procedural writing

    This week we started learning about procedural writing.

  How to shoot the perfect jumpshot

Step 1: while holding the ball in your hand create a T shape

Step 2: Bend your knees

Step 3: keep your elbows straight

Step 4: remember to keep your eyes on the basket

Step 5: be balanced when you shoot

Step 6:  jump in the air while you release the ball

Step 7: and when you shoot flick your wrist to perform a follow through   

  

                               How to walk

Step 1: Move one foot forward

Step 2: move the other foot forward

Step 3: repeat to your destination

Step 4: there are no other steps

                     

the 4js run reflection

over the last couple of years, we have been running 2.8km every day and the advantages of doing this makes you more fit while getting stronger mentally and physically, because even when it's cold or you don't want to run you still run. The run didn't just help me get fitter it helped me in all my sports, for example, training for west coast basketball is so hard that after the first training my whole body was stiff for about 3 days but if I didn't do the run I reckon I wouldn't have survived the training. The rewards of running every day are you see yourself get fitter by your time getting quicker and quicker.

for the people that don't play sports the run helps them get fitter and have a better wellbeing, at the start of the year I was getting around the thirteen fourteen minute mark and at the end of the year now I'm getting eleven and ten minute times and it really boosts your confidence. after doing the run for a while I realize the benefits of running every day and I think every school should run at least two kilometres a day.

social studies the chinese poll tax

                                                        The Chinese poll tax
Back in 1881, all Chinese had to pay money to get into the country they were charged 10 pounds for 10 tons of cargo but these days that’s 1700 dollars just to get into the country. Then the price got pushed up to 100 pounds for 200 tons of cargo. Now that’s 19,000 dollars for every person. It later ended in 1944 and the government later apologized in 2002 and now there is a trust set up for Chinese community projects which happen all over the country.

teachers striking social studies

Teachers striking
In my opinion, teachers deserve more money for how many hours they work and how long people have to go to university to become teachers

Why teachers and principals were striking
Fewer teachers are coming into the job, while the workload for teachers and principals is becoming enormous and teachers have to spend more time at school doing paperwork than spending time with their families
That's why I think teachers deserve more money.

social studies the vietnam war

Vietnam war

The first conflict of the war was in 1964 where two North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, then the president retaliated by bombing North Vietnam. By 1967 America had 500,000 troops in vietnam and 15,058 had been killed and 109,527 had been wounded. By this time the vietnam war was costing america 25 billion. Under the draft system, 40,000 men were being called to service and even more were protesting about the war.


Why new Zealand was there and how long?
Because new Zealand after world war 2, New Zealand signed a treaty with America. New Zealand was there for 15 out of the 20 years. New Zealand sent 548 troops to Vietnam, nine of those men flew helicopters with Australia. By 1971 all our troops were out of combat but helped train south Vietnamese soldiers.

Why we need to remember it?
It was our first war without the queen, people started to realize there is a lot of death, America isn’t sending ground troops anymore and they were more open about it on television.

social studies

The dawn raids was a time when the police would go to pacifica people’s homes and start the process of evicting people from NZ that were on temporary working visas.

The problem:

After world war 2 there was a job crisis which made the new zealand government hire overseas workers to come in and work for the country.But when there visas ran out the government let them stay in the country and live their lives with there working visa ran out. And the economy started to go up again till about 1974 where the economy was rapidly falling. So the Government started coming round the houses kicking the pasifika people out of the country and sending them back to their country because of their skin colour. How is that fair the government gets people to come into the country and work then kicks them out 20 years later even if they have a family. And if kicking them out of the country wasn’t bad enough, the police came really early in the morning with dogs to wake them up and escort them out of the country.

social studies

My point of view is that coal mines on conservation land should be shut down because mining is bad

for the environment and it makes our country look bad.

because of all the industrial machines and logs left on the side of the road.

 Also burning coal is bad for the environment because it releases global warming gases
into the environment and burns holes into the ozone layer.

Also if you ban mining there will be less coal which means more people will buy heat pumps
which means global warming will be less of effect on the earth and we won't be killed by the
rising oceans.

And if the mine blows up there will be a lot of people killed and if you don't die in the explosion the
rockfall will kill you.

If we stop mining on conservation land the tourism will skyrocket because there will be beautiful bush and native birds and animals will be roaming the forest, but if we keep mining there will be massive holes and gravel and dirt piles everywhere which will kill tourism in places like the west coast. Also at Franz Josef the smoke from the mines melt the ice which is bad for tourism and the environment.

(this is not my opinion)