Matific

For maths today, I went on a site called Matific. Matific is filled with lots of fun activities and games that children can enjoy playing. I decided to play a game called Wholes and Parts.

In this activity, I was given questions like, 2 x ¼. What I would do to find the answer was get a circle or any other shape I was given, (which can be found near the bin on the bottom right of the screen) and drag it onto the blank space. After I had done that, I would cut it into quarters and grab ¼. Then, I recycle the other quarters. When I have completed that, I would grab the duplicate button and drag it onto the quarter. Then I place them together and the answer is ½.

Matific helps me a lot because sometimes I need to revisit some things in math and don’t know where to find things relevant to it, I can just go on Matific, because they have all sorts of things in Mathematics that I can learn!

Should Grandparents be paid for looking after their grandchidren

Jazire

Wednesday - August 23 2017

SUCCESS CRITERIA -

I need to have reasons for my argument statement

I must give valid reasons why I chose yes/no

My argument must include why or why not

Everyone knows that a babysitter gets paid when they take care of either a pet or child. But my question is, should Grandparents get paid for babysitting their Grandchildren?

Babysitters get paid most oftenly from their neighbours, not a family member or relation. But some people think that grandparents should be paid for taking care of their grandchildren. I think not. My reason for this is because grandparents should value the time they get to spend with their grandchildren. I think they shouldn’t be paid because when they babysit, they should be thinking about spending fun moments with their grandchildren instead of money.

I think that some grandparents might actually agree with this statement, because most grandpas and grannies just want to spend time with their little ones. And also, it would be a good advantage for a grandparent and grandchild to get along and develop a close relationship. Furthermore, I think that grandparents shouldn’t be given money for babysitting because sometimes, some people young children have younger siblings that need looking after and they help out with them. And most times, after spending a lot of time with their younger brother/s or sister/s they don’t get paid from their parents.

I think that people only get paid when they are older and actually need money, as only sometimes when younger children get paid, they may only spend it on lollies and junk foods. This is why I think grandparents shouldn’t receive any money for minding their grandchildren. Those were all of my valid reasons why I think grandparents should not be paid any money. Especially if they don’t want or need it.

I argue with everyone else that thinks grandparents should be paid. Because it wouldn’t be fair if another younger family member minded their younger siblings or family members and would earn nothing out of it.

We had to write an explanation or an argument to explain why or why not grandparents should be paid for looking after their grandchildren. We also had to give reasons to show why.