The Importance of keeping our environment clean.

Pt England School

130 Pt England Road

Pt England

Auckland NZ

Thursday 25th August 2016

Dear Prime Minister John Key,

Kia Ora my name is Sheales. I am a year 6 student and I am also 11 years of age. Right now I am attending Pt England School in Auckland. The teachers that are teaching me are Ms Moala , Miss West , Mr Somerville and Miss Lavakula. I am from a gorgeous island of Niue.

The purpose of this letter is to let you know about how tossing rubbish away is affecting our environment.

As I said the problem is people are tossing their rubbish away and it is ending up in our drains and waterways. It is a big problem because it’s affecting our animals and fish. For example when birds are hungry and fly over water, they see plastic thinking it is fish. But then they die because they can’t eat anything else.

What I suggest you do is gather some people to help you organize a group that can help clean the environment, so that the environment doesn’t get any dirtier. Otherwise we won’t have clean water, much food source or even a place to live, or you could gather people from communities to help clean the environment.

I have done some research and I have found that litter that is tossed into the ocean doesn’t just float around it also travels long distances with the currents and winds. Not only does the rubbish affect our marine sea life and birds. The amount of rubbish that is being tossed away into the ocean washes up on beaches, are caught on fishing lines and it can also damage motors in boats.

Your Sincerely,

Sheales

Explanation Writing - Technology as a Performance Enhancing Drug

Here I have written some ideas based on performance enhancing drugs. Technology can be considered cheating because it is unfair for other athletes. How technology is similar to performance-enhancing drug.

Technology can be considered cheating because it is unfair for other athletes. First technology can make less able and able athlete’s become faster than they actually are. So that gives an unfair advantage to other athletes that are not using technology. Technology and performance-enhancing drugs used to be in the olympics from the beginning of the olympics. For example when athletes are doing sprints they have shoes which have spikes on them to grip into the tracks which can also be called as aerodynamics. Now in our days people are thinking about banning  technology in the olympics because it is the same as performance enhancing drug.

Why is technology allowed in the olympics but performance-enhancing drugs is not. The reason why I think technology should be banned is because it is similar to performance-enhancing drugs. Technology can help athletes become faster than they actually are but technology can also help athletes beat world records. So why isn’t performance-enhancing drugs allowed in the olympics when it’s similar to technology.

Technology can be seen as cheating because it’s just like performance-enhancing drugs but it is different because performance enhancing drugs can do something to your body but technology only helps the outside of your body and how you do
movement.

Walt: write an effective explanation about why technology can be considered a performance-enhancing drug Walt: understand multiple perspectives and write with these in mind

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Ratios

Walt: compare whole numbers using ratios.
As you can see I have answered the ratios questions .

Redbands Padlet

This is our WALT WALT: make connections between texts and apply the knowledge to a new situation.

Walt: understand why people make particular choices and how their choice can effect themselves and others.
WALT: condense ideas and paraphrase these into my own words.

Key Concept: What might cheating look like at the Olympics and who may it effect?

As you can see I have also contributed to this padlet with some Ideas I came up with.

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Redbands Padlet

This is our WALT WALT: make connections between texts and apply the knowledge to a new situation.

Walt: understand why people make particular choices and how their choice can effect themselves and others.
WALT: condense ideas and paraphrase these into my own words.

Key Concept: What might cheating look like at the Olympics and who may it effect?

As you can see I have also contributed to this padlet with some Ideas I came up with.

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If I were at the olympics

Every 4 years the Olympic games are held. People from countries around the world represent their countries at the Olympics. They can also show the world what they can do. When the olympics is  being held in different countries. It can actually help the population there for some people to become athletes and for other people from other countries become inspired. The olympics also helps what kind of sports they do.

When Justin Gatlin trains. People like his coach manager and others. Help him set up hyper speed cameras so that when it takes photos they see the structure of how he runs so they can see how they can make him faster.They also train, detrain a little bit and build back up for another championship. Other Athletes do other things like swimming, running weight lifting and more so that they can get better at what they can do to improve.

Coaches, Trainers, Nutritionist, Physiotherapist, Sports Psychologist and many others are trying to find a way to make each athlete become a miller second faster. In order to achieve a medal the athletes use Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths to bring themself and their team to olympic glory. The Technology team take a video of the athletes doing their event and tell them what they can improve and how they can improve it.

When an athlete wins they are Happy Excited joyful but they also cry with tears of joy and they celebrate. But when athletes lose they are angry sad and disappointed in there self that they didn’t win. For Example Usain Bolt won the men's 100m race with Yohan Blake and they went around hugging their supporters. So I hope to be at the olympics one day.

Walt: collate and synthesise information into our own words
Walt: write from the perspective of another person

So as you can see I have created a story for you and please feel free to leave a comment.

The men's 100m race

The crowd screaming and shouting, their cameras flashing in a blink of an eye. Some of the world's fastest athletes were competing in the men’s 100m race final. At first they were stretching and getting ready. You could hear the crowd screaming and shouting, their flash off their cameras going wild. They walked to their positions. Their faces looked really competitive and determined.

Then they started walking to their starting positions, and got ready to race. They looked down and all of a sudden it went quiet. Usain Bolt did a cross to God to hope to win. Someone said ‘‘on your marks’’ the athletes looked up. ‘‘Get set... GO’’. All the athletes zoomed as fast as they could. Justin Gatlin was leading the men’s 100m race but then suddenly Usain bolt made a come back and came first with the seconds of 9.63 Yohan blake coming second with the seconds of 9.75 and Justin Gatlin coming third with the seconds of 9.79.

Usain Bolt looked happy when he won. He ran down the track looking at all the supporters. After that he stopped and did his winning pose. He got down to the ground and kissed it and he got up. Furthermore Bolt looked back and saw his team mate Yohan. Then they hugged. As they were walking he also high fived his fans and were hugging some of them. Gatlin was holding his flag and looking and all the supporters. All the other athletes looked disappointed that they didn’t win. They all tried their best but that just wasn’t enough to come 1st 2nd or 3rd.

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Beating the Wind

Walt: locate and summarise ideas.
Walt: ask questions after reading to clarify our thinking and discuss what we are still wondering.
As you can see I have worked out the diagram