Reading - Novel

 Hi guys today in reading we started to pick which book that we wanted to read. I asked Mrs. Birtch to help me choose a book, the book she choose for me was "Playing To Win".
The first impression I got form the book was from the cover, from the cover I can see that it something to do with rugby, mainly because there is two boys on the front and a rugby ball, the book doesn't seem that too interesting from the cover. On the back of the book there is a description on what the book is about I found it interesting when it said "Todd came at me again. I ducked but this time he fell on me, clawing my face with his nails." that part made me confused on what was going on but it also made me want to know what was going to happen, the back confirms that it is about rugby and there is also some drama within the book.  One of the activities is where you open to a random page in the book and read it, I opened up to page 60, I found the page very confusing but also surprised, I found out from reading one line of the book is that someones brother is dead. The author of the book is a lady named Fleur Beale, she is a New Zealand teenage fiction author, it says that she is mostly known for one of her books that she wrote which is named "I am not Esther", Fleur Beale won the 2012 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, she also won an award for her story Fierce September in the section of young adult fiction. She is also from Inglewood which is a town in the north islands, she is also 75 years old. I think that the book is a fiction book because it isn't based on a true story, if it was it would've said so on the back somewhere. I predict that the book will be about two boys fighting over a the girl who's name was Alice and that Denny will make it into teh First Fifteen.

B+E

Hi guys today we are writing a recount on what we did yesterday at the market day. Here is my recount, hope you all enjoy.

During the first few minutes of school we went and found our table, our table was pretty small so Shanaya and I were about giggly because we had a huge poster. Shanaya and I told Saia to go and take the table outside to the lane-ways outside of the tech rooms, we didn't exactly know where so Shanaya and I walked over to go and find the group who was doing the balloon pop, we found them on the way while walking to go and find them. We looked to go and see where they set up, once we saw where they set up we told Saia to set up next to them. After a few minutes the market day started. Saia stayed at our bay for most of the time. Me and Shanaya went outside to go and find something to do, we walked around and we bought something to drink from our friend Taylor, she was selling rocks and soda cans, the soda cans ran out so fast that she couldn't keep up with all the tokens that she had to put a line through. After walking around we went to our bay, there was a few people there buying lolly bags. After the first person who came to our bay and bought a lolly bag a group of people came over to our bay because our first person said that she told some other people from her school to come to our bay to buy some lolly bags. After the people who came our bay died down a little bit. Mikayla came and had a spin and won our top prize, which was a kit kat chocolate block. After about what felt like ages we ran out of our lollies that we had, Saia then took our money to the bank to confirm that we had sold out of everything that we had. Shanaya and I got bored waiting around so we went out and spent the tokens that we had we bought matching earrings from someone I cant really remember who we got them from but they are really good quality. The money we made from our stuff was $60.50, we had to take away $16.90 which means we made a profit of $43.40, our group made more money than I thought we would. Something I would do next time is probably stay at the stall more. 

Script Detective

Hi guys today in Drama we did some activities, we looked at a script called bullies and we also did a picture dictation, for the picture dictation Mrs.Clark read the script and we drew to remember what she did here is the things that we did here you go hope you enjoy.

Scirpt Detective Slide v

Bullies - Script v

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dNQpGoG3jvBGmvLdYhzXW5uZoGjvHoOjdp-DfGcFvHc/edit

Picture Dictation v 

Geometry

HI guys today in math's (hurumanu 5) we were doing geometry, we were working on some slides we had to put how many sides, angles, corers, and line of symmetry. Here is the work on the slide I did. I hope you all enjoy it.

The Gingerbread Man - Characterization

 Hi guys today in reading we watched a video on the tale "The Gingerbread Man", we now have some questions and stuff to do, here are my answer to what we had to do, hope you all enjoy.

The protagonist in the story would be the Gingerbread Man because the story is about him, and the antagonist would be the grandma that baked him because she was the first to run after him and try and eat him. The type of character that I think the Gingerbread Man is a static character because he basically stayed the same throughout the story. 

A Direct characterization is when the person tells you something about the character for an example i'm going to use one off the video and its about the old lady and the old man.
In the video he narrator says something along the lines of  "They were very lonely because they never had children" You could tell that they were lonely because the narrator said so.

Indirect characterization is when the person doesn't tell you what the person is feeling but you can tell by the actions or by something the person says. Here is an example of an indirect characterization about the Gingerbread Man. 
Instead of the narrator saying that he was really energetic, he just jumped out of the oven fast.

Suicide DLO

 Hi guys today in health/math's we have been researching a health issue in New Zealand. I picked suicide because New Zealand has a high suicide rate. After you get some information and date you would make a chart. Here's my DLO about suicide. Hope you enjoy.

Solar Power Poster

Hi guys today in science Shanaya and I finished our poster on Solar Power, the poster is about some advantages and disadvantages on solar power, we also drew a picture on something to do with solar power. Here is a picture on the poster Shanaya and I made.

Science Solar Oven

Hi guys today in Science we did a Solar Oven, a solar oven is when you get cardboard and put foil around it you them put it under the sun and it should cook something. What we did is we got chocolate biscuits and marshmallows, the marshmallows didn't melt but you could see that the chocolate was melting. After some time Mr. Reizinger gave us a magnifying glass to help melt the marshmallows, when using the magnifying glass I remembered when I was 6 that I used to try and kill ants while using the sunlight. After we got to eat what we made, it tasted pretty good but it was sad that it didn't melt. Instead of an oven turning electricity into heat we turned solar power into heat.

Protests - DLO

Hi guys today in reading I finished a DLO about protests. There was a task that was called BINGO, you would do a three activities in a row. We read a book called stand up and we got some information about some protest that happened in New Zealand. Here is my DLO and I hope you enjoy.

Inclusiveness and Judgement

Hi guys today in WGA we are writing about a time you judge someone or when someone judged you. One time that I judged someone is that the first time I meet Shanaya I thought she was mean on how she looked, when I told Shanaya this she said that, that the first time she meet me she thought I was boring. Anyways here is the slide and I hope you enjoy.

Car Shopping

Hi guys in Maths/Health we made a slide with a group of people about Car Shopping. We finished this activity 2 to 3 weeks ago. What you had to do was that you had a $6000 budget and we had to choose three cars and search up the setup cost to get the car working for an example we had to search up fuel cost rego cost and insurance but it all had to be within the $6000 budget. The reason why we were doing this is teaching us when we grow up we can learn to use our money smartly when we have a budget (or when we don't have one). Something that I learnt from the activity is how you get insurance and check the price on how much it would be. I found working in groups easy mainly because I knew who I was working with, I also found it kind of hard when someone wouldn't participate. Here is our slide and I hope you enjoy.

War Letter To Family + Questions

Hi guys today in reading we are writing a letter to our (pretend) family as if we were a young boy who was in WW1. We watched a video about someones time in war after we watched the video. We also had to do some research about some questions that the teacher has put down. Here is my letter to my pretend family and my research hope you enjoy.

Questions
The soldiers fought in Gallipoli for eight months and the soldiers fought in Passchendaele for two weeks. The amount of soldiers that were wounded was 41 thousand and 18 thousand New Zealanders died. The outcome of the war was that the two countries that were participated in the war were that they singed a peace treaty.

Dear, Family 
I'm sorry that I have not responded or wrote a letter to you in a while. I have been busy training. In the bunker i'm in the walls around me are a rusted colour of brown, the floor is kind of muddy, its also cold, it also has a strong stench of blood, even though i'm in the bunker we had to drag and carry the injured people here so the nurses could heal us. In Gallipoli we landed in the wrong spot, they were above us on the cliffs. It was really bad but my friends and I are still alive the thing is that my friends and I are injured. Right now i'm sitting in bed writing this to you. I hope you are all well and also how are things going back there?. Anyways, I'll write a letter to you soon. Goodbye

Sincerely
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