For literacy this week, we’re having a novel study reading a part of the book every week. In the book one of the main characters brother was playing with their neighbour. They were playing darts until one of them had the brilliant idea of using 3 darts while the other was holding the board over his head. The brother later got hit close to his eye with the dart. We had to recreate that scene in real life. Enjoy!
For literacy this week, we’re having a novel study reading a part of the book every week. In the book, the main character expresses that she wants to buy these white Go-Go boots. In our task we had to recreate these Go-Go boots. I think I did well. Enjoy!
A knock on the door, a slight breeze through the air, I look through my window and gaze at the white road full of snow, a figure behind the door. I couldn’t identify, I don’t really have people in my house, in fact, no one dares to even come near my spooky abode. Something deep in my soul was daring for me to open it; I couldn’t resist. So, I marched on my way to the door, ready to block them off. As I twisted the knob, the door opened with a screech.
A meaty man with a gigantic grey beard, I was confused. I looked at his red and white onesie and his big black and gold belt, it wasn’t until I saw his red hat shaped like a triangle dangling down with a white ball of cotton. It was Santa! I was stunned, excitement filled the air as I thought he came to give me presents. Instead, he said something that changed my perspective of fairy tales forever… “Ho Ho Ho, let me see on my list, oh you’re going to the dungeon!” Santa said.
And with one click, we got teleported to a dim place. A prison cell I was in, a person in the corner, sitting there all alone. I stared back, it was Peter pan! “I guess the rumours were true.” I said, “the rumours of you kidnapping children, and Captain Cook saving them all.” “NO!” He said, “Santa is kidnapping all the naughty children and the magic users. We thought he was a loving guy, but he just wanted the magic all to himself!”
That’s when my childhood got ruined. END
Today in extension, our class went to our staff room to understand how a washing machine works, and to learn the different elements of it. The four elements we discovered were, Mechanical action, Chemical reaction, Time and Thermal action. When you see the motor spinning, that is mechanical action. Chemical action in a washing machine is the detergent you put in it, like Washing powder. Thermal action is there because of the heat of the water you put in the washing machine; you could put cold water or warm, but when you put warm water it will cool down. And lastly Time, time is there because of the amount of time you put it in for. We learned all this from a woman named Jennifer, who worked at Fisher and Paykel. Next she made us determine which amount of detergent will clean the best. So we did an experiment to make a theory into a hypothesis. The experiment was where we put the amount of detergent we determined and shook them in different ways. We’d tilt them twice and shake them 10 times.
The adventurous campers set camp at the bottom of the snowy mountain, the aurora light flashes its neon beauty upon the campers as they set up a tent; the tent glows of a bright light exposing the colour yellow. The soft, fresh snow blinds the mountain from seeing the glimmering stars in the mauve sky. The cool breeze feels enlightening, while the campers caught the smell of the natural air. Imagine, the stars giving the sound of chimes being played.
Our Questions:
Me and my classmate Nate interviewed each other about a book called Ruthless; Nate was the interviewer and I was the author. The authors name is William Demille; he was a famous author and I acted as him. We had to do many retries, but eventually we did it. The questions are up there. Enjoy!
This was one of my tasks for extension. The year 7 & 8s have been talking and learning about whakatauki. Whakatauki are sayings that are so old, that we don’t know who made them. I picked a certain whakatauki, if you wanna know about the one I picked check the slideshow I made. Enjoy!
This was one of my reading tasks. My literacy class read a book called butterflies. It was about a girl with two plaits. She goes to primary school and on her way to school her grandpa starts to talk to the neighbour about how she goes to school and that. But when she comes back from school her teacher tells her something bad about her story.
