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Maths

We're doing measurement this term. Did you know that: 1000g = 1kg 1000m = 1km 100cm= 1m 10mm = 1cm

Lately we have been learning about addition and subtraction

We're learning new strategies to do, when trying to solve an equation, such as: Place Value Strategy: 3645 + 2914=6459  3000 + 2000 = 5000  600 900 1400  40 10 50  5 4 9 For place value, it's really important that you line the numbers up in the right columns

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Rounding and Compensating: 48 + 22=70 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 48+2=50 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 20-2=20 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 50+20=70

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">So far for maths we have been doing Place Value. On Our first Place value test I got 7/13. On My second place Value test I got 11/13. I was quite proud of Myself. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">In Place Value we learnt: <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Rounding Numbers <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">About tenths, hundredths, thousandths ect <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">How many tenths, hundredths and thousandths there are in a number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">And loads more, only I can't think of it right now!

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Now we are up to Statistics. At the moment we are learning about Mode, Median, range and mean.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">What the mode, median, range and mean is:

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Mode: The mode is the most common number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Median: The Middle number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Range: The Range is the biggest number, minus the lowest number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Mean: Add all the numbers together, and then divide it by the amount of numbers you have.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Basic Facts Challenge <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">In our syndicate we have a weekly basic facts challenge. Every Monday, the two classes do a basic facts test. There is 100 questions of mixed basic facts. Then we get the average of our scores. So far my class, room 13, has one every time!

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">My scores for the Basic facts test

11/7/11 99/100

27/5/11 100/100 hard test 29/50

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">22/3/11 <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">99/100

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">14/3/11 <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">100/100

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">7/3/11 <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">99/100

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">28/2/11 <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">100/100

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">16/5/11 <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">99/100

25/5/11 99/100



<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">So far for maths we have been doing Place Value. On Our first Place value test I got 7/13. On My second place Value test I got 11/13. I was quite proud of Myself. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">In Place Value we learnt: <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Rounding Numbers <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">About tenths, hundredths, thousandths ect <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">How many tenths, hundredths and thousandths there are in a number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">And loads more, only I can't think of it right now!

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Now we are up to Statistics. At the moment we are learning about Mode, Median, range and mean.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">What the mode, median, range and mean is:

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Mode: The mode is the most common number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Median: The Middle number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Range: The Range is the biggest number, minus the lowest number. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Mean: Add all the numbers together, and then divide it by the amount of numbers you have.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Basic Facts Challenge <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">In our syndicate we have a weekly basic facts challenge. Every Monday, the two classes do a basic facts test. There is 100 questions of mixed basic facts. Then we get the average of our scores. So far my class, room 13, has one every time!

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Writing

<span style="color: #009bff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Procedures

<span style="color: #009bff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">In term 3 we've been looking at procedures. Here is one of mine! <span style="color: #009bff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__HOW TO WRITE A PROCEDURE__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EQUIPMENT <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing tool-pen and paper/computer

1. Assemble your writing tools. 2.Write the goal of the procedure at the top of your page. 3. List the equipment needed. 4. Start to write the instructions in an enumerable order. Make sure each instruction starts with a verb. 5. When you have finished writing the steps, you can proofread it and share it with somebody!

Congratulations on writing a procedure!

SPEECHES We've been writing speeches, which I love! Here is my Speech, on human Rights, I'm quite proud, because I got in the next round, which is tomorrow (Thursday, 9, June). Wish me Luck!

Introduction Don’t you just absolutely HATE it, when someone takes a picture of you, without your permission? Not only is it, irritating and annoying,disrespectful and rude, but it is also against your human rights. So, you ask, what are human rights? Well I am about to tell you. What do you think of when I ask you about my human rights? Apart from the person, who said human rights are your right hands, and human lefts are your left hands, most people did not know. So now, whether you like it or not, I am going to tell you.

What are human rights? Now you are probably, wondering what human rights are. And I’m guessing, that you don’t know, because you’ve never really given the matter much thought. You either thought, it was not important, or you just never heard of them. Now this to me, is two issues, in the same sentence. Issue #1:You thought human rights are not important. Issue # 2:You never heard of human rights? What kind of country are we raising, not educating the children about this? Human rights are kind of the foundations to the building of this free country. I think the Universal declaration of Human Rights, Article 1, kind of sums it up: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.

Human rights issues Luckily, human rights in New Zealand aren’t that bad. But there are plenty of other countries, I could list, whose human rights are not in the a-ok.

For Instance Fiji: Fijians, are living in Fear, for many of their every day things have been changed and taken. Their Prime Minister has stopped the elections, he has fired every judge and judical officer. He has also made a new law that any police or military member has been protected against being held responsible when they injure or kill a person.

Oh, and no one really knows about it, but still 14 years after the huge massacre that killed and improsined hundreds of Chinese after they all grouped on the streets of China and asked for equal rights, and freedom, China still has human rights issues.

So yes, Zealand isn’t that bad with human rights issues, but what about the rest of our world? New Zealand is still in this world, and it is up to us to fix it.

And finally my last piece of information. I can’tdo a speech on human rights without telling you some. So unless you want to be sued, you should know the most important human rights. Each and every one of you have a right to be free and do whatever you want. You have a right to not be discriminated against. Every one is equal, and noone, not anyone, is to be thought higher of than someone else.

Conclusion Human Rights. One of the most important things in our country. Yet hardly anybody, knows what they are. I hope I have enlightened you, about human rights, because this is something I feel really strongly about. We need to spread the word, let people know, so we are all treated the same. So everybody knows that we are equal. That everyone should be free dress, to talk, to be whoever they are. Because it’s true. You are allowed to be whoever you want to be in this country. People have rights! Most people don’t know what human rights are. But really what they don’t know, is how important, they really are.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We've been writing expositions in class. An exposition is when you choose one side of something. We had to do an exposition on if school should finish at 4pm. I chose NO!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some people think that 6 hours a day at school is not enough. Some people think that we are not getting a good enough education. Some people think that we are spending to many of our precious hours, fooling around at home, when we could be learning. I am not one of those people. I think school is perfectly fine exactly the way it is. It’s not because I don’t like school. In fact I do quite like it. I just think it would not be a smart idea. This should not be happening at Greytown School.

Firstly, If we started school at 9am, and finished at 4pm, there would be no time for children to do extra-curricular activities such as sport, music lessons etc. Most people in my class play a sport, or if they don’t they do fitness training in their spare time. If school was an hour longer, they wouldn’t be able to practise their winter sports, because it would be to late, and it would be getting dark. We would then have to use the turf/rugby ground/netball court lights. This would result in students and parents having to pay more for their sport fees, as it would use more power and cost more, and some people wouldn’t be able to afford it.

Also, children would not be able to concentrate properly. It would be very hard, because it would seem like the day would drag on and on. Because the day would be 7 hours, and there is one and a half hours of playtime and break. That means 5 and a half hours of learning. Already, at our school, it is hard for some children to go for four and a half hours of learning time. Five and a half hours would be even worse. You would probably have to break up the play times, even more than Greytown School already has. The Students would not like this because you would not be able to get a proper game in. It would put a bad label on our School: “Oh, Greytown School is the one where children are too naughty to have a proper lunchtime, it’s split into 5 blocks, right?”. This would be a terrible move to make for our school.

Thirdly, Greytown School Students would be far too tired. If you had another hour of school every day, that would be FIVE extra hours a week, and TWENTY extra hours a month. Just imagine how many hours that would be in a year! Additionally, it gets dark in winter afternoons. This is just another indication that it is nearly night time, and children will be even more tired. Think about how would that make our school look. What if our school has visitors? They come into the classrooms, and people have fallen asleep? Do we really want that for our school?

Furthermore, there is a lot of people who catch the bus home. These people live out of Greytown, in Carterton, Battersea, Martinborough, Featherston, even Masterton. People whose parents, work during the day, catch the bus, and it can take up to one and a half hours to get home. If school finished at 4.00om, some people wouldn’t get home until 5.30. That is the time most people eat dinner.If they ate tea after they got home, at 6.00pm, they would be staying up late to do their homework. People would get to tired, which would lead to illness, which would cause a drop in the absentees list. Also do we really want young children, to be walking from their bus-stop, at five o clock at night? It is around this time, when it gets dark. How would you feel if something happened to your precious child? It is also the time when it starts to get frosty. We don’t want our children to get a cold, do we?

You see, this is why I think that school hours should NOT change. It would result in bad things. Children would get into trouble, get sick, and be unfit. Children would fall behind in their work, and not be where they are meant to be at the end of the year. Do we want this for the young children? This would not have happened a decade ago, so why happen now? This is NOT the way to go, for Greytown School.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Exposition self/peer/teacher reflection__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">start people thinking without making points-yes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exposition topic-no ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exposition Success Criteria || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Self || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have an introduction that says what the exposition is about, my position and starts people thinking about the topic. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It does not talkabout the points I will make. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mostly. position-yes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a conclusion that says what the exposition is about, my position, sums up the points I made and finishes with a powerful sentence. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used rhetorical questions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The right amount. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used repetition || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used imperatives || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No` || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used connectives to start my paragraphs || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used expert vocabulary for the topic.....I sound like I know what I am talking about || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1/2 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each paragraph makes a point and that point is explained. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Deffinately || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used powerful persuasive words. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">=5B <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Strengths: What an awesome first exposition! You have perfect structure for your exposition. You have identified 3 really good points to make and explained these well within each paragraph. You are also using the language features we have learnt well.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Next steps: Make sure your introduction says what the topic of the exposition is. This is not mention in your exposition till the first paragraph. Also bringing in more expert topic vocabulary.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">So far for writing we have done recounts. A recount, is when you write about a time when you were really excited, or upset, or angry, or any feeling really. We did a recount on swimming sports. In swimming sports I came 1st in breaststroke, 5th in 100 free, 5th in 50 free, 3rd in back. Here is My recount!

Swimming Sports 22/2/2011 By Alice Roberts

I was really nervous the morning of swimming sports. My stomach was churning. I had the worst case of butterflies. In fact, it’s not exactly butterflies. More like caterpillars. I thought that I would never be able to get up and swim my races.

The walk to the pool was really exiting because as we walk down to the pool we yell our house chants. You could hear everyone’s voices getting croaky because they were yelling so much, each house trying be louder than the others. Because I was house leader, I got to walk up the front and lead the chants. Everyone was having so much fun, getting the adrenaline pumping. Finally we got to the pool. It looked untouched, the way it was glittering in the sun.

While I waited for my race, my nerves got the better of me. Every one was lined up on the bricks beside the pool, behind the rope that was made for the marshals, cheering for people in their houses, friends, family. Then It’s finally time for marshaling. I wait, what I think is patiently, while the marshaler lines up all the younger kids that are racing in breastroke. I had swum 100 Free, 50 Free and 50 back already and I placed in them, but I knew that breastroke is the one I wanted to win. Eventually we went down to the end of the pool, lining up behind the timekeepers, waiting for the kids in the previous race to finish.

All I remember is that loud popping sound of the gun signaling for us to start the race, and then I was finished. The girl in the lane next to me was beside me the whole way, but it wasn’t until the flags near the end of the pool that I started pulling ahead. As I walked back to my spot, people clapped me on the back and hi fived me. I felt good because I had won!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">use the grid below to help us reflect on your piece of writing:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theme: || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Self || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal voice || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Attention grabbing introduction || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Different sentence starters || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full Stops in the correct places || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Capital letters in the correct places || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other punctuation needed such as exclamation marks and commas || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal thoughts and feelings described. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Senses used and described || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing makes a picture in the audiences mind || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language features to describe things || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusion that summarises your feelings. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Structured into paragraphs || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Strengths:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal voice, Attention grabbing introduction and makes a image in there mind, and the conclusion of your feelings. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice you have created an excellent recount. Your sentences flow nicely and talk about the important details so your audience has a picture in their minds of the scene you are creating. It is structured into paragrpahs well and you have sequences the events well. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Next steps:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Work on senses other than that all good. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To make sure it is all written in past tense To go into more depth......this will bring with it more description, senses and language features Reading We have been reading about minging in class. We recently read two stories about mining rescues. One was olden days, and one was modern days. Here is a Venn DIagram about the two different mining rescues :D
 * Mining Disasters**



**__<span style="color: #ff00e0; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 140%;">Hypothesis __** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 140%;">In reading, we're doing <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; line-height: 27px;">hypotheses <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 140%;">. What we do, is we read a story, then come up with a hypothesis each. We have to find the hypothesis answer in the story, or maybe it's not. If it is, you right either A, for agree, or D, for disagree. If it's not in the story, you write NT, for not talked about. Here is an example. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13/5/11 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The rough road wound it’s way through countryside that was so differet from that which they had left behind in China’ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘the Chinese had to put up with alot of abuse on the goldfields. They were often jeered at and even received beatings or had stones thrown at them’ ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hypothesis || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A/D/NT || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion points/quotes/page numbers ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It would be hard to immigrate to NZ because New Zealand is So different from China. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Page 11, Paragraph 2
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a hardship because the people in NZ might have been mean because they are from a different country. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Giorgia || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">page 12 paragraph 1
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The chinese people immigrated to New Zealand because New Zealand has a better future for them. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bella || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Page 13, paragraph 2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Despite their thoughts of returning home, a number of Chinese did remain in New Zealand’ || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cole || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Page 10, Paragraph 1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The money the sent back could mean the difference between life and death for their families’ ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chinese people came to New Zealand to make more money
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chinese people came to New Zealand to make sure their family members did not die <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miss B || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Page 10, paragraph 1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The money the sent back could mean the difference between life and death for their families’ ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chinese people found it hard immigrating to NZ because they were not the same as NZers <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miss B || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Page 12, paragraph 2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Because of their language and culture and the unfriendliness of the Europeans, the Chinese looked to each other for support’ || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miss B || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NT ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was hard for the Chinese people immigrating to Nz because they had to leave their families behind

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">Fairytales **__

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">In class at the moment, we're learning about fairy tales. We're doing a fairytale webquest. We do lots of activities about fairytales. n my group, was Me, Ruan, Jordan and Nicole. Here is the presentation!

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<span style="color: #ff8600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Stephanie Bowman Visit-The eel woman.

<span style="color: #ff8600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Hey there!!!!!

<span style="color: #ff8600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Yesterday, on the 14 March we had a visitor at our school. Stephanie Bowman, From Arizona, way over in America, has taken a shine to One of New Zealand's' very own special creatures, the long finned eel.

<span style="color: #ff8600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> I guess that we never really noticed it but, did you know that the long finned eel is actually endangered? The long finned eel is actually more threatened, than our Kiwi. I never really liked eels, but they are actually quite cool animals.

<span style="color: #ff8600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">New Zealand Is the only place that long finned eels can live. But Long finned eels are dying out. Because of Pollution, over fishing, draining of rivers and streams and dams, Long finned eels, are not surviving. When Little Elvers (baby eels) Make there way home, from Tonga, a lot of them, don't make it. A full grown female Long Fin can have tens of millions of elvers, but only about 100 at the most, live.

<span style="color: #ff8600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> If you want to help save the long finned eel, there is plenty you can do to help. Farmers can help alot by fencing their cows off from the lake. Bet you didn't know that when a cow gets it's feet wet it poos did you? This is polluting the water for eels to swim through on their journey to tonga or the little elvers journey to their new home. An eel trying to breath in polluted waters is like us trying to breath in a room full of smoke. If your fishing for eels, make sure that you throw any eel longer than 1 metre back. an eel over a metre is a female. Don't fish more eels than you need, Or better yet don't fish eels at all. If you want to release an eel back into water, make sure their slime layer is intact so they can breath on land