Dogs are better that Cats - Term 4 Week 5

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

DOGS MAKE WAY BETTER PETS THAN CATS!!!

I strongly believe that Dogs are better than Cats!

Furthermore, if you have a fun dog you can throw a frisbee or a ball at them to catch. To be honest it’s fun for your dogs and fun for you, and cats cannot catch a ball in their mouth or a frisbee.  Another point is you can teach them how to do ROLLY POLLYS, because my dog can do Rolly pollys.

Another reason is if you train your dog they can get your newspaper for you and cats cannot because they don’t have big enough mouths. Dogs keep your house safe, if there is a burglar they will bark and wake you up so you can call the police, unfortunately cats don’t, they would go meow very quietly and won’t wake you up.

For an example, you get fitter from walking your dogs and your dogs get fitter as well, but you cannot really walk your cats. One more reason is that you could take long walks with your dogs but you cannot with your cat because they don’t like going for long walks!

Therefore I believe that dogs are better than cats! Woof!

Country Life is better than City Life! - Term 3 Week 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This is the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

County Life is better than City Life

I strongly believe that Country life is better than city life.

                                            Having Fun!

In the Countryside it is FUN because you can MAKE lots of tree-houses and play in them for EVER. Furthermore you can have sleepovers in the tree-house, go to creeks and take the Hinaki out and catch some eels. Another point is you get to throw stones into the river and watch them PLOP, or skim stones into rivers and watch them BOUNCE. My last reason is doing horse riding with your family and going to the creek and through the creek if the water is LOW!

                                                 Experience!

In the Country you can EXPERIENCE more stuff in your life like seeing animals that you haven’t seen before in your life. For an example you can experience more space because city life is so close together because there is more people. ( More Space in country life )

                                              Explore!

Another thing is that you can EXPLORE more in the country. You can play tag in the trees and EXPLORE the things that you don’t know about trees, like if you didn’t know that trees have sap in them and sometimes the sap comes out. One more thing is... that you EXPLORE the country.

I believe that country life is WAY better than city life, and I reckon that you should live there because it is GLORYUMPTIOUS!!!

Skimming Reading Strategy - Term 3 Week 2

SKIMMING!!!

WALT Skim an unknown text so that we can QUICKLY get an understanding of it.
I can decide if a book has useful information I need, or whether I want to read it for pleasure. 

These are the things I can do to skim read...
1. Look at the Title

2. Look at the Chapters 

3. You skim to look for key words

4. Look at the Blurb

5. Look at the pictures 

Matariki Reflection - Week 10

Matariki Reflection !!!

On Monday we had Matariki, it was really really awesome. I did Poi making and Rakau. I thought that the Poi making would be easy but when I did it, it was sort of hard. At the start I had help but at the end I didn’t because the plastic bag bit was easy but the plaiting and doing the Fishtail was hard. Everybody kept calling the stuffing Daisy the Lamb.

After I did poi making I did Rakau, it was fun because we did lots of different moves. First we used rolled up newspaper and did some difficult moves but then I got the hang of it.  We used the big Rakau for the games, I got out straight away!

Mum and Dad! Week 8

Chapter 1: The day we were creeped out!

Chapter 2: The search for Mum and Dad!

Chapter 3: Mum and Dad

Characters: Kalae, Sienna, Emma, Henrietta, Sophia, Mum, Dad and ME

Mum and Dad

Chapter 1 : The day we were creeped out!

One night when I was fast asleep, something woke me up. Was it the creepy noises? The light in my door or my open window? 
“What, where am I?” my friend Henrietta said.

“Ahhh, you scared me,” I said back.

I started walking to Sophia's room, then I saw Sophia, she had her legs crossed and her hand was holding a torch. I went in and said “ What is the matter?”

Sophia said back, “Something woke me up and I hear creepy noises."

I replied back, “Same with us.”

So we looked in my Mum and Dad’s bedroom to say what happened to us BUT their room was EMPTY. 
“How scary,” Henrietta said.

Chapter 2 : The search for Mum and Dad!

As quick as I could, I called Sienna, Kalae and Emma and said “My Mum and Dad are missing, can you help me find them?”

My friends replied back, “Of course we would.”

Once my friends got back, me and my friends and Sophia looked all around the house. Once everyone looked around the house we sat on the couch and all we could find was a little teddy bear (with one eye) ( It was creepy). So we threw it out the window and my dog ate it up...IT WAS GONE! 
Once everybody was sitting down on the couch I got  a phone call from Cowman (Cowman is the mean guy in the story) and he said, “Come to my place at midnight, and if you don’t come your Mum and Dad will be staying with me.” 
“Dirty Cowman, so will we go at midnight?” said Henrietta.

“Yes, we will go at midnight,” I said back.

Chapter 3: Mum and Dad!

So I set my alarm for 11.00 (I did it an hour before, because the girls have to get their makeup on). So when it was 11.00, the girls woke up and put their makeup on. At 11.30, we were in the car, Sophia drove us to a place and up on the top of the building it said Kidnappers Place! 
“How FREAKY,” said Henrietta.

“You are right,” I said. 
So we went in the backdoor and we tiptoed up the stairs. A few minutes later Cowman appeared in front of the door. 
“Do you want your mum and dad, and who are these people?” said Cowman.

“Yes please, and also they are my backup people,” I said.

“Paper, scissors, rock to see who wins,” said Cowman.

“Of course,” I replied back.

Guess what I did? Rock and he did Scissors! 
“Ha ha, Cowman,” I said.
That was the best day of my life.                  
What a Nightmare!

Area - Week 6

On May 25th we did some maths about Area with our seats. You are probably thinking - What? Area With Our Seats!
We learnt about Rows and Columns. Rows are across and Column are Parallels.  But Mrs Miller said it could go like this Row - Right Across and Column - Come on down.   
We did it like this: we would get our class and Mrs Miller would say make 5 rows and 6 columns. 
So my class would do 5 rows and 6 columns and then we would do the maths which would be 5 x 6 = 30 and we kept doing that for about 30 minutes (It was fun) Mrs Miller made it fun but we were still learning.  It was sort of tricky but once you got the hang of it, you got the hang of it, it was sort of easy.  Area helps builders with building  houses making a pool and all sorts of things.

10 Facts About ME! - Week 5

1. My name is RUBY
2. I like playing outside with my friends.
3. My favourite subjet in school is mostly everything.
4. My favourite colour is RED
5. I love reading the Thea Stilton books
6. I love listening to CD's ( That's what I call music )
7. My favourite programme is RDMA ( Radio Disney Music Awards )
8. The colour of my eyes are GREEN
9. M Birthday is on Christmas day
10. My hobby is Netball, Rippa Rugby and MORE!!!!

THANKS FOR READING!