Persuasive Writing- Rona and the Moon

Rona should not have said those terrible things about Marama, the moon. Marama does not control the clouds, so when the cloud went in front of Marama she can’t just move it out of the way. Marama had the right to feel insulted because Rona said the rudest and worst thing someone could ever say to another person.

Rona should have also used her common sense, you shouldn’t be running down a path at night because it’s dangerous. Also when it suddenly went dark she should have just stopped running and walked. If you're running there’s a high chance you're gonna have a bigger impact if you fall, but if you're walking there’s a lower chance of you falling hard.

Task Description: This is my writing task for the week. What we had to do was pick a Stance, Stance 1 was supporting Rona of her action's on how she insulted Marama or Stance 2 which was the other way around which is not supporting her. I picked stance 2, I then had to put down five points, then I had to pick two and put them in paragraphs. I had to write why she shouldn't have done what she did.

Rona and the Moon

Task Description: This is my reading task for the day. It is about Rona and the moon. We first had to listen to the story of Rona and the moon, then we had to watch a video of Rona and the moon. We then had to read Rona and the moon and The Moon story. We had to make a story board of the story Rona and the Moon then we had to break the text into word groups on slide 6. After we did that we had to do a recording then put down some worthy words. It's sounds like a lot of work but it is worth it because our learning will get better.

Rona and the Moon- Retelling of the Story

On a bush-clad hill above a peaceful valley was the home Rona shared together
with her husband and children. At night they would listen to the sounds of the
valley: a family of kiwis whitening to each other in a high pitched voice, the sound
of Tawhirimatea and many other beautiful natural sounds.

Rona and her family would watch the night sky as it became bejewelled in twinkling
stars. They always loved to gaze at Marama, the moon. Marama, enchantress of
the nights, as she walked the sky. Life at Rona's was peaceful and very good.

One night when her children were asleep, Rona was getting ready to
lay on her mat when her husband Tiroha wanted a drink of water so he
went down to the clashbashes, but they were all empty. What a fit Tiroha threw.
His impatient yells shattered the night, isn’t it a woman's job to fill the
clashbashes? He said. He roared and complained, Rona couldn’t take it grabbing
one empty clashbash she headed down to the creek.

Mattering under her breath, “Am I the only one in the house capable of
carrying water?”. Marama gazed quietly down from her high vantage point.
Rona’s path was washed with the moonlight as Rona tramped down the path.
Down past the kahikatea grove the world went dark. A great black cloud had
moved across the moon’s face. Rona trudged on the pitch blackness, feeling
sorry for herself.

The next thing she knew, her foot got caught in a root and down she fell,
flat on her face. The clashbash flew from her hand and smashed into the ground.
That was the final straw. Up Rona got shaking her fist at the moon, cursing with
all her might. Rona said some nasty things which were the rudest and the worst
insult you could say to anyone.

High above Marama heard Rona’s curse and chose to feel insulted.
Down out of the sky she plunged. She took Rona by the waist and pulled.
Terrified Rona grabbed onto a nearby tree trying to hold on as tight. The moon
tugged and pulled, Rona was begging to be let go but her pleas fell on deaf ears.
Next thing she knew was she was in the home of Marama, the next morning her
husband and kids tried to look for her but she was nowhere to be found.
Rona screamed from the moon and her kids and husband heard her, Rona’s kids
were begging for their mother to come back, what do you know she never did.

Decimal Fractions 1

Task Description: This is my first maths work for our second lock-down. This task if about Decimal fractions, this is only level 1 because I need a reminder of how to work out decimal fractions. In this task we had to work out how many tenths are there, what is the answer for this equation and other task. I didn't get this at first but I remembered what my teacher said and it helped me. 

Myths and Legends Map

Task Description: This is my first task in our second lock-down. This is about myths and legends. What we had to do was pick a myth or legend we have learnt about and put some facts down about that myth and then on the first slide we had to put the pin on the country our myth is from. The myth I did was from Croatia. This task was fun to make, I didn't have enough time so I only did was myth.

Camp 2021

 This years  leadership camp was astonishing! I am so grateful our teachers let us have this opportunity to step out of our comfort zone and show what we are cable of and how good of a leader we can be. I am so grateful I was chose to be one of the leaders because it helped me become more confident and i'm grateful for my team that supported me while being a leader.

The eight activities we did was, 1. Paint Ball, 2. Go karts, 3. Archery, 4. BMX bikes, 5. Railway Jiggers, 6. Low ropes, 7. Cross games and 8. Camp search and also playing in the gym. 

The activities were should definitely keep for 2021 are: Paint ball, Go karts, Archery, Low Ropes, Cross games, Rail way jiggers. But, I think it would be amazing if we also do Kayaking, Play on the water slide and also use the flying fox. I also think it would be amazing if we stayed at camp longer like we go to the camp site on Monday and come back on Friday.

 Apart from it all the activities are fun and I am still grateful we get to do these amazing activities.

Overall, these three days are really important. It is so good for us because we can have a break from school and the leadership camp helps us become better leaders and makes us come out of our comfort zone.

Year 8 Leadership Camp

 Last week the Yr 8's had the privilege to attend Kauaeranga Christian Camp. We were at camp for three days while the Yr 7 students stayed back at school doing a leadership camp. We arrived at the Camp and then had morning tea and put our things into our dorms. Then we played cross games, we played cross games to earn points and also to kill time by playing fun activities. We did lots of fun activities like Archery, Paint ball and lots of other fun activities that include team work and motivating. 

My two favourite activities at Camp was Go karts and Archery. Go karts were fun because I thought it was going to be hard to drive but it was actually fun. We had to lapse to practice and then we could race to see who could get the fastest time, saddest didn't get the fastest time. My other favourite activity was Archery, the bow I was using was heavy the steps on how to use it was, 1. Punch, 2. Pull the arrow over your head, 3.Pull the string back, 4. Turn the bow, 5. then shot and try hit the middle. When I shot the arrow I got it on the yellow bit and it was close to the middle. Go karts and Archery were my favourite activities. A big thank-you to Phil and Shelley for having us as guest and making us feel welcomed. We had a great time at camp and i'm going to miss camp.