Writing Sample

W.A.L.T explain to your reader what being a good friend means

Do you know what a good friend is ? Then I am here to tell you how to be a good friend or how to improve on being a good friend.

A good friend is a person that doesn't judge the way you look, your religion or even the colour of your skin. They make you feel welcoming and loved. A world without friends wouldn’t be nice. So that’s why you should take the opportunity to have friends. Friends can be the one to cheer you up or the shoulder you cry on or even share your problems with. Friend should be loyalty and always be there for you.

They may be some time where your friend is feeling sad or disappointed that’s when your side of a good friend is shown. Most people find it hard to be a good friend and that’s true. It hard to be a good friend because sometime your most reliable friend has done something bad you should always have time to think and then tell them what you think. Sometimes both of you feel sad because you disagreed on something. That’s when you have to be the older person and apologize first to make things right.  Never think that you’re always the reason why both of you argue because that puts you down to make you think that you’re not a good friend. In life there are always going to be mistakes and thats why not one friendship in this world is perfect.

Most of the people I know pretend to be someone they are not just to make their friends happy or just to fit in with the crowd. That’s not being a good friend to yourself. I would say the first friendship you should have is a friendship with yourself. Why should you have other friends when you can’t even make friends with yourself. That’s the one friendship you will ALWAYS have. If you want or improve on being a good friend is first to be friends with yourself.

Remember a world without friends is no use so take the opportunity to have friends!

Backyard Flax tree.

Capitals

Capitals - what are they and when do you use them in writing?

WALT: Write an explanation telling people what capital letters are and when you use them in writing.

Do you know what a capital letter is ? A capital letter is  well known as a upper case letter for it’s size. Capital letters comes in different shapes as well. Sometimes when you write a capital letter it’s not the same shape as the lower case letter (the smaller letters) for example the capital Q is not the same shape as the smaller q.  When writing a capital letter it always has to reach the top of the line.  

Capital letters are used for different kind of things like names of geographical places. Geographical places are places like  countries around the world and the cities in the country. It can also be use for places like McDonald's and fish and chips stores.   

Dates. Us human beings use capitals for dates like months and days of the week. We use them because it doesn't look tidy when writing it .

In titles are capital letters. Titles are things like movies, games, shops and more. All of them have capitals. For example when buying Black ops 2 on the cover it has a capital at the beginning of the title. If you go to the shop the logo of the store has a capital.   

We use Capitals after a full stop to start a new sentence. For me it helps me to see where an new sentence it because I can’t really see the full stops. So it really helps me. It also marks where a new sentence begins. Some people forget but the way I remember to put a capital is to re read it.

Conclusion: We should always use capitals to make sense when writing or speaking.

Elections Day

Not long ago was elections day. Election day is a day when people vote if they want to change the prime minister or not. Election day only comes every 3 years. This year is an  election year when people vote. My Parents voted for Labour. The most common parties are labour and national. This year the leader of National is our very own prime minister John Key and the leader of Labour is David Cunliffe. There were 7 parties that participated in they elections. When everyone voted (the whole of  New Zealand ) the winner was NATIONAL !!! That was very exciting news !! Hopefully Labour will win next time !!

Coconut trees in Tonga

This is a poster I created advertising the coconuts and to come to Tonga and drink from
the tree of life. The first ever coconut tree.

Kids with Tablets (Article)

W.A.L.T : Use the structure of newspaper articles to write news reports

Year One Kids using tablets for their learning.

Marilyn

Pt England School.

Lead : Instead of using heaps of paper Year one students at Pt England School are using tablets for their learning.

Para One - Why Tablets ?

Juniors at Pt England have tablets because it helps expand the learning more. Mrs Garden said  She thinks that “it makes their learning faster on their tablets and paper and pencil is only one way to write.”

Mrs George, another Teacher, says “children think it’s better than Ipads and Its the right size for them instead of buying heaps of stationery”. Also Kahurangi and Oalii, the kids I interviewed  said “I love it !”

Para Two - How many classes use the idea of tablets.

Three of the Junior classes are trialing using their own tablets as their learning tool. Their Teachers say that it is really helping with their reading, writing as well as their speaking.

Para Three - Do they pay for it ?

The reason why they have tablets is because the are trialing and who knows they may have all the junior kids using a tablet of their own ! Also what's cool about it is that they don’t pay for it because it is a trial.

Conclusion

Ariana, one of a students in Pt England School, thinks it is an awesome idea for year one kids to be using tablets because it’s a fun way to express their learning online.

   

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