A Santa Letter

A letter to Santa

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

A letter to Santa has been found in a chimney in Wales from the 1930’s.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

Well a builder was constructing a house in wales he saw a note up in the chimney to Santa about how the little girl wanted a hymn book and some nice toys for Christmas.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

This event took place in wales which is on the other side of the world the dragon on the front of their flag is called the “Welsh Dragon”.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

I don’t think nothing would happen in the future but if the little girl had children maybe they would write a letter to Santa like how her grandmother did.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

Because the little girl named Christine wanted a present for christmas time.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Hymn- To praise someone

Excited - Has lots of energy and is very happy.

Found - Discover unexpectedly somewhere somehow

Chimney - Something that the smoke of the fire comes out and is comfort in the winter time for Christmas.

A Katipo

What is an Katipo Spider?

A katipo spider is one of New Zealand’s endangered spiders and native. In north america and Australia this kind of spider would be called the “Black Window” because of its colour.

(Female Spider)

This female spider only lays its eggs coming to the end of a year. When a baby spider is born it is protected in the female’s web or lair. A female katipo spider has a pea size abdomen or belly and can grow up to 6 mm in length. As female katipo starts to mature they change colour before they get to adult stage. On its abdomen (belly) they have a red strip down to the surface or sometimes a small red patch that is located on the underside of it abdomen (belly).

(Male Spider)

A male katipo is much smaller than the female, measuring up to 4 mm in length. The male katipo retains (keeps) its same markings as it is shared by many other female and male spiders.  

Katipo spiders live in places such as driftwood,sand,pingao which is a bush that is on the beach that is long as grass. They eat only insects that crawl on the ground such as beetles. A katipo spider belongs to a worldwide Latrodectus family of spiders. If you ever get bitten by a katipo spider you are likely to get a swollen arm or leg pain and vomiting non stop. But this won’t occur all the time because it is uncommon and unpleasant sight to see.

Buy car from a Vending machine

 Vending car machine

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

Their is no statement about the vending machine in the article.

2.In your own words describe what happened in this news article

This article is about a vending machine that doesn't have food no drinks but dispenses Cars. This newly invention was founded Benjamin Huston and Ryan Keeton. They have been working on making an invention like this since 2013.

3.Find out where this event took place and included some information about this place.

This can be found in Nashville Tennessee where interesting fact Nashville was found on Christmas eve in 1779.

4.Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

While this online auto car site might take off with a blast because of their invention and might be built around nationwide because of just their vending machine.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

Well I don’t know for a reason why They built this but in my opinion I think it is a great idea that a group of people built a car vending machine that might or eventually take off selling for millions of dollars.  

6.Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Vending Machine / A machine that dispenses small items such as food, drinks and chocolate.

Unique / meaning it is the only one of kinds and can only be found one place.

Purchase/ Meaning buying or paying for something you want.

Wood Work

 

As part of our learning room 8 years 7's got to design,burn,paint and cut out a character from their favorite cartoon.

1. First we traced out a design on our square piece of wood.

2. using a burner trace a the outline you made.

3. colour in you cartoon character with felt first.

4. draw an outline and cut the excess off.

paint the background and stick or glue a piece of magnet.

The Church

Today in room 8 we discuss what good our community does to help out in the church. And what a church is what we do at church.

12 Days of Christmas

Today I constructed a pie and graph.
*using Google Spreadsheet'
*Firstly I entered my data in the first 2 columns
* I then selected this information and the graph.
* After selecting the graphing tool,  chose the pie graph.
* Following this I selected the customization tool and this allowed me to add a Title and heading for each axis so ensure that people reading the completed graph would know what the graph was all about.

Are you ready for the Big One?

Disaster Game

Plus	Minus	Very Interesting
The game has 3 main resources called: Are you prepared, Read the stories And get ready for the big one. Once completed the game it tells you whether the things you did wrong or correct.		Helps us learn what we should take in a survival kit. It shows us information about what happens in a Tsunami, Volcano Eruption and Earthquake. All the activities in this game can help us escape worse scenarios and disaster like an earthquake.

Today I completed the awesome forces interactive game about earthquakes and others natural disasters and then completed the P.M.I.

Angles and Triangles

This morning for maths we investigated the angles of triangles. Firstly I drew an equilateral triangle. Once I finished I ripped each corner of the triangle and repeated this once more for my next triangle. I placed the corners I ripped off in a straight line. This add up to 180 degrees.

Do you know the difference between the Arctic and Antarctica?

As part of the immersion stage of our Inquiry. We are developing knowledge and understanding about Antarctica.

Are you Cyber smart about what you do?

 

This afternoon room 8 entered a quiz on how children can be cybersmart. In quiz you have 11 questions that Sam (teller) about what you should do if a email from an unknown person pops up on your screen and you don't know what to do.

Use capital letters!

LI: We are learning to place sentences in he correct space using punctuation and apolitical letters.

Eli's all about me!

Today in room 8 our buddy bloggers came over and told us about what kind of things they like and do. My buddy Eli likes to play tag,eat chocolate and ice cream. His best friends are Matthew,Cruzinho,Chester,Peter,Sione and Hanz.

Back with my buddy blogger Eli!

It was the start of the term and I was back with my partner Eli from room 2. This picture of him shows how he came into our class to put comments on his blog.

Best advertisement ad made!

The Persuasive Reading Analysis: Best Advertisement Ad Ever

Take another look at the persuasive piece of reading/ writing.

What strategies does the author use to try to persuade you?

Below are strategies writers often use for this form of writing.  Read through each

strategy and decide whether the author used that strategy by writing yes or no in the second column. If you write yes, then explain how the author used that strategy.

(LI) Write a critique on advertisement that includes ethos,pathos and logos.

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The purpose behind this advertisement , I believe is to make people think about what they can do to help others in need. And what little things they do can go a long way if they helped people living on the streets. From the actions of the man he is showing what people can do to help other even if it just a little thing it or they can go a long way to what they want to do in the future.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	Six actors, including a dog, a child and four adults support the message in this advertisement. As you see in the advertisement every single day the man wakes up and visits the people by helping them giving them food and money. The actor (the man) see’s a little girl and her mother begging on the road for money to pay for her to go to school. The thoughtful man give all the money he's got in his wallet just to help this mother give her children's education. He leaves food for an elderly woman but she doesn’t know that this man is giving her food to eat.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	Yes	This thoughtful man appeals to the audience emotions because we can see that living on the street starving without food is reality to some people around the world. This advertisement is emotional because of how people react to what this man was doing to help other, when you watch it you will see people nodding their head in disappointment  saying in their head why he was doing that - giving money to the poor feeding the starving dog.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	While you watch the ad you will see on how the man is talking about if you help other you can make a difference to them and even if it is just giving a dead plant some water. Or feed a dog that maybe didn't eat for days till he saw the man or even if is just giving banana’s to you neighbour.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause	Yes	The writers that giving back to the poor is and can do something to change a life or to make them happy.
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;  this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations.	Yes	As seen in the advertisement how the mother and her daughter is is asking for money this really does happen to people in parts of the world and sometimes we just don’t know about.

Emotional Advertisement

Best Advertisement Ever:

(LI) Write a critique on advertisement that includes ethos,pathos and logos.

The purpose behind this advertisement , I believe is to make people think about what they can do to help others in need. And what little things they do can go a long way if they helped people living on the streets. From the actions of the man he is showing what people can do to help other even if it just a little thing it or they can go a long way to what they want to do in the future.

Six actors, including a dog, a child and four adults support the message in this advertisement. As you see in the advertisement every single day the man wakes up and visits the people by helping them giving them food and money. The actor (the man) see’s a little girl and her mother begging on the road for money to pay for her to go to school. The thoughtful man gives  all the money he's got in his wallet just to help this mother give her child a education. He leaves food for an elderly woman but she doesn't know that this man is giving her food to eat.

This thoughtful man appeals to the audience emotions because we can see that living on the street starving without food is reality to some people around the world. This advertisement is emotional because of how people react to what this man was doing to help other, when you watch it you will see people nodding their heads in disappointment and  saying in their heads why he was doing that - giving money to the poor feeding the starving dog.                                

While you watch the ad you will see on how the man is talking about if you help other you can make a difference to them and even if it is just giving a dead plant some water , or feeding  a dog that maybe didn't eat for days till he saw the man or even if is just giving banana’s to you neighbour.

The writers is trying to send a message out to the whole world that giving back to the poor is and can do something to change a life or to make them happy.

Cadbury chocolate eggs

Persuasive Reading Analysis: Analysis text using ethos,pathos and logos

Take another look at the persuasive piece of reading/ writing.

What strategies does the author use to try to persuade you?

Below are strategies writers often use for this form of writing.  Read through each

strategy and decide whether the author used that strategy by writing yes or no in the second column. If you write yes, then explain how the author used that strategy.

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The writer very cleverly “ uses the phrase Don't get caught! At the beginning of the advertisement and repeats at the end and throughout the whole ad.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument		Cadbury is the name of the brand and is named after the found owner John cadbury. In Fact John Cadbury first lived in England and moved from England to here to make chocolate covered eggs now in double chocolate covered eggs and other chocolates.
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	This writer very cleverly uses the word “This little angel” in the clip so that the audience thinks that she is good little girl but actually she is a little girl eating chocolate during class time .
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	No
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	While watching the ad at the end you will see and throughout the ad the writer is talking about what is inside the double chocolate covered egg which is a yolky caramel inside.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause	Yes	Because the writer said they are irresistible meaning that if you don’t go and get you your own egg you're going to miss out.
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;  this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations.	No

Irresistible Chocolate covered eggs

Cadbury Caramel Eggs:

(LI) Write advertising critique  about and advertisement using ethos pathos and logos

(Claim)

The writer very cleverly “ uses the phrase Don't get caught! At the beginning of the advertisement and repeats at the end and throughout the whole ad.

(Big Names )

Cadbury is the name of the brand and is named after the found owner John cadbury. In Fact John Cadbury first lived in England and moved from en gland to here to make chocolate covered eggs now in double chocolate  and other  different kinds of chocolates.

(Ethos )

This writer very cleverly uses the word “This little angel” in the clip so that the audience thinks that she is good little girl but actually she is a little girl eating chocolate during class time.

(Logos )

While watching the ad at the end you will see and throughout the ad the writer is talking about what is inside the double chocolate covered egg which is a yolky caramel inside.

(Kairos )

Because the writer said they are irresistible meaning that if you don’t go and get you your own egg you're going to miss out.

Healthy Lunches

Learning Intention:    

Walt: Analyse text to identify examples of ethos, pathos and logos.  

Persuasive Reading Analysis :Healthy Lunches

Take another look at the persuasive piece of reading/ writing.

What strategies does the author use to try to persuade you?

Below are strategies writers often use for this form of writing.  Read through each

strategy and decide whether the author used that strategy by writing yes or no in the second

column. If you write yes, then explain how the author used that strategy.

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The author said “That children should eat and drink healthy food everyday in school to be healthy’!
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	Yes	In some schools children are provided with milk that is delivered fresh every morning. This author is trying to convince children aged 5 - 12 to eat healthy and make healthy lunches so that they could are a model for younger children.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	Milk is known to support healthy teeth and bones. Fizzy drinks are not good for teeth because the sugar in  fizzy drinks causes decay. should be should be banned from school because it is not healthy and it will rot their teeth, and that is the school's rule.   Children have to eat fruit and vegetables everyday because it will keep all of them healthy.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	Yes	Inferring from the text the writer is emphasising the importance that children should eat a healthy lunch to help them grow strong and healthy.
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	The writer assumes that the reader has knowledge of healthy food and eating .habits but does not include evidence of research
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency   for the cause	Yes	He emphasises  what will happen to a child's’ teeth and bones if they do not eat well.
Research – Uses studies and  information to make the  argument seem more convincing;   this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations	No