Super Persuasion Text!

    Hi, today I am going to be showing you my persuasive writing for this week. My goal was to write a persuasive text about schools and junk food and show my understanding of text. I gathered the information by watching informational videos.                                                        

                                      Should Schools Ban Junk Food?

We all love the little treats packed in our school lunches. But is it best if we don't have them? 

Hello, my name is Gus, and I am going to try to convince you of the obvious - should school lunches be free of junk food? 

The little treats in kids´ lunches can go from a packet of chips to almost all of their lunches being jammed with unhealthy snacks. If kids had handfuls of sweets and chocolate in their lunches 5 times a school week, they would grow to be weak, a junk food addict, and would barely exercise. Cafeterias can often be found with untouched vegetable and meat options, but the chips and whatnot options would be left bare, children scoffing down the remains, demanding more. What's worse is in such a rush to splat a platter of junk food on their plates, they often trip or fall over, sometimes leading to serious injuries. And to top it all off, the poor cafeteria ladies have to throw smelly meat and vegetables away whilst restocking the chip option every single day. This can cost schools a lot of money, sometimes leading to classes like Music or Art being a budget cut. When it comes to parents, even small snacks like a fruit or muesli bar can be begged, pleaded and even aggressively attacked for. It is also clear that these unhealthy snacks make children extremely hyperactive, so during class time they barely pay attention, forcing teachers to raise their voice or even shout. 

So what if we ban junk food? What would happen then...?

What would you try and persuade someone about?

Striving Grit Reading!

 

Hi, today I am going to be showing my reading task for this week, based on grit and perseverance. Our goal for this week was to use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. I gathered my information by reading a fact-filled text called, ¨Born To Run¨. I hope you enjoy this post and learn something!

What is an example of you showing grit and perseverance?

Dino Fact Takedown!

 Hi, today I am going to be showing you 10 facts about the magnificent creatures that once roamed the earth - that´s right, dinosaurs! My learning goal was to gather information about the dinosaurs and type it down in a text such a slideshow. I gathered this information by watching a fact-filled video, available at my teachers learning drawing, and simply typed down information I collected between the video. 

What is your favourite dinosaur?

Ultra Brick Reflection!

 My favourite Lego activity was the one where we passed around the Lego base plate because it taught me that people have different ideas to what we have, and we should celebrate other people's differences. The activity also taught me you can think of so many different ideas for what to add to what other people have done. 

Hi, today I am going to be showing you my reflection that I typed after having a company called, ¨House of Bricks¨ visited our school. That Friday, two hubs including my hub had three activities, all in different hubs. Each Lego activity included either teamwork, grit or perseverance, one all at the same time. The activities all taught me something important, but, most importantly they were fun.

My least favourite Lego activity was the Mosaic activity because it was hard trying to imagine what to place on your small base plate, and not to mention taking the thin, tiny bricks off with a Lego lever. Often, bricks would be stuck together and you would have to take both off. Even though this was a fun activity, I would say this is the one I least enjoyed. 

The activity that tested my perseverance the most was the tower- building because it was tough creating stacks that would hold up the quirky, unstable tower. But, together with me and 9 others, we managed to build a stable, tall tower, being so high it took our team to first place.

The most challenging activity was the racing cars because once you had created a car you thought was perfect, it only went a few centimeters off the rail. It was quite challenging to find the perfect pieces to place on your hopefully speeding car, and me and my partner broke, tested and modified our way into seventh place. 

I enjoyed working collaboratively with others because each activity went way faster than it would’ve been alone. Almost all the activities involved teamwork, and each and every time the people I worked with listened to my ideas, and helped me to achieve the goal. And even though some of our team members argued, we helped each other out and everyone had a part to play.

What is your favourite Lego activity?

Super Secret Empathy Literacy!

Hi, today I am going to be showing you my empathy-based writing this week, named ¨Umbrella¨. Our goal was to use a range of written features to engage the audience, use simple and compound sentences with a variety of beginnings, lengths and structures, use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest & ensure that most writing is grammatically correct. Me and other peers in a group got help from a teacher to type down this text. 

                  Umbrella

Early one stormy morning, the door to Miss Elm’s Home For Children opened wide. The girl with the vibrant sunflower yellow umbrella, limped nervously into the orphanage before finding a home for her umbrella. Not wanting to be seen, Boris swiftly twirled his head around the door frame so that he was hidden from view. Standing off to the side, the girl gazed at the glorious scene while the children searched in the box for once-loved companions. The girl grinned as she observed the young boy zooming around the room like a bolt of lightning. Her smile melted abruptly as she looked back at the umbrella stand and all that was left was a few dirty puddles. Her precious umbrella had vanished.

Can you spot a simile in my writing?

Duplicate Olympic Data!

 

Today I will be showing you me and my friend´s new and improved medal table. We collected our data from a slideshow and embeded the information onto a spreadsheet. Using the info on the spreadsheet, we created a Line Graph explaining the medal table in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. We also created a doc for a more clearer explanation. To finish it off, we each wrote a statement on the graph. 

How would you show the informantion?

Muddling Medal Maths!

 

Today I'm going to be showing you me and my friend's Tokyo Olympics Medal Chart Graph. This graph shows the number of medals compared to each country. To collect the data, we gathered info from a slideshow and typed it down on a spreadsheet. Me and my friend added statements below the Graph. 

Who's your favourite medalist?