Persuasive writing for survivor night.

These last two weeks, our class has been working on a persuasive writing piece. Our writing is to persuade our caregiver(s) to let us go to the survivor night. Mine is very good in my opinion.

Project Island Birdsong Topic

Today, on 10/11/22, our class presented our project on island birdsong topics. My topic was bird sanctuaries. I made a slide about most of the stuff you need to know about bird sanctuaries.

Information Report.

After the bike safety program people came to KCS on the 18th of October, we year 7-8s wrote an information report on the day. Some people worked with partners, and a few didn't. I worked with Liam. Here is the information report, I used Canva.

18th Oct 2022 by Liam Mackay

Creature classification.

This week, our class is doing a classification project on an animal of our choice.

My one was an African Fattail Scorpion.

We were finding out what kingdom, phylum, genus, etc they were in. 

In the end, we had to do a Who Am I? 

Here is my classification project on my animal.

Scorpions

What is this creature? Scorpions are animals in the order of Scorpiones, under the class Arachnida, which makes them a cousin of spiders. Scorpions have eight legs, while insects have six. Scorpions have two body segments while insects have three. 

Kingdom:   Animalia Phylum:   Arthropoda Class:    Arachnida Order:    Scorpioniones Genus: Androctonus Species: A. amoreuxi   Family: Buthidae Common Name-African Fattail Scorpion

Ko wai au?  (Who am I?) I am found in the desert, under rocks, leaves, and more. I sneak into peoples' whare, seeking water and shelter. My lineage can be traced through Scorpioniones, and back to Arachnida. This means im cousins to spiders. Going back a bit, I'm part of Arthropoda Phylum, which means I’m also cousins to all the animals that have joined feet. My full Latin name is Androctonus amoreuxi. My stinger is poisonous and venomous. About 25 out of 1500 of my species can kill people. I have a big tail and pincers. I am related to all the Arachnida in the world. Who am I? An African Fattail Scorpion.

Common Name-African Fattail Scorpion

Latin Name-Androctonus amoreuxi

Where I got info from. 

Google-_____

Wikipedia-_____

Cinquain poems

 

The Parable of the Three Servants

 We are created in God's image,

 Gen 1:26, Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

This means I have God-given creativity and talents. My talents are being linguistically intelligent, and spatially intelligent.

This week we read the parable of the three servants.

The parable was about a master and three servants. 

The master was going to go somewhere for a while and gave the three servants some talents, based on their abilities. The first servant got five talents and made five more out of it. the second servant got two talents and made two more out of it. The third servant got one talent and buried it underground. When the master came back he saw this and yelled at the third servant, accusing him to be lazy and foolish.

The parable taught me more about that verse that says, give and it will come back to you. Like how the master gave the servants talents and got more out of it.

I can apply this parable today by giving people stuff, or if someone gives something to me, I make the most of it and give something more back.

Who is creative?

This term we were learning about creative people, we had to make a google drawing about creative people in our groups. 

Here is our group's google drawing.