Speeches

This week we presented our speeches.
My heart pounded so hard, it felt as if it was trying to rip out of my chest.
We had to use...

• A clear voice
• Stand still
• Speak loudly 
• Go at our own pace
• Look up at the crowd
• Use expression
• Be confident

Our speeches needed to include a rhetorical question and needed to be persuasive.

My speech was on Climate change.

You can read it in my previous post.

The Amazon Rainforest

We are learning about climate change. The Amazon Rainforest is burning down because of climate change and deforestation.
I really enjoyed researching different animals.
At first, I wasn't sure what to put on my google drawing.

Caged Chickens Should Be Banned

 We are learning to structure speeches.
I found it hard to keep up and at the same time have good information.
I didn't find anything easy.

How would you feel if you cooped up all you live in a cage no bigger than an A4 piece of paper? Well, caged chickens go through egg-xactly that. Yes, they have cage no bigger than an A4 piece of paper, they get diseases, they can’t act like a normal chicken and they get absolutely no vitamin D. One of the main reasons that caged chickens should be banned is that there are WAY too much-caged chickens. One battery hen shed may contain as many as 45,000 hens. 82% of the 3.2 million hens that produce eggs are caged!


Another reason is that chickens can get diseased. The fatty liver syndrome is a disease only chickens; mainly caged, get. One of the causes is thought to be stress. The chickens inside the cage are so cooped up they get stress and get this disease. Another disease is rickets. Rickets is a brittle bone disease. This is caused by the lack of vitamin D. Vitamin D is from the sun. As the chickens are in the tiny space they get absolutely no sun. So if a chicken nudges them, their bone would break. 


The last reason is that they can’t act like a normal chicken. They can’t stretch their wings, they can’t scuff around in dirt. How would you feel if you couldn’t act like a human? It would be a horrible, horrible life. This is why I think that caged chickens should be banned because they get diseased, they get cooped up, and they are not able to act like a normal chicken.

Tom Fedro

In Room One we were learning about Tom Fedro. I liked blending the colours. Finding information was hard because there was not much info about Tom Fedro. Our success criteria was to...
* Use bold lines
*Use both sides of the paintbrush
*Use bright colours
*Use light direction

Tom was born in 1969, Chicago. He uses acrylic for his distinctive Picasso- like art. His paintings are bold and have thick, black lines and uses bright colours to blend, showing light direction.
This is my art. 

Amazing Bee Facts

In Room 1 we are learning about Bees. Mrs McCormack brought in a bee hive and gave us some information. I really enjoyed learning all these amazing facts. I found it tricky to put it in my own words. Here is the link I used:
20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts

Science Fair

In Room 1 we are making science fair projects. In my group we are trying to figure out which metals can be copper plated. I enjoyed observing the metals while they were in the salt and vinegar solution.

I found it challenging to keep up and finish my work on time.

Gummy worms

                           Gummy Worms

Have you ever wondered what makes a polymer? A polymer is lots of molecules that forms a long chain. Mix water and calcium chloride and that will be your activator solution. Then suck up some sodium alginate(from seaweed) with a pipette into your activator solution. The sodium alginate reacted to the calcium chloride and transformed into a gel-like substance.This is how you make a polymer.                   
  

Dyslexia

We were learning about people with disabilitys.
I found it easy to find information.
I found it hard to find which video were easiest to understand.
I really enjoyed discovering famous people who have dyslexia.
Next time I need to add more information.
My Blog Post shows I am a Beginner / Stepping Up / Smart Learner

Epic Journey

We were learning about planning trips around NZ.
 I found it easy to find places around NZ because I have been to most of them. 
I found it hard to which things to do at each place .(Each of them were so cool!)
I really enjoyed designing each slide as well as learning new things about new places.
Next time I need to use bigger, better words. (Wow words)  
My Blog Post shows I am Stepping Up