Considering the kiwi

Today Brandon shares his piece of persuasive writing about saving the kiwi, let us know if you agree with him.

Save the kiwi.

Is it worth it? Imagine if you and your species were in trouble and no one wanted to help you how would you feel? It’s extraordinary how fast the kiwis are dying. Do you know that only 5% of the kiwis make it to adult hood.

  

Kiwis are going extinct and are you helping to save them? Do you know that 80 years ago there was around 5 million kiwi now there’s only 72 600 so that’s a 4 927 400 population drop. So need to spend some money or they will go extinct.

  

Do you know that the kiwi are only found in New Zealand and the and the only nature they can live in is New Zealand’s so they need your help. The kiwi can’t fly which makes them vulnerable to animals like rats and stocks. So we need to help them because it’s a race against time. 

  

As you might know the kiwi are famous outside and inside New Zealand they mean lots to all New Zealanders we sell millions of gifts that have kiwi on them. They are our national symbol. We must stop taking them for granted. They are what brings New Zealand together so please do help.

The North Island Brown Kiwi

Should we save the Kiwi?

We have been looking at persuasive writing in Room 8, writing which tried to convince the reader to agree with our point of view. To start we learnt about a kiwi called K2 who had to have an operation to fix his twisted leg, we then discussed whether it was worth spending the money on him and whether it is worth trying to save the kiwi altogether. Here is Zach's piece on whether it is worth trying to save the kiwi...do you agree with him?

Kiwis

If there were only roughly 42,600 of us humans left, you had a broken leg and you were suffering, you would pay $Millions to fix it, right? I think kiwis should be saved from extinction because they are endangered. They are also endemic to New Zealand.

Kiwis are flightless birds. They used to be able to fly but they lost their wings. There was no danger 20 million years ago so they lost their wings and now they regret it. Now there is stoats and rats and weasels and plenty more nasty little critters out there ready to make a meal out of the poor little flightless kiwi. If we don’t do something the population will decline tragically and they will fall into the black hole of extinction

Kiwis should be saved from extinction because, if we don’t, the customers at New Zealand gift shops at museums and stores will dramatically decline. Do you know why? Because of you! You decided to let the beautiful, flightless kiwi die! You made the little kiwi toys disappear because there are no more kiwis to study on!

In conclusion, I think kiwis should be saved from extinction because they are nearly extinct.     

K2 the Kiwi after his operation

More Marvelous Pukekos

Some more of Room 8 finished their pukeko sketches today and here they are for your enjoyment. I think you'll agree they look quite stunning.

 Sithika's Pukeko

 Finn's Pukeko

Marija's pukeko

Pukeko Pictures

We are starting to work on our calendars for this year. Mrs Davies decided we were going to use Pukekos as our topic and so we have been busy sketching from photographs. We've been making sure we get all the detail into our sketch and then adding tone to show the light and dark parts of the picture. Here are the first few sketches that are finished, let us know what you think. 

 Zach's pukeko

 Daniel's pukeko

 Izzy's pukeko

 Ashley's pukeko

 Aspen's pukeko

 Joel's pukeko

 Viola's pukeko

 Jye Yin's pukeko

Lets go fly a kite

We have been making kites over the last couple of weeks and finding out about how they fly. Today we got to take the kites out onto our school field to test them out and have some fun. It was a great way to celebrate the end of term and lots of fun was had by all...

Marija's animation

Continuing in our series of procedural writing about our animations, today Marija is going to share her piece...

Animations

Animations are like mini movies with mini people only you need a normal camera to take little pictures . Then ,when you put them all together....BAM! You have an animation! We made animations about camp. 

So first we decided what camp activity we were going to do, then we made a background and painted it lots of colours! After that, we started to make our mini people! 

We drew our mini people and put them in our AWESOME ANIMATIONS! Each of us took 10 to 20 pictures before we started to move our mini people. 

When we finally finished, we uploaded the animations onto the computer, saved them as movies, and we all had fun watching them when our parents came! 

Ella's animation writing

Today Ella is going to share her piece of writing about how we made our animations...

How to make animation

Animation is lots of individual photos joint together in chronological order to make movement. The animation I’m going to talk about is 2D, we made ours in room 8 about our school camp

Firstly you need to plan what your going to do on a A3 piece of paper then you neatly draw  your background on a A1 sized piece of paper. After that you paint your background with a fat brush first then a skinny brush to do the detail. Soon after the paint has dried put in extra details with pastel.

Next you need to make a person out of paper (that person being you). To make that paper person you need to draw all the different joints including your body and head. Before cutting the bits out you will need to draw your face and clothes. Once you’ve finished that you need to inky/sharpie your person and colour him/her in. Then cut out the pieces and use bluetac to stick him/her together. Why do you need to use bluetac? Because if you use glue or tape your person won’t able to move!

Later, if you need props draw them, inky them and then lastly colour them!

Afterwards, set up a special place for your background so you can only see the background and nothing else. Set up your people and props in the right spot ready to film. To start you need to take 10-20 pictures without moving your person because you don’t want to go straight into the action that would ruin it. Start to move your people in small movements and take a photo after every movement.

When you’ve taken about 100-200 photos, you upload your pictures onto a computer and put them together on a movie editing program. If there are any unwanted pictures that you’ve taken now’s the chance to remove them. After that you will need to add in credits and titles, and if you want any you can put in music and sound effects. Last but not least save it as a movie in a folder so it won’t get lost.

I felt good about my movie because it turned out really well. Making it gave me an opportunity to film and makes an animation which made me feel great. If I we’re you and you hadn’t done this I’d probably have a go!