Persuasive Speeches

The time has come for .... drum roll.... the school speech competition. This year speeches need to be persuasive. The theme for the year 5/6s is 'Healthy Lifestyle Choices'. Every speech needs to persuade the audience to change or improve their lifestyle.

This term in our class we have been looking at persuasive writing techniques in writing.

We have been looking at our topic of Hauora/ Wellbeing.

NEWSFLASH: There are 20 auction dollars up for grabs for the first person who can comment on the blog telling us what the four aspects of hauora are... I'll give you the trickiest one: taha hinengaro/ emotional wellbeing.

We have been looking at things that contribute to a healthy lifestyle, like good sleep habits (Remember healthy henry and sleepy susan?), exercise and sport, healthy eating, good oral health (remember our adventures in Saving Tooth Kingdom?), spending time with friends and family, knowing our values and our purpose in life and dealing with our emotions well.

I can't wait to hear your speeches on one of these aspects! Good luck finishing writing them and start practising your presentation in front of the mirror. Remember the things we will be evaluating (on the rubric you created).

Here are some photos to show how we came up with a rubric to evaluate our speeches.

Mr Cooling

Today we had Mr Cooling. Some people call him Mr Coolman. Today is Flynn's birthday thats me, i'm turning 11.But back to Mr Cooling, you don't want to get on the wrong side of him, two people have already been sent to Mr Gray's room for being really idiotic.For my birthday I got a box of chocolates...

Ooops.. looks like Flynn ran out of time to finish this blog post! Hope you had a very happy birthday Flynn!! From Ms Wills

Everyone has been working on different things for the Sharing the Planet work. Here are some of the things people have been recording. Click to listen/ watch:

Here's Mathew's interview with a prince!

Here's Caitlin's and Tessas Did you know facts about the environment and Dannielle's Did you know facts about inventions!

science day

Today room16 had a science day. We made pitfall traps with plastic cups to put in the ground so the top was level with the ground. Pieces of fruit had to be put in the cup so that the bugs would come and fall in and get trapped. We also made fly traps out of drink-bottles. Fruit also had to be put in the bottles.

Scottish Dancing

About three weeks ago we started Scottish dancing. The first song we done was called The Gay Gordan. Alot of people got the hang of it at the start.

Cinter Netta Search

For a Sharing the Planet task I had to read a book called " A Cinter Netta search". I had to read the story & answer 3 Questions. Then I had to write a dialogue called An interview with a Prince. I was the reporter & Zack was the Prince.

From Nikita

The Traffic light system!

Last week we started the traffic light system. A traffic light system is for when someone is good they stay in the green. When your bad you move from orange to red to black. Every ones name is on it.One person has made it to black.That's My brother, Jacob.When you make it to black you have to write an apology letter saying why you did what you did.

This is our traffic light.

By the bloggers this week Dannielle,Tyler & Nikita.

OH NO! Mrs Edwards is leaving :(:(:(:(:(

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mrs Edwards is leaving. She's moving to Methven to work at pudding hill lodge.Well miss her heaps!!!!

By this weeks journalist & photographer : Dannielle & Tyler.

Persuasive writing

This term we are starting persuasive writing. First we had to do a worksheet called "Is it persuasive?".Then we had to write the parts of it.Then we had to make a info text persuasive

to this,

This is a persuasive text.

Written by rm 16 bloggers this week, Dannielle & Tyler (with Nikita's help) :)

Kindergarten visit

Today we're having a visit from Tinwald Kindergarten. We are going to read little kiddies stories to them. They are 3 to 4 years of age. CUTE!!!!! We all had to chose one book each at the School Library. The Kapa-Haka group are going to preform a haka to them. The Grampas ... books are very popular such as Grampas cardigan, Grampas shed and Grampas slippers and I chose a book called "Hairy Maclarys Bone"
From this weeks journalist, Dannielle.

What makes a good life?

Here's a big and rather important question:

What do you think makes a good life?

I'm interested to hear your thoughts so have a think then post your comment on the wall:

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/a-good-life

When you've done that have a go at creating a Wordle all about our topic on Healthy Lifestyles. Type in lots of great words that have to do with having a healthy lifestyle then play around with how they are arranged.

http://www.wordle.net/

Click here for the one I made today