Abidas World

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Argument Writing

 

We are learning how to write a really convincing argument. We have been learning how to use three persuasive writing techniques: Kairos, Pathos and Ethos

Kairos (Importance)

• “you have to write to your principal NOW, or you can’t do any of that stuff”- Flynn
• “if you don’t support this change, then all the children at school will have a bad education” - Kai
• “If you don’t ban homework NOW, then kids won’t be able to go outside and play”- Saxon
• “If you don’t act now, it will NEVER change”- Samantha

Pathos (Sympathy) Ignore warning

• “Sometimes people throw gum on the ground, and a bird comes along and eats it, Yuck! It hurts its beak and chokes to death on the gum. Poor bird! – Shannyn.
• “Imagine being a dog yourself, and having to stay at home all by your self. Poor you!” - Holly
• Just think! If you were a mum, would you like to have 6 hours of your day wasted, doing a job that you are not paid for?” – Bruno
• Just think about all of the kids stuck indoors, wishing to go outside and play, poor kids”- Tessa.

Ethos (I know what you mean)

• “Believe me about this, homework is a complete waste of time, trust me, I’ve been there before”- Tessa
• “You should believe me, I’m just like you and I know what I’m talking about”- Bruno
• Believe me, I’ve done homework for 4 years now, and it’s just so boring”- Saxon
• “Believe me, I’ve seen this happen before...” – Rachel.

Persuasive Map link

  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/

Life education

Today was our final session in the life education classroom. Jo taught us all about body language and how to tell what people are feeling. We also learned about some of the organs inside our body.

Solar eclipse #2

What an exciting morning it was. We made pin hole viewers that made an excellent crescent image of the eclipse as it happened. We watched the eclipse using filters kindly supplied by the Carter Observatory. Stan the science man paid a visit too and used his pin hole projector to shine the eclipse on a wall for us to watch. What a great morning!

Solar eclipse

On a beautiful, sunny Wellington morning, we witnessed a truly amazing solar eclipse...

Pukana!

Our last kapahaka session today, so we played Pukana and had a great time!

Learning music the iPad way.

Today for our music lesson we are using a fun iPad app called "Monkey Drums". This app allows children to explore differences in beat and rhythm, while creating their own composition.

Making a model of the water cycle

Rufus, Theo, Monty and Flynn made this model, which represents the water cycle yesterday afternoon. Clever problem solving, boys!

How much water can we use?

Room 7 has been investigating this week, how much of the worlds water human beings can actually use. We learned that most of the worlds water is salty, and not able to be used. Only 3% of the worlds water is fresh.

However, of that fresh water, most of it is either ice, or underground. Only 0.5% of the water in the world is in lakes and rivers, and able to be used by humans.

We went to the beach and made some "pebble pie charts" to show, in a mathematical way, the amount of the worlds water we humans can use.