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.

On the 4th of September El Gregoe the magician  ventriloquist came to our school to teach us about bullying and what we can do to make people stop it. He said treat people how you want to be treated and to use your WITS. The W in WITS stands for Walk away, the I stands for Ignore, the T stands for Talk (as in talk to someone) and the S stands for Stop. The picture below the writing is a Macaw and the one below that is a Eclectus parrot. There was so many birds there names won't even fit on this page. My favorite bird is the macaw witch has a friend called Ritche the macaw. I also like the part were El Gregoe made Jake levitate and when he had three rags and then squeezed them together then made popcorn appear (popcorn is a bird as well).

Shapes

On the last day of August, 2018 we made a video on shapes and what we know about them and we had to pick a buddy. My buddy for this video was Chloe. Hope you enjoy the video. 

The Plastic Mountain

 In room five we are learning to describe a moment in time. This week we were doing writing about plastic mountain. We were also using our senses including smells, sights, sounds, feelings and sensations. Here is my writing about the plastic mountain. Hope you enjoy it.

                                 The Plastic Mountain

I’m drowning in an ocean of dirty, broken and really sharp edged plastic bottles. My feet and clothes are getting muddy from working every day under a bridge peeling the labels off plastic bottles that people have thrown away. These bottles making an annoying crackling noise.

If I don’t get this work done I might not eat tonight. We're selling all the green bottles to a scrap dealer for only $100 a month, At least it's something to buy food with. I’m determined to get all the plastic bottles sorted by the end of the day.

It’s terrifying to see all this plastic, and more is flooding the space under the bridge each day. The plastic is endless. if we took a day off it would probably be up to my shoulders, and who knows how tall it will be if we took a week off.

The smells of traffic fumes and the sugary smells in the plastic bottles are awful. And I smell them every day of the week. And don’t get me started on the sounds. People are shouting and cars are roaring.

My younger brother is moaning to me “can we go home yet? Can we eat?” 

“No, we can't. We haven’t finished yet” I replied.

Were both hungry, but I don’t want to annoy mum.

“Ssh!” mum yelled at us. “Be quiet.”

The scrap dealer is here now and we can finally go home and eat our diner. We are so hungry that we don’t have time to get changed. Then we got changed after we have finished eating.

By the next day there’s more plastic than ever and that means more and more labels to peel off. I wish we were in a world with no plastic. I know this is how we get food but isn't there any other way? Why do we have to have this job? People should stop making plastic. Why did people start making plastic in the first place. Lets stop making plastic, starting now!