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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.

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)

Excellence - Term 4

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.

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.

Holiday Recount Writing

WALT:Write a recount about something you did in the holiday.

 Holiday Writing

The trip was a long four and a half hours… My Mum, Dad, Tess the dog and me. We’re traveling to Wellington, The car was packed full of bags. Dark times… But it will be alright when we get there. Friday was coming to an end, night time was among us. The car started to get cold so Dad turned on the warm AC.

FINALLY we got to the place we’re staying in. My extremely loud Auntie Jan welcomed us with a “HELLO!” When I picked up my bag I had forgotten how heavy it was and dropped it straight away, but I managed in the end. A few hugs and kisses later we were setting up my bed, Well I guess you could call it a bed it was just some foam and a sleeping bag.

It was pretty comfortable though!

The next day was one of the quick ones I woke up to a smell that could have awoken the heavens! A fresh delicious smell of Bacon, Eggs, Crusonts and pancakes! Mmm, Mmmm, Mmm, MMM! When you saw my plate you couldn't even see the white. It had pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, scrambled eggs with spinach and a crustont with eggs in it. To make a long story long I ate like a pigeon. (I ate really slowly) Tomorrow Will Be fun! First spraying my hair, then a hockey game! Awesome.

The start of this day wasn't the best of all days, I woke up with a cramp in my leg, and I tell you that is not a fun time! But the pain was soon gone, unfortunately my Mum (the one spraying my hair) was pretty cranky but she tried not to show it. Nine minutes later I was outside with dripping green hair, but then the hair dryer came in. After breakfast we were in the car listening to ‘Once I Was Seven Years Old’ through the green wireless speaker. At the hockey game I was pretty hungry because I only had a small bowl of coco pops so my Mum gave me 10 bucks and I went to get some hot chips and a drink. The chips were delicious but the sauce ruined them! After the game I went pokèmon hunting and caught a Meowth, a Zubat, a Wartortle and a Venonat. But. After that I had to go to bed…

My next step is to write a bit less on catching Pokemon...

Olympic Poem

In our independent class we were set out to do an Olympic Peom here's mine.

Tom's Video on Thursday, 4 August 2016

Mrs L Writing

WALT: write an imaginative letter from another planet using the correct letter format.

Use interesting sentence beginnings and a variety of sentence lengths

Use adverbs and adjectives to describe details in my sentences

In Mrs L's writing workshop we are in the letter writing group. In the letter writing group we got to do a letter from an other planet. We were focusing on sentence staters and the lengths of those sentences.

Here's mine!

82 Clover Rd

Colver

SeloSelo

BoyBoot

57 school Rd

Clive

New Zealand 

Dear Humans of Earth

Hello Humans we are pleased to inform you that by the time you are reading this ,or not I'm not sure how far your planet is from us, your planet is the last planet with life on it in the universe.

Our Sun is a red supergiant star so it's going to turn into a black hole. Well we call black holes cloolwertraited dark matter.

Please PLEASE don't send help. Trust us you will die. You'd be dead as a rock. Even if you think you won't die you will. We can't risk 7 billion of you getting speggetafyed.

Yours Truly.

Bob

PS If you do come bring KFC.

PPS There is still life in other universes… Duh.

 

My next step is to describe the sentences more.

Earth To Mars instructions.

Task: write a set of instructions on how to get from Earth to a planet of your choice.

WALT:

- a chosen planet’s location in the solar system.

- a chosen planet’s distance from earth.

- planets you will pass by to get to the chosen planet.

- obstacles that may be on the journey, e.g. Atmosphere, moons...

I was a Practitioner.

I often participate, communicating about my Inquiry learning.

Next time I need to put in an intro and put a summery in.

Maths

In the stage seven decimals group with Miss Northe we were set to measure our own net. Miss Northe gave us this shape with blocks. Three cubes is one 8th of the total amount of cubes. The total amount of blocks in the shape was 24 blocks.

Then we had to make a net of that shape. Each block is 2 cm by 2cm. Here is the result.

Reading workshops with Mr Wallace

WALT: Read narrative storys and to look at meanings of the storys. We have also done character profiles.

WILF: I can understand and talk about a story 

- I can identify what a character is like from a story.

This story is about a 13 or 14 year old boy named Andy with a mum that is addicted to pokies the mum is wasting her moneys and can't pay Andy money to go to the movies with his friends. Anyway Andys uncle helps Andy and pays him if Andy chops some wood, Andys uncle helps the mum by putting all of her money in his bank so she doesn't spend it.

This is one of the stories I read from a journal.

Name: Andy

Photo: 

Eye colour: um I think it's brown?

Writing

Before writing workshops started for this term we got a servey made by mr Wallace to see what writing subject we wanted I chose poetry, then the people that chose poetry had to pick a counter (red or green) mr b was green and mr Wallace was red I got red! In Wr Wallaces poetry writing workshop we are studying autumn poetry, we were set out to find words that mean autumn (synonymous). Then we had to use those words in a poem along with some others. Next we found some words that had something to do with autumn and put those in a poem with nothing else, that one was really hard. Then we went outside and took a photo of a tree or a leave with the photo we did a sketch of the tree/leave. After we did that we put a border around it and put the first poem on it. Here is the result!

My next step is to use more colour.

Here is the goal he gave us on a document. I notice sentence structure… 

When I write I will notice and identify the tense in a sentence.  I will replace the words to change the tense of the sentence or story. 

 I describe vocabulary … 

 When I write I can identify adverbs used to modify a verb.

FREE WRITING.

We had to write a story that could be anything but we had to put 3 items on it a key, a duck and a jandle. Here's mine.

THE DUCK THEFT

"AAAHHH!!!" I'm a duck why can't I fly?!!!" The duck hit the ground hard.

"Ow... I think that was my keys!" The duck said loudly... Too loudly...

"Keys did you say KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYS?!"

"Uh yes?"

"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mime? Wait what?!"

Before the strange man said anything else the duck was off!

"Ahhahaha... OW!!!!!!!" The duck fell into a bee hive.

"Hahaha! Don't you get it in this world it's kill or be killed- wait NO NOT AGAIN!"

As you might have guessed the duck ran away again but he left his jandles.

"Hahaha jandles my presses jandles!" The strange man put the jandles on his ears.

"Come on tiny wing fly! WHY WONT YOU FLY?! FLY!!!" "wow!"  The duck saw a giant temple!

" is that the-"

"Welcome to the temple of-"

"Duck grain?"

"No... No not the temple of duck grain no! The temple of PIG sCRaPs!"

"What?!"

"Sorry I'm only twelve years old my voice cracks a lot,"

"That's cool I'm only negative eight!"

"Wait... Your voice... BOY ELERT BOY ELERT!!!!!" About fifty pigs came out of the temple and threw rotten tomatoes at the duck. Then out of nowhere a giant ear came flying out at them.

"NO!!! BOB MC JR. HAS THE JANDLES!!! YOU YOU MUST HAVE BOUGHT JANDLES INTO THIS WORLD... At least you don't have keys... What's that look for? Am I wrong?!" Another ear came flying out at them. "YOU'VE DOOMED US ALL!!!" But then Bob Mc Jr. came out from the far land.

"Muhahaha! Don't you get it duck down here it's kill or be killed! Ha ha ha ba!"

"Ba black sheep have you any wool? Yes sir yes sir three bag-"

"SHUT UP!!!"

"Hay no need to be so harsh, well cya..." And just like that the duck was off, but Bob was way smarter he just hopped on one ear and cought up in no time. The duck was on the bridge with a giant ear on one side and Bob on the other.

"Duck, you didn't kill now, BE KILLED!" The second giant ear cut the bridge in two.

"Ahhhh!!! Ow." The Duck hit the ground... But didn't die he hit something soft. The duck opened his eyes... He had landed on about 3 pillows. "Don't worry I put those there. I saw you falling and I got excited! Bob is gonna give me an award for saving someone! Are you sneaking out too?"

"Wait, Wait stop, I have 3 questions."

"Fire away!"

"One WHO ARE YOU?!"

"I'm Link, Link the monster kid!"

"Two, Why would Bob give you an award for saving me? I mean like he seems like a blood thirsty psycho that wants to kill everyone!"

"No! He's AWESOME!"

"That doesn't awnser my question but any way. Why would I be sneaking out?"

"Ya know to that big fight against Bob and that duck!"

"Do you not know I'm the Du-"

"Anyways gotta go!!" Link ran about two feet then fell on his face. "I'm alright!" Link said after getting up.

"I have the feeling of being watched too!" Said a strange voice that the duck thought was familiar.

"Don't worry I won't hurt you... NOT!! IM THE GOST THAT LIVES INSIDE THE TOASTER MY COUSIN USED TO LIVE INSIDE A TOASTER TOO UNTIL YOU CAME WHEN MY COUSIN SAW YOU COME HE THOUGHT HE WAS IN FOR A NICE CHAT BUT THE MOULDY BREAD HE SAW YOU EAT... SCARED HIM OUT OF HIS tOaStEr." The toasters voice cracked.

"Wait a minute I know you! You're that pig!!"

"nO?!?!"

"Yes you are!"

"Yeah I know." The pig came out from his hiding place.

"Well goodbye!" The pig walked away looking really annoyed.

"We're are you duck?! I KNOW YOUR ALIVE!!!" "THAT KID TOLD ME!!!" The duck hid inside the long grass. *russle, russle*

"Oh you're in the grass well. Die!" One ear fired Bob Picked it up and on the other side was Link. Bob picked up Link and dropped him on the ground hopped on the ear and flew away. "That was close!"

"YO DID YOU JUST SEE THAT?!!!!!!!! BOB JUST!!!!! JUST.... TOCHED ME!!!! IM NEVER WASHING MY FACE EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!" Link ran two feet then fell on his face. He will be remembered as the kid with two left feet (and no hands).  5 MINUTES LATER. THE DUCK IS ON ANOTHER BRIDGE

"Yo um I gotta ask you som'n... Wow this is hard... I've never had to sat this before.. Like are you a Duck?! Oh boy I knew it! Bob said to me Stay away from that duck! So uh... I guess that makes us enemies now? Say som'n mean so I can hate you... No oh boy I'll have to do it then... Like... F... I hate you guts!"

"Good job Link! Good job!" It was Bob

"Oh boy... Bob like... You arnt gonna tell my parents about this are you?!"

"Scram Link!" Said Bob. Link ran two feet then feel he was hanging on to the bridge with one hand.

"Yo! Please help... I'm... I'm slipping!" The duck helped Link up. "Yo... You really saved my skin! Thanks! Hey Bob! Like if you wanna hurt my friend your gonna like have to get through me first!"

"Fine!" Bob ordered the giant ear to his left to kill Link... It refused.

"KILL HIM!" It refused. Bob ordered the ear to his right to kill Link... It refused.

"KIIIIIIIILLLLLLL HIIIIIIIIIIIMMMM!!!!!!!" The two ears seemed to look at one another. Then they pushed Bob of the cliff, not seeming to care at all. "Yo like... Is Bob dead?!" The ears wiggled, it seemed like they were saying yes. Then out of nowhere was Bob he threw a knife at Link killing him just like that!

The duck woke up in a damp sweaty bed. "Oh thank god it was all just a dream! Well I'm gonna get a midnight snack!" The duck opened the door to his house then ran two feet and feel, into a hole.

"AAAHHH IM A DUCK WHY CANT I FLY!!!" The duck hit the ground hard.

"Ow... I think that was my keys!"

"Keys?! Did you say KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYS?!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

My next spep is to go through and edit my story more.

Art

In art this term we had percussion that was tought by a nice man named Sam

 . After the fist lesson we had to make a pic collage for what percussion was here is mine.

Inquiry

For inquiry we had a choice of if we wanted to do a water safety presentation on a poster, a movie, a book creater i chose a movie here it is.

My next step is to try and add more information 

Reading

I have been reading for enjoyment this is the book I've been reading 

My next step is to read larger books like the 'Eldest' series they have up to 500 pages.

Mrs N and Mr W maths workshop

I drew a map and made an explain everything for it this is the video

Values

This term value is honesty I made a pic collage acrostic poem for honesty here it is.

P.E.

WALT: this term for p.e I have been in the Sharks swimming group. Our goals are

Here are some photos of the Clive School swimming sports

Writing workshop with mr b

In room 9 we were told to read a sentence and then draw a picture of the sentence here is mine.

Inquiry

WALT: Keep ourselves safe.

Task: We all travel to school in different ways. Explain how you travel to and from school. Create guidelines that will teach someone else how to be safe.

Here are some photos of my project.

Next I think I should put in some photos and maybe some more description but I'm fine with that.