Storyline Online - A Bad Case Of Stripes; David Shannon

Bad Case Of Stripes Written & Illustrated; David Shannon, was my favourite story my class read on 'Storyline Online'. This website allows everyone to listen to other people read stories to them including a variety of books to choose from. 

This book for me realised you should always be yourself wether others find something you enjoy different from what they prefer. If you want to read this story, visit Storyline Oline. 

Me, Me & Me - By Renata Hopkins

Me Me And Me; By Renata Hopkins

The story is about a girl who felt left out since everyone around her had a phone. So she saved up enough money by vaccuming her gran's house and earned the right amount to buy the best deal "MeMe". When she had her phone, she repeadetly kept getting messages and distracted. She recieved a lot of messages from the app MeMe. 

The problem in the story is that the phone was always clingy and wanted attention. She even had a dream that soon she would be trapped in the phone while the unknown escaped. It got to the point where whenever the girl went somewhere without her phone, it would send her mean messages. Finally she had the guts to take out the SIM card and destroy it. 

 Word Definitions

blurted - saying something suddenly after trying hard to keep quiet or to keep it a secret. 

shrill - sound is high-pitched and unpleasant

metallic - the sound of one piece of metal hitting another

Sam Verlinden Visits Ruapotaka School

Yesterday Ruapotaka School had a special guest to visit Ruapotaka School called Sam Verlinden. He talked about how reading helped him to be a musical artist. At the duffy assembly he spoke about how he wanted to be smarter than a boy at his school.

To increase his intelligence, he decided to read books everyday to learn new words. I was very interested to see what his music is like. Sam Verlinden encouraged us that with reading you can get really interesting professions.

Checklist Link 

Harry Potter Reading!

Don't Smoke!

Today for my follow up for reading, my reading group made a "No Smoking Poster" because, we read a play about smoking. Here is my "Don't Smoke!'' poster. I hope you enjoy my poster!

Kathleen Anne Baird Hall- The Forgotten Hero!

My Term 3 Goals!

Punk Junk Mailer!

My Goals for Term 2

Alphabet- Different Shades

A) Aqua                                                       L) Lilac                                    V) Violet
B) Butterscotch                                            M) Moss green                         W) Wheat
C) Cherry red                                               N) Navajo white                       X) Xanthic
E) Electric crimson                                       O) Orchid                                 Y) Yellow
F) Fandango pink                                         P) Puce                                     Z) Zucchini
G) Gold                                                        Q) Quartz grey

H) Heliotrope                                               R) Royal purple
I) Indigo                                                        S) Salmon
J) Jade                                                           T) Thistle
K) Khaki                                                       U) Ultramarine

Reflection on Term 1 Goals

Reading
My goal for reading is using expression and understanding what the story or text is about, by asking questions and re-reading my text in the story.

Achieved because I read everyday when I came home.

Writing
My goal for writing is making sense of my sentences and using more paragraphs. Also my writing goal is to add key words or juicy words into my writing.

Needs Work because sometimes I forget to put paragraphs in my writing.

Maths
My goal for maths is learning my seven times tables and learning my BEDMAS. Finally my goal for maths is learning and practising my algebra.

Not Achieved because I didn't learn my seven times tables in my free time.

Sun Sonata Poem

Yesterday my reading group memorised a poem in your journal. The poem that my reading group memorised was called Sun Sonata by Elizabeth Pulford. Our poem was pretty short so we had enough time to memorised the whole poem. It was fun memorising a poem and putting in our own actions as well. Here is our poem that my group memorised with Kate, Agueer and I in the video!

The DANGER Man!

Danger Man
In the story the characters are Josh, Luke, Ryan and Mr Muckle.

At the start of the story, the setting is in a camp site. It was 5:30 early in the morning, and Josh and his friends were asleep. Josh was wide awake and the camp was quiet. Everyone was asleep so Josh decided to look around the camp site with his friends. He woke up his friends and went outside to start exploring.

While they were exploring the camp site, there wasn't much to see but they came across a little lake. Josh and his friends thought that whoever had owned the camp dammed up the stream. There was also a raft. They were looking around and Josh spotted something in the bush. There was a rope that you could ride on to the other side of the lake. It was like a flying fox to them. The flying fox started from one side of the lake and ended to the other side.

His friends were not sure because Josh would switch off his brain and do things that his friends wouldn't do. When Josh made it up to the rope, he wasn't sure to but his friends said that he'll be fine. Josh went and zoomed across the lake, suddenly the rope that Josh was on was getting lower and lower until he reached the lake.

Josh fell in the lake and the owner of the camp was standing there with Luke's dad. The camp owner looked very angry at Josh because Josh did silly things at the camp. Josh was soaking wet and had to go back home. That's why he was called the DANGER MAN!!!

Polar Bears Facts

In room 9 we collected facts about Polar bears. First we wrote facts on the whiteboard that Miss Misela read from a book all about polar bears. After that we created our own polar bear facts drawing. It was very fun decorating polar bear facts! I learned a lot of interesting and cool facts about polar bears. I hope you enjoy reading these facts.