Tuesday 6 December 2016

Merry Xmas

Thursday 1 December 2016

Sunday 6 November 2016

Writing term 4

WALT Choose to write one of the following -
- An imaginative (but could possibly happen - no zombies or aliens!) adventure story that takes place in an outdoor setting. - A personal recount about an outdoor experience you have had (eg: camping, beach, hiking, biking, picnic)

I chose the imaginative one.




The mist damped the tops of the trees, the wind was almost silent. A hoot of a owl echoed around a near cave. The moonlight shone through the gaps of the trees, The silence was deafening.




Jackson knew he was going to die, the plane was falling faster and faster. It was too late to try to use the controls, Jackson was going to die… The plane crashed into the piny trees, one person died.




7¾ hours later Jackson opened his eyes he saw the mangled pilot’s body and screamed, the sound echoed around the sunlit cockpit and Jackson realized he was alone.  Alone in the middle of nowhere, no hope of finding humanity. All of the glass in the front window was shattered Jackson climbed out of the lone cockpit. He was surrounded with spruce trees, a drip of water hit Jackson’s forehead. Jackson looked up and somehow the tops of the trees were dripping wet. Jackson thought it must have rained but then he realized everything else was dry. 


A rumble came from Jackson’s stomach, he needed to find something to eat and drink. He looked around and to his delight he found a bush full of berries, he knew it was possible they could be poisonous but his raging hunger drove him towards them. He moved so fast scoffing his face with berries... They were raspberries, Jackson tore at the leaves taking all of the berries he decided to save some, he didn't know how long he would be stranded in this forest hell.


The day's turned to night as Jackson froze each night but the food and water supply was fine, the berries were almost all gone but Jackson found more berry bushes. As for water Jackson had found a freshwater stream, hell slowly was turning into heaven. Luckily for Jackson there wasn't many harmful animals. 


He spent most of his time gathering things to patch the hole in the cockpits window. He moved the pilot's body (if you could call it a body) and buried it, then washed his hands in the river and washed the bloody seat. 




At 4:32 pm Jackson’s mind was whizzing  with thoughts, he did have enough food to last a long time did he really want to go back to civilization? He started to think of how he could accomplish that. At 4:47 pm an idea came to him in most planes there are medkits and rafts.
Jackson looked around the cockpit under his seat was a waterproof white box. Jackson hurled at the box unzipping it open. To Jackson's delight he saw bandages, pills, and a plastic silver keychain with a button on it labeled GPS. Jackson pressed the button and a not very loud voice said 
“GPS SIGNAL SENT SUCCESSFULLY”






A week later Jackson was on a plane back to Mummy and Daddy.

Thursday 3 November 2016

Survival lessons

For preparation for camp the year 5&6 classes are learning techniques in the water to keep safe in white water rafting. Here are some photos.






Getting into a line position out of the water. This is used so the group can stay together and out of danger for our heads.



Line position in the water.




Huddle in case we get cold and or separated. (Not as safe as the line position)






Wednesday 21 September 2016

Reading

WALT: work collaboratively to have a better understanding of what we read.
What we have been doing: reciprocal reading, taking turns at clarifying, predicting, questioning and summarising.

My next step is to do more of the clarifying, the clarifyers job is to make it easier for other people to understand and they use synonymous, definitions and reading strategies eg. To retread or to read on.

Wednesday 24 August 2016

Olymipcs Writing

WALT: Write a Recount/Reporp about an Olympic champion/champions 

I did the Report Here's mine.

The Sun Was Shining As Bright as the fire on the on the Olympic torch. The men's 800m sprint on the 13th of August  in Rio 2016! Let's see who's in on the race! We've got  Amel Tuka from Bosnia & Herzegovina in lane 1, Boris Berian from the US in lane 2, Žan Rudolf from Solenia in lane 3, Kléberson Davide from Brazil in lane 4, Ayanleh Souleima from Djibouti in lane 5, Antoine Gakeme from Burundi in lane 6, Musa Hajdari from Kosijabra in lane 7 and last but not least, in Lane 8 David Rudisha From Kenya!!!

“Now we have our eight athletes but we know only one will win a gold medal going down in history!” Says Carl the lead commentator! The track was the same dark red rubber the athletes love “Yeah about the track I hate the feeling and colour of it!” Says David. The race was amazing the athletes really gave it their all!!! The places are David from Kenya with gold, well done! Taoufik from Algeria well done, man he was sweating like a pig!!! And Clauton from The US with bronze. In the end everyone should be proud!


For more information search for 800m athletics Rio 2016 men on Google. 

My next step is to write more descriptive words.