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.
                                                                                             

Name that Shape

In class we have been learning about lots of different two dimensional shapes. In our Screencastify we had to say how many sides the shape had, what kinds of angles the shape had, how many equal sides, if it has parallel sides and the name of the shape. I chose a rhombus and Mackley described a square. Here is Mackley's and my Screencastify.

Trapped

In Room 5 we are learning how to describe. We had to describe a picture with a turtle in it and what we think will happen next. Our success criteria was to use present tense, use adjectives that describe the turtle and extend our sentences by using more detail. We also had a challenge which was to begin each sentence in a different way. I think I have used all of the things in the success criteria and in the challenge. This piece of writing was about how plastic polluting the ocean and what it does to sea animals. Here is my writing called Trapped.

Sadness sweeps over me as I spot a limey green turtle tangled up in an angry slimy green fishing net. What can I do? What can I do? The words keep repeating in my mind as I stomp around on the golden sand.

The nightmare keeps scaring me as I go back to when I was picked up by a fisherman and thrown into the gigantic boat with a enormous fishing net. It was a stormy night last night and the boat kept swinging on the rocky oceans waves. I remember when the boat started to hover into the ocean waters and everyone screamed at the top of their lungs trying to get help. But it was too late the boat was already under water and I was pretty happy to go back home but then a swampy green thing came and it tried to kill me. The creature keeps me in its stringy claws and now I am on the side of a beach.

As I stop daydreaming there is another person with brown trousers and a blue t-shirt standing by my side with a sharp metal thing. It keeps coming closer and closer and I keep getting more anxious. Then there was a snap and I could feel my fins again! YAY! Wait, how am I going to go back home? Something is tickling me. I can see everything from up here! I am the king of the world! I came in like a wrecking ball! Splash! That was me doing a belly flop into the water. Before I leave I give my rescuers a toothy smile and turtle paddle away.

There are thousands of little bits of plastic in the sea and lots turtles like me get tangled up in it. As I swim back into the ocean I spot lots of plastic bottles and lots of other plastic things. I am now scared of what is going to happen to my home. Will all of my family die because of all of the littering by humans? Or will it stop? Nobody knows what will happen in the sea because it is all up to the people on land to make the decision.

Plastic Avalanche

In Room 5 we are learning how to describe a moment in time. We had to look at a picture and write what was in it. Our writing topic was plastic. We had to imagine we are one of the people in the picture. Our success criteria was to write in present tense, use my senses, sights,sounds,sensations,feelings and smells and to extend my sentence by adding more detail. I think I have done all of the things in the success criteria. Here is my plastic writing.

Green and white bottles are piling onto each other in a mountain and the petrol smell is conquering the air. The day is passing by and I feel determined, as if I am racing against time to get all of this plastic into piles. Will this ever end? “Stop daydreaming Milly,” shouts Mother. Dust rams into my eyes as a jeep rolls over the bridge. The crunching sound of my feet stumbling over the rubbish mixed with mud is taking over my ears. The large, dirty white crinkled sacks are under the towering bridge with a big variety of transparent bottles. I pick up a slimy green bottle and chuck it into the green basket and it bounces out back onto the mountain. I feel restless as I trudge over to the bottle and squeeze my anger into it.

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Plastic is taking over the world! When it is 2033 the only thing that will be in the ocean will be plastic. We need to stop! I know some people forget to bring their bags into New World and have to use plastic bags but we are so much better than that! Plastic is everywhere! Some clothes are made out of plastic and some chairs are too! You know, Countdown is selling bags that are reusable and they are only one buck! Plus you can bring them back in if they are broken or ripped and get a new one for free! When you get coffee or tea at a cafe you need to bring your own cups in and then you are helping the planet. If we are doing little things alone we can do big things working together.

Sadness,anger,annoyance and confusion are all in my mind and I can’t get either one out. I know this is how we get food and water but isn’t there another way? Can’t we have a life without plastic or will it stay in our lives forever?

Here is the link to the picture

Plastic Bottle Mountain