Cat Attack!!!

Last week my group was reading Keep your cat inside. What I found hard was writing the authors message. What I found easy was writing my least favorite part. I hope you enjoy my book report.

Book Review By Rangimarie

      

Book Title: Keep your cat inside

Author: Mike Tapp

This is a non-fiction book. The book is mostly about reputable organisations and scientist showing and giving facts that tell people we should keep our cat’s inside. Because they eat native birds.

My least favourite part in the book was knowing that The Wildbase Hospital has to treat native birds and reptiles that are being hurt from ferocious cats to make it worse they had a list of birds that cat have injured kakapo,Kiwi, Black stilts and kereru

I think the author’s message is that we should keep our cats inside because cats are natural predators and are killing native birds, reptiles and other animals.

Prom Queen or Not?

WALT independently improve our work by adding interesting language to enhance the mood we are trying to create. We are also learning to check that we have used complex punctuation correctly. I know I was successful because I used complex punctuation in my speech and used figurative language. My next step is to try and add more complexity in my ideas.

Prom Queen or Not?

There I was lying on my bed it felt like time was standing still. I was bored out of my mind. Daydreaming of myself on a roller coaster. At the tip of my ear I could hear someone talking to me.  I looked up and saw my aunty, “ Do you want to help me prepare for my prom?” she said. Immediately, I replied saying, “ I would love to”. Minutes later we arrived at the school,“Bye mum bye dad”. I glanced at the school and then looked back BAM the car had vanished. I was petrified. Where did it go?

BANG! BANG! BANG! we were knocking on the door for hours. Emma finally came to the rescue and opened the door. My eyes were drawn to a tremendous vine with magnificent flowers added onto It. I felt  like I was in an enchanted forest. We started getting into work I was hot glue gunning the beautiful flowers onto the vines and then a disaster hit - We were we were out of glue sticks. Sadly we had no more decorations to finish off. So we had to go to the hall where they were having the ball.

We were soldiers marching to the hall they were all ahead of me I looked at the humongous school thinking to myself ,“ Hopefully I don’t get lost when I come to this school”. I refocused and they had vanished. What was going on? My heart was thumping so fast that I couldn't even breath. I was lost in a maze with no way out. I followed my instincts and I made it to the hall. Just as I was walking in I could hear scratching on the floor. I was so afraid. What could it be? I was a spy on a mission and my mission was to find out what was in the hall. I quietly said, “On three” I said to myself 1 2 3 I ran in and it was just my aunty stacking the chairs up. I was so pleased. Going back to the day I still wonder where the car went. I looked back at my phone and I had missed thousands of calls from my mum “Oh no!” I gasped. Just as we were walking out of the school I could see a silver truck. I ran as quick as lightning. It was my mum and dad. The stress that I had just flew away.

The day sadly had to end I had so much fun. I had a sensational day but also a frightening day. I will never ever ever forget the day I helped my aunty prepare for the prom.

Reading task.

We are learning to expand our reading vocabulary by working with a buddy to find word meanings. What I found hard was pronouncing the words. My next step will be to try and pronounce all the words properly.

Math queen

This term in maths we have been learning a variety of strand work with Matua Hemara. What I found hard was learning how to do the graphs and doing the task questions. What I found easy was drawing the graphs. I hope you enjoy my strand work.

Plastic not fantastic!

This week I have been learning how to use a counter argument in my persuasive writing. What I found hard was trying to put a counter argument in my writing. What I found easy was getting the facts to back up my ideas. Enjoy my writing:)

I believe Kaikohe should be plastic bag free. Plastic bags are destructive, non-biodegradable and they are made of non-renewable resources. Isn't this heartbreaking? So, do you think Kaikohe should become a plastic bag free town? Yes or No?

If we stop plastic bags in our town we will save so much innocent marine animals lives. Plastic bags can choke or poison fish, animals and birds. Do you know how much marine animals die from plastic bags each year? 100000, this is so disappointing! Right now you might be thinking why should we be plastic bag free anyway they're just animals. You should be plastic bag free because our vulnerable animals die they do have feeling you know. So come on Kaikohe save our animals!

You must also think of or environment, plastic bags are ruining our environment at least half of the litter blown from landfills is some kind of plastic, mostly plastic bags. Added to this the ingredients used to make plastic bags are awful one of the ingredients is petroleum and petroleum is bad because people have to dig it up. Our environment is way more important than plastic bags.

Furthermore, visual pollution is growing in Kaikohe. A major thing that plastic bags do to our town is make it look hideous our town could be so gorgeous but instead all of the plastic bags that fly from our landfills and become litter ruin that chance. So Kaikohe should be plastic bag free.

Making types of plastic can damage someone's health. For example when making polyvinyl chloride plastic you could get cancer, skin diseases, deafness, vision failure, indigestion, and liver dysfunction. This is so dangerous! Kaikohe can make a change and put a stop to this.

In summary I think Kaikohe should become plastic bag free. It is unfair that our amazing marine animals have to suffer because of us and that our environment has to be filthy. So what do you want to have a beautiful town and all animals safe or animals dying from choking on plastic bags. Come on Kaikohe make a wise decision.

Integers!

This week Te hanah and I have been working on a math DLO on what we learnt around integers. What I enjoyed about doing this was that me and Te hanah made this movie in the weekends. What I found difficult was making the two separate screencastify into one movie but I still done it anyways.   

Maori masters!

This week we were learning to increase my Maori vocabulary. What I found hard was trying to pronounce the Maori words what I found easy was translating the English word into the Maori word. I hope you enjoy my video.