E-asTTle Writing Practice.

I am aiming to improve my writing in the following 3 areas: Structure, Ideas and language.

I will be doing this by adding more descriptive words that relate to my ideas, I will be focusing more on my language/spelling/language features, and I will also be watching my structure and be spacing out my writing.

Here is my Drafted first part of my paragraph for my persuasive writing.

There are multiple different types of sports in the world, and all most every sport has its own dangers that can happen or occur. You may be thinking about everyday sports, for example, netball, basketball, soccer etc. Those types of sports do have their dangers in them but they’re not nearly as dangerous as sports like, racing cars, horse riding, base jumping etc. 

Here is the updated paragraph of my persuasive writing, it is not yet finished.

Various types of sports are played all around the globe, from sports such as golf, compared to base jumping or wrestling. There are dangers in almost every sport. I feel that all sports shall not be banned, even though some can be dangerous its the fact that any sport can have dangers in, it doesn’t really depend on if its either a sport you could do by yourself, for example, base jumping, skydiving etc, these sports are known to be more dangerous than others, sometimes even life-threatening but so are everyday sports, they can also be dangerous in multiple ways, for example, netball, softball, soccer, basketball etc, the dangers in those could be minor, but they are still dangers that could physically affect and possibly change that person. I feel that any sports that include a ball shall not be banned, whereas other types of sports, for example, skydiving etc, should not be banned either, I feel that if people have a problem with the sport, then they should just not worry about it, or those particular types of sports should have an age/height limit to stop young ones from playing/doing it. For example, children are well known for wanting or doing crazy stuff, they like to be hypo and have fun, adults on the other hand also want this for their children but they would want them to be safe and obviously not to do anything too extreme, so I feel parents and adults would have fewer complaints if those types of sports had an age and some may need a height limit. 

Research Task-Volcanoes/Mauna Loa (UPDATED-results BELOW!)

Volcanoes

How do volcanoes form?

Volcanoes can be formed when magma pushes up through the earth's surface between cracks in tectonic boundaries. Another way could be when magma chambers begin opening up beneath the earth's surface, pushing magma through forming volcanoes.

Where are volcanoes most likely to form?

Volcanoes are only able to form where one tectonic plate sinks into the earth's mantle underneath another tectonic plate. 

What volcano am I focussing on?

The volcano I am researching is Mauna Loa.

The latest eruption from this volcano was the 15th of April 1984.

The amount of damage that was caused, wasn't that bad, there was no one injured due to the eruption, but it did cover 16 miles worth of land owned by the state.

Facts.

It has been 30 years since the last eruption from Mauna Loa recking 4.5 miles of Hilo, and the eruption lasted from March the 25th to April the 15th.

Mauna Loa has caused around 77 deaths in an eruption during 1846, 46 died due to a volcanic tsunami, and 31 from volcanic mudflows.

The area of the volcano is 5,271km².

This volcano is located in Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

It is known for being the worlds largest volcano in both volume and mass, dwarfed only by the Tamu Massif which is located East of Japan.

Here are some photos of The Mauna Loa:

The explosion:

Ingredients:
-(4 science spatulas) of Potassium Iodide
-20ml of Hydrogen peroxide (35%)
-A squirt of dishwashing liquid
-20ml water
-Food colouring.

We have finally created our volcanoes here is my video and some photos of it before and after.

-Before

-After

-Our lil explosion

Tāne Mahuta

This is a blog post on the god of forests/nature. He is also well known as Tāne Mahuta. Here are some facts on who he was and why he is a god. This also has information on what his other names were, and what he was also known for.