Our task was to look at a list of things used in the army and find the definition of the words and why they were useful.

Learning Goals Term 2 2019

Literacy

While reading aloud, having good pacing and volume is a good goal for me. I will achieve this goal by reading to my sister.

Maths

Be able to find volume based on an outside area. I can learn this by watching Youtube repeating the process, thereby memorising it.

Religious Education

Reading the bible, this lets me understand more about it. This can also help me in other parts of life, remembering the verses, helping me overall.

Gallipoli

     Scary        Deafening

Running   Shouting   Slipping

Trenches    Mud    Blood    Bullets

Shooting   Murdering   Dying

Cold       Dark

ANZAC

Our objective for this task was to create a piece of writing on if we were sharks. We were to make it creative, interesting and entertaining, but not too long.

Shark Writing

I am a shark. There’s nothing to it really. All I do each day is swim; that and eat. I eat to survive, so I don’t see why everybody is scared of being eaten by me.

I was taking a stroll, and while chewing on a couple of measly fish I saw that there was a big grey fish. I think to myself ‘I bet I could beat it in a duel’. I charge at it full speed, which turns out worse than what I’d imagined. From above my aquatic confinements, I hear multiple cries of terror. Although big and juicy, its hard exterior brings me away from the battle.

I didn’t realise this was a squid, because when I hit it, the fish, or squid, started leaching out black ink into the water. I accidentally inhale some of its ink and start to feel a bit tired. A small school of fish seem to be surrounded by the squid’s odourous concoction. Easy prey. The small fish barely move before I snag them into my grasp.

I try to swim away but the evil black liquid prevents me from doing so. I slow to the speed of a sea snail. Now I understand the problem with those fish; they inhaled oil. I look up to see that I wasn’t battling a large fish or a colossal squid, it was a boat. The boat leaked oil when I hit it. The screams were from humans. Now it’s my fault I’m dying.

I can’t move a single fin. I’m stiff, but slowly relax my muscles. I hope I don’t meet any of the fish I’ve slaughtered in Fish-Heaven. At least I’m dying with a full stomach.

If I was Prime Minister

Our task was to create a piece of writing about if we were Prime Minister. We were to list some perks, some struggles and some thing we would do to help our country.

If I was Prime Minister

If I were Prime Minister, the first thing I would do is be surprised over the fact that I actually made it into the position. Then I would immediately tackle helping people in impoverished conditions.

People who would need help finding a job or struggling to keep up with our current economy would definitely be my first order of business. Where we are now, most of us have stable jobs, access to food and water, great homes, and education etc, but many people around the country may not have access to any of those things. To increase education, I would radically increase funding to libraries so people can have a wider selection of free books. Things like having more accessibility to food through things like the Food Bank are important, so obviously, more funding towards those sources. Making bad decisions is sometimes not  even a certain person’s fault; they could have been forced into doing so. Some bad choices make life a lot harder than it needs to be.

It would be hard to be Prime Minister. It would be difficult to leave the role of Prime Minister with the country the same as it was when you came into the role, let alone better. Helping out smaller communities while still focusing on the bigger ones is a lot to handle. Asking people how we could help in itself be challenging. If I were to promise that, finding the time to do so might be complicated to do. If the country was unhappy, I would probably give everyone a day off, run a poll to see what the communities would want.

Being Prime Minister would definitely be tiring. I really wouldn’t know what to do in that position, but giving people respect is what I know is the right thing.

An Idea for a Matariki Poem

Limerick Poem
W.A.L.T: Create a Limerick poem on Matariki.

In class today, we had to create a limerick poem.
A limerick poem is a poem with five lines: the first and second rhyme, the third and fourth rhyme, and the fifth rhymes with the first.
Each of us had to start with the same first line.

The Matariki stars shine, way up above.

Shining down on the land, filling it with love.

The people rejoice every time it appears.

All because it signifies the start of a new year.

All of it's light is white like a dove.

Jacob the Great

Jacob saved up money from raking leaves in the Autumn, watering flowers in the Spring, then combined that with his birthday and left it all in a shoe box next to the abandoned guitar under his bed. Jacob packed decided whether to bring his metal detector or not. In the Summer, he waited for Saturday morning to go to astronaut camp. He waited for people to have their turn in the line so that he could feel lighter that air in an anti-gravity room. When he got to that front, a camp leader said that he wasn’t old enough and steam filled Jacob’s ears. Jacob set up a bet with a newly-found friend. The bet was that if Jacob could get into the anti-gravity room, then, until the end of camp, his friend would have to call him ‘Jacob the Great’.

In the middle of the night, Jacob retrieved the torch from under his pillow. He went to the anti-gravity room and found that the door wasn’t going to move from the wall. Jacob fled back to his tent and took the metal detector out of the box. Jacob found a key behind a ‘space plant’. Jacob went into the room and quickly realised that it was boring without any other kids to enjoy it with. Jacob locked the door as he left, crept back, hid the key, and woke up his friend. All Jacob heard was “Congratulations, Jacob the Great.”

Are all bullies big?
We had to make a poster about bullying.
We got our information from https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/are-all-bullies-big
Here is mine:

Don’t reuse disposable Water Bottles!

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By Andrew and Scott

INTRODUCTION

You bought a disposable bottle of water, it’s not really eco-friendly. But you think to yourself, I can just refill it after I am done with it! Pretty nice, it’s eco-friendly! But wait, multiple studies show that refilling your disposable water bottles is a health risk.

Why do we need to do this?

This is for your own health’s benefit. You will be much more healthier if you do follow what we are saying.                                                                                                                                                                   These are some facts that show that disposable water bottles are dangerous.

It is not the chemicals you should be worrying about, it’s actually bacteria. If left unwashed, disposable water bottles can hold microbes.

So it’s OK to just use plastic bottles that are designed to be reused! Right? No. There is still a chemical in the bottles which is called Bisphenol A. Bisphenol A is a chemical in reusable plastic water bottles.  Bisphenol A interferes with the way that hormones behave in our bodies. A study has found that 65 percent of an elementary (primary) school student’s water bottles have bacteria.

Disposable water bottles are very welcoming to bacteria. This is because reusable water bottles are made for refillings, whereas disposable water bottles break down, leaving room for bacteria to come in.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences points out that a 2008 review expressed "some concern for effects on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and children at current human exposures to bisphenol A." There is more research needed, but you should definitely stay away from it.

 

Welcome to my page, my name is Scott and I go to Pompallier Catholic School. I am Year 6 and in  the Kakapo class. I will be posting my learning on this blog.