Reading is Important

People are thinking that, why is reading important?

The reason why reading is important is to build your knowledge and to improve our education. People read everyday to develop their skills to be prepared for the future, because people want to be a scientist, a lawyer and all other jobs that you can think of. People are good at those things because they work hard for it. They keep on practising and they have all the knowledge to do all these things because they read a lot.

When people read novels, fictions and things like, is because they entertain us. They make us feel scared, sad, shocked and happy. The reason why reading entertains us because they have different genres, interesting stories and the message behind. Reading can be interesting if it has a writer or author. Writers and authors make reading interesting. They make us inspired by them and made us want to read more. Believe it or not reading gives more information rather than watching movies and tv. Reading gives more information because the writers and authors extended the story to let people know more all about.

Reading can help us with our education because it can build up our writing and literacy. It can help you understand new vocabulary that you have not learned before. Reading can also help you improve your memory and concentration. That is good for developing the skills from the future. Reading can be everything and everywhere. No matter where we go, there will always be reading.

You must read all the time, cause if you don’t your life will get worst. People at schools or at public will tell you to read a book and try understand it, and understanding is one of the things that got to do will reading. Also if you don’t read you will not have the knowledge to get job and do things in the future. Imagine what will happen without reading.

So that’s why reading is important and I recommend you to read at home!

Antarctica

LI: As part of the immersion stage of our inquiry, we are developing knowledge and understanding about Antarctica.

Learning Journal

Challenges and Strategies

Challenges                                                                                                     Strategies

Sharing Room:                                                                   Respect other people and treat them nice.

Trying new things:                                                                                  Follow instructions

Getting sick:                                                                                  Use something that can cure the sick.

Getting hurt:                                                                                    Listen and follow the instructions        

Getting lost:                                                                                    Stay with your team

Challenges

For camp, I feel really worried about doing things by my own.  I’m afraid of getting sick, getting lost and getting hurt. I’m scared of doing things by my own without my parents and I am really nervous of the activities at camp because I’m not a type of person that can survive the wild and outdoor stuff.

Strategies

I have an idea or a strategy to overcome my fears and my challenges. To overcome my fear, I need to listen well and follow the instructions. If I get hurt, I should stay with my team. I need to respect others and treat them in a nice way especially  as I will be sharing a room with them.I will try my best to get along well with others.  When I try use these strategies, I am sure that I will be safe and I will feel less worried.

Merc

MERC

The MERC or Marine Education and Recreation Centre is located in Long Bay Beach in Auckland. It is a good place for children to work and do outdoor activities together. It’s purpose is to show children so that they can learn and experience lots of things that you do not learn in the classroom. At MERC, children do challenges, activities and survival skills.

MERC’s Beginning

In 1980 a group of yachtsmen and teachers are working on the site of what are they are gonna do with it. Takapuna City Council designated the area and had an idea. When the council found the area, they saw scraps of machinery, debris and foundations from the early building. Before then, the place use to be a store with petrol pumps in 1920 but it was demolished in 1950. In 1990 they finally made up their mind on what are there gonna do. They started to make a site for children that they can experience but they don’t have enough money, so they fundraise it. In 1992 they have enough money to build everything. They started making rooms, kitchens, courses and challenges for children. After that the schools went to MERC and they experienced it.

Cool School

WALT: Model and use postive strategies to promote the rights and responsibilities for for all students at Saint Patrick