100 World Challenge

 Magic Stairway

Once when I was walking along the beach, I saw something that looked rainbow. I wanted to check it out because it had not rained all week. I walked very far along the beach and it seemed like I would never get to it, but I didn't give up just yet. I saw the staircase... wow it was beautiful. I asked some people running by if they knew what it leads to but they didn't know. Should I try go up there? What if it leads to something I don’t want to see? Well, I guess we’ll just have to find out.

Slide The Corner - Novel study

 Slide The Corner

1: I think this book is about racing in a car, or maybe it's about going in a car.

2: I think this name of the book is telling the reader it's about cars. The author could also be trying to tell the reader that this book is about sliding the corner.

3: I have never heard of this author before. I have researched Fleur Beale and found out some information about her, who is 76 years old, her birthday is February 22nd, 1945.

4: I have learned that this book is about Greg stands up to his father. I also learned that he proves to his parents that he can be as successful.

Brochure - Ramp Derbys

For the past couple of weeks, we have been working on art for our culture kete. Our culture kete is we pick a culture and we make something about it.  I picked Kiwiana and I am doing a brochure about ramp derbys.  Here is my brochure in pictures. 

Culture Kete

Culture Word Meanings

This week we are starting a new kete. We are doing a culture kete. It's all about cultures and how they are different, we also had to put photos with the words to see what it meant. Here is my google drawing.

100 Word Challenge

100 Word Challenge

This week our 100-word challenge is about St Patrick's Day, The story I wrote is very interesting and not something I would usually write. Here is my story.

I was just gardening as usual and this really grumpy old lady wanted to give me a garden nome. I took it because I was scared of what she would do if I didn't take it. I put it in my backyard and strange things started to happen.  I always heard noises and it was like screeching. One night it got so bad I thought someone was in my house. I would always check but the nome would just be in the same place. I know there's not an actual person trying to break in because I have cameras. If it was the nome I wouldn't know because its too short for the camera.

100 Word Challenge

100 Word Challenge

For weeks 4 and 5 we had to do a 100-word challenge.  I have been away so I am doing this now.  Here is what I came up with for the 100-word story. 

100 word story: I was just zooming around the house looking for any food. I happen to find some cheese in a bedroom. I was just calmly eating the cheese and I heard foot steps of a cat. I took my cheese and went to the kitchen and I saw a cat. I thought it saw me so I ran and went into a cup.  Now the cat is trying to find me. I can hear it sniffing around and I’m getting a bit worried.  Hopefully, a human comes home soon and distracts it.  I think the cat might have found me now...

 EOTC - Recount

Adrenaline Forest

My favourite part of Adrenaline Forest / Spencer Park was going on level 4 with Tahnesha.  It was very scary on the second part of level 4 because I couldn't do it by myself.  Tahnesha did level 4 with me because I was scared,  she helped me get past the second part of level 4.  My least favourite part was the start.  The reason why it was my least favourite is because I didn't really know how to do it.

Christchurch City Centre

My favourite part of Christchurch City Centre was the museum.  The museum was my favourite part because I liked going to look at the olden day stuff.  My least favourite part of the trip was the Library.  That was my least favourite because we didn't get much time and it was only a tour of the Library.

Jellie Park

My favourite part about Jellie Park was the hydro slides.  These were my favourite cause I went down alot and I also went with my friends!  I think having to leave was my least favourite part because it was so much fun.  This trip was my favourite because I got to hang out with my friends without any arguing. 

 Horror Story 

For the last week we had to be writing a horror story.  I have only just got chapter 1 because me and Shelby got very confused but we are still going to finish it by this week.  Here is our horror story.  

Chapter 1: The Beginning 

A bell chimed behind me, I slowly turned around and locked eye contact with an old man, he stared at me with his cold green eyes. I felt whispers rush around my body, and then time froze. All I could do was stand and wait. Literally I couldn’t move, but he could. He moved so slowly he looked like he was in pain, he spoke but they were only whispers that had been messed with by the wind. I started floating upwards. I looked up to see what was in my path and there was a body hanging from a rope.  I started to shake,   I didn’t know what to do so I just watched in shock. The rope started to fray.  The dead body fell into a deep well, it dragged me down with it. SPLASH. We landed in a puddle.  I was so disgusted about being with a dead body I moved away from the dead body.  Then you wouldn’t believe what I saw next……

Well I hope you liked my blog post.

Do you like horror storeys ?

What was the most intense part of this story ?

Boy - Novel Study

 Boy - Roald Dahl 

This was our last week of doing the chapters of our novel study.  We had to read pages 144 - 176.  I read them all on Monday.  I have finished all my novel study summaries and here are the ones I did.

EOTC - Jellie Park

 8 Tips on Water Safety

For EOTC we are doing activities about Jellie Park,  Adrenalin Forest & Town.  This activity is for Jellie Park.  The activity is tips about how to be safe in the water.  I made a google drawing on 8 tips for water safety.  Here is my google drawing.

 Book Review

My book was Boy by Roald Dahl.  I chose this book because I think Roald Dahls books are really funny and since it's a true story I thought it might be interesting.  Overall I really like this book because it was a true story from back in 1900s and I also think they could have made the chapters like relate to each other.  

My favourite part of this book was where he talks about being a fag at Repton.  I liked this part because it seems very annoying to be a fag and I wanted to know what it's like being a fag.  There were many characters in the book but the main one who stood out was obviously Roald Dahl and his mum.   

I would recommend this book to some people.  Not all people are going to like this book because it's based on a true story and some people might like made up stories.  I think people aged between 12- 14 would like this book.

I would rate this book a 3.5 / 5 because I don't like how the chapters don't make sense together but some of them do.  

Here is a photo of Roald Dahl when he was alive:

EOTC - Extra for Experts

EOTC - Extra for Experts

Next week we are going on trips out to Town, Adrenaline Forest & Jellie Park.  We are going as Kahui and we call it EOTC.  EOTC means Education out the classroom.  We have this slide and it tells us what tasks to do.  There is 4 activities for each place we are going.  There is also 3 activities for year 9s that is called extra for experts but I'm doing that one because they looked funner.  My challenge was this:

Pretend you are a tourist coming to visit Christchurch for the first time. 

Plan a day trip for a family of four around the city. 

You might choose to visit some of the places we are going for EOTC, you might have some other favourite locations. 

Include the costs/budget up to $200 for the day including lunch, snacks and any entrance costs for the attractions and transportation.

Here is what I did for this:

 

Have you ever been to any of these places ? 

What place is your favourite out of the three ? 

Speech Term 4

 Why we should be allowed coloured hair and painted nails at school.

This term we have been looking at speeches.  We have been doing them for about 3 weeks now.  My speech is about why we should be allowed hair colour and painted nails, hence the title. Here is my speech,  at the top is the time and title.

I really enjoyed my speech because I like some of the words I used.

I was a little bit challenged trying to make it to two minutes long.  I over came this by just working and changing some words and trying to stretch it out as long as I could.

I learnt that I really don't like talking to my computer to record.

The purpose of persuasive writing is to persuade someone with whatever you have written.  Say your speech is why we should be allowed phones at school.  Well you would have to come up with many reasons that you think your option is the best option. 

Gymnastics - Term 4

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing gymnastics for P.E,  we have to do a blog post about what we have done in gymnastics.  I have been on everything already!  These are some of the things you can do in gymnastics:

1.  Beam - Walk backwards,  Splits & Leap.

2.  Bars - Swing, One leg & double flip.

3.  Trampoline - Front flip, back flip & forwards roll

4.  Floor/ mat - Handstand,  cartwheel & Headstand

My favourite is the Bars because they are easy and I know how to do them.  I also think they are really easy.

 Design a New Uniform

This week in reading when we finished all our work, we had to do fast finish tasks.  I only started them today because I was busy reading.  I created a unifrom I think would be good.  I didn't add shoes because I think any sneakers would be fine. Here is my google drawing on the "new uniform"

100 Word Challenge - Week 6

 100 Word Challenge

There are these magic bubbles,  they can take you anywhere.  I am at school right now and I really want to go home.  I am going to use these magic bubbles to go home because I would rather be at home.  I am now at home and I thought using those bubbles were fun.  Later that day when school finished when I was at home,  I wanted to go hangout with my friends.  I used the magic bubble to get there.  None of my friends were there.  So I used the magic bubble and went back home to my sister.

Novel Study

 Boy - Roald Dahl

This week for our novel study we had to read pages 108 - 126.  That was two chapters,  Captain Hardcastle &  Little Ellis and the Boil.  Our activity we had to do was writing a blog post about what I think the 1920s - 1930s were like.  

 

What have you learned so far about life in the 1920s-1930s from reading this book? Give examples specifically about how things were different or similar. 

I have learnt that I would not like to live in the 1900s because I would hate to get the cane. It's very different from 2020 because now if we get the cane it's child abuse.

If you were going to write an autobiography about your life, what would be some main events that you would include? What has made a big impact on your life?

I would add when my brothers were born, 22/7/17 & 31/10/20. A big impact on my life is when they were born because they are so adorable if there aren't crying.

Have you read any other Roald Dahl books? Which ones? Compare the stories; which one have you liked better and why? If not, have you read David Walliams? Do you notice anything similar between the two author’s writing styles?

Yes I have. I have read BFG, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and a whole bunch more. I have also read David Walliams books and his a very simler. They are really cool and I like them alot.

Roald Dahl - Boy Tales of Childhood

Novel Study Week 4

This week for our novel study we had to read page 85 - 107.  I read all of them in one day,  I didn't get to posting this blog post on that day.  For that weeks activity, we had to get 10 words out of the chapters we read.  Then we had to search the meaning of them.  Here is my ten words.

Dormitories (85) - A large room for a number of people in a school, collage, etc.  

Immense (86) - Extra large or great.

Prowl (87) - Usually an animal is searching for a prey.

Ranged (89) - It's something spaced in a pacific order. 

Ancient (93) - Something that is old or not existent anymore.

Devastatingly (93) - Something that could make you sad.  A emotion. 

Anaesthetist (94) - It's where you forget everything you ever had.  You can get your memory back.

100 Word Challenge - week 4

 100 Word Challenge

It was cold, dark and misty. I heard a car door slam and started to tiptoe to the door. I undid the locks and walked out to the car. I turned the flash on, on my phone and saw footprints on the front of my car. I was shocked where they were from and how the heck did they get there ? I heard a bang and whipped my head around there was nothing but darkness. I aimed the flash in that direction and saw a cat phew. I wiped the sweat off my home and walked back into the house.

 Gymnastics

My focus is:  The trampoline

My 3 Activities from the card were:  

1. straight jump

2. tuck jump

3. straddle jump

Here is a photo of Felicity because I couldn't do it