William Shakespare- Romeo and Juliet

For the past 2 weeks we have been focusing on the story Romeo and Juliet which is a famous tale written by William Shakespeare, who is a famous poet that was born in stratford- upon- avan, England. This week me, Ellenora, Eyaka and Angelene created a animation to retell the story. Throughout the week we have been communicating with each other and sharing the ideas, which we then process into making our animation. We also created a script to go along with the animation. We each took turns on each of the script. After our animation was fully accomplished we presented it to the class. 

T4W1- Explanation, Empathy, Tolerence, Qualities, Kindness

Is Mocking someone else's culture alright, no, people have their own belief and Religion and respecting and showing values of their culture is the best choice to make. How would you feel if someone barged into your house or temple of worship and made a nasty comment about your culture, Showing Empathy to them is like putting yourself into their shoes. Empathy is a strong word and means to put someone else first who is living a life where they are not able to show themselves or to share their culture.





Do you know someone who is experiencing Cultural effects- For example, A new person comes to a school which has only light coloured skin students. During Morning Tea a group of students from year 6 to 7 approach the new person and start humiliating them by making comments about who they are. Meanwhile, another student comes into the problem and attempts to use empathy by using a proper explanation to convince the bullies that mocking a culture is never ok. Think about it, the life effect on that 1 person. That single pupil would ́t ever want to go to school because of the less welcoming that they were given.





So why is Empathy important? Empathy can help cultural communities live in safer places. Mainly places where foul language is not used, less Mocking more empathy. Because being in a country where they only allow 1 colour can change everything but standing up for what is right can make a huge difference to many peoples lives.

This Week In Writing we are continuing to write explanations, This time our topic is based on values- The 4 values that we are focusing on is, Kindness, Empathy, Tolerance, Qualities. Our first task was to plan for 5 minutes then write for 40 minutes. While I was writing my explanation I kept on looking at my notes to ensure that I included, formal language, Punctuation- To make sure I marked the punctuation in the write places, Rhetorical question, Technical vocab + powerful words and last by not least TIIC which is the main part of this explanation. This Explanation that I wrote was based on Empathy and Cultural belief and why we should respect others opinion and thoughts- Belief.  After 40 minutes of writing I did 5 minutes of drafting, I fixed up a few mistakes but during the proof reading stage I realized that what I´ve wrote included all main points that I needed. Next time I need to work on not including to much information about the topic.

Explanation: Should New Zealand ban plastic straws?

You may not agree with me, but I believe that plastic straws should be banned from all facilities including supermarkets. Plastic straws has been an issue for years and I totally agree that factories should stop producing the number of plastic straws. Think about all the harm that people are causing without even noticing. Can't you see that our wild/marine life is suffering because of our ignorant actions. How would you feel if you were a poor animal with no voice? Plastic straws take 500 years to break down into micro plastic.

Did you know 65,000 straws are thrown away each year? Plastic straws are usually found in public areas, but mostly at beaches. People are getting upset, confused and mad because of the amount of plastic straws that are being thrown away after one use.

What is happening to people's minds?, This is ridiculous, disgusting and gross. Why use plastic straws when we have a lot of other choices to choose from? Would you rather save our animals or leave them to die? You tell me. Straws can be a great use, but think about it? Losing an animal is like losing a loved one. 

I feel so annoyed when I hear that plastic straws end up in our oceans, especially with our marine animals.

So think about the number of damages we are causing, because of the plastic straws that we use everyday. I as a proud New Zealander take my stand and fight on behalf of the animal welfare community! What can we do? How can we stop it? Now you tell me!

Persuasive Speech

LI: To Write a Speech that persuades others to think the way you do.

Why the media should stop showcasing violence on the news 

Paragraph 1 – Fakalofa Lahi Atu, My name is Joel and I am writing this speech to tell others why the media should stop showcasing violence on the news. In my opinion this has a big affect on us as people which makes it even harder for all of us to move on with our lives. As was recently showcased on T.V this year  the Christchurch Terrorist attack has been a shocking moment for all those who have lost someone during the tragedy. As humans we have been given the freedom that we have always wanted , but when casting breaking news on T.V stops us from sharing the moment that we have in this world can cause a major impact on who we are.

Paragraph 2 – 

Why is the news broadcasting these inappropriate and brutal videos and reports?

People are unnecessarily worried because of what they have seen & heard and to think about what has been shown people are reacting and are not thinking about what they should do before they made their actions appear.

This is a cautious environment because from my point of view  this sounds like a big misunderstanding. From the way they have intimidated others to follow them, This can cause a number of dangers to people's lives, for example it can lead to suicide, protests, schools being shut down and mostly online texting and showcasing.

Paragraph 3 – Are the media making the right decision

to cast these juvenile reports on live TV. Well there are many people out their who have

lost a friend,staff or family member , whether they have died from a serious cause.

These families do not want their hearts broken again because

of the tragedies that are taking place around the world.

Sometimes this can be a warning sign for families but it might

also cause stress and depression.

That's why I am giving this speech today to let the media know

that it's done an over because those who suffer from watching rudeness cannot keep

on listening to this nonsense and we as a people should ask this question too ourselves, 

is it OK to feel upset because of this, No, we should fight back

but together we come as one.

We are not the people that are making these changes it is those

who are thought to believe that violence is the right thing to do. Well I'm about to make

that all change with this powerful speech I give today I hope you understand the reasons

why I have chosen this topical issue to convince the people of this world that we can't and we shouldn't let them keep on doing this.

For 3 weeks, in writing we have been producing speeches that talk or convince people about a persuasive topic. For this task I chose to write about why the media should stop showcasing violence on the news. I found this topic interesting because it talks about the changes that people are making and this is caused all through social media and + the news. The powerful words I used helped made my paragraphs more convincing. But the Main point of this part was to hook the reader in and make 

people want to think like me. To make the readers want to think like me I also used language features such as, technical words, vocabulary, Organization. The part when i practiced my speech was that I have to be confident show eye contact to the audience and also communicating with other speakers.

The feedback that I would give to myself is- that I have confidence and pride in what I speak for.

The feedfoward-   is that I need to work on getting my tenses write so that my speech can be more informal.

Collaborative writing task

Dear Million year old police officer,

LI: To write a postcard to a million year old police officer who thinks she's a cartoon character.

I am writing to let you know that being a cartoon character is different than being a million year old police officer. It is crazy to think that women at the age of a million can think that way. But many have their own imagination. I think that your more than just a cartoon character your you and nobody can ever change who you are including yourself.

In Writing Haylee and I worked collaboratively together to create a share ideas about our task. Our task was to collaboratively write a postcard to a million year old police officer who thinks shes a cartoon character. At first we shared our ideas using notes that we wrote down to help us create our postcard. In this task we did 5 minutes of planning, 10 minutes of collaborative planning our story, 30 minutes to collaboratively write our story, 10 minutes reading our postcard out loud, 10 minutes to finish writing and 10 minutes of drafting our work.

Neil Armstrong infographic

T- Neil Armstrong

I-Hello today we will be explaining about  the first man on the moon. Neil Armstrong was born in Ohio   and is the oldest of the 3 brothers in his family. Neil wanted to become a pilot from the moment he saw a airplane. He built his own model planes and did experiments on them. Neil took his first flying license when he was 14.

P- Neil loved learning about planes but he also enjoyed learning about space.He would always wonder what was upon the Stars when he was in college of War started he was called to be a fighter Pilot. He completed 78 missions during the war. After the war and after finishing College he became he became a test pilot whose job was to test new planes to make sure that they they are safe to fly and help them make it better.  

He had the courage To test over 20 new planes. He set a world record for flying one of the fastest planes in the world.  Neil loved planes and space so he decided to become an astronaut who flies to space. While Neil was a Astronaut America was planning their first flight to space. Neil was picked to fly the spaceship to the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first American Astronaut to step on moon.  

S-Neil Armstrong was the first American Astronaut to land on moon. Neil was born and raised in Ohio- United states and  is the oldest brother in his family. He was very interested in planes and space. He got his flying license when he was 14. He was fighter pilot, test pilot, astronaut and the first person to land/step on moon.  

In Writing this week Nidhi and I have created a collaborative information report based on the first man stepping on the moon. We recorded all the information by using a resource video to help us brainstorm all of our ideas. The information report is based on American Astronaut Neil Armstrong who took the chance at becoming a Astronaut. 
A fact that we learnt was that Neil Armstrong got his first flying license when he was 14. At first to get all the ideas down we recorded all the important facts down on notes. The structure that we used was TIPS which stands for Title, Introduction, Paragraphs and Summary.

Why kokako lodge is a great place for year 7/8 to go to camp

This Week in Writing Sandra, Miiana, Fui and I worked collaboratively together  to create a 50 word summary and a idea list. Together in our group of 4 we created a screen castify explaining our ideas about why kokako lodge is  a great place for year 7/8 students to go to camp. This gives kids the oppitunity to get involved in each activity. Our ideas helped us create a digital version of our response to siri. We listed all of our ideas down on pieces of sheet. So we collaboratively combined all of our ideas into a video. 

Stretching sentences

In Writing I have been learning how to stretch my sentences using the 5wś and H. 
This helps to make my sentences more detailed and interesting. I´ve created a DLO to explain how to stretch my sentences using who, what, when, where, why and how. 
I also created my own example to show an Adverb and noun in my sentences.
This DLO will talk about how to add an adverb or noun and where to put the 5wś and H. 
I need to work on adding vocabulary in my sentences.

Sketchnote- Explanations

This week Nihdi and I worked collaboratively on an explanation task. We created a sketch note that reflects back on writing an Explanation. We wrote down what an explanation is by  how something works and Describes either a person or place. This helps to organised the information in place. We wrote down all of our ideas that we thought of. Using all of the Ideas
on our note we created a digital Sketch note to explain what explanation is. 

Explanation Writing: How Camels have adapted to there Enviroment

How have camels adapted to their environment?

They have made Physical changes too there lives in the hot condition. Camels store water in there fat this means they can survive without water for 30 days. The desert is very hot and  temperatures can rise up to 42 degrees Celsius. At night cold temperatures means that without warm nights camels can get really cold. The camels natural habitat is the desert which is a hot place that happens to be borders made of sand. This is a great place for camels to live because it is very hot. This habitat heats the sand which makes it very hot too walk on. Weathers can easily change which can be difficult and  tough. Most weathers can damage eyesight like sand storms. This weather is considered dangerous because you can get lost or even die out in a weather like this. A sand storm is when the wind and sand combine together to form a type of weather which is called a sand storm. Camels have 3 sets of eyelids protecting them from getting sand into there eyes. They have ears which have hair in them too protect them from having any issues with hearing. They also have fat lips which helps them too bite through plants. The lips also stop the thorns from hurting them. They also have thick fur on their humps for shade and thick pads and webbing around their toes to walk on the hot sand. The nose closes and opens for breathing. The Camels drink water too help them keep hydrated on hot days. Barely there is no rain in the desert because of hot heated temperatures. People help camels to stay healthy by giving them grass, grains,  wheat and oats. This is too give them the nutrition they need so that they can survive for 30 days without water. Camels grow up too 7 inches tall this means they are making physical changes in there lives which  helps them to grow strong and healthy. Without nutrition camels would die with no hydration or food. It is hard to survive in the desert because of the hot climates that happen during hot weathers.

In Writing we have continued to write explanations. This term our topic is about how Camels have adapted to there environment. before I started righting my explanation about Camels I planned notes for idea´s to put into my Explanation. I used TIIC in my explanation which is title, Introduction, Information and conclusion. My Introduction was about how Camels have adapted to there environment the next paragraph was a desert description which explained what a desert is and climates that change the weather. I found the 3rd paragraph interesting because it was about diet and foods that help give nutrition to camels. Paragraph 2 was about physical changes that camels have helped change there bodies. The last paragraph was conclusion which I repeated some information to sum up all my ideas and gives out one key information about my topic.

Apostrophes DLO

In Writing Mrs Aś group learnt about Apostrophes we all created a DLO showing an example of an Apostrophe when to use them in a sentence. Apostrophes and contractions are both different but in the same group. Contraction is when 2 words that are together but shortened an Apostrophe goes where the missing letter is.

An apostrophe is a punctuation because they are both symbols but have a different meaning. 

Pecha Flickr Narratives

Me and Brooklyn created a video to tell a story about our Pecha flickr. We created a DLO to put our pictures on. Our topic is Hiking we made up a story to describe what we could see in the picture.Each Picture we wrote a story for it once a story is done on one slide we had to write a story about the other pictures. We were learning how to write Narratives by describing pictures and creating stories.Besides that we created a copy of another DLO which we had to write our narrative on It was interesting because all of our paragraphs were long. Some of our Narratives had to be changed to make our Pecha flickr more interesting and detailing.This was fun because we learnt how to describe pictures and create a awesome story.
We linked Ideas to our story and how the match together.In Our minds we had to paint a picture of ourselves acting in the story.The words that we wrote on our slides were to show and tell what was happening  and what it meant. 

Flight of a life time.

Flight of a lifetime

I stared at my brother as he gazed into the night, mother owl flew through the cold gusty breeze.
I glared at the city view which made me have a terrifying feeling,
about what it will be like too fly on the first flight.
I felt the temper of the incoming breeze trying too pull me into the night.
I felt nervous and scared.
I couldn't let my fear overcome myself but after a while
I encouraged myself too drift into the night sky.

I became even more brave when I took the first flight,
I knew that I had faith in myself. I was so frightened before but now I am able to fly on my own.
I searched the forests down below to look for dinner, until I came upon a river.
I was watching fish leaping out of the rough current
as my mouth started to drip with saliva and was making me hungry.
So I leapt and flew to the river to capture my prey until I caught a fish
and flew back to my mother and laid the fish on the branch.

When I finished dinner I felt like the cool breeze lifting my wings up,
so I got ready and took off into the sunset.
Mother owl and brother Owl followed me as we twirled into the colourful sky above.

This week Ms Anderson's writing group had a discussion about writing a narrative. After we finished the discussion Ms Anderson´s writing group talked about using powerful words and synonyms to make the story more hooking to the reader. Then we all went off to write our story. I wrote about myself being a owl and having my first flight. In my story I have written about how I over came that fear with my courage and hope. I hope you enjoy my story about flight of a life time. 

Sounds and smells of the night market

5-7-10

(5 minutes writing - 7 minutes DRAFT in pairs - 10 minutes writing)

I can see food thats is firing on a hot element and the flavors rising with steam. I can hear the Churros sizzling in the hot oil & Chocolate sauce drizzling on the soft textured delight. I can smell the air blasting with flavors & served food smelling with great texture. I can also taste the sugar bursting in my mouth. As I leave the food stand I can taste hot moist Churros in my mouth I can also taste the sugar bursting in my mouth. I can think of my first bite and how it is going to taste when l bite it. I would do anything just to take one bite of that delicious crunchy Churro.I can feel the inside of my stomach rumbling as l can smell the churros sizzling away.I can't say one word because of the tasty desert I took a bite of.

I can say that the bite was hot & soggy.

For writing I budied up with my partner Avalon we made a copy of our writing template and watched a video to get us thinking of Idea's to do this we used a whiteboard and whiteboard marker.

After putting down about what happens at the night market we started talking to each other thinking of what topic about the night market we could write about.We decided that we should write about the different foods at the night markets.

We used the 9 main symbols Feel,Taste,Look,Smell and hair,Then we started writing our paragraphs.Then we thought of something we wanted to make our paragraphs more powerful so that it would inspire people of what the night markets are like.

After writing for a few minutes we talked again and checked our spelling correction and also to make sure that our sentences made sense.Once we were done we carried on to the 5,10,7 draft.We copied in our paragraphs and moved on to the next final step,The next step was to write feedback about our writing and how we felt about our story.

1 words 2 minute Winter olympics

Equipment/Respect

This year the Pyeongchang winter olympic games have begun many countries have come too compete in the winter Olympics each sport is played on ice & snow.

Many of the sports that are played use different equipment they also show respect to there team & country but the tournament is not easy,not every athlete wins the games.

Athletes also compete in different events like different kinds of sports it takes a lot too practice for these games.

Some teams have sports trials that they have too practice in each day & each week until the finals come.

Pyeongchang winter olympic games were held for 17 days,It started on the 9th of February & ended on the 25th of February.

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Today we used the ‘2 words 1 minute’ challenge to write a description about the Winter Olympics. After talking in pairs about the things we knew about the winter Olympics we created a list of words (vocabulary) that would help us write our description. We chose the words ‘equipment’ and ‘respect’ to help us think about what we were going to write.

We talked about ideas with a partner, then we had 1 minute to put those ideas into sentences. We had to try our best to use all the words on our vocab list. After the minute was up we had 2 minutes to reread what we had written and make changes if anything didn’t make sense, or if we had words and punctuation in the wrong place. When we finished checking we had 2 more minutes to carry on writing our descriptions.

I need to remember to Today I made sure that I used powerful words to make my paragraphs interesting.

Sentence Stretcher

Writing today was about stretching simple and complex sentences.I worked with my partner Viva we had to cooperate with each other and think of what to do.We wrote sentences about a fox then we had to describe the fox and write explanations of the 5 w's.

Then after we finished writing the simple and complex sentences we wrote our paragraph about the fox.Then we explained what the fox was doing when it was doing it and Where the fox was.

Sentences

To use Conjunctions to write a compound sentence

In Writing Mrs Anderson writing group had to write about Compound sentences/Simple Sentences/Complex sentences.
We used pictures for explaining what our sentences mean.

The information we put in was on the board,We first planned it out then we started writing our Ideas on whiteboards.
We wrote down sentences about what was on the TV.

We started off with the Lion 

We described about what the lion is doing,How it looks and types of other info.

Can you guess what my holiday is?

Remembering my summer holiday?

LI: writing using language features to engage readers. 

I heard Music coming from across the street.

I saw my neighbours leaving their house.

I saw lightning striking outside.

I felt the hot heat burning on my skin.

I wondered if my gift was perfect for my Nana.

I wondered if my Brother was home safely.

Photo by maciej326/Red gift/ Pixabay/ Free Illustration

Origami slide editing

LI: to write a recount about making origami cranes.
In Writing we had to edit and check if our sentences made sense we had to edit some of our work because some of it didn't make sense or 2 sentences were joined together.

We had to check with Mr,Wong and see if our sentences were in order.
For the past few minutes I have been checking Sandra's DLO and seeing if it made sense.
She checked minds and I checked hers.

Bean bag throw

LI: To use past tense to show something has happened

I have popped in some pictures on each slide and have put in information that rejects to what we have learnt.
We also had to pop in each writing on each slide that had a picture to explain what we were talking about.