Keep our awa clean

 Today our class wrote a letter to the Gisborne Herald. It was about making our our clean and asking the council to come and load out our grass. I found it hard to think of ways why the council should come in mow the grass. I found it easy to put all my details in on the form.

Down by our school, Saint Marys Gisborne we have a Rerenga Awa.  We are a green gold enviro school. We would really like to grow more native trees down there so that we can try to increase the amount of native birds, insects and tiny creatures in the awa. But, to do this we need the black berry bushes cleared and the banks mowed by the council. Ever since we started planting trees the council has stopped mowing and spraying the black berry bush and grass. I think the council should do their part in keeping on top of their responsibilities so we can keep planting our awa clean. 

Apple tree dilemma

This week we have been reading a book called apple tree dilemma. It is about these two kids and they think that there there's an apple tree on the front of the house and that is true but when the grey kids moved in they started playing on it. they even started stealing the Apple when they were ready and ripe. I found it hard to find a character to compare Dad with. I found it easy to think of ways to describe Dad.

Pop art Collage

Today we learned how to use lunapic , I got in inspired by Andy Warhol I found it easy to make my pictures because all I had to do is take a self portrait then take that and put it on lunapic.  I found it hard to use the lunapic site because it had lots of filters and sketch 2 which is under art. First I took a photo of myself, went onto the lunapic website. Next I pressed upload, it will tell you to pick the photo that you would like to do. Then pick your filters or sketch 2. Next go to file then go down to save image, press save image as png and it will download your photo. This is my first attempt of doing it, it was amazing but a bit hard. I think you would really like to do this.

 

 

Francesca's Room 1 September Student Reflection Newsletter

 This is our September reflection this is everything we have done this month. We have reflected on our learning and what we have done. Have you ever done a reflection newsletter? I really enjoy this time because it is a time for me to reflect on my learning.

Speechs

We have been learning how to write speeches, my speech was about why more girls should play rugby and how much you will enjoy it. Have you done a speech before if so what was it about. I found it tricky to pick just one of my topics.

Our success criteria was to 

*use a rhetorical question

*use persuasive language

*use emotive language 

Frog comic

 For the past two weeks we have been making a comic strip about frogs, my partner was Logan. I did most of the writing and he did the decorating, my dad helped me do this task at home to catch up on it. This was a hard task to finish because it was a comic and because it was long. I found it easy to do most of the decorating on the slides.

August reflection

This is our August reflection this is everything we have done this month. We have reflected on our learning and what we have done. Have you ever done a reflection newsletter? I really enjoy this time because it is a time for me to reflect on my learning.