Persuasion

Today in writing we re-visited O.R.E.O writing and I did a UN-jumbling activity that helped me to restore my memory of Oreo writing. After we took a stance on a topic. "Animals should be kept as pets". The easy part was coming up with reasons the hard part was trying to come up with reasons on the spot in our debate against pets should not be kept as pets. My next step is to backup my reasons

Narrative writing

For the last week we have been learning about narrative writing and to write about what it would feel like to be a dog. The hard part was making my story interesting the easy part was making my story easy to read. here is my story. My next step is to add more adjectives.

It’s a normal Monday night I’d just finished rugby training. I'm puffed out and I just want to go to bed. But my mum is making  me eat so I don't eat too much. Tomorrow is the biggest game of the year for our team. Because we are competing against the top team and the winning gets to fly to America to meet a famous.

So I go to bed remembering to warm up in my backyard. I woke up in the morning and try to put on my clothes but for some reason i can’t. Soon I noticed I’m a furry overgrown German Shepherd. I'm sad because I can’t tell my mum I'm a dog and I barely see my dad because hes always at work. I keep thinking what am I supposed to do I'm the leading scorer in my team. Then I feel like I,m cursed or something I never thought something bad would happen to me. After I blackout and I'm just lying on the ground as a dog. As I lay on the ground I'm petrified am I going to stay like this forever? Is it a dream? I thing of all the bad things as a dog and I won’t be treated more than just a pet. What am I supposed to do. I can’t stop thinking about all the bad things like eating from a bowl, being caged up in the cold unpredictable pitch black night. I keep saying this is only a dream, this is only a dream. Two hours later I hear my mum calling me “Dave come on we are going to be late for you're big game” I am moping around jump into the car like a sack of potatoes and just sit in the car and watch my team get torn up by the other team. I'm just mad saying “why now it could’ve been any other time but now” and then I'm just mad because I never even got a chance to go to America. Well I go to bed sad and wake up the next day and I'm normal. “How ironic” I change back the day after I get changed to a dog I'm not mad just disappointed that I didn't get a shot at our game yesterday and then I just say oh well  maybe next time.

Two weeks later my mum gets a call from our coach saying “The other team canceled it turns out the opposing coach paid the ref to be one sided so our whole team was excited to go to America and go to Disneyland and everywhere else it was a miracle I was so happy that we went.

Paper fractions

Today for math's we used paper to show the different fraction sizes the lowest fraction I got to was 1/4096 and the squares where pine sized here is my finished product. We narrowed the fractions down until we couldn't cut or fold the squares anymore.

Goals for writing

Today I choose a couple of goals for writing these goals indicate what I need to work for our writing rubrics. My goals are I need to write a variety of sentences that are grammatically correct and I need to stay on the specific genre and use the right words.

Waka haerenga

Today we went to Opua to learn about Hekenukumai busby's legacy and his lives work. We learnt some waka positions and learnt about the knots and how to tie them properly and how they navigate on a traditional sailing canoe and how they navigated from one place to another. Here are some photos from our haerenga.

Waka reflection

Last week we tested our waka we all built different waka. The easy part was making the design the hard part was holding the coins on my boat. And they were all buoyant until we put coins on we started seeing different waka sink but most that sunk were made out of tin foil and the ones were made out of bottles floated the bottle made boats were less dense so they floated the tin foil was less dense to but they didn't have the support to hold a coin so it sunk here is one of the successful boats. Next time I will make sure my materials are durable and strong

How to make a Christmas tree

Yesterday we made Christmas trees  out of:

           Materials

• 3 cupcake cups
• 1 Popsicle stick
• 1 glue stick
• 3 pom poms
• Ribbon as long as your forearm
• Tape

Method

1.  Grab 1 cupcake cup
2. Fold it in half
3. Next unfold it then push the corner in
4. Repeat with the other two
5. Grab your Popsicle stick and your glue stick
6. Arrange it how you want
7. Glue your cupcake cups on
8. Grab some ribbon and cut it as long as your forearm (get help if you need it)
9. Make it like an X at the bottom
10. Tape it to your tree
11. Glue your pom poms on how ever you want then your finished here's my finished one