Violet Walrond

In reading we were learning about Violet Walrond. This DLO explains a little bit about her and her experience in the Olympic games.

Run jump through

Yesterday the year 8 students went to run jump throw. That section was all about running. We learnt how to run properly and compared different types of running. We then did a relay where we had to run over hurdles using high legs and run around the cones and come back to the start. I learnt that if you run on the tips of your feet you have more speed. 

Warriors game

 On Saturday me and 15 other students from LS1 and LS2 got given the opportunity to go to the warriors game. We got given food and drink and we were extremely lucking to have good seats. It was a really good game and the warriors won by 4 points. I want to say a really big thanks to Dtr for making this possible. I really enjoyed it and i will definitely go again.

Reading with class 3 and 4

Today our class were reading to the class 3 and 4. Me and my buddy where reading a book called Charlie and Lola. after we were counting in twos and played a couple hand games. I thought this was call to interact with the juniors.  

Advertising and language features

Today in class we were learning we had a task were we had a piece of paper that was stuck to a area of a classroom. we had one writer that couldn't .

Book character week

Today the school had book character day. We had to dress up as a book character and during assembly we went onto the stage and took photos. I dressed as superman. I thought today was fun and i would definitely do it again.  

Attributing images

In class we were learning how to attribute images from the internet. Attributing images means that we have permission to use that image, we are thanking them for letting us use there pitcher and having the like to  where the photo was from for prof. This DLO shows an example of attributing images.

Advertising

In class we did a activity where we had one person go from our table to a piece of paper stuck somewhere in the class room. On that piece of paper there was writing about advertisement. The person going back and forward had to say to the group what was on the paper making sure we had the right punctuation. The we had to write in 25 word what we did and what the language features are.   

Leader ship week

Yesterday on the 7 of July we had a visitor from named Lynne Le Gros spark to talk to us about leadership. She came to talk to us because its leadership week. She gave us a sticky note and we wrote down who we think is a role model and a reasons why. Then she gave a a piece of paper and we wrote down what our dreams was for us and for New Zealand. And a big thanks to her for giving us spark gift bags with a drink bottle, booklet, pen, and hat.

Orienteering

Today in Orienteering we got given a map and we had to use the map to find the controls. This time it was different because we were timed. We got given a starting and finishing time. This time it was harder because i did it alone and the other times i worked with a partner. I thought i could have done better because i got a bit stuck while reading the map but i had fun other wise.

Life ed

This week we have been attending The life ed caravan. We have been learning about making choices and how people can influence you into the choices we make. It is important to do the right thing for you. We also shouldn't do thing just because everyone else is doing it. We got given a booklet that tells us and has activity to teach us about making choices. I have learnt not to be influenced by the wring people and do what you know is right.

cause and effect

Today in reading i was learning about cause and effect. I learnt that a cause is what happens and the effect is the outcome of the cause.

Writing

For writing we went on a website witch gave us a spinner witch we span and it would give us a topic to write about. the topic i got was a know it all spider monkey who found another planet. I thought this was fun to write because it was different then to our normal writing sections. 

Life education

Today we had life educations with Nicole. We were learning about our body systems. we learnt about how the brain sends messages to our body. We also learnt about how the 5 scenes can help our brain. We learnt about the nervous, circulatory and the muscular systems. We learnt about the heart and what its purpose and why the reason people thought out heart was the shape of a actual love heart. 

Orienteering

Today me and Paige participated orienteering. My time was 9:14 and I will be going to inter schools. Me and Paige worked as a team and i think we did very well. I thought it was really fun and i cant wait to do it again.

Speech

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Animal Cruelty

Good morning (afternoon) my name is Micaiah and I will be presenting a speech about where the meat on our plates come from.

Have you ever purchased meat from a grocery store. And then came back the following week and purchased more. And if u think about it a majority of New Zealanders eat meat so they would have to produce a lot of it to feed most of New Zealand. right?. have you ever wondered where the meat came from. Well i'm here to tell you little bit about it.

Think of a normal cow. They are much like us they have eyes to see, ears to hear, nose to smell, mouth to eat and a beating heart but they are treated much differently then to us humans. Cows who survive feedlots and dairy sheds are sent to the slaughterhouse. They are crammed onto trucks where they typically go without food, water, or rest for the journey, which can sometimes be days.

By the time they reach the slaughterhouse most would be too sick or injured to walk so they are shocked with electric prods or pulled off by chains. They are forced into a chute and get shot in the head with a captive-bolt gun meant to stun them. The cows then are hung by their legs and their throats cut open when they are completely conscious. It has been said that many of them were still alive after their throats have been cut even so they do not care weather it is dead or alive they will still proceed to skinning and chopping them into the product that ends up on our dinner plates.

Chickens go through a much similar process. The industry refers to these chickens as “broilers” and raises them in huge, ammonia-filled, windowless sheds where artificial lighting is manipulated to make birds eat as often as possible. To keep up with demand and reduce production costs, genetic selection and a steady dose of growth-promoting drugs are used to ensure large, fast-growing chickens. And i bet none of you knew that the

chicken you eat has a some type of chemical in it. When they are ready to be taken to the slaughter house Workers rush through the sheds, grabbing multiple birds by their legs and slinging them into crates for transport.

Every year, tens of millions chicken suffer broken wings and legs from the rough handling, and some hemorrhage to death. After this nightmarish journey, the chickens are dumped out of the crates, and workers violently grab

them and force their legs into shackles so that they are hanging upside-down, breaking many birds’ legs in the process. Then they are drugged through an electrified water bath meant to paralyze them, but not to make them fully unconscious. Because of these birds flapping around they would sometimes miss the blade do then they would be cut by a second cutter but then they still might not be dead but either way they would be dunked into the scalding-hot water of the defeathering tanks.

This type of killing is called humane killing which means   an animal must be either killed instantly or unaware of pain until death supervenes. When killing animals for food, this

means they must be stunned prior to bleeding out so they immediately become unconscious. But it's like saying i humane murdered someone or i humane abused someone.These are just two examples of the horrifying struggles of most farm animals. Just because people can't see their emotions and their feeling doesn't mean they do have any. Just imagine you were the animal it isn't any different because animal or human we are all alive and should be treated the same. And even though it's legal to kill animals just for people's satisfaction of a fatty meal doesn't make it alright.

this is my speech on Animal Cruelty I write this because when I ate meet I never truly knew where my meet came from so I found it very interesting to find out about this but I also find it yucky because of how cows get killed and skinned alive most of the time that is truly horrifying

Orienteering

today during school we were doing orienteering. We got given a slip of paper and went around to all the stumps with the letters on them. The whole point of this was to learn how to read a map.

forgotten silver review

Forgotten silver documentary

This documentary was very interesting and has unlocked history that we had no idea that it even existed. I found it so interesting that until now we have given false information in our history. The whole documentary is thought out very well and has fascinated me and most of the people who watched it. It hasn't only changed history for New Zealand but for the whole world and peter jackson would be greatly thanked by many people for discovering all this information. I was amazed to see that they have actually found the set for the movie and can be a new zealand landmark for tourist from all over the world to come and witness history for themselves. It did confuse me when they were talking about how they knew all the things about Colin Mackenzie but all they found was images and videos that don't prove anything except where he lived and what he did. And even if  they found information about him for example a diary they did not show that in the documentary. Overall it was a very interesting film and peter Jackson has really done a lot for our history. I am looking forward to see what people do with this information.

commas and full stops

In reading we were learning about fullstops and commas. This was gonna help us in the future when we are writing and to understand what they really do.

Blog commenting

Today our class we were commenting on Tamaki primary students blogs. These are a couple I've done.

water safety

This is a DLO showing my understanding about water safety. It says what i know what to do when your in trouble in the water, whats the rules are when your in the water and reasons why we need to be safe in the water.

LS2 and LS1 Blessing of building

This DLO shows students of LS1 and LS2 attending a blessing for our new buildings.

China

In inquiry i have been visiting china. we have been learning a lot about this culture and what they do in china. I found this really interesting because their culture is much different to ours.

Virtual tour of Thailand

 Today we were going on a virtual tour of Thailand. We were finding photos but we had to make sure we had permission to use it. So we used the search tool and we found photos and created a link to the photo. then We put the author and the licence in.

Story Time

He took me out and put his smelly toes in “YUCK!”. He stepped on me like I didn't even exist “how rude”. I felt the cold liquid come in and out of where his toes were, “I can’t take this anymore I’m too old!”. I was soaked and after I’ve been protecting your ungrateful feet, this is how you repay me I thought quietly in my head. What the! Now your running kill me now, I need to retire and I need to now. Up ahead I see a thick, brown colored blob, oh you've got to be kidding me! “NO NO NO NO NOOO not POO go around go AROUND! Ooh man gotta be kidding me! Wash me wash me NO” Now I smell like poo it’s all in my mouth, on my hands and on my head man I’m ready to be lift on the corner and stay there thanks! Okay I can't see anymore not terrifying at all, Suddenly I feel a bang against the tip of my head OWWW a solid objects bounces off me I can't see a thing. I can feel my arms being untied uh finally get your smelly toes out of me right now! I sigh with relief I'm aching all over just leave me here now don't come back please!



Today Paige and I took turns on writing a sentence, we found it fun to do this.

Charlotte Anne

In reading today we were learning about Charlotte Anne’s and the change she made for females. She had confidence in herself and was doing what she wanted to do and not following the rules. She was very different to other females while they were cooking and cleaning and relying on the male to make the money she made a living for herself.

India study

For inquiry we made a DLO the country that we were studying. We had to put in five facts about it, the flag, the map view and pitchers about our county. The country that I was studying was India. I found out more about India and it will help me when we travel downstairs for inquiry. 

reading

In reading this week we have been talking about the way of bias.

We read an example and a large symphony that wanted to hire musicians. The problem was that they were judging the musicians by their gender and not there music ability's. So they decided that they would do blind auditions so they can only judge them on there music. This is how the symphony overcame a bias.

when we read this we all agreed that their choice of having blind auditions was far and it would make it more even.

The structure of infromation reports

Identifying the structure of an information report

LI: to understand the structure of information reports

Your challenge: A Use the key to help you show the structure of an information report. Highlight the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion by changing the background colour of the table. Highlight the other structures by using the highlight function.	Key
	Introduction		Body Paragraphs
	Interesting fact (to hook readers in)		Title of body paragraph
	Description of topic		Topic sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about
	Tell the reader what the report is about		Special knowledge to help the readers understand
			Conclusion

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera muscolus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

In writing we were learning what the structure of a information report is. We used the highlighter tool to highlight the structure it goes in. I found out how to structure a report and what we need in it.

India Quiz

For inquiry we are learning about India and this is the first couple of things we learnt about it. We were researching how far is India was from NZ and how long it would take to get there. the we searched where about is India close to.

finding fraction of an amount

In math we have been learning how to find fractions of an amount. This DLO is a example of how I worked out the word problem. Its easy if u know your times table and how to divide 

math games

This is the sore I got on a game that was for spelling. The idea of the game was to click on the bouncing balls in the correct order of the word. The whole point of this game is when u play the game your looking at the letters of the word and memorizing the order they go in.

James bond and the mysterious baby carriage

James bond and the mysterious baby carriage

“Beep beep!” The car's aggressively honked, as he ran in front of a car. James Bond was about to save the day (again). He eyed out the baby carriage that was stranded helplessly in the middle of the road.

His location was unfortunately one of the busiest parts in London. it couldn't of been one of the worst times of the day (rush hour!)

He rapidly ran to the helpless baby rolling across the road with no adult supervision. But as he ran he could see a car just inches away from the baby carriage.  He ran with no thought about what was in front or behind him. He Stumbled to the carriage and swiftly tugged it away to safety. His heart skipped a  beat.

As he stared at baby a sigh of relief came to him. He took a second to catch his breath and bent over to the baby. The baby had a clueless look on his face as they stared at each other. In the background James heard a frantic yell for help. A helpless mother had lost her child. “I may have found your baby!” he said as he carefully handed the baby to the mother. She looked up at James with a grateful look And thanked him for his heroic actions. then james went about his day with a smile upon his face.

Main idea

The main idea is what we learnt and the learning behind it. In this case the main idea was what the whole purpose of the poem. The main idea of this poem was to remember the solders and what they did for us.

Elephant Toothpaste

Today Paige and I made fulled in this Science house. We used the Elephant Toothpaste experiment to full this Science house because it was the last experiment we did. 

Home learning

for home learning we were studying about the statue of liberty and this is my DLO showing what i found out about it it. I answered the 5 W's questions and made my owns ones. i found this home learning easy because i already knew a little about the statue of liberty

design development

First we came up with people that we could make our jewelry for and what thing the certain person liked.

then we searched up types of jewelry that we could make and created a DLO of it. 

The we sketched out our ideas and what was needed to be improved on and what was positive. 

Next we got given Plasticine and we molded it into our design to see how big we wanted our design.  

Then we went onto tinker cad and made our design using simple shapes. this is my final design so far. 

bias DLO

My role was one of the bus strikers and i was texting my boss and my friend. I was explaining to them my bias (my point of view). Paige's role was the public and she was texting a work mate and one of the bus strikers and she was doing the same thing but her bias. I was important to look at both sides of the story (provocation) to make an informed choice.

current events

Today, paige and I started working on a DLO about the Auckland Bus Strikes. We used our skim and scan skill to find information and to add it to our DLO. paige and I also added a Point Of View for the two groups involved in this Bus Strike. This work helped us the to find various sources and it added it to a our DLO but also making sure that it's in our own words.

Group 2 movie

This is Group Two's movie that shows a re-enactment of the experiment we did dropping a Mentos into a bottle of Coke. We followed a scientific experiment process by making a hypothesis each before we started and by recounting what we saw at the end. We also used a video from youtube for the reaction footage.