Today for literacy our group made book covers. After we finished our book covers we had a choice about who our story is going to be about based on the book Cover. I chose my friend Archie’s book cover. This was my story:

                          Chapter 1 The Start:

At 7:20 am I woke up early for school knowing that I only have 3 hours at school instead of 6 hours. I knew that school today would be easy since it was the last day of school, but still something felt off like a weird feeling, an usual one. But later that day I knew I was wrong. On the way to school I felt like someone was watching me, I couldn’t move. Looking behind me I saw no one but I heard a slight laugh, a weird psycho laughing an unusual one. 

At school everyone was staring at me. I didn’t understand why neither did I bother. At classes no one sat next to me but I didn’t care all I cared about was the math lesson. At break I took my phone out and watched the news and I saw a video of me  standing in front of someone that was getting dragged into a sewer. I then understood why I felt I was being watched and why everyone was watching me.

This was the book cover:

3 days ago we had to fill a form for what we want to do for action stations, I chose card games. Today we did action stations and when we were playing card games, the teacher (Caroline) taught us about a game called 500. The game was about winning each round and to win you have to get 500 points. You get points by winning a round in the games you play (each round you get 10 points), but if you say that you will win a certain amount of times in a row you can get more. If you win 10 times in a row you get 250 points which is really hard to do (you have to be really lucky). I found understanding the game pretty hard but after some time it became self explanatory. One of my friends won 10 times in a row so he got 250 points which was devastating because he basically won the whole game. Have you ever been to action stations? If you have what activity did you choose?

Today for mahi-a-tahi I finished 30 minutes of Duolingo. In Duolingo I’m learning Japanese and I’m in unit 4. My goal in these 30 minutes was to finish at least 1-2 lessons in Duolingo and learn 1/4 of a new character. I achieved both of these goals in 25 minutes. Have you tried Duolingo? If you have what language have you learnt?

 Today for Maths we coded shapes on scratch. On scratch I created a project that when you insert a number that’s not 0 and 1 and any negative numbers it will create a shape with that amount of sides, I created this by using a formula with every shape and put it into coding. Have you ever coded something like this? If you have what shapes have you created?

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Today for a mahi-a-tahi point I finished 30 minutes of Duolingo. In Duolingo I finished one of the activities in unit 4 and I half completed learning a character in Japanese. Have you ever learnt a language in Duolingo? If you have what language have you learnt?

Today for math mahi-a-tahi I finished two level 8 prototec. I think I did really well with stage 8 prototec because i’m a year 7 and I finished stage 8 prototec and on one I got under one minute and the other I got 1 minute and 24 seconds. Have you ever done prototec? If you have how fast have you done prototec and how many questions did you get correct?

For the past two days my literacy group have been learning about analogies. On the first day we learnt about the basics of what an analogy is and I found that interesting because I never knew that you could also compare things in this way like a simile and metaphor. To put what a analogy is its basically just a way to compare two similar things and compare them using certain words, this is the layout  _ is to_ as___ is to_. On the second day we did a creating task in which we had to make 5 slides and on the first slide we had to put a explanation of a analogy then for the rest of the slides have examples of analogies and what type of analogy they are. Have you learnt about analogies? If you have what types of analogies have you wrote.

This week for mahi-a-tahi I finished 30 minutes of Duolingo. Here’s what I did. I am doing Japanese in Duolingo and before I started doing 30 minutes of duolingo I was on unit 3 and I didn’t complete a single character in Japanese but after the 30 minutes I finish half of unit 3 and now I finished 2 different characters in Japanese.

Today for Duolingo I finished unit 2 and i’m starting unit 3 in Japanese. I did this in 30 minutes which was hard for me. Next time I will try and finish unit 3 in 30 minutes.

This week for literacy we have been learning about how to write a professional email. For this task we had a choice between making an email or a leaflet I chose to write an  email because it was the easier task. When I wrote this email I think I did good  because the teacher also liked it and after finishing this task my friend also said it was good as feedback he wrote “Really good! It has good facts to follow up your statements and also you have excellent statistics”. This is my fake email:  

Kia ora MP,

My name is _____  and I am sending this email to propose on behalf of Christchurch East to revert school hours back to 9am-3pm. Christchurch East came up with this decision after seeing the following facts about why we should revert school hours. 

The first reason is because after asking all of their children about the new school hours and some said “I hate it because I can’t do anything fun after school and i’m getting stressed out” and others say “school is too overwhelming they are making us do more work which is pressuring me”.

 The second reason is because children can’t do any other activities so they can’t get any more knowledge about other activities. Some of the activities that we could benefit are:

• Self defense: because we need to protect ourselves from danger 
• Swimming: if we ever need to swim at places or if we get caught in waves
• Cultural activities/ religious activities: because we still need to remember where we originated and to learn more about our culture like kapa haka
• Other sports that could keep our children active instead of staying inside a class for most of the day.

The list could go on about the activities our children need but the point is that our children need more than just academic performance. 

 The last reason that influenced Christchurch East to come up with this decision is because a parent commented about this that it will help balance their job of parenting their children and working but not all parents have their job aligned with after school hours and some don’t need to work. These are the reasons that influenced  Christchurch East to propose a change.

We kindly propose you to go to the parliament and vote against this decision then Christchurch East will happily vote you again as our honorary MP.

Kind regards Christchurch East