Russia

 In class we were given the task of researching a culture me and my group chose Russia so here is our slideshow.

Book Character Day

 Today is book character day at Awahono School, and most of us dressed up as a book character. I dressed up as someone called bone( you probably don't know who that is). Here is the google drawing I made one it.

Living Springs

 Room 6 went on a camp at living springs we did many fun activities and this slideshow will tell you all about them. Enjoy!

Trees

 We had a class debate over should trees get cut down! Here is the writing tat I did on it. Hope you enjoy and agree with me.

We have been asked the question: Should trees be cut down? I did not hesitate to fight for not cutting down trees because of these reasons. I am strongly against cutting down trees

First of all it has been proven that trees produce oxygen, and  every year 3.5 billion to 7 billion are being cut down. Yes trees produce some items that we use but would you rather have toilet paper or oxygen, I mean really? Healthy mature trees produce 260 pounds of oxygen a year, thats only enough to supply a four person family and yes oxygen weighs something it actually weighs 0.001429 of a gram per cubic meter, I bet you people who want to cut trees and don’t care about the environment didn’t know that, BECAUSE YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

Second off Is the animals WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO LIVE???? 137 species of animals are becoming extinct every day adding up to 50 000 species are dying a year because of deforestation . Another terrifying animal slaughter fact is that 8 out of 10 land animals depend on trees the same trees we are cutting down at horrifying speed we are going to wipe out so many more species unless we stop. Wait wait wait I already know that your going to say well they can just move away especially the birds they can just fly of. My first problem with that is that not all of the animals can get away some birds might hit branches as the tree falls and get crushed and also what about baby animals like eggs chicks and anything that cant get away in time! My other problem with that is well imagine the tables are turned, your just in your your house making some breakfast they a sparrow driving a bulldozer comes and knocks your house down according to you guys it no big deal because “ oh they can just move away” right no big deal! Of course it actually is a big deal because they have to start all over again for finding shelter and finding something to eat and drink.

For my last argument It causes global warming, you wood chopping maniacs may of heard it and I also hear that some people don’t believe in global warming. To that I say WHHHAAAATTTTTT first of how and why don’t you believe in it, it has been proven that it exists. Even for you people who do believe it exist you obviously don’t care that our planet is going to become a scorching desert unless we do something about it because you are creating it every time you cut down a tree it almost seems like you want our earth to become scorching hot. If you people don’t stop then you are digging your own grave.

In conclusion you tree slicing sickos chopping down our source of oxygen by the truck load. Destroying the animals all around us with extreme speed and causing global warming. Hope your happy you are ruining our planet.

# team trees

How to make butter

 We have been learning how to make butter here is my set of instructions on how to make butter. Here it is.

1. Put straight cream into a easy bottle to shake

 2. Then shake up the butter cream until you can see butter and milk inside of the jar

3. Next you need to add some salt into the mix

4. Then  you need to pour the milk out into a separate container than the butter then you should be all ready.

Optional

5. When you add the milk you can add herbs like thyme into the mix.

Here is a photo of me doing some stirring

Speech Board

 I competed in the Speech Board Competition! My speech was about vegetarians I had three different paragraphs, in those paragraphs I went over what is it like to be a vegetarian, what vegetarians are and why you should be one. Here is my writing.

This speech is sponsored by potatoes. Many people have heard of vegetarians. Many people haven't, if you are one of the people who haven't then you're in for some information because that is the topic of my speech.

Vege-ter-ians what are they? Vegetarians are people who don’t eat meat and don’t harm animals. Strict vegetarians are vegans which means they don’t eat dairy and eggs, regular vegetarian just don’t eat meat. Most vegetarians also care about nature and trees because they don’t want to harm the animals like I said earlier. 

Some people might be wondering what it is like to be a vegetarian. I think it’s great to be a vegetarian. I’ve  been one all my life; I have never ever eaten a piece of meat! Some people might find it difficult at first, but I think it's worth it because it keeps you healthy. You can make up for the things you are missing from meat like iron which you can get from sesame seeds, although 2 of the highest sources of iron are black beans and red beans you also need protein which you can get from tofu and beans That’s right you can get BOTH iron and protein from beans!  Some people think you won’t be strong enough if you don’t eat meat, but did you know that famous tennis player Venus Williams is a vegetarian, along with several body building champions!

 I also  think it’s harsh on animals to eat them and some might say it’s just the circle of life but  we eat so much of it and we should really cut down on it. I mean 315 million tons of meat are consumed every year by the human population!  Another fact is that Because of global warming our planet is heating but if you eat like a vegetarian then you produce less green house gases.

My next paragraph is persuasive, I am going to try to convince you to at least try being a vegetarian, the first reason is because it keeps you healthy. You don’t consume any of the bad meats such as red meats which causes bowel cancer. Also did you know an oxford study shows that on average a vegetarian out lives a meat eater by around 6 years?Like sometimes it feels like this is how much some people care about animals. For my final reason, you might just like being a vegetarian. It might just be a fun project that you try for a week then go back. Did you know tht 31 percent of NZ people are reducing their meat intake, and 3 percent are already vegetarians .  

Why does it rain so much on the West Coast

 We were learning about the water cycle and why it rains so much on the west coast of NZ here is my DLO on why it rains so much on the West Coast.

football camp

One of our writing prompts was to wright about how we think camp should stay on the week we thought in the first place instead of a week later, because I have football camp that week.

You know how the teacher is having a class vote to see if we should go on school camp one week later than planned so that we are the only school there? Well I think that it should stay on the week we originally planned, because I have football training camp the other week. You should vote to keep it on the same week because of these reasons:

First of all, other people might also have made plans and they too could be getting messed up if we change the week. So I might not be the only one who has made plans which are getting messed up by the school camp changing weeks.

Secondly the other schools probably won’t even get in our way. The schools will have planned it so that each would do the activities at different times and not be holding the others up. Everyone is really excited to go to camp, so the sooner we go the happier the kids will be.

In conclusion, I think that we should keep school camp on the same week because it won’t mess up anyone's plans, and the other schools won’t get in our way.

olympics

Here is the rest of the Olympics post.

Minecraft

Me and my brother built the the tunnels from world war one and no mans land here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3sATkPAw0

olympics

For our funday Friday task we had to choose a sport from the Olympics. Then we had toact ou the sport using thing from around the house.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nyXaMvzAHA&feature=youtu.be

Longer school day

For one of our writing prompts we had to be a principle and present to our kids that we should ban homework and make the school day longer.

Today I am going to be a principal, and for my decision I say we should have a longer school day but ban homework. Here is why.

First off, the students will get more of a chance to learn if the have a Longer school day. Plus if they don’t understand something then the teacher will be there to help. If we don’t ban homework and make the school day longer then if they don’t understand their work they won’t have the teacher around to help them.

Secondly, there are some kids who just don’t do their homework. However if we have a Longer school day then they will have to do their work because the teacher will spot them if they are not dong their work.

In conclusion I think the school day should be longer and we should ban homework because then the kids who don’t do their homework do more work and if kids don’t understand what to do they can ask the teacher.

No scooters

One of our reading prompt was to argue that people are using scooters and almost running over dogs.


I have to complain about the old people on scooters. They have almost run my dog over several times. I think that they should be stopped.

First off if the dog isn’t trained to a lead lead then the owner only has so much control. The dog is in a small radius around the owner, if people are just zooming around on their scooters then then they could hit the dogs.

Secondly, I have heard the dogs are being hit because people don’t see them. They should see an optometrist and get glasses or contact lenses.

In conclusion I think that people riding scooters get some way to improve their eyes and watch out for the dogs.

Cake bake

Today for a challenge we had a bake off. We competed against the other kids in our class to see who could do the best baking. Here is our presentation on what we made.

KEEP HOMEWORK

For one of our writing prompts we had to wright a fake letter to our principle to say that we shouldn't make the school day longer and keep homework.

Dear principal

You have brought it to my attention that you are thinking of making a longer school day but you will ban homework, however, I do not believe you should do this because of these reasons.

First off, keeping homework and getting home earlier would let kids have more time with their family when they get home. Since the average amount of homework isn’t meant to take very long, then they would have less time working on school and more time with their family.

Secondly, if you kept homework then they would remember what they were learning in class more because they spread out the time you are working. Also if they are having trouble focusing in class because it is too loud or there are too many people then working on it from home would help.

In conclusion, I think you should keep homework and NOT make the school day longer.

Theme park

On of our writing prompts is to write a letter to the local community to allow a theme park.


Dear local community

I have got permission to build a big theme park nearby and I would like for you to please approve it before I begin. Here are some reasons why.

It would be a great attraction for nearby and also for the kids. It would improve the morale of our town massively and it would carry itself in budget once it got running. On the note, it would get going fast because everyone would be excited and try it out rather quickly.


For my next reason it would bring more jobs to the area. More unemployed people would become employed. Also more people would travel to become employed meaning that you can sell more houses.

I hope this has persuaded you to allow a theme park.

name swap

For our home learning at this time of covid 19 we had to wright about how we should swap names with our friend and prank our substitute teacher.

I just found out we are going to have a substitute teacher today and I think it would be fun to swap names. You should join me because of these reasons.


First of all, it would be plain old funny! We could see if we could even control our laughter. And if you like acting then this would be perfect for you, you could do your best acting stunt yet and see if she can figure it out or not!

For the next reason, how amazing would her reaction be when you tell her at the end of the day? She would be so surprised that she was tricked so well (that is if she didn’t find out on her own)!

In conclusion, I think you should swap names with me because it would be funny and the reaction when you tell her would be awesome.

Won the lottery

For a writing prompt I chose to do one where your friend has won the lottery and wants to tell everyone and I have to persuade him not to.


What, you just won the lottery?  Well you should try your best to keep your mouth shut about it unless it’s to your closest family members because of these reasons.

You could get robbed! If everyone know that you have truckloads of money then some people will try and steal it all from you. Or they could kidnap one of your family members then ask you to pay ransom to get them back.


Also if everyone knows, then they might not steal it but ask for it time after time. And then more people will ask for some and before you know it you will be choked up with people asking for your money.


I hope this has persuaded you not to tell everyone about your pot of gold.

Why not to go hunting

Since we had to leave from school we were giving some writing tasks to do until we go back, so here is mine about why you shouldn't go hunting.

I’m going to be giving you some reasons why you shouldn’t kill animals.


First off it’s very cruel to the animals you are killing, like how would you like it if a deer came into your house and shot you?  Well do you want that to happen?  I think not, so why do you kill off so many deer and rabbits and who knows what else?  It’s unfair to all the creatures you’re killing.  I mean what did they ever, EVER do to you? You need to stop killing things.  Why do you do it?  If it’s for the sport, then there are plenty more sports out there, for example soccer, netball, tennis and if you are feeling lazy there is something called croquet (yes it’s an actual sport and it doesn’t involve running around).


If you are doing it to eat meat then you probably know what I’m going to say: YOU DON’T NEED TO EAT MEAT! You can just eat other things that are not meat.  OK yes meat gives protein which you need to stay healthy but you know what else gives protein: CHEESE AND BEANS !

I hope this has persuaded you not to go hunting!

Tote tray label

For our tote trays we were allowed to make labels so we can tell who's is who's. For mine I put on a bunch of my different interests .So here it is.

Wanted poster

For out literacy bingo we had to make a wanted poster about the bad guy in the class book we are reading and here is my one.

Tech website

Solly's WebsiteThursday the 13th was my first day of technology. I was lucky enough to get placed in wood works and digital technologies for my 2 classes. While in digital tech each of us made our own website about what we've been doing and just so we had a home page. So without further ado here is my website.