Term 4 Reading Profile

This term I had to do a reading profile but this time I did it a little differently... I worked with Jake. The green slides are Jake's and the orange slides are mine. Here it is.

Pet Day

On the first week of school we had Pet Day. Pet Day was really different than a normal school day. Apart from seeing all the pets we had workshops which were cool. We did a presentation including all our writing and some pictures. Here it is.

Chairs

Last week on Thursday Mrs Ealam taught us. We had some old chairs in the shed so we decided to put them to good use. We got a group and I was with Tane, Fred and Angus. We had to think of a theme to put on it. We chose vehicles. Next we had to find vehicles in magazines and after we found a bunch we started cutting them out and sticking them on. It was all good until we had used all the vehicles and had to find more. Good thing Angus had found a magazine and it was like we had struck gold but in vehicles. After we had filled up all the wood on the chairs we coated it in mod podge to make it look shiny. In the end it looked incredible. I think I could have worked better with my buddies because we kind of argued a little.

Holiday Reading Challenge

These holidays we had to do another reading challenge. This time we had to find a sentence in a book that we read that describes how the character feels. I found mine in Gangsta Granny by David Walliams. Here it is.

Collage

We were learning to make a collage to represent the pollution in our oceans. I worked decently with my buddy. It was a little bit hard to get the finished product because our group was the only one with two people in it. Next time I think we could have a little bit more help. Something we could have done better was do a better job at overlapping and filling in all the white spots we still have. I would next time like to have a buddy that helps a little bit more. I also think we could have added a little island with a beached whale or shark.

Letter To The Principal, About Plastic Bin Liners

In room five we have been doing persuasive writing to the principal about plastic bin liners in the classroom bins. We were learning to organise our ideas in paragraphs and use a topic sentence at the start of each paragraph. I have come up with three reasons to stop using plastic bin liners.

10th September 2018

Dear Mrs Wallace,

In our school we have plastic bin liners placed in the classroom rubbish bins when we don’t really need them. I strongly believe that we should stop using plastic bags in our bins. There are three good reasons to stop using plastic bags in our bins.

Firstly, every year we use up to 2000 plastic bin liners. We counted all the bins that have plastic bin liners in them. That is a lot of money and if we stopped using them we could save hundreds of dollars over time and buy sports equipment and lots of other things.

Secondly, mostly dry materials go into the bins. All the rubbish goes into big black sacks so why have all the rubbish in bin liners if it’s just going to go into a big sack? Only a few of the school’s bins have wet materials go into them (the staff room and the chook bin).

Thirdly, putting plastic bin liners in the rubbish bins causes pollution and kills sea life and land animals. If we stop using plastic bin liners we could save hundreds of animals lives. Not only that, but the resources used to make plastic bin liners such as oil can only be used once, so every plastic bag cannot be made into something brand new.

In conclusion, I think it is a waste of earth's resources to make plastic bags that can only be used once. Also pretty much dry materials go into the bins but some of the bins have wet materials like the chook bin so we only need two or three bins that need plastic bin liners. With the money we would have spare, we could buy more relevant things such as sports equipment and better projector equipment, plus we could save animals.

Yours sincerely

Blake

El Gregoe

Yesterday we had a magician and ventriloquist come to our school called El Gregoe. El Gregoe showed us the 5 steps to being a good student: respect, helpful, trustworthy, responsible and caring. He also showed us some very cool birds from Africa like a big parrot. He showed us some magic tricks and told us how he became a magician. One of the magic tricks was he had an empty box and he got someone from the crowd and he got a wand and it didn't work but he kept going until he had a huge wand and that was just one of his many magic tricks. Here are some photos.