Cyclone cook

Cyclone Cook

Staying at my Aunty’s house or the night we didn't know what we were in for...at 8.00 pm there was an awful storm formed, from a light wind to a heavy cyclone cook that made her fence wiggle like a worm. The fence got worse be the minute. “Stay here” she said “While I go and fix the fence”.

I stayed there for a few minutes and then she came inside and said that she had fixed the fence. She sat down and put her feet up, “Oh I missed Mrs Brown Boys!”

“It’s okay” I said to her to cheer her up. We continued watching the television and then we heard a  “Tip,tap,tip,tap” it was the leftover rain collecting it on her wheelbarrow. She swapped it with a plastic bucket, then turned out the lights and went to bed.

Interdependence task

On Monday we did an independence task and we had to get into our groups and we split our groups and one group went and did a rap about our holiday, while the other group made and art piece. I think we had lots of fun so here is some photos: 




                                   We had to make a rap and a piece of art work in our groups.

                                             

                                         Here are the artists, Oscar E, Oscar J, Camyrn, and me.

                                                        Thinking of what to draw...

By Christina Antonio

Hurricane Reading

The Princess and the pea

Unwanted visitors

Wellington Writing

Purpose: to inform

WALT describe with clear and interesting details

Success Criteria

• Quick plan to prepare for the writing task (brainstorm with words or ideas)
• Interesting beginning and ending
• Using the senses (see, touch, hear, smell)
• Includes strong descriptive words (adjectives)
• Uses the present tense

Examples: Bamboo Forest / Scene Description by Dylan / Scene Description by Sophia

Writing Task: Describing a special place in Hawke’s Bay

Wellington

As we come out of Victoria tunnel to Wellington, it was rush hour and everybody was coming home from my future destination. Suddenly l started to see people and then l started to see more and more. I could smell the fumes, I could hear the chatter and my palms were heating up as if they were in a electric hand dryer because I was so nervous. I opened up the glove box and pulled out an old map and carefully unfolded it making sure it wouldn’t rip, on the map it had lots of different complicated places that were hard to pronounce but the street that caught my eye was Cuba street,  it was a long one-way street with lots of fancy shops. I wound down the window for fresh air and looked up and saw electric cables connecting to the tall buildings that looked like they reached up to space. Then we suddenly stopped we were in a  traffic-jam, it was dinnertime and everybody was going out to get their dinner from Mcdonald's and other junk food stuff. When we were out of the traffic-jam we whizzed passed Te Papa museum, I turned the radio on and in an instant I heard the nice sound of music. We started winding up a steep hill and turning sharp edged corners it felt like I was in a roller coater. Finally we reached the top of the hill and walked up some stairs and made it up to Victoria lookout  and saw the view of Wellington, it was amazing. As I was walking down the stairs and had one final look at the view and murmured goodbye. Through the busy traffic to the hotel, I never in a thousand years want to leave Wellington.                                             

Save our streams and rivers!

To the editor,

Our streams and rivers are being polluted everyday.

Rivers are important because animals like fish, eels and ducks live in them. They will get polluted because people dump rubbish in rivers and when people cut down trees, they land in rivers and block the river from flowing.

Nobody likes drinking dirty water made out of dirt or sewage or eating fish that make them sick.

Cows are escaping from farms and cows are leaving their manure behind. Because of this people are telling farmers to build fences but the farmers are replying that they don’t have enough money to build fences.

Lots of people like doing swimming sports in stream and rivers and they won’t be able to do that anymore because the rivers are dirty. We should raise money to make a river cleaning club and check if the rivers are cleared every week.

From Christina,

From Parkvale school.