Endangered Animals Red Pandas! - Writing

This week for writing we have been writing to inform texts about endangered animals. I chose the animal red panda, we had to learn about the creature and write down facts we find in a plan. Then using the information in the plan we write the introduction, body paragraphs & conclusion. After we finished that we did self check, partner check and finally teacher check. 

Here it is: 

Red Pandas

Introduction

Did you know there are less than 10,000 red pandas left. Red pandas live in eastern himalayas like China, Nepal & Bhutan. They are given the status of endangered. Red pandas are very skillful and acrobatic.

Endangered Reason

Did you know red pandas are killed for multiple reasons? The fur of a red panda is used for clothes. It is often sold on the pet black market. Red pandas are often caught in traps meant for other animals like deer. Also occasionally poached in the place of another animal.

Appearance

Did you know that red pandas aren’t actually very red? Although they are known as ‘red pandas’ they are actually more orangey. They have black back legs and have orange and brown striped tails. Red pandas mostly have a white face. They also have slightly black bodies. Most red pandas grow up to 2 metres in length.

Diet

Did you know red pandas love bamboo and leaves? They often live in trees and that's why their diets are mainly leaves and bamboo. Red pandas occasionally eat insects. The word panda is said to come from the Nepali word for ‘ponya’ which means bamboo or plant eating animal. The red panda's diet consists of quite simple things.

Conclusion

To conclude, Red pandas are a cute animal that are being harmed by traps for other animals. They are very acrobatic animals and there are less than 10,000 left in the world. So help these animals out by preventing poaching or anything else that will harm red pandas.

The 8th Fabo Story Competition - Writing

Over lockdown we wrote stories for a story competition known as the 8th Fabo story competition where we were given a story starter and then had to finish the story using 550 words or less. This was really fun because the story starter was based around magic abilities. At the start they get kits and get to have either a witch or wizard starter kit (read the rest below). I found this challenging because personally in fictional stories I like to have a whole plot but in this competition it was 550 and under so I had to work with it. If you have done anything similar or basically the same tell me in the comments and I will try to reply.

Here it is:

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Mark and Maeve skipped along the dark corridors of McMinty Towers, and into the dining hall. They expected to see their mother sitting at the head of the table. Instead, they found a letter pinned to the top of a large, black chest.

My Dear Twins,

First of all, Happy Birthday!

This chest contains two magical things:

1 x Witch-Starter-Kit   &

1 x Wizard- Starter-Kit

Please choose one kit. Choose carefully as you cannot swap your kit once you have chosen. However, Mark may choose the Witch-Starter-Kit, while Maeve might choose the Wizard-Starter-Kit. It doesn’t matter.

Please write down each spell you test, and the results. A few words of warning. When starting out, I advise all young witches and wizards to use their new powers wisely. Because spells, when not followed correctly can go terribly wrong. Terribly wrong!

Good luck. Good luck, I repeat. You will need it.

Yours in witchcraft

Mother Witch McMinty

Mark shrugged his shoulders. Maeve opened the chest …

Now you finish the story…

Inside the chest there are two kits laid out. Mark picked up one kit and around him, the wizard's robes floated, suddenly the robes wrapped around him. Maeve is immensely surprised and jumps back, then suddenly without knowing it was there Mark pulled out a small wand made out of curved and polished wood. Maeve grabbed the remaining kit and suddenly witch robes weaved themselves around her. Maeve and Mark look down at themselves with their magnificent robes. Without thinking, Maeve pulls out a spell book  lined with layers of dust. Maeve blows all of the dust off the cover and says to Mark “so what do we do with these new items”? 

“I guess we do what the letter says and try to cast some spells,” replies Mark.

They both grab their tools and walk down to the garden through the dark corridors. When they arrive at the garden they sit down and try to figure out what to do with their tools. Maeve tries to read the text on the first page of her book but it all just looks like scrambled letters. Mark has absolutely no idea what he’s supposed to do but is waving his wand in random directions and making up words. When suddenly out of Mark's wand flies a small bolt of lightning hitting a shrub and making it burst into flames. Maeve suddenly notices a word that she understands. 

“Aqua pluvia”, yells Maeve at the top of her lungs, and from the sky rains an extreme amount of water, splashing the burning shrub. 

Mark was astounded at what Maeve had just figured out how to do. Maeve then says “I think all my spells are written in latin because puluvia means rain and aqua means water”.

Mark replies by saying “well that was interesting afterall I almost burnt the whole garden”. Maeve and Mark then start looking through Maeve’s spellbook looking for spells they can try out. Mark eventually gets bored and starts yelling random made up words again but this time nothing happens. Maeve then notices a spell named spiritus potator. She says it and out of her book flies a small little pixie-like creature heading straight towards Mark. It’s about to hit him when he yells “exitium laser”, which sends a stream of red light straight at the creature obliterating it and also pushing everything away in a small radius. Maeve looks terrified as Mark holds his wand. Mark then says “you said that the spells were in latin so I said destruction laser but in latin, it's about the only thing I know how to say”. Maeve replies with “I can’t believe that you just shot a red laser out of a wand you barely know how to use,” Maeve then says ``I have no idea what that means but it sounded cool so I said it”. 

Mark then says “I think I know another spell but I'm willing to guess it's not going to work”. 

Maeve replies with “should at least try because what if it works, just make sure it doesn’t have destruction in it”. 

Mark then says in his most confident voice “invisibilitatem”, which makes him disappear. “It worked, I'm invisible! Now I just need to work out how to say visible, and find a Latin dictionary”.

Diamante poem for Matariki - Writing

For writing we did diamante poems for matariki stars. This was fun to make because I enjoy making poems. This was not very hard since I enjoy doing poems and sometimes do them in my own time. This was a fun activity and I hope to do it again next term.

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Matariki shape poem of a book - Writing

 This week and last week for writing we have been writing Matariki shape poems. For my object I decided on a book and I wrote quite a few lines about tales and stories of our past. This was really fun to write because I enjoy writing poems so getting to write one about books was really fun. This was challenging to find rhymes for each line but in the end I managed. 

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Sea Turtles To Inform - Writing

 For the past week in writing we have been writing to inform texts. In these we have to inform stuff about the topic and for me it was sea turtles. Mine included appearance, habitat, diet/food & protection. If you want to know about sea turtles read this text!!

Save The Sea Turtles

Introduction

Do you like sea turtles? Because they don't like us, this is because people hunt them and we need to stop it!

 

Appearance

Sea turtles have a tough shell that is mostly the reason they are hunted. Sea turtles have four flippers, wings whatever you want to call them poking out of their shell. The head of the sea turtle pokes right out the front and has a beakish like mouth. People hunt sea turtles for their shells and even eggs.

Habitat

Sea turtles live in almost every ocean basin throughout the world. They often live among coral reefs and seaweed. Sea turtles live among fish and other creatures. Unfortunately their habitats are being destroyed by humans. Sea turtles are often disappearing from their habitats thanks to hunters so stop killing the turtles.

Food/diet

Sea turtles eat many things like seagrass. Another thing on their diet is algae which is a food source that most sea creatures eat. Sponges are another thing they eat. Unfortunately sometimes plastic bags are mistaken for sponges by sea turtles and sadly when they eat one it cuts their life expediencies in half. 

Protection

Sea turtles' shells are their best protection from other dangerous sea creatures. This is mostly because the shell is hard to break and what kind of sea carnivore would want to break through a shell just to eat? The shell may be a good thing for protection when it's sea creatures they are getting attacked by but not when it's humans. Humans hunt them for their shells so it's actually the opposite of protecting them.

Conclusion

Turtles are a water testudine with a tough shell that protects them. Sadly they still need rescuing from us, as people hunt and kill sea turtles so save the turtles!!

The Riders Describe A Moment In Time - Writing

This week for writing we have been doing a describe a moment in time (i have done one before). This one was about some people riding in a canoe through a swamp, I titled mine The Riders because they are riding in the canoes. We had to plan the story and then we had to write a hook, once we had finished that we had to write three body paragraphs, when we had finished that as well as our hook we wrote our conclusions. After this long process we self-checked, partner-checked & teacher checked. Then we went on to write a blog post like this one.

Here it is

Ripple, ripple goes the water as the canoe glides through it. Some of the riders are paddling and some have their hands dangling in the water. Light comes through an opening in the canopy of trees allowing the riders to see their reflections in the depths of the water.

The riders paddle their canoes down the deep brown murky river. Some light is visible through the trees and it helps the riders to navigate. Plants are floating on the surface of the water, and trees are going off in all different directions of a small island. One canoe drifts off into the distance and the other canoe speeds up to keep it in view. The trees are blocking most of the light up ahead and soon there is barely any at all, but the canoeist carry on like it's perfectly bright even though it's not.

The water splashes as some of the people put their hands into the water. The water is rippling as the canoes glide down the swamp. Birds are tweeting and singing and frogs are croaking at the riders as they glide through the murky water. The riders are silent even though everything around them is making sounds including the water and creatures around them. Leaves on the trees rustle making it seem like there is something shaking them, although there is nothing but the wind. 

The people dip their hands into the water and they can feel the water splashing onto their arms. As some of the people paddle they can feel the current pushing against them. The riders can feel the smooth wood of the canoe when they touch it. As the canoe slowly drifts past the plants the riders outstretch their hands to touch them. The riders canoes speed through the swamp and when the riders stretch their hands out they can touch trees, plants and even dirt from the island. 

The riders finally hear the soft clunk of the canoe hitting the island. The riders reach their final destination completing their voyage. They feel happy. They feel complete.

Metaphors - Writing mini lesson

 Today for writing we were doing a mini lesson about metaphors. Metaphors are similar to similes (previous mini lesson) Metaphors don't use like or as but the compare something. First we had to type in the meaning of some given metaphors then we had to make up our own similes for some pictures.

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Similes - writing mini lesson

Today for our writing mini lesson we were doing similes. We were to go on a document and put a simile into a sentence similes always use like or as but if as is at the start but not in the middle its not a proper simile its a regular sentence.

Example: The bullet streaked through the air as if it were lightning.

Here it is:

Show dont tell - Writing

Today for our mini lesson we had to get a bunch of photos and describe the pictures emotion with out mentioning it in the sentence. There were 5 and the emotions were Annoyed, bored, shy, surprised & happy.

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Drones deserve a position in our future (to persuade) - Writing

For writing recently we have been writing persuasive text to persuade someone to agree with me, and mine is that drones deserve a position in our future. While writing this text I learnt that debates and persuasive text go together because in debates you argue about something and then you have to both go away and make up reasons to decide which one is better.

Here it is:

Drones Deserve A Place In Our Future

Do you think drones have a place in our future? 

Because I strongly believe that drones deserve a position in our future. They have a hawk's eye view of the sky, they could make traffic better, they could be used to clear car pollution and could be used for safety rescue teams.

Firstly, I believe drones could clear up traffic because they could be used to deliver deliveries like for example companies could make drone deliveries. I also believe this because someday drones might be able to hold people and this could mean that there will be less people using cars and less traffic for those who still do. I strongly believe that drones will make traffic better by taking care of deliveries and that will mean less courier vans, less cars and less traffic. In fact drones might even be used to make flying cars because they can fly and might be able to hold someone someday.

Secondly, drones could help police and rescue teams by helping police search around unreachable areas. Rescue teams could be helped by drones because they would help find lost people because they are smaller and able to fit in tighter spaces. In fact rescue teams could even use them instead of helicopters for a sky view of the target. Police could also use them to follow criminals or track people, this could lead to helping many lost or hurt people. Do you now think that drones could help rescue teams and police?

Finally, drones could reduce car pollution. As mentioned earlier drones could clear up traffic and less cars means less pollution from cars. Cars also give greenhouse gases which could make global warming even worse. Car pollution is also bad for the environment and people are testing electric cars but what if we used drones? Drones could even be the thing that could stop global warming. Also drones might even be used to make flying scooters or bikes.

In conclusion, drones could help a lot of people ranging from police to people who hate traffic, drones also could clear up car pollution as they could replace cars. Drones deserve a place in our future because they will help a lot of people. So do you now think drones have a place in our future?

The evolution of scooters - writing to inform

This week for writing we have been writing to inform the reader e.g give them info about the topic like did you know that scooters were invented by kids? Have you ever done writing like this before? because we have done stuff like this in the past.



Here it is

The Evolution Of Scooters



Introduction

Have you ever wondered what scooters used to be like?



Well Scooters have changed a lot since they were first invented. Did you know the first scooter was invented by kids? Scooters have gone from wooden frames with roller skates for wheels to electric scooters controlled by your phone. You may have seen a lava, beam, lime or flamingo scooter on the footpath, these are electric scooters placed by people, so others can get to places without walking.




Appearance

Scooters have changed a lot over the years especially in appearance, scooters have changed colours textures and even wheels. Designs have changed too like how if you get a normal scooter one that you control by yourself (not electric) and compare it to a lime scooter (an electric scooter) the setup will look very different like a lime scooter is wider and bigger and won't fall over while riding, where a normal scooter will be smaller. Have you ever seen 2 scooters of different colours right next to each other, well if you haven’t often schools or parks will have a few scooters there. Scooters will feel different sometimes because of their textures, a texture is how something feels like something might be scratchy or smooth that would be a texture and a scooters handlebars or stand that you put your feet on might be textured. Scooters have changed multiple times, but it is possible many more changes in appearances are coming.




Types

Scooters have changed in types over the years. Scooters started out with scooters you probably will have seen which is a kick scooter, the scooter you propel by pushing your foot on the ground. A scooter you might have seen is an electric scooter that includes lime, beam, lava & flamingo scooters. These are scooters controlled by devices and the 4 electric scooters mentioned above are controlled by an app on your phone. You also may have heard of a moped a sort of motorbike like scooter it's a type of scooter used on roads because of its similarities to a motorbike.






History

Scooters have a long line of history because they were invented in 1817. Most people own kick scooters because electric scooters are expensive. Electric scooters often found on a sidewalk have been around for quite a while too. Scooters are also used for racing even though they aren’t as fast as motorbike or cars they are still used for racing. Scooters are now for not only kids nowaday as well, this means adults use them as well.



Conclusion

Scooters are an often human powered vehicle used to make getting from place to place easier, do you use a scooter to get from place to place faster?

rhmying

  this week for work the teacher gave us the task of making a story that was like a poem but also extended each time i chose just a poem other people chose the other option hope you like it

There once was a fox who lived in a box he liked fiddling with
locks and loved clocks the box was on the docks surrounded by
rocks.

The fox had a game called roblox that he played in the box on
the docks surrounded by rocks

The fox had a friend that was an ox which liked the fox and
occasionally came to the box to say hi to fox and fox liked ox.

they played roblox so much just fox vs ox it was fun even in the
tiny box at night they would get out of the box over the rocks and
shut down roblox as fox said goodbye to ox.

The next morning it was fox and ox that went over the rocks sat
down in the box and play roblox just fox and ox.