Mihi

this term we have made slides about our Mihi's, witch are moari greetings. Hope you enjoy😁.

War Poem

The war has gone on for weeks, maybe even months. 

It’s hard to tell time when you’ve been

Out here for this long. We lie in a trench next

To a bed of poppies hoping we can return

To our families when this dreadful war is finished.

We have made a strong promised to our families,

And we try our best not to break it.

Solemn is all we feel as the days go on, but

We know they will remember us on 

this day, for this day is a day to remember.

gorilla opinion

In room five we have been writing gorilla opinions. We heard that there had been a gorilla shot at Cincinnati zoo and we had to decide if the zookeeper should or shouldn't have shot the gorilla. I chose no. I hope you enjoy.


In My Opinion
By Rawiri
Have you heard that there has been  a silverback gorilla shot at Cincinnati Zoo? Well I think that he shouldn't have been shot just because a four year old fell in his enclosure, and here are four reasons why.

First of all, silverbacks are endangered. He should not have been shot, they could go extinct, and then there would be no silverback gorillas.

Secondly, where were the parents? They are really bad caregivers if they just let there little boy wonder into a gorilla enclosure. Why didn’t they have him in a pram in the first place?
I also think, why couldn’t they have tranquilized the gorilla? That would have been a WAAAAy better sulation (and less lethal, of course).

Last but not least, if the gorilla was shot he would have fallen on the boy. For example, a gorilla can weigh up to 400 LB. Who would want that much weight falling on them.

The gorilla should not have been shot by the zookeeper. Silverbacks are endanger, they should have tranquilize the gorilla instead, if he got shot he could have fallen on the boy, and the parents should have kept him in a pram. If you don’t know about this, look it up on Youtube and form your own opinion.

In room five we have done some statistics. Statistics is a type of mathematics that involves collection, organization, analysis and presentation. Here is my 3 dimensional Donut chart, column chart and bar graph.

Kawa of Care Comic Strip

In room five we have been making Kawa of care comic strips.

A Heated Debate

This time me and my sister, Anahera, did a collaboration. We each chose a season we though would be best for tourists to visit. I chose summer and Anahera chose winter. Here is our collaboration. Check out on Anahera's blog too. Hope you enjoy😁😎

Night Owl or Early Riser

Digital Footprint

this is my third activity for the Summer Learning Journey. We had to get an image of a footprint and we had to write how to be safe on the internet. Hope you enjoy.😁

Ikamatua

In room five we have done our second activity for the Summer Learning Journey. We had to write about our home town and what is special about it. Hope you enjoy.😁

New Zealand Facts

Today in room five we had to post on our blog three fun facts about New Zealand for the first activity of the Summer Learning Journey. We had to choose the three we liked the best out of the twenty facts there were. Here are the three that I chose. Hope you enjoy.😁  

Waiuta SMA!!!!

In room five we have been making dioramas as a backdrop for our Waiuta SMA. It's about who discovered the gold in Waiuta and how they discovered it. Hope you enjoy😁😄.

Waiuta

Last week room five went on camp to a ghost town called Waiuta. This is a slide show that I made during the week. Hope you enjoy the slide show.😁

Plural words

In my spelling group, Sirius, we had to make a DLO about singular and plural words. There are many different rules for plural words. This DLO has some of the many different rules. Hope you enjoy the DLO that I made 😃😆

Top Team

Last week on Friday the whole school (expect for the year sevens and eights) went to Top Team at Runanga School. Everyone had  a lot of fun while they were completing hard challenges. Here are some photos.😁

Number Patterns

In room five my math's group, Aquila, had to make a DLO to show what number patterns are. Here is the math's DLO that Chloe and I made. Hope you enjoy it.😁😆

My Reading Profile

In room five we had to make a reading profile to show our reading goals for this term, a book someone has recommended me, how I went with last terms reading goals and my favorite book or series at the moment. Here is mine. Hope you enjoy.😁

Pet Day

On the 17th October  it was Pet Day. We had to make a slide show to show all our writing for Pet Day. we also put on some pictures of the pet we own and other people's pets. Here is the slide show that I made. Hope you enjoy.

Chairs

Last week with we decorated chairs. We found old chairs in the back of the sports shed and decided to put them to good use by upcycling them. My groups theme was fashion. Here is how we made the chair: first we cut some photos out of magazines, then we got some pva glue and stuck on the photos, and when they dried we covered the chair in modpogde. My group chose fashion because it was the only theme we could agree on. Next time we could try to not fill it up with too many different coloured pictures.

Collage

We have made some eye catching pieces of art. This is the collage Chloe and I made. The collage is based around our topic for this term which is plastic. We had to include the beach, the ocean, some mountains and the sky. We had to draw sea creatures, cut them out, colour them in with pastel and then we glued them on. We finally put little ripped up bits of plastic to resemble the plastic that always ends up on our beaches. It shows that we use too much plastic and we should stop because it harms marine life and creatures that live on the land.

 I think that we could use some different coloured sea animals so they don't blend in as much as they do now. I like the way how the art is really bright so the animals catch everyone's eyes.

plastic bin liners

In room five we have learned about plastic and how it harms land and marine animals. We also learned about how many bin liners we use in our class. We decided that we have to do something about it. So we did some writing about it and sent it to our principal, Mrs Wallace. Hope you enjoy the writing.

                             plastic bin liners

10th September 2018


Dear Mrs Wallace,

We have found out that we use too many plastic bags for bin liners in the school. I’m sure we don’t need as many plastic bags as we use each day in every class. But if you don’t think so, then here are three good reasons why I don’t think we need to use as many plastic bags as we do.

Firstly, we only put dry rubbish in the bins. It's not going to stain the bin because the rubbish is dry. We mostly put paper, dry materials and fabrics in there. It won’t leak if it even has the smallest hole in it because it’s dry, unlike other things like unfinished yogurt and banana peels.

Secondly, do you know how many plastic bags we use in a year? We use two thousand a year, five hundred a term, fifty a week and ten a day. That is a lot of bags to go through. That is also a lot of money to go through. We could use that money to buy school resources like books and other things that the school needs. It’s like flushing money down the toilet.

Finally, not using so many plastic bags would be better for the environment. If a storm came and all the plastic in the landfill blew away then the plastic won’t just cause land pollution, it will also cause pollution in the ocean and will harm marine life. It can also harm birds that are either catching fish or that are flying through the sky and get caught in the plastic.


In conclusion, I think the worst part about using so many plastic bags is wasting the money that the school could use to buy resources for the school classes. I also think the environment pollution is really bad too. If we don’t do something about it, we might make the animals in the sea die.

Yours sincerely,



Rawiri.