Inside the Red Gate.

 Task Description: This writing task is all about my poem based on us student inside the red gate at Pt England School. We have read this book about they have done for their poem, helping us with some tips and ways you can make your poem better. Also using photos from our reading tasks called The Great Ordinary.

Free Writing: The Vampire Family.

 Task Description:This writing piece is about a picutre that I have looked at to get me started with a narrative. I have written a very short paragraph about the picture and it is to be continued.

The Vampire Family. 

Once upon a time there was a family that lived in a strange forest, their home is a tree house and it has lots of stairs. There were two kids and their mum all alone in a forest with nowhere to go, their house is covered with white thick air all around. Only leaving their play area and washing line to see,  this family is okay with it  because they are actually vampires and love to suck blood. When they go out of the woods they will die because of the hot sun shining onto their bodys, with lots of things around them. 

To be continued . . .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Writing: Figurative Language.

Task Description: This writing task is all about figurative language and we have been learning about the different types of language in figurative language. Also we are learning new things about these different types of language that the we can us is our writing.

Writing: Narrative: The Harmed Seal.

Task Description: This is a narrative about a harmed seal, being harmed by plastic and rubbish. We are learning about our environment and the plastic all around the world.

It was a sunny Sunday morning and we were off to church. I got up and got ready for breakfast, then went for my morning run, and walked the dog. In the morning I always do chores before church, so I did and went to get ready for church. He locked the house and hopped in the car ready to go to church, but then dad forgot his tie and so we waited for a bit.

My friend’s mum, Joanna, was coming to church with us so we picked her up on the way, in the car we always play hand games. After church Joanna and I are going down  to the beach and playing around, since I live on the beach. We always go down to the beach together and find sea shells down the seashore. 

We were building a sand castle until Joanna ran to get some more seashells and screamed,

 “Ahhh, a seal, it must be dead”, 

I ran as quickly as possible and as I got there, there was a dead seal. So we ran up to my house and told my parents, they came to see what it was and called the Animal Patrol. 

The Animal Patrol came as fast as they could and gave the seal water so it could breath. The seal was harmed by plastic and so Joanna and I took all the plastic off the seal and threw it in a bin. We were both scared and thought the seal was already dead, but soon the seals eyes opened and it started slithering around. 

The seal was still alive and was choked by the plastic all around his neck, me and Joanna were so happy to see that we helped save a seal for the first time. Actually anyone or anything for the first time, the seal went back into the ocean and was swimming happily.

Me and Joanna made sure to make sure people don’t litter and to save our sea life animals around us. Also making sure that whatever rubbish we see, we pick up and keep our environment clean and safe.

Water Sustainability.

Water Sustainability

Have you ever thought about where our water comes from?

Keeping our waterways clean and healthy are important because people don’t really take is serious when we are actually drinking the water. There are many reasons to help our water stay clean, make sure you  don’t throw rubbish in the water, use water wisely and don’t waste, keep the waterways clean so we can have fresh and healthy water.

Turning off water while brush your teeth can save up to 4 gallons each minute. Take shorter showers each minute less will save you 5 gallons. Use paper as less as you can, use email and electronic sources more.

Groundwater and water from marshlands is used to irrigate the fields .  In countries with a dry and hot climate this is especially problematic. Once pumped out of the ground the water doesn’t come back. Government and societies need to change their attitudes towards water.

Two thirds of the countries rivers in New Zealand are now too polluted to swim in.  Water gets polluted not just in our rivers and lakes but in our drinking water too. Sheep has been seeping through the polluted water and thousands of people got sick from it.

There you have it three reasons why you can keep our water clean, don’t throw rubbish in the water,don’t throw rubbish in the water, use water wisely and don’t waste, keep the waterways clean so we can have fresh and healthy water. This is why you should keep our water clean and make sure to be mindful of water we drink and use for our health.

Sustainability: Water.

WALT: Write an explanations about Water Sustainability.

 Task Description: Our writing task is about writing an explanation about our water (water sustainability). Working on how we can keep our water clean for our environment and our body's. Also we have written our see paragraphs on different slides and our introduction and conclusion at the bottom.

Taniwha Character Description.

Task Description: This is a character description writing task, we had to make up our own Taniwha and use descriptive language. We had to also give it a name and draw a picture based on our descriptive writing task and make it look just like the words from the task.

Gobbly has huge spikes along its back, with slimy, dark green fins. Also has giant red eyes that look like dodgeballs, he has razor sharp teeth and a mouth that drools everytime and covers his whole body in it. Gobbly has a tail like a scorpion that’s enourmourse and big enough to kill people.  He has no hair but instead of hair it’s a shell, hard as a rock, along with his nose that is like a small ant but has a good sense of smell. Gobbly has legs that are like chicken legs, but each step is like a loud stomp, with toes nails as long as his whole body. Gobbly hands are claws, that are just like a T-rex and have lots of hideous bumps on it, along with purple spots all around his claws. 

Tongan History Writing: Tapa Cloth.

Task Description: Here is 2-3 paragraphs all about this video called Tapa Cloth. We had to watch a video and write paragraphs about what we have learned about that video.

Everyday in all Tongan Villages you can hear banging noises of women processing the harvested mulberry. The bark of the mulberry is stripped and beaten into fine cloth.

The women gash the bark with their teeth so they can pull it from the wood, making sure the bark stay’s in one piece. The inner layer of the bark is what they need to make the cloth, using a knife to make a start of cutting the bark and it’s form when the inner layer otutu is gently separated from the husk. 

After stripping them all off they measure them in same length groups and roll them all up and leave them. Then they soak it in water to soften it and then and start beating them up with ironwood and it has 4 sides. Three of the sides are grooved to help break the fibres, and they beat it until all spread out into a cloth.

Complex and Compound Sentences.

Task Description: For this weeks writing task we have done a presentation about complex and compound sentences, also  knowing which F.A.N.B.O.Y.S word we can put in to connect two simple sentences to make them compound and complex.  Not forgetting commas and more to add to sentences when we write either an story, essay, or a narrative, we need to make it sound fun and not simple.

Figurative Language.

Task Description:

For writing this week we are learning figurative language with onomatopoeia, metaphor, hyperbole, and alliteration. We are working on how we use them and coming up with sentences using each this so we know what they are.

 

Narrative- The Lucky Diamond.

Task Description: For this weeks writing task we have done another narrative and this time it had to a free image with a tree inside. We had to use the T.O.P.S structure and this stands for title, orientation, problem, and solution.

The Lucky Diamond

Names:Bryant, James

It was a lovely morning and Bryant woke up, he  grabbed his favourite thing in the world, Bryant loves adventures and he always likes to explore places. There was a little shiny diamond on his desk and he loved it. He thought it was real. He went down stairs and heard a doorbell, it was his friend James, 

“What should we do today?” said Bryant with excitement.

“I saw a allway near my house, and I think it’s a new one,” he said.

They were thinking of having an adventure and so they packed up and went off with no explanation.  When they got there they walked through the alleyway and spotted a lot of green trees,

“It’s a forest!” said Bryant

“WOW!” said James with his eyes wide.

As they walked they saw a path and so they followed, on the way they stopped for a snack and water. It was day time and so they thought they had to be back by afternoon. 

As they continued with their adventure Bryant slipped his hand in his pocket for his diamond, but then suddenly it was gone.

“Oh no where's my diamond!” said Bryant as he screamed.

“What! Oh no!” said James with a fright.

They looked everywhere and suddenly saw in front of them a cottage, they walked towards it and didn’t know what to do, but knocked. There was an old lady that opened the door and said 

“What are you doing here at this time of day?” she said with a growly voice.

James answered

“Sorry to bother you, but we're just trying to look for my friend's diamond”  with a scared voice.

The lady looked with great relief and she thought in her head if she could help the little boys and see if she can find them around the forest with some help.

When they got to the end of the path of the old lady's house they went up and down the path heaps of times. It was getting too late and the afternoon was passing by, but suddenly a man was walking past and peeked down below all the way at the front of the path. He saw something shiny and he could see a shiny flicker from all they where they were and so they ran up to the man, and the man turned around and said

“Is this your little boy” 

“Yes, thankyou sir for this,” Bryant said with relief.

The looked closely and thought that it might be actually real, so he told Bryant this

“Little boy I think this is most certainly real” said the man with a smiley face.

They all went to a store to check out if the diamond was real and so it was. Bryant and James' faces were with a huge smile on their face and they were filled with happiness and couldn't wait to tell their parents. 

It was a brand new day and they decided to use their money that they got from the man yesterday to go on a family vacation, along with James' family too.

They had so much and were happy of how that man was so kind and honest.

End

Narrative Writing: T,O,P,S Structure: Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Task Description: Today for a litte narrative writng we have been writing in the way of T.O.P.S this means, title, orientation, problem, and solution. We have wrote about the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and here is an example of how we used the structure for the story.

Wk 4: Writing: Punctuation Practice: Review.

Task Description: Today Room 1 Literacy has collaborated to do this writing task, and it's just a review on what we have done with the other two tasks. In this piece of writing we had to fix up the letters that needed to be capitalised and put commas where they are supposed to be.

Wk 4: Writing: Punctuation Practice: Commas.

WALT:Use commas when adding additional information to a sentence.

Task Description: For Today's writing Room 1 literacy has worked on this Commas task together and collaborated to put commas where they should go or not. We just had to read the story and out commas where they belong and see if they fit in the story.

Wk 4: Writing: Punctuation Practice: Capital Letter.

WALT: Use capital letters Appropriatly.

Task Description: For today's writing on our Google Meet we collaborated to do this letter and fix all the letters that are not capitals and do them correctly. As we all did it in different coloured font together, we are working on our Punctuations for capitals letters.

Wk 3: Writing: My Very own Poppy Create-Why do we wear Poppy's on Anzac.

Task Description: This is my 2nd writing task and it's the last one out of the activity I've chosen. I've chosen this one where I just have to create my own poppy, which I drew, and write about why we wear poppy on Anzac.

Wk 3: Writing: White&Black.

Task Description: For this weeks writing task we are to choose 2 writings task from this slide, and do them for the week. This is my first activity and it's number 5 which means slide 5 for the writing slides. So I picked this white and black slide to explain what do I think of when I see white or black.

Don't Let Go.

WALT: Write a narrative using dialogue.

Task Description: This week for writing we had to write a narrative called don't let go and use this picture to guide us through. We have been learning about using lots and lots of dialogue to our writing so it can make our writing more better.

It was a dark and stormy night when Amelia was having a cup of tea and sweets. Her mum and dad didn’t live with her, it was only her Aunt Precious and her secret animal friends. But there was an interruption when she was having her supper, someone knocked at the door and the princess was confused because no one comes at this time of the night. She went and opened it and there was a lady with a black hood and a walking stick. The lady gave her a blue stone that was glowing white. She didn't know what to do but take it, the lady said once a full moon everything is permanent. So basically it was a wishing stone, but it was weird how the lady came to her door late at this time of the night.

The next morning it was very sunny and Princess Amelia got up, got ready, and headed down stairs for breakfast. Aunt Precious was making pancakes with orange juice on the side. Amelia couldn’t stop thinking about the stone, she would love to have a ball in her very own castle, she thought. But it can’t happen in my caste she thought again, maybe she would wish for an invitation to a ball from the royal prince.

In the afternoon she went to her secret garden with the stone, and sat on her swing. As she was looking and looking at her ‘Blue Glowing Stone’ she said I wish. . .  for an invitation to a ball. As the stone began to float and everything was just frozen for a bit. Once it had stopped everything was normal, and the Princess went to look around and there was nothing.

When it came to the evening of the day there was a knock at the door, and there was a man with a scroll. The man gave to her and she read it out loud,

“You are invited to my castle ball which will begin at 7:45pm, so don’t be late, Yours sincerely Prince ----” the princess was surprised.

So she closed the door and went upstairs to get ready, her Aunt came with her to see what she was doing, 

|“What are you doing Amelia” 

“I’m going out for the night so I won’t be late”

“All right then, don’t forget to be back by 9:00pm”

“Ok” she replied back

Finally it was time to go, but when she got her purse and went out the door, she forgot to order a ride. But then she remembered that the stone could wish her anything, so she grabbed the stone and wished . . .

Writing- The Young Detective.

WALT: Write a narrative

Task Description: This week for writing we started off with a narrative. Mrs Moala gave us a picture to guide us and an example of what we are writing. The blue writing on this narrative is Mrs Moala's writing and she has started us off with a good introduction. Then the black writing is the writing that we have to do on our own, so we had to finish off the story. I hope to some time finish writing during the rest of the week.

Pobble

It had been three days since it had gone missing. One minute he had held it in his hand, the next it had vanished. How could it just have disappeared? It had been right in front of his eyes!

He had been warned about what would happen if he lost it. His mission had been to guard the key with his life, ever since they visited him last summer.

Adam had always had a detective’s instinct. They had told him as much. He had been chosen because he had certain skills, and he would need them more than ever now.

Only one clue had seemingly been left, which was sat on the living room table.

Holding the magnifying glass up to his eye, Adam began to investigate… 

It was only him who would be able to find it and he who lost it needs to find it. But again he has the skills of an investigator so he might find the key and get all the answers he could possibly get. As he looked around the house with his magnifying glass his mum called out “Adam time for bed”, “Ok mum” Adam replied. He hopped into bed and couldn’t go to sleep because he was still thinking about that key, the wind was howling and the trees were swaying. In his bed Adam was tucked in tight and suddenly fell asleep.

The next day everything was about to come to an end, Adam got up, got ready, and grabbed his magnifying glass. He went to the living where he last saw the key and looked around for it some more. While dad was on the couch reading a book, he looked at him and started to think what in the world he was doing. 

Dad got up and asked him “son what are you doing”, 

Adam replied “dad, do you know the key that I got from the librarian on Sunday”, 

“Yeah, the magical one”

Adam said “ yeah that one, well I lost it and now I can’t find it, I looked everywhere where I left it but nothing”.

They stopped the conversation and dad went to help him look for it around the house. When dad stopped and thinked for a moment he just remembered that they had a mouse come in a while ago. So there was a high chance that the mice took it or something else, because if there’s  one thing that can carry and move things it’s either us humans, or those creepy mice. Finally Adam and dad found a clue, tiny footprint even tinier than a pencil rubber. So it must have been them but they'll find out very soon . . . .

Being a Good Point Englander.

WALT: Independently writing and explanation.

Task Description: This is my explanation writing task about Being A Good Pt Englander, and we have been writing explanation and been getting ready for our test, but also actually writing about our school and seeing what it takes to be a good Pt Englander.

Do you know what it means to be a good Pt Englander? Well, here at Point England we are all good students and I am going to be explaining how to be a good Point England for our school. Some ways to do that are to be respectful, show kindness, using your WITS, and being helpful.

Being respectful is one way to be a good Point Englander and showing what awesome looks like towards everyone in the school. Also when you have visitors walking around the school you respect them and lead the way along with showing them around and not being disrespectful towards them. For example if you have a reliever in your class, and you don’t respect them and you respect your other teacher, then you are being very disrespectful instead of respectful.

Showing kindness is another way to be a good Point Englander and I think we need to show a bit more when people are feeling down. Like when people have an accident and they feel sad, we just need to be a good friend and help with whatever is going on. For example if someone gives a present to you for something and you want to be even more kind, then you can give back and that's how you be kind to others.

Another way is to use your W.I.T.S around the school and remembering to walk way, ignore it, talk about it, and seek help. When you are in a fight or something goes wrong then that means you have to walk away from it (W), ignore what's happening around you(I), talk to someone about(T), and seek a teacher for help(S). Like when somebody gets real mad at someone and they are not feeling well, then you can give them the korero about using your WITS and showing them how to use it.

Being helpful is one of the ways to be a good Pt Englander, and by that I mean helping others when they are struggling with their work. Like when people need help and you can see that they need it,then you can go up to them and ask or just help straight away by not even asking because you are already being a good Pt Englander. For example if someone is carrying heaps of things to a class room and they drop it on the ground, then you can go and help them pick it up and be a good Pt Englander along the way. 

Now there you have it, 4 ways on how to be a good Pt Englander. 

I hope that you can take these reasons and use them to be a good Pt Englander just as great as you are. Also I hope that these will help you through the years when your a Pt England student.