300 Word Challenge - Writing

Today period three with Mrs Hastie, we were doing the 300 word challenge. We got a choice about what we were going to write about and I chose to write about my friends 13th birthday that happened recently in the past.

Here is my writing:

Friends Birthday

On October the 18th, on a Friday, it was a very exciting day for me. It was my friend Keyana’s 13th birthday party but her real birthday was on Monday the 21st. She had invited me to her house for her birthday and I was so thrilled and happy that she had invited me. She was going on everyday about what she was going to do on her birthday, and she also told me who she was going to invite. She invited her cousin Jean and our other friends Mikayla and Chloe and that was when I boosted out of excitement.

On that night, we all meet up at her house and surprised her with our presents we got her,
that’s when I had just realized I have forgotten about a present. After giving her our presents,
we went out to our first event bowling, which was on the other side of town.
We all headed to bowling and started playing, I was so elevated.
As the night goes on at bowling, I was coming last, like I always am,
and the others were ahead of me. 

Later after bowling, we went to the time zone area where they have made some
better touches and qualities to it,
and played some of the new games and won a huge amount of tickets
for some awesome prizes. As the time went by,
it was time to go back home for dinner, we had four boxes of pizza,
Ham and cheese, two classic cheese and the
Hawaiian pizza with pineapple and some garlic bread. 

After eating dinner, we got changed into our pj’s and went and laid in
bed and watched a horror movies on Netflix, we watched IT2.
We also had some back up snacks while lying in bed such as, 2 blocks of chocolate,
2 packets of lollies and 2 fizzy drinks. It was one of the most enjoyable sleepovers
I’ve ever been too.  

It was a very considerable time spending time with my friends and with Keyana
for her birthday and I enjoyed every part of it. It was also a really great opportunity
to be invited to her birthday and I am glad she chose me to come and celebrate with her.

Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in Tane Mahuta CIP, we have currently still been weeding around the planting rows/area and starting new rows for new seeds that we need to grow. We also have been doing some more planting as well, such as Carrots, Watermelon and Corn and then later we watered them once we were finish. I helped loosen out the dirt and mixed in some fresh dirt before I started planting more seeds. I was planting with, Tasharn and Evelyn. I enjoyed doing the same routine every CIP and the three periods were good. 

 

Japanese - Things about myself

This Term, my class and I have been doing Japanese and it has been very enjoyable for me. Today we had to write down things about ourselves in English and Japanese and I hope you enjoy it.

 

Persuasive Writing

This term on Friday's period 3, my class 7/8Sh and Ts has been doing Persuasive Writing. We first planned out some ideas together about what we were going to write about and I thought of an idea to write about why is Netball better than Basketball.  This is my story and I hope you think Netball is better than Basketball.

My Story:

Why is Netball better than Basketball?

There are so many people that are interested in Netball and Basketball and we all don’t know which one is the best. They both have such great qualities and are so popular but in my opinion I think Netball is better than Basketball. There are so many great qualities about netball that makes it better, here are some examples, you won’t get injured as much on the court and it is less aggressive in body language such as pushing and shoving.  

Here are some reasons why I think Netball is better than Basketball. 

First of all, there is no need to dribble the ball while trying to score a point on the other side, it is much quicker and easier. There are seven players on the court so there is more help to have a successful game. 

My other reason why I think netball is better because it is a very fast paced and fun sport that is actually much safer than Basketball. Once you gain possession of the ball, there is no one around you to snatch or grab the ball of you so you have more time with the ball. 

That is why I think netball is better than basketball!

Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week during Tane Mahuta CIP, we have been doing some more weeding around the garden rows that had plants such as potatoes, beetroot, cabbage etc on them but, had to be taken off because we couldn't see which veges was which. I also got to make a another garden row for more planting to do once we've finished, and I was doing it with Keyana, Janel and Addyson. I have been doing this for four periods and got so much work done and dusted. It was a success through the whole four periods and I enjoyed doing some more weeding.
 

Hurumanu - Climate Change and The Furture

Aim: To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected? 

Different places in New Zealand and the Pacific Island.

What else do we need to think about? 

Salt Water and People who live near Rivers.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Timaru, Gisborne,     

What does this do to our drinking water?

We will have salt water from underground instead. 

What are the main concerns?

Salt water will be getting into other peoples water from underground.

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Electric Cars.
2.  Public Transports. 
3.  Try not use more energy.   

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no one silver bullet.

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Using Renewable's more 
2.   Transport
3.   Using Solar heating's

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Recycling more
2.   Reusing more
3.   More running or walking instead of using electricity 

Activities:

Carbon Footprint: 

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions they are already doing 

Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

1. Transportation
2. Community
3. Consumption
4. Water
5. Food
6. Home
7. Waste

1 Colour: For each action you are already doing 

2 Colour: For each action you would like to do in the future