This week for writing Sakina, Taheesha, Matthew, and I worked together to create an explanation about why it's important to use our PBS C.A.R.E values. TEEL stands for topic sentence, example or evidence, explain and link ideas.We put together our idea’s and added some technical words in the making. This task was to help us revise on writing explanations as next week is assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. Something I found interesting was how we used the TEEL paragraphs for the first time. I found this interesting as it was a different way of writing paragraphs.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Why is it important to use our P.B.S C.A.R.E Values?
LI: To write an explanation using TEEL Paragraphs.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Lowest Common Multiple
LI: To find the lowest common multiple.
This week in maths, Sakina and I created a DLO on the lowest common multiple. In our DLO we've included what the lowest common multiple is, what does the word multiple mean, how to find the lowest common multiple. We both enjoyed this challenge as we could touch up on our LCM skills and were challenged by a few challenges.
Highest Common Factor
LI: To find the highest common factor
This week in maths, Florence, Sakina, Victoria and I created a DLO on the highest common factor and lowest common multiple. In our DLO’s we’ve included what the highest common factor is, how to find the HCF, what the word factor means and an example of finding the HCF. We all enjoyed working together to create this DLO and liked how we could revise on this maths area.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The 3 Laws of Inertia
LI: To learn about Inertia
This week we learnt about Inertia, Inertia is a force of physics. There are 3 laws of Inertia. The three are Inertia of Rest, Inertia of Motion and Inertia of Direction. Inertia is the tendency to resist a change of motion. You experience Inertia all the time, for example when in a car and the car suddenly stops you jerk forward because of the change of velocity or speed. For this activity Sakina, Chris, Lukah, Pouvi and I worked collaboratively to create this DLO. Something we found interesting was that Inertia was an everyday thing we experienced but we never really noticed.
Choices Explanation
LI: To structure and write an explanation.
Have you ever thought about your choices? Wise choices help you realise you could be making a bad decision. Making a wise choice leads you to a right decision. But we haven’t made a wise choice and it’s affecting our environment. As you already know, the ocean is slowly becoming polluted as others haven’t thought about their actions and have mistakenly misplaced their rubbish, therefore having animals die slowly and painfully.
Due to the actions of others, animals have to be cautious of their surroundings because we haven’t made the best decision. Everywhere around the world the air or sea is polluted by plastic for instance the waters in Thailand. Those waters have been badly polluted resulting in the water turning black, that’s the result of our carelessness. If we made wise choices beforehand beaches, air and waters would be healthier. Have you ever thought about the consequences of leaving rubbish on the sidewalks? How does it make you feel if I told you that you could possibly be ending a whole existence of sea creatures? Think about it.
Imagine this.. every sea animal has a plastic ring around their neck gasping for air. Those breaths became shorter every inhale leaving them to slowly suffocate and die. Do you want to know the reason why they were suffocating? Because of our careless actions, we didn’t think about the consequences of having plastic flow down the drain. If we made a wise decision before dropping our litter we could’ve saved so many animals.
We make wise choices because it helps us realise the bad things that could possibly happen. Wise choices help shape our future and help us make wise decisions. We need to make a change now so we can have a fresh and healthy future!
This week in writing, we practised writing explanations for our assessments next term. Our topic was about why we need to make wise choices. Our explanations tells others why we should make wise choices when it comes to pollution. The process for this explanation was doing 5 minutes of planning, 40 minutes of writing as this would be an appropriate time for writing our assessments. After we proof read our writing we did DRAFT (delete, rearrange, add, fix and talk) so we could check for any mistakes.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Inquiry | Changes I would make
LI: To think deeply about a change I would make.
LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice
List some of the things you, your parents and caregivers do.
Important Governing Topics:
Go to the Policy.nz website and read about the topics that government policies centre around. Consider yours and your caregivers’ daily activities. Which two topics are most important to you?
Compare the political parties’ policies in your chosen governing topics, then choose a party to vote for. If you are still not sure, try this quiz to help find a party that aligns with your priorities.
Read about the candidates for governing your electorate (the area where you live) here. You have another vote for your candidate. Use the ‘change electorate’ button if you need to.
If you were Prime Minister, what one thing would you do to change NZ for the better and why?
'If I were Prime Minister I would change poverty, because to be honest this problem hasn’t been dealt with properly.. As in it’s been talked about but it’s been swept under the rug. Poverty is one of the biggest problems in New Zealand and I want to end that so in the future, people who live in poverty can live more comfortably. If I help with poverty they don’t have to worry about having no bed to sleep on, not having a roof over their head or not having no food on their plate. Education, housing and income also falls under poverty as people have to drop out of school to provide for their family. Therefore not having enough education to enter certain jobs. Parents have to work 2-3 jobs just because their income is very low. Housing has raised their rent too high for people to pay, therefore leaving them to have to live on the streets or live with family. If I were Prime Minister I would change poverty so future generations have better opportunities. Then they’ll be able to enjoy the remainder of their life :)' If I were to change poverty younger generations would have more of a variety for jobs. The people who barely make a living can live comfortably in their homes without having to worry about money as much. This would help the community and can help them to live freely.
Inquiry | Elections
LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice.
This week in pairs we decided which political party we would vote for. Before we decided on who we were going to vote for we worked through a google doc to help us decided which party our vote would go to. We then created a DLO about the party we would vote for and reasons why we decided on that party. If I was 18 my party vote would go to Green because they've helped ban single-use plastics as plastic has been a problem in the environment. This means if Green Party won the election in my electorate Mark Simiona would be our member of parliament and James Shaw would become Prime Minister. Something I found interesting was that Green Party was the party that banned the single-use plastic. Doing this activity has allowed me to make an informed decision.
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