google draw. Here is mine. 

Personal Experience Writing

 Personal experience - W.A.L.T: use descriptive language when writing at least a 6 sentence retale of your experience.

Friday hockey game

The bitter cold wind whistling around. You are huddeling trying to keep warm. Running and stretching, slowly getting warm. Playing the game, you run like a cheetah trying to get the ball. Smiling at the sheer joy of it. Cheering when your team scores a goal. Hitting the ball like it is your very annoying brother. Tackling the other team making sure the ball does not hit your foot. Huffing as you run back and forth. Hearing the whistle blow for half time you jog back to your coach. Hungrily eating the oranges.

Descriptive Writing

 WALT: write a descriptive piece.

The frosty cold wind blasts the snow into my face. The wind yells at me as I trudge slowly towards the house leaving clear footprints in the snow. The icy steps make me slip and skid, ending in a painful fall. Cold and wet I see the pretty snowflakes falling onto my face, the grey sky frowning at me and I hear the happy laughs coming from in the house. Arriving in the house the warmth hits me like a bullet. I smell the delicious cakes baking on the fire.

Prepositions - te reo

 Today for te reo we were learning about prepositions like on, in and under. Our task was to create a drawing with 5 sentences  giving an object where it is and the preposition here is mine.

Book Character Day

 

Tree climbing

 Last week we went to Hanmer for camp.

Potion

This week we were working on our instruction writing. One of the pieces of writing we had to do was on how to make a potion. I decided to do an invisibility potion. 

How to make an invisibility potion!

Ingredients Equipment

2 eyes of a goblin, pickled & fried A pot

3 phoenix feathers completely dried Wooden spoon

1 horn of a unicorn A sharp knife

A fenny snake

A gallon of fairy tears

1. Drop the fairy tears into the pot.

2.  Stir in the goblin eyes. Be careful not to damage them. 

3.  Finely chop the unicorn’s horn slowly, so the powers do not burn you.

4.  Add in the finely chopped horn.

5. Use the filet of the fenny snake in your potion. Break that up and stir that in.

6.  Mix well until you have a nice golden colour.

7.  Drink soon after mixed and hello invisibility

W4 Maths work book

 This week our maths work book was based on perimeter and area.

Cross Country

 On Monday we had cross country. As a year 8 I had to do 3 laps of rugby park and Grey Main school field combined. On the second lap we went out the gate up the hill and came back into the school grounds on the other side of the school. I did okay and ended up 5th.

Instruction writing

This week we have been working on writing instructions. I decided to do how to fold a fortune teller 

How to fold a fortune teller

Equipment Video

• 1 piece of A4 paper    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhiIlTx

• A pen or pencil

• Scissors

1. Fold the top right corner down so it is in line with the left side.

2. Cut along the base of the fold.

3. Unfold so that you now have a square.

4. Fold the paper in half, unfold then rotate so that the fold is horizontal.

5. Fold in half again then unfold.

6. Bring the four corners into the middle so that it makes a smaller square.

7. Flip the paper then bring all four corners in again.

8. Put your fingers through the holes in the back.

9. Use your pen to write colours on the outside of the finger holes.

10. Use your pen to write the numbers on the inside.

11. Flip open the flaps and write things like “your wishes will come true” under each flap.

12. Try it with your friends and enjoy.

Perimeter work book

Our maths work book this week was based on perimeter.

Descriptive writing

This week one of our tasks was to create a piece of descriptive writing about an image and pretend we are there.

The sun beams down upon me. Surrounded by a cloudless sky. Only a few seagulls accompany the sun. I play in the icy waves. Laughing like a hyena. I swim carelessly towards the shore. Enjoying the light breeze on my face. The palm trees wave as I return to shore. The sand is hot beneath my feet. I run swiftly to get in the shade. I taste the salty sea water as the wind carries it into my face. Watching as the sun slowly slips down down towards the sea. The sudden coldness hits me. Walking across the soft sand I pull my blanket tighter over me. The night sky stares at me with the twinkling stars winking at me.

Te reo - How are you

 

For te reo my class was learning how to say and how to respond to how are you. Ke te pehea koe is how are you. Then you would respond with kei te _______ ahoa. With the blank being how you felt. Kei te pehea koe?

Animals at war

As part of Anzac activities one of the activities was to complete a slideshow about a topic of your choice around Anzac. I chose animals at war.

Letter home

This term we have been doing ANZAC activities one of the activities was to write a letter home here is mine.

Send to: Greymouth 7805

Dear Mum

I have just arrived in gallipoli. The air is completely black, I am assuming that is from all the smoke. It also helps hide the bombers which frightens me. I am getting to work tomorrow hoping I can save some lives. Hopefully this war ends soon because I don’t think anyone is enjoying it here. The yells of pain and shouts for help are getting to me. Even though I haven't been here long. In the background you can hear gun fires and screams. It is hard to imagine tomorrow I will be heading into the heart of that. I am happy that I will be able to help the brave soldiers who are battling for our countries.

Looking forward to returning home and seeing you again.

Love

Molly

The life cycle of a kowhai tree

 This term T1 have been working on pollination and learning a lot about it. One of our tasks was to create a life cycle of a kowhai tree. Below is mine.

Family Fiesta

Family Fiesta

Tonight is the family fiesta. It will start at 5 and go until 7 at Grey Main. You should come along. It is a fund raiser for Grey Main school and it will have a lot of activities. Some of the things you can do are...

Wack a rat - this is a fun game where you try to hit the rat as it comes down a pipe. You can win chocolate if you are good at it.

Bottle-O - you pick a tag from a bag and it is likely that you will win a bottle.

Performances - There are groups performing like the kapa haka group. 

Cupcakes -  there are cupcakes that the older students have made. You can bid on these. 

Food - There will be a lot of food on sale.

There are many more activities come along tonight at 5.

Blue whales - report writing

  Blue whales - information report

We are lucky to live with the largest mammal to ever have lived, the blue whale. Though they once nearly became extinct. For an animal this big what would they eat?

The blue whale is known for its size. It is the largest animal on the planet. Have you seen an elephant? A blue whale weighs up to approximately 33 elephants. That is 181436.948 kg WOW! Think of the size of an adult man, now times that by 1000 and there you have a blue whale. Blue whales are huge creatures. How could they become endangered?

Blue whales are endangered.  They have a population of 25,000 but it is thankfully not currently decreasing. Blue whales became endangered by humans from our past and current acts. Whaling started around the 11th century. It peaked in between 1846-1852. The U.S stopped whaling in 1970. At that point blue whales were nearly extinct. Nowadays the problem for blue whales and other whales is fishing nets and plastic in the ocean. About 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die each year because of fishing gear. Over the past 10 years 57 whales have died from plastic. This gets into their body when they are eating.

What do you think blue whales eat? How would they eat? Blue whales eat krill. The biggest blue whales can eat up to 6 tons of krill in 1 day. Lots of sea water gets in their mouths when they are eating. They have this sort of sive in their mouth to get rid of the water. It is funny how the biggest creature on earth would eat such a small creature.

The blue whale is huge, the biggest creature on the planet, It is endangered with only 25,000 left in the world and a krill eating mammal.

Reading - flower parts

As one of our reading create tasks we had to make a model of a flower and all its parts. I drew mine. Even if I can not draw. At first I was not sure what type of flower to draw but then I decided to draw that one.
 

Limerick - The was once this teacher

 The other day I wrote a limerick. When you write a limerick the first, second and last line have to rhyme and the 3rd and 4th line have to rhyme. Here is a limerick I wrote.

There was once this teacher 

who had a furry little creature

It ate a little student

It was very imprudent

Now it’s a child eater

That was winter

I have written a that was winter poem. Everyone else did a that was summer poem but because I have done on of them in the past I did not do one.

That was Winter

Remember

Sitting by the fire

Piled under lots of blankets

You creep closer towards the flame 

trying to touch it.

You get up to do something.

Making cookies to lighten up the day.

Then letting them melt in your mouth 

laughing with your family.

Remember

Playing board games

Hour after hour to past time.

Waiting for the sun

To break the darkness

Waiting for ever and ever

Soon asleep.

That was winter

All about me ~ Hobbies

 I did the all about me at the start of the term but I haven't posted much of it. One of the activities was to make an poster for a sport. I chose netball. Here it is.

Who am I

 I wrote a who am I poem. Here it is.

Who am I?

I am....

Daniela’s daughter,

Richards sister,

Gudrun’s granddaughter

Milla’s Cousin

Gunnars niece

I am….

An athlete,

A reader,

A learner,

A leader,

I am…..

Strong

Tall,

blue/green eyed,

I am….

Smart,

Thoughtful,

I am….

me