Rotary Speech.

This time last week I was getting ready to compete in the West Coast Rotary Speeches. I can remember my stomach dancing with butterflies as I was anxiously waiting for it to be 5:30pm. After school I started to get ready. I put on my best looking uniform. Did my hair nice and put on all of my badges. It was time. We were driving to the union. We went and sat at our table and people started coming around and talking to me about the process. During that time I found out what number I was going to be.I was seventh. We got dinner and dessert. Afterwards it was time. The six speeches before flied by. It was my time to shine. Then it came to prize giving. I came second out of nine contestants. I was so happy. If you ever get to experience Rotary Speech then give it your all!

Is Recycling Essintal?

This week we had to write an argument . Our topic was if we thought Recycling was essintal. I agreed with this statement . Here is my piece of writting.

Is Recycling Essential?

I firmly believe that recycling is essential. How would you feel if you were one of the people polluting the environment by not reducing, reusing and recycling? Recycling helps the environment by making our waters not so polluted, helping us preserve our resources and keeping us from not littering.

Did you know our Pacific Ocean has a Great big Garbage Patch three times the size of France! They say that this patch has up to 79,000 tons of discarded plastic. Plastic is polluting our environment every day. It causes harm to every living thing on this planet. Big boats such as cargo ships and cruise liners can dump 14 billion pounds of garbage into the ocean. Our sea life are dying because of it. Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are being killed by this pollution. Recycling will help solve this problem. If you were making your lunch for school would you put your sandwich in a reusable container or wrap it in glad wrap?

Plastic and other materials can harm our environment. If we don’t try and reuse our resources that we use on a day to day basis we are making pollution. On average we only recycle one plastic bag out of 200. Worldwide we use 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags a year. That comes out to over 1 million per minute. Us New Zealanders are already trying to help this problem by banning single use plastic bags. Recycling plastic bags will make a great difference to our pollution. Plastic bags can also fly away or be dropped that can cause littering.

Littering is a piece of rubbish that has been disposed improperly. Littering means leaving rubbish on the ground instead of putting it in trash container or recycling  bin. Would you believe that 11.5 billion dollars is spent on cleaning up litter every year. 50 percent of that litter is mostly cigarette butts and 33 percent of the litter is fast food. The average amount of steps before a person litters is only twelve paces. Instead of those twelve paces making litter turn them into twelve paces of recycling. Littering can also affect humans and animals. When the litter is in drains or gutters it can clog the storm water and cause flooding.

As you can see recycling definitely is essential as it helps us  and our environment.

Wk3 Term3 Reflection.

This week for writing we had to write an argument. We got to choose either should animals be in the circus or should animals be in the zoo. I chose to do should animals be in the circus. I dont think they should. Here is my argument.

How would you feel being taken away from your home being trapped in a cage? Being forced to perform in front of thousands of people even if you don’t want too. I know that I definitely wouldn’t. I strongly believe that animals should have the right to stay in their natural habitat instead of staying in a circus being abused and feeling useless.

Do you think its fair being trapped in a cage your whole life? Well behind the scenes of Magical Circuses the animals are not living a healthy life. They have been taken away from their home being forced to do humiliating tricks in front of thousands of people. Instead of living in a luxury jungle full of trees and leafs they are trapped in cages only eating small portions of food and living in tight spaces. When the animals are not performing or training they are chained up or in small cages with barely enough space to take a step in any direction. The only time they get to move around is when they are training and performing. After the performance is done it is back in the cages and time to start the cycle all over again.

How would you feel if you were being abused every day? In the circus animals are being abused by their trainers with whips, tight collars, muzzle electric pod and bullhooks. Making mistakes is ok but circus trainers don’t think so. Elephants are frequently beaten with Bullhooks, Bullhooks are batons with a sharp metal hook on the end sometimes they are beaten with them until they bleed so that they can do dangerous and uncomfortable tricks such as standing on there heads on a pedestal. They travel in carriages for up to weeks for the humans to get to where they want to go.  

Humans do not stand on their heads jump through hoops or balance on things so why should animals do it! They do it because they don’t know what is to come if they don't do what they are made too. They are being physically attacked and feeling put down as if they are doing wrong. Elephants stand on their feet for a long period of time and start to get Arthritis. By them becoming injured and sore makes them have to work harder as they will get punished. The animals also start to get obese. In the wild elephants walk about 30 miles everyday but in the circus they can be chained up for 23 hours at the most leaving them with no exercise that can make them start to get obese. The elephant’s health with obesity is the very similar to a human being obese.

Now do you see?Animals are being treated in a way they don’t deserve. They are getting physically abused by their trainers, been taking away from their homes and feeling useless as if they are the ones doing something wrong.

Writing an exposition/argument.

We are straight back into a busy term and we have already been up to lots. For writng we have been starting to learn about writing an argument. So far we have looked at the layout of argument writing. You have to have an introduction,three main points of view and a conclusion. We have also been looking at words that show cause and effect. I have made a google drawing with some examples.

Poetry Anthology & Food Pyramaid.

This week and last week for Writing we have been focusing on writing Diamante Poems and Limericks.It is for our Poetry Anthology book that  we are doing this term. HEre is one of my Limericks and one of my Diamantes.






Also a few weeks ago we went and had a few sessions with Harold. We were focusing on Health an Nutrition. One thing that Harold introduced us to was the Food Pyramaid. The food Pyrmaid shows you how much servings you sould have a day of Fruit,Vegetables etc. We then had to remake Harolds food pyramaid on a goggle drawing. Here is mine.

Weekly Reflection.

Kia ora welcome to my forst blog post of 2018. These past two weeks have been fun and busy . We have already done so much work that I get to share with you.

Maths:
For maths we have done lots of work sheets focusing on using algorithms. We have done 4 digit by 4 digit subtraction with borrowing, 2 digit by 2 digit multiplaction, 2 digit by 1 digit multiplacation, Adding deciamls, Subtarcting decimals and short divison. My favourite one was 2 digit by 2 digit multiplacation and Adding decimals. We also have started to do a basic facts test every morning. We have 100 mixed basic facts to complete in 5 minutes. My highest that I got was 100/100 in 1:27.

Writing:
For the next six weeks we are doing Poetry Anthology. I have already completed all 3 of my Acrostic Poems. I did one on the Beach one callled Tropical and one called Summer. My favourite one is Tropical because it has lots of descriptive words. What one was your favourite? One thing that I struggled with was trying to find some words to start the sentence off so I went to a dictonary and found some words that helped me.















Art:
For art we had to do a digital collage on us. We were not allowed to get photos off the internet they had to be photos of you or photos, you or your parents have taken. I really enjoyed doing this but the one thing that was hard was trying to fit all of my pictures into one google drawing. I completed it in the end and here is the finsihed product.

Solar System.

For the past 4 weeks we have been working on our space topic.We had a few activitys to do and one of them was to write facts about each planet. My favourite planet is Venus. Comment down below what your favourite comment is.

W9 Work.

For the past 2 weeks we have had to write a report on either the Eyes, Heart or Pancreas. Ella and I decided to do the Pancreas . We had to do alot of research and I found out so much information. Here is the finished product hope you like it.

The Pancreas

Ella and Mya

Intro

The Pancreas Is a large gland behind the stomach and next to the small intestine. Your pancreas does 2 main jobs such as breaks down food that has left the stomach and also releases insulin into your bloodstream and help regulate blood sugar levels. Do you know that you could live without your pancreas but you will need to be on a lot of pills.

Diabetes

The Pancreas regulates your blood sugar levels. If your Pancreas doesn’t function normally you could become a diabetic. Diabetes is a disease that is caused because your Pancreas is unable to regulate the insulin that your body produces. Insulin regulates many metabolic process cells with needed energy and is important for your overall health. Type 1 Diabetes is most known to need Insulin. Insulin helps keep your blood sugar levels down. If you don’t take Insulin or eat too much food and do not do enough exercise and you have type 1 diabetes and your sugar levels are over 240 they are too high. When your sugar levels are too high the process of you feeling very ill comes along slowly and eventually you will pass out. As soon as you feel ill you need to ring the ambulance or inject yourself with insulin.

Pancreatic Cancer.

If you smoke cigarettes it doubles the risk of getting Pancreatic Cancer. If you get diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer the treatment includes surgically removing the pancreas , radiation and chemotherapy but otherwise than that there is no other treatment and if it doesn’t work you will eventually die. There is no symptons in the early stages but when it gets to the later stages the symptoms are loss of appetite and loss of weight. Eventually you will not be able to feed yourself and people will have to feed you. To know if you have Pancreatic Cancer it moves to the liver and enlarges it and makes lots of pain and loss of appetite. Pancreatic Cancer is very dramatic and a sad time for the person that has it and people that know them.

Conclusion.

The Pancreas is an important part of the body that regulates blood sugar levels . Some people can live without the Pancreas but it is an organ that can help keep your body healthy.

Report Criteria with examples.

This week for Writing we had to do an Activity on Report Writing before we start writing it next week. We used our Success Criteria and had to read 3 diffrent reports and match things such as Technical words and Paragraphs etc. Here is what I have managed to complete. Hope you like it.

Week 6 Work.

This week was our last week for doing our diasater topic. One of my activities that I have done that I really like is my diaster Timeline. I had to do a timeline of disasters that have happened and I had to put some information with it . Here is the finished product.

I also did a News Paper aricle on the mount Erebus air crash . Here is my finished product.

Antarctica and Naritive.

This week we have been doing some Antarctica activities. One of our activities was to do a Fcat File on and animal that lives in Antarctica. I choose to do Polar Bears and while I was researching I found out that Polar Bears only live in the Artic but I was still allowed to do Polar Bears . Here is my finished product.

Through out the past2-3 weeks we ahve been working on some narritive writing. Miss HInes had picked a photo for everyone had to write a Narrative about it. I called my narritive the Grey Stray. Hope you like it .

I have been running for miles and miles by now. I take a glimpse behind me and my home is now nowhere to be seen. I take a look in front of me . I look at the trail and I feel like it is never going to end . I can hear the the birds squawking in the distance wanting to find the light. I can feel the squishy leafs underneath my feet. I just heard deep cold breath coming from behind me . I look into the dark bush and see a shadow running past me . I look ahead and can see glowing eyes staring at me. I have a feeling someone or something is following me through my journey.I get a ray of sunlight gleaming into the woods. The brunches are so thick . I look ahead and can hear hear twigs rattling as load as a rattlesnake. Bounce . A big grey wolf comes out looking ferocious as ever. His saliva is dribbling down his mouth like he is hunting for food . His big black beady eyes are as scary as a tornado. I notice that he has an old rusty collar hanging of his neck. In the distance I can just see the name Jado. He is starts to walk closer and closer to me and Boom! He is running right towards like I am his lunch. I start to run and run as fast as I can , like my feet are on fire. I am to afraid to look back I just keep on running. I follow the path and I can see a speck of light that is only a few miles away. I follow the light and look behind me . I can see the dog watching me run into the distance. I slowly start to give up running until . I scream ahhhhhh . I look down at my feet and I am falling down a cliff. The ground is nowhere to be seen I don’t know when and where I am going to land . I slowly start to shut my eyes and pray that I am going to stay alive . I tilt my head back and look up into the misty dark sky. I can see the black crowes circling the sky like they are ruling the land. I start to shut my eyes and all I see is black. That was the last time anyone had ever heard from me.

Swimming Explanation.

Our class has been learning how to write a good explanation. This week we were aloud to write an explanation on any subject. I choose swimming and this is my explanation . I hope you like it. 

Swimming.

Swimming is a type of sport that gives you strength and makes you fit. Swimming is featured at a  swimming pool. You can do as many laps as you would like . It is a very fun sport and you need a lot of energy. It can be for anyone . Swimming started in the 1st century. Swimming can be in lots of different competitions and is great for survival.

Strokes and laps.

There are four main strokes in swimming. There are freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. The fastest stroke would be freestyle. Swimming started in the olympics in 1869. The very first strokes they decided to put into the olympics were freestyle and Breaststroke. Then in 1904 they added backstroke into the competition. Most pools are 25 metres which counts as one length but then some pools are 50 metres which counts as 2 lengths.

Equipment.

There's a few equipment you need for swimming. Firstly you will need togs. Togs are a waterproof suit the is made to go in the water.They are made out of lycra .  Girls wear either tog’s or a race suit . The race suit makes you go faster. Then men usually wear speedo shorts or long  race suit. Race suits have the top of the togs but then go down to shin length or all the way. They come in many different patterns and colours. Girls and Boys can both wear swim caps. Swim caps protect their hair from not getting wet. It also makes you go faster . It is also better to have shorter hair than longer hair because shorter hair makes you go faster because there is not as much weight.

Other Types of Swimming.

There are other types of swimming. You don’t just have to swim in competitions and not just in a pool. It is an amazing time to go swimming in the summer. You can go swimming at the beach and in lakes and rivers. In the ocean you can go surfing and bodyboarding and on the lake you can go biscuiting. Swimming is a great thing to do with your family.

Swimming is a good way to keep fit and cool in the Summer.

Explanation Sucess Criteria.

During start of the week Me and Emma had to make and success criteria on what you need in a good explanation . We have got lots of examples and information that could help you with writing an explanation. I hope you like it. 

10 lies about me .

1. I have blue eyes because me and brother were making cupcakes for take the cake and we made blue icing . Arli decided that he didn’t like the blue icing and started throwing it at me and some of it got into my eyes . That is why i have blue eyes.

2. I have blond hair because when I was as tired as a mouse and fell straight to sleep and my brother mixed white and light yellow paint and painted my hair blond and he laughed as loud as thunder I woke up and the paint already had dried and I had blond hair forever.

3. I have a loud voice because when I was singing in a band and my mouth was to close to the microphone that I swallowed it and the microphone was on and every time I speak the microphone makes me loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. The reason why I am so talkative is because little Miss Chatterbox is my sister and when she died her soul cursed me and now I talk too much and now I will never stop being little Miss Chatterbox .

5. On January the 8th I was sunbathing on the beach until I heard a scream as loud as a pigs snort.I looked out at the shimmering ocean and their was a girl getting attacked by a great white shark .  I swam as fast as a stingray and managed to get the girl away from the shark . The great white bite my leg . Blood was pouring but I was a survivor . With my bare hands I was pounding the sharks face . The shark's eyes were furious and I could tell it was scared . It swam away as fast as it could and that is the legend of how I got my scar. DAN DAN DAN !!!!!!!

6. The reason why I like Taylor Swift is because Harry Styles had a crush on her and made Selena Gomez make me one of her biggest fans so I could find out information .

7. When I was born I got granted a wish by the one and only Michael Jackson . He granted me that when I am older I would like to dance and do hip hop . His wish that he gave me has been granted .

8. The reason why I am a nerd is because 4 years old I was addicted to the lollies called nerds . The nerd lollies cursed me and made me a nerd . Now I tell myself that I am never going to have the nerd lollies again.

9. When I was 3 years old I got adopted by the X-Men and my father was Cybor . I have to wear my glasses because if I take them off lasers shoot out of my eyes and everyone is in danger.

10. I was called Mya because before I was born my parents searched up what Mya stands for and according to them it means that it is a baby girl name and the name comes from an English origin . In English the meaning of the name is a variant of Mia or Maya. It also means beautiful , gorgeous and kind . They also told me that it means a beautiful multi talented actress , musician and dancer. I have a pretty cool name.

Tuesday Writing .

The old rusty bath tub was sitting in an unusal place . Brown crispy old leaves were lying on the growned making it look even older . A shelf was leaning against the wall . It looked roten but the glass was still sitting in the postition looking lonely . Jars were lit in the shelf making it have loook like it is happy . The brown old rusty tub looked a bit uncomtfortable to lay in but whoever owned must thought it was nice . The beautiful bright green leaves were beaming from the lights that were hanging in them . The trees were sheltering the place it looked a bit like a horse shoe . The smooth wooden walls looked like they were either polished beauifully or sanded down . I could hear the tap running with warm water and just wanting to see the owner . Sparkling and beaming the shimmery lights were making it feel magic and everything was amazing . The inside of the bath tub was as white as snow or even a snowflake . The beautiful carmel colured looking legs made it amazing . I love it !

Homework . Summer Description. .

Summer!!!

Splish, Splosh, Splash  I could hear people running into the bright blue shimmering water. The sun was beaming boldly making everything sparkle . I climb onto the bumpy rocks ready to go scobadiving . I jump . The water was as warm as the sunset and I was on an adventure . I saw shells as smooth as sanded wood and crabs nipping things like big sharp mussels . Bubbles were floating underwater . Pop! I popped one it felt normal but also special in a way . I dived down deeper and deeper I could still see a speak of the sunlight . While I dived down it got darker and darker every kick I took . I had reached the bottom . I wasn't in the light anymore . I was in the darkness . My hand swept up a handful of sand . It brushed of my  hand and went back down to the bottom . It was very mysterious down here and I had never thought it would be this mysterious and magical . My summer was getting better and better. I got a bit of a chill so I swam back up . The sun was still beaming ever so brightly and I was amazed of what I had seen under their . 

I got out and ran to my friends and said this is the best summer ever and what I have seen is what summer should feel like . 

Dog on the beach.

Winter Wonderland

WALT: Add detail to my writing.
I turned up in a magical place. I don’t know how I got here. I am freezing I feel like I am trapped in a skyscraper palace . I keep walking and the snow is as thick as a big puffy cloud that has bursted. It is so cold I can hardly take another step in the snow. The snow is as bright as a moon falling to earth.  I am so cold I feel like a popsicle that has been in a freezer for ever. The trees are as brown as melted chocolate. I can hear the snow crunching why I take my footsteps and the snow is so crispy. I can taste the cold air in my mouth .

I say to myself “ this is amazing I have never seen anything like it.” I feel a drop on my shoulder .It has started to snow . Snowflakes start to fall out of the sky. A snowflake dropped on my tongue. It is so cold.

The wind is starting to blow that my hair is going everywhere. The wind starts blowing harder and harder   the wind starts whistling it is hurting my ears. I am sinking in the snow more and more.

At the end of the path I can see two  giant pine trees covered with snow. I start running towards them to get a closer look .  I didn’t see the big rock. I had tripped over it. I look down at the ground . I did not realise how white the snow was. It is as white as vanilla ice cream. I slowly get back up and start heading towards the pine trees even more . I looked up in the sky. I feel like ant crawling along the snow.

I was right  there standing in front  of the pine trees until I heard a voice saying” Mya come on we are going home now”. It was my Mum . We had to go home. I did not want to leave this amazing  place . I know I had to. I got in the car and said “ by magical place I will never forget you. “ When I arrived at home I was sitting next to the fire with a hot chocolate .

Anzac Dear Diary

Monday 11 May 2015.
WALT: Try and put adjectives adverbs and storng verbs to make my writing strong and exiting.

Night 1. Dear Diary it is nearly time to start the second day of war. I feel scared and I wish I had Mum and
Dad here to cuddle me and make me feel better. My trench is so dark and muddy. I sometimes don't want to get out of it incase someone is right there aming their gun at me. All I have been hearing is guns banging and ringing in my ear. Hopefully it stops and everything becomes nice and calm.

Night 2. I am finally knowing my life is upside down . Everything is drama and all I ahv ebeen doing is fighting. It breaks my heart to leave all of my good mates. I am breathing out frost  and everything is misty. My heart pounds faster and faster everytimeit think about it. All I ahve left is Mums Anzac biscuts. Thats How Ive been surving. It is time to go to bed comamder told me so...

Night 3. This is my last time writing to you Diary. The only thing I really have to say is is I hope you wish me good luck diary.

Dear Diary Camp .

Dear Diary .

Day 1

I am on Westport camp with my class .

Today we did lot’s of things  . The car ride was fun and we did lots of things on the way . The first stop was Mitchells Gully gold mine  . We had to go for a walk in the bush and walk in dark spooky caves and some of the caves had glow worms in it .We got to hold a little gold nugget and look at a stamper . After the walk the parents had a coffee and there was a man that came up to me and had a magnet and iron sand . He told me to put my hand and he put the iron sand on my hand and put the magnet under my hand and the iron sand moved up and down and when he did it I felt a tickle . Some people also got to hold a very big golden nugget . After we went to Mitchells Gully we went for a swim and had lunch at the Nile river and we found little fish swimming . Then we started getting back on with the car trip . We stopped at the Seal  Colany  . We went on a track to try and find the seals . I found 3 baby seals and lots of big seal’s  . After the walk we had to get into our activity groups and make a sand sculpture . My group made a turtle another group made a turtle one group made a Hammerhead shark and another group made a jellyfish . Then we were finally at Westport  . We had a little play at the park and then went to the lodge  . It was very big then and the rooms we stayed in were big as well . While the parents were cooking tea we went to the swimming pool and it was massive . Then after tea it was bed and I went to sleep very fast .

Day 2

It was day 2 of camp and we got up in the morning early and went on the Charming creek walk . We had to go throw a few cave and I’ll tell you something funny . The only swing bridge I am scared of is the swing bridge on the walk and it felt like I was going  fall of and I was screaming . Though at the end of the walk there was a massive water full and it must of been magic because it made me not so scared of the bridge when we walk back over it . Then we went to Denniston  and went to the coal mine  . We found out lots of information and here is one of them ( That  in the olden days there was a big drop and you would go on a minecart down the drop and someone else would be controlling it . ) Then we went up to the museum but the man wasn’t there so we went back to the coal mine and had to do an activity and I learned that coal is also used for perfume printing ink washing powder and soap . Then we went back to the lodge to have a rest and then we went back to the pool and Sid Matt and my Mum Amie had a bomb competition and I think Sid won . The Dad’s made self sauce and pudding for dessert and then it was bedtime and I was snoring away .

Day 3

It was time to leave Westport but we were going to Reefton . We backed all our bags had breakfast and we went . We were at Westport and we went to the black point Museum .

We had to have a information sheet and had to answer some Questions on the sheet and then we would earn a chocolate  . Then something exited happened  . We stopped to have lunch near the skate park and we saw some people filming some skater’s . Miss panther asked if we could watch and they said” of course” . Guess what something amazing happened and we were on Tv on Seven Sharp .