Thursday, August 8, 2019

Speeches



You know how your teacher said how you have no homework and you get excited but then she says that you have to do speeches and your attitude goes down. Well, that happened to me.

This is my speech.

why We Shouldn't Do SPEECHES.


1.


Have you ever wondered why we do speeches at school, its to learn the skills necessary to be able to speak to others, this is called PUBLIC SPEAKING .. OH DON’T YOU HATE IT???. You know 74% of people are scared of public speaking and they could become even more scared of it when they do these speeches at school.

2.
This has been proven to sometimes increase fears of
public speaking because confronting a fear can make it even worse. It’s just like having a fear of spiders and then being thrown in a bathtub full of spiders, or your friend putting a tarantula on your head when you sleep. If this happened to me, I would crap myself next time I saw a spider.

3.
While we write speeches, it could put us under a lot of stress, because we have to meet tight deadlines and then speak in front of our mates, our class , their school, And sometimes the judges for speech competitions if you are unlucky enough to win your class and school speech competition, you will probably get shipped off to the inter-school speech competition and you will have to say your speech in front of a hall full of people and 3 judges. This would put anyone who is not super-confident in public speaking under an extreme amount of stress

4.
Another reason for not doing speeches it that kids get pressured by their teachers
Because you have to meet the deadline for the speech “Thank you for adding that extra stress Mr. Kingstone”, this could push people over the top and maybe lead to a mental breakdown.
More things related to speeches Are you trying to write your whole speech at the last minute at 11 pm on a Sunday night, then at 12 pm rehearsing your speech for the next day.
You show up and your speech is actually good enough to be taken to the next round and oh no! 

5.
Teachers have been trying to get us to speak in front of others for so long, for example .. Go back to show and tell, teachers make you bring in an item of choice to school and tell the other kids about what it is.
Honestly, Jeff, no one cares what your favorite toy is, and you do this just to build up skills to speak to other kids, but when are we ever going to need that ability unless we are doing jobs that require speeches?

6.
we can learn that skill when it is required and not waste time when we will never use this ability. And that the teachers shouldn’t be forcing the kids into doing things that make them uncomfortable, and if you don’t want to do it you don’t have to speak in front of your class talking about your favorite toy or your cringy speech. 

7. There are better things that we can be doing instead of writing and reading cringy speeches and I think I have stated some reasons for not having to do speeches And I know next year you will still be listening to my cringy speech, but I know that one day this might change.




























Friday, July 5, 2019

Cartooning.

Mr Drummond came to our class to teach us to draw comics. He showed us how to draw some easy stuff. He gave us to fill in the speech bubbles in a comic strip. And he drew a Pikachu from his favourite game. I learned that you can draw anything you want.

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Science

On Wednesday, we had round ice and we put dye in the ice and what it did was show the cracks in the ice. Then we put salt in the ice and it started to melt. I learnt that salt melts ice.

Maori Art


In Room 5 we make some Maori art. We had to pick a drawing from Peter Gossage. I did Maui and his mother doing a hongi. And what we did was colour in with pastels and then dye the background. I liked my picture because of the tree.   

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Science

Science is so much fun because we had to drain out dirty water from oil, paper and dirt.
what we did was paper, cotton balls, sand, paper, sand, paper cotton balls and paper. 

Monday, June 24, 2019

Egg Sitting

This week is egg sitting week. if you drop, leave, or eat it you are disqualified. I called mine Miss Minny May. we did it for Keeping Our Selves safe. It had to have the same needs as we do. Like: a blanket warmth and food.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Cross Country

On June the 6th we all died of exhaustion.Why? Because it was Cross Country! We all participated with enthusism.
I came first and I was EXTREMELY HAPPY.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Book Week

For Book Week I was Dawn Schafer from the Baby-Sitters Club books. We had a great time doing the treasure hunt and me, Riley, Elisabeth and Arabella came 2nd!

Here is a picture of Rosa,, Emma, Ellia, me and Faith as the Baby-Sitters Club.

Friday, May 31, 2019

Acrostic poems

Cool
Rad
Awesome
Fantastic
Terrific
Super 
I did my acrostic about crafts because I LOVE CRAFTS.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

My County

This is my country. / \  Miss Drummond printed out a few countries and i chose Russia. I chose Russia because my mum's family is from Russia. Something I learned is that they play handball just like us.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Anzac Pamphlet

Last week we did a Anzac pamphlet. I did it with Rosa and here it is. we had to search up an item from world war 1 and present our research. Mrs Drummond brought in the items. WW1 was sad because so many people died.

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Mindful Colouring

 Yay it is the last week of TERM. We did mindfulness colouring as a relaxing activity and it was very fun and it helped me to remember my happy place. Here's mine but its not yet finished.We do it to calm yourself down.




Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Anzac

We had to write about a love letter to a family from a guy that was in World War 1.

Samuel Atkinson was 40 when he went war.  Before Samuel went to war he was a law reporter. Samuel Atkinson was born on the 9th of July 1874, Nelson, New Zealand. Samuel had a wife and six children which he loved.

My Animal Poster


 Mine's about quokkas. Did you know they are as small as a kitten and most active at night?  I chose to do quokkas because they are cute. And I was one of the first persons to finish my poster and it was EASY.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

18 word poem

We had to make an 18 word poem and it was hard. Mine is about a chess piece. All the class's poems are going to be sent today to another class in New Zealand. ;)
Cheeses
Old cold
Smooth wooden cool light
Hard small plain creamy glossy
Polished short stubby curved
Sleek and weird.
Pawn.



Friday, March 15, 2019

Mantra

We did a mantra. My mantra was...
You can do AnyThIng!
| (• ◡•)| (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)
I'm being super positive.

Friday, March 8, 2019

shine week

Today is Shine Week.You have to bring a gold coin to support families suffering from domestic violence. You have to bring a gold coin to wear orange clothes on Friday.

Me, Rosa and Emma took a picture together.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

shrove Tuesday

Today is Shrove Tuesday. We make pancakes because we need to use up the flour and eggs.
In Jesus time they tried to get rid of eggs flour, sugar etc, 
because Jesus fasted in a desert for 40 days!







Friday, March 1, 2019

sun smart


Okay si muy bien (which is 'Yes very good in Spanish) We learnt about sun smart. That you have to stay under the shade if do not have a hat or you can get sun burnt. And we learnt about tones of skin. That if you are a 1 then you will get burnt easily And if you are a 5 you won't get burnt easily.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

swimming sports

Yesterday we had Connolly swimming sports. At the wave pools. we did freestyle first then 
backstroke and last but not lest breast stroke.i love breast stroke.its the best.
and i had so much fun!      

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

pepeha

This is my pepeha

Ko Puketapapa tōku maunga
Ko Te moana-nui-a-kiwa tōku moana
Ko русский tōku iwi

Nō Tamaki-makaurau a
hau
Ko Te Hepara Pai tōku kura
Ko Olesya tōku mama
Ko Simon tōku papa
Ko Mia tōku ingoa

Friday, February 8, 2019

First Week Back

On Tuesday the first day of school, since the yr 6 went on camp. I was the oldest yr 5. We did Maori art and learned about Waitangi.

We also did some other things:
  • swimming 
  • our puzzle piece 
  • RE title page and 
  • Prodigy (Prodigy is a maths game). 
I like my class so far and I am looking forward to lots more fun this term!