This week our class learnt about persuasive writing. This is my writing on a topic we were discussing

Topic: Children should work from the age of 8

I disagree with children working at the age of eight because they need to experience life.

Children shouldn't work from the age of eight because they need an education.

Children shouldn't work because they need to experience how to learn words, maths and writing. They might feel down if they don’t know their subjects.

Children might feel sad if they play a sport and miss out on their training and games.

I disagree because children should not be allowed to work at the age of eight they have to be over 16 as the law says.

My Holiday

In my holiday I went to Ten Pin Bowling with my family for my little cousin’s Birthday. Once we had gone inside I went to the arcade and played with a silver token. I played basketball and heaps of tickets came out. When the game finished I grabbed my tickets, I went to the ticket machine I inserted my tickets and I received a receipt and it said you have got 35 tickets in one receipt.

              

Next I went to  bowl and there were 5 games and different people play in those games.  I was in game 2. After we started playing I was first and so I bowled and got a strike. Later the game finished I won out of the five games, my score was one hundred and eleven everyone else had under ninety five.

Later on we went to eat. There was a two kiddy tables and the big people ate outside. When we finished eating we got 7 silver tokens.

I then went back to the arcade and played with my cousin Jordan and spent most of our tokens on the deal or no deal game.  We got 400 tickets all together so we put it in the machine and received 400 tickets in a receipt. Next I got called to go home. Once I walked out of the doors I felt happy about going to Ten Pin Bowling

          

My limericks

There was a old man who

lived near bats one day

he saw some bats and

ran to his bat and

whacked them far away.

There was a cat who lived

in a hat and traveled far

away, one day she saw a

mouse and then pounced

away.

How to make an Omelet

WALT write a recipe

Success Criteria:

My recipe will have a title

It will have a list of ingredients and equipment needed

It will have the steps to prepare my dish in order. Each step will start with a ‘bossy’ (imperative) verb

It will have pictures to show how to make the dish

Explanation Writing about a piranhas

Piranha

explanation                       topic piranha:

Have you ever heard of a fish that really can eat fast and swim fast and dangerous?

Piranhas are quite big, but they have small sharp teeth. Piranhas are about 14 to 26 cm long.  Piranhas are considered the most fastest fish to kill in a swarm. They can eat fish in 1 minute. They can swim up to 110 kph. Piranhas can get stunned if you splash around in the water. It hurts their eyes and their ears. And then they get knocked out and they go belly

up. Piranhas can form a swarm really fast. Piranhas are just like mini sharks. Piranhas are found at Orinoco River in the Amazon Basin. There is under 60 species of a piranhas.

No More Cats

Green Group

No more cats by Jennifer Beck SJ. pt.1 No.3 2008

1. Take a screenshot of the story and insert into this document.

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2. What do you think this story is about?

            This book is about no more cats

3. In your own words explain why Dad did not want another cat.

           Because Rusty died

4. What did Dad plan to do about the stray cat?

           He was thinking of taking it to SPCA

5. Why is it more difficult to find a new home for an adult cat?

           When its a little kitten its cute and now its not

6. When had the old cat carrier box last been used?

           when rusty wasn't sick

7. Who was Rusty? Explain what had happened to him.

           He died because he was sick so SPCA put him to sleep

8. In your opinion was Dad fond of cats? Use evidence from the story to support your

           ideas.

          yes

9. When the writer got home from soccer what did she find?

           She found the dad on his favourite chair watching the motor channel with the cat on his  lap        

10. Explain why Dad thought Furry would be a good name for the stray cat.

             when the dog was chasing cat the cat was fast to escape

11. Complete the key vocabulary table:

Word	what you think it means	dictionary definition
sleek	straight things	without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
cunning	is it naughty	willful, wayward, misbehaving.
pounce	when it hops a lot	to swoop down suddenly and grasp, as a bird does in seizing its prey.
lean	its like when someone is lying down but not fully	to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
lounge	the living room	to pass time idly and indolently.
stroke	kind of like patting	a hitting of or an upon any thing

Use the above words in sentences of your own. You need to use one adjective and

one verb in each sentence. Highlight each one in a different color as shown.

(Example - Sione cut open his packet of chicken noodles and dropped them into the

shiny steel pan of hot water to cook.)

I touched my friend Brandon’s sleek hair

I heard something in the lounge went and looked

The cat is very cunning

the cat always ponce’s

My sister leans on the window

sometimes i sleep in the lounge

I stroked the fury cat

Stardome Trip

WALT: Write a recount

SC:It must have adjectives, similes and speech

Thursday 9th of May 2013 two classes from the senior

school went to the Auckland Stardome.

Rooms 7 and room 10 got divided into groups. After that we walked in the auditorium the classes sat down in the comfortable seats.

Mr Andrew said no cameras no cell phones turned on and no gum while were in there. Then he said if you don't feel when you're looking at the screen you look at the floor. After Mr Andrew went and played a film about astronauts and how a heart pumps.

The movie looked like we were soaring through a body. Next when the movie finished rooms 7 & 10 went out of the auditorium and saw a telescope, space suit, small spaceship parts and space suit that you can take a photo with.

Next we went in the space room and talked about astronauts. Mr Andrew showed us a video clip of different ways to put on your clothes and brush your teeth in space. Two spaceships didn't make it they exploded. Rooms 7 and 10 left after the space room was finished