Advertising Challenge - Rugby World Cup

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of RWC activities to support this event that is going on around the World. We have been learning, to identify persuasive language features in advertising. Above shows the advertisement poster that Marieta and I created about the merchandise that we chose to sell from the RWC shopping online site. We either chose to sell the hover bike/ a RWC merchandise. Mele and I decided to sell the Canterbury backpack. 

Rugby World Cup Problem Solving

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held this year in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of activities based on the Rugby World Cup. Today we worked out the measurements of a Rugby Pitch. Mele, Angela and I worked collaboratively together to work out the maths questions. The strategy that we used the most was the Place Value columns, because it helped us  through everything, especially when using the long multiplication strategy.Above shows a DLO of our favourite world problem/strategy. Feel free to comment down below your answers. 

Question: 
A rugby pitch has an area of 5400m2. What could the dimension of the filed be?

2019 Rugby World Cup Stadium Capacity

This week our activities are based around the Rugby World Cup. So for this DLO I worked collaboratively with Mele and Sakina and we worked out maths problems about the stadiums in Japan. We used different strategies such as division, times tables and fractions. We have created a DLO that shows one of the maths problem we solved. We choose to do question 3 which was " Tokyo Stadium is only 3/4  filled. How many people attended the match ". We used division and times tables to solve this problem. Check the DLO to see how we solved this equation.

My Favourite Celebration

Let me tell you about Christmas in my family. Personally in our family Christmas is not only about presents, but for me it's about spending quality time together and praying.

This year Christmas is on Wednesday December, 25th. I wake up in the morning yelling, " MERRY CHRISTMAS!". I ran to the Christmas tree as fast as I could bothering my mum asking her if I could open my presents but, she always says " no, wait until after we celebrate". 

During Christmas our family does, a lot of things such as: play games, eat food, have devotion and open our presents. Every year we call to Nadi, Fiji to see how my relatives are doing. They're always smiling and greeting me with such a positive attitude saying, " Hi Marieta, Merry Christmas!".

My family are always thankful with what we receive. I love seeing my family laugh, smile and enjoy this day. Presents can be something good, yet one thing that I really enjoy is spending time with my family. This is why Christmas is my favourite celebration.

This week for writing we have been learning about commas and where we put it in our writing. We use commas in a List, to separate dialogue, for date/year, introductory words, before FANBOYS and city/suburb. Our challenge today was to write about our favourite celebration using 5-7-10. We get 5 minutes to write, 7 minutes to give feedback and forwarder with a friend and 10 minutes to edit it or finish it off. My favourite celebration is Christmas. I talked about what me and my family do during Christmas and what it means to me.

International News

Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make decisions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening around the world. We thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Marieta and I worked collaboratively together to find articles that related to these groups. The most interesting article that we found out was,74 year old lady gives birth to twins to set world record that took place in India, Guner.

Duffy Book Assembly

Today we have had a visit from Jamie Wall. He is a sports commentator for the All Blacks. We came to talk to us about what he does for a living. Tomorrow he will be going to Japan for the world cup to report on the rugby for the Maori Television. A book that inspired him was called Men in Black of NZ rugby History. He told us that he kept reading the book so that one day if he got asked questions about the All Blacks he would already know the answer. One day a couple of people were looking for someone to be a sports commentator. He was asked to go and was asked a couple of question, using the knowledge from the book he got all of the questions right and got the job. The same thing happen a few years later but instead he was asked to write a book. He said it was challenging but at the end he got through it all. The book he wrote is called Brothers in black and it is New Zealand best selling book. After hearing his story it really inspired me to keep going and never give up. A big thank you to Duffy for providing the books for us, we are all happy with what we got and will be definitely reading them tonight.

Pop-up Globe Visit

Last Week Rita and Reuben came to visit our class. They are from the Pop-up globe that's in Ellerslie. Rita and Reuben are actors at the Pop-up Globe. They talked about the amazing things they do when acting. I found it interesting that they mix genders when acting. The first Globe was hit by a canon while acting.So they made a new one with holes for light. They told us that a tragedy plays would end with death. They also said that comedy plays would end with marriage. Rehearsal would take 6 weeks for the actors to get learning. William Shakespeare used a ten pattern beat in a play. Their plays would weave Maori Language and culture in plays. The narrator would use the fourth wall to include audience. During plays it would take one to two hours long. The best place were in the front of the globe. The cost of tickets were about $10 dollars per person.

Shakespere

This week LS2 have been learning about William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare writes English poet, playwright and actor. He is famous for the stories he tells us about. Did you know that William Shakespeare created 6000 words that we use today. This DLO talks about William Shakespeare and the story Macbeth. Macbeth is about when a Macbeth killed the King just because he wanted to be King.

Exploring our National Current Events

Each day, newspaper editors make a decision everyday about which current event story they will run. This week LS2 have been exploring different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand. We also thought about why the story made the news. I worked with Mele and collaboratively we created a google map and searched for different news. We would have different news and plotted the location on a google map. The news I found interesting was when Wellington decided to create a hand sculpture with a face because I think it's pretty weird to have a hand sculpture on top of a building.

Provocation and Opinion

A provocation is an action or a speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. This week a supermarket will no longer be selling energy drinks to people under 16. I have created a DLO about this topic and wrote different perspectives. I think that this supermarket has made the right choice because energy drinks can cause a lot of health problems. These drinks are especially not good for kids as we are still growing. What is your opinion and why? leave a comment down below.

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Plastic Straws!, People around the world like plastic straws but some really don’t. In my opinion, plastic straws are awful, dreadful and harmful. Ever realise, why the word plastic straw has plastic in it, let me give you a hint! It's PLASTIC! which also means it takes a long time to degrade. Straws are harming the marine life. How would you feel if you were a turtle going along the shores and ate a plastic straw, thinking it could be food. Straws release toxic that could harm these sea creatures.

Plastic straws are too small to be recycled so they are either thrown into the landfills or blown away to a nearby river, lake or beach which could harm the sea creatures living in these oceans. Think about it, 65,000 straws were found during clean ups on beaches!, what if that many straws were filled up on your favourite beach? Did you know that it takes about 5 human life times just for plastic to break down? Wow that is a lot of years. Once plastic straws break down they turn into many little micro-plastics that can easily enter our environment. If straws are being taken away it will decrease the amount of plastic that is being used.


According to the National Park Services it is said that straws are the 11th most common piece of trash found when doing ocean clean ups. About 172 million straws are being used everyday and thrown away. During 2015 a small helpless turtle had a 15 meter straw stuck up its nose. Think about the pain he was going through at that time, how would you feel if that was you?. Marine life has been hurt, trapped and even died from the amount of plastic we are throwing away. I am glad to see that people are making a change and bringing in metal, paper and even bamboo straws.

Did you know that drinking sugary drinks using a straw can actually cause a problem of cavities and tooth decay on your teeth. One stream of your own beverage, can run through your straw and into a small area of your teeth and just by that action it can damage your enamel and cause cavities and tooth decay. Drinking out of a straw can also be harmful to children. Little children can even choke from straws. You might even choke from straws one day!.



What’s the point of having straws?. When it's obviously going to be thrown away and used once, which can end up in the sea. What if you heard the turtles painful cries and moans? Think about your home, you don't want rubbish in your house so why do this to these sea creatures. We have listened, we have learned so now let's save the turtles, thank you!.