Here is my first attempt this year at persuasive.

The Holidays are Too Short.

Dear Hekia Parata,

Don't you just love relaxing and not having to rush?  Even thinking about being on a three week holiday  would definitely be relaxing. I am writing to you because I definitely think the holidays are too short. Because of all the reasons I am about to tell you, in my opinion the holidays must be longer than two weeks.

Firstly children have not enough time to go and travel. This is because by the time they get to the place they want to go, they have to go home again. Otherwise they won’t make it to school in time. If you had a 3 week holiday you wouldn’t have to rush your traveling, you would have another whole week to get home and do anything you need to do. You could even go to more than one place! You would still have time to recover from your holiday too. Otherwise you might fall asleep in the middle of the first day back at school. Imagine that! So embarrassing! It feels like you almost need another holiday because you are way too tired that you can’t even think. All you want to do is have the holidays back. That last week would work perfectly as another holiday.

Secondly, if they were longer you could get all ready for the next term and you wouldn’t have to worry about it when you get to school after the holidays. There is nothing worse than getting to school and having nothing ready! How would you feel if you came home from travelling, and was all stressed because there was only one day left, and you just don't have time to get ready?

Another reason is that, some children have to do so many chores that they don't have any time to see friends and family. Imagine that! Everyone seeing their friends and family and your stuck doing heaps of chores. If we had a 3 week holiday we could at least have some fun because we would have more time. There would be plenty of time to visit your grandparents or friends and family.

The last reason is because if it rained or the weather was bad for ages, you would at least have a bit of time to go out and do some activities. Otherwise, if we had a 2 week holiday, we wouldn’t have any time to go outside and have fun or do anything. By the time the rain stops you have to go back to school!

I think the holidays should be longer because of all the reasons I have outlined above.

Yours Sincerely,

Kaelyn.

My Holidays.

One of my Favourite Days in the Holidays.

It was when Ryleigh came over as well as all my other friends. We all went down to ride the horses and had a blast.

Me and my friend Charlotte loved riding horses and we had done it so much we were jumping barrels. Ryleigh was horse mad like us and had horses at home. All the other people that had came had a ride too. Most of them rode both horses. The horse's names were Trampy and Coasty.

Coasty was a pony that we were looking after because the owners didn't have any farmland.

Once we had all had a ride we unpacked the horses and had some lunch. The adults announced that we were going on the river walk. We got ready with our shoes on and off we went.

When we started there were a whole lot of leaves. We all got into a big leaf fight! Then we buried each other. After that we grabbed a bunch of leaves and threw them in the air. By the time we started to carry on with our walk, I had leaves all down my back! It tickled!

Soon enough the walk was almost over. We each had a fruit burst and carried on chatting!

Once we had finished the walk we all went home and decided to go to the Keoghs for dinner.

At the Keoghs Charlotte and her sister Rachel, Jamie, Alex, my brother Rhys and I, all played a game of touch rugby. I had never played it before so it was all new to me. I was proud of myself though, because I scored 2 or 3 tries for my team.

Once it got dark we went inside and had burgers for dinner.

After dinner me and Charlotte made up a dance and showed the adults. Then all the other girls made up a dance and had no idea what they were even doing because they hadn't made it up. They sort of just copied each other. It was really funny but was cool.

The next thing I knew we were on our way home. I was really tired and fell asleep as soon as I got in bed. The was the one of the best days in the holidays that I had.


By Kaelyn

Significant Event

Captain Cook Finding NZ

Introduction.

Captain Cook was born in Yorkshire, England. He entered the navy as an able Seaman in 1775. By 1768 he had been chosen as first officer. He was given command of the Bark Endeavour. (A well built ship of 368 tons.) In the same year, he got given instructions to set sail across the pacific ocean so he could study how the planet Venus travels across the sun. On his way he found New Zealand. This event was predicted to take place on the 3rd of June 1769.  The actual journey didn’t happen again until 105 years later.   

Why it is Significant?

This event is significant because he found New Zealand and we could have been living in another country because New Zealand wouldn't be found. We could have been living over in Australia!  

Why it has effect on us?

It affected all of New Zealand because we would probably wouldn’t know about it and we would basically be living in another country. Also because some of the people that heard about it, would have gone to live there and see what it was like. They probably would have learnt a whole new language and culture because of the Mauri being there.

Similar events

Some similar events are when people find things that are important and that have an effect on either the world, country or community.

Captain Cook found NZ and let us be able to live in this safe, amazing country.