My Term 1 and 4 Letters

Dear term Four Jessie,

When you read this you will be at the end of your year eight journey. You will be enrolled into college.But this year I really want to achieve my goals for term 1 to term 4, the first thing I want to achieve is how to be a confident speaker  so I can talk in front of the class and share great ideas to other people like Mr Johnston, Mrs Kirkpatrick,Miss Donaldson and even Mrs Anderson, the one question I always ask myself is have I  presented in a assembly this year.But all the things I need to do to achieve my goal is to join in most of our school activities. You always have to practice a lot and always have top focus and contribute, but the more I speak to teachers and other people the more you will be confident.

From Jessie

Dear Term 1 Jessie,

Wow it’s been along time Jessie,it felt that I haven’t seen you in ages.I can’t believe it,it’s nearly at the end of the year wow. Can you believe it you made though the year 3 more weeks to go you can do it.I’m not really excited  about next year, to be honest aye. To be honest do you want to leave this school? If you leave this school you going to miss your friends and teachers. I know you have some ups and downs at this school but you always don’t care and make yourself happy. By 2k16 here I come 2k17. By Panmure Bridge School.

From Jessie

This is my two letters I did the first one was my letter to Term 4. And the bottom one is my to my term 1 journey and what I've achieved throughout the whole year.Even though it's my last year at Panmure Bridge I have enjoyed myself even when I first started this school. I was a shy little girl but know when I got used to this school I am a confident student at Panmure Bridge School.

Get Wise ASB - Jessie

Yesterday  the year 8 went to Get Wise  with Jeremy  who works at ASB. Jeremy  came to our school to talk to us about  being wise about money, Jeremy told the year 8's some very important things like how we could get money by doing things at home, and how to save our money and  start a bank account from our age. After he told us the importance of money and how to save,  he showed us a chart that shows the different kind of ways we could get money and save up. The three ways we could save up and get money is by doing your chores at home, doing the next-door neighbours lawns or help them, and the last one is Sell and trade. Jeremy said "SSOY + SST" which means Spend Some On You and Save Some To and always be the best you can because people are watching you.  Also Jeremy said " Make a choice go the easy way or the hard way because if you choose the easy way you will fail and just live you life but if you got the hard way you are challenging yourself and you will achieve." 

Our Speech Rehearsal

Good Afternoon Panmure Bridge

I will be talking to you about how gorillas are endangered.

Have you ever realized that gorillas are endangered?. Well if you don’t believe me  I will tell you that gorillas are not the only animals that are endangered, for eg. The Giant Panda,The Red Wolf,  and much much  more. Well it goes like this endangered animals are animals that are in danger  of becoming extinct. If we stop hunting animals habitats and everything, animals will actually not be endangered.

Well if you think that gorillas are mad and aggressive well you're wrong, I think that we should stop and care for animals that are endangered. You may think that gorillas are dangerous because the way they look and the way they fight each other. Did you know that gorillas are the most feared animals  in the world, but they are actually gentle ,peaceful, and easygoing.

Did you know that in 2014 the number of gorillas in the world was 100,000 and their population  is steadily decreasing. There are only 2 species  of gorillas, and they are both endangered. Only 600 mountain gorillas are left in the world.  Also gorillas are on the endangered list because of the (IUCN), but the only thing is that human’s  hunt gorillas because  they want their  babies for illegal pet trade. In recent years, the gorilla population has also taken as a hit for human diseases  just like the Ebola Virus.

Just how many times have we been approaching animals  just how much, we just have to stop and care for animals but more for endangered animals like ( Gorillas,The Giant Panda and The Red Wolf.) Have you ever wondered how much Silverbacks are in the world, well 790 out of 100,000 Silverbacks are left in the world and they can only exist in the wild, and out both of the 2 species there are approximately  50,000 gorillas in the world. But however 2,500 gorillas live in the wild.

Have you ever realized that we should protect endangered animals because if we don’t we want have all animals that exist in the world. If we don’t protect endangered animals like the gorillas guess what they do to animals like the gorillas they will kill them and take the Skin,Bone and maybe Ivory for them to make crafts and sell them to tourists. That’s why we should protect animals that are endangered but mostly the gorillas.

When you realized the value of  all  life, you live less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.   

Today we done our speeches. My speech was about Endangered Gorillas. I chose this because I think that we should stop endangering gorillas and other animals. The 2nd Picture shows my rubric and what our group rated me.My group gave me feedback and feed forward on my speech and they said that " I should of been giving eye contact".

Shoe Narrative-Jessie and Cecillia

Shoe Narrative

By Cecillia and Jessie

On  a sunny afternoon I was abandoned by the fish and chip shop. I was wondering who will notice me as people will going passed me I realized that nobody wanted me. I could feel rocky bumps just coming  towards me like I was invisible. I felt the wind bursting like a fireball. I felt that I was left behind. When I see other shoes like me I just feel so jealous. I feel like I’m not the only one who has felt like this before. Here I was by the fish and chip shop. I could hear sizzling coming towards me as if I was hungry and wanted to be like humans that can walk.

As the people come out of the shop I feel like that I have no idea what to do and I just feel like that nobody in the world would want me because I have holes everywhere. I just wish someone, anyone could just pick me up and take me home and take me somewhere safe.  If someone really does take me home I’ll be the happiest shoe of all time. As the sun set went down I realized that someone came looking for me but he or she came closer I realized it was a dog who wanted to chew me  up and to be his or hers toy. As the dog took me home the dog showed me his collection of other shoes some of them were like me.

Today for writing we had to write a short story for 15 mins. We had to use the 5 senses and personification to help us point a picture with words. My partner and I Cecillia had to write a sentence each  until the 15 mins were done we had to proof read our work.

Writing

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera musculus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

We have been learning to understand the structure for a information report. We needed to highlight the different kind of features different colours.

Writing a Narrative - Jessie and Juanita

“Get off the road!” shouted the man in the taxi. James was on his morning jog on a busy road, not caring about what he was running into such as the cars. As he was running he turned his back and saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge wanting to jump.

As James saw the man he ran as fast as he could  trying to save the poor old man’s life, but sadly he was just an inch away too late. The Scotland Yard ran to the scene wanting to know what happened. James sprinted, thinking he would get arrested. He hopped onto a motorcycle driving fast, over the limit anyway. “What will happen to me if they think it was my fault?” he said to himself. They chased after him wanting to know why he ran..

He went home thinking that no one would ever know it was him sadly the Scotland yard   knew. He had no choice but to skip town. He said his last good bye to his family and he said I love you and went on the run. Little did his family know, that James would never return.

He left the city and his family had no idea about it. All they knew was he was being “awkward” around them. They knew something was up so they followed him. Sadly they lost his tracks and they never saw him again.

These past 2 weeks for writing we have been learning how to write an narrative using TOPES-Title,Orientation,Problem,Explain,Solution,Mood words, HCSP-Hook,Character,Setting and Problem. Our Learning Intention is to write an narrative story,my partner Juanita and I were writing about a man being innocent but he was blamed for the event.

Quick Write Rotation - Jessie and Afu

Last week our writing group were split up into 2 pairs. We were learning how to use mood words in our writing.My partner and I were choosing which one we should put on our blog so we chose the Dark Shadow gaining on us. Our Learning Intention is to understand how our choice of words create the mood of the story.My partner and I when we had to change our writing we used DRAFT (D-Delete,R-Rearrange,A-Add,F-Fix,T-Talk.)

Planning a Narrative Story.

This week for writing we are learning how to plan an narrative story. Our Learning Intention for writing is (To write a plan for a narrative story.)For our learning we used TOPES and the 5 W's for our planning.

Own story about Red Riding Hood

Tittle: It is a name that is given to  the story.	The Little Red Riding Hood
Orientation: It means it is a hook  that is in the start of your story.	Little Red Riding Hood had to take food to her grandmas house she was walking through the forest then a wolf comes and stalks Little Red Riding Hood.
Problem: It is the story that explain the problem that is happening in the story.	The wolf races to grandma’s house and ties up grandma and shoves her into the closet. The wolf pretends to be grandma, and then Little Red Riding Hood knocks on the door.
Explanation: A statement that makes something clear.	After Little Red Riding Hood  walks to grandma’s house she notices that grandma had big and long ears, big eyes and was hairy. After she notice that  she knew it was the wolf.
Solution:It is solving the problem in the story.	The Woodcutter saves Little red riding hood from getting eaten.

Today for writing we had writing we had to write our own story about Little Red Riding Hood. Our group had parts to write just to get our story.

How to write an orientation

For writing we where  learning to write an orientation and the structure it goes in. This DlO that Micaiah and I did showing  the structure our orientation goes in.

How to do an Orientation

This is my partner and I's DLO on how to use Dialogue,Action,Sound,and Setting in our writing and in a orientation.

Hook (action, dialogue, setting or sound)	“Arhhh!” the men screamed as they were approaching the bear.
Characters	Jeff,Mark,Blake, William
Setting	In the Jungle
Problem	The bear is chasing them.

Begin your Orientation:

“Arhhh!” the men screamed while  they were approaching the bear.  When they were filming they men  realized they were prey. When they were sprinting they realized that they didn’t get enough filming of Fonzie the bear. “Oh no what do we do now our boss is going to be angry at us.”

Stretching Sentences

This term  the year 7 and 8's in LS2 have been doing writing with Mrs Anderson, Ms Kirkpatrick and Miss Donaldson. When we did writing with Mrs Anderson we learnt how to stretch sentences just with the 5 W's to make a boring sentence into a powerful sentence.

It will be so cool to live in a tree house

I think it would be cool to live in a Tree House because  you can play on it and you can build things like you can build a flying  fox and that will be so cool.You can have so much fun in a Tree House  and you can have dinner in  the Tree House and you can bring your friends over. You can have sleep overs in the Tree House and you can put a swing on the branch.You can have  a shower or a bath in the pool. You can build a kitchen up in the Tree House  and that is how you can have dinner  of you can go to the shop and buy something to eat for dinner.  

My flipping ebook By Jessie on Past and Education

In the Past children got the strap and the cane and they had to wear the Dunce hat and they had to draw a dot on the board and put their nose on the dot.And They did different things like the boys did metal work and wood work and the girls did cooking,Knitting and sewing.

My technology in Education in the past

My argument on should Panmure Bridge Students wear uniforms. By Jessie

I think we should  wear a school uniform at Panmure bridge school I think we should because we respect our uniform

I believe we should wear a school uniform at Panmure Bridge school. I think we should because it shows we are respectful towards our school. I feel like everybody looks treated respectfully, and it gives us the opportunity for everyone to look smart and represent our school. If we wore mufti everyday I would feel competitive with my  fellow students, it will also take away the knowledge, people will not know what school I go to.

If you were the same thing every day after day means we are all dressed as equals, this means we don’t have to waste time in the morning deciding what to wear. Instead of ruining your home clothes you only have to spend money on a summer and winter uniform, saving your parents money and time. And if you wash your school uniform its easy to wash and dry and we stand out with our school uniform. And it makes us different about each school between us

and we have wonderful uniform to show  to the school and

makes us be proud  that  you have a Panmure Bridge School uniform and looks everybody smart

and they don’t rip or tear. Our school uniform is made out of hard wearing materials. And Miss Paton said that a sixth form student was riding her bicycle and collided with a bus and truck all witnesses new witch school she came from because of her uniform she died instantly. If the girl wasn’t wearing a uniform it would be a lot harder for all witnesses to know what school she had came from. The bus and truck

driver rang up the girls school and told them that one of their students had died. It be quite a challenge for kids because you would have to go through a lot of thinking to pick what clothing  you would want to wear at school.

      I would pick a school uniform because when  you are in a dangerous situation your uniform can be easily identified. I think your uniform can get a little stench while playing outside on a hot day. When you go to a special event and you lose a member of your class you can be easily identified. When you wear a school uniform it shows  that you are respecting the school’s reputation.   

My last drama by Jessie lee hapi

Our sound-tracking drama 

Last week Miss Eeles told us to do sound-tracking our buddy's were Zeba,Yvette,Lavinia and me. We did number two that was landing on the moon and Patrick,San tat,Ohs ma and Cyprus was the funniest and it was  great. 

Our freeze frame drama By Jessie

We did a good job of our Dear Greenpeace freeze frame.  I was Greenpeace and Jasmine was Emily. And Lani was the mum and Ducati was the dad.

It think we were good because  we make a good team.It was cool playing that freeze frame.

All about me Jessie lee

Hi my name is Jessie lee.
I am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my first year in room 5. In my spare time I like to play outside and play with my friends.
My favourite foods are ice cream, nutella, pizza, kfc and chocolate.
My favourite movie is Ice Age 2.
Over the holidays I went to my aunts  house and I rode her horse. She was so kind to her and we went swimming.My sister and I went to camp and we saw Reon It was so cool.
In Room 5 I would like to finish my work in  time by perservering  until my work is finish.