Memoir

WALT We are learning to write a memoir inspired by Jams K Baxter

The school was usual enough it had teachers, students, rubbish, sports shed and a

 junior playground that we’re not aloud on. 

My friends and I did what we do play touch, play on the playground,

 played infection, ignored the teacher and eat delicious food,

 doing nothing important

peanut slices

WALT: We are learning to make peanut butter slices.

Reflection: it was easy mixing the peanut butter with the powder and butter but it was hard standing because my back was sore. I also enjoyed taste testing the chocolate because it was my first time taste testing.

Duffy show

The show started as Duffy and his cousin sam playing magic bricks. While they were playing then dismantler came and destroyed Duffies tower. After they finished Sam continued to play while Duffy gets ready to go to Sams. Once Duffy arrived at sams, he found her in her room still playing magic bricks. When Duffy greeted Sam, Sam just ignored him and just continued to play magic bricks, so Duffy got bored and asked to play tag but sam said no and continued to play magic bricks. Soon Duffy found nanas glasses so he put them on, then he started doing little funny dances then he got sucked into the. After being chased by the dismantler, they found a way to get Duffy out. They had to do the dumpling dance that their nan invented. After the dance, they got out and they finally got along.

Sir Edmund Hilary

Gills challenging adventure

In May 2019 Gillian Lee an Australian mountaineer attempted to climb Mount Everest for the fourth time with no oxygen. The route he took was the north side of the mountain away from the human traffic jam. At the height of 7600m, Gills Sherpa guides noticed that he was getting sick. They instructed him to go back down but he refused and continued to reach for the summit. As he got higher his body shut down. The guides dragged him back down to his tent.

 Once they got back the guides did everything they could to get him warm. They tucked hot water bottles in the sled/sleeping bag. As they were warming Gill a group of Chinese rope fixers came. Because Gill was sick they decided to help. They couldn’t carry him so they tied ropes to the sled/sleeping bag and pulled him down the mountain.

 After a long snow ride, they reached a rocky area. Obviously, they couldn’t drag him anymore so they called in a yak. With 22km and nothing but rock, Gill had to ride, but before he could go the Sherpa’s tied ropes around Gill and the yak so he wouldn’t slip off. Once they arrived at base camp it was a 20min helicopter flight to Kathmandu Hospital.

 While Gill was in hospital his mother turned up, not looking surprised. She was furious about what he did to himself and what he did to the Sherpas and the rope fixers. His mum described him as selfish but she was happy that he had survived.

 So will Gill try to climb Everest again using a different way or will he give up and go home?

Speech

Introduction

 Some people think teaching is an easy job well I think it’s not here are some things about teachers. 

Working after school

 Every day teachers have to work in school, after school, and At home, teachers have to print off work for the next day, they also have to stay up late marking work wi’ll the rest of the world gets some sleep. Not only do they mark work and print but they also have to plan reports for Primary, intermediate, high school and college. Teachers might have another job to go to, take Mr masters, for example, he is a teacher, volunteer firemen and a rugby coach which might be too much for him because 1. He teaches two times every Wednesday 2. He saving Kaitaia (sometimes). Most teachers when they get home they have to do house chores like washing, cooking dinner, taking their kids to sports training, cleaning up the house and hardest of all straining out your kids by helping them with homelearning and teaching them how to look after them selfs. And at school kids are not the only ones learning, teachers have to learn how kids behave and act so they know what to do when a problem occurs but the problem for the teachers is the amount of work they have to do.

 Class size

 Some classes today are just too big to handle for one single teacher or a teacher and a teacher aid there’s just too much stationary to buy, pencils, rubbers, rulers, scissors, stapler, maybe desks and chairs and as kids start recking things teachers don’t have enuff stationary for them so what the teacher does is buy more and more stuff but when they get back to school they change stuff around they make pens as publishing pens, pencils for drafts, felt pen for outlining and only the teacher is allowed to staple paper. Also the noise could be so irritating plus the hours of work they have to do, six hours of noise and work during the day, the noise could also get the teachers bad side which can cause them to growl and make the class have a practice at morning tea or lunchtime but even at morning tea or lunchtime teachers still have to work because they have to be on duty. So pretty much at any time in school teachers are looking after kids.

 Behavior and disabilities

There are many different personalities in a classroom some can be disruptive, some can be nice, encouraging, annoying, responsible and quiet. Some of these students could have learning disabilities this means that they could be very upset, don’t concentrate or have anger issues. So a teacher has to find out a way to help them learn like having a teacher aid to help those who have difficulties. Teachers could give them a goal to achieve and if they do the child gets a reward like free choose or a little bit of time on the playground so they feel proud of themselves and try harder next time.

 Hope I changed the way you think about teachers and how hard they work to make us smart.

Whatuwhiwhi Thank You Letter

Dear Isabel
Thank you for taking us to Whatuwhiwhi, teaching us about marine reserves and letting us experience life under water.
My friend Izaak and I were racing but he cheated and pulled me behind him.
Once again thank for letting us experience marine life.
Heading back to shore the highlight of my day was seeing triple fins and spotties.

Up Skilling Sentence

WALT: We are learning to write quality sentences.
The house stood in the woods.

 On a wet winter the shifty old house stood crookedly in the rickety damp woods while the owner was chopping wood.

Reflection: I could make it more quality by choosing better words.

Beach Education

On our way to the beach, I was sitting next to Calais. Once we were there we were at a lifeguard station instead of a beach, I thought we were spending the day at the station but All they did was just introduced themselves and where they work. The people who were introducing themselves were Liam, Emma, After that, it was BEACH TIME!!! They taught us a technic to run through deep water it was a challenge but I got the hang of it. Next, they taught us how to save a drowning person. The people who were pretending to drown had to raise their hand and the other group had to save at least one person. After showing us a few moves we got free time. During free time we ran through the waves like headless chooks.

Gala Thank You Letter

Dear Sir/Madam

 I would like to give you a big thank you for donating a $500 koha for our School gala. The best part my day was shaking my fizzy drink and it burst like a volcano making my friends erupt with laughter. As the fizzy came down through the top tower of the playground Nates mum asked if it was him poring but we just said someone knocked it over! Once again I would like to say thank you for supporting our school fundraising.

 Yours sincerely Darius

Tuna

        W.A.L.T: we are learning to write about a sea animal.     






Reflection: I could've given more info about tuna.

Moment in time

Moment in life

As soon as we landed in the water my heart was racing. Every turn we took I thought we were going drown. After a while it was actually very exciting , even jumping over the waves. The beaming breeze was making my face numb. My shoes were soaking. The salt in my mouth was disgusting, I try to spit it out but the taste just stood there. Beep beep beep, the machine was lifting up the boat. I was very disappointed. I ask if we could have another turn but sadly we were not allowed.

 Darius

Mushroom float

Mushroom float:
 Mushroom float is a technique that might save your life when you have fallen in the water and you don’t know which way is up or down. How to do it is you curl into a ball and you will float to the surface. That is how you do the mushroom float.

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