Week 8 learning reflection

This week's learning reflection :

This week I learned to share the ball when I'm playing ripper rugby.I  also learned to work in a team of 3 because we did our inquiry in groups of 3 with different people and it was quite fun and easy at the same time.

Response writing

Response text

Responses are found in	book review,film review,art review,newspaper review,magazine review.
Purpose	To summarise a text. To respond to a text. To analyse a text or work of art.
Structure	Background information about the work. Exploration of the works quality. Judgement of the work.
Features	- action verbs - nouns - saying verbs - thinking verbs -persuasive language

NZ Herald news paper

Read this article and then complete your response to the news article.

RESPONSE WRITING

background info - This article was about

explore the writing - Is it good Yes why?

                                                      No why?

judgement

This article is about  how Pacific and Maori students in Otago have released that 14.3 percent of students have failed in level 2 reading test. PPTA president Angela Roberts said focussing singularity ethnicity meant overlapping the problems like socioeconomic state were not focussed on.She said that the info was  20 per cent of students were failing and had made schools crazy and they were being used to drive through policy change.

Most of the Pasifika and Maori students don’t even have decent reading books.most of the students who are failing are boys what i don’t get is why is it boys that are failing the most.The students are failing but is it all the students fault it could be the teaches or even the parents fault.It could be the teaches fault because their giving the students work that is to hard .But it could be the students fault for not listen to the teacher when they are ment to.

It’s not just the Pasifika and Maori students that are failing in their school tests it could be Indians,Asians and Europeans failing.The parents could be making the students fail by not buying books for them or letting them not do their homework.Or even by letting them do or go anywhere they want                   

My reading activities for this week

This is the article that I did this week

It’s about the Moriori getting to the Chatham Islands in the vast Pacific Ocean.

The Moriori hunted birds and seals for food. 

The article is called Where no boats could live because the sea around the Chatham Islands is very rough.

Persuasive writing

Children should be working from the age of 8

I agree children should be working from the age of 8 because they could help pay the bills or even buy groceries and then people would be able to have more money and they would be able to travel more too.

Parents will be able to teach their children for three hours a day and five days a week any time or day of the week.

People can change schools into places like a Warehouse or a shopping market, Paper Plus store or even toy stores where children can work.

If children wanted to, they could try find a job on the internet. Also with all the money that the company would be getting they could make bigger and better shops and they could make libraries and food stores.      

To conclude, children working is a positive move for the country because it will teach them to be independent from a young age.

scientist's research and predicted that there will be a flurry of shooting stars on the 13’th and the 14’th of December.They researched that they all came from one large asteroid and it will explode because it will get too close to the sun.We will see all the shooting stars and they say it’s name is 3200 Phaethon.      

Farewell Mrs B

Mrs Boyer’s farewell:
When we came in the hall we sat down and made a path in the middle for Mrs Boyer.Then Mrs Boyer came in with her family and with a lollies necklace on. Some people said a farewell speech for Mrs Boyer.We also saw a slide show of all the class’s and staff she has worked with.Then Mrs Elia said of all the things Mrs Boyer has helped us with. The whole school sang a song for Mrs Boyer and it was written by Renee and Bruno Mars.  


For the farewell all the class’s had an item each. I thought that room 7’s item was cool and room 10’s one was cool too.I think Mrs Boyer liked them too because they were very entertaining to her.
From Jack.P


  

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