Numeracy Week 7 Term 3

This week I have been working on my workbook for numeracy. I found it quite easy after a bit of practise. There were a few questions that i found a bit tricky to work out but I got there in the end. Here is my work book for this week.

Italian

Italian
This week for languages we have been learning Italian. In the first lesson we had to find Italy on a world map and look for any interesting facts about Italy. The second lesson we learned some basic Italian phrases. We then made a google drawing with the phrases on it. Here is my Google drawing.

Literacy W1 Term 3

 This week for literacy we have been working on arguments. We had to write about whether animals should be kept in zoos. Here is my argument.

Should Animals Be Kept In Zoos?

I strongly believe that animals should NOT be kept in zoos. Firstly, most zoos either mentally or physically abuse their animals. Secondly, zoos can NOT provide enough space for their animals. Thirdly, zoos usually don't help the animals at all.

Did you know that when an animal paces up and downs its cage/enclosure it means they are mentally unwell? Well it’s a true fact and it happens a lot. This can be because of abuse, being separated from family, starvation or being in pain. A polar bear in central park zoo was spotted swimming laps because it was so stressed and it was overheating. I don't know about you but I think that's pretty bad. Also most zoos physically abuse their animals to get them to do tricks, just for fun and because they misbehaved. I think that is is absolutely disgusting that people think it’s okay to do this to their animals because it’s not like the animals have a say in it.

It has been said that tigers and lions have around about 18,000 times less space in zoos than they would in the wild. That is saying zoos can not provide enough space for animals. Imagine being kept in a cage/enclosure, you’d be sad, lonely and depressed. That is exactly how the animals feel being locked up 24/7. They get bored really easy and it’s not like zoos have enough money to be buying them new stuff all the time. This can also cause the animals to grow mentally unwell.

Zoos usually don't help the hurt animals at all. One time a zoo had a goat with highly contagious ringworm and they didn’t treat the animal. This caused the other animals and people to get sick. Some animals will sit in a cage for months on end in pain because the zookeepers cant or wont help them. I think that this revolting. Zoos will often use animals for photos or put them on display and if the animal doesn’t work with them they will starve them. 

I personally don't want to go to zoos anymore knowing that some animals are in pain. So next time you go to a zoo think to yourself about all the animals that could be in pain there.

Myths

The past three weeks in T1 we have been reading and writing myths. We had to base our myths on a natural phenomenon. I based mine on rock slides. Here is my writing.

Numeracy Week 5

This week for numeracy we have been looking at TimeTables (with buses, trains ect) Miss Power gave us some questions to solve in our math books. At the beginning it was sort of hard to understand but now I find it really easy. Here is thw work I did in my book. 

Totara Camp 2019

This week T1 & T2 went on a camp in Hanmer Springs. We left on Monday 20th of May and returned on Wednesday 22nd of May. When we first got there my group had to do mountain biking.  We had to do biking for 2 hours and 30 mins. I really disliked mountain biking because it made me really tired. After mountain biking we drove down to the hot pools. We stayed in the hot pools for about 3 hours then we drove back to camp.

On the second day we got woken up at 7am (I really didnt like that) Kylie said "if looks could kill you would have killed us all" since I'm really grumpy in the mornings. After we had breakfast and stuff we did orientering. Lavinia, Miss Power, Kaleb W's mum and I were in a team. We got 320 point in total which I think is pretty good. After that our group did the cemetary and sculpture walk. I found the sculptures pretty amazing. When we got back to camp we got right into tree climbing. I got up to the top of the tall pine tree but I didnt go up the thicker tree as I was too tired. Later that night we went to the hot pools again.

On the final day we woke up at 7 again and we started to pack our bags to come back to Greymouth. Once we packed we got ready to walk up Conical Hill. It was pretty tiring going up the hill. When we got to the bottom we walked down the the lollie shop. Trent and I combined our money and spent $15. After the walk and lollie shop we went back to the camp site to have lunch. When we all finished lunch we got into our cars to come back to School.

I think the camp was really cool and is definitely my favourite camp. I'd recommend it if you're really into exercise. 

Numeracy W1 Term2

This week for numeracy we have been working on area and perimeter. Area is the space inside of a shape. The perimeter is the distance around outside of a shape. At first it was a bit confusing but now I have a really good understanding of this. Miss Power gave us some problems to figure out. We had to find the area and perimeter of the shapes. Here's a picture of the work I did in my maths book.