Environmental Problem - Writing Piece - Wildfires 🔥

 WALT: Write an explanation 

In Room 2 these past 2 weeks we have been focusing on environmental problems and how the world is reacting to it. One of our task was to write and explanation about an environmental problem, and I chose Wildfires, since it is 2 problems in 1 because it also harms the problem: Deforestation. Wildfires burn down our forests and animals homes, so its a big threat to our Earth! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Here is the writing piece:

Did you know that if we don't try to help the effect of Wildfires on our Earth, 8,000 Wildfires could happen in the next year? Wildfires are a much bigger threat to the earth than you think, because at the end of this year, there will have been around 4,000 - 5,000 Wildfires. That's crazy! How big is this issue? How can we fix it?

If you are in a country where it’s very sunny, like Australia, there is a much higher chance of a Wildfire happening. Australia is also known for their Wildfires, and the amount of fires that are occurring is just going to get larger if we don’t try and find solutions.

The Wildfires are the sun. The second they touch something, there is no escape for it. Wildfires are just like a house fire. Wildfires travel fast and aren't a help for the Earth, because all the smoke rises to the air, and pollutes it. Wildfires are also another reason why birds are going extinct. The air makes it hard to breathe and their homes are all burned to ashes. 

The main reason why these wild raging Wildfires are appearing are because of cigarette butts. People who smoke carelessly throw them into a bush, or in a forest. The cigarette butt could still be on fire, or very hot and that starts a fire. Lots of people, and animals, especially Koalas. Now all of you are probably not aware of how many Koalas are actually damaged. Around 60,000 are hurt or pass away from Wildfires. Koalas live in the forest and when a Wildfire occurs, it ruins their homes and damages them. Lots of Koalas get terribly affected, and it's so unfair. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

So, How can we try to stop this madness? Some solutions we could use to narrow down the amount of fires are: Keep your vehicles off dry grass, and make sure your campfire is ice cold before leaving, or going to sleep or when you wake up, there might be a huge Wildfire! Usually fires happen in unpopulated areas, or they can happen naturally by the heat of sunlight, or a lighting strike, because all a Wildfire needs to occur is just fuel, oxygen and heat. Some days in certain countries the chance of a Wildfire could go straight up from 40% to 70%!! 

A huge reason why we need to stop Wildfires is because lots of people and species are affected by it. Wildfires are linked with deforestation, so a Wildfire is basically 2 problems in 1, since they destroy forest’s and lots of animals' homes, including birds and other animals who use forest’s as a place they can use to live, get teared down to ruins. Stopping Wildfires is a must. If we do somehow make a huge effect on Wildfires. That number of 5,000 could go down to around 500 - 1,000!

In conclusion, the faster we try to stop these the better the Earth would be much healthier because there isn’t so much pollution going around. Australia is suffering a huge drought with all their fires. If we help we will help the firefighters from doing so much work and it will help all the people who suffer from these terrible fires. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Where in the wold is NBC Quacker!?

 WALT: Use our imagination!

In Room 1 and Room 2 we have been doing writing, and for our writing we had to use a picture of a duck and put him anywhere! Dakota in our class had originally made the duck and it represents our school! We call him "NBC Quacker" We had to use our imagination, and I think its very funny, my classmates did too!

(Credits to Dakota for the Duck Picture) 

My duck is right now is at a Press Conference, and her name is Jacinda Quackdern and is making a very important announcement to her fellow ducklings. We better not disturb her! It looks "very" important. She is talking about how ducks will rule the world!? Oh no.. I will never watch the news anymore! 

I have just heard very important new from HUMANS! The ducks are right now taking over all the hot-dog stands.. OH NO! Now there is a Quack Kong? He is taking over the skyscraper! NOOOOO! Wait.. I see something outside...

Handwriting

 WALT: write our letters the correct size

For writing this was a little bit weird but we had to write part of a song in our books. It was really fun and it took some time to write it down. 

Friday Challenge

  WALT: use onomatopoeia in our writing

Today for writing we had to do a 15 minute quick write with at least 3 examples of onomatopoeia. I put on a 15 minute timer and started writing! It was really fun and I enjoyed it.

¨Help!¨ Screamed Keisha. She had fallen down a hole! No one could hear her and she was starting to cry… Until she heard a loud BANG! She knew that she had to get out and fast. She looked around and then saw.. A rope with a hook attached to it! She threw it up to the top of the hole and made sure the hook was dug down deep into the sand. Then she tried to climb up the hole but landed on her back with a loud THUD! She felt helpless as she heard another BANG! What would she do now…

She decided to rethink everything and retrace her steps. Aha! She thought of something. She did not just find the rope… It was chucked down to her! So she decided to say something to test it. ¨I'm hungry!¨And as soon as she said that someone handed her an apple.. But she grabbed the hand and pulled herself up. 

CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH went the stick as Keisha and Henry walked on top of them. ¨Oh and I forgot to introduce myself, I´m Henry¨ As soon as he said that Keisha´s heart stopped….

             …...TO BE CONTINUED…….

Writing - Write a letter to Harold

 W.A.L.T: Write a letter

Today for my school work I choose to do writing. Miss Pownall arranged us to write a letter to Life Education \  Harold. I asked 3 questions and talked about our zoom calls. It was actually pretty hard to think of questions to ask him, but it was really fun.

Ki Oara Harold!

It has felt like we have been in this lockdown for a year.

 I haven't been doing much but yesterday on a school zoom call our teacher talked about how she ran past Richie McCaw. 

I thought it was a lie because we were playing this game called fact or fib and she started off saying she ran past him. When it turned out to be true I was shocked.

I also have a few questions in mind I would like to ask you. 

1. Are you alone or do you have someone with you in your bubble because I can imagine being alone in lockdown, and it would be very boring

2. How have you coped with being in this lockdown. Have you gone out for lots of walks or have you been inside most of the time? 

3. Have you been catching up with your friends during these times?

I would love to see your reply to all my questions!

Love Emilee from New Brighton Cathlioc School!

Positive Thoughtful Helpful Blog Comment

 Because we are in Lockdown and have to do online Zoom Meetings our teacher, Miss Pownall has arranged some work we have to do at home. I choose writing and for writing we had to to a positive, thoughtful, and helpful comment. I choose to do my comment on Quinn´s Blog. He was talking about what he was doing at home. Here is my comment.

Emma Twigg Visit ❤️😀

W.A.L.T: Reflect on exciting experiences  🎉

Emma Twigg, famous Gold Medal Olympian, came to our school on Tuesday, 17th of August. The Kapahaka group preformed an amazing Haka to Twigg and then we sang the National Anthem. Soon after that Twigg came up onto the stage and talked about her failures and her success. It was very interesting and great to learn why she started. She also talked about how she participated at 2 Olympic Games and came 4th in each of the races. Twigg explained how she came . 3 of a second away from winning a medal and how she left the sport for 2 years.

After those 2 years Twigg decided she would come back. She knew she could stand in the middle of the podium and claim a Gold Medal. After 3 years of training she got the Gold Medal and stood in the middle of the podium like she knew she could. She said, if you have a dream go for it because you will always achieve it!   

The Boy With Wings

 W.A.L.T: Reflect on our experiences

At NBC we have been lucky enough for 2 people to put on an amazing show for us. It was called The Boy With Wings and it was about a little boy called Jack and one night he had a dream about his great grandmother saying "Look for the boy with wings and you will find your treasure" 

. Jack went on lots of adventures such as following a goat in thick, thick fog and battling a sand storm and finally found out that under the rock in the middle of the meadow where the dying apple trees were, was water. Jack let the water flow and soon enough the trees were fresh and was growing apples once again. 

It was an amazing show and I would watch it again.

Have you ever read The Boy With Wings? 

Haiku Poems

 W.A.L.T: Write Haiku poems

In Room 2 we have been doing Haiku Poems. We had to write a Haiku Poem about Autumn leaves. To help us, our teacher, Miss Pownall took us outside to look at Autumn leaves. There were damp and wet ones. There were crunchy and dry ones, and there were big and small ones. When we were looking at the leaves there was a very friendly Piwakawaka (Fantail). The Fantail kept flying around us and I got to get really close to him. I had a very fun time. 

Here is my Haiku

Autumn Leaves

Leaves Crunching Like Fire 🔥

Gracefully Falling From Trees 🌲

The Ground Is Covered 🍁

Senior Syndicate Refugee Walk

 W.A.L.T Write a brief recount

On Monday, the 10th of May the Senior Syndicate went on a walk to a red zone. We walked over the Pages Road bridge to a red zone not that far away. When Mr Gray blew the whistle we had to take cover and hide. When we got to the red zone the teachers set up 4 activities. We were split into our house groups and we took turns to do each activity. The first rotation was to build a shelter with an old tarp and some rope. We had to find trees or something tall to the tarp to it with the rope. 

The second activity was to find a partner and then get blindfolded. Then your partner would have to guide you through cones and beanbags. The cones and beanbags were acting as minefields and your buddy could not touch you, all they could say was left, right, stop, and straight. 

The third activity was boarder control. We had to find out what everything meant in another language. Everything was in Mandarin and we had to go to Ms Moore if we were stuck. The only thing she could do was to give us hints with her body language.

The last activity was getting rice. We pretended that we were refuges and we had to line up and one by one we got a handful of rice. It was really good and I ate all of it. Then, when everyone had a turn at each activity we headed back to school. 

My favourite activity was building the shelters. I loved it because we had to use our imagination to build our shelters and when we had no other supplies we had to try and think of another way to connect the tarp to something.

Ven Diagram On Poem

 W.A.L.T.Decode meaning from poetry

In Room 2 we have been working in our reading groups. We all had slides to do and one of my tasks was to read 2 poems and make a Venn Diagram on them.

Limerick

 W.A.L.T: Write Limericks

In Room 2 we having been learning how to write limericks. Lexi and I decided to work together and we had  to choose between Bart Simpson, Billie Ellish, Bob the Builder and Belle from beauty and the beast. We chose Belle and if you check the slide below you can see our Limerick Poem.

Report writing

 W.A.L.T Write informative reports

This term my class has been working on reports about our school. We had to write three paragraphs about our school. It took me a long time and I am really proud I can put it on my blog. We had to do a lot of steps such as interviewing the principal, walking around the school, researching on google and a time capsule.

Here is the full version linked here

Hot spot week 6 - Swimming sports recount

 W.A.L.T Remember the events of swimming sports in a recount form.

We had to do a recount of our swimming sports. Here is mine:

Thank you camp letter

 W.A.L.T Show our appreciation in a written letter 

We wrote an appreciation letter for one of the adults that was at camp. One of my memories from camp was doing the river crossing. It was so fun.

Dear Shelly,

Thank you for helping me throughout the camp. I really enjoyed being with you . I had so much fun hanging out with you and doing the hikes with you. I felt comfortable being in your group and going in your car.

Without you I wouldn’t have had the time that I had. I was very happy at camp and without you I would not enjoy being in the groups since you are one of the best leaders. 

Thanks again!

Yours Sincerely,

Emilee.

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