Writing Explanation

Why would I be an asset to my new school?

When I go to my new school I am going to take everything that I learnt here and take it with me on my journey. For example I am going to take all the maths strategies that I learnt here with me so I use them when I am stuck on a hard question.

I would also take my sportsmanship and teamwork with me when I join a sport team in my new school. I will be a team player and cheer them on, even if I’m not on the field or court. I would also do my best, train hard, try not to let my team down. If we lose I won’t get angry but I will wish the other team good luck.

I would get involved with the learning and sharing ideas if I am in a group. I will listen to what people have to say about the work that we are doing, and if someone is not involved get them involved with the learning. I am also going to join in things that I don’t like and just deal with it.

I am also going to take my respect, kindness and empathy with me. That means I am going to be kind to other people, show respect by listening to the teacher and do as I am told. When someone is upset I will look after them and listen to what they have to say or what is happening.

When I start my next school I am going to wake up earlier everyday and look smart. I will continue to come to school on time and turn on my brain on so I get ready for school work. I am going to meet new friends and try not to be shy to say hello to people I don’t know. I will try my best and will work hard in all my subjects. I am really excited and can’t wait to start my new learning journey.

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Today for Writing I wrote a explanation about why would I be an asset to my new school. In my explanation it talked about what I am bring with me when I go to a new school. I talked about the strategies that I would use if a am stuck. I also talked about showing sportsmanship, teamwork, respect, kindness and empathy.       

Writing Explanation

Don’t Judge someone

Respect…. Kindness…. Empathy, they are the three most important values that you need to show. Don’t judge someone by it cover, it is because something bad might happen to them like losing their job. If you show the three words you could make their day. It is because they might need a friend to talk to and share their feelings.

Respect: you should always show respect when you see someone on the street instead of disrespect them like this for example ( look at you why do you need the money you problem going to buy some drugs but instead he probably need the money to buy food for his family). You should ask what's wrong first instead of disrespecting someone.

Kindness: some people don't show kindness it is because they judge people that are homeless to quickly. This is why they don’t give money to them. In a video that I watched was an experiment if people will give a rich guy money for baby food or the homeless guy to buy baby food for his baby. Most people give money to the rich guy it is because their are probably think that the poor guy is lying and don’t need the money.

Empathy: I should say that this word is the most important word, you know why let me tell you. Imagine you are on the street and I read you sign and I say it not true you are lying and I walk away (The sign was you ask for money). How would you feel if this happens to you. The right thing you need to do is ask what's wrong and also share each others feel about what happened to him in the past. You should also help him if he needs money and one important thing you should do, it is to make him have a happy day.

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This week for writing I were writing an explanation about using respect, kindness and empathy towards other people. In my explanation I talked about don't judge them if there are poor and also we should away talk to them how they feeling and share feeling.       

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic?

65,000 thousand plastic straws have been collected for over 10 years in New Zealand beaches. Did you also know that there about 437 million - 8.3 billion plastic straws in the Ocean. Hi my name is Aung Naing and I think that we should ban plastic straws. Plastic straws are a harm to sea creatures. Its unusual why people throw away plastic straws.

My reason for talking about this is because there are so many plastic straws that are made every day. I feel like we need to change our actions because there are a lot of plastic straws that have been thrown on the ground every single day. After you finish throwing your plastic straw on the ground it could go out to sea and letting the sea turtle eating it or getting it stuck up their nose.

We should remove plastic straws and add paper straws or use other material instead of plastic. It is because paper straw can dissolve but plastic straw are harder to dissolve or break down, it is because it takes 500 year to break down. There are different materials we can use like metal, you can carry it with you and you can keep reusing it, but plastic straws are not that useful, it is because it can bend easily.

Did you know that there are about 500 million plastic straws are used every single day. Wow! I think that there are a lot of plastic straws that are used every day. Well some shops are to be blamed, Mc Donald, Burger King and KFC sell free Plastic Straws.

This is why I would not suck, it is because it is harming the marine animals, out of curiosity, have you ever seen people taking a plastic straw out of a sea turtle nose before.

Explanation Cheek

Aung Naing

Caring For Planet Earth

Did you know that plastic bag is damaging the earth because plastic bags takes
around 400 years to deposed. Also did you know that in New Zealand they are
removing plastic bag from supermarket.

Plastic bags is bad for the environment so that’s why we should use reusable bags.
Plastic bag do a lot of harm to the sea creature’s like turtle, shark, tuna and salmon.
It because these sea creature like to eat jellyfish and they might think that jellyfish is
a plastic bag and try to eat it.

Also plastic ring can do a lot of harm to baby turtle because when there are stuck and
then when there are growing up there shell will not growth because the plastic ring is
stuck on the turtle. That why we should throw away plastic like plastic bag and plastic rings.

This week for writing we wrote an explanation sample to see what we know and what we don't know. We used the LS2 writing rubic to see what levels we are for writing. Then we got into buddies my buddy was Matthew. We wrote what we need to work on, I need to work on making my sentence sense. 

Sketchnote Explanation

This week we worked in pairs for writing and we created this digital sketch note about Explanation Writing. We used information that we already knew and then we shared ideas as a class. We need to remember when writing an explanation that we have a Title, Introduction, 3 paragraphs for the information and a Conclusion. We should use formal language and write in present tense We need to remember to structure our sentences and use time order so our information makes sense. I worked with Nevaeh on this task.

Chinese New Year story

Chinese New Year

Kung hei fat choi! (Happy Chinese New Year), this year symbolizes the year of the dog. The Chinese New Year is well known today but, how did it start off?

In the beginning it is said that Chinese New Year wasn’t celebrated, the reason being because of a monster named Nian who terrorised Chinese people on the first moon of every year.

The monster did that for a long time until a wise old man told the people about Nian’s three fears; Fire, the colour red and loud noises.

The next time that the Chinese New Year came they were prepared,

and so as soon as Nian arrived the people were covered in red coloured clothes,

lit fireworks, made loud noises from hitting their drums.

Nian then ran away and so every year as a celebration people wear red clothes, light fireworks and make loud noises by hitting drums.

One day the Jade Emperor decided to make animals take part in a race, the race was to decide what twelve animals would be on the Chinese New Year zodiac.

The animal that came first was the Rat, followed by an Ox and a Tiger.

After them came a Rabbit, a Dragon, a Snake, A Horse, a Goat, a Monkey, a Rooster, a Dog and a Pig.

People also celebrate Chinese New Year by giving Hong Bao to unmarried adults and children, inside of the Hong Bao there is supposed to be money.

They also eat food like egg rolls, noodles and shrimp. The foods represent (in order) wealth, healthiness and happiness.

This is what has happened or is happening to create the Chinese New Year that we know today.

On Monday we researched Chinese New Year. We watched a video that told us about Chinese New Year and then went to get a vivid to write on a piece of paper and we took notes on the piece of paper with our partner. After that we used our chromebook to write about the Chinese New Year and my teacher told my partner to ask me questions and if I knew the answer then I could type it in the text box.