Plastic Straws Opinion

This week for writing we did a DLO about should New Zealand ban plastic straws because its harming the marine and sea creatures. This DLO tells you about reasons to ban plastic straws and reasons why to keep plastic straws. On the top text box it tells you why we should ban plastic straws because on reason is because you can drink without a straw, it harms the sea animals, and it also takes 200 years to decompose in the landfill, also it has BPA which is the toxic chemical in it that can ruin your health. In the bottom text box it tells you why we should keep the plastic straws. This is my DLO about my opinion and facts why we should ban plastic straws and why we shouldn't ban plastic straws in New Zealand.

Tech | Graphics

This week for tech we were finishing our mini pieces for our 3D games. I was painting my board for my tic tac toe game, and the rest of the year 7's just left their bored how it looks like, also some other students were making clocks, connect 4 and puzzles, and I also had a little help from people to paint my board. We could make any 3D games for what were focusing about well Mrs Ferguson helps us in graphics. We thought that graphics was gonna be boring, but then when we get to create our own 3D stuff we got happy and knew that we could create anything that was 3D, but if we were stuck on something we would get Mrs Ferguson to help us do our 3D games. What I liked about graphics was we could make our own 3D game and with Mrs Ferguson helping us to make our 3D game or something that's 3D. I had so much fun making these 3D game or clocks, puzzles and others. Also using the website tinkercad to help us with making our pieces for our game and doing some challenges on it while some of us are still working on game pieces or getting the piece of our board painted in a color or get it spray painted. We all got to do what we wanted to do, like paint it or leave it the way that it is. Thank you Mrs Ferguson for helping me do my tic tac toe game and helping me with my game pieces.

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we learnt about trying to be focused on work instead of getting distracted. The topic and theme for Kiwi Can was resilience and it means trying your hardest and bouncing back. We first played a energizer before we started talking about the topic. The energizer we played was Mexican wave, its when you do the Mexican wave around the little circle we made, we also did it in our own version. After we played Mexican wave we talked about getting distracted. We talked about all the things that can make you get distracted and distracting. What stops us from focusing us on work, online games, youtube, email notifications, chatting with friends, socail media, distracted by others screens, not paying attention, different priorities, not focusing on what you need to do, and going on something bad and making a lie to your teachers. After we talked about focusing on a task we play a distracted circle game. Its when you have 5 people in your group and one is in the middle, one person is in the front of them, and one in the back and two people on the sides. The person that is in front you have to copy the person, and the person on your left is singing a song to you, and the person on the right has to tell you a story. And you have to remember what they were telling you.

Persuasive Speeches

LI: To write a speech that persuades others to think the way you do. In the past 3 weeks we wrote a persuasive speeches, for the school competition. My speech was about why we should wear mufti to school. We did this by watching a video and trying to get how to write a persuasive speech. After a few weeks we had to practice our speech on Que cards. I was in a small group to say our speeches, and the rest of everyone had to say it to the whole class if they wanted to be in the school competition. When it was the day for the school competition  the students from LS2 that was presenting was Mele, Marieta, and Jack. Out of them was first place, second place, and third place. Third place was Marieta, Second place was Jack and first place was Mele. I was so happy for the speech competition.


Title: Why we should wear mufti to school.

Malo e lelei, My name is Miiana and I really don’t like wearing school uniform. I have many clothes stuffed in my drawers so why can’t I just wear mufti to school, instead of wasting $140 dollars that can be spent on food for families and friends, instead of getting uniform that gets ripped and wrecked in the middle of the year? 

First of all, I think that it’s good to wear mufti to school, because some students might not be able to afford school uniforms. And yes, another reason is because some students like to pick what they wear, as they have many choices to choose from. I believe that we should wear mufti because parents can afford those types of mufti clothes and spending $140 dollars are just too much for them, just to get uniform.

Some people think uniforms are better as kids might feel embarrassed because other kids wear branded clothes and they might not be able to afford them. I disagree because it's cheaper than my mum having to find $560 because there are four of us at this school, but most importantly I don’t like looking the same as my friends.

Finally, I think that we should wear mufti because uniforms get dirty quickly and not all of us can afford to have more than one uniform.

Graphics

This week for graphics with Mrs Ferguson we were creating our little pieces for our games and measuring out what type of bored were gonna have for our game pieces to be on. The 3D game that I was doing was tic tac toe and other students did different games, also such as making clocks, and puzzles and other 3D games that you could make.

Tiny House

During our Math's lessons we have been learning about Area and Perimeter, To showcase the strategy of Area and Perimeter we designed and constructed tiny houses using paper templates and also using our prior knowledge to help us design small furniture for our home style living. For this task I worked well with Joel. We worked as a pair to get this finished and doned with. We thought that this was gonna be easy for us but then when we had to make 3d furniture for our tiny house I knew that it was gonna be hard.

Swimming

This was another time of having swimming lessons. I haven't been going to swimming lessons but today was the third lesson of having swimming lessons. Today when we were at swimming lessons we were doing some new things and trying to be safe while were in the water. The first thing we did was got onto the bus and the bus driver drove us to the Panmure lagoon to do swimming lessons with our instructors. When we got their we had to get off the bus and go to where the Panmure lagoon was. The instructor for the year 7's we had James. James was a fun instructor he taught us what we learnt in the past few weeks and what he came up with for session three.

The stuff we learnt today was diving so deep down to touch the ground, doing free style after three arm strokes we had to get up and breath, floating on our back and doing arm strokes, floating with boards and only kidding our legs with our head, floating and kicking our legs in the water with the board facing us. All that was what we did at swimming, it was a bit hard to do the ones with our heads up and also how we were doing free style because it was way to hard for me to breath, but for the one diving down into the water because its a little bit hard for us to be breathing.