Choir

Yesterday I had choir practice. We were revising a few songs  as we had a trip on Monday to avonside school. At avoiding snide school we will be practices singing with other schools for the big performance on the 30th of October in the CBS Arena. We obviously did some warm ups before we started singing though. We sang and practiced Ring Of Fire and a few more. Overall I can't wait till Monday to go practice singing with other schools and I can't wait to perform at the 2015 Music Featival.

W.A.L.T: I can apply some criteria to evaluate texts

W.A.L.T: I can apply some criteria to evaluate texts

We can evaluate texts using these text features:

• An opening general statement 
• Technical Language - Topic words
• Objective Language - Facts no taking sides
• Structure - Meaning is built up step by step
• Bias - Is it a one sided piece of text
• Accuracy or information - Is the information true or false 

Here is an example of how to find these text features.

Key
pin = Opening general statement
pin = Technical language
pin = Objective language
pin = Structure 
pin = Bias
pin = Accuracy of infomation

Information about Moa

Moa lived very successfully in New Zealand for many hundreds of thousands of years, only becoming extinct some time after the arrival of people. Evidence that Moa existed is provided by fossils. It is known from the fossiled bones that have been found that Moa were large birds, with largest reaching 1.8 meters at the highest point on their backs, and weighing up to 240 kilograms. Although they had a small head, they had a long neck, large body, and large , powerful legs. The breast bones of Moa are similar to that of several living flightless birds. This, along with their size, means it is likely that Moa could not fly. It is also Lilley that Moa behaved in similar ways to some living flightless birds. Evidence that they , like kakapo, ate twigs, seeds, berries, and leaves, and browsed on shrubs (rather than ate grass as some flightless birds do) has been provided by preserved stomach contents that have been found.

In between the text I have highlighted where the text features are. Some of the sentences have been highlighted twice with different colours that means the those sentences have more than one text feature.

Writing prove it

Here is a piece of my speech prove it. This is not the speech that I read aloud in the video I posted last week. Also this not my whole speech it is only the intro. Also one more thing, I have highlighted in green some sentences that include my goal.
Goals

• Sentence structure - Writing complex sentences, structuring them well
• Ideas - Evaluating on ideas
• Organisation - Organising paragraphs into order

It's hard being a kid

No one knows how hard it is to be a kid, it's like trying to walk on water or eating a Brussel sprout (it's really hard to eat Brussel sprouts). How would anyone know what it feels like to get unknown food just plop onto your plate that you are forced to eat and who would know how hard it is to get told that we are not responsible! Just one of the simplest decision that we can make on our own has to be decided by our lovely parents that always get the first choice. I understand that our parents used to be kids like us but the time has changed and kids are different now. But one thing that bothers all us kids is, why is that skinny long piece of paper full of writing so endless every time I cross off one of the jobs another one takes its place.

My next step is to

• Make sure my spelling is correct

Choir

Last Friday I had choir. We got to school on time and showed up on time in the music room. First we were aiming to complete a few songs but we could only get up to that until we warmed up. After warming our vocal cords we started singing and then polishing up the songs. Overall I had a lot of fun and can't wait till next Friday.

Jessica's Speech

Here is my speech about why the New Zealand government shouldn't change our flag.

The strategies that I used were:

• Pausing after rhetorical questions 
• Speaking slowly
• Speaking a bit quieter so people try to hear me

After getting my results I made some next steps for me when I next make a speech

• Making more eye contact
• And Talking louder 

Hope you enjoy my speech

W.A.L.T: Apply simple linear proportions, including ordering fractions.

W.A.L.T: Apply simple linear proportions, including ordering fractions.

My maths evidence 

Equivalent Ratio

These two ratios are equivalent because they both are equal.

Here are some other equivalent ratios

 








Ordering Fractions

Numerator= How many parts that make up a whole
Denominator= How many makes up a whole

Writing- organisation, structure and lauguage

Today my teacher held a writing workshop ( learning session ) and it was about organisation/structure  eg. Ordering paragraphs in my story.  We had to write a story about a character from a book and one of their memories when they were younger. I am going to share my story down below with you. Also this is not real so it is non fiction.

                                                         Another one failed 

P1

"Oh no" , it was time for my surgery again. I was really fed up of going to the hospital every few years or months. Most of them failed but some were ok today was maybe my 6th or 7th but I really can't remember because of my young age. Anyway like always I went to the hospital hoping this time everything was fine.

P2

At the hospital I met a new nurse that I actually saw in the supermarket once, she was getting some baking equipment, I guess he was going to make a fancy treat. While the nurse was talking to mum and dad I looked around even though I knew what the whole place looked like. I kind've over heard the nurse introducing herself, her name was Mrs Tofu. After hearing her name I wondered does Mrs Tofu actually like tofu? Well I thought I'd ask her later because now was the time to go inside.

P3

After my first few steps going inside mum and dad were told to stay outside the ward like always, they were used to it and didn't need reminders but they sat on the bench outside anyway.

P4

Today I saw there was a new change, the room was black with planets, like Mars, the sun, the moon and my favourite planet earth. I like earth because that's were my favourite amusement parks are. Unless aliens on planet Mars have amusement parks. After roaming around the room the nurse introduced herself and also gave me some good news that this room is mine and whenever I need to stay overnight I come stay in here, I was really pleased at first but the nurse also said that we needed to start the operation so I lay on the bed and she gave me a small sleeping shot so I can go to sleep while the surgery was happening.

P5

Finally I am awake the nurse said that it took 5 hours and my parents had even went out shopping for awhile, and also that I can go out but if I don't see them then I have to come straight back in. I went out and saw that the doctor was talking to Mum Dad and Veia. I heard some thing that gave me a key idea of what they were talking about like not good, worse face, sorry , surgery failed I really thought that was not true until this happened I asked politely if I could go to the bathroom Mrs Tofu looked really worried but said yes.

P6

In the bathroom I was washing my hands and looked up and saw that nothing was right I started to panic and knew I didn't have any other choice than to scream, I didn't want to but it just came out. I screamed so loud that nobody in this world  could ever sleep through it. Mum, Dad, Mrs Tofu and Veia started to rush through the door it they couldn't do anything about me all I did was just scream and say I wanted the go home, Mum and Dad did everything they could they gave me a towel to cover my face and we left.

P7

In the car I fell asleep on Via's lap. When I woke up Mum and Dad said to get out of the car, I looked out of the car and saw we were at the mall. Mum said that we were going to buy a mask or helmet for to wear all the time. I thought I thought it was a great idea and I also liked the idea of choosing it. I chose a space. It was really hard to choose only one but in the end my final decision was the space helmet. I picked that one because it had a Tinted lift up glass so no one could see me but I could see them and I could also lift up the glass so I could eat. I was really happy in the end  and wished that everyday I had lots of good things happen to me

By Jessie 

Technology-Science

Yesterday I had technology at Lincoln. It was the second to last session of science until we move onto either Design or Sewing. On the way there and back I remembered to respect the bus driver and spoke with an inside voice so he can hear himself think and so he can concentrate. At science we learnt about how to make electric circuits with the brain box kits. We all got kits each or shared one with a partner and used the instruction manual to make a circuit. Me and poppy made a circuit that made a fan spin around and a mini light bulb light up at the same time. It was allot of fun we also challenged our selfs to make one the advanced ones in the back of the manual but it didn't work out right. Overall I had a fun time and showed my care values.

Peer mediation/Being a role model

27/7/15
Today I had peer mediation half way through lunch break with my group or three. Today we had a few more problems then we expected Hannah found a problem with few kids at first and she started to sort it out while me and Poppy were helping out then another problem occurred with some kids coming up to us asking for help. We decided to take the bunch over to a more quieter place like around the bench, we sat them all down in a circle so we could see everyone and we started talking about the rules.

1. No interrupting you'll all get a turn to speak
2. No put downs
3. Be honest

Next we asked the first student to share their part of story but before we could get to the second student the bell had rung so we had to hand over the story to tomorrow's peer mediators to handle the rest.
Overall I think today was good although we couldn't finish the last problem, next week a next step for me is to try and make sure I solve all the problems.

Get involved

Today at lunch me and my friends got involved. We played some games that can include everyone. the games we played were Jackpot, Jumbo Piggy in the middle and Around the world in teams. Just by reading some of the names gives you an understanding that more than 3-4 people can play. We played with 6 people including me.
Overall I had allot of fun with other people, and at the same time as getting involved I also found out a little bit about everyone