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A Plastic Free Lunch

Our class has been trying hard to have a plastic free lunch. 

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us and the negative of
positive impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our own lives to help our environment.
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Task: Create an infographic showing people how they can reduce their waste in their lunchbox.   

Our co-constructed success criteria:

-Have a strong title/hook

-Use convincing language and images

-Have simple things people can do

-Use images (free to use)

-Use bullet points/ short sharp information

-Use correct punctuation and spelling.

How Maui Slowed The Sun

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practise and
perform a play. This is using our oral language and reading skills in
literacy. Our key competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main events in your play in
three paragraphs. You must plan your writing first but it is up to you
how you do your planning.  You must also write a fourth paragraph
about your experience of practising and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which begin with a main idea
and contain supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas are clearly
related and where there are links within and between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing e.g. colons
: and semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can/have

-summarised the play in three paragraphs

-made links across my paragraphs

-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).

Once you have finished your writing highlight these success criteria green if you
have met them and can show them in your work. Highlight green in your work where
you have met these success criteria.

How Māui Slowed The Sun

Back When Aotearoa was still young Māui his brothers and the villagers were
complaining that the sun was moving Too fast. The sun would make the days faster
and faster and they had no time to do their chores. That means that they had no time
to go fishing or hunting so they were starving. One night Māui and his brothers were
sitting by a campfire talking about how they thought the sun was going too quickly
across the sky. Suddenly Māui stood up and said, “I Māui can slow the sun”.
His brothers laughed. Then Māui argued, “You have seen me fish up land nothing
is impossible”. Māui’s brothers agreed and they said they would help Māui slow the sun.

The villagers wished them luck when they set off. After a while exhaustingly they
arrived at the hole the sun comes out of. Luckily they arrived in time to gather
harakeke (Flax) so they weaved the harakeke into strong ropes and made them into
a GIANT net. Suddenly they saw sunlight rising from the hole. “Get ready brothers,“  
said Māui.

“He’s starting to rise”. When the suns huge eyes slowly lifted out of the hole he said
,“So I now meet you Māui”. “Come on brothers throw the net on”, said Māui. “Allright,”
said the brothers.

Quickly the brothers threw the net on. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME,” said the sun.
Māui hit the sun with the magic jawbone of his ancestors then the sun yelled out,
“WHY ARE YOU HURTING ME”. “You fly too quickly across the sky,”Māui said.
“We have no time to do our chores or go hunting or fishing”. The sun gave up
he made a promise that he would give them enough daytime to do what they needed.

  

The Black Backed Gull

We have been learning about the rocky shore and got to do a slide of a creature with a group of people. my group decided to do a black backed seagull.

Learning Intentions for Science We are learning to understand that all living creatures have a life cycle. We are learning that living creatures have bodies that are designed to help them to live and survive.   We are learning that all living things are designed to live in a particular environment. We are learning to understand how food webs work. We are learning that in an ecosystem all living things and their environment are interconnected. We are learning to understand about the Rocky Shore and the impact, both positive and negative, we can have on this environment.

Literacy As part of our rocky shore unit we will also use our literacy skills to read and learn about the rocky shore and to write an information report on a rocky shore creature. Writing We are learning to write an information report about an animal. We are learning to use our writing skills across the curriculum.

Robot Rampage

This is my Runaway Robot Rampage work please leave a kind and thoughtful comment. Walt: write stories. 

Persuasive writing - why we should have pets.

We have been having a go at writing a piece of persuasive writing. Here is my piece of writing about why we should have pets.

Title A Short Statement about the topic. eg. ‘Rugby League Is A Great Sport’	Pets Are A Good Idea
Overview/ Statement of position A brief statement of your view about the topic.  What you believe or want to argue.	Have you ever been smooched by a cat well I have and it is FLUFFY!!!
Series of Arguments Reasons Your points supporting your view about the topic.  Your arguments to support your statement and information to support these arguments. Remember -argument -supporting detail, reasons, examples	Firstly, pets can keep you company when you are sad or annoyed. With my dog when i’m sad he keeps me company. Whenever I sleep in my brothers bed the cat sleeps with me which makes me good.
	Secondly, most pets are really fluffy. I like to pat my pets but my chickens won’t let me. My dog is my fluffiest animal I have. There are a lot of fluffy animals around the world.
	Thirdly, pets can do very funny things. For example when one of my friends came over he told my dog to sit but he rolled over and no one taught him how to roll over.
	Finally, pets are really fun to play with. with my pets only 2 out of 7 like to play especially my dog. When I’m sad my dog cheers me up so does my cat sort of.
Concluding statement Summing it up.  A summary of your arguments and your view on the topic.	In conclusion, I think it’s a great idea to have a pet. Pets are a great thing in life.  pets are fun to play with, pets can do funny things, most pets are really fluffy and pets can keep you company.

Persuasive Writing - Why We Should Fix Our Field.

We have been having a go at writing a piece of persuasive writing. Here is my piece of writing about why we should fix our field.

Title A Short Statement about the topic. eg. ‘Rugby League Is A Great Sport’	I Think we should fix our field.
Overview/ Statement of position A brief statement of your view about the topic.  What you believe or want to argue.	I strongly think we should fix our field. We need to fix the field because it was to muddy and wet so we can’t do our school events and school games. Karoro school needs it’s field fixed
Series of Arguments Reasons Your points supporting your view about the topic.  Your arguments to support your statement and information to support these arguments. Remember -argument -supporting detail, reasons, examples	Firstly,  I think we should fix our field at first because I saw a lot of people slipping over and getting all muddy.
	Secondly, it to fix the field because  it was used for our sports and events like the gala, hangi, sports,  sports training, cross country practise, to play with P.E gear, equipment and game time.
	Thirdly, the field needs to be fixed. It needs to be fixed because the teachers might not have any time to get the kids balls that went over the fence so the kids might get Pouri and Riri. Also sometimes when a ball goes over the fence it takes a long time to get it back.
	Finally, I strongly believe we don’t want people to get injured by falling over on the concrete and getting hit in the face by a ball.
Concluding statement Summing it up.  A summary of your arguments and your view on the topic.	In conclusion we need to fix our field because we need it to do sport and events and for lots of other reasons gala, hangi and matariki are all other think we need the field for. Also we need the field because many people don’t want to get muddy. Also another reason is that many children won’t want there ball to go over the fence because it will take long to get it back and if we had a field when the ball was over the fence we could still be playing with it. Lastly, my last reason is that people don’t want to trip over on concrete and get badly hurt. It is a good plan to have fields at school. I enjoy school fields because they are fun.

My Marine Mammal Information Report

We have been learning how to write an information report. Here is my report on a Bottlenose dolphin.

My Sea Week Writing

For Sea Week we wrote about why the ocean is important. Please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment. 

My Taniwha - Writing

For the past few weeks we have been practising using descriptive language in our writing. We have been trying  to 'paint pictures with words.' We all got to invent our own taniwha. We all drew our own taniwha and then we had to write about it and describe what it looks like, what we do with our taniwha and what our taniwha is like. Then we read our work to a buddy and they had a go at drawing our taniwha.