Survivor Island

18 of September 2017 Drummond Primary School Year 4-8 kids

had to make a team and create a teepee to stay on an’ island’

for a couple of hours. We needed a range of stuff to help us survive . The criteria was to make a fire for an injured person and cook food to not die of starvation.We also had to trade in tokens for things we needed e.g plasters matches and so on. Another thing we had to do was carry our injured man  to safety from up and down and back on the back field.  We created a stretcher using natural materials in order to do this.

Throughout the day I learnt to be a team member and find materials. I enjoyed the hurricane / tsunami a challenge it showed me that if that's just one bucket of water, imagine cyclone Irma victims with piles and piles of water .

My team was a handful  but an outgoing bunch throughout the time we were there.

Flynns novel study

Novel Study Flynn

Can you guess

This week we had to write a story on someone we knew but not anyone who lives with us the succes critera was to write about there face, skin, hair, action and there talking I hope you enjoy my story and try guess who it is

She has wrinkled, dried up skin with a slight tan and does a range of voluntary work at starship ward B. The wrinkles don't show she's 80 at all. Her wrinkled face shows she's aging every day of her life.

Her thick black and grey hair is really thick. Although her hair is mostly black there are some traces of white throughout her hair. As she walks her hair shines in the sunlight through the hospital windows at starship. her

Her red lips highlight her face and sit neatly under her blue eyes and lovely smile.  Her small glasses  glimmer in sunshine.  Her white shiny teeth show she brushes. Her scruffy eyebrows darken her face. Her ears pick up any sound  

Her high pitched voice is noticed anywhere in the starship hospital. She engages you to into what  she's saying or doing.Her funny sense of humour is noticed threw out starship ward B. her interesting talks brighten up darkest of dull days at starship hospital.

Her way of moving is unique slow but unique because of her wadle she does sometimes to get from A to B. Her laugh makes you really happy in dull days . Her amazing way to talk to heart families like us is so special when you go there tough times like this it's good to know you  have someone like her by your side to get you thru the horrible days.

Morres Reserve Cricket

I am learning to write a piece of prose-  a sketch with detailed words, about a particular place, that is very important to me

I know I have achieved this when I can describe this sketch of the place,in specific detail. To do this I need to:

• Use specific nouns
• Activate the nouns with strong verbs

It's the little things in life ...

A cricket pitch

Morres Reserve Cricket

Many wickets collapsing in the top order as a hot Summer's day drifts on.

Bales tumbling while wickets falling in the fired up game

Batters decimating the run rate and total score they created a good total

Fielders absolutely amaze the crowd with their outstanding boundary savers  and efforts.

Bowlers eliminating everything in their path to get the much needed win.

Creased lines smudging  as the batters and bowlers get more anticipated for the win.

Supporters supporting on the  sideline their fellow teams and great efforts by others.

Vehicle owners moving their cars away  after hearing the upcoming bet on who can hit the furtherest..

My chosen place - the cricket pitch

Cricket pitch

I am learning to write a piece of prose-  a sketch with detailed words, about a particular place, that is very important to me

I know I have achieved this when I can describe this sketch of the place,in specific detail. To do this I need to:

• Use specific nouns
• Activate the nouns with strong verbs

It's the little things in life

My chosen place - cricket pitch

Many wickets collapsing in the top order as a hot Summer's day drifts on.

Bales tumbling while wickets falling in the fired up game

Batters decimating the run rate and total score they created a good total

Fielders absolutely amaze the crowd with their outstanding boundary savers  and efforts.

Bowlers eliminating everything in their path to get the much needed win.

Creased lines smudging  as the batters and bowlers get more anticipated for the win.

Supporters supporting on the  sideline their fellow teams and great efforts by others.

Vehicle owners  moving cars back,  after hearing the upcoming bet on who can hit the furtherest..

My chosen place - the cricket pitch

My Memior Poem

I am learning to write a memoir poem. (This recalls a moment in time from my past that links to an emotion I felt at that time) The emotion I have chosen to link my memoir to is….

In my memoir I describe the scene and situation using strong adjective, nouns and verbs.

I hope you enjoy it.

The cricket game was exciting enough

Numerous Kids worrying

A tribe of irritating Townies complaining [as usual ]

The hardened pitch moisturized by the speed of the ball

a lot of tension from both Clubs at boiling point

Ignorant Supporters lying [Boys High]

Bored Umpires arrogance- rising

We did what any good team would do

We rose to the challenge- and won

Amazed, elated, wondering

Can we do it next time ?

Doing something important.

The boy in the stripped pyjamas memoir poem

Yesterday we watched the Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas. the success criteria was We had to choose a part in the movie to write a memoir poem about. I chose to write about the backyard scene because in my perspective the back yard scene was the best because he made the really fast swing. I hope you enjoy my poem

The swing was big enough

It was powerful strong and had surrounds of stones

Speedy swing was swinging

Massive fence guarding

Noisy trucks arriving with horrendous numbers of  innocent Jews  

Bloody leg aching really badly

Running man worrying for Bruno

Swinging so fast like lightning

For my joy, and  happiness   

Once Memoir Poem

Today we had to write a memoir poem about are book that we doing for our novel study mine is Once the success criteria was to write about your characters scene and the situation your character was in i hope you like what i wrote and give feedback on anything that I need to improve on.

Once

The orphanage was eventful enough

It had lots of yucky food cold water and kids all over the place  

Jewish books burning

Four ugly Nazis plotting their attack

Innocent Jewish people screaming

Horrific Enemies looming

We did nothing other friends do,

Aggressive Croats invading and horrific boys capturing

I'm Crying  to stay alive, doing everything I can to

Find  Mum and Dad

Doing everything Important ..

100 WC

Once

This Week I am reading once which is about a Jewish boy who goes on a quest to find his mum and dad after seeing books were being burnt. the success criteria was to write 100 words about one character I chose the main guy Felix I hope you enjoy my 100 word challenge

Once  4 men in suits came to the orphanage up the rocky mountains i thought it was mum and dad but It wasn't. Soon After that I saw  huge flares of flames go up outside the orphanage  what I saw I couldn't get it out of my head they were burning mother minkais books.  I get my bag and pack it and after breakfast and when the book burners left Soon after I left the orphanage to find Mum and Dad. As I slided down the to Father Ludwicks house I was starving and stole the soft bread and water.

Holidays

on the first day of Term 3 we had to write about our great holiday or our horrible one. also using connectives like such as, we looked at ranges of different connectives like although.a connective is a word that joins 2 different simple sentences for example never the lees. I spent time improving my writing to a high standard out of 5 sentences. By using connectives it made my writing way better and I was wondering if you guys use connectives?

In the term 2 holidays I did a range of stuff. Some stuff I did was, I went to the movies and watched cars 3 as well as having popcorn and sprite. I also played NBA 2k17, On Saturday I also  had to play soccer at Invercargill, and we got beaten 4-1. I  had a great time despite the wet weather of  te anau  my cousins and my Brother and I had a fabulous time,  Until we had to leave the Doc center. Also we went to the gymnastic club in Invercargill for heart kids however we had  lots of food.

First aid movie

After our session with Felicia from St John's in Schools we realised we had learnt a lot. We thought...how can we share what we have learnt? So we brainstormed lots of ideas...from making movies to presentations to art projects. Eventually we split into groups and decided what we want to create.

My group was Angelo and Carlyn and we decided to create a movie to share our learning.

Kobe Bryant Showboat

This term we have been doing are novel study and mine was Kobe Bryant showboat hope you like it.

THE HACKERS

This week for the 100 wc it was to write about what do I need now it was really fun to write about and I hope you like it.

THE HACKERS.

As I was walking down the road  I thought to myself now what do I need, wait  I'm rich, and have everything I won't, yay.

As I walked home, and hopped onto my new hp computer something was wrong ; I was hacked, it said all your credit has been taken a.k.a my money, 5 Billion dollars down the drain not literally but to some hackers. I say to myself now what do I need. ugh my money back it's been taken every single cent wait  there's 2$, as I hit my 2 dollars it goes down the drain no kidding.

100 WC:

This week's prompt was about a dramatic weather change. I was focusing on improving punctuation - we are learning how to use semi-colons. I was also trying to use better words. What do you think?

As I was walking down the street I was watching 3 now, as I saw breaking news topic  a dramatic change to the weather was made, it was fatal, Mike Puru the weather man died  in a fight with his partner and fell on the road and a truck ran him over  and  killed him. His life on being on reality shows like the bachelor and 3 news, was over. Telling girls to leave the bachelor mansion was over; 19 I don't know to 2017. One News  quote was "Love a little, laugh a lot, be Mike's partner, drop him".

Flynn's Lions maths

The last couple of weeks I have been working on my Lions Maths, because the Lions were here. The Lions are a rugby team from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are 41 players in the squad and they're playing games all around NZ. This was important to do as we were adding up money and it was really fun to do. The link to my budget is here. 

Speech Board

Every year at Drummond Primary School we do something called Speech board to help are talking skills getting better. We make a google slide about a topic and present it to a lady who assesses us. We also memorize our poem and read 150 words out of a book. We also do an impromptu speech. The levels we are assessed on are ‘Fail’, ‘Pass’, ‘Commended’, ‘Highly Commended’ and ‘Distinction’.

If I was to do Speech board again I would change my topic to something about how machines work and that type mechanical stuff. The challenges I faced in Speech board was having enough information and memorizing my poem so I didn't forget halfway through.

Artificial egg

This week we did the 100 word challenge and had to write about action figures and an egg. today I was working on using ReadWrite carefully to help me edit.

Once upon a time 3 artificial men and an artificial egg came alive. The men worked  for new world and had a mighty job to handle to stop the egg flooding the aisle, they were yelling code red she's going to blow  they were doing all they could to save the egg as it started to leak the guys says sorry it's over, we're done. As the egg starts to leak the look on to the end of their life. As they say clean up on aisle 2 the Eskimos hop back into there bag and leave the egg behind.

About Me

This week  Miss Blair introduced us to a site called Piktochart (an infographic site). What we did on Piktochart was telling someone about yourself. I enjoyed making a Piktochart - I would most certainly do it again. If i did it again I would change some of my wording.

Welcome

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