Comic strip

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Yesterday, Mrs Craig made us make a comic strip about 2 characters from the book called The legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors or 2 classroom objects fitting. I did pencil versus paper. Here is my comic strip below.

Explanation Writing - Term 4

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Yesterday, we did an explanation writing about an environmental problem we have and three ways to solve it. My explanation writing was about waste disposal!

Here is my writing below:

Name:Dulcie

Explanation Writing - Term 4

Prompt: - - Write to describe one environmental problem and explain what people do to reduce its impact on the planet.

Think about:

• What your reader needs to know about the topic
• How you are going to introduce the topic
• The order of your ideas and how you link them
• What to include in your summary

Remember to:

• Choose your words carefully
• Take care with your spelling, punctuation, and sentences
• Edit - add or delete words or sentences to improve your work

Start Writing Here:

Problem means a matter or situation that is unwelcome or harmful. Environmental is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. Environmental problems are issues with the planet's systems (air, water, soil, etc.) that have developed because of human interference or mistreatment of the planet. One environmental problem the planet has is waste disposal. To reduce the impact on the planet you can donate clothes instead of throwing them away. A lot of our waste is old clothes that people don’t want anymore. An average American throws away approximately 80 pounds of used clothing per person. On average, nationally, it costs cities $45 per ton to dispose of old clothing. That amounts to 26 billion pounds of textiles and clothes ending up in landfills. You can also eat healthy and save leftovers. When buying junk food, some of the rubbish can fly out of your bag, pockets or your pet will tear your rubbish into smaller bits for it to fly somewhere if you leave it lying on the bench or table. Instead of throwing away your lunch or dinner, you can glad wrap or cover the food with a paper towel and put in the fridge for tomorrow or to snack on later. You can buy things with less packaging. A lot of packaging is thrown into our waste and ends up in landfills or around the streets and roads. If there is a lot of packaging, you can also recycle the packaging or reuse it to hold foods or furniture when moving. This will reduce the amount of packaging in our landfills and waste. Environmental problems like waste disposal are very difficult for use to overcome and it is also ruining our planet. Hopefully in the future we can restore balance on the planet and not have so much waste and landfills on our earth.

Greats and Grands Explanation.

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This Friday is Greats and Grands day and we had to write an explanation on an aging problem our grandparents had and how they could fix it. Here is my work below.

Understanding an explanation.

Beginning	Title Copy your explanation title here.	How Grandparents Cope with Sore Limbs
	1st paragraph Define and describe what you are explaining.	A grandparent is a person who is old enough for their baby to have a baby. When people start to get old different parts of their bodies start to get worn out and they can no longer do what they could do before. This is called aging and it causes many problems. One aging problem that a grandparent may have to deal with is sore limbs.

Middle	2nd paragraph Write about one thing you can do to cope with Sore Limbs.	One thing that a grandparent can do to cope with sore limbs is to stretch before going out to do a walk or go out gardening. This will give you more muscle control, flexibility and range of motion.
	3rd paragraph Write about a second thing you can do to cope with Sore Limbs.	A second thing they can do is to wrap a thin cloth around an ice pack and put on the sore area and take anti-inflammatory medicine, like ibuprofen or naproxen to ease inflammation.
	4th paragraph Write about a third thing you can do to cope with Sore Limbs.	A third thing that a grandparent could do is to keep hydrated. They should drink a lot of water so that it can make its way to the muscles and soothe them.
End	5th paragraph Wind up your writing.	Sore limbs can be a difficult aging problem for grandparents to deal with but people are hopeful that improvements in technology will be  a big help for this in the future.

Greats and Grands Poem

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Also for Greats and Grands day, I wrote a poem and some people are chosen to stand up on the day and read what they wrote. Here is my work below.

Tongariro National Park Fact Slideshow

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After our Ski Trip, we also made a fact slideshow about Tongariro National Park. I found out a lot of facts about the mountains and rivers on Tongariro National Park and all the fun activities on the waterways and on the mountains. Here is my work below.

Ski Trip Diary

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After we came back from our amazing Ski Trip, we made a daily diary about it. I really enjoyed the Ski Trip, it was lots of fun and we learnt a lot about trout and mountains. Here is my diary below.

Animal Report

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A few weeks ago we started making animal reports and we got to do it on any animal of our choice. I chose a Brazilian Wandering Spider. Here is a link to my work. Link 

My Holidays

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I LOVED my holidays. I watched Kings Men, Golden Circle and Coco. The best thing was that we didn't have to do much work. I'm not very happy I have to go back to school though. I also went to Kaitaia. What's your favourite movie?     

I hope you had a good holidays. Bye!

My Waitangi Experience

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Last week on Thursday and Friday we went on a trip to Waitangi. We learnt about the Treaty of Waitangi and the Taiamai war. The next week we had to make a slide to show how was our experience. Here is my work

Autumn Poem

Yesterday Mrs B and Miss Stewart took us outside to draw and write somethings that we saw. After that we went inside and wrote a poem about what we saw using the words we wrote outside.

Here is my work below.

Similes

This week we have been learning about Similes. Mrs B shared us a document of random pictures that we had to match into similes. Here is the document I made.

Published Writing Recount

                My Waitangi Day

              

“Aaa Ggghh, I’m boooored!” I moaned as the car came to a stop. It was Waitangi day and as always it was busy. Lucy, Ngaz, Nana, Mum and me were in the car sweating like pigs while we waited in an ENORMOUS line on the road to get to the shuttle. Finally, we made it to the car park after an HOUR probably. The car come to a stop for the last time and we all came racing out of the car to get some fresh air. My feet touched the lush green grass in the paddock  “Ahhhh” I said in relief as the breeze passed through my body. “Grubby!” I laughed as I pointed to the back of a car that had the word grubby on it. We all laughed and made our way towards the gate. “ANOTHER LINE! THIS ONE IS EVEN BIGGER!” I shouted as we walked across the road to the shuttle line. “Waitangi day better be worth all my walkin today” I said in an annoying way. We made it to the bus and jumped in and surprisingly Jodey was driving our bus. We got to the bus stop and came out, it was even hotter. We watched the Navy people play and we watched 21 guns salute which was so exciting for me since I have never seen it before. We were all puffed out after getting some fresh baked fry bread for lunch and so we headed home. “I enjoyed my day thanks mum and nana,” I said smiling.

Kidney Poem

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On the 12th to the 14th of September we had the Life Ed truck come to our school and teach us about our body systems and organs and how to take care of them. So yesterday we did an experiment using lamb hearts and kidneys. We had to dissect and observe what was inside them.

Here is some writing I did about it.