The life of a shoe - Marieta

I knew today was the day. I glared at him as he picked me up and walked along with me. I could see the other pairs yelling out to me. It was dark and I didn't know what to do. Finally, I see light, I could feel his warm toes tickling the inside of me. My hair was being nicely tied up into pigtails. I felt like I was in a fashion show. We went along and I could see so many things! but suddenly as he took another step I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. OHH NO!! "splat" eww I felt icky and sticky. It tasted disgusting. I felt like I was  glued to the floor. My body shouted for help but no one heard me. I looked around and saw other pairs staring at me. I felt embarrassed as soon as I kept going. I can feel his sweat along my body as he stomps faster and faster. All of a sudden I see something yellow heading towards me. I close my eyes, I was too scared to see. As I slowly opened my eyes I felt clean and fresh. I thought to myself "that wasn't so bad after all".

This week for Writing we are learning about Personification. The meaning to personification is when human qualities are given to no-living objects for example " The chair ran using its legs ". I have created a story using the five senses. The five senses are: Taste, See, Feel,Hear and Smell. I choose to write about the life of a shoe. The challenge for today was to find a partner and face back to back. You were not allowed to talk to each other. One person would write one sentence while the other partner would check for their mistakes, then he or she would write a new sentence.

How I will be an asset to my new school

How I will be an asset to my new school ?

Have you ever wondered about the different things you will be doing at your chosen college?. That's me!. I am going to Tamaki college and I'm pretty excited about it. Tamaki College is a great school. I like the teachers there because they are welcoming and kind. Going to a new school can be hard for people because you are around new people and new teachers. Although for me I like to try new things and set goals for myself. Meeting new people is not hard for me at this college since I've experienced what life is like there.

Tamaki College has many opportunities for students that go there. They teach a driving course, many different subjects to does many celebrations. I like to celebrate a lot of festivals so I can be useful and help by convincing people to come!. Going there will not only make me happy but also help me understand my learning more too. I am a good student to go there, because I am very hard working.

I am determined to work hard and achieve the goals that I have set for this year. I have achieved all my silver C.A.R.E award badges and am still working hard to achieve my gold badges. I have joined a variety of sports such as touch, cricket, after-school netball, inter school netball, and softball. I have also received my 500 blog post badge and am trying to blog more to get to my 1000 blog post badge. I am sure that I will try my best at this college despite the hard times I go through.

When I go to Tamaki I will give 100% and commit to working hard and achieving my goals that I have set for the year. I try my best at all sports I sign up for. I try to join a lot of sports and ensure that I am listening to the teacher. One subject I am very good at is writing because I understand what we are learning and I am very fast when it comes to finishing off my task. In reading, I am good at communicating with others about the articles that my group reads. With maths, I can solve problems using different strategies.

I am going to Tamaki college and I'm pretty excited about it. Tamaki College is a great school. I know that I have the qualities to go to this college and impress the teachers with my skills. Going to a new school can be tough for most people, because you are around new people but for me meeting new people is easy because I can interact with people pretty fast. This is how I will be a great asset to my new school.


This week LS2 have been writing explanations. The year eights are writing about, " How we will be a asset to our new school" and year sevens are writing about " Why they make a good leader". I am going to Tamaki College and I'm pretty excited about it. I think that I'll make a great asset to my new school because I have many great skills.

Showing our values

Showing Our Values

What do you do when your not being treated right?. Everyone has their time when someone's not being kind or showing empathy. Those words are called "Values". There are many different values such as: Respect, Kindness, Empathy, Tolerance and Positive Attitude. Each word has a different meaning to it but I have chosen 3 very important values I think that is very important to show everyday because it's important to be respectful to each other.

The first value is Respect. It means to treat everyone the way you want to be treated. If you treat someone else badly than it is most likely for that type of attitude to be shown back. Receiving respect from someone else makes us feel good and safe. Having respect in your relationship with somebody builds trust, safety and well being. Respect is kinda like showing kindness too, you need to be nice to one another in order for you to get treated the same way back. 

The second value is Kindness, meaning to be nice to each other and not being mean. Kindness in a relationship is also very important because it makes you feel good about yourself. Doing things for other people such as helping them or even giving a gift to them makes you feel warm that you accomplish doing something that's right and not wrong. Just like empathy, you need to be kind to each other when someone is not feeling happy.

The last value is Empathy. It is when you put yourself in other people's shoes and feel what their feeling. It's always important to show empathy so we know what to do when someone is feeling sad about a certain situation. When you show empathy it also shows how much you care for that person and even helping them through their situation is even better. This is why it important to how empathy.

All these values are important to show to everyone each day. Yes you may not be treated nicely sometimes but just remember treat them how you want to be treated, be kind to them and show empathy cause they might show it back. By doing this it will show to everyone that you are able to show values. This is why using our value daily is important to us.

This week I have wrote an explanation about why it is important to how our values. I have chosen three important values I think that we need to show everyday which is respect, kindness and empathy. Respect means to treat everyone the same you want to be treated. Kindness is to be nice to one another and empathy is to put your self in other people's shoes and feeling what their feeling.

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. 

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.

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.

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!.

Marieta Point of view: Plastic Straws

This week for writing we are talking about persuasive text. Our topic was about plastic straws. We watched videos and talked about if we should or shouldn't ban straws. We looked at different facts and opinions, facts is a true piece of information. I have created a DLO about different perspectives as to why we should and we shouldn't ban straws. I learnt about provocation, this word means when someone does or say a speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. My opinion is that we should ban plastic straws because it's causing to much harm to turtles and it takes a while to break down. Opinion means your point of view. A perspective means the way you see something for example in depth or distance.

Information Report - Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

This isn't about Yuri Gagarin, nor is it about Sputnik 1, but it is about Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong Is known to be the first person to walk on the moon. Did you know that at the age of 16 he received his first pilots licence? At an early age Neil Armstrong developed interest in planes. He was born in 1930 August 5th in Ohio.

When he was 14 years old he took his first flying lessons. After college Neil became a test pilot, he flew 78 missions during war. In 1949 the US Navy called him for active duty. Only some pilots were chosen to be astronauts. In 1962 Neil Armstrong was chosen to be one of the astronauts. During this time America had planned their first flight to the moon. Neil Armstrong had the opportunity take America's first flight to the moon.

In 1969 July 20th Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. His first words, as he stepped on the moon were "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". A huge number of people watched the first moonwalk on TV. During his career he flew over 200 types of aircraft. September 1962 he was elected for the NASA Astronaut Corps, which meant he had completed a number of physical tests. After hearing that people were selling his autographs online, he stopped signing them.

Before NASA had its name it went by the name NACA, before Armstrong had worked there. He did a variety of roles, such as Engineering, Test Pilot, Astronaut and Administrator. Soon he resigned From the US astronaut program in 1970 and became Professor of Aerospace Engineering at University of Cincinnati and Served as chairman of the board of computing Technologies for Aviation.

Now you know that this wasn't about Yuri Gagarin, nor was it about Sputnik 1, but it was about Neil Armstrong. From this day on, Neil Armstrong's footprints are still laid on the Moon. Fun Fact: The three pilots arrived back on Earth, July 24th, which meant that they had spent 4 days on the moon.

Mele and Marieta 


This term for writing LS2 have been focusing on how to write and structure a information report. In LS2 we use TIPS to help us with our writing. T-Title, I-Information, P-Paragraphs, and S-Summary. Mele and I worked collaboratively to write an information report about Neil Armstrong. It was really fun, because Mrs Anderson challenged us to use the voice type to write this, instead of actually typing it. Before anything happened, Mele and I watched and researched different information about Neil Armstrong. We use present tense, technical words, nouns, subheadings, when we write our information reports. Did you know that Neil Armstrong's footprints are still laid on the moon, till now?

Literary Devices

Here is the link to my DLO

This week as apart of our poetry learning LS2 has been working collabortively to find understandings for all the literary devices. Literary Devices are used when you are writing a peom.  The 6 literary devices are Simile, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification and Alleteration. Mrs Anderson challenged us to create a google docs and use the explore tools to make a example of what the literary devices were, the definition and the picture.

Information Report - Penguins

Penguins

Penguins, they are cute and chubby animals. They have white bellies and dark black backs. They have large heads but short necks. Although their skin looks like fur they are actually feathers. There are 17 different species of penguins. The smallest type of penguin is called the blue penguin and the Emperor penguin are the biggest penguins. These animals only live around the southern hemisphere which is the iciest part of the world.

Penguins can only live in icy places such as: Antarctica, Africa, Australia, South America and the Galapogos Island. They preen their feathers because there's a special type of oil on their body that keeps them warm. They use there flippers to help them swim so they can find nutrient. Some people might even say that penguins are aquatic!. Most penguins like to eat seafood.

Penguins are carnivores so they can eat both meat and vegetables. The main food that they eat are Krill which are small fish, Squid which is a baby octopuse and regular fish. Usally if penguins are about to have a baby penguin the father penguins stays and looks after the egg while the mother penguin goes and hunt for food but they have to be carful of the predators.

There are plenty of predators for penguins. The land predators are Ferrats, Cats, Snakes, Lizzards, Foxes and Rats. The water predators are the main threats since penguins are always in the water. There are Seals, Orcas (which is a killer whale) and sea lions. Luckly for penguins they have counetshading feathers which kinda camouflages them in the water.

Most penguins either hop, waddle or do tobogganing. This is how they usally walk. Tobogganing is when a penguin drags itself somewhere on its stomach. Peguins have huge colonies because it is like a camouflage to them because of their black backs. Did you know that penguins can only lay one and a half eggs a year?.

Now you know so much facts about penguins. They are very intersting animals and can do many amazing things such as tobogganing and preening. They aren't just regular animals but they are amazing unique animals.

For the past two weeks I have been learning about a Information report. A Information report is a peice of writing that informs the reader true facts on a specific topic. My information report talks about Penguins. Penguins are animals that live in the Southern Hemisphere which is places like Antarctica, Africa, Australia, South America and the Galapogos Island. Some people might think that penguins have fur but they don't they actually have feathers. They have black backs and white bellies. They have this fat that is called blubber to keep them warm. They preen because they have this special oil on them. Altogether there are 17 different species type of penguins. The smallest penguins are called the blue penguin and the Largest penguins are called the Emperor Penguin. To help me write this information report I used my notes that I had wrote down and the acronym TIPS ( Title, Introduction, Paragraphs of Informations, Summary ) to help me order my writing.

How to use google drawing tools

How to use google drawing tools

You will need:

Computer, Drive

1. On your computer, open up your google drive

2. On the left corner you will see the word ( + New ) Click on it

3. Go down to "More >" and click on google drawing

4. Now go on google and find any clipart photo of your choice - Side Comment - Start of easy!

5. Screenshot your chosen drawing and click back on your google drawing

6. On the top left there will be a bar of tools

7. Click on the one that says "Insert"   

8. Go to images and upload from your computer the image you screenshoted ( Chosen )

9. Chose your image and press open

10. On the top left corner you will see a magnifying glass with a plus on it.

11. Click on it and zoom in just a bit untill you see the line around the picture when clear

12. On the top left corner you will see a tool that looks like a mini dumpbbell ( Weight from the gym )

13. Click on the arrow and choose curve/Polyline - Side Comment - Only use curve if it comes to a round part but use polyline if it has corners

14. drag your mouse to the picture and while dragging your mouse start tracing around the picture using the curve/polyline tool

15. Go around your picture slowly and don't go to fast.

16. You will know you are done when you see the line from you have started

17. On the top left there are a bar of tools click on the colour box and leave it transparent

18. Once your done start on other parts of the image

19. On the top left there are a bar of tools click on the arrow pointing down on the magnifying glass with a plus on it. ( Picture for help )

20. Choose "Fit" and it should have a number percentage next to it

21. When done click on the part you've drawn and colour it ( The colour will pop up on the top left corner on your google drawing )

22. Do this too all of your drawn parts

23. Delete the image behind your drawing

24. Click on one of the part of the drawing and press shift while click on the other part of the drawing

25. Put two fingers on the mouse and click once

26. find the word" Group" and click it

27. Move your drawing to where you want it to be

28. Done!

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This procedural text shows how to use google drawing tools. I have listed numbers to show the order of my list. A procedural text nees: Side Comments, Numbers to order the list, Things you need, Verb and Adverbs. A procedural text is a list of instructions to learn how to do something. In this task I learnt the meaning of procedural and what I found interesting was that a procedural text always needs a verb and a adverb.

Group Challenge

This week for writing Mrs. Anderson challenged us to write a response that Siri might have said in exactly 50 words. We were to answer, Why is Kokako Lodge a great place to take year 7/8 students on camp? To help us we used our camp diaries, outside the box DLO, LS2 rubric, and our camp photos. As a group, we took part in the learning conversation, by sharing our ideas with each other. To receive points we were to use the selected language features, which were simple, compound, complex sentence, a comma, correct beginning, and end sentence punctuation, an exclamation mark, simile, and brackets. If we used any of these language features we would receive 5 points. Using 50 words gave us 50 points. Extra points were added if we collaborated, communicated, used the LS2 writing rubric, camp photos, camp diaries, outside the box DLO, and if we completed it on time. Altogether our group totaled up to 95 points.

Stretching Sentence

This week for writing I have been practising on how to strectch a sentence. I've created a DLO to show and example of how to stretch a sentence and the purpose of stretching sentences. To stretch a sentence all you need is a simple sentence, You then add in a Who,What,When,Where and a Why to each sentence you make, This is called stretching the sentence. By doing this you are improving the simple sentence that you first started with. 

Self / Buddy Writing Evaluation

Self and Buddy Exaluation

Rubbish

Do you ever think of what happens once you throw away something? We see rubbish all over our land but never think to pick it up. It may have been on dirt or an insect could be inside but do you ever think of what is happening around us. Did you know that nine billion tons of rubbish are affecting our marine life? We should start to think about the things rubbish is doing to affect us.

Although this is may mean nothing to some people it definitely can do much worse than we think. One way we could fix this problem is Reuse!. Reuse, What does it mean, well it says it in its name. We can use things again instead of throwing it away. Like plastic water bottles. My family and I always reuse water bottles because sometimes the water bottles at the shops are expensive.

Another word we can use is reduced!.

Reduce means making a big problem into a smaller problem for example, We are reducing the amount of plastic we are using. We can still eat chips for our lunches put instead of bringing it to school with the packet, we could use reusable containers to put them in. This was we are reducing the amount of rubbish that gets thrown away at school.

Many people try to start a campaign to save our world. By doing this they do all sorts of things and one of them is picking up rubbish. This is called recycling it means putting our rubbish in the bin. We put things like wrappers and more. Sometimes there is glass that has been broken and we step on them, Who knows what a small piece of glass can do to our feet!.

Let's recall We need to stop littering and start changing. We should always Reuse and Reduce. Looking after our environment is very important.  .So let's make this problem a different change and always remember to Reuse, Reduce and don't forget to always throw your rubbish in the bin.

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Today I have been working on how I could make my explanation for writing better. We used the Writing Rubric to help us work out which structure and language features I already know how to use. I have grouped up with Mele and Sakina. Together we have been checking each others work and giving feedback to each other. For example I think I got an R4 for punctuation because I have used Commas, Explanation Marks and a Question mark in my explanation.

Explanation Sketchnote

This week for Writing we are learning about explanations. Miiana and I have worked on a sketchnote. This DLO will help us remeber the things we need in a explanation. In the DLO we wrote down the things we wrote from our paper sketchnote. The photo on the bottom of the DLO shows us speed dating. Speed dating is where we were in 2 lines and one line had been switching so that we hve different partners. This also helps us combine our ideas together to say what we have and what we missed. 

Twinkle Twinkle Flame

Today I have created a Narritive. A narritive is a retelling of a story. It has a beginning. A middle, The middle is were the problem is introduced and an ending and that is when there’s a resolution of the problem. I had decided to write about a lantern that had light in it and these two boys were staring at it.

That Was Spring Illustration

Today I have created a Illustration about Spring. I first created a poem that was all about spring. I then got to pick a verse and draw about that verse. I have decided to choose the last verse that is highlighted because I thought it would be easier to draw. At the end, I thought the illustration looks very bright. 

The Eye

This week for writing I have created a illustration about a five seven ten writing. I choose to do The eye because I love to draw about mysterious things. Can you guess what the drawings mean?. I tried to be very creative with the pictures. I used the curve tool, Polyline Tool and the shapes to draw my pictures. My favourite slide is the first slide because it gets my attention of what will happen.