Poems

Poems

I love poems because they can be abstract whilst making sense (or not). We have been learning about different poems such as haiku's, couplets and limericks, and diamante. Here are my favourite ones:

Haiku about Writing

Pencil on paper

Sowing a deeper meaning 

Simply put in words

Diamante about the Sea and Night

Sea

cunning colourful

splashing pulling rolling

mighty powerful dangerous dark

stealing sleeping prying

lonely frightening

Night

Limerick/Couplet Poem

The old sea dog told a tale,

Whilst leaning on the inns rail.

Of the cold and rolling seven seas

And after that he would tease

"You can't find adventure whilst wrapped in a rug,
stroking that spoilt fat pug."

"You have to board a ship and travel far,
being guided by the north star."

"And come apon that pirates ship,
the Captin carrying a fiery whip."

And when he finished I'd ask for more,
asking "how did you make it back to shore?"

At this he would chuckle then grin at me,
and say, "As for that, wait and see."

So that's my tale of the old sea dog,
I hope you find time to read his ships log.

Animal Welfare.

For my DEC (Discover, explore create) I have been doing animal welfare. As part of this, we went to nature land. I did an animoto video of our time there. Here it is:

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BYOD argument

At our school we are thinking about having BYOD. Here is my argument:

BYOD at NCS

Do you think we should have BYOD at NCS? I am half in half because although there could be positive effects there are quite a few negatives that we should consider the side-effects of.

Firstly, if you had your own device at school, it could improve your attitude towards learning e.g once you have finished typing, you can play sumdog.

Although we should consider that if the average class has 30 children, and they each have their own device, plus 6 school devices, with people printing from computers and writing on ipads and playing on phones, then there would be heaps of radiation, and radiation never goes away. It is like an apple, you can keep on halving it, but it will never disappear completely, no matter how small the piece left is.

Even though devices may be used for rewards, children may take advantage of them and when the teacher isn’t looking sneak onto games before they have finished, and then switch back to their work when the teacher is looking, or pretend they have finished their work when they haven’t really.

So although there could be positive outcomes, I think there are more negative effects than positive, and i don’t think we should have BYOD at NCS because people may take advantage of the rewards, and there would be too much radiation.This is my argument against BYOD.

What do you think?

Calender art!!!!!!

 This is my calender art! Our theme this year was Sunset Sillouhete! Hey, that rhymes! 

Skiing!!!

Last Tuesday my class went skiing at Rainbow Ski Field. The weather was impeccable, and skiing was sooooo much fun. I went on the first shuttle because I had never been skiing before. I am quite proud of myself because I got to the intermediate slope. Hope you enjoy the video!!!!

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