Daffodil day

Daffodil day.

Daffodil day is in every Friday on August the 28th.

What is Daffodil day?

Daffodil day is the cancer society's yearly flagship function and the most important fundraising event.

Why?

It supports the cancer foundation for the treatment and recovery of those who are suffering from this disease which comes from many forms.

Help those who are needing our help.

If you want to help go to http://www.daffodilday.org.nz/donate/

Child labour vs. Chocolate which one do you pick?

Do you love chocolate? do you know the secrets of chocolate? well I know and I can tell you what are the issues that are going on.

Did you know that kids ages to 12-16 are forced to work in cocoa farms to collect cocoa nibs my opinion I think all for money. They are slaved to work being unpaid in the Ivory coast in west Africa.

Some chocolate companies just like Hershey's and others never have given out the real truth. They hide it behind their backs the truth that hasn’t been spoken out to the world what issues of chocolate going on. Nestle is the company that provides all the cocoa to be given away to chocolate companies.

Nestle gets all the chocolate from the Ivory coast where the children are trafficked. Children are slaved and beaten up to collect all the cocoa nibs.

This is truly unfair to those kids who are trafficked and slaved to do all the work. How would you feel when you are slaved just like them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8j2l-3TxTg&feature=youtu.be

My goals for term3 and 4

My goals

Maths: I am confident in subtracting and adding tens and ones. I am also confident in learning the strategy right and understanding it very well. I can add hundreds to the 2 digit numbers and is very easy. But I need to be careful while doing the strategy.

I am working in Stage 5. I would like to do the strategy right and carefully with no mistake and learn a different strategy (not repeating the same strategy). I wish I could work with Mrs. Cochrane's class.

 

Where to next?

To learn more harder maths and move on to stage six so that I can move on I do not want to stay on the same stage I really need to move on. Learn more about fractions, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex and hard numbers, decimal numbers, more on measurement problems- area, weight, length, volume, conversion, time and money, geometry and doing investigation in statistics.

Writing;

I am confident in explaining and and adding more information to my work.  I need to learn more vocab and making sure that each of my sentences makes sense.  I need to proofread it before I post to my blog. I must always use paragraphs and put them in the right correct order. I am working on Stage 4B.

Making sure I proofread my work before publishing or posting. I need to put my work into paragraphs in the correct order to make sure I do not get mixed up with the first or second.

What to next?

I need to move my writing level up  to 4A- achieve level 4. I should be able to proofread my work by myself by using interesting words. Make sure to  write in paragraphs and add harder words to make my work interesting. So that I don’t need to use the same words because it is boring.

Book review: last wolf

Robbie McLeod an orphan,met a young wolf Cub and named him Charlie. Both went on an amazing adventure and they tried to get away from all the war that's going on. Robbie was living alone and now lived with Charlie. They moved to America where they found freedom for themselves. Robbie begun a peaceful family with Charlie.

I recommend this book to children ages 10-12.  It is a hard book because some words are difficult.  You need to understand them.  The vocabulary is very good, the book you will love and you’ll get hook in reading it.

Author: Michael Morpurgo

BY: Amanda

Switzerland

Switzerland has four languages such as… (Swiss)

German, Roman, French and Italian. The capital of Switzerland is Bern. For over 190 years Switzerland has been  uncommitted country during the world war times.

Switzerland has been a landlocked country in western europe. It shares its land border with Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy and France.

The population of  Switzerland is eight million (7,996,026). The Swiss cities of Zürich, Geneva and Bern is ranked in the top 10 most liveable cities in the world. Switzerland is a mountainous country with 208 mountains that are high over 3,000m high and 24 over 4,000m Wow!! How high is that?

Did you know that the highest mountain in Switzerland is Monte Rosa? It is about 4,634m high and about 15,203 ft.  That must be very high and can kill people when they fall and hit the ground. Did you know that a famous climber named Charles Hudson died ten years later after climbing Mount Rosa.

Switzerland is very famous for its chocolate my favourite chocolate Toblerone this comes from Switzerland. It is also famous for its cheese, banking system, watches and alpine mountain areas. Popular sports in Switzerland is skiing, snowboarding and mountaineering. Traditional sports: Switzerland is wrestling golf and baseball and stone put.

switzerland collage

Mary Mackillop