Cyclone proof house.

Reading Follow up.

This week for my reading my goal was to use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. So for this we looked at Caritas and how they are helping Papua New Guinea. Caritas NZ has been helping Papua New Guinea since 2002. A new step that they are trying is to install 100 water tanks that can hold 9,000 Liters. Another thing is that Papua New Guinea is getting destroyed because of Cyclones and other Natrual Diasters. So me and my friend made a Cyclone proof house. I hope you enjoy it. 

What do you think you could do to help the people in Papua New Guinea?

How to tie you shoes?

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be talking to you about my writing this week. My goal this week was to use a variety of sentences structures, beginnings and lengths to give effect.We had to take a text and edit it so it was wow. I took a text on how to tie your shoes and made it my way. Some ways I edited it was I put in words like firstly and secondly. I also put in a couple compound sentences. A compound sentence is when you add in 2 causes. Here is my finished product.


Do you know any other ways to tie you shoes?

Math task, area of shapes.

Hello Blogger.

This week I will be sharing my math with you. My goal was Use a variety of strategies to calculate the area of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles. If you don't know what that is, it's how many mini squares are in an object. We did this for 3 shapes: Rectangles, Triangles and Parallelogram. For our DLO we had to create drawing  about it. Hope you enjoy it.

What are you learning in Maths?

Treaty of Waitangi

This week we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. After we had gathered our research we had to do a DLO. That stands for digital learning object. My group did a google drawing that resembled how the British lied to the Maori. The sold sign is there for when the British stole the land. I hope you enjoy my picture.

What do you think about Waitangi day?

First Blog in 2020

This year as it begins I'm really excited to be sharing my working with you. This year I am a year 7 at St Francis of Assisi school.

In the holidays me, and my extend family went to a place called Mapua. My favorite thing that I did there was jump off a Warf and my towel hat that I got. We also went to Rabbit Island which was a beach. It had bright blue water and HOT sand. One day I wish I could go back to Mapua. 

This year I'm looking forward to all the opportunities as a senior at my school. I am going to try do as many things as possible. Also I'm excited for being in Kapa haka and other events at school. Some other things that I'm excited this year is Tough kids, the Fair, all the fun day outs and Top team. 

My hopes for the year are to get into Canterbury's for Athletics, Cross Country and Duathlon. Also I want to become better at my Maths and Handwriting skills. In addition I don't want to lose anything this year like I have been doing in the pass. I want to be focus this year as well. 

What are you excited for this year at school?

Letter Writing

This time for letter writing we did a formal letter. This is if we were happy or sad about going to war. This is mine, hope you enjoy.

Excited Ethan
88 Party Place
 Chingis town
 (021) 397 782
 Instagram@Hotmail.com
 2nd February 1915

The War Prime Minister
 The War Government
2645 House Lane
Lame City

Dear Henry Martino,
I am writing this because I am very disappointed in the way that you made me go to War. I had to leave my family and I might never see them again. It stinks at War. The stress levels are so high I can’t even tell you about it. Not going to sleep because of having the thought of being night raided or if we left to go to another location. Why didn’t you have to go to War. Why didn’t we just stay in our country and if they come to us then we protect. I could of done what you doing. You can hardly eat and who you said would be the best person go shot 2 weeks ago. I hope you get this and realised to bring us home. 

Sincerely, Excited Ethan.

What do you think about WW1?

Living in the Trenches!!!!!

For writing we are doing letter writing we had to write a letter to someone in our family about how we were in the Trenches in WW1. This is an informal letter. The other letter is called a formal letter. The difference is the start of it. For a formal you would do you email addres and other stuuff but for an imformal you don't. Here is mine hope you enjoy.

 Dear Dad HELP ME!

 It is disgusting in these trenches. Every 10 seconds a pile of mud falls on me. We are always on the move moving from trench to trench. I can hardly sleep, scared of any night attacks. We are all tired so the trenches get smaller and smaller. Coll is panicking because the last 3 nights we had to eat Rats the size of Cats. And don’t even get me started on the smell. Anthony died a couple of days ago and he still stinks. I hope Ben is not getting any more Ducks in Cricket. I heavily regret coming to this war. I miss very much. My job is to clean out the mud. Coll is to get more ammo ( I got the easier job.) 

Hopefully see you soon, Ethan.

Have you ever done an imformal or a formal letter before?