Breakfast in the Bus

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

In class for reading, my reading group is reading a story called Breakfast in the Bus and it is about a boy, and his granddad and their dog called Five, lives in a house bus and their trying to figure out who stole granddad's hearing aid. Granddad thought that Five swallowed it so they checked and gave Five a x-ray to see and there was something on Five's stomach that looked like a hearing aid but when the boy went back in the house bus he found the hearing aid and it was actually on the seat of the table. But they were wondering on what was on Five's stomach if its' not the hearing aid, can you guess on what it is?

One of our group activities was to design your own inside of a house bus and include the things you would need and we could do this in a google drawing or on paper but I decided to do it on a google drawing so I could post it to the blog easily. 

And here is how I designed my house bus:

Summer Learning Journey Practice - Cool Facts about NZ

Top 3 Facts About NZ
- New Zealand is a wonderful place where you could see the beautiful sunset and sunrise at day and night. New Zealand was also one of the first country to see the light of day every brand new day.
- In New Zealand, Maori were the first people to enter New Zealand. That’s why we use the Maori language a lot so we could respect it and welcome other people from other countries using our language.
- The European settlers and the Maori chiefs signed a treaty in 1840. It was an important agreement between the British Crown and since it was written in English, it was changed into Maori by Henry Williams who was also part of the treaty.

Picture made by Me:)

Stunning Facts About Dung Betles

WALT critically analyse texts.

 This week for reading we weren't given a passage or a story to read. This week instead of Mrs Lee taking groups we were given an activity and it was to be finished individually. The activity we were given was "Why isn't the world covered in poo" and I was quite confused and I thought we would be learning about dungs. But actually we were going to learn about dung beetles. There were different other activities for us to do and videos and some more facts about dung beetles. 

 Dung beetles helps the world by not getting the covered in poo and here is why:

   

 I'm not quite finished and I will be adding in to it.

Hidden Hotel

 WALT use paragraphs in our writing.

This week for writing we are learning about narrative writing but we are able too do free writing. What we had to add in our writing is character development which is that we have to describe the characters through out the story, language features is alliteration, simile, idiom and more, problem + solutions, speech and paragraphs. Using all of these we would be able to make our writing interesting and make the reader want to read it more..

My story is very long so I tried to make it short. I also did my writing in a google doc and it nearly took 3 pages to fit my writing in.

Here is my writing:

Hidden Hotel

“Hurry up guys!” Luna shouted.

Everyone got in the van but not Penelope, she didn’t like going to field trips with just her friends, she usually goes with her parents but it was time for her to grow up. Since middle school she was always acting like a toddler, just because she was an only child she was spoiled too much. Her parents have their own company and some rumors says that they are very rich but no one knows the truth except for Penelope and her parents. 

Penelope was thinking of calling her parents but before she could grab her phone, Everly grabbed her and pulled her in the van and that's when their adventure has just started.

When they arrived at their location, Ace was very confused on where they were.

“We are here,'' Luna said as she stretched her arms out.

It was struggling for her to drive that far. When everyone got out of the van they started walking towards a hotel, a very strange looking hotel. 

“Are you sure were supposed to meet the others here?” Ace asked,

“Yes. The teachers and the seniors had a long time talking about it and I have the address here on my phone,'' Luna replied.

Ace turned around and took a closer look on Luna’s phone if the address was right, she looked at the address on the mailbox outside the hotel and it was the same. They all kept walking till they got close to the hotel. Penelope had strange looking grin on her face that looked like she didn’t want to go inside. 

When they got to the front of the hotel, Everly was so excited. She loves it when she gets in strange/weird situations like last year, she caught a frog and hid it under her desk, no one noticed until the week after.

There wasn’t any door handle so Ace just pushed it.

“It smells like soap in here” said Everly,

“I thought it would smell like perfume in here” said Penelope,

“Well we just got to deal with it, now where is the rest of the school?” asked Ace,

“Maybe they’re late” answered Everly.

“Yah right, but where are the people that work here,” said Luna, suddenly a voice that sound like an old lady came,

“Who dares to come and trespass in my house!” shouted the voice coming from the counter of the hotel.

“AHHHHHHHH!” shouted everyone.

They all tried to run out of the hotel but the doors closed itself, instead they ran to different directions and they didn’t notice where they were going. It was like everyone was playing hide and seek, one was hiding in a big treasure chest, one was hiding in a closet in a room, one was hiding under the bed and others went into secret hideouts.

Few minutes later Ace got out of the treasure chest to check if the area was clear to run. She also tried calling the others but there was no service. So instead she decided to walk around to see if she could find them. Meanwhile, Penelope was already looking for others but little did she know she was going deeper into the hotel and had no idea on where she was going. 

While Ace was walking around looking for her friends, she heard footsteps, heavy footsteps. 

“Oh no!” Ace whispered,

“Its….its... ITS THE OLD LADY!”,

Ace quickly ran but she wasn’t looking on where she was going so she fell over but the footsteps were getting louder and closer. It even made a shadow that looked like a witch and witches are Ace’s worst nightmares. It was coming closer and closer and it was a….. Penelope.

“Penelope, you literally scared me and I was so frightened” ,

“Sorry, I didn’t know you were scared of me, I was just following you cause I thought you were running away from me”,

“No, I thought you were a witch”,

“What, do I look like one?”,

“Kind of, but anyway we need to find the others and get out of here” said Ace.

Penelope helped Ace up and they started to look for others.

In the meantime, Penelope and Ace was getting really tired so they took a little rest and sat near the end of the hallway of the hotel. Instead of going deeper, they were getting close to something. After the little rest that the two girls had, they got up again and as they were near the end of the hallway, there was a door with a doorbell on the side, Ace was wondering what it was so he went closer and was so curious. Penelope was too busy looking for food because she was starving but Ace couldn’t wait for long to get out and she is very impatient when it comes to being stuck on something. Ace lifted her hand out of her pockets and pressed the doorbell, it didn’t do anything so she stood their, few seconds later she disappeared all was left but her shoes. Penelope looked around and was very confused,

“Ace where are you?, I’m not joking, where are you”,

Penelope sat down tears on her face, she really didn’t think it was a joke so she sat there for a very long time.

Ace didn’t just disappeared, she was taken. 

“Ummm, where am I, why can’t I move my legs, Penelope where are you, this is not a joke. Hahaha, I’m laughing now, come on your scaring me”. 

Ace really didn't like it. She tried getting up but she was tied up with chains. As she looked up, she saw something horrible and it was………

As you can see I haven't quiet finished my writing yet because I think my story would be too long to read but I will try to finish the full story so you will know what will happened at the end.

The Tame of Eels of Anatoki

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

This week for reading, in our reading groups we are reading new passages and this week my reading group is reading about Eels. It is also about how they are tamed and what kind of eels they are. 

On our reading class site, in each group there is an activity and one of the activities I had to do was to design a new habitat for eels and so that humans can play and feed them if they want to. We could also do it on paper or in our device but it was our decision.

Here is my design:

Character Description

WALT use graphic organisers to plan our writing.

In class, for writing , we have been using some graphic organisers to plan our writing. It is because, when we are writing we know what to write on the story we are writing and we would be able to manged to type or write quickly.

A graphic organiser is where you plan your writing or a story that you are going to write.

The graphic organiser we used is kind a shaped as a burger but on a paper, so the bun top part is where we put our introduction and for the middle part there are three toppings and that is where the paragraphs go. Each paragraph they have to be different topics but about the same story. And the bottom bun is where you put the conclusion.

In pairs we had to decide on who we are writing about and I was with Heavenly, and we decided to do Plankton from SpongeBob Square Pants. We were also told to have a word bank next to our graphic organiser and write about ten words that describes him.

Here is my Writing:

Plankton

You will never, ever, meet a little creature under the blue sea that can actually talk and can make its own robot and even name it. If you have a secret formula, keep it away from the creature, Plankton.

Plankton is a horrible, evil, cheeky and little creature that lives under the salty, blue sea. He is also known as a thief for trying to steal the secret formula from the krusty krabs restaurant to make his own rusty, old restaurant take over krusty krabs. Every time he fails, he wants to keep trying so he could get his revenge and take over krusty krabs, but every time he tries, the owners of krusty krabs has its own way to keep the secret formula away from Plankton.

The mysterious, sneaky, paltry creature is shaped like a bean (but not curved), has only one eye but a very excellent eyesight, that’s because he usually uses his telescope to spy on things. He can be really insignificant but brainy. This creature has dark green skin like seaweeds that have been in the ocean for a long time. 

Every time Plankton makes an invention it crashes and goes Kaboom! But Plankton is very smart and each of his inventions he makes has a very different look and personality. If he was to make an invention to destroy krusty krabs, he would probably use fire to burn it down or he will use a big hammer to smash it.

Plankton can be very likeable sometimes but sometimes he can be very ungenerous. It would take time to get used to knowing Plankton and think of ways to describe him. Plankton is very, very artistic.

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The highlight parts are were two sentences we had to add in our writing. We were also learning about alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, and more. We had to choose two of them and write a sentences for one of them. 

Try and guess which is the simile and onomatopoeia.

Protecting Penguins

 WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

In class, we are reading another passage that is about Penguin Hospital.

One of the reading task we had to do is to think and design a way to protect penguins from dogs that are on the beach or a way to protect them from fishing nets, for them not to get caught on it.

I choose to design a way to keep the penguins caught in the net.