Faster than a speeding bullet!

This is an activity of the summer learning program teaser week. The activity I chose was called Faster than a speeding bullet and for this activity, I had to write down three smiles about jamaica runner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. She is the fastest woman in the world to run a 100m. Do you do the summer learning journey?

Cats VS Cucumbers

Have you ever seen a video of a cat that is eating and then there is a cucumber behind it? Well if you have, you will know what comes next the cats jump and scatter when they see a cucumber. Hi, I’m Lucas and I’m going to teach you why cats are scared of cucumbers and why it's not good to scare them with a cucumber.

The only way to scare a cat with a cucumber is putting the cucumber behind the cat when they're not looking. Then when the cat turns around Its first reaction is to jump, this is because they think it is a snake. Due to cucumbers' curved shape and green colour. Do you want that for your cat? Or do you want a peaceful life for your cat and it not thinking their a snake slithering loose in the house.

If you scare your cat with a cucumber it causes stress on the cat and it can cause mental health issues. So if you care about your cat you will not scare it with a cucumber. Also when it sees something that has snuck up on it it will jump and could possibly break and leg or a paw. 

How would you feel if you thought there was a snake slithering loose in your house, would you feel scared and bothered, I would think so. Now pretend you are a cat and you think you've just seen a snake, your smaller than a human so the venom of a snake bite will travel quicker through your veins, your dumber than a human so you will not think to go outside and you don't have a phone so you can’t call animal patrol. Now how would that feel (Slowly)? I think I would feel pretty vulnerable. 

Now you know why cats are scared of cucumbers and why it’s not good to scare them with it. Are you going to scare your cat with a cucumber, if you are your a pretty cruel human being? Well, I hope this speech teaches you to think twice about scaring your cat with a cucumber, or trying to get your friends to scare their cat. Thank you for listening. 

This is my speech about why you should not scare cats with cucumbers. If my speech is good enough I will do it in front of my hub then if I win that I read it in the Belfast club in public. Do you agree with my speech?

Ako Learning

Can you guess what this means? If you can't it means global warming and how the earth is melting. I dd this fr Ako learning, Ako learning is a sheet of things that you d on one certain topic, in this case, it was a problem in the world so I did global warming.  I used piskel to do this have you used piskel before?

Problem Solving - Find your hero rating

For math, we had to solve this problem and explain it on a slide. We also had to put a video of our self working out the problem. My hero rating was 26.6, what is your hero rating.

The amazing skiing trip

For blogging, we had to do a SIT (surprising interesting troubling). I did it about skiing because it was my first time going. I thought it was really fun, Have you been skiing before? I have also have put a video on.

Goal Ladder

These are my goal ladders, a goal ladder is to meant to help you complete a goal. I did one of my goal ladders about my writing because I want to improve my writing, and the other one was about reflectiveness that it's one of our 5 r's. Have you done a goal ladder before?

Why Kids Should not get paid for good grades at primary school!

Yay top grades and everything that's $500 this year. Aww bottom grades in most things, so I only got $25. What? That kid got $500! Hi, I'm Lucas and I'm going to persuade you why kids should not get paid for getting good grades.

My first reason is that people will get jealous of other people. This is because some people would be getting heaps of money and then buying cool stuff with the money. Then other kids that don't get good grades get jealous.

My second reason who is going to pay the students, the teachers? I don’t think so, they don’t get enough as it is. But if it was the principal we would not have all the fun school events like winter sports and swimming. Even if it was the city council our city would turn poor. Also, the city council would not be able to improve our city.

If kids got paid for getting good grades it would make New Zealand poor, make kids ungrateful. It would also make the city look like a pigsty and the drinking water would not be clean.

These are my reasons why students should not get paid for good grades at primary school.  Do you agree?

 

Writing this term we have been focusing on persuasive writing, this is my persuasive piece of writing about why children at Primary School should not get paid for getting good grades. I would appreciate some feedback. Do you agree?
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Imagine sitting in a boiling classroom with pants and a long t-Shirt on then you have to go outside in the red hot sun. Or imagine you sitting in your freezing cold classroom in your shorts and a T-shirt and then having to go outside in the cold weather. Hi, I’m Lucas and I’m going to persuade you into not having to wear school uniform.

My first reason is because of the temperature when you're in summer you can get really hot while you are trying to learn and you get distracted. Or sometimes you keep going to get drinks because you're so hot and you get less learning time. When it is winter time it isn't as bad but you still get really cold.

A US-specific study found that students perform better academically, but their behavior does not improve either way with or without a uniform on. But another study said that there was no academically improvement and no change in behavior. So guess you just have to ask the students.

 “I asked 45 students at my school the same question. If you had a choice would you wear a uniform or not wear a uniform”. 13 of them said they would rather wear a uniform and 32 of them said they would rather wear mufti.

Do you really want to wear school uniform all the time I know I don’t, because of the boiling heat and the freezing cold, plus it can improve my academic work. Did you know mufti improves a student's attendance? 

                                           

 

For writing, we had to write a persuasive piece of writing. I did mine on why we shouldn't have to wear school uniform at school, I think I did pretty well. I would appreciate some feedback. 

What are you Thankful for?

For blogging, we had to make a photo collage about what we were thankful for. I did New Zealand because I live in new New Zealand which is a safe environment for me to grow up in. I did Richie McCaw because he helped us win the Rugby World Cup and because he is one of the best rugby players of all time. I did my family because they care for me. I did sports because it's fun. I did food and drinks because you need them to be alive. I did TV because it keeps me occupied when I'm bored. What are you thankful for, name 3 things.

I was really surprised how the dog found her owner even though she was 125 miles away and I was really surprised that it didn’t get attacked by any wolves or bears. Something really interesting is how he opened the train door with his paw.

For reading, I went onto kiwi kids News something to read and that's when I found this article about a dog. The dog did some amazing stuff (PRESS LINK TO READ). How do you think the dog found its way home?

The exciting 104-story Treehouse!

For reading, we had, to sum up, our books in six words. My book is the 104 story Treehouse it is so funny. I would appreciate some feedback. Have you read The 104-story Treehouse? How would you sum it up in 6 words?

A awesome pepeha

Hi, for Maori we are creating are pepeha, first, we had to find out some things about where we come from so we emailed our parents. Then we had to make a slide show about our pepeha. My slide show is not finished yet but I would appreciate the feedback.

The Great Origin Of Food

For a Homebase Hauora, we got to choose our favorite food and do an inquiry about it that our teachers set for us. I choose pizza because who doesn't like pizza! It's the best food ever created! It is not finished yet but I would appreciate your feedback.

Recent Rad Reading

For reading this week, I had to go on three learning websites (Wonderopilis, Spelladrome and

 Kiwi kids new. You can see the tasks above, my favourite task was spelladrome. if there are any learning websites you want me to go on, please leave the link in the comment section.

The Terrific Animation for Maths!

In math, me and Riley made an animation on Stop Motion Animation. We made the seats and desks out of Lego, we also made the chalkboard out of lego. please leave a comment if there is anything you want me to do next time. 

Want To Learn More About Matariki!

Want to learn more about Matariki? For are SOL ( Student Organised Learning )  we made a DLO      ( Digital Learning Object ) about Makariki, we had one question to start off with and we had to do to more. Can you guess which question I came up with? I made mine on google slides, please leave a comment if there is any info you think I should add.

Earthquakes

For inquiry (term 2) I made an information report about earthquakes. I believe I have done my success criteria because I have followed my information report rubric. Like my spelling is all correct and my titles are all nice and clear. Hope you enjoy. Please leave a comment.

Pangolins

For term 2 we have been doing information reports. Information reports are pieces of writing that provide information about a topic that they choose. I did mine on a very endangered species called a pangolin. Hope you enjoy my information report. Please leave a comment.

Adding Decimals

For math, we were teaching people how to add decimals or how to convert decimals into fractions. Adding decimals is kind of easy for me so I tried teaching someone else. Hope you enjoy, leave a comment if there is anything you want me to add our I could improve on.

Six Word Stories

In writing, we did a slideshow of all the six-word stories we could think of, me, Liam and Adam ended up with 37. I learned that there are a lot of stories that you can tell in only six words. Hope you leave a comment on some mistakes I made. 

Crossword

For week six Ako sheet we made a crossword about are novel. My novel is The brilliant world of Tom Gates.

Wonderopolis

This week(Term 2 Week 5)we made a summary of a wonderopolis we read.
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Spellodrome

This week (Term 2 Week 5) we had to do a Spellodrome task and then to publish it to our blogs.

Kiwi Kids News

For reading this week (Term 2 week 5) we made a post about a article we read

Tornadoes Information report

Here is an information report about Tornadoes, Please look at my rubric and tell me if I have reached my success criteria.

Novel Diary Entry

T2 week 4 ako activity we made a diary entry

This one is about The brilliant world of Tom Gates. 

Word Arts On Power Of Belonging!

For our inquiry this term(Power of belonging) we made a couple of word arts. I did mine on Global, New Zealand, School, and my hub. Is there any more word arts that you think I can do?

Week 2 Ako

This week we made a story web I did mine on tom gates and genius ideas
Here are the success criteria.

1. I think I did this because I have the characters, the things they do (plot) and the settings.

Information Report Rubric

For writing this term we are writing an Information report and to help us make it better we made a rubric to self-check are writing.

Week 1 reading Ako

For week 1 Ako Activity for term 2 we had to create a poster about a book that we have read and a blurb about the Author.

This is a success Criteria that we had to follow.
1. My cover is eye-catching because that is very colourful and the words are nice and bold.
2. my information is accurate because I checked it on two or three websites.
3.my cover suits the level cos I thought it was a very colourful book.

Korowai

This is a Korowai

Jonah Lomu

For our writing this term we wrote an inspirational New Zealand report. My one was about Jonah Lomu.

Maori slide show

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For term 1 2019 whole school inquiry we had to do a Maori presentation on greetings or phrases. So I choose to do greetings like how are you or I am good. How I did it is a mystery, actually, it's not I just made a slide show animation for term 1 2019 whole school inquiry we had to do a Maori presentation on greetings or phrases. So I choose to do greetings like how are you or I am good. How did  I do it well that is a mystery, actually it's not I just made a slide show animation.

Waitangi day

For S-O-L ( also known as Student Organised Learning )We did a presentation on a few questions that my teacher would like me to answer. Here it is.

School camp

I went to school camp on 20.02.2019 It took an hour to get to the farm park and then we had to walk up a really steep hill to get to Living Springs.

*    Highlights - My highlights for Scool camp are the Rifle Range, Archery, Animal survival, Low Ropes, Bouldering wall also the pool, the B-ball court, the field and the food. 

*    Challenges - Hitting the targets in Archery also so walking up and down from the farm park.

*    Dislikes - hurting my ankle(I sprained it).

Overall it was a really great 3 days I award it 12/10.