Collage

We were learning about plastic and how it kills the sea environment. We made a collage with ripped up pieces from OLD magazines! We drew our animals and then we had a choice of  painting or using some pastels to colour our animals. I found that sticking the animals on our collage was hard and also starting off on putting the ripped magazines on.

On our collage we have stuck on a humpback whale, a tropical basking fish, a crayfish, a dolphin and two penguins.  The colours that we used for the humpback whale were blue and black, the colour we used for the crayfish was orange,the colours we used for the tropical basking fish were yellow, orange, black, red, blue and green. The colours for the dolphin were light blue, dark blue and also black.                                                

Our contents were the beach, the ocean and the sky. We also had an island, a cliff with a water, a sun and mountains. I think it was not hard but took a big period of time to get it finished. I liked making the collage and thought it was fun and also I liked how we had to collaborate in groups.

                                                      

Plastic Bin Liners

In room five we had to make a document persuading our principal to ban plastic bin liners from our school. To be successful we had to organise our ideas in paragraphs with an introduction that explains why you are writing (what the problem is) and a position statement (what you believe), three main paragraphs, a conclusion and start each paragraph with a topic sentence, use words like: firstly, secondly, finally, in my opinion, I believe, strongly, firmly, should, must and, if... then. I think I am going well at writing persuasive texts and I will know what to do next time when I write some persuasive writing.  I think I have included most of the things on the success criteria list. Here is my writing about plastic bin liners.

10th September 2018 Dear Mrs Wallace, I’ve got to inform you about the problem that is happening in our school which is that plastic bin liners are being used too much at Awahono School. We are using two thousand each year at our school! I strongly believe that plastic bin liners must be removed from our school. Do we really need them at Awahono School? Here are my three good reasons about why plastic bin liners should be not be allowed and taken away from our school. First of all, we only put dry materials in our classroom bins. For example, our class only puts paper and pencil sharpenings in our bin and those things do not produce any liquid after a few days in the plastic bin liner. We already have a a bin that carries scraps for our chickens. Sometimes people just put a plastic wrapper in the classroom bin which is perfectly alright because they do not let off any odour or liquid out. I firmly believe that our school must not use plastic bin liners because we only put dry materials in them. Secondly, the plastic bin liners are polluting the Earth. If our school makes a little change we are not going to pollute the Earth and the sea animals will not be surrounded by plastic as much as they are right now. Our plastic bin liners only get used once a day and they all go to a landfill and are not recyclable. Our school must not use bin liners because they are polluting the Earth and if we keep going on like this lots of animals will die. Thirdly, our school can save money and buy important things if we don’t use plastic bin liners. We can buy better things like new sports gear, flash kapa haka costumes and a new sports shed window. If we keep buying plastic bin liners our school will be poor and we will have to find more money. We don’t want that, do we? If we don’t use plastic bin liners our school will not run out of extra vests and medical things. When the school uses plastic bin liners it is like when you lose something and can’t get it back and at the moment we are losing money and not getting it back. In conclusion, all of the classes mostly puts dry materials in the plastic bin liners, they are also polluting the Earth and I we are throwing away money too. I hope that you will consider banning plastic bin liners from our school. Yours sincerely, Sophie

Double Number Lines

In my maths group we are learning how to use double number lines to find a fraction of a number. We had to make a slideshow with three problems in it that involve a double number line, an example and an introduction. I think I am doing good with using double number lines but sometimes I forget that I can't halve odd numbers. Here is my slideshow about double number lines

Therefore

One of the things on my can do list in homework was to make a document about one or more of my words. I chose the word therefore. I had to make a sentence showing an example of the the word therefore and the meaning. Here is my drawing about the word therefore.

El Gregoe

Today El Gregoe the magician and ventriloquist, came to Awahono school. He did tricks like putting his hand through a mirror and bringing a long ladder out of his small suitcase. El Gregoe came to our school to tell us about bullying and there were five words about how to ignore a bully and how to stand up to them. They were respect, trustworthy, helpful, responsible and caring. All of the words were put on the long ladder. There was also a word that was about how to stand up to a bully, which was the word WITS. The W stands for walk away, the I stands for ignore, T stands for talk to someone and S stands for stop. My favourite magic trick was the one when he blew up a balloon and popped it and a dove came out. I learned about the five words for how to stand up against bullies and I learned about what the letters in WITS stand for. El Gregoe did lots of cool illusions and here are a two pictures of the El Gregoe visit.