Why wars should be banned

In Te Kinga we have been writing persuasive speeches. It took me a while to come up with and idea to write about because I kind of wanted to do something that I had already wrote about before. Eventually I came up with "Why wars are a waste of time".

Today I made a Screencastify of me reading my speech. I use my Chromebook webcam and microphone. Here is the my Screencastify below.

I tried really hard to make this speech as good as possible

I would like feedback on my speech that will help me make my speech better.

Inspired writing

In our class for the past few ages we have been doing inspired writing. Here is my inspired writing, I haven't quite finished it yet. I think that I am going well though. There will be more to come. I have been doing most of it in lock down. It has taken a while. I hope you like it. Here is the LINK.

Debates

Our class has been doing debates for the past week. Our topic was Rules Are Meant To Be Broken. I was in two debates because there was a person missing here is one of my paragraphs.

To start with, what is a rule? It is an unnecessary guideline that is in the way of everyday life. They are a load of rubbish and are in the way of fun. Rules are right in the way when you are a child and want to play. Imagine if you are climbing a tree and then you are told that climbing trees is not allowed. You would climb down and then find something else to do, and then imagine you're told what you have found as a substitute is not allowed either. You have to mope around doing nothing until it is time to go to bed. I mean like everybody wants to do something with their day. Who wants to follow a strict rule sequence that stops you from having any fun? Not me. Rules are a whole load of rubbish right in front of the door, not moving and right in the way, also smelling bad too. Don’t let rules rule your life.

The other one was for my other group. Here it is.

Rules are an absolute waste of time. People have to follow them and that normally makes them waste a lot of time that they could be doing other things. Rules are not as important as having fun. Lots of people everyday waste time following useless rules. Wouldn’t you rather be climbing a tree than watching it grow? Well I sure would. Instead of waiting for life to happen for you, have fun and do what you want to do, not what someone else wants you to do. Don’t just sit there and let your life happen for you. Rules shape your life and just overall ruin it. No one wants someone else controlling everything that you do. You can choose what you do, you don’t have to follow someone else’s rules.

We just had a small debate that is why there is not to much. Debates are fun and I would like to do another one.

A day in the life of my cat

At school our writing task is to write about what being our pet would be like. This is a day in the life of my cat lacy. It is bending the truth so don't beleive all of it. I like writing narritives and this is mostly one. I hope you like it.

A day in the life of lacy

 I woke up with the sun shining on my back, and I thought “not another human filled day”. I walk up to the door and start scratching on it “MEOW”. That should get their attention. I wait at the door but nothing happens. “MEOW”. Finally the curtain is pulled back and my humans are looking at me very grumpily. They open the door and I jump inside and nestle down onto a giant weird soft elevated sitting device. Just as I get comfy a human comes along and  starts having a discussion with another human. A plate of food is put on the table in front of me and just as I am about to put my head up to start eating it, the sitting device tips up and I go sliding onto the floor. No respect I say.

With that food incident I am starting to get hungry. I walk over to the nearest human and meow at them. It looks like they are holding food so I follow them out the door. They walk straight past my food bowl and over to my rivals, the chickens. I’ll show those humans who is more important. I sprint to the chicken run and jump over the fence. The chickens are startled and start running away, but I’m faster. “SQUAK SQUAK”. I catch up to them and pin them to the ground. A victory for the cat. I look back at the human who is charging at me waving a spanner. I am not easily defeated. I charge at the human who is very surprised and disarm him. I turn around to finish the battle, But then I am picked up by the collar and taken back to the house.

The humans have put the food in the bowl but now they won’t let me outside. I am content to find a way to get out and until then it is war with the humans. A blue mouse has been dropped on my head several times and when a blue mouse is dropped on your head you just have to play with it. But this is war so I must focus on taking the food bowl. One of the humans hands isn dangling off the edge of the couch and I know what to do. I need those hands to open the door. Charge. DONK. the hand moved one second before I got there and I went thudding into the couch. I land on the floor and crawl back to my base, the Curtain. As I am plotting my next move one of the humans is staring at me and it is kind of weird. All of a sudden it starts to walk towards my base. I am ready to defend it at all costs, but then something strange happens. The human opens the door. Well I’m not waiting to get killed, I ran right out of there and to the food bowl. Victory.

My First Day In Lockdown

My First Day in Lockdown

In the morning we had to wake up really early so that we could get into town. We had to drive all the way to
grey mouth swap cars and drive all the way back. Boring if you ask me. When we got back I had breakfast, did
all the usual morning stuff and then opened my chrome book and transferred into the world of school.

I opened my chrome book and went straight to maths buddy. I did it for at least 1 hr. Now I know why long
division is called long division… It takes for eeeeeeevvvveeeeeeerrrrrrrrr. Really annoying. Anyway I did
some more maths after that and I also completed our E quiz thingy me bob. After that I made a map of the house.
It took a while, Obviously. I took some pictures here.

After school we performed a play to help Zak ( My brother ) this his religious education. It was a really long play and it took forever to perform. I kind of wish Zak could do it himself! But it wasn’t that bad though and it was kind of fun but I didn’t really understand it. Here are some pictures.That is the end, I hope you enjoyed it.

School Gala

On Friday our school had a Gala from 5pm to 8pm. It was lots of fun we had games and face painting and people were running there own stalls so we had lots of things to do. All of the games were 50c so we didn't need much money to do anything. We had lots of company's donating to us so we could to lots of things. It was an exiting day and everyone had lots of fun. We were fundraising money for an outside play area strip thing and also o we can play outside in the rain. Overall we raise around 5,000 dollars so we will probably have enough to get it.

Camp Reflection

In our class we went on camp in week 5 this is my reflection of it.

On the first day of camp we went to Authors Pass Outdoor Education Centre. When we got there we found our bunks and but our stuff on them. After that we had some morning tea. We played outside and did some team games for the rest of the day. After dinner we had a pillow fight and then we had some pudding. We then mucked around and went to bed. On the second day we woke up to a heard of elephants coming the hallway then we had breakfast and got told that we couldn't go to Mt Cheeseman until later because the road was closed. so we played inside for the rest of the day. Finally we departed and headed of for Mt Cheeseman. We were heading up the road and at the chain fitting area the road was closed so we played around in the snow until it opened. When it did we headed up the mountain. When we got to the top it was windy and snowy but we still played outside anyway. we made igloos and went town the beginners skiing slope on toboggans.

 But all fun things come to an end. eventually we had to come inside because it was to windy so we mucked around had fun ate dinner and went to bed. The next day we got up early had breakfast and packed ready to go skiing. Then we got our skiing gear and went for it out on the ski flied. We had lots of fun but then we had to go.

Fair Trade Ink Sack Art

Fair Trade Ink Sack Art

At school our topic is FIX IT so we have been researching all about Child Labour and Fair Trade. If you don't know what fair trade is it is a company trying to stop Child Labour. We decided to Write some poems on some Fair Trade Sacks. So we looked up some other peoples poems and then we got to choose what type of poem we wanted. Our teacher brought in some Fair Trade Sacks With Some Fair Trade Coffee Beans Left In Them And The Sacks Were From A Fair Trade Restaurant.

We used Indian Ink on our fair trade sacks and I used a stencils to put my art on my sack here is some pictures of mine

Rain poem

Rain poem

Rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain

I hope it all gets flushed down the drain

Were inside playing another board game

I don’t know what it’s called I forgot the name

I glance at the window pain

Oh look, here comes a train

I ask what’s for lunch and the answer is grain

Oh what another boring day of the rain

Inquiry Ideas ?

What happened to our principals car (the narrative).

Personal inquiry reflection

My inquiry is going all right. I have put my craft under the lake to film. an we accidentally imploded it. I am now making the slide and uploading the video. I think I am going to finish it in time.

The rise and fall of Waiuta gold mine

The rise and fall of Waiuta gold mine

By Cameron

The ghost town is dotted with old broken wreckage's with moss infested chimneys that will rot for all eternity. The historic town is located at end of Snowy road. Waiuta was the South Island's biggest gold mine and at 1930 it reached around 600 people. It is also the most famous ghost town in the South Island.

History

In 1905 the gold reef was discovered. It was found on King Edward VII’s birthday so they called it Birthday Reef. In 1908 the first mine shaft the Blackwater Shaft opened. In total it was 567m deep. In 1926 a new mine opened called the Prohibition. In 1930 the population reached up to 600 people. In 1936 the Prohibition mine took over the work. It all ended in 1951 when the Prohibition mine collapsed and the town was abandoned.

Gold and contamination

The Waiuta gold mines were the most wealthy mines of the 20th century in the South Island. The mine produced nearly 750,000 ounces of gold from 1.5 million tons of quartz. That is $1,869,255,217 in today's value. The level of arsenic is 33,000 times the safe limit for drinking water. There were 96 barrels of highly-contaminated arsenic material removed from the Prohibition site for treatment and disposal at a specialised facility. It cost $3.6 million to clear out the water.

Waiuta town

Waiuta was a sports town. It’s main sport was rugby but they also played tennis. Waiuta also had a bowling green. If you go there now you can see the rotting rugby poles swaying in the breeze. As the town was abandoned and Tony Mangan’s Family was last to leave. It was left it to the ghosts and modern age explorers.

Weekly reflection

This term we have have now got active with our personal project my timetable has helped me heaps. I have made a lot of changes to my timetable because of  so many new ideas. I have completed what I have planned to do and I have done heaps. My project feels like it is just the right size for my skill.👿👾👿😈👾😈

KNN The Importance of Integrity

Weekly reflections

This week I have got everything done in a perfect amount of time. I think I am better doing what I want to do than having set times. I think the way of teaching is awesome. I hope the teaching stays this way. I keep focus by doing the big stuff first.👿👿👾👍😀👍👾👿👿

KKN The REALLY busy kid is it REALLY that bad

KKN The REALLY busy kid is it REALLY that bad

Repunzel

In our class  our teacher reads us a fairy tale and we make a scratch and expand a sentence of the fairy tail. This is my expanded sentence.

To his horror the fairy was standing there

As the petrified man sticks his round head above the dark
brown fence, it rose out of the ground like a tree in the pitch
black darkness. He stumbled as he brought his head
over the fence. He saw the most horrifying sight that he had
ever seen in his whole entire life. A look of terror spread on
his small face as he shook his head to make sure his eyes
weren’t tricking him. The proof was the slight humming
noise of irritation rising from deep inside the belly of the
beast. He tasted the the damp soggy rags as he stared
into space, He knew it had ended for his poor endanged
soul. Right there standing in front of him with a smirk
spread across her face,
The evil fairy was standing there looking at him…

By Cameron

Weekly reflection

This week I have been focusing on getting my work done. The week is shorter than usual for me because I went to a ICT conference in shanty town. The week has been good I got almost everything done.😶😶😶😶

KKN The importance of compassion