History

L.I: Is to understand the history behind Maori language week



This week is Te wiki o te Reo Maori so the whole of this week we have been creating DLO'S. In this DLO we wrote about what Maori Language week is and why te reo is important. Matthew and I worked together to complete this DLO. Te Wiki o te Reo Maori is a week where Kiwi's or New Zealanders try and speak some Te Reo when more then usual. This DLO was fun because we got to draw the photo in the middle of the DLO.

Why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines - Explanation

LI: To collaboratively structure and write an explanation.

Why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines?

Did you know, each year over 1 million marine mammals are suffering due to the plastic we are wasting? This is not okay! These marine mammals have been suffering from plastic, whether they mistake plastic for food, or even get captured in it, which makes them not able to digest. Plastic has a large effect towards our marine mammals. Plastic is a large, serious issue in our environment! Would you like it if your favourite beach was filled with plastic?

According to ecotricity, scientists have estimated that about 8 million tonnes of plastic have ended up in our oceans every year. The number of plastic waste ending up in oceans could decrease up to a higher number, unless we do something about it! The majority of plastic that lies on the ground ends up in drains, which then leads to our oceans, lakes and rivers. There are New Zealanders out there who have access to facilities for plastic, but why aren’t we doing any better for our environment?

Did you know that plastic takes about 1,000 years just to biodegrade! Plastic doesn’t actually fully degrade, it only disintegrates into smaller particles. About 252,000 tons of plastic are also headed into our landfills every year. A project “Love Your Coast” is one of the projects that are acting now to help have a healthier and cleaner future. Love Your Coast has organised groups of people from around New Zealand to help clean up our oceans and beaches, so our next few generations could be better.

We should act now, so we could have a cleaner future and environment. You could save the lives of marine mammals, by picking up at least a few pieces of rubbish!

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This week for our writing we wrote an explanation about plastic pollution. Plastic pollution in and around our waterways has become a real problem. Each year the rubbish when it drops it goes down into the drain and heads to the rivers, but it goes into the beaches, and the marine mammals eat it.

Thinking Teams

Today in Maths we worked in our thinking teams to find out the value of our team name. My group was the TAKE-AWAYS. to do this activtity we used addition stragies and our place value knowledge. In the second activity we worked in our group to put the population numbers from different countries. We collaborated and used our problem solving skills.

National Current Events

This week we were learn about Current Events. For this activity we had links to four different news sites. from each news article we read, we had to go onto google maps, and locate where these events were happening . We also had to figure out if these news article's: Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone famous or important, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something Negative, Continuity, Emotions, Progress.

WW1 Transportation ship

This week My group and I made a DLO about the WW1 transports ships but some people call them troop ships. The purpose of this DLO was to make sure everyone in the group had a turn to talk about the information and saying it in their own words, but the main thing this group DLO was about was collaborating together as a team to succeed. My group and I wrote about how many soldiers were in the transport boat, What boat did the soldiers use for transportation and how long does it take to get from NZ to Egypt. On the sides we just wrote down some information.

Role model VS Hero

This week for inquiry we got into our groups and created a Venn diagram. In our Venn diagram we wrote about what a Role model and Hero is. We all worked together collaboratively as a team and shared our ideas amonst each other.