Waiuta Camp

Last week my class and I went on camp to Waiuta. We did all sorts of activities, they were really fun to complete. I  also didn't mind sleeping there but I think I liked my bed better but it was still OK because at least I got to sleep. We met this man called Mr Fortune. He was really nice and he showed us around Waiuta and told us some old  stories about Waiuta. They were interesting to listen to.

THIS IS ISABEL'S AND MY  WORK!  

Reading Profile

When we start a new term in Room 5 we make a reading profile. We had to think about what our reading goal from last term and we had to write if we completed it. We also had to note down what will be our reading goals for this term. 

Pet Day

A couple of  weeks ago we had pet day at our school. We had to write three pieces of writing and then we put them all on a slide show. I brought my puppy Skid. This is what my slide show looks like.

Art Chair

 On Thursday our class, room 5, and room 6 were with Mrs Ealam. We decorated chairs. We had to find a picture from a magazine of your choice and cut them out and stick them on the chair with pva glue and then when we were finished we did the last coat of glue but it was non toxic modpodge. I was in a group with Zoe, Tahlia and  Sophie. We all had to pick a theme and our theme was hunting. This is what my groups and my work turned out like. I think they all looked really cool and stylish.        

spring hoilday homework

This holidays we got sent home with homework. We had to write a sentence that we read in a book and we had to make sure it describes. This is my holiday homework.

 

Collage

The reasons why we made these collages was because we want to show people what plastic does to the environment and how it harms the creatures that live around us.  The first thing that came into our head was the sea  because the sea animals are suffering from the plastic that goes into the sea and are dying from it.  We want to show people what we are doing to the creatures in the sea and why they are  dying.  We got to work on making our plastic collages.
First of all we had to rip up magazines and stick them on a big piece of paper with pva glue. But we would have to make sure that we had a variety of  the one colour so it was just the one colour.  Then we made some sea animals and then put the plastic of our choice over our animals. 

 Some of the problems we had with making the collage was ripping up the right colour and finding the colour we needed. Another problem was trying to get them done in time so we could show them to the whole school. Some easy parts for making the collage was making the sea  animals and sticking down the ripped up paper. 

Haylee and Tahlia

Bin Liners

In Room 5 we have been learning how to write to persuade. We had to persuade our principal how we do not need plastic bin liners. We had to write three reasons and we had to have three paragraphs.

10th September 2018

 

Dear Mrs Wallace,

At Awahono School we have a problem because we are using too much plastic bags as bin liners in the classrooms. There are three good reasons why I believe that bin liners should be be ban  

 

 Firstly, in a day we use 10 bags in each classrooms, in a week we use 50, in a term we use 500, in a year we use 2,000 plastic bags. This is how much we use and it is too much.

Secondly, without plastic bags in our class rubbish bins we are saving money and also saving the animals in the sea from  eating plastic and dieing from the plastic.

Thirdly, I strongly believe that we should ban plastic bags because all that we put in our rubbish bins is dry paper and not wet rubbish.

Finally, all the plastic goes in a big dump called a landfill then in the winter when it rains the landfill gets washed away and ends up in the sea to make the sea animals die.

In conclusion, I think we need to stop using plastic bags as bin liners in the classrooms because it is killing sea animals and making a bigger and bigger problem everyday. We only need to keep the wet bin liners that we need for the chickens food, only two a day.

Yours sincerely,

 Haylee