Animal Band Reader's Theater

Walt performe to an audiience

Success Criteria:

• speak clearly
• speak loudly
• speak with expression
• speak together as a group

September 4th 2015

Room 12 performed a play called the Animal Band in front of the whole school.
When we did the animal band we did a technique called Reader's Theater which means we did our parts together. 
The characters were the Donkeys, the Roosters, the cats, the Dogs, the robbers, the readers, and the narrators.
One of the characters in each group did the acting except the robbers witch all did the acting.
My character which was also Jacks and Max's was robber 3.  Our line was "We have to get out, let's run into the forest and hide!" with lots of expression of course. 
When we were on stage and the school started pouring in I got nervous, but then I saw some other classmates looking nervous witch made me say to myself I am not the only one that is nervous witch gave me confidence. 
Here are some photos.

Here is a photo in my robber costume.

               

Here is a photo of my group and my updated  costume.

       

Rivers are better than Beaches.

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

Rivers are better than beaches

I strongly believe that rivers are better than beaches . Here are three main reasons to support my argument…

One reason is, are that beaches are way more dangerous than rivers. Because there are rips and huge waves but in the river they don’t have them so that makes them more safe to swim in .

Another reason is, there are sea creatures that can hurt you like stingrays, jellyfish and sea urchins which makes it not safe to swim in the sea. plus there have been several reports of people swimming in the ocean and being eaten by sharks, and that's another reason that rivers are safer to swim in.

Finally, if swimming at the beach and suddenly the sand breaks beneath your feat and you could fall into a deep hole and drown, there might be an undertow and it will suck you into the water and out to sea but not when you are in the river.

 yes                                         no      

Beaches are dangerous.



Therefore I believe that rivers are better than beaches.

Country Life is better than City Life - Term 3 Week 2

Walt students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing

Success Criteria:.

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

Country life is better than City life

I strongly believe that country life is better than city life

If you live in the country you get more fresh air because there are no cars to pollute the air.There are no factories to make our plants and vegetables go rotten because the gas that is made by factories is toxic to the air and our plants need air, so factories are actually killing our plants.

You get more fitness when you live in the country because  you have to walk everywhere you go. Most people that live in the country don’t have cars but if they do have cars they often don’t work so they have to walk everywhere.

Another reason is that you get to explore the hills and forests and you can look for wildlife like rabbits and deer.  If you have a river near your house you can go swimming in summer instead of paying money to go to swimming centres.

Therefore I believe that country life is better than city life.

Skimming Reading Strategy - Term 3 week 2

Walt skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get the understanding of it.
These are the things I can do to skim read

1. Look at the title
2. Look at the blurb
3. Look at the characters
4. Look at the contents
5. look at the index

Matariki Reflection - Week 10

Last Monday was Kauri hubs Matariki workshop day. You had to choose 3 workshops unless you chose making Maori kites, mural art or sewing which you have to do for the whole day. 
The workshop that I chose was sewing and as you can see in the picture I am using a sewing machine. 
The thing I found challenging was trying to get the lines straight when I’m using the sewing machine, but the thing I found easy was keeping the sewing machine nice and slow.

Area Week 6

 We use Area in almost every thing, even video games like Sims and Mine-craft where you have to plan the Area of your house.

A Square grid is the thing that most people use to find out the Area of things like buildings and houses.
If you wanted to build a pool the counsel would say you have to have a fence around it so that's where the grid kicks in.
  What you have to do is find a big piece of land for your pool and then you measure the Area with a tape measure and then draw it on the grid and then go show it to a builder and then they will build it for you. 
Here is an example of anotherway to find out Area, what you do is count one row and one column and then do a thing we like to call length x width so when you have the total numbers of the row and columns you multiply them and then you have the total number of the square units inside a shape.

Rhinos - Week 5

Rhinos are big heavily armored mammals that you will find all around Africa, most of the time they are peaceful herbivores but if they are provoked they will charge.
Here is a photo of a rhino.

   
This rhino's horn is strong enough to kill three grown men, if you are charged by a rhino and you survive you will consider it a miracle.

How to survive a rhino:
If you just happen to be riding around in a jeep or car in Africa and you come across a rhino, if you don't want it to charge you, turn off everything in the car and keep still no matter what until the rhino goes away.

How to tell if a rhino is about to charge:
If you see a rhino with its horn on the ground, it means it it going to charge, it will look a bit like this.


So if you see a rhino like this, stay still and don't move.