I can make links across texts by recognising connectives or adverbial clauses

I can make links across texts by recognising connectives or adverbial clauses

In this unit learnt… What the difference is between the to.

A connective is… a word that connects to sentences into one

An adverbial clause is… Something that tells you the time, place or action of where it was.

Here is a link to a compare and contrast map of an adverbial clause and a connective.

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Term 1 Book Review

See ya, Simon

This is is a book about a boy called Simon, he has muscular dystrophy, He goes to school and wants to be treated like a normal child but his teacher likes to reward him with things that little kids would be rewarded with. He has many friends and his family are always doing things for Simon. This is a great book to read.

A.6 Research a range of options for High School. Visit at least three different open nights.

A.6 Research a range of options for High School. Visit at least three different open nights.

The three open nights/ days that I went to where Lincoln, Cashmere and Girls High.I thought that these were well presented. The one that I liked the most was Lincoln because I found that it had many sporting opportunity's and lots of space with many classrooms.  
Here is a link to the doc with a list of High schools that I researched. Link

House captains leadership Excellence post 1

Today it was the bake sale and all of the year 8's had to bring in some baking to get some money off there bill for our school camp trip to Wellington, All the house captains set up  the tables and severed the kids it was great fun to see all the children wanting to buy something, we raised just under $900 dollars. The care value that I showed was respect because I was respecting the little kids while they think of what they wanted, I was showing leadership by helping out when I was needed.

C.10 Design your own challenge.

C.10 Design your own challenge.

For design your own challenge I chose to umpire at least 3 netball games,On Saturday I umpired a year 5/6 netball game it was Ellesmere vs South Bridge This was my first game to umpire for the year, I think that I did well for my first time this year. I have done my second umpiring game it went better than it did first, I think that I was doing well with calling and blowing my whistle loud, This is my third game that I umpired It was a very tricky game to umpire because the ball was going back and forth and was a close game.