Student Summit

Yesterday at Yaldhurst we had house reward time. House reward time is where in each house once you get to 300 hero cards  youthen get a reward it could be many different things like movie and popcorn or pool party or outside time or anything like that. My house is Rutherford. We got bring a toy but not many people remembered so we ended up playing with lego and playing board games.

I am the house leader so I go around and hang out with all the younger kids and make sure they are having fun at house rewards time. I think this is a great way to reward kids and give them a prize onec they earn hero cards. 

Hero cards are little slips that we get given if we do something impressive or if our work is to a rally high standard. We also have hero certificates. So once you get to 20 hero cards you get a certificate and then for 40 60 80 hero cards you also get a certificate but one you get 100 you get a badge but i don't know what happens when you get to 200 because no one has ever gotten 200 hero cards.

Tomorrow we have a hero certificate assembly and  I hope that I get 100 because the last hero assembly I got a 80 hero card certificate so I think that I have made it to 100 (Hopefully).

Here are some photos from the hero reward time.

Post Test For Writing

This week we had our post test for our narrative writing block. We had to do a post test because recently we have been learning how to write a good narrative. Before we even started learning about narratives we had to write do a pre test.

As we went through the process of learning how to write a good narrative we were reading this book called the Ice Palace by Robert Swindells. The reason we read this book is because Robert Swindells has used amazing language and we wanted to learn to use a bit more about emotive language and using more description. (I highly suggest this book).

This book had great language and really amazing description. I think that this book was a great example of how a narrative should be written and a great example for us as a class to reflect off of.

In this process we started out by having to fill in the blanks from a part of the story and having to make it our own. After that we had to start writing our own paragraphs and turn the story into our own after we had written our own paragraph we then at the end of the session compared it to Robert Swindells writing as a class.

As I went through this process I found that there were alot of things that I still had to learn about writing a narrative story.
So today I finished my narrative and published it is and I want to share it with you guys here it is.

My Inquiry

For the past 3 weeks we have been working on a inquiry about rubbish.
We started this inquiry because we went on a class trip to the ecodrop or what some people would call the dump or the landfill.
We had to go through a long process (super long) before we actually got to start our inquiry.
Firstly we did lots of group work then we got to start a mini inquiry inside of our big inquiry.
each group got given a topic on what we had to research about i got plastic and this is a little biteable i made with some facts on it.

My Mini Inquiry

This week we got the tasks to do a mini inquiry on rubbish.

Each group had a type of rubbish that they had to research and learn about.

First we had to brainstorm things that we already new about the topic that you were given.

My topic was plastic.

Once we had brain brainstormed we had to find out some more information and then note take on what we had learnt.

I found a really cool video of a woman that only collected one jar of rubbish over four years.

She was able to do this by going to supermarkets where you are aloud to take your own containers and use those instead of buying packaged food that is covered in plastic.

She was also able to do this by composting and recycling lots of her stuff and not uing unnecessary things. 

Here is the slide of what I did my work on.