Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Persuasive writing

The Learning Intention: I am learning to write Persuasively
The Success Criteria:How I can achieve this
  1. State your opinion in the Introduction  and who is your audience
  2. Give 3 detailed reasons to support your opinion. One reason per paragraph
  3. Try to give facts or statistics to support your reasons.
  4. Use emotive and persuasive language.
  5. Go the progression on the writing wall to check where you are at with writing persuasively.
  6. Assess what you are doing well. Reflect and action what your next step is.

DOGS ARE BETTER THAN CATS

You must agree with me! that dogs are better than cats.
Here are three reasons why dogs are better than cats.

Firstly,dogs are good for protecting the house. They can bark and scare people with its bark because some people are scared of dogs so robbers won't come to your house and steal your things.

Secondly,dogs are also good friends they are furry and like to be petted.

Thirdly,you can exercise and take your dog for exercise and you can get fit and your dog can get faster and faster. If you run then your dog will as well.



In my opinion I think that DOGS ARE MUCH BETTER THAN CATS. Don’t you think that as well?

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Hangi Recount

On Friday there was a hangi because of grandparent reading week to invite the grandparents.

On the hangi day everybody got to watch it.At 5:00am on friday Mr Lowe, Mr Miller,Mr Hunia and Mr Wepa had to light the fire and make the stones under it until the rocks got really hot and put the food on top of it  and then at 1:00pm everybody went outside and looked at the food in the hangi and being put onto the trolley  after that everybody went there classes to eat the food because it was raining and we didn't want the food to get wet and we didn't want to get wet so everybody went into their classes and waited for the food to arrive once the food arrived the grandparents got there food first then the children got their food then everybody started eating there food.Everybody got a quarter of pumpkin,a quarter of potato,a quarter of kumara,some stuffing,some chicken or chop (whichever one you chose) The stuffing was really yum,the pumpkin was alright,the kumara was good,the potato was yum,I chose chicken and it was really yum.



      Glossary
Hangi is a New Zealand Maori type of cooking food using really hot rocks in a pit oven used on special occasions.  

Self Reflection

WALT self-reflect on our year’s learning to share with our whanau in our reports.

Success Criteria:

  1. Choose two challenging learning experiences from this year to reflect on.
  2. What did you find challenging about each of these learning experiences.
  3. How did you manage to cope with each of the challenges?
  4. What difference has this made to you as a person and a learner?

Teacher Example:
Self reflection of my year as a learner:
Two challenging learning experiences for me this year were about taking a class to Camp Kaitawa for the first time and teaching through a rich task for maths.   Firstly, what I found challenging about Camp Kaitawa was that this was a new area and I wasn’t at all familiar with the Urewera National Park.  I had to think about all the little safety details when taking 26 children away on long walks, in the dark, up hills, in caves, down the side of banks, on and in the water.  I managed to cope with this challenge mainly because I became a learner by actively learning, listening, observing, asking questions, discussing ideas and taking a risk with some of my ideas.  I am now more confident at taking risks when facing new challenges.  Secondly, I found teaching maths through a rich task very challenging because I’d never taught maths like this before.  However, I coped with this by being willing to take on board an idea from Mr Kenny.  This really helped me to understand what I was doing so that I could help my class learn about how we could use statistics in real life situations.  I now see the value of listening and learning from others to grow my learning.

My two challenging experiences were Optimist Yachting and Writing.

Firstly I found Optimist yachting challenging for me because I had never gone Optimist yachting so I didn't know what to do and the paddle was really heavy so my hands were tired. I managed to cope with it by asking my buddy what to do and I took breaks every 20 seconds.
The difference it made to me was that now I am confident unuf to face new challenging experiences in my life.

Secondly I found writing challenging because when I wrote my persuasive writing I didn’t have any Ideas to write about. I managed to cope with it by thinking of what I like and what I don’t like. I liked dogs and didn’t like cats so my topic for my persuasive writing was Dogs Are Better than cats.

The difference that it made to me was that now I can think of ideas faster.





Tuesday, November 3, 2015

My calendar art

This is my tiger calendar art I like tigers so I drew a tiger.
My Character Description- Term 4
                       My Grandad Pal Singh Is Very Special To Me


He has a short white beard he is a normal size (medium) grandad he has brown skin and has normal fuzzy hair. Pal Singh has brown eyes,a moussatche and a normal (medium) nose.


PAL Singh likes gardening ,loves checking the plants if they are good and not dead ,likes biking to my house ,plays kicks with me with my soccer ball ,he likes watching t.v and likes reading the newspaper.


Pal Singh is a kind ,helpful ,generous and annoying because he talks when I am talking but he always listens to me and gives me the things that I want.