Summarising the Main Ideas

Worlds First plant selfie

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  sub- headings	New words I need to look up
First plant selfie in the world.		Revolutionise, Excreted, Panels, Milliwatts and Anode.

Write down 20 important words from the text	Camera, Plant’s, Energy, Rainforest, First, Technology, Pete, Zoological Society of London, World, Produce, Sunlight, Water, oxygen, Sugar, Shade, Wildlife, Soil, Power, Stem, Roots.
Chose the 6 most important words.	Plant, Produce, Energy, Photograph, Senors. Pete, Power
Chose the 5 important Sentences.	Pete is the world's first plant selfie made on Earth. He is a fern that takes photographs of itself, (every 20 seconds). These sensors are in the wild with camera traps. Did you know that plants are able to produce sugars and oxygen from water? His hobbies are Respiration, growth and photography.

                                                        My 10 syllables. 

Pete is the world's first plant selfie made on Earth. He is a fern that takes photographs of itself. These sensors are in the wild with camera traps. Plants are able to produce sugars and oxygen from water. His hobbies are Respiration, growth and photography.

This week during Reading we have being working on Current Events. Each person in LS2 were able to choose a topic from kiwi kids news, NZ Herald or Kea Kids News. The topic I choose is called World's first plant selfie. Pete is a fern that takes photos of itself every 20 seconds. I found this topic interesting to read because it is really cool how Pete can take selfies of its own (itself). During this task we wrote a summary. To begin with we wrote down 20 important words, 6 most important words and 5 important sentences. At the end we changed our 5 important sentences into 10 syllables. If you would like to read my 10 syllables it is under the sub heading (My 10 syllables).

Explanation : LGBTQ

LGBTQ

How do you feel about the LGBTQ commuinty? Nearly everyday humans question themselves about what they identify with. The meaning of LGBTQ is lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Q is for those who are questioning themselves, on what they identify with. Do you know the colours of their new flag?

RESPECT
Just imagine if you were LGBT, wouldn't you want respect from your family and friends? So why not show respect towards those who are LGBT? People in the 1990's - now, have gained a lo,t of respect for those who are lgbt. Showing them the respect they need will make them feel more self - confident.

EMPATHY
Did you know that over 11 million people in the world are LGBT? Being understanding (towards their feelings) and accepting (understanding how they feel) is showing Empathy. Example: understanding someone and sharing feelings with one another can lift a lot of weight off both of your guys shoulders.

TOLERANCE
Not much people today can show tolerance. There are two sides (disliking things and agreeing with things). In my opinion i think we should be showing tolerance to those people that are still figuring out their identify, which does that a lot of time.. We all have different opinions about things.

I have finally come to my conclusion. I talked about many things about the LGBTQ community, but If you were still wondering about the meaning of the LGBTQ colours on the flag is: Red means life, Orange means healing, Yellow means sunshine, Green means nature, Blue means harmony and Violet means spirit.

This week during Writing, LS2 (yr 7 and yr 8) have created a explanation of our choice that showed Respect, Empathy, Tolerance or something else of our choice.  I decided to go with LGBTQ for my explanation because it was really easy to go with Respect, Empathy and Tolerance. In the beginning we had 10 minutes of planning, 40 minutes of writing and a few minutes of drafting our work. The next day in the morning block we all had some time to proof read our writing. 

Point of View

This week for Inquiry Chavda and I have been using our researching skills to find out whether it’s necessary for plastic straws to be banned. In my opinion straws shouldn't be banned as it doesn't cause much problems then plastic bags. It helps us drink a drink instead of having it all over our face. Using this DLO we managed to find information/useful knowledge to back up not only our opinion but also to fill in facts for No/yes. A fact is useful information that is always correct . Option is not right or wrong as it is a emotional way to approach things.

Aesop Comic Strip

This week we have being doing book week activities like: comic strip and reading pathway. During the comic strip we used this site, to make our comic strip. I decided to go with the Lamp because the name sounded simple. My favorite box that drew out of all these 3 boxes was the first one since the colours looks kind of pretty and because it has details on it.