Animals should not be kept in zoos persuasive writing

 This week we were learning how to use a rhetorical question, use emotive language and use persuasive language in writing. We had to write a report persuading people not to put animals in zoos. We read a piece of writing telling you to put animals in zoos, then we discussed why we should not keep them in zoos. I enjoyed writing my persuasive writing, I found it tricky to use emotive and persuasive language, 

Here is my writing:

Animals should not be kept in zoos

Would you like to be cooped up in a cage with nowhere to go? If not,

then why should animals be cooped

up in a cage? I strongly believe that animals should not be kept in zoos.

It is brutal because in zoos

animals rely on

humans to survive, they are taken away from their habitat and they

are taken away from their families.

Firstly, in captivity animals rely on humans to survive because they lose

their natural instinct to hunt and the

zookeeper's decide when they eat, what they eat, and how much they eat.

Tourists feed them junk food which

makes them fat and it is not part of their natural diet. It is also very unhealthy.

Secondly, they are taken away from their natural habitat.

The lack of space and room to roam around makes them weak, sore and tired.

For example, tigers and lions have a big

space to roam around in the wild but if you take them to a zoo they get locked

up in a cage with not much room to move.

Also, when you take animals from their habitat and into the

zoo it might be too hot or cold for them.

Thirdly, they are taken away from their families.

The babies need their parents or whanau to survive.

Elephants get depressed when they are separated and feel joy when reunited with family.

They need friends and space to thrive

Did you know that elephants can die if they miss their family too much?

In conclusion, I strongly believe that animals should not be kept in zoos. Care for the animals!

Ciara 28/8/20 

Tracey Tawhiao Art

The week before last week we were doing Tracey Tawhiao Art. We had to choose a piece of newspaper with some words that means something to us. On my piece of paper I have: Turanganui-a-kiwa Our story, Horouta and Takitimu, Beach, Games, Travel and Better together. I chose these words because I come from  Turanganui-a-kiwa, Horouta and Takitimu are part of Turanganui-a-kiwa's history, Beach because I love going to the beach, Games because I like playing family board games, travel because I like to travel and better together because I think that things are always better when your together. I found it tricky to draw the patterns, I enjoyed painting the paragraphs. Here is my art work:

Wevideo

 This week we did wevideo's for Cybersmart. We could choose what we could do our wevideo's on but we had to have photos of them. I chose to do my wevideo on Rat traps. We had to use sisomo ( sight, sound and motion) to catch your eyes. It was tricky to get it done in time. I enjoyed making my wevideo. Next time I could do a voice over.Here is my wevideo:

Reading interview

Last Week we read After the Spill. It was about a ship called the MV Rena that crashed in to the Astrolab reef and leaked oil everywhere. The oil washed up on beaches and killed loads of birds and sea life. We had to buddy up and do an interview. One person was the interviewer and the other was a beach cleaner. I was a beach cleaner and my buddy, Selina, was the interviewer. She asked questions and I answered. I found it tricky to video the interview and say my lines right. I enjoyed blogging it and making the props for it.

Here us my interview:

Mary Word cloud

Last week we were learning about the Assumption of Mary for R.E. We had to use word cloud and make a word cloud with words that relate to the Assumption. It was really hard to think of lots of words and choose a shape that suited it. I enjoyed making my word cloud and choosing my shape.

Here is my word cloud:

Sacraments of Initiation

Today for R.E we were learning about the Sacraments of Initiation. We had to make a google slide that had the Sacrament, A Symbol of the Sacrament and the Ritual of the Sacrament. I enjoyed making my google slide, And I found it difficult to find good symbols.

Here is my google slide:

 

Bird Feeder

For reading this week and last week we have been making bird feeders. We brang milk bottles from home and made our bird feeders at school. I made mine out of a milk bottle, a wooden ledge for the bird to stand on and some sticks for a roof. I made the hole really big so birds of any size can get the food easily. We took a photo and put it on a google drawing with arrows pointing to the bits and why they are there. I enjoyed making my bird feeder and blogging it. It was really tricky to stick the twigs on. 

Here is my bird feeder google drawing:

The Laughing Owl Report

For this week and last week we were studying NZ native animals. We had to write a report on a extinct NZ native animals, I chose the Laughing Owl. We had to use paragraphs and put our information in topics with subheadings. It was really hard to find information because The Laughing Owl is extinct and people don't know a lot about them. I enjoyed writing my report and blogging it. I think I should of put more sentences in each paragraph

Here is my report:

The laughing owl

Classification

The laughing owl is an extinct New Zealand bird that belongs to the Sceloglaux albifacies family. It got its name because it made a call that sounded like someone laughing. It was also called the white faced owl, whekau or hakoke.

Description

The laughing owl was a brownish color, it had a white face and dark orange eyes and its beak was a yellowish orange colour.The males were mostly shorter than the females. It was 40 cm high and it weighed 600 grams. Its legs were covered in feathers and it had very sharp claws. 

Habitat

It lived in the country and cliffs rather than bush and forests. They preferred to live in low rainfall areas and rocky cliff areas. It also lived in tree holes before the humans came and cut the trees down.  

Diet

The laughing owl mostly ate rodents, lizards, insects, frogs, small birds and earthworms. It sometimes ate baby tuatara. Before the humans arrived it ate some species native to New Zealand like kiwi and duck. 

Threats

Since the laughing owl nested on the ground lots of animals tried to kill it. Cats, Rats, Goats, Weasels, Stoats and ferrets were threats of the laughing owl.

Did you know that some people thought that if you played a tune on an accordion it would attract the laughing owl?

Here is the site that I found my information on:

https://sites.google.com/a/cloud.waimeaint.school.nz/newzealandendangeredspecies/home/room-7/room-7-endangered-species-project/the-laughing-owl

Ciara 

13/ 8/ 2020

  

Times Tables Check Up

 Today for maths we did a times tables check up. I am learning my 3 and 4 times tables and I know some of them but not all of them.  It was really tricky because there was a timer of 6 seconds to answer the question.  Here is a screenshot of my times tables at the end. Green means I got it right, red means I got it wrong and orange means I didn't press enter before the timer ended. 

  

Ruru Art

 This week our class has been making ruru art. We got the idea from an artist called John Bevan fords. We used dye and we made the dyes blend by putting the dyes next to each other and they bled into each other. We drew lines and put patterns inside the lines like korus, triangles and circles. We blended yellow and orange for the eyes and used red for the eye brows and bags under its eyes. We used green and blue for the ruru and dark green and purple for the background. We had to put it on a google drawing and use arrows to point to the bits. When I was making my art I found it quite hard to make the dye blend without messing it up,

I enjoyed blending the colours and putting the patterns inside the lines,

Next time I could make the eyes a bit brighter,

Faith Gif

For Today's Cybersmart lesson we were making gifs about faith. We used google slides and we used the information on the faith poster to make the set of slides. Then we went onto tall tweets and made our faith gifs. 

The faith gif started as a challenge about faith our term value. For the challenge we had to make a poster about faith and what it means to us. It had to have an antonym about faith, a synonym about faith, a bible quote about faith and the faith definition. 

While I was making the faith gif I found it really hard to make my slides in time to make it into a gif and put it on my blog.

I really enjoyed making the gif and playing with the colours of the background and fonts of the words.

Next time I would make the gif transition longer so you can have time to read it.