A Skip to Beat Bad Temper - Cynthia Mitchell

An angry tiger in a cage
Will roar and roar with rage,
And gnash his teeth and lash his tail,
For that's how tigers rant and rail.
I keep my temper in a cage,
I hate it when it roars with rage,
I hate its teeth, I hate its tail,
So when it starts to rant and rail,
I tell my mum, I tell my dad,
I tell them why it's feeling bad,
And then I skip and skip and skip,
And lash my rope just like a whip
And when I skip because I'm cross,
My temper-tiger knows who's boss,
And when I've skipped and whipped like mad,
My temper-tiger's not so bad.
I have to keep it tame this way,
Or it will eat me up one day.

This might help with your reading and spelling.

Adventure

I stepped on to the sloshy ground. Glug, slurp, glug. I could hear the trees rustling.

Then I saw a dark shadow. It looked like a hairy sasquatch but it wasn't. It was a bushy tree.

I took a short cut through the ferns and wild flowers. The birds were sasquatch like mad. "Squeekpeekdieek," that's what it sounded like.

We came to an opening. It was the Darfield desert, it's the only desert in the world with puddles the size of lakes.

I slowly trudged along, "No-o-o-o-o, why me," I yelled at the top of my lungs because in front of me was the most biggest puddle ever. I had no choice but to squidge through it.

I finally got out, the air was hot and the sun was roaring. "Ro-o-o-oaw."

The adventure that I had was the most fun ever.

P.S. No sasquatchs were harmed in the making of the story.

The Touch of Horror

"No, no, no, no," I whispered grosely.  "I will not touch a dead deer." "Do it, do it, do it," My whole family was shouting. "Oh fine," I felt grosed out! I felt inside like I could pop like a gross dragon. "Really, look I can see all their insides," I was thinking in my head.

"Okay I'm ready to touch now." "Go, go,  go," everyone was shouting. I touched a dead deer. I was relaxed. It was as soft as a piece of possum fur. Soft, sad and scared all at the same time .... but I thought it was quite nice! "Ahhh," I said as I was as relaxed as a baby sleeping.

Then it was time to go! "Ohhh but it was to nice." "Just come," mum nudged me as she talked. I finally left.

I had the best time ever!

Chucking Pea Straw

                                                   
On a sunny beautiful Sunday, me, Georgie, Jake, Nicole and Nev chucked so crunchy so chunky pea straw onto their wonderful garden. Sling! down, down, down went the pea straw. Nicole said, "You guys work faster." We said, "Okay." So we worked as fast as a running dog.

Soon we had to get a new, fresh bail of super crunchy, chunky, crawly pea straw. We super quickly rolled one over. We finished the bail. Meanwhile Nev rolled another crunchy bail over to the beautiful garden. Soon it was finished. We made a fabulous swing, "Weee."

I enjoyed chucking pea straw because I got to chuck it at Georgie.

The Weekend

In the weekend at soccer we lost the game but I got player of the day. "It's time to go," said  mum. Then I went to my brothers game and they won and my brother got player of the day and we went and got  lunch and then we went home.

Arohatia te Reo - Maori Language Week

Today we skyped with Halswell Residential College to be a part of their morning karakia and waiata. We followed this with a karakia and waiata of our own.

Here is a photo of us skyping.

Arohatia te Reo - Maori Language Week

This morning three students used skype to join in a lesson with Room 12 at New River School in Invercargill. Mrs Rolton and Whare Suddaby were making Maori Instruments with things found on the beach.

This morning we learnt to make music out of sticks, stones and shells.  By Claire.

I really like the sounds  that we did in the morning using sticks, stones  and shells. By Josiah.

Hello, This moning we learnt to make music with sticks, stones and shells because it's Maori language week. Thanks, by Jess.

WALT: include a range of language features in our writing

Language features make our writing more interesting to read.

Here is a fun video about onomatopoeia.



This one is about similes.

WALT: use speech marks

What special week is coming up?

The week of 23rd-29th of July is a very special week. Do you know it is? Below is a video to help you work it out. We will be learning this with the help of our e-buddie class, Room 12 NRP.



Term 3 Art

Sculpture on PhotoPeach