Persuasive Writing

We have been doing practise persuasive pieces leading us to Easttle writing, we had to do 2 pieces of writing one about should children have homework and for the second one we got the choice out of should animals be in a circus or zoo.

Should children have homework? I strongly believe that children shouldn’t have homework. I have several reasons to believe that it can have an impact on people's mental health and wellbeing, after school is time for social life and we already learn enough at school! 

 My first reason is it can have a big impact on people’s mental health and well being, some people have enough weight on their shoulders adding all of the hard maths equations and reading tasks will make them feel trapped and ruin their wellbeing. 

 My second reason is that I think that after school is for social lifes and people could have sports opportunities. Sometimes people won't be able to make opportunities in their life for the sake of having to do homework. 

 School goes for 5 hours and 45 minutes, we learn maths, reading and writing. Homework can waste a lot of your free time when you already learn enough at school and online. 

 To sum up all of our reasons we think that children shouldn't have homework because it effects their wellbeing and after school is for social time. I hope you agree with us!

Westamaths 2021

 

Memory Poem

Remember

Walking across the Nelson beach

Making indents in the sand

The cold water creeping up against your feet

Bright moon light beaming onto your body

Cold breezes whirling and whistling around you

That was Summer

For writing we are making a poetry anthology which is where we have to write several poems and put them onto a slide. For this poem we had to remember a time and write about it with adjectives.

Egg Drop

 This morning Mrs Costello set us a task to make a device with different materials to help an egg drop and still stay in perfect condition. We had to be in groups of 3 or 4 and in my group was Indie, Nia and I, here are some photos

Haiku

 

Another poetry item we have done this term is a haiku, for this one Miss Power gave us the choice to do one on Winter or the Olympics and the other of our choice.

Limerick

 

For writing this term we are doing poetry, We had to write 2 limericks and after we had to put them on a google drawing and add pictures.

Matariki Poster

 

This was one of the create tasks for Matariki, this task we had to make a poster and write information on it about Matariki.