How to be a good son/daughter?

Walt: Write engaging introductions

Are you a good son or daughter? Some kids aren’t sure. This essay will give you some helpful tips on how to be a good son or daughter.

Listen. One thing parents hate is when their kid doesn’t listen to them, and that doesn’t just mean hearing. Listening is when you look at your parents when they talk and actually process what they’re saying. Then once you’ve processed what they’ve said actually go and do it.

Help around. Parents love it when they’re kids are helpful around the house. Especially when you do it without being asked. Try little things, like washing the dishes or even just bringing in the groceries and it’ll make things a lot easier for your parents. Helping around truly has its advantages.

Be thankful. Your parents do a lot for you. They feed you, clothe you, put a roof over your heads. That’s just a tiny portion of how much love your parents put into you. So say thank you and show it through your actions. Maybe even give your parents a massage when they come home from work, or give them breakfast in bed in the morning. Your parents want to feel loved and appreciated too.

I’m sure these three tips will definitely make your parents happier with you. Your actions reflect your thoughts. When your parents will see that your thinking about them and how they feel, they’ll be extremely happy with you.

Task Description: For this task I made a new doc in my writing folder. Before actually writing I brainstormed ideas for the body paragraphs. Once I finished writing my essay I posted it onto my blog with a Walt, a Task Description, a Title, and Labels.

ANGLES!!

Walt: Justify our maths thinking.

Task Description: For this task I made a copy of a presentation and put it into my maths folder. I then answered all the questions on the slides. Once the slides were finished I posted it onto my blog.

Animal testing

Walt: Use correct paragraph structure

What is animal testing? Animal testing is the act of taking animals and using them to test things that may or may not affect humans. Typically this is carried out to find cures for diseases or product testing. The opinions on animal testing vary from person to person. However, animal testing is still something we do to this day. And it needs to stop.

The animals that scientists typically use vary from species to species. It is often lab-grown mice, however, cats, dogs, hamsters, farm animals, guinea pigs, and even nonhuman primates (Gorillas, monkey, etc) are also used. Primates. They test on our cousins. The cousins we work so hard to keep alive. How would they feel?

Some animal testing is even pointless. People are just doing the same tests again and again. All to gain money. Money that they already have lots of . They test over and over again because of competition and money, they want to find their own results instead of using those found by a different company. They slowly make progress repeating a test over and over again without any results and then move on to the next test, repeating this slow agonising process.

We also test make up products on animals. A lot of new makeup products with new ingredients get tested on animals like bunnies or guinea pigs. They make new dangerous products when they already have lots of other safe makeup products. They don't need all these new products when we already have so many and we should instead reuse the ingredients that have already been proven safe.

Animal testing is inhumane. People may see it as a way to solve problems but in reality, we just add more problems. Try to minimize the encouragement of animal testing. Use animal testing free products and trust more reliable labels. Let’s make this world animal cruelty free.

Task Description: For this task I made a new doc and put it into my writing folder. I wrote my five paragraph essay and then, checked for spelling and grammar mistakes. I posted it onto my blog with a Walt, Task Description, Labels, and a Title.

Octopuses

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Maths follow up week 3&4

Task Description:
For this task I worked on the problem by myself. I then explained how I worked on it and then I Explained my learning process. After I had finish the presentation work I posted it onto my blog.

Food chains & Reading work

Walt: Infer and make judgements about a text.


Task Description:
For this task I made a copy of this presentation and then put it into my reading folder. I then read the text and answered the questions about a food chain. After I had finished the food chain slide I read the there will come soft rains text and answered the question slides for that one. I then posted it onto my blog so that it had a high standard.

Science fiction: Flowers for Algernon

Task Description: For this task I read the text Flowers for Algernon. I answered the questions on the slides. I then posted it onto my blog with all the qualities which make it a high quality blogpost.

Week 2 Maths follow up: Vegetable Gardens

What's for Breakfast?

Task Description: For this task I came down on the mat with my teacher and did the problem with my group. I then made a copy of this presentation and explained my work on the second slide. I explained the rest of the process of the DMIC ON the 3rd slide. I posted my work onto my blog with a high standard.

The Gatherers

Task Description: For this task I read a fictional text called the gatherers. The first slide was a question and answers about the uncontacted tribes in Brazil and the next slide was about the fictional text. I then recorded my questions and musings about the text. Once I had chosen and finished my create task I posted this onto my blog. Hope you enjoy.

Colonization

Colonisation is an old way of gathering land under one nation or empire. It’s been going on for thousands of years but the first world countries, only stopped around a couple hundred years ago. That still doesn’t mean that 2rd and 3nd world countries have stopped, and even now the commonwealth is still a remnant of the British empire which was an empire based on colonisation.

Colonisation has been around for thousands and thousands of years. The Romans used it, the Incas used it, the Greeks used it, the Spanish used it, the British used it. Many countries are still under the influence of colonisation. Most of Africa is still under the rule of colonising leaders. Even though many countries are now independent, lots of countries are still being colonised.

Does colonisation have any benefits? In short: No. Although many colonisers believe they are helping people by giving them new technology, they aren’t helping the natives. The best jobs end up going to the colonisers. The natives end up becoming slaves and the colonisers never give the natives even some middle grade job opportunities. Colonisation has hardly ever had any good benefits for the natives, only for the invaders.

Some colonisation however have had peaceful resolves. Such as the treaty of Waitangi between the British Empire and the Maori people of New Zealand. The Brits came to New Zealand and they suggested that they create a treaty and the Maori agreed. But because of the differences between the Maori and English texts there was conflict. So then the government decided to create the Waitangi tribunal and we’ve been working to create a better environment for the Maori ever since.

Colonisation was brutal period that helped shape our history. The only good that it ever gave anyone was the ability to realise our mistakes. Hopefully in the future people will take a look at the things we did and try to stop themselves from going down that rocky path again.

Tasting Food

On Tuesday the eleventh of June, we all had some food to eat. Bruschetta with olive oil sprinkled on top, two black olives, a piece of feta cheese and Pan au Chocolat. The Bruschetta tasted like slightly sweeter bread than usual and the olive oil is a nice dressing. The olives would have been better but they had been on the plate for a while and they we're a bit dry but still a nice refreshment. The Feta cheese was very rich and I loved that, nice and strong. The Pan au chocolat was delicious nice sweet bread and light chocolate. A tingle on the taste buds!

Drink it dry, Fold it flat, Send it back

This is the korero of week 3. I've decided that everyweek i'll post the korero onto my blog so that readers of my blog can remind themselves of the korero and maybe readers of my blog who don't know the korero can learn what the korero themselves.