W8 T3 Reflection

This week for writing we have been refocusing on argument writing we had to argue about why we think recycling is essential. I enjoyed writing my argument and it was also really interesting! Here is my work!

Recycling Is Essential

I Strongly Believe that recycling is essential! Many marine life animals are mistaking plastic bags or other rubbish for prey and then dying. Over 1 million animals per year are dying from ingesting plastic and having it in there system or even choking! We are breathing in the chemicals of plastic everyday because of people dumping rubbish in silly places. Also it takes 10-1000 years for plastic to decompose!

Do you ever think about how many animals die a year from eating plastic? Well over 1 million marine life animals actually dies a year from eating plastic! One Green Planet has told us that “Sea turtles are the most common animals that die from eating plastic per year. The other most common animals are Seals, Sea Lions, Sea Birds, Whales and Dolphins”. I find it very sad that innocent animals are dying every year from plastic that people have thrown in the sea!

Us Humans are breathing in the toxic chemicals from the plastic and that can not be good for our systems! BPA is a very toxic chemical in plastic. Scientists have found that BPA is in the plastic bottles that some people drink out of! BPA affects the brain and heart. Have you thought about having a drink bottle that either BPA free of made of stainless steel?

Do you know how many years it takes for plastic to break down? 10-1000 years! The plastic that is put in landfills takes that long to go away! Just remember every piece of rubbish you drop will be there for your kids life and their kids life and their kids life and so on! If we don’t start recycling now our whole world will turn into a dump!

Have you ever thought of using reusable bags for your shopping or bringing a lunch box to school instead of a plastic bag, all of these things will help save our environment!

Those 3 reasons are why I believe that recycling is essential! Do you think that? If you dont then I hope I made you change your mind!

By Ella

Reflection W6 T3

This week my maths group has been working on learning the short division strategy. I like using short division because its easy and fun. Here is a slide of how to do short division.

Art Soiree

In Totara for the art soiree we are tie dying tee-shirts. At our art soiree the tee-shirts will be up for auction along with lots of other art. Click on the link to see the designs that I like. 

Relfection Topic

This week Kaede Mya Mackenzie and I, have been working on getting an old stall that was made by older students that no longer go to out school out and repainting it. At the moment we have only cleaned it and got it ready to paint. We are going to sell vegetables, fruits and plants at it. We will put it out the front of the school and have an honesty box for people to pay for what they want. Next week we will start to paint it! 

W3 Reflection

This week we are learning about 3D shapes and we had to do a workbook about them. We also had to make a presentation showing that we know what they are. We have also been looking at graphs, I brought some skittles to school and me and Kaede made a graph showing how many of each colour skittle there was. Here is my work. 

Reflection T3 W2

This week my math group worked on geometry. We had to learn how to tell the differences between a couple of different shapes. I found the workbook really easy but also fun aswell. We also had to make a DLO showing other people how to tell the differences. 

We also have been looking at statistics and Me and Kaede made a graph to show what eye colour is the most popular in T3. Here is my workbook and DLO!

Self Respect

Last week at Whanau Time we looked at showing self respect. We were asked to make something that will show that we know what it is. Our class decided to make a video showing what self respect is. It only took us 2 goes to get it perfect. Here is the link to our video on our blog that we made to show the school! 

Reflection W1 T3

Last week were were working on writing an argument. We learnt how to cause cause and effect to grab the readers attention. We had to work with a buddy to write 3 good paragraphs about our topic witch was why we should have a phone. I also wrote a descriptive piece of writing about a picture that I found. Here are me and my friend Kaedes Paragraphs and my writing.




Series of Paragraphs (including topic sentences)








Imagine if we were in separate towns and there was no way to communicate well a phone could solve our problem. It would be really good to be able to keep in contact with my friends and family. Like if I went somewhere with my friends and I needed you to pick me up somewhere I could just text you and tell you where and what time. Also If I wanted to sort something out with my friends I could just use social media as an easy way to communicate with them.



Having a phone will cure my boredom forever! It will cure boredom most of the time Because, If I went somewhere and had to wait in line or wait somewhere I could just play on my phone. Also if I am bored at home and it's a terrible day, I can just play on my phone instead of moaning to you! Plus there will be a lot less arguing in the house if I had a phone.



You would never believe it but some apps on phones are very useful! There are some very helpful apps on phones and I may need to use one of them someday, you never know. If I got lost in the middle of nowhere, I could use the google maps to find my way out. Also if I needed help or someone to come and get me I could call someone close to come find me. Other Helpful apps are the clock, calculator, compass. They are all very useful! Another one is the alarm clock because you won't have to come banging on my door in the morning because the alarm will wake me up early in the morning!

Nervously I walked up to the long moldy and old jetty that looked like it was going to snap, my hairs were starting to stand up over my body. Telling myself I was going to be ok but it wasn't working. I had to do it, I had to jump otherwise my friends will call me a wuss and make fun of me.

I didn't want to do it but I found that my feet were just starting to take me in the direction of the jetty. My feet touched the moss on the side of the jetty and I shivered and jumped. But I kept going anyways. I finally slowly got to the edge of the jetty and my feet dangled over the side.

Standing there I just looked over the smooth water. A fish jumped out of the water like a frog leaping into the sky. I thought to myself I am going to be like that fish i'm going to jump in 3 2 1…

I just can`t! I told myself not to think about it and before I knew it I was in the freezing cold water bobbing up and down like a raft that someone has made. Excitingly I swam my way to the shore my feet touched the nice golden sand. When I got up the sand was all stuck in my toes I hate that feeling.

Running to the jetty I did it all again!

Writing an Exposition/Argument

In writing we have just started laying out a scaffold which is the bare bones of an argument. Today we have been learning about how to show cause and effect, which is an action that leads to a consequence in our argument writing. Here is a word bank that we can use in our writing.