Should the New Zealand Flag be Changed?

Over the last few weeks my class has been working on an argument writing. Mine is on "Should the New Zealand flag be changed?"

Should The New Zealand Flag Be Changed?

I believe that the New Zealand flag shouldn’t be changed. Firstly, it would cost lots of money. Secondly, our ancestors fought under our current flag. Finally, Our current flag is recognised at an international level.

If we change our current flag it will cost $26 million. With that money the government could buy lunches for children who goes to school without lunch or get homeless people off the streets. Why would the government pay $26 million on a new flag?

Why would we have a flag that doesn’t remind us of our ancestors who fought under our flag. Some people want to be reminded, why would we change the flag? We would probably break people's hearts if we change it.

Our current flag is recognised at an international level, everybody is use to seeing our current flag. If we change our flag it might take a couple of years to get use to it, it will probably take even longer for the little kids.

I firmly believe we shouldn’t change our flag. Especially because of the money the government doesn’t need to spend $26 million. If we change the flag it might break the people’s hearts.

Goldilocks and the Three Fish

I've been working on a narrative, It's kind of a mix up, it's like 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' but I swapped the three bears with the three fish.

Goldilocks and the Three Fish.

One afternoon there was a girl named Goldilocks, she was wandering in the forest after she had an argument with her parents. She was a little scared. Goldilocks was counting on her gut on where to go. Tree’s were whistling, grass was swaying and tree branches were rolling around.

She saw a little stream, so she followed it. She found a pond at the end of the stream. She was so hot from walking she tasted the water, she liked it, so she had some more. She rested by some rocks feeling tired. She was puffing.

Once Goldilocks cooled down she took her pink sparkling shoes off and put her smelly feet in the water. The rocks were slimy, she found some seaweed and moved her feet into the seaweed, it tickled her feet and she started laughing and splashed her feet around.

Taking another sip, Goldilocks drags up strings of slimy  seaweed with her feet, just then some fish were swimming around, Goldilocks saw the fish and thought “I just drank fish water”. She stood up, and put her shoes on and ran, she started spitting and thinking “Yakk I drank fish water”.  Goldilocks comes back home yelling “ I drank fish water”. A few Days later Goldilocks got sick, so Goldilocks promised her parents that she would never go in the woods again.

Maths

 WALT solve addition problems using place value and double addition strategies,  I did a screencastify on place value to solve an addition problem.

My Spelling

From the last 8 weeks we have had our spelling.  We have spelling sounds that we have to write examples of words, some people do it on the chromebooks and some do a hard copy which means they do the spelling in there book. I did the hard copy here's a photo.

Waikato School Orchestra

On Friday, 19 June the Waikato School's Orchestra performed in our hall, they were brilliant.  They were very talented. The instrument I liked best is the drums. The conductor was very funny, I liked her very much.

They performed songs that we knew and some songs that were new to us.

Our Showcase

On Tuesday 29 My Syndicate had a big showcase, we had the showcase in our hall from 6.00pm-7.30pm.
Everyones presentations were really cool!  I was proud of my work. There were many other amazing  projects.

This one is mine.

Mine was on "Why is the sky Blue".

Why is the Sky Blue?

My class and I have been doing some Explanation writing.My Explanation was on "why is the sky blue?".

Why is the sky blue?

When you look up to the sky, depending on the weather and the time of day, The sky can appear to be different colours. What makes the sky blue on a sunny day, grey on a rainy day and black at night?

The sun produces light waves of different colours, When the colours mix they turn to white. The colours have different wave lengths. Red has a longer wave length than what blue has.Those colour waves travel all the way to Earth’s atmosphere.

In the Earth’s atmosphere there are particles which the light waves blend with. The blue and violet waves split and stretch across the sky.  We can’t see the violet waves because our eye’s are more sensitive to blue. Red, yellow and green waves mix and turn into a yellowish white colour. This is why the sun looks yellow with a hint of white.

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. Even though the sun’s light may look white/yellow it’s actually made up from all the colours of the rainbow. We can see these different colours of light in a rainbow or when white light passes through a prism.

I hope you liked my explanation.