Speech Board

Something that I enjoyed about speech board this year was the drama and the telephone call. For the past years I have been doing poems for speech board but the Year 7 and 8’s  do dramas. The drama could be a fairy tale with twist, a myth or legend. My group (Aylah, Arnika and I) did a fairy tale with a twist (Jack and the Beanstalk.) The telephone call was quite cool because you are asked to leave a message or call someone. In this telephone call you had to use courtesy, we had to introduce ourselves appropriately and explain why you are calling. Our phone call was related to our informal speech.

Something I disliked about speech board this year was that we had to do four different things for speech board. We had to do an informal speech, a telephone call, a drama and also we had to read a passage (one hundred and fifty words) from a book. Also I disliked my speech because I kept forgetting things I was supposed to say. My speech was quite hard because ömine was about making lip balm. Something I would do differently is to include more research.

Something that I found interesting about my speech board was that the Year 7 and 8’s had to include research, for my speech it was hard to get anything interesting but I got who made the first lip balm, etc. The first lip balm was a wickless candle wrapped in tinfoil, and that the inventor of lip balm is Dr. Charles Browne Fleet. Frank Wright Jr  was a commercial artist,l he drew the CHET chapstick logo that is still in use today.

Next year I hope to do better than this year, also try and get distinction since next year is my last year of speech board.

Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Writing

Yesterday Room 3 and 4 did some persuasive writing to explain why our group deserved a box of Favourites. The first thing we did was got into groups of four and we got 20 minutes to write a persuasive piece of writing about why we should win a box of Favourites. After the 20 minutes was up a group went up one at a time to share what they had written, my group (Libby, Troy, Leah and I) went second. Miss Jury recorded our speech.

Once everyone had shared we got sent outside for a run while Mrs Hancock and Miss Jury discussed who deserved a box of Favourites, (there were two boxes of Favourites so two teams could win.) I don’t mean to sound competitive but I really wanted to win, but Aylah’s group (Sam, Kaleb, Hollie and Aylah) won one box and the other box got shared with the rest of the class.

When they introduced persuasive writing to us, Mrs Hancock and Miss Jury held up two boxes of Favourites and if we wanted it we had to write a very good piece of persuasive writing to win the boxes of chocolates. They said that the group with the best persuasive writing will win the box of chocolates. We had to do the persuasive writing because Room 3 and 4 have to write proposals to the board for enviro, room 4 are asking for bees and my class are asking for lots of things.

After we had finished we opened a google doc and put all the things that we learned about persuasive writing. We learned that in the introduction you need to put who, what, where, how and why. Also that the first paragraph has the strongest idea, each piece of persuasive writing needs about 3 or 4 main ideas. A piece of persuasive writing needs language features like strong and powerful adjectives, emotive words, rhetorical questions, present tense, facts and statistics, etc.

Writing persuasive speeches is very interesting and fun, I think that doing some more persuasive writing for different things will help me learn a lot quicker.

Japanese Day

Calendar Art

Calendar Art

Here is my calendar art, the art is based on Warren Pohatu's patterned art. Please get some of my art!

Here is the prices of the art.

Hanami Project

For the last few terms we have been having Japanese lesssons. This is a project that Heidi, Aylah and I made, it is about the traditional cherry blossom festival (Hanami) Last Friday we had a Japanese day, we did origami, how to write your name in Japanese, art and cooking.