What's your favorite meal?

In this bonus activity I had to share my favorite meal and why it's my favorite meal. I also have a picture of my favorite meal. And don't forget to give me some feedback. :) What is my favorite meal? Well, my favorite meal is sandwiches. Why? because I have avocado in it,lettuce,tomatoes and cheese. I like it because the avocado makes it creamy,the crunch from the lettuce is nice, the juice from the tomato makes it yummy and the cheese has calcium . This is my method: I would have brown bread because it's heather than white bread, the meat would be,ham,turkey or chicken luncheon, I would spread the avocado on first like it's butter, then put the meat on, then a piece of lettuce, two slices of tomato, another piece of lettuce and then cheese. And this results in a nice healthy sandwich 

Do you have a dream job?

In this activity I had to draw a picture of me doing my dream job but I don't have a picture  because it would of been hard to draw on Google drawing so I just got one from Google. But I don't draw anyways. And don't forget to give me some feedback on my work. :) My dream job: My dream job is to be a NBA player. I want to be like Stephen curry when I grow up. Maybe even like Steven Adams.

Do you see any similarities?

In this activity for the summer learning journey I had to compare the Wharepuni to my own house. I had to find 2  similarities and 2 differences between the Wharepuni and my house. So lets get right into it. And don't forget to give me some feedback on my work. :)

Would you want to be in a waka ama race?

In this bonus activity for the summer learning journey I will be writing about why would I be in a waka ama race one day. Why would I be in a waka ama race one day or why I wouldn't be in a waka ama race. And feel free to give me some feedback on my post. So lets dive right into it. I would be in a waka ama race one day because it will be fun, exciting, it will be  a whole lot of adventure and It's something new I would have a go at. It just looks like fun! Also I have been in a waka with my school before.

My Voyage To New Zealand!

In this activity in the summer learning journey I had to write a short letter to a friend about my voyage to New Zealand and how I feel about moving to a different country. Enjoy!

Dear Mana, this voyage to New Zealand is extincting and adventurous. There were obstacles in the way but I over came them. I feel moving to another country is different but my new adventures starts here. I will be doing things that I have never tried. I hope you will still have a good time in Hawaii.
Sincerely
-Ricci

Do you know who Maui is?

Kia ora, in this activity in the summer learning journey I had to write 3 interesting facts about Maui and the stories I have heard about him. The digital tool I've used is Piktochart. So anyway enjoy my presentation and feel free to give me some feedback on my work.

Visualization!

W.A.L.T use the visualization strategy to help us understand complex ideas. How will this help you as a reader? Well, the visualization strategy is a strategy you use to help you understand the complex ideas. So what you will do is visualize whatever your reading in your head like a movie/picture. Here is a visualization I did. The whole class had to do a visualization on: fossilization, permineralization and how molds are formed from dead organisms. anyway here is my visualization. Hope you enjoy!

Location!

W.A.L.T understand the location of objects & people. What I learnt was new words in te reo such as:runga,roto,mua,muri,waho,tepu,turu and waengnui. I hope you enjoy my te reo maori DLO!

Want to learn your fractions?

W.A.L.T use x times tables to change improper fractions to mixed fractions.

My business plan.

W.A.L.T come up with a viable business plan. Coming up with a business plan taught me what to do before you create a business and that's why it's called a business plan. So enjoy my business plan I have done.

Drink water or else...

W.A.L.T ; in compound sentences as the conjunction and also use : to introduce a list.

At Tautoro School we are doing the Water Challenge. The challenge is to switch our sugary drinks to water for 30 days! Why would anyone want to drink water for 30 days? Well, I am going to explain why sugary drinks are harmful to our health.

One reason why sugary and diet drinks are so dangerous is there are the hidden dangers of acid that are in sugary drinks. By drinking sugary drinks it can cause tooth decay. How does the acid in drinks cause tooth decay? Well, we know for a fact that sugary drinks are acidic but the manufacturers don’t put how much acid are in the drink. And also it can cause an erosion (which means that the acid can pretty much destroy your teeth) by just drinking a sugary drink a day and by the time your older you will have rotted,decayed and destroyed teeth  And drinking sugary drinks will be one of the biggest mistake of your life ; also there is this scale called the pH scale. Now the pH scale is used for seeing how much acid are in sugary drinks. It will be really useful to use if you want to know how much acid is in a particular drink.

Secondly, sugary & diet drinks can or may lead you to become overweight or in other words obese. How? Well by drinking a sugary drink(such as coke or sprite) a day can cause you to gain 6.5kgs in a year. Plus, by drinking a sugary drink a day can also put you at greater risk of things such as: heart disease, kidney disease,type 2 diabetes, stroke and some cancers. It can also lead to an early death.

Lastly why sugary drinks are harmful to our health is that they are high in calories. But water doesn't have any calories in it ; water is neutral. And sugary drinks aren't natural. For a fact, the amount of calories a kid should have per day is 1,600 to 2,200. So the more sugary drinks you drink the more calories you will absorb.

In summary sugary drinks are bad for our health because: there are hidden dangers of acid in drinks, it can cause you to become overweight/obese and they are high in calories. I have explained pretty much everything about why sugary drinks are harmful to our health.

Come check out my ad on fruit hanging baskets!

Here at Tautoro School we are having a market day. The team that i'm in is making fruit hanging baskets. Here is an ad I made based on our product. The digital tool I used is wevideo (free version). Enjoy my ad and come on down to Tautoro School's market day on 1st December this Friday!

Our budget for Tautoro School's market day

WALT understand the basics of business

To be successful we will:

Lists our costs and expenses

Know how many services/products we will see before we begin to make a profit

This is my budget for our service that we are doing which is selling fruit hanging baskets.

Students: Tristan, Chace, Ricci and Andy

Product/service   Recycled fruit Hanging Baskets

 

Costs

Item	Amount
T - Shirts	$0.00 (From home)
Strawberry plants	$1.80 each  (The Warehouse) x9  =  $16.20
Total costs	$16.20

Expenses (one off and on going)

Item	Amount
Rent	$5.00
Advertising	Poster made out of cardboard.
Newsletter
Flyers
Total expense	$21.20

Income (money that people will pay)

Per product	Amount
$5.00
How much I expect to sell 9	Amount $45.00

I sell each product for  $ 5.00. To make a profit I must sell at least 5 of the hanging baskets

If we sell all nine baskets we will make a profit of $23.80.

My amazing science experiment!

WALT ask questions, find evidence, and carry out  investigations to develop simple explanations.
 I learnt a lot of things doing this experiment. The things I learnt things such as:acid can erode/break down stuff,  how quick the acid can erode stuff and learning what hypothesis means. The digital tool I used to create this DLO is picktochart and picktochart is a usfel tool to use to show what you have learnt. anyway enjoy my science experiment.

Sports vs Music. Who Will Win?

I’m learning to use a variety of sentence types for effect.  

• Simple,compound,complex
• Commas for phrases
• Commas for additional information
• Short punchy sentences for impact
• Using colons and semicolons

The things I think I'm good at are using simple,compound and complex and Commas for additional info (Next time I will add more)
I believe that that sports is way more important than music and for starters sports is way more important than music. Like why would music be way more important than sports anyway. Music is way off than being more important than sports And I’m going to give you all my reasons on why sports is way more important than music. So let's dive right into it.

My first reason why sports is important is that it can transform you into a fit and healthy person. And how does sports make you fit and healthy? Well by playing sports you are already becoming fit and healthy while you play. You won’t be like a slob, couch potato or a no gooder and also you will not be saying ugh I’m too lazy so I wont play any sports. You will be the opposite. You will be saying I love sports And I will play. You will be out there playing sports getting fit and healthy. But if you don’t play sports and just sit around all day doing nothing you have already transformed into a slob and I know you don't’ want that. And for a fact most people prefer to be a slob and be lazy. That's just atrocious. Those kind of people need to get of their lazy butt and play sports. You will also have that adrenaline,a chemical reaction That makes you feel good, pumping through your body as you play sports. Isn’t that spectacular? Also sports,such as basketball and rugby, is really fun and exciting. And that’s my first reason why sports is important.

Another reason why sports is important than music is that you will meet other people and socialize with them. You can play in inter-school comps and even socialize with some more people. And added to this when you become older you can play in the Olympics or the Commonwealth games and socialize with even more people. Now that is just wicked. And also you will have heaps and heaps of friends to hangout with. That is another reason why sports is way more important than music.

The final reason why sports is way more important than music is that you you will develop self discipline. And how do you develop self discipline? It’s very simple. It’s by playing sports. By not giving up. By coming back stronger. You will listen to your coach and have all of the skills to play sports. You will not to have a hissy fit when you loose. You won’t be saying I give up. You will be saying I will not give up and I will come back stronger. It is because you will have developed self discipline in yourself or in other words you will persist. You will keep on striving for that win Isn’t that what you want? And that is my last reason on why sports is way more important than music.

In summary why I believe that sports is way more important than music is that you will become fit, healthy, also you can socialize with other people and you will develop self discipline. And as I have said at the beginning sports is way more important than music.  

The Heroic Rough Riders!

W.A.L.T know the movie making process. I found that the acting was a little bit easy and a little bit hard but I still liked the acting. My next learning step is to talk a bit louder and to have some more expression.

My Reading

We are learning to read with fluency

To be successful I will:

• Pause at commas
• Stop at full stops
• Sound natural (not like a robot)
• Adjust my reading speed when I come  to difficult words

When I listen to my reading I know that I read with fluency.
The things i'm good at are: pausing at commas, stopping at full stops, sounding natural and using expression.

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The 9 Parts of Speech!

W.A.L.T know all the 9 parts of speech. Nouns, pronouns, proper nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs,
articles, prepositions, interjections and conjunctions. Our purpose is to teach you viewers to understand the 9 parts of speech. I feel confident with all of the 9 parts of speech. Enjoy!

Idioms!

In class we have been learning about idioms. We had to find the literal and figurative meaning of idioms. for example let the cat out of the bag. the literal meaning is letting the cat out of the bag and the figurative meaning is telling the secret.

I found the literal meaning easy because it's what the idiom literally means and it's easy. I also found the figurative part hard because it's hard to find the figurative meaning for that idiom. 

My next learning step is is to learn about connotations.
I hope you enjoy my idioms slideshow.  

A day at the Nike factory

WALT use descriptive language and phrases to enhance the mood of fear or sadness

WALT use complex punctuation in our writing such as semi colons and colons and punctuation within speech marks.

What I was writing about was the perspective of a kid working in a factory.


I hope you enjoy my fantastic piece of writing

A day at the Nike factory.

On an early Monday morning I got out of my box. I put on my uniform and  walked to the factory.  It was pure dark. I couldn’t see anything. I was also half asleep. Outside it was as freezing as the north pole. My hands, fingers, feet and toes were numb. My head hung low and I walked slowly to the factory  It was horrible and disgusting there. The factory that I worked in made Nike shoes ; The factory was in the most dreadful location in China.

I arrived at the factory. It was about two AM in the morning. I heard the buzzer go off.  I started to walk into the factory and go to my station. As I walked into the factory I could feel a fiery, hot heat wave hit me. The disgusting odor of the factory fumes hung in the air and the all the underprivileged children were slaving away sewing shoes. They had no shirts or shoes and I was one of them.  I could hear all of the heavy duty machines. The machines had a rhythmic sound.

I sluggishly walked to my station, I put on my mask and started to work. I had to: glue the shoes, sew the shoes and many more things. I started to get dizzy. I  felt sick like I was going to faint. It was like I was in a horror movie where poor kids and adults was working for a maniac.  I was miserable working at this hazardous, dangerous and unsafe factory.

Hours later the buzzer goes off. It is time for lunch. Everybody lined up for their bowl of rice. Once I got my rice I went to go sit down on the ground. The rice looked as stale as a dead worm But I will still eat it. I didn’t get much rice to eat. Nobody ever gets much rice to eat.  

Three minutes later the buzzer goes off. “Ohh I didn’t even get a chance to eat my rice” I sobbed. So I instantaneously shoved the rice into my mouth.  After I shoved the rice into my mouth I started to go back to work.

As I was working I was imagining eating foods like: pizza, burgers, chips vegetables, fruit and many more. I started to drool. I just stood there day dreaming. I dreamed of being with family and friends at the beach having lots and lots of fun. I also dreamed of going to school to get an education. But no. I have to work in this horrible and disgusting place. I tried to swallow down the sadness inside me.

My mate (Bojing) next to me told me to start working before the boss sees me. So I started to work. “Uhhh!” I moaned. “I wish I was not working in this place, I wished no one was working in this horrible bad smelly place”  I Moaned. I didn’t want to work so I stopped. But then, the big bad boss caught me and yelled at me.  The boss demanded, “Get back to work!”  Everyone looked at me. I stood there frozen in fear.  I started to quiver.  He petrified me. So I pretend to go back to work and be happy like nothing ever happened.

Finally, it is 11:00 pm. I can finish work and go to sleep. I am too exhausted to work any more, but in the morning the process starts all over again. Will anything good ever happen? I thought as I fell asleep.

Rounding with Ricci

I am learning to Round decimals to the nearest tenths, hundredths and whole numbers.

Exploitation within the fashion industry.

In Reading I have been exploring how to make money in an ethical way. Here are some of the key ideas.

Exploitation within the fashion industry by Ricci BARROW-CLINCE

Maths at a garage sale (not literally)

Last week I was learning about how important it is to read instructions properly and to look at the key in graphs.

Here are a few problems I worked on. It is important that I look at the key because it helps you with the question you're trying to figure out.  So the key in this grid is 6. 1 coin equals 6 dollars. So it’s obviously 6 x tables.  So it’s important to look at the key. That’s the first thing you do. Then you look at the question and figure it out.

                  Money Made at the Garage Sale

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Key: =  $ 6

How much money was made on Tuesday? $27

How much more money was made on Wednesday? $7.5

How much more money was made on Monday than Thursday? $12