Why people need to drink water?

Walt: Plan for a piece of explanation writing. Use the 'Title - Introduction - Conclusion (TIIC) structure.

The topic is “Why is it so important for people to drink water?, “Is it healthy for us to drink water daily?”, Yes, it is really important for us to drink water daily because it helps us to focus more on our learning and it also helps us to keep hydrated at all times.

We need to drink water because it helps us survive and our body is about 60 percent of water. Drinking water also helps the skin to do it’s job of regulating the body’s temperature through sweating. Water is an important part of all body functions and processes, including digestion and elimination.

Also combined with fiber, water can cure constipation. To also prevent headaches. Sometimes headaches can be caused by dehydration, so drinking water can prevent or weaken that nasty head pain. Water is important for your bodies survival than food. You can live without water for about one week, but you can survive without food for more than a month.

Drinking at least 8 glasses a day will help rid the body and skin of toxins. Drinking water is important during weight loss because it provides hydration without unwanted calories. But research over the years has suggested that drinking extra water helps the kidneys clear sodium, urea, and toxins from the body.

That is why it is really important to drink lots of water because it keeps you hydrated. That is why there's so much information that explains to you on why drinking water is so important for you and it can help you with your health. Sometimes drinking water can take away the headaches that you have in your head because you haven't drank enough water to keep you hydrated.

Blog Journal Reflection

What have you enjoyed?

What I have enjoyed of these first 2 weeks at school was cool because I got to meet my old teachers and see some new students joining our amazing school. What I also enjoyed was seeing all of my best friends again and getting to talk to them.

What has been difficult? 

The only thing that was really difficult for me was seeing the old Year 8's gone into college and they have already parted ways with each other. Another thing that has been really difficult for me was having to say goodbye to our old teachers Miss Clark and Miss Berry. These two really special teachers found their dream jobs.

What is new this year?

There has been many new changes in our school because their are now new students, teachers who have joined our beautiful school to see how we do our learning on our chromebooks. There has also been new changes to our school because we now have new prefects who would lead our school to success.

What's your new classes?

Our new classes that we have this year is kiwisport. What we're doing for kiwi sport is Hockey with our amazing teacher who would be teaching us about the drills and rules and also how to control the ball with your hockey stick. My other new class that I have attended for tech is cooking, cause last year I was in graphics. But I ended up moving to cooking for tech this year.


What are you looking forward too?

What I'm looking forward to for this year is going to the polyfest and going to the Year 8's leadership camp. Another thing that I'm looking forward to for this year is getting new opportunities and trying to achieve my goal. I am wanting to set out my goals for myself so that I can be really successful. 

Why do we wear hats at school?

                            Why do we wear hats at school?

The reason why we need to wear our hats at school because it protects our heads from ever getting sunburnt and also to make sure that we don’t get skin cancer. There are lot’s of reasons why people wear hats for a reason. A hat can help give added coverage for the skin on your ears and neck.

The hat’s are either part of their uniforms, protect their heads, to act as sun shade. The reason why hats act as sun shade because it is to make sure our heads doesn’t get burnt. Skin cancer is a deadly thing, it can lead to highly death, that’s why you always need to take care of yourself and keep yourself healthy.

If you have cancer, then you will have to go to the doctors to get your cancer checked. Skin cancer is a very important thing that you need to take care of because it is very contagious. This is so your face is protected and that you get the littlest opportunity of getting melanoma. It is shown that lots of people get lots of sunburn on their face and neck then any other part of their bodies.

This time is the only time when the sun starts getting really hot and it starts to burn you. The times are 10am till 4pm. Wearing a wide brimmed hat outdoors is a great way to protect your hair, eyes, and skin from the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays. While you still need to slather your skin with a broad spectrum sunscreen that protects against both UVA and UVB rays.

These are the reasons why Pt England School always wear school hats to make sure that our parents don’t worry about protecting us from the sun because we are wearing our hats to protect our heads from ever getting burnt. Also, the hats can protect our heads from getting skin cancer or melanoma which is a very contagious cancer to get from the sun. We are so lucky that we got hats today because they help us to protect our head from any cancer.

Kete Knowledge Positive Message

Walt: Make connections between our prior knowledge and examples within the text in order to understand more abstract ideas in the text.

Task: Our task was to create a poster that uses the kete as a way to encourage students. What we had to think about was "What's a catchy saying I could create to have this message remembered?, another one was "What images can I create to capture their attention, then our last one was to post the poster onto our blogs with a brief explanation to explain what we are doing in class. What I have learnt from this short reading poster is that if you have something that you really want, but you don't know what to do, you should try hard to achieve your goals.

Kete Knowledge Presentation

Walt: Make connections between our prior knowledge and examples within the text in order to understand more abstract ideas in the text.

Task: Our task was to read through the 4 texts provided and to complete the set tasks to complete our learning evidence. We had to either read or listen to the texts that was provided for us from the teacher. Their were 2 Nga Kete E Toru video's, the first one was put into maori and the last one was translated into english to help some of us who doesn't understand maori. Once we finished reading the texts, we had to work on the presentations by ourselves, but we got some extra help from Mrs Iloa or some of our classmates.

Add Using Doubles

Walt: Use Doubles to help us resolve addition and subtraction

Task: Our task was to add by using our knowledge of doubles. Since we were just starting the week, my group 'Zap' and the other group's work was 'Kapow' because we had to do the same work as them, because our maths teacher Mrs Judd hasn't updated our work yet. Then we had to work out the answer, but at the same time, we had to solve the same problem. What I have learnt today is how to solve problems by using doubles.

Walt: Identify the structural features of an explanation text.

Task: Our task was to reconstruct the explanation explaining how are glass bottles recycled. We had to make sure that we make the explanation flow logically and use image options to change the colour of each text to make sure that they are either concluding statement or opening statement. If their was a concluding text, we had to colour that same paragraph green. If the paragraph was an opening statement, then we had to colour it purple.