Doing Maths At Home

One of the activities for the Winter Maths Challenge was to make a slideshow or google drawing showing how we all use maths in our homes. I had lots of fun with this post!

School Holidays Poster

Have you heard of the School Holidays maths and reading challenge. Well, most schools have to do it and one of the activities for Awahono was to make a poster about one of your favourite authors. I did mine on Tom Huddleston! Here is my post about my favourite author.

Should Trees Be Cut Down?

Should Tree Be Cut Down? Think about it what would your answer be... yes or no? This was one of the things we had to do for writing in Room 6. For me it was just too hard to pick what side I was on so I did the pros and cons. Our writing had to have lots of evidence and true information in it. When the whole class had finished we had a DEBATE about whether trees should be cut down. There were some VERY assertive people who fought strongly for their point during this. In the end nobody really one but it was a great experience for all of us. Here is my persuasive writing.

Should Trees Be Cut Down?

What do you think when you hear this question? Do you disagree or agree?
Do you like how forests help the world? Could you not live without wooden
products?  I was one of those people who couldn’t decide so I have written
the pros and cons. Here are three paragraphs about the pros and cons of
cutting trees down to help decide, whether you’re on the green team or
the forest league!

One crazy fact about forests is that they help shelter and sustain over
80% of plants and animals that live on land! National Geographic says
that trees are living things just like us humans and they breathe in
carbon dioxide and breathe out fresh oxygen which is the opposite
of what we do. Trees can also cool down our homes and city by shade
but in Los Angeles the average temperatures have gone up  six degrees
in the last fifty years because there has been less trees and more
roads and buildings that absorb heat. Did you know that inside the
tree there are few, or lots of rings that actually tell us things about
history? That is the way to tell the age of a tree and the history of
the weather where the tree is grown. Which is pretty useful! So why
do we cut them down?

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without a warm fire,
chocolate and toilet paper? That is what could be lost if we stop
cutting trees down! Not to mention all the essentials like, tables,
chairs, paper and electricity. 13.2 million people who work for the
lumber industry would lose their jobs because they wouldn’t be
allowed to cut down trees and make them into products. Did you
know that 1.6 million people rely on forests for their living, as well?
What would we use for houses, furniture and fences? Some of you
might say why not metal or steel, but did you know that those two
materials are both more costly. Professionals who build houses also
don’t always have the same experience working with metal or steel.

Did you know that cutting down trees can be a win, win for human life
and the forests? If we cut down a few trees in the middle of the
forest it will reduce the competition of trees trying to get light and
water so the remaining trees can grow big and healthy. Humans also
get a bargain as well! We get the trees that were cut down and make
essentials for our living!

According to an anonymous source on AskIdeas “ Humans are the only
creature in this world who cut the trees, make paper from it and then
write Save The Trees on it.” 

What do you want the world to look like in the next century?

David Walliams Challenge

Who doesn't love the amazing author David Walliams? Well, in Room 6 we were lucky enough to read a book called The World's Worst Children which is one David Walliams books he wrote. While reading it we recognised some alteration, and onomatopoeia in the sentences so since David Walliams has a cool and unique writing style we thought that we could try to write just like him. Some of Room 6's titles where really funny like, Obnoxious Olivia, Lockie who loved Literature and Arguing Annabelle. The next stage was drawing an illustration that matched the character but I did not get up to that stage. Here is my writing!

Lockie Who Loved Literature

You may think that it is good to have a child who loves
literature… BUT YOU ARE WRONG! Kids who always
have their nose in a book pay no attention in class,
WHATSOEVER! One example of this is Lockie. Lockie
loved literature so much that he had piles of books in
his room and he had to take the roof off so he could
fit in his Harry Potter Series. He wore an orange
cardigan with a Brain on it and blue trousers that
overlapped his bright pink crocs. The boy never
had time to trim his hair or cut his nails, so he
used his golden pigtails for bringing hundreds of
books home and his nails were two metres long
and were chipped from turning billions of pages,
as well. Lockie's face had two eyes that looked
as if someone had cracked some eggs onto his
flat chubby face, whilst mistaking it for a plate
and when he moved his head they fell into place.
One day he had to go to the dentist but he had
his nose in a book so Lockie accidentally walked
into the Plastic Surgery Unit. When he came he
had duck lips that looked like someone had stuck
two sausages together. 

At Big Potato Elementary lots of kids called him
names like Bookworm and Big Brain but he didn’t
really take any notice because he was too busy
reading. Lockie lived in a town called Potatoton
which had a population of 200 but everyone got
sick of Lockie not paying attention to ANYTHING
so they left so now there are 50 people who live
there. Here’s where our story starts…

On one normal school day, Lockie was reading
the last one hundred pages of Stacy Gregg’s
The Lazy Horse in Science when Miss Jefferson
screamed out,” It’s raining Skittles, go and
get buckets, children!” “ But we are in the
middle of dissecting octopus hearts,” Exclaimed
Tony. The teacher ignored him and scurried
outside, to begin filling her stinky socks with
the rainbow lollies. While everyone was outside
Lockie sat quietly reading and not even noticing
the gigantic green skittle hurtling towards him.
Just as he was reading the last sentence of his
book it crashed through the roof with a BOOOOM.
And that was the last anyone saw of the literature
loving boy. So what’s the moral of the story, you
may ask? Well, just remember to pay ATTENTION
in class otherwise your favourite confectionery
might just crush you to death!