Should Everyone Learn More Than One Language!?

Kia Orana, Talofa Lava, Kia Ora, Hello, Bon Jour, and Ni Hao! Did you understand what I just said? If not then maybe if everyone learns more than one language we can create more population! And understand more words in different languages to relate to others.

Creating Projects:Have you ever came upon an amazing looking project but! It's in a different language? It sucks yeah I know, but how can we prevent this annoying accident? Well if everyone learns and understands a new language maybe this accident would not happen as often. This way gives others more of an opportunity to explore a project of yours and clearly understand it to share with others.

Making stronger connections:Mandarin Chinese, English and Hindustani are the top three most spoken languages in the world! There is a 50 percent chance you will come upon one person speaking either one of these languages. But to avoid this awkward situation may be learning one more language can be more beneficial.

Job opportunities:Having the ability to speak and understand two languages gives you more of an advantage towards job seeking. Communication in workplaces is extremely important, especially if you working at an international office who are considering bilingual as a high priority.

Learning more than one language can give you more of an advantage towards international projects, making stronger connections and job seeking. Maybe you should try this out?

De-Extinction!

Bringing back extinct species is not worthwhile

Science. Scientists. De-extinction. How can these all lead to “ Oh let’s bring back extinct species! “ I really have no clue! All though extinct species may be cool but where are they going to live? What are they going to eat? Who is going to look after them? Well! This article will inform YOU why we SHOULDN'T bring back extinct species.

Health:

There is a down side about de-extinction! Extinct animals can carry retroviruses, which can lead to a massive breakout around the world. Usually cells convert DNA to RNA, ( a ribonucleic acid is a polymeric molecule. ) but! With retroviruses the process goes backwards. RNA to DNA, crazy right! Viruses can move at a fast pace, even faster than thought. Especially if these viruses are fast at reproducing. Now this is a reason why extinct species shouldn’t be brought back to life.

Environment:

More than 99 percent of the 8.7 million species have all died out, crazy right! Well this must mean each species has died at different times, and after those times our earth has had a huge change effect. Which must mean all food and environment must have changed and so those species wouldn’t be used to the new food and environment. So how can they live? Well I'm not sure either! I guess de-extinction isn’t a good idea after all…

Animal Welfare:

Scientists can use species for a solely human purpose, they have the ability to harm those species, not a great plan at all. If we decided to bring back extinct species, there shouldn’t be any harm towards them because these species are not bought to be studied but brought back to enjoy life. 

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Task Description:

To create a persuasive writing. Based on bringing back extinct species is not worthwhile at all. This piece of writing is helping others understand why I don't support de-extinction, do you support de-extinction? 

Life Processes!

Walt: Identify key information in a text. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on the life processes. This task included understanding the phrase " Mrs Gren. " , completing various tasks, identifying key information in a text to complete our work this week. My highlight from this task was I got to understand and learn about the different life processes and how I could know if a object was non living or living.

Graphic Organiser - Jungkook!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing. 

Task Description: 
This week we are focusing on using graphic organiser to organiser our writing. Once we created a graphic organiser about Greta Thuberg we were able to create a graphic organiser about a famous person we admire or someone we admire. This graphic organiser is all about Jungkook!

Informational Writing!

Walt: Vary The Start And Length Of Sentences We Write.

Task Description:
We are focusing on starting our sentences with different words and having different lengths of sentences we write. This is important for the future as we know how not to keep a story boring or even to short/long stories. I enjoyed our writing task because I got to know different ways on writing a story.

Rata And The Totara Tree!

Rata and the totara tree.

Retold by: Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira

Non - fiction

This week’s book is all about a man Rata and a special totara tree. Let me give you a quick summary of what our book was about.

A while ago a man Rata, went hunting for a great tree to create a canoe for his village. He came across and Totara tree, he was extremely excited that he forgot to pray or give a traditional ceremony before his men and himself cut down the totara tree.

Off they went chopping the tree down, every day they’ll cut down the tree but as they will go back the next morning the tree will be in the exact position it was in when they started cutting it down. Rata was sick of this nonsense, he sent his men home and waited late at night to see who put the tree back into position. Worms , butterflies , birds , all the children of Tane put the Totara tree back into position. Rata realized that he didn’t do a ceremony before cutting the tree down, he slept with the tree throughout the cold night. When Rata woke up the next morning he was gifted with a beautiful carved canoe!

This week I found our book quite fun, my reason for this is because I got to learn the creation of the world and the separation of Rangi and Papa. I also got to learn that you must show respect at all times.

If I could share this book to others I will think that year 3 - 7 students will enjoy this book and will learn some news facts. Have you ever read this book? If not then I recommend YOU to check this wonderful retold story. 

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Task Description:

This week I am sharing with you all my book review, this book review consist of a summary of what our book is all about , what I enjoyed in our story , as well as who would I recommend this weeks book too. 

This task would help us learn more about writing a book review for others and this will be helpful for in the future so if future generations would be learning about the same book they will know more by reading this book review. Lately I have been enjoying creating book reviews because I get to share with others my learning. 

The Gingerbread Chase

Walt: Write fractured fairy tales.

Task Description:
Room 2 literacy is sharing with everyone this week our new writing task. As for this weeks writing task we had to write a fractured fairy tale. What could this mean? Well we had to choose an fairy tale and change either one or two elements from the fairy tale.
This week I really enjoyed this task because I got to use my imagination and create fun and creative writings. By the end of my writing I really like the way my writing came out. Hopefully we could do this task once again.

Fairy Tales!

Walt: Use striking words and phrases in sentences.

Task Description:
This week room 2 literacy is focusing on using striking words and phrases in sentences. This weeks task will help us make our sentences interesting and will make our reader more interested. 

Our task this week was to work with a buddy to write a invitation to a made up guest to come to a dinner. But! When we are writing our invitation we had to pretend to be a famous fairy tale character. Why? Well this way is to hook the reader and make our writing interesting. By the last two slides can you figure out what fairy tale character my friend and I choose? Well good luck and enjoy this weeks writing! 

The Grateful Crane - Review / Re-write The Book!

Walt: Interpret figurative language.

Task Description:
Welcome to a new blog post for term 2! This term in reading we are learning about figurative language. In our new task i'm sharing with you all here is a review on our new book this week.

This week my group has been given a book called " Tsuru No Ongeshi, The Grateful Crane! ". As normal we have been also given a task. One of our task was to create a book review. Usually I do long writings for my book review, but as we are going to share with younger kids at my school I thought that a poster will be much suitable for younger kids. 

In this task here I created a poster re writing the book we got given. So I basically wrote the whole story but in some places in my own words. I really enjoyed this task because I get to share with others what this weeks book is all about, and I got to learn something new. Which is the Japanese Crane. The Japanese Crane is very beautiful!

Link to images: Here!

Mata I pusi!

Walt: Ask Questions to clarify our understanding of text.

Task Description:
This week room 2 reading got to read a book called Mata I pusi. This book was for a group called campion. 

For our task we got to learn how our main character feels about being bi-racial. Once we learnt about our new book we got to learn about what bi-racial means. Well, what could bi-racial mean? Well bi-racial means when your two culture. In our case in this book our main character is bi-racial, she is half Palangi and half Samoan. 

When she is at school she say's she does feel left out so we had to find out important information on why she feels this why and what bi-racial means.

Enjoy!

Changing Neighbourhoods!

Walt: Use details in my writing

Task Description:
This week for writing room 2 has been focusing on changing neighbourhoods. This writing we had come up with different places which had changed in our neighbourhood.

For our task we got to work with a partner to work on places that have changed around our neighbourhood, once we had figured out places which have changed we got to list them and create small detailed sentences on this presentation here. 

When we were creating this task I found it very fun because we got to work with a partner on places that have changed around our neighbourhood. Another thing I enjoyed about our writing task was that I got to create fun sentences about the places we choose to write about. I choose to write about Te Oro , the polution that had happened down at Pt England Beach and how the council is changing the houses to fit more people in Auckland, New Zealand. 

Moriori: A Story Of Survival!

Walt: Understand new information by connection to my life, texts I know and the world.

Task Description:
This week Campion group is working on a new book called Moriori: A Story of Survival. Our task was to first create a book review on our new book , secondly we had to create facts about the Moriori. I created a information web with facts about Moriori. On three slides I had to compare the text to pass events , now events , and future events. As for the last slide we had to choose one statement that we listed and create either a presentation , video or poster about the statement we choose.