Persuasive writing - Term 3 Week 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

We should have fewer days at school

I strongly believe that we should have fewer days at school.

In my opinion we should have fewer days at school because it will benefit students, teachers and parents.  Kids want to have more fun, for example kids can learn a new hobby.  Sometimes we can remember more if we have fun while we are learning.

Another point is teachers would value time away from students, so they can think about ideas and topics that they can teach their students. Evidence shows it’s good that teachers learn as well as them teaching.

Finally both adults enjoy spending time with their children, parents could take their children farther away for a long weekend, for example going on a trip like to Auckland and going to the sky tower, Rangitoto and ice skating.

Therefore I think that fewer days of school would benefit students, teachers and parents.

Persuasive Writing - Term 3 Week 2

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths
3. I with different sentence starters
4. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
5. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
6. Use persuasive language
7. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.

City life is better than country life

I believe that city life is better than country life.

There are three main reasons to support my argument

First, In the county it is harder to raise a baby than in the city because you have to buy all the baby's things like a cot and a milk bottle and normally country people are poor.

Another reason is in the city the shops are just around the corner but in the country you have to drive all the way to the city to get your food and it uses a lot of petrol so it uses a lot of your money, it’s better off living in the city.

Finally in a bigger school you can have more opportunities to play sport for your school than in smaller schools, they have less opportunities to play sport for your school.

Therefore I strongly believe city life is better than country life.

       

Skimming Reading Strategy Term 3 week 2

                                     Skimming Reading Strategy!

WALT skim an unknown text so that we can QUICKLY get an understanding of it.
These are the things you can do when you're skimming.
Step 1: Look at the cover.
Step 2: Look at the title.
Step 3: Look at the author or if you want look at the illustrator.
Step 4: Look at the blurb.
Step 5: Go to the contents page and find the chapter you're up to.  

Ben 10 - Week 8

Ben 10 is a kid like us but he is a bit different then us because when he was 10 he had to go to a summer camp with his grandpa and his cousin queen.  Ben thought it was going to be the worst summer ever, but one night he came out of the tent that he was sleeping in next to the van.  He saw an asteroid coming down from outer space and Ben followed it and when he saw it, he thought it was a ball, but the ball opened and Ben saw a watch.  The watch jumped on Ben's arm and after that he called it the optometrists, after he got use to it and found out how to work it, he started to save the world.  Here are his aliens that he can turn into from his watch, here they are.

Area - week 6

What is area?
Area is the space around you, underneath you and above you.
It is the total number of square units inside a shape, that is the thing you need to know.
In the real world we need area to build home or measuring how big your rug can be or how big your tiles have to be to fit in the right place.
Did you know that rows go right across and column mean come on down.
Length x width = Area or columns + rows = Area.

My Lolly for the Grubber Shop - Week 5

My lolly that I thought you might like...

This one is my very favourite one called the Zig Zag Zoomer and it looks like a lightning strike with a death skull going round and round the lolly. 
When you touch it, you get a tazer shock and it makes the sound of thunder.

It costs $10 for a little jar or $20 for a big jar.

You need to have a license to eat them though.

When you eat them you zig zag like crazy, you zig zag as fast as lightning.

The Summarizing Strategy - week 4

We are learning how to summarize in room 12.

Mostly you can find key words in books. 

You can't copy someones work or that is called plagiarism.

Key words can help you make sentences.

These are some keywords:
Charlie, pigeon and race

Here is the sentence:
Charlie is a homing pigeon and is going to his first race of the season racing other pigeons.