Water filter (STEAM)

This week was the last week for our inquiry topic STEAM. We have been working on making water filters, but before we made them we had to make a plan on what we were going to make. Our plan was to put a cloth on where the beverage comes out and used tape to hold it together. Then on Wednesday we made our water filters. When we made them dirty water was poured in the filter, and we used a grading strip to tell us what number and how dirty it was.

Pitch Maths

As for maths we worked really well using our collaborative skills on achieving to getting our work done. It was a lot of work but as we negotiate our thinking to one an another we finished the task. My group was Giovanni, Matthew and I. I think that we should try and work on our word problem.

Advertisment

This week for writing we were continuing to complete our advertising DLO's. I was working in a group three with Matthew and Giovanni. At first we decided to make a Movie, but we realised that was to hard so we made a poster. We could either choose to make an advertisement about Rugby World Cup merchandise or a Hoverbike.

RWC Stadium Capacities

This week for Math we made a DLO Answering one of the questions about the RWC Stadium Capacity activities. Jayden and I decided to use the 1st question, but before we made the DLO we had to answer seven Questions. Some of the questions were hard to solve but we Managed to do it. This math activity was challenging which made it fun.

Let me tell you about my favourite celebration

‘Let me tell you about…’ my favourite cultural celebration called Christmas I always wake up jump around the tree, and try to peek when no one is looking. Then I make noise with the pots and pans to make sure everyone wakes up so we can open our presents. Once everyone in my house is awake we open our presents and have breakfast, and every Christmas morning we have bacon and spaghetti with toast. Christmas this year and every other year is the 25 of December, 2019 and so on. On Christmas we do one embarrassing moment in the afternoon my brothers and I dress up in Christmas costumes and doing dances on the sidewalk. Even though I love Christmas I love spending time with my friends and family more. My friends and I either go to the beach or the pool we all get to choose one parent to come and supervise, and we go to the beach when it’s sunny and the pools when it’s cloudy and it’s about to rain. And this is why Christmas my favourite celebration.

Commas what are they? Are they useful? Yes we use this punctuation, for many reasons like separating dialogue, The day and year, the introduction of people and characters, separate suburbs and cites, items on a list and before FANBOYS.

International News article

This week for Reading we were doing the same as last weeks activity (National news articles), but this week we were doing international news articles. Karlos and I were working as partners to find the different types of national articles. Those types of articles we were to find were Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone important or famous, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something negative, Continuity, Emotions and Progress. The most weird news article we found was the cloning company in china which they cloned a cat. The most harmful article we found was the Dorian Hurricane which hit the Bahamas. We enjoyed the activity and had fun.

Exploring our National current events

News editors make decisions everyday about which current events stories they will run.
We explored the different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. An example would be the Christchurch mosque attack is Impact, Emotions and Magnitude.

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Should NZ ban plastic straws?

My opinion is that we should ban plastic straws because who would want to eat a fish with plastic. And it is dangerous to the environment and the marine Animals. Plastic takes over 500 years to decompose.


First Plastic can remain in the environment for over 2,000 years because most plastic is not biodegradable. NZ we need to not Litter especially our Plastic straws it's disgusting this action needs to stop. I recently found a video of some people on a boat find this turtle with something in its nose they thought it was a tube worm at first, but as they pulled it out it turned out to be a straw. Would you like it if you had a straw in your nose? About 0.025% of plastic are found in our ocean imagine how much of that is in a marine animals digestive system.


My second reason on why we should ban these plastic straws is because they have harmful toxins while they decompose. By 2050 there will be more plastic straws than sea life in our waterways. First people will buy a drink and sometimes ask for a straw to drink with, and when they finish they will throw their rubbish either on the floor or in the bin as known. Next straws will most likely end up in the ocean and a turtle or any other marine animal can die by the straws. About 65,000 amounts of straws were found in the last 10 years.

My third reason, fish and other marine creatures suffer from the dangers of the plastic do we really want them to suffer. Plastic straws are just one of the most dangerous pieces of plastic in our waterways. Nobody wants to go for a swim in the river and the beaches polluted with plastic. And the plastic straws poke your eyes while you swim.


to make a change just asking for no straw to take with you while you have your beverage that you buy can keep some marine animals alive. and that's why we should not use plastic straws and ban them.