What rare item have you found lately?

WALT - understand news around the world.

I know this when I rewrite a news article in my own words.

A Muslim who learned how to be a Kiwi!

WALT - extract information from an article.
I know this when I list 4 facts from the text.

In ecology, there is always a community!

WALT - understand what ecology is.
I know this when I understand the relationship between non-living and living things.

Think twice before you commit a sin!

WALT - understand what personal and original sin is.

I know this when I illustrate and write examples of personal and original sin.

An unlucky story for nutella lovers!

WALT - use the article to inform people.
I know this when I rewrite an article in my own words from Kiwikids.

An easier way to do you 4 times tables!

 

WALT - use my four times tables using my two times tables.

I know this when I use my 2 times tables correctly to solve my four times tables.

What kind of books do you like to read?

WALT - write a recount using language features.
I know this when I use speech marks when there is a dialogue.

On a Tuesday afternoon, we cleaned up the class room and went up the hall to watch Duffy Theater.

When we were inside the hall, we saw 3 people. 1 was a female and the other 2 were males. 1 of the males who was just like a rugby player, was setting up square blocks behind the background. The other male was singing a song with a guitar until the whole school was settled well. When room 8 showed up and sat down on the wooden floor, Duffy ended his song with a funny pose. Half of the school laughed, but I couldn't get what was so funny with just a funny pose. They introduced themselves. The first person was smaller than the rugby player. He wore a shirt with a letter "D" on the right corner. His name was Duffy. The girl was kind of taller than Duffy. She had a pink tutu and looked a bit just like a ballerina. She was holding something that was wrapped in grey gift wrappers and it was the shape of a rectangle. Her name was Rosie. 

After they introduced themselves, they asked us if we knew the Duffy Song. A lot of us said yes, but, we heard one quarter of the school say no. I said nothing because I only knew the chorus. When Duffy was playing the guitar, I knew that it was going to start. When they sang, the school sang with them too, but I couldn't even hear a word of what the school was trying to sing. It was like half of the students who were singing were muttering or lip syncing. They were just pretending to sing because they thought they memorised the whole song.

When the song was finished, a person was walking up the stairs. It was Uncle Bingo. He was the person who was stacking the blocks. He had a black luggage and wore black pants and blue and white striped shirt. He said "I just heard some singing from upstairs so I  came to see what it was." He started singing the incorrect lyrics from the Duffy Song. Instead of "Gonna read it. Read about it," he said 

"Gonna eat it. Eat about it." I smiled because it was sort of funny. Duffy asked what the black luggage was for. He said that he was going to Australia to compete on the rugby tournament. Duffy then whispered to Rosie and said "I think he can't read!" They asked him if he ever read a book. He replied 

"I do read books, but I'm just too busy with other things." Uncle Bingo had a cell phone and his dad called him. His dad asked when he was going to leave for the airport. He said it was tomorrow. Duffy and Rosie soon had a big surprise for Uncle Bingo. Duffy told a part of a book. It was called 'The king of colours.'

He said " When the king had made all the colours of history, he had an idea of putting them all together and show them to his people." So Duffy got a table that was high to their chest. He asked us to make our best dinosaur roar. I couldn't roar because I had a sore throat. When he reached down to the table, he lifted up a cake. Duffy said " Is this the item we're going to make into a book?" Some of us said

"YES!" but most of us said 

"NO!" So he put the cake back and reached inside again. He asked us to make our best dinosaur roar again. So all of us Roared and he lifted up a big shiny and golden book from the table. It was titled "The best book in the world" He told us in a count of three to tell them our favourite book. He opened up  the empty pictured book and he counted to 1... 2... 3... and I yelled "A DUCK FOR A DAY!"  

He thanked us then went to Uncle Bingo. He told him to open the best book in the world. But before Uncle Bingo opened the book, Rosie gave him the gift. Uncle Bingo didn't mind the gift and put it in his bag. Uncle Bingo started to open the book and "BOOM!" a net full of toys and slippers popped out of the book. Rosie's face was touching a smelly slipper that belonged to Uncle Bingo. Uncle Bingo was near a dinosaur bone. Because the dinosaur bone was on his shoulder, he thought that his shoulder bone was broken. All of us roared at Uncle Bingo because it was a dinosaur bone. After that, he got out of the net. When he looked back on his shoulder, he said "Oh! My shoulder bone is not broken anymore!" Then, it was time to help Rosie who has been caught up in the net with a smelly slipper. Since it was a slipper, we all said "Stomp, Stomp" Then Rosie got out of the net too.

When they closed the book, Uncle Bingo said "Didn't I tell you? I don't like reading books" Then he walked down the stairs to go to the airport. Duffy and Rosie finally gave up and just watched T.V. Duffy and Rosie felt heart broken and blue that their surprise didn't work While Uncle Bingo was in the aircraft, he sat on the passenger seat. The pilot sat near him and coughed on his hand. Then he said "How are you doing?" And he tried to wipe his hand on his shoulder. Uncle Bingo dodged his hand and said "I'm good." When Uncle Bingo looked away for a moment, the pilot had a chance to cough on his hand and slowly patted him on the shoulder. 

Then the aircraft started to go. Uncle Bingo thought for a moment of what to do while waiting to go to Australia. He searched in his bag and remembered the gift that Rosie gave him. He tore the wrapping paper and found a book about ballerinas. He decided to read it because there was nothing else to do. While reading and reading for a while, he got more interested in the book. He found out a fact and told us. He said "Did you know that ballerinas have tutus?" 

After he finished the book, he was at Australia for the match. he got out of the aircraft and he was at the match. He used moves that he had learned from the book. He ran and ran and danced through the field until he had reached the goal post. he jumped down onto the ground and scored a try. He cheered and cheered. He was about to say "I'm number 1!"But when he looked down on his shirt he was number 8. So he said,

"I'm number... 8!"

After the game, he went back to Duffy and Rosie. Uncle Bingo thanked Duffy for telling him about books and Rosie for giving him the ballerina book. After he thanked them, he said to Duffy and Rosie "And did you know that ballerina wear tutus?" Then he said "Bye Duffy and Nosie!" And went down the stairs. After a while, Duffy and Rosie wanted to sing the Duffy song for the last time with us. We sang and sang until the end of the song. Next, Uncle Bingo showed up again for the questions. I asked "How long did this take to memorise the scripts?" They replied "We started around February in the morning." Finally, they started packing up, and the school started to leave the hall. I really had a great time with the Duffy people's act. On the next Duffy Assembly, I hope it was funny just like this day's Duffy Assembly. 

How can YOU be involved?

WALT - identify ways to increase the chances of bees’ survival.

I know this when I write three things that people can do to upkeep the bees' habitats.

Here are the ways you can help bees to survive :

• Make a homemade bee home for them to nest.
• Planting wild flowers for bees to collect nectar.
• Leaving patches of bald ground in your backyard and tiny cracks in garden walls so bees who live alone can nest inside.

The three symbols of the Holy Spirit!

WALT - identify the symbols of the Holy Spirit in the scriptures.

I know this when I write down the symbols that I identify from each scripture.

Support Cancer Society today!

WALT - understand the importance of daffodils.

I know I can do this when I use yellow to colour in my daffodil for Daffodil day.

A crazy yet fun day with my cat Panda!

WALT - write a recount using adjectives and adverbs to make my writing more interesting.

I know this when I use action words and describing words appropriately and correctly in my writing.

In the weekend, I stayed at home on a cold Sunday morning…...

When I woke up, I got up and stretched. I checked the bunk bed to see if my brother and sister were still sleeping. I went to my sister's bed and saw her quietly snoring. I shook her and said "Hey, hey Patsy! Wake up!" I stopped shaking her and tried to see how she reacted. A while later, she just groaned and moved. I knew just the trick to wake her up, so I got my cat Panda and put him beside her. He went inside the blanket to get warm and cozy.

Panda is a 2-month old kitten and his mother is an adult cat named Molly. Panda is small like a medium sized rock. He is black and white and loves to chew and fight the blue mat that says "WELCOME." He usually goes out when the weather is warm but stays inside our bedroom when it's cold. My cat Pooh is very fluffy, she sleeps on the bottom corners of the bed and she is the only cat who plays with Panda. Molly growls when Panda is near her, so that's why Panda loves the bedroom.

First, Panda went wriggling inside the blanket which made my sister to open her eyes and grabbed him. She snuggled next to him but Panda tried shaking off from her hands. He slid into a tight spot on the left end of the bed. My sister said " Go get Panda!"I quickly stood up,went on the ground and went under the bed. It was a very tight squeeze to move in, I felt like a sponge being squeezed by a hand. I slowly crept up to him and grabbed him as fast as a speeding car, but I missed and he got away. I crawled and crawled to where Panda was but he was no longer there.  I went out of the bedroom door and I chased after him.

I walked into the garage and saw that no one was there so I went outside to check for Panda again. Then, I saw him up the fence but I couldn't reach him. I said to him "I..... Give..... UP!" Because I was so tired, I decided to taste one of the green, small and hairy strawberries from our plants. I washed it with the tap water inside the house and ate it. It was sour, sweet, but mostly bitter. When I walked back into the garage, I looked at the cat flap on the window  to see if any cats were outside ready to come inside to eat their biscuits.

Then, the floor shone like the shining sun and I saw foot prints of my muddy socks. "Uh oh" I whispered. I was kind of lucky because my brother wasn't playing in the computer and he would tell me off. I quickly grabbed the mop as fast as a hungry lion chasing a gazelle. I dipped the mop into a bucket of clean water and I was clumsy and unsteady because I still had my muddy and wet socks on. I kept cleaning the floor and I was confused when it felt like the footprints were infinitely appearing. I finally figured out what was happening so I took my socks off. I went to the bathroom and put my socks into the laundry basket. I went back to the garage and continued what I was doing until it was squeaky clean. The floor was still wet but luckily, the sun was finally out and the floor dried quickly.

After working so hard cleaning the floor, I felt hungry so I grabbed 3 pieces of cookie bear chocolate chip cookies, toast with nutella and milk with ice. After I ate the toast and the cookies, I drank all of the milk in the cup until there was only ice left in the glass. Before I put the ice in the bin and put the cup in the sink, I looked inside the cup. There, I saw some white, wet powder on the ice. I scooped a little bit of of it and put only some of it on my tongue. I swallowed it, and it was really disgusting because it tasted like salt water and slug slime mixed together. I took another cup from the cupboard and I got some cold water from the fridge. I took 3 cups of water and drank it to make sure the taste was gone.

Finally, I went into the living room feeling sick and tired. The sliding door was open so I proceeded to close it. I slowly slid the door close because my arms were shaking. Panda zoomed into the open space and went on the couch. I rested my head on the pillow and went next to him. Panda started playing and chewing my hair and it tickled me but  I didn't mind. Eventually,Panda stopped and started to purr. I closed my eyes for a moment and before I knew it, I was fast asleep……..