Reading 2020

What are the benefits of reading

The benefits of reading are…

• Getting a better job, since you're more intelligent

• Keeps you entertained

• Helps you learn words

• Helps with mental health

• Helps with loneliness

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You can also  learn to . . .

• Cook

• Do creative things

• Read new words

So start reading now!

How often do you read, and what sort of books?

Even though you have heard me say the benefits of reading, I don’t read that often. One session of 10-15 minutes a day is all I read. so in a week, I read for about 70 minutes. The types of books I read are non-fiction, factual books. But sometimes I read roald dahl books.

What is your favorite book, and why

My favorite books are the guinness book of world records books, because I get to see people doing incredible things. Like drinking a 1L bottle of water in a second, or the fastest origami bird, made in 10 seconds. There's so many cool world record you can see and also try to beat. I haven't beaten any yet but it's really fun to try.

What is the best part reading a book?

To me, the best part of reading a book is getting into the best parts. When you read for a while you start to get a picture of what's happening in the story. You pretty much just imagine so hard that you are in your own world. That is the best part of reading.

 Mobile Phones for Children

Are mobile phones good for children, and why?

No mobile phone are not good for children. Your child doesn't need more screens than they already have. They could get sleeping issues, medical issues, and there mental health won't be as good, either. But if they need to call you in an emergency, Phones are the perfect thing to have. Your child will have complete control to contact you whenever they need.

How could mobile phones help you both in and out of school?

Mobile Phones are capable of a lot of things, Calling is one of them. Being able to call your parents at will, is a luxury at times. If your late from coming home from school, your parents will be worried. Unless they know the reason why your late. If you have a phone, you can tell them that your coming home soon.

What are the risks of children owning a cellphone?

The risks of buying a Phone for your children are high. They will have access to everything on the internet. And yes, They will also be able to see inappropriate content such as...

• Violence
• Inappropriate images of human beings
• swearing

One more thing to say, computer and laptops, etc. Also have complete access to to internet. So if your child has one of these, and you trust them. You can buy them a phone.

At what age do you think children should get a mobile phone, and why?

I think that ages 11+ are good to buy your child a phone because by then they will ...

• Be a trustable age
• Be hopefully mature enough

Also if everyone in your child's class has a phone get them one or they will be lonely. Another thing to say don't buy your child a phone when you got one. It's a new generation so new technology.

Healthy Food Quick Fire Write

What makes a healthy lifestyle?

A healthy lifestyle is made up of being active, and of course, eating your veggies. It is recommended to spend at least 30-60 minutes doing physical activity such as sports, gym, trampolining etc. also people should replace unhealthy snacks like pizza, cupcakes etc, with fruit alternatives. You can replace juice that is high in sugar, with a fruit that is nice and juicy, such as an Orange.

What are the benefits of a healthy diet and an active lifestyle?

 

The benefits of a healthy diet and active lifestyle are you don't have much of a chance to get chronic conditions like diabetes, cancer, arthritis, etc. also you will be very fit and decrease the chances of getting obesity.

What are your favorite healthy foods, and why?

my favorite healthy foods are fruits, specific veggies, and curry, because they all just taste nice. Fruits are sweet and fresh while veggies are nice in curry and soup, and sometimes good plain. did you know that some curry's are very high in protein.

What is your favorite form of exercise, and why?

my favorite form of exercise is trampolining, I may not be the best at it, but it's so fun. I go to trampoline club every tuesday to learn new tricks. There are 7 difficulties, they are red, blue, green, yellow, purple, white and black. I'm on yellow and am almost able to do a back somersault.

That all for my Healthy foods quick write, please leave a comment below. 

First Week of School 2020

The first week of school was pretty jam packed with excitement and fun, first thing we ever did in our new classes in 2020 was meet our teachers, I think that my teacher this year is terrific, also we have a  new timetable we do reading after morning tea and lunch, then we do things  like our  collaborative art.

The only collaborative art peace we have done so far is our bird art, it has three birds in it and it looks really, really cool. The next thing we started is our Waitangi day booklet, it has so much information about Waitangi day and it so many fun things to do like, draw the meeting house or answer why you thing that people feel weird talking about Waitangi day, if you have any facts about Waitangi day, you can write them down in the comments.

We also made our buzz groups by this cool animal quiz, we each had a peace of paper and they had a word or and animal name, we had to find out what words are related to each other in some sort of way, when you find someone with a related word, they are in your buzz group. it was really fun and I do lots of activities with by buzz group to Get better at teamwork, that's all i did in my first week of school, comment below if you think it was a good first week.

Term Recap

This term is great so far, I have learnt a lot of new games. And have learnt a lot of new ways to make my talent's shine and make more friend's, but there isn't much of the term left, so, i'm trying to make the best of the term as possible.

Here are the some of the tremendous things about this term...

Firstly, we have gotten used to the fact that we have to manage our time wisely, that is because we do a timetable and a priorities tracking sheet now. They have helped me a lot, because I got to pro because of them... Atleast I think so. 

We have also read the book Holes, it's a really good book, now the people who finish their priorities will get to watch the movie, and eat spiced peaches. We have also made a lot of art related

to Holes. The art is really fun because it's pretty much drawing what you want.

Another thing I have already mentioned, but not that well, is games. I have learnt many new games, here are the names of them... firstly this term we learnt how to play Medic, it's pretty much dodgeball, all you do is your team chooses a person to heal the people that are out, you get 2 medics, and then you need bouncy balls and mat's. You first place down the mat's and then divide your class or group into teams. Then everyone starts to hit their enemies with balls. And then Ultimate Rounders, in this game you have a cours set up, you need to divide into 2 teams and then you choose which team is the batting team and which is the fielding, the fielding team tries to catch the ball and give it to the pitcher, the batting team tries to hit the ball as far a he or she can and then try to get to the safe point.


This term we also performed our speech, in front of the class, now the teacher is going to choose the finalists to perform on stage. when I performed my speech I was really nervous but once I got into about 10 minutes of the speech I was quite confident. For my feedback the only thing I needed to work on was not saying, the end, on my speech.

Next we also had a marae visit but I didn't stay, i had a really bad tummy ache. but we had lots of fun, the only thing I didn't get to do was walk up Kaiti hill which I was looking forward to doing, but overall it was really fun at the marae, we did other stuff to, like, having free time, and eating.

We also had some wonderful people come al the way from australia to perform on stage for us, they did a cup performance by using cups as instruments, now we are doing a performance with cups to.

We made 3d faces art to, it is now on our wall and my one is a yellow spotted lizard.

And then we had tabloids day when we did lots of fun stuff, and where in teams arranged by house captains.

And finally we are practicing to perform our Dig it Up musical item, on stage in front of the hole school.

My Weekend:)

My Weekend

On Saturday I was very excited it was screen day and I wanted to play Zombs.io. Zombs.io is a free to play online game.  It's when you collect wood and stone and build a base with the things you have, you can also upgrade your base with gold.  

Over the weekend, I was on the computer playing Zombs.io I was building a famous and very effective base the X base it is the best base in the game it's called the X base because its shaped as an X.
 I joined a team, but planned to cheat the game.

 I opened a new tab and pasted my team link on it, then I would spawn in the same map then on the new tab I made a party then I left that tab and went to the other tab.  I got so much gold because I had joined the top party.  Soon I had 80,000 wood and 100,000 stone and finally I had 1 billion in gold.  Then I went to the other tab and joined the party then deleted the other tab.

 I had thousands of resources and could build my own Xbase.  I built the base and it survived for the rest of the weekend I got to wave 1000+ it was amazing. I checked my base today and it was almost dead but it had survived for a few more minutes.
It was really fun.

The Chase

These are some of Rm 4's assignments completed. Story bird is a website that you can make a poem, picture book, and long form book.  You can write anything you want except in poems because there are already words chosen. Can you pick which one is mine?