Writing Sample Term 3

A few weeks ago our class had to do a writing sample test. Here is my piece.

SUNRISE 17/6/2020

Floating on the top of the water. Sitting on your board, staring out at the faded blue line. After each swell passes, beneath the sand below folds over, creating ripples on the seafloor. Awaiting a perfect wave to appear. A salty breeze rustles through your hair and all the water droplets sitting on your face trickle down.The cracking noise against your board is drowned out by seagulls soaring above. 

Gazing at the wax marks on your board you notice a small orange dot appear in the corner of your eye. You raise your head to see the sun slowly beginning to peek up from behind the horizon. Colours splatter across the sky. Clouds turn from a blank canvas to a whole painting. Faded pink, orange, and yellow colours reflect onto the ocean. The water sits dead as a warm shine falls down onto you, heating your whole body. 

You try to look in the distance for a ride but the water is nothing but sparkles as the sun climbs over the horizon. It's blinding, so blinding that you are swept off your board by a wave. Tumbling around through the wave you make your way back up to the surface. 

Standing in the white foamy water, your toes sink into the sand, knowing that the day has officially begun.

Charlie Keepa

 im pretty cool aye (btw this is pretty trash don't judge :))

Once I submitted this piece I got to do back and recraft it for 15 minutes. My teacher Miss Willock came back with my results. Here they are.

Prior Knowledge

For one of our writing tasks this week we got to choose 2 topics and research about them. These topics were all based on the ocean. The 2 topics I completed were the Benthic zone and Bioluminescence.
Here are the 2 posters I created.

The Great NZ Road Trip

Last week we got to choose to either do our usual week tasks or one task called The Great NZ Road Trip🚙. I chose The Great NZ Road Trip which we had to make a plan of where we will go in nz how much the food🍔, accommodation🏠, fuel and everything costs.💸
Here is my work: ⇩

Charlie About Me 2020

7 Wonders of the World

Last week we had a huge task. We had to plan a holiday around the world visiting the 7 wonders of the world.

The 7 wonders of the world are the Great wall of china, Petra, Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza, and the Colosseum.

I was partners with Tegan. We had to research all the flights, Accommodation, Rental Cars, Food, Petrol, and we had to do an extra activity at each place. We had a budget of $45,000, and had to be away between 30-50 days in May-July.

Here is our Presentation:

Future Budget

From one of my recent posts I said that our class is doing a fake money system. This week our task is to create our future budget. We have to find cars and houses and jobs and everything we will need/want in our future. We also need to research how much a warrant and car registration costs for our car, also our tax and all the Money that we have to pay to the government. Another thing we had to research was what we will study in university and our net worth for when we're older. These won't be our actual futures because somethings might change but this is what we're thinking of right now. 

Here's my presentation and Budget on my Future:

Overfishing

For our writing task this week we had to research an environmental issue and show what it is and how we can prevent it. I did mine on overfishing. It's scary to think that all the fish in the sea will be gone.

Here is my presentation:

Budgets

For Term 4 our class is focusing on money and going through the process of having to pay bills and pay for the stuff we use, using banqer. Banqer is an online fake money system, everyday we come to school we get $5 but if we are sick and we email our teacher or contact the office we still get $5. If we check in before 8:35 then we get $10. Each task we complete we get $10-$30. Each week we have to pay $75 for wifi and if we want to sit on the furniture we have to pay a certain amount of money. Here is our slide that has all the information.

This week's reading task was about Budgets. We had to research what a budget is and then create our own Budget using google sheets. We had to put together all the tasks and all the things we wanted to buy and see what our budget would be after that. Here is mine.

LH1 logo

Last week bella and I made a logo for the class in manaiakalani. Everyone who made one had to have a symbol behind it. Ours symbolises that us kids are the boats lost at sea and the two lighthouses are the two teachers leading us the way. We used google drawings and luna picc to create this.

Animation

It's so sad how the amazon Rainforest is burning. Did you know that The Amazon has an incredibly rich ecosystem – there are around 40,000 plant species, 1,300 bird species, 3,000 types of fish, 430 mammals and a whopping 2.5 million different insects. Losing the Amazon Rainforest would cause serious damage to the earth and us humans. 

What Learning has Stood out for me This Week?

I have really enjoyed the PE we have been doing this week. We have been focusing on Invading. We played a game called Robb the nest/IT tag/Magic potion, you get split into two teams and your team each has a hoop with 3 tennis balls in it. The aim of the game is to have all 6 balls in your teams hoop, you can get people out by tagging them below the knees and if you get out then everyone you tagged can stand back up and start playing again.

Something that I think I could improve on is getting all my things done and not getting distracted as much.

Here is my timetable for this week:

Diving Deep in December

This week is the last week of the year (my last week ever at this school). For this week we are doing Something called "Diving Deep in December". Diving Deep in December is about helping the people in Poverty, and making their Christmas a wonderful one.
Here is our Activity Slide:


My buddy is Karma and here is what we have done so far:

CULTURE CLUB

This Term our focus is the ARTS. For this our Hub did this thing called Culture Club. Culture Club is a thing where we investigate a country and then present it somehow. I was buddy's with May and here is our video:

Wk 6, 7, & 8 Word Work

The Word Work topics I did for week 6, 7, & 8 are:

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Kapa Haka!

On Wednesday last week we finally performed our Kapa Haka! I learnt a lot of new songs during our Kapa Haka practices such as Purea Nei, He Honore, and E Minaka Ana. In the practices, at the start we learnt lots of songs then once we learnt them all, the teachers created our bracket 'Tu Mai Ra (our School waiata), Tehai, Purea Nei (poi), E Minaka Ana, Haka, and He Honore', then in the rest of the practices we started practicing it over and over again. We finally went to the AMP show grounds and performed our bracket at 12:45.
Here are some photos and a Video:

William Shakespeare

On Tuesday Huia is going to be presenting a report on William Shakespeare. We are going to tell people what we have learnt about him.

Here is my Presentation:

My Wk 4 and 5 WW

This term for Word Work we have to go to the Kiwi Kids News Website and choose an article to do a review on. We have to do a Recall, Thinking, and Activity.

Here is my week 4 one:

And my one for this week (week 5)

Cafe DAY!!

On Thursday last week we finally had our CAFE DAY!!

Cafe day was about inviting our elders to come and have a drink some food and entertainment for the morning. I was working in the kitchen as a caterer. It was HARD 😔😒! There was about 27 people and each elderly person had 2 students looking after them and asking them if they would like anything. I really enjoyed seeing the smiles on all their faces and loved all the effort we put into it.😀💗

Here's a video

SPCA Drop off

On one of my previous blog posts called 'SPCA House 1 & 2 Complete' I said that we had the task of making Beds, Rags, and Blankets for the SPCA!
At the end of last term my mum came in and took us to the SPCA out in the country by the Jolly Stockman and we DELIVERED OUR HOUSES!!
We meet these really cute and lovely animals.

The dog above is called Albie!
Here are the pictures of us dropping off the houses at the SPCA

BATTLE SHIPS!!

This week for strand we were learning about coordinates. Coordinates help you find the exact spot. What we had to do was guess the coordinates of where our buddy hid their boats. The way you say the coordinates where you want to go is that you go along the corridor first then up the stairs.

What is the coordinate of the grid below?

Here is my grid. I was buddies with Chloe.