The Ghost and the human

W.A.L.T... write descriptively using a range of language features
Something I enjoyed was... Finding the rite sentences/words to put in
Something I didn't enjoy was... Using the language features because I didn't know when to use it

The boys who loved their toys

Something I enjoyed while doing this was... Thinking of all the rhymes
Something I didn't enjoy was... Thinking of all of the words to try rhyme with

Hatupatu and the Birdwoman

W.A.L.T... Sequence a story using images

The life of a car.

The life of a car.

It's about 12:15pm, as I get driven out to the car dealership, there's a price tag on me, which says $9,500.

As I sit there in the hot boiling sun, the owner decides to close the shop for the day, when suddenly, a couple of boy racers pull up, with a couple of bags.

As they walk in, they ask what type of car I am, the owner tells them, “This car is a Skyline gtr r34 godzilla, twin turbo with a rb20det motor”, “How much is it?” asks the few boy racers. “This is $9,500” says the owner. The boy racers reply and say “i’ll take it”.

As I we come flying down the motorway, we happen to see a couple of flashing lights, immediately, I start boosting it. When a couple more flashing lights appear. I start panicking, we take a sharp right and out onto a main road. Each end of the street was blocked off, so we had to pull over.

It’s been a couple of weeks, long days spent in this boiling hot sun, some days it feels like i'm gonna burn.

On one cold day, pouring down with hail, the officers finally come out and release me from the impound lot.

As my engine roars, I slowly drive out the impound. I get out and I spot the boy racers again. They jump in and then we take off. As we take off, my engine roars, but we quickly have to make it to the gas station, otherwise i'm gonna be stuck on the side of the  road.

Now it's time to hit the road and make it back to huntly, catch yous up, chur.

W.A.L.T... Use appropriate language features for a pick a path story
What I found easy: How to make it
What I found hard: What to write about

Is graffiti vandalism or art?

Have you thought about it, if graffiti is messy, or art? Well if not, i'm here to tell you why it isn't messy, nor art!

In some countries, graffiti is classed as art, some also have a meaning behind it, like Bansky, he is a England-based Graffiti artist. Bansky goes around england doing graffiti.

Bansky is wanted by the police, because they think that what he does is vandalism, it is but it also has a meaning behind it. Some of it is art because they are told to do it, they also get permission from the council. Most of america's cities try to stop people from vandalising, but don’t you think that's what makes the walls look cool? Without the street art, the walls would be blank and boring.

Some countries such as America, class graffiti as defacement and vandalism, you could face punishments for this crime, not only because it's on others property, but because you don't have a permission to do it.

Most graffiti art around the world is messy, but it also has a meaning behind it. In some countries they have people to make massive paintings for them, but most of them are probably graffiti artist.

In my opinion, I believe graffiti is just messy art.

Freedom to be yourself

What if the world's supply of petroleum ran out tomorrow?

Have you ever thought about it? If the world's supply of petrol ran out.

If this happens, that means there would be no cars, buses etc.

This could cause a big inconvenience, because there would be no transport what so ever, so this means walking/biking to and from work or school.

This also means that if you have a sports game in rolleston, or just somewhere far, you’d have to walk all the way, That wouldn't be that much fun would it?

Third of all, this means that all your plastic belongings will no longer exist and will come to the end of existing, this means all your gaming consoles, phones etc.

Even the wiring in your phone has plastic, but that doesn't really matter, what really matters is that if the plastic around it isn't going to be there, so they wouldn't know what wire is which, because there is different colours, these colours indicate different uses.

Last but not least, if the world's supply of petrol ran out, there would be a mean as war between all the countries, this would mean more people killed per second and bombs flying everywhere.
5 questions

Family time!

During the holidays, my aunty, my uncle, my two little cousins and I went to the museum in town. At the start where all the aboriginal people were, my cousin started crying, because they looked very fierce.

Then we went through to the Maori part, it wasn't really that exciting, there were quite a lot of things there, there was a waka, tāongas, taiahas, there was also a waka.

After that, we went and had a look at the planes, one of the planes had the food they used to serve and the old uniforms they used to wear, one had one of the virtual glasses, but we didn't go on that one because there was a long line, afterwards, my cousin wanted to go to the margaret mahy park, so we went there, but there were way to much people there, so my cousin just went and played on the swing, she looked really bored, then she went and got ice cream then we left.

W.A.L.T... Use the correct structure for a recount, something I enjoyed was spending time with my family and actually bonding

Freda and I

Freda and I

As I crawled through the freezing cold trenches,

A chill was sent up my spine.

All I could hear were the sounds of BOMBS, BOOM BAM CRASH,

As one of the bombing planes came crashing down.

Suddenly, everything goes quiet,

Freeda and I lay low in the cold muddy trenches,

After a while,

I poke my head out to see what was happening,

Then out of nowhere I hear a loud BANG,

Then every one got to go home.

In class we read a book called 'The Anzac puppy' by Peter Millett and Trish Bowles then afterwards we had to write a flashback in the perspective of either Sam the soldier, Freda the dog or Lucy the lady that owns the dog, but I chose sam.

Something I thought I did good was adding in the sounds of the bombs and guns like how they are really bold and they stand out, something I need to work on next time is adding more information and being alot more creative

Goldi locks (My take of the story)

Goldi locks

(My side of the story)

Hello, my name is Jennifer, but you probably know me as “Goldie Locks”.

Anyway, I am here to tell you by side of the story.

Well one day, me and my friend went for a walk, but then we got lost, we had no family either.

But what i’m about to say, you're probably not gonna believe.

I’m actually a good, warm hearted, loving little girl. It was actually my friend that broke in and damaged everything.

Then the no good lying son of a...Gun, Framed me for doing everything, trust me, I wa so furious!

I wanted to rip the lying son of a...Gun's head off...Then I remembered that we were once best friends, And we never hated each other, no matter what.

Anyway I had no choice but to take the wrap, So then I got put in the cells overnight.

The next day I got taken to court, and I got sentenced to 20 years for break and enter.

Trust me you’d never want to come here, its like hell on earth.

So here I am, 20 years later, working part time at cleaning people's toilets I am also married to a bear named Aaron and remember this life lesson. Don’t play around in people's houses, and don’t get into any trouble. And life a happy life, like me and my husband Aaron.

Agent gone wrong

W.A.L.T... Plan and publish our writing digitally

Jesse tree

During the past week, Me and my class have been learning about the Jesse tree, Here are the symbols and names.

Writing inquiry

How are your plastic bottles made into your clothing and house items?

Well if you didn’t know, You may be wearing your own soft drinks bottles. Well this is the process of making your clothing First of all they start of at the bottle recycling center. Then it gets shredded to get the little bit of liquid that you might have left in it. Doing this releases the small bit of unwanted liquid so that it doesn’t affect the quality of the plastic. Then once that is finished it is wrapped up in cellophane and sent to china. Second of all they arrive at china and they all get opened up and then gets sorted out. The clear plastic go to one side and the coloured goes to the other, The reason why they do this is because all the clear plastic can be dyed to make a plain coloured top or it can be a plain white top. The coloured plastic can be made into coloured tops Then it is put into a bath that takes all of the stickers and lids of it. But when it’s pulled out. it’s still a bit wet, so, it gets put into a heater. But if we want to produce white clothing, we have to put in a piece of light shade cloth. Then once that mixture comes out of the heater it’s thread, But we need to combine it and then we have to stretch it several times. This makes the thread stronger. but it is not yet ready to be made into clothes so let's go over and look at the next step. So now that it’s thread, We have to tear it up and make it into fluff. Then there's a lomb in the center that draws in thousands of thread and weaves. This is what catches it and then it is put on another machine and it makes it softer. So, you probably know what happens now, If you don’t know, It goes too a different factory, That is where your plastic bottles are made into your very own high-end clothing are made. Well now you know the process of turning your plastic bottles into your household items and clothes.

My intense race

The intense race

On a really hot sunny 40 degree day on the track, I was in the lead of the intense bike race. I was coming up to the end of the second to last lap, And this loud roaring motor bike drove past me, It was the last lap, The speeding car came roaring past me, i'm nearly at the finish line, Then I go past it and all I could here was My family and my team Screaming!, Now I feel proud because I have won the race for NZ and earned a Gold for the team.

On this snug 19 degree night, Me, my family and team go out for dinner.

Once we got to the restaurant, We saw some supporters as well.

Once we finished we quickly sprinted back to the car, We had to aesthetically jump over multiple objects. Then we got in the car and quickly boosted from the fans.We got home, And we saw some insane supporters hanging of the back of my truck. So we get out and said evacuate the private property and then we never saw the again.

STRANDED.

On one sunny afternoon, my friend jake and  I went on a big ship, we were going from Australia to India. It was just going onto 9 o’clock and we were just having dinner. Then me and Jake fully dozed off to sleep when suddenly everybody starts yelling “THE SHIP IS SINKING”, so my friend grabs a hold of me and we both start freaking out and start screaming we were both shocked then jake takes me to the spot where we jump on the boats, then we tried to leave the boat was not working and it was only me and jake on it, so, we left the boat and swam to a island

We don’t have any food so we went for a dive to find some sea food, just as I was coming back up this shark came up from nowhere and tries to bite me but thankfully jake saves me from that, so we go for a walk looking for sticks and branches for our fire. I lighted the fire, Jake puts the fish on, That was our dinner for tonight, so we doze off to sleep and then we get up, we quickly go jump in the sea because we both really stink and we had all these bugs on us.

Then we go adventuring around the island all we found was these big massive trees, the next day we go hunting with our spears, all we found were pigs, so we just killed them all and that was our dinner for about a week, time goes by, it's starting to get really boring now, but then a big massive group of helicopters came, we tried yelling, but that didn’t work so we started waving our hand too try and get them to look down here, but obviously that did not work, so, i looked around the boat that we swam from for a mirror and i found one, we reflected the light of the mirror to the helicopter and they came down and picked us up.

Then we finally land back in australia after 3 hours of sleep, then I go to see my wife and my kids and Jake goes home to see his wife and kids, but they did not no I was stranded on a island for nearly a whole year. When I tell her she freaks out and says I have to go to the doctors to get cheeked if there's anything wrong with me, so were in the car talking about how I was stranded on the island, so we get to the hospital and everyone knew i was stranded on an island but they didn't know what one. So once I walked through the entrance of the hospital everyone started yelling “ IT'S THE MAN WHO WAS STRANDED ON THE ISLAND”. Then I get checked the doctor says i'm algood and there is nothing wrong with me. The next day I recieved a email saying “Hello, my name is David, I am here to ask you if you would like to write a book of how it was stranded on the island”, so obviously I replied “Yes”, after about a year my very own book got released and they were all gone the first week, I kept one for myself I also signed it myself as well. Then I meet someone last night while I was having dinner and they asked if i had a book that they could have, so i gave the kid the book that i kept for myself.

TO BE CONTINUED...

During the past week in writing we have been learning to put similes,

Should we be able to listen to music while we are learning?

I strongly believe that we should not listen to music because...

some people will start talking and they will get really loud and no one will be able to hear the music and we will all get angry. So therefore there would be no point listening to music.

Second of all, some people will start moving around even more and they will start making heaps of noise and some people will get angry, so the teachers will turn it off.

Third reason is that some of the music that some of us listen to in the class are violent or inappropriate for our ages in our class, So The teacher will turn it off and probably not let us listen to music again.

Another reason on why I think we shouldn't listen to music is some of us like different type of music so when we play the music people will just get angry because it isn't what they listen to because they might be into Justin Bieber, Chris brown, Justin timberlake, N.W.A or Tupac Shakur

Last but not least, I think we shouldn't listen to music is because some of us will get really annoyed because someone will start singing and they might not have a good tone so they might sound really squeaky when they sing and people will get annoyed and angry and that might lead to an argument and that might lead them to the principal's office and they might have to stay in there for the rest of the day

Therefore I strongly disagree that we should not listen to music while learn

-By Tyrell

BRAIN STORM