My comic!

Hi!

Our class read the book "The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors"

We had to make a comic strip about a duel.

This is my comic about a duel between a hand and a foot.

I think it is really cool, what do you think?

Comment me if you want more!

Explanation test T4 2018-Global warming

Hi!!!!
This week we did a writing test.
We had to write an explanation to explain three ways to fix a problem with the environment.
I am really excited, because I have gone up from 4B to 5A!
I was expecting to get a 3A when I first shared it with the class, because I realised I has accidentally written an argument instead of an explanation. Anyway, here it is and I hope you enjoy it!

Name: Depla

Explanation Writing - Term 4

Prompt: - - Write to describe one environmental problem and explain what people do to reduce its impact on the planet.

Think about:

• What your reader needs to know about the topic
• How you are going to introduce the topic
• The order of your ideas and how you link them
• What to include in your summary

Remember to:

• Choose your words carefully
• Take care with your spelling, punctuation, and sentences
• Edit - add or delete words or sentences to improve your work

Start Writing Here:

Our Hot, Hot Planet What would you do if you woke up and your city had turned into a desert? Okay maybe global warming doesn’t happen overnight. Global warming is the rising of our air temperature. It does happen naturally, but we are making it speed up. Global warming is also melting the north and south pole. Where will Santa live after we melt the ice? I am going to give you three ways to prevent our planet becoming another hot sun. When I said that global warming was melting the ice, you would probably think I am worried for the animals. Yes, there is that, but I am also worried about us. Did you know Antarctica holds over 90 percent of Earth's freshwater? What does that equal? Your backyard turn into a flooding pool! And, no, it would not be fun to swim in, there would probably be sharks waiting at your doorsteps! One of the major causes of global warming is the overuse of fossil fuels-the fuels we use for our cars. So a great way for you to help us would be to go online and buy yourself an electric car. They don’t use the fossil fuels, they only use electricity. Did you know that about 40 years ago, the floor would be covered in a thick hail in Winter? We don’t get that anymore, do we? Another major cause of global warming is carbon dioxide. You know, the air we breathe out? Anyway, there is only one way to fix this. What do you know that absorbs carbon dioxide, and spits out oxygen? Our good old trees! So if you own a big smoke factory, don’t forget to bring those saplings! Guess what! Did you know for the last however long china has been taking our rubbish? Well they’ve stopped taking it now! Pollution is another big cause of global warming. And you wouldn’t want our land to be polluted anyway, would you? So what can you do to help? Well just do the simple things and slowly build up to the more extreme, like bring your own non-plastic bags to the supermarket instead of using the shops ones. Or, buy products that have not been sitting in plastic all day. Plus, plastic is very unhealthy for US as well! I hope you have learned something today. And I hope that our planet won't become a rubbish dump. And YOU will choose the destiny of ourhome. Whether it is desert, fireball or a deep underwater ocean.

Greats and Grands Poem Sweet Poem

Hi bloggers!
Tomorrow is Greats and Grands day at Ohaeawai School and we have all been busy preparing!
We each had to write a piece of writing about our grandparents.
I really hope you like mine!
We also had to write an explanation about a problem that grandparents could have, and we had to write three ways to fix it. I will attach that at the bottom of the page.



And here is my explanation

How Grandparents can find a way to spend more time with their grandchildren.

A grandparent is a person who had children and those children had children of their own (Which are called grandchildren), and sometimes those children have MORE children making the grandparent a great grandparent. Too many people these days. A lot of grandparents live very far away from their grandchildren, so many kids on earth who love their grandparents very much, barely ever see grandma and grandpa. And you thought it was that I was avoiding you because you’re boring and have wrinkles? Nah, don’t worry, I think my grandparents are very interesting, and I bet so do YOUR grandkids. And wrinkles are like sprinkles. I am now going to give you three ways to help your problem of not living close to your grandkids.

The first thing you can do is the money jar thing. You know, when you get money and have two jars. Split the money in half. (I don’t mean actually get an axe to chop the money in half!) Get half the money plop it into one jar that is labeled “Savings for flights/bus” And put the rest in the other jar. Save up enough money to get your grandchild a flight from Fiji to New Zealand. Or you could get a bus. Done. Simple.

Ok, first idea a little bit slack. Lets go more extreme! Move houses to a house way closer to your grandchild! Too extreme? Hey it was just a thought!

So lets try get to the BEST idea yet. And sadly, no, none of my ideas include rocket launchers, but how about something even better? Let’s say grandma and grandpa live in Auckland and I live in Kerikeri. Whangarei would be about half way between. So it is way less far as driving all the way to Auckland. Get a small holiday house there! Every holiday, and possibly even weekend, you could organise a time to drive to your holiday house, which is half as long as driving all the way to Auckland from Kerikeri. YAY!

Now there you go folks. 3 ways to spend more time with your grandkids. And remember, your  grandchildren will never say no to an opportunity to visit their grandparents.

Animal Report

Hi!
Over the last couple of weeks, our class have been writing reports on any animal!
I chose to write about the Haast eagle, even though I knew it would be hard because it is extinct.
Anyway, here it is and I hope you enjoy it!

Learning Journal

Kia ora!
This is my learning Journey and how much progress I have made.
I think I am doing very well.

Speech

Kia ora
For the last couple of weeks we have been doing speeches. We had to choose a topic and find 3 reasons with evidence about the topic.
This is my speech.

Introduction/Belief statement: Pests! Mice! Rabbits! Possums! Rats! Stoats! Dragons! Wait… Those are from how to train your dragon… Oops! Can you think of any other pests? I’m sure you can. But have you ever thought about what makes something a pest? And who gets to decide? Some people say that a pest is something really annoying that causes problems. The dictionary defines a pest as a destructive animal that destroys plants, food and livestock. Look around the room. Can you see any pests? No? Hi. My name is Depla and I am here to tell you that this room is full of pests. Yes. It’s us.

Reason 1: Firstly, We destroy animals’ homes by tearing down forests and messing the place up with our rubbish. With all our large machinery, we take down whole forests, and leave the animals with nowhere to live. And think about all the animals that get killed by a tree falling down on them! “Oh mother nature, my body suddenly feels very heavy! It is dark and I hear the sound of an angel coming to get me! Goodbye life. BLAGH!” Poor, poor whatever that was. And what happens to the small amount of animal living space that is left? We pollute it. Soon we will have to evacuate Earth because we’ve turned it into a rubbish dump. I don’t think we will have room to take the animals with us will we? Animals didn’t pollute earth! Now that is pesty.

Reason 2: Secondly, we rob animals of their food. Before humans existed, there was plenty of food for all the animals. Now, we destroy the natural food sources and then we put up electric and wire fences and nets that stop animals going where they want. If they sneak past that and get into our orchards, farms and gardens- BOOM! We shoot them dead or lay poison around to kill them. Some orchards use Invisible nets, so when birds fly over to get a juicy apple, they get tangled up and die. Goodbye. I will miss you. In the oceans, dolphins are running out of food because of overfishing. Scientists say that there will be no more fish by 2050. Now what will the creatures of earth find to eat??

Reason 3: Finally, we kill animals just to suit ourselves. How many of you have watched Jurassic World? You know that giant dinosaur was killing for fun? Well, we are that giant dinosaur!  We hunt ducks, pigs and even lions and elephants just for fun! We brang possums to NZ, then we decided we didn't want them here because they destroy the environment. But what about us!? We destroy the environment too! Possums do what they have always done to survive, and suddenly somebody shoots them. If possums get nearly wiped out, and there are suddenly too many kiwis, would you start killing kiwis?

Conclusion: So, now I am sure that you will agree with me that it is essential that we stop doing things that make us worse than a giant smelly sewer rat. If we stop acting like the super pests of this planet, we could live in a green and lovely paradise full of healthy, well-fed animals who could find food wherever they liked and who weren’t living in fear. And I think humans would have a better future too. Come on, people-stop being Mega Pests and do our planet and all the other life forms on it a great big favour.

Environmental Writing

Kia ora!
We were doing environmental writing about Autumn.
I hope you like my poem!
P.S
I drew the background.

Metaphors

Kia ora.
This week we have been working on metaphors.
Here is my work.

Kia ora, we have been doing more similes.
Again we had to choose a photo, and write similes about it, but this time we had to have a topic sentence.
I wrote my similes about a possum.

Poetry Writing T1 W5

Kia ora Bloggers!
For our poems we had to write a poem about the weather using at least 5 similes. Here is my poem.

Yay! Its Summer. The sun shines like a blinding light. Here comes Autumn. The wind is howling like werewolves in the middle of the night. Oh no. It is Winter. The snowmen are everywhere as if they were going to take over the earth. The rain comes pouring down like a shower on full, only to make matters worse. Making floods like an overflowing bathtub, we can’t wait till Winter is done. Woohoo! It is finally Spring. Now we can have lots of fun. The Spring has a mix of sun and wind. The sun now shines like a dim broken light getting brighter everyday, waiting to explode in one sudden burst. Now that it is all done, we will still have lots of fun starting it all over again.

Similes T1 2018

Hello Bloggers!
Yesterday and today we were working on our similes
We had pictures we had to match up and write a simile about.
I hope you like mine.

 As Similes

Like Similes

Bio poem

We have been doing poetry with Miss Craig.
Here is my bio poem

Ani/Depla

Funny, Crazy, Friendly, Energetic, Small

Friend of Dulcie, Kirsten, and Isobel

Who loves Food, Being silly, Making music and Drawing

Who enjoys making memories of Laughter with family

Who fears wide open spaces and a grumpy Mum and Dad

Who Learned how to play the Guitar and came 3rd in Speech Competition

Who wishes Voltron was real

Who lives at 67 Okaka rd Rd1 Okaihau/Utakura

Palmer

What is green

We have been doing poetry with Miss Craig.

Here is my poem 

Published Waitangi Recount

                           Waitangi recount


“Mummy I’m hungry!” “Mummy I need to go toilet!” “Mummy look at me!” “MUMMY MUMMY MUMMY!” That is all I could hear. I was lying in bed listening to the nightmare I was about to walk straight into. I knew it wouldn’t be a very Waitangi ish, Waitangi day! Sage, Asha, and River were all trying to get the most attention from Mum. I had to put a pillow over my head. Finally I got out of bed. Dad was watching something random on the chromebook, and the littleys (that is what we call Sage Asha and River) were fighting over who was going to be the baby in the game Mums and Dads. Mum decided to ditch the kids and go and do some gardening. It was really hot! I wanted to go for a swim. We had lost the pool key (We put a padlock on the pool so the littleys wouldn’t jump in the pool and drown) so I decided I would do some baking with Asha and River. They were excited! We decided to make lamingtons. We made half the recipe then split the mixture. We made half gluten free and half gluten. When we put the cakes into the hot oven I made the thick chocolate icing. While I was waiting for the cakes to bake, I made a big lunch. After our yummy lunch we took the cakes out  of the oven, cut them and iced then. They looked bad. Once we put the coconut on, they looked okay. I took a giant bite out of one and MAN they were delicious! They were almost as nice as sushi (not quite). I skyped Dad and I played my song on the guitar that me, Dulcie and my music teacher made up on Monday. Dad had to go cook the giant trout that he caught. We put our helmets on and got our bikes. Mum said I had to practice my riding for the weetbix tryathlon so we were going to ride up the long gravel road, to get to Pete & Claires. I got dust in my eyes. And up my nose. When we got there the dogs barked at us (they always do that).  We went inside and had a big drink water, we were sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thirsty. While we were there, me and sage climbed a tree. I climbed to the top. I went in the car on the way home. We had to zoom home or Mum’s potato bake would burn. For dinner we had a DELICIOUS barbecue. I had a whole piece of steak, a sausage, zucchini, and a giant spoonful of potato bake. After dinner I ran around crazily and chased Lockie. I ate some grapes then calmed down. I had to tidy up the toy room and shut the front gate. When it was time for bed, I went into my room and played guitar instead. By then I was so tired I fell asleep immediately. In the end it was an amazing day.

Draft Waitangi recount

Draft Waitangi recount

“Mummy I’m hungry!” “Mummy I need to go toilet!” “Mummy look at me!” “MUMMY MUMMY MUMMY!” That is all I could hear. I was lying in bed listening to the nightmare I was about to walk into. I knew it wouldn’t be a very Waitangi ish, Waitangi day! Sage, Asha, and River were all trying to get the most attention from Mum. I had to put a pillow over my head. Finally I got out of bed. Dad was watching something on the chromebook, and the littleys (that is what we call Sage Asha and River) were fighting over who was going to be the baby in the game Mums and Dads. Mum decided to ditch the kids and go and do some gardening. It was really hot! I wanted to go for a swim. I decided I would do some baking with Asha and River. They were excited! We decided to make lamingtons. We made half the recipe then split the mixture. We made half gluten free and half gluten. When we put the cakes into the oven I made the chocolate icing. While I was waiting for the cakes to bake, I made lunch. After lunch we took the cakes out  of the oven, cut them and iced then. They looked bad. Once we put the coconut on, they looked good. I took a big bite out of one. Man they were delicious! I skyped Dad. I played my song on the guitar that me, Dulcie and my music teacher made up on Monday. Dad had to go cook his giant trout that he caught. We put our helmets on and got our bikes. Mum said I had to practice my riding for the weetbix tryathlon. We were going to ride up the long gravel road, to get to Pete & Claires. I got dust in my eyes. When we got there the dogs barked at us (they always do that).  We went inside and had a big drink water, we were soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thirsty. I went in the car on the way home. We had to zoom home or Mum’s potato bake would burn. For dinner we had a DELICIOUS barbecue. I had a whole piece of steak, a sausage, zucchini, and a giant spoonful of potato bake. After dinner I ran around crazily and chased Lockie. I ate some grapes then calmed down. I had to tidy up the toy room and shut the front gate. When it was time for bed, I went into my room and played guitar instead. By then I was so tired I fell asleep immediately. In the end it was a great day.

Lamb Organs

Kia Ora Bloggers!

on the 12-14 we had the Life Ed come to our school and teach us about our body parts. So yesterday we did an experiment using lamb hearts and kidneys that we had to dissect and observe what's inside them.

Here is some writing I did about it.

Skittles

Kia ora

Last week we did experiments with SKITTLES!
We had to write about it with our senses using show not tell.
I was not there that day, but I still did the writing. 
I hope you enjoy my writing!

The five senses

The Whispering Woods

By Depla Palmer

The rough black sticky branches looked like big black tentacles on an upside down angry octopus. The pointy stems of grass dug into my sore feet like needles taking out chunks of skin for a DNA test. The whispering wind made my ears ring like a little triangle going DING! DING! I took two steps forward only to get chucked in a boiling hot cauldron by a wicked witch who snuck up behind me.

Zoofari

Kia ora
On Wednesday we bussed to Auckland zoo. We were going to the zoo because the seniors were going on a Zoofari. We slept in the old elephant house and the girls got to sleep in Burma's room. The boys slept in Kashin's room. (Kashin is the ASB elephant). We went on a night walk which is where they take us on a tour of the zoo at night. Before we went on the night walk we got to see what the animals ate. Some animals ate baby food! I walked into the freezer. The freezer wasn't that cold. The elephant house was cold in the day time and warm in the night time! This is a photo of an wood pigeon (which is used as our school logo).

We are making animal reports and mine is about servals. I'm so glad that I actually got to see one! They are way more pretty than I thought they would be. I think my favourite animal at the zoo was a cheetah. We got to see the cheetahs when they were being taken for a walk. They were out of their cage and they were soooooooooooo cute!!! 

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog post.

Ka kite ano

bon voyage

Kia Ora.
We have been doing a Bon Voyage which has quizzes about opinion writing.
You should see my responses!!!