Farm Animals - Self Reflection

Farm Animals

In class we are writing narratives.

Farm Animals

One sunny morning THUD “sorry for interrupting the story carry on” The farmer said as he fell out of bed.  Let's get back to the story so, One Morning when the sun was coming up and Farmer McPhee was getting out of bed to see the beautiful morning  sunset . he noticed out the window that something was not right he just couldn't put his finger on it. He got changed and went out to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat before he went out.

His little farm cottage had big windows on either side and farmer McPhee had a great view of his farm. He went to open his curtains in the kitchen and living room and he suddenly heard “Mooo” and then he looked out the window and saw Daisy, Melony and Ronnie grazing in his front lawn. He got up from the table and put his boots on, grabbed his jacket and he was gone exploring his yard for the gap in the fence surrounding his house for where the cows got in. Then he realised that he had put the cows in a high paddock on the other side of the farm because they were expecting some bad weather to come!

“How did they get here” Farmer McPhee said to himself. Farmer McPhee went outside to sort out the catastrophe that the cows have made. He first went up to the paddock that he had originally put them in to see how they got out. He got up there and the paddock was perfectly fine “I don’t understand how they got out” He murmured to himself. So he went back to get his cows back into their paddock.

He got back to the house and the cows were nowhere in sight. “Where could they have gone now”Yelled the farmer as he jumped back in his truck and headed off to find them. He had nearly gone around the whole farm before he found them again but when he found them they were back in there paddock, he didn’t understand how.

He decided to go home and make a plan on how to spy on the cows to see what they are doing. He had to think quick and smart on what he was going to do. He had a few ideas about what he was going to do. He went back up to the paddock to set up some amera to hopefully see what they are doing. Then a light bulb popped into his mind and he had the idea to spy on the cows himself and catch the cows red “hoofed”. “There is a lot of bush around where the cows are now so I can go and hide in there” he thought to himself. He went up the find a place in the bush where he can hide, so the cows can’t see him. He set up some tarpolines and left some snacks for later. He went back up to the high paddock where the cows were and hid in the bush and waited for them to move. It was a couple of hours later before the cows started to move. They got up on their back legs and opened the gates. The farmer was speech less about what he just saw.

Farmer McPhee jumped into his truck and went off after them. He caught up to them and they suddenly stopped and went back to grazing in a paddock. “I have caught you now. You can’t get away from me now”  Farmer McPhee yelled too them. “Fine you have got us now Farmer” Mooed Daisy and the farmer was speechless that he could understand them. “We just want to be free” Melony mooed. “Well you could have said that you wanted to be free” Screeched Farmer McPhee. “Well we do want to be free” Ronnie Mooed. Be free run around the farm like crazy I don’t care” Yelled the farmer. So the cows went free and roamed around the farm and they helped Farmer McPhee with all of his jobs.

Welcome

Picture Story

Quick Writes is for you to practice all your great writing skills and vocab in a really short timeframe. (10 mins)

Quick writes is where you write for a solid 10 minutes. (after you get your main ideas in your head)

Here is the video we used to create the picture story Tom Trueheart and The Land Of Dark Stories

Tom Trueheart

& The Land Of Dark Stories

I am going to take you to a place you won’t believe is real… Tom is a little boy that is going to take us on an adventure to save his 6 brothers and their princess brides from the Land Of Dark Stories. Let the adventure begin… There is only one thing in the way he is the size of a thumb but that doesn’t worry him. Deep down in the wood there was a sound “scrunch, scrunch” from little Tom’s feet on the big leaves below him. He is following footsteps from his brothers hoping it will lead him to the right place…

Old Rugby League Post

                               

Old League Post Poem

WALA: Using poetic devices to craft a good poem that puts a picture in your head. We understand why we are writing - what's the purpose - and can shape/craft our ideas with effort. 

Old Rugby League Post’s

Every Saturday I am like a goalie at each end of a hockey pitch

instead of moving I stay still

Every Saturday Kids come to play Rugby League

Kick balls across my Cross bar since I am a giant H

Every Saturday I am bigger than anyone else on the field

Every Saturday my colour is like the brown bark on a tree

Every Saturday kids rub there hands on me

like a piece of wood on an old piece of sandpaper

Every Saturday I look across the field and see someone doing the same as me

My Writing - What Are The Best Shoes To Wear In The Summer Sneakers or Jandals

Both sneakers and Jandals are adequate footwear to wear in the summer. They are both great for walks. There are good and bad aspects to both of these types of footwear.  I will discuss the pros and cons of wearing either of these shoes in summer.

Primarily Sneaker’s are great for long walks and tramping because how they secure your feet. They have great support around your ankle and heel for walking. Furthermore Sneakers are a comfortable footwear because they give you padding on the sides for when you are walking around. In Addition Sneakers can make you end up with blisters especially if they are new shoes and you go for a long walk in them. However Sneakers aren’t easy to slip on and off because you have to tie your laces and untie when you take them off.

Primarily Jandals Are great for the outdoors and on the beach because you are able to go through the water because they are not all enclosed  and it doesn’t matter if they get all wet and dirty because they are easy to wash. Furthermore Jandals Are easy to get on and off when you are in a rush to go somewhere because, you can just slip them on and off, because of the designed strap. In Addition Jandals Are only good for short walks not tramps or something like that because, jandals have no support and you can easily stub your toe or get a blister in between your toes. Finally Jandals  Have all the mud and dirt flick up at the back because of the back bit when you walk everything can flick up. It can be annoying when you are getting ready to go out and things are flicking up.

I am going to recap some of my ideas about Jandals compared to Sneakers. If i was you and i was going for a on the beach or down to the river i would pick jandals. But if i was going for a tramp or long walk i would pick sneakers. So that is what i would wear in the summer.

My World War 1 Hero

Edouard Izac

1. Edouard Izac was the youngest of 9 children

2. He served as Democratic Congressman, 1936-1947
3. Full Name - Edouard Victor Michael Izac
4. Died in 1975 was 100
5. He won the “Tiffany Medal Of Honour”
6. Represented California
7. Died of congestive heart failure
8. 19 grand children
9. 25 great-grandchildren
10. Only US Navy person to be awarded memorial medal in World War 1

I admire that he has been awarded the “Tiffany Medal Of Honour” and that he  had represented California.

Passenger Jets

WALA: writing a good information report to inform people about passenger jets.

Tittle: Passenger Jets

3 Bit of information about the topic.

Macro Sentence: Globally there are a number of Passenger Jets being used on a daily basis to transport people to and from places.

Macro Sentence: The Passenger Jets are a vital part for regions to join them all together.

Macro Sentence: Locally they are still an important means of travel for isolated communities.

Linking Sentence: The Passengers Jets are used a lot around the world for transport, for joining our regions together and making sure isolated communities can stay connected. In excess of 10,000 flights take off worldwide, and are vital for connecting between, and within countries.

Noun Group/Modifier: Scheduled Flights,

Complete the Topic Sentence: approximately 100,000, transport people everyday. They range from a small pencil plane to jumbo jets. The colours represent countries or companies. Passenger Jets are a streamlined creation.

Visual Literacy: Description bubble

Noun Group/Modifier: Passengers,

Complete the Topic Sentence: on average 8 million, fly daily. There are ultra long haul (12+ hours), long haul (6 to 12 hours), medium haul (3 to 6 hours) and short haul flights (under 3 hours) so they need to use up the time so they can listen to music, watch movies, read books and look out the window. In the plane they are seated in a certain seats for the trip. Passengers are admitted on in most flights, no matter how big or small they are.

Visual Literacy: Description bubble

Noun Group/Modifier: Safety

Complete the Topic Sentence: in a plane is all around you when you are seated. It protects you and it is there for the reason of saving your life. It is a large part of flights and it is very important.

Visual Literacy: Description bubble

Conclusion: Passenger Jets are good for transporting people to different regions and isolated communities. They are a very important way of travel.

New Zealand Acrostic Poem

Never bet

Enthusiasm   

Wonderful

Zippy

Exited

Athletes

Love

Amazing

Nature

Determined

My Hero - Shaun Johnson

Shaun Johnson plays for the Vodafone Warriors Rugby League club. Shaun Johnson is my hero because he is an amazing league player that inspires me to be a better player myself. This is my last season playing for Waro Rakau Rugby League Club  because I am a girl so I can only play till a certain age. This season having Shaun Johnson as my hero has motivated me to be a better rugby league player. My lifetime goal is to become a professional woman rugby league player for New Zealand.

By Emily

My Robot Story

In class we had to make up a robot and then we wrote a story about it and what it is. The year 7 and 8's had to do a false start which is writing the middle at the start and then you start half way through.

Zoomer

“Clink, Clonk, Clink.” The magnets are flying at Zoomer at great speeds.

“Aarrh! Where should I go? What should I do?” thought Zoomer.

Before Zoomer gets crushed under the weight of magnets, let me take you back to where this all began.

It was a beautiful Saturday morning and Zoomer was going to buy some magnets from a magnet shop in the middle of town. He was nearly at the shop, where they were still setting up for the day.

Zoomer just got to the shop as they were opening up. He opened the door and walked into the shop. Then it all happened!…

“Clink Clonk Clink”. The magnets are flying at Zoomer at great speeds!

“ Aarrh! Where should I go? What should I do?” thought Zoomer.

All of a sudden Zoomer flies out of the shop at the speed of light. All of the magnets crashing into the shop's walls with a ginormous bang! The shop owner flew out of the shop chasing him down the road.

“Come back you little whatever you are? Come back now,” he screamed at Zoomer, as he stopped running, to catch his breath.

Zoomer decided to go back, to see the owner and see what he wanted to say. Zoomer went back to find the owner who had already given up and had started to walk back, to see if his shop was going to survive.

“Hi shop owner, what would you like” mumbled  Zoomer.

“For a start my name is Hamish and what do you think I want you for” shouted Hamish, the shop owner.

“I’m sorry I didn't realise that the magnets liked me” replied Zoomer.

“That’s not why, it’s because you are made out of metal so a magnet will stick to you. Do you get it or not” yelled Hamish

“Well I’m sorry I didn’t mean to do that” sighed Zoomer.

“Fine I will let you off with it this time”grumbled Hamish.

And that is the end of my False start Story

By Emily Berry

My Robot Procedure

W.A.L.A: The writing commands the reader on how to complete a process.

Title:Building A Robot

Goal:To successfully build a Tin Can Robot

Equipment That Is Included:

• 4 Body Rings
• 1 Short Leg
• 1 Long Leg
• 2 Gripper Hands
• 2 Straw Attachments
• 1 Toy Motor With Gear
• Screws
• 4 Bolts And Nuts
• 2 Terminal Caps
• 1 Battery Casing With Cover And Wires
• 2 Moving Eyes
• 2 Plastic Feet
• 1 Motor/Axle Cover
• 1 Axle With Gear
• 1 Body Plate
• 2 Bendy Straws
• 2 Metal Wires
• 2 Eyes Base Plates

Equipment not including:

• Cooking oil
• Screw driver
• Paint brush (for the cooking oil)

Step by Step Instructions

1. Open the box
2. Get out all the items
3. Get the body rings
4. Body plate out
5. Put 2 body rings on the body plate and screw
6. Screw on the battery case
7. Screw on the body rings
8. Add at the front the straw attachment
9. Screw on the short leg
10. Oil (cooking oil) the worm gear (The worm gear is the the white piece on the bottom of the motor)
11. Put it on the body plate.
12. Put the plastic feet on the axle with gear
13. Oil the gear
14. Put the axle in bottom of the body plate
15. Screw over the motor/axle cover
16. Screw on the long leg
17. Put one red wire and one black wire into the eyelets
18. Put a terminal cap (terminal cap is the white cap) the on top
19. Screw the eye base plates onto the metal wires
20. Peel off the sticky back of the moving eyes
21. Stick the them onto the eye base plates
22. Screw the metal wires with the eyes on, onto the body plate
23. Put the gripper hands on side of each straw
24. Put the other end of the straw onto the straw attachments
25. Put in battery and screw on the cover
26. Slide in the can
27. Turn it on
28. You are done