The Big Escape of The Llama

In class we have been doing lots of writing and what we did was, we made some llamas made out of pastel, crayon, dye, and black and white paint and we all made our own one. First we used pencil to draw our llama. Then we used crayon to design our background and used dye to make it colourful. After, we used black and white to colour in the body of our llama and pastel to draw a party hat or crown or flower crown on our llama's head.

After we had made our llama, it was time to do some writing, we were all able to do free writing which is doing any kind of writing you want. The topic for our writing was about our llamas. It could be about how it was made or a story to make it more fun.

There I was, coming to life and finally free from everything that my creator wanted to do to me. I leapt off the table as fast I could then…BOOP... I looked at my back... “Huh.. where is my background?” I said in confusion.

I told myself that maybe something did this to me to make me free. I looked outside. 

It was pitch black. I wondered if I was in a world that was totally weird. I tried finding a way to go outside but I didn’t know where to go, but when I looked at my back something was behind me! I could totally see a big shadow shining upon me. I was scared, terrified, but at the same time I was brave. If I crossed this huge shadow I will get out of here. As I looked up…”EEK!” Huh? Oh. It was just glass door. What a scaredy cat I am? I went closer to the huge glass door and slid myself out the door.

I tried running out but I fell under the deck. I was stuck and couldn’t see anything, it made me think that this building has a secret door under this room because I could see a little light shining on an old little door in front of me. I ran to it but it wouldn’t budge, I tried using a bark to open it and it still wouldn’t open. My beautiful imagination came and that door will have a beautiful room fill with llamas that will make friends with me. This made me really wanted to open the door, while I was looking for something to open it, I found a paper and on that paper it had letters, different kinds of letters. 

Myself tried reading it to see if it will open the door, but how would I read it if it is dark. There I tried to jump up to reach the wooden plank to help me go up and to read what the paper said. Suddenly my head had an idea and it was, if every time I jump, I would be able to see the different letters. I jumped then started to say the letters out loud each time I jumped. 

O ...P ...E ...N...D...O ...O…..R... BRRRRRRRR… the door opened. I was jumping up and down fill with happiness. I ran to the door fill with excitement. 

I woke up, feeling dizzy and couldn’t see what was happening. I was worried if something happened to me, but I was alright. I got up and a llama was right in front of me.

“Ahhh….”, I screamed,

“Who are you?”,

“Hello, my name is Bo...tt...le” said the llama,

"My name is...Lama",

“ And Bottle’s your name, right” I replied,

“Yes it is, I was n..a..m..e..d before my parents” Bottle said, twitching his head,

“I could see”.

He told me where I was and he said I was in a world full of llamas. I was really happy that I was in a world full of llamas but at the same time I was kind of worried if I would stay here forever. Because in the world I was in before, I didn’t get to meet anyone and… Suddenly a bus came by and there was no one in it. There were also no driver. I came inside of the bus and it was so loud but no llamas was in there. Suddenly, llamas appeared out of nowhere and even the bus driver appeared too. I sat on a seat in the bus but suddenly, everyone started to turn their heads and look at me. At a sudden their faces turned red and became angry. I ran out of the bus and the llamas started chasing me. Even Bottle. I couldn’t believe it. Maybe my imagination was wrong, I thought they would be really friendly, but I was wrong, so wrong.

 I opened the door and closed it immediately so the llamas wouldn’t chase me. I turned around and it was morning. I found a hole that looked like a hole. I went to it and slid myself out of the deck. Finally I found stairs to the room that I was into and got back inside of it. I went to the table I was onto before and laid on the table and was ready to be redesigned again.

Here is a picture of the llama I made:

Matariki

WALT retell the story of Matariki and identify the significance of this time.
June and July represents the month of Matariki. Matariki is about the 6 daughters of Matariki. At the night of Matariki, there are 7 stars at the sky and they are represented as the 6 daughters and Matariki.

For the last week of Term 2 we have been learning about Matariki. As we learnt about the celebrations that we have in Matariki, we made a DLO showing the facts about Matariki and her 6 daughters. We also read more facts about Matariki and listened to videos. After we have finished our DLO, we post to our blogs to show others who are those 7 stars at the sky.

This is what I made:


Do you know anything else about Matariki?
What do you and your family do during Matariki?

Best Animal in The World

In class we have been doing lots of fantastic writing about different topics. Our goal was to write two paragraphs and learn about different things so we can use it to write our paragraphs. Our WALT was to write and structure explanation writing. We used and learnt about what SEER is and used it for our structure, using this we wrote a paragraph using SEER. SEER stands for Starting Statement, Explanation, Example and Relevance and all of them had'd to be in order to make the reader understand and make it more interesting.

This was kind of easy to do but others had trouble doing it. Some of us worked independent and some of us worked on the mat with our student teacher, Mr Lee. All of us put lots of our effort into our writing to hook the reader in.

In my opinion the best animal in the world are Dogs. Firstly, this is because dogs are really caring and helpful to others, especially golden retrievers that helps the blind and to those who needs care. Another reason is that dogs are like us humans, they can see, taste, hear, smell and touch and they can sometimes understand us too, when we are sad or lonely or even happy. Dogs would be on our side and make us feel comfortable. An example for that is, if we don’t have any existing dogs living in our human world, would you think there would be any animal that can help the blind or help the community help the people in need. Another example for that is, if we live by ourselves, we would feel lonely and have no one in company. This is why dogs are the best animal in the world because they help us and care for us and they make us feel comfortable when we are alone.

We were all excepted to do two paragraphs but it was fine doing just one. Our student teacher Mr Lee had six lessons with us and six weeks with us, but he left after those six weeks and we were all sad that he was leaving but at the same time we were happy for him and wished for him to turn out to be a great teacher.

What is your favourite animal?
Do you also think that dogs are the best animal in the world?