Gratitude Journals

This week we have been kindly given by our lovely teacher gratitude journals which means every day we write in it what were thankful about but I think it's helping me be more happyyy mine says I go bananas for the weekend

The Sun

in room 5 we have been making poems about the sun we used verbs, adjectives, nouns, and adverbs this is mine...

The suns a smiley face looking down at everyone.

Glowing like lava.

It is a hot fireball shooting people when it's hot.

Boiling your eyes when you look up.

The suns a blazing coin in the light.

It is a lightbulb that goes on at day and off at night.

Instructions To Make My Cake

CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:

5 bananas
2 bags of snake lollies
Black icing
Goat cheese ice cream
2.0 litre of coke
Pig nose
100 yr egg
50 marshmallows
1 bowl of spaghetti


Step 1: mash bananas then put on a big plate

Step 2: After that put black icing on banana

Step 3: then put your ice cream on top of the icing

Step 4: then put ur spaghetti on the ice cream (decoration)

Step 5: Put ur marshmallows on the sides of the cake (eat the spares)

Step 6: after that dump the snake lollies or decorate on the cake

Step 7: then Put the 100-year-old egg on the top like a cherry

Step 8: then Put the pig nose on the side

And that's how to make my cake

Escape Kraneir

For the pas few weeks we have been doing a fantasy writing called escape from krasneir its the part one of this story and there is i think one more parts and this part is about how they escape from a dungeon with guards and they have to get the food and the information and I can't show you mine because it's to long...

Tasty Yummy Insects

Tasty Yummy Insects

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words

By: Xavier 

Have you run out of dinner ideas and your mum can't be bothered making dinner? Then you should try insects, but too much people judge a bug by it's looks even though they have never tried bugs and when they do, they actually like them. There are loads of reasons why we should eat insects in our diet like how bugs are low in fat, and healthy, tasty yummy treats and you be creative with recipes from all over the world.

Everyone has a sweet tooth when they see something yummy in there life, so then you should try insects for dessert one day and see if you like it. So why shouldn't you have a bug or two sometimes? You could try a scorpion lollipop,w chocolate cockroach, wax worm taco, your choice. And it even shows that 80% of people around the world like bugs. Insects taste nutty, especially crickets. Not only is cooking with insects a tasty treat but you can also cook and eat bugs without the guilt because they are really healthy and a good option. 

There are healthy benefits to eating bugs like how they are healthy and high in protein. Like how caterpillars are rich in minerals, Vitamins, Zinc, phosphorus, and iron. Grasshoppers and crickets are rich in protein plus there are around 900 species of crickets and 11,000 known species of grasshoppers. As well as knowing how healthy they are you need to know how to cook them and get creative with them.

What is another type of fries and is finger licking good? If you said french fries from your local fish and chips store sounds nice but you're definitely wrong, Meal worm fries now that's probably a new word to you. Mouth watering food like chocolate covered crickets, scorpion lollipops, wax worm tacos are all healthy so you can eat them without getting heavier because it's low in calories and plus there are thousands of recipes from all over the world like Thailand, Australia, Mexico, China and Brazil, so that's why you should eat insects.

As you can see these are the reasons why you should eat insects because you can taste meals that taste like it was made by a famous chef like Gordon Ramsay, but like I said not only does it taste like it was made by a pro chef it also has healthy benefits like how many minerals and vitamins are in them. Plus you can taste insects like they were made in different countries. So in conclusion I believe that you, yes you should at least try an insect.

Kiwis

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report

Do you know an endangered, flightless and fuzzy bird that is native to New Zealand? Yes, the kiwi. Many people believe that there's only one specie of this bird even though there is five species. The five species of Kiwi are the Great Spotted Kiwi, the Okarito Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the North Island Kiwi, and the Southern Island Kiwi. Kiwis lay very large eggs, their eggs are the same size as an ostrich egg, their egg is about 120 millimetres long and 80 millimeters in diameter. The kiwi’s scientific name is apteryx, the name apteryx mean to be wingless. The kiwi belong to an ancient group of birds that are flightless like the ostrich, the emu and the moa. The kiwi has a lot of interesting qualities like how it calls out at night to mark their territory and stay in touch with their friend. They start to call out about 2 hours after dark, and will also call out before daylight and before that it has it has a meal.

Diet
The kiwi diet is made up of both plant and meat sources of food, as a kiwi is an omnivore. They eat a lot of invertebrates, animals without a backbone. Which means they are likely to be an insect or a bug. Kiwis don't need a lot of water as one of their food sources, is the earthworm, which is made up of 85% water. Kiwis eat a lot of worms because luckily New Zealand is rich in worms but when kiwis do drink from a body of water they immerse their beak, tips back it's head and gurgles the water down. Kiwis are nocturnal which helps them, this helps them to not get overly hot or dried out in the sun. So this supports their diet and also helps keep them safer as they are out at night when there is a less of a threat.

Predators

Kiwis are flightless birds so they can’t get away from their predators that easily, they are living and hunting food on the forest floor which means they are easy prey. One physical adaptation is that the kiwi is a fast runner, kiwis are just as fast as a human. Did you know that there were once 12 million kiwis in the world! But now there are only 100,000 kiwis because of dogs, ferrets, possums, birds and cats. An average of 27 Kiwis die EACH WEEK. A single roaming dog can wipe out a whole population of Kiwis. Kiwis can camouflage into their habitat to stop their prey from seeing them.

Appearance

Emus, ostrich, moa and the elephant bird are the kiwis closest relatives. However their appearance is rather different from these birds. The bird has a unusual beak, it's beak is long and on the tip of it is it's beak is where the nostrils are located. This is very unusual and the kiwi is the only bird to have their nostrils located at the end. Kiwis can't fly so there feathers have evolved a unique texture to suit a ground based lifestyle. The kiwi is warm, shaggy, and have a human like hair. The kiwi also only has 13 feathers. The Kiwis temperature is lower than most other birds it's only 39-42. The female kiwi is also usually larger than the male

In conclusion the kiwi is an interesting and unique bird that is native to New Zealand. To help the kiwi live a long life and continue to be found in New Zealand we have to understand the kiwi. It is important that the kiwi has the right food and can live in places where predators can not wipe them out. The endangered kiwi is important to New Zealand and we want the kiwi to be around for future generations.

Speeches

This year my speech was the top 3 weirdest sport i chose a gross sport toe wrestling, a possible broken bones sport cheese rolling, and checkmate/knockout sport chess boxing the first part doesn't sound as bad but the second whoa bye bye

Growth Mindset

''Mistakes are proof that you are trying''

To me this mindset means...
Keep trying even though you think your doing wrong.
Your allowed to make mistakes but not on purpose.
I could use this mindset when...
I play a game but i mess up.
I'm drawing and think its horrible.

Expired Yoghurt

I am learning to: Inform my audience by sharing an entertainment moment. 

Argh What's that smell, eww disgusting!!! I think it's coming from the fridge. Anyways, I was standing in front of the fridge because I was in need of food I was so hungry.

Reaching for the yoghurt from the fridge, I noticed that the wrapper had so much yoghurt on it, covered in blobs of yoghurt and strawberry it looked so gross and smelt terrible. I took a spoon full and there it was, the most disgusting thing I've ever had it was like two boats crashing together but the bad guys won.

Then my mum came in and I said to her, “I think I am about to vomit, oh no.” Mum looked at me strangely before looking down at the yoghurt in my hand. Her eyes widen as she said, “Oh Xavier you didn’t eat that did you? I was meant to throw that out weeks ago.” That’s when the vomit hit the floor.

From that moment on I will always check the date and that texture of a yoghurt. However the easiest solution actually is just don’t eat them anymore. 

My Best Time Of The Holiday

“OMG Noah look how big there manu’s are! They are soooooo big! WOW!!!”
“One nearly broke all their bones. I mean he nearly hit the concrete!”
For those of you who don’t know a manu is a bomb in the water.
“Hey Noah that was the worst manu ever that didn’t go high at all!”
Now we have to go home and we will probably get lollies like we always do!