Mammoth Writing

 We had a picture that we had to write a story about, it had to have good puncuation and at least one exclamation mark and one question mark. Here is my work.

 The Story Of Wally Neverbird And The Iced Mammoth

“I am going on a hunt for the mammoth!” “I can feel it in my bones, they are alive!!” “What will you take with you!” “Everything I need, even a hair dryer.” “A hair dryer!” “Yes a hair dryer, you need to look stylish dont you know. We don't want the mammoths running away in fright of bad hair do we now?” “Are you stupid!” “No I am not” “A hair dryer will come in handy I just know it!!” Allright, fine! Take your stupid hair dryer.” “Good,  I plan to leave first thing tomorrow morning.” “Tomorrow!” “Yes, I know it's short notice but the Antarctic train comes once a year, and there is no way I can miss it.” “Ok, Ok, take a hair dryer, leave tomorrow, go on a crazy quest to find a wooly mammoth alive, you are a nutter Wally Neverbird.”

After that crazy conversation Mr Neverbird  boarded the train to the Antarctic. Once there he hiked for many days over treacherous terrain, but never did he abandon the hair dryer. Turns out it was a good thing he didn’t, because this happened. Wally had just finished stumbling through a cave entrance, he looked up. “Holy cow, bulls teeth and a box full of peanuts!!!!!” He cried, for there in front of him was a Wooly Mammoth! Covered in a thick layer of ice! So much ice in fact, it was more so a  gigantic block of ice, that just happened to have a massive mammoth in the middle of it!!! To add to his shock it was moving! Only just, though, because as you would expect it's rather hard to move when in the middle of an ancient iceberg. So no, I don't mean the whole mammoth, I mean its eyes were moving! Bewildered and surprised, Wally sat down. It was then he remembered that he had his pack on. He took it off and rifled through the contents: A torch, sleeping bag, lollies, chocolate, some bread, spare batteries, and a battery powered hair dryer. Laying all these out he looked at each one in turn. After a failed attempt to make an ice sandwich, he ate the lollies and chocolate. He continued to look at the rest of the items, “My battery powered hair dryer!!” “Oh how could I miss it, I really am in need of a good hairstyle.” So Wally Neverbird started to style his hair. He felt something wet and cold dripping on him. At first he thought it was the mammoth peeing on him. “Eww dont do that mammoth you'll wreck my hair style!!” Then he realized that A: if a mammoth was to pee it would be warm. B the wet was cold. C if a mammoth was to pee it would be a stream not a drip. D The mammoth couldn't pee on him because there was a thick layer of ice between them.( Even a particularly warm pee couldn't make it through all that ice.) Wally looked up. He slapped himself. It was his hair dryer melting the ice!  He turned it off. “Bingo!!!” He exclaimed, he could use the hair dryer to melt the ice and free the mammoth. And thus he would be famous and never have bad hair again! 

The End

By Amelia

 

What Persuasive Writing Needs

If we were finished our writing we had to make a persuasive writing poster. We had to include everything a persuasive piece of writing needs and make our posters bright and colourful. Here is my work.

100 Words Out My Window

 one of our tasks last week was to write exactly 100 words about what we can see out of our window. It had to have exactly 100 words not 99 not 101. Here is my work.

DOGS Information Report

For writing this week we are focusing on information reports one of our writing bingo tasks was to write a information report on our favourite animal here is my information report on Chocolate Lab Spaniel Crosses.

Chocolate Lab Spaniel Cross. 

What do you picture in your head when you hear Chocolate Lab Spaniel Cross? Is it a small spotty dog or a big fully brown dog? This information report is going to give you a new understanding on their appearance, why people keep them as pets and why I love my dogs Meg and Muddle. 

Chocolate lab spaniel crosses really do look like a merge between a spaniel and a lab. With a Spaniels cute fluffy long ears and slightly shorter legs  and a lab's bigger body  and  easy going nature. Some Chocolate Lab Spaniel Crosses have more spaniel in them like our dog Muddle. With a spaniel curly long ears and spotty colouring, or some more like Meg with  fully brown coloring and a bit bigger with lots of love for food. But of course every dog is different!

Now you might be wondering what's so special about this breed and why do lots of people have them as pets? Well one of the reasons this special breed are such great pets is because of their amazing nature. Chocolate Lab Spaniel Crosses are super loving and love snuggles, they really like a belly scratch and they are always there to make you feel better. They also are happy to go on a nice long walk or play with you and they love to go on adventures. They love to snuggle up on the couch with you, or go on long adventures with you. With this breed there is something for everyone.

I love my dogs Meg and Muddle because Meg is super cuddly. She is always by your side ready for a hug and she never growls at you if you hug her too tight or accidentally pull her tail. Muddle is really energetic because she’s a puppy and she loves to play fight with you, she loves to run along next to you when you go anywhere and when it's time for a rest she will happily give you cuddles, Meg and Muddle have really soft fur especially on their ears, they really are the best dogs in the world.

I hope you have a new understanding of Chocolate Lab Spaniel Crosses, their appearance, why they are such great pets and why I love my dogs. Maybe you might consider getting a Chocolate Lab Spaniel Cross!

By Amelia

The Grinch

 Another activity we could do was describe the Grinch. We had to write down all the adjectives we could think of to describe the Grinch you could also write descriptive writing piece about the Grinch. Here is my work.

 

Writing

We had write a piece of writing about your perfect dad. We also had to include at least one simile, alliteration,  onomatopoeia, homophones or homonyms.

Writing

Over lock down, we have been learning about alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, homophones, and homonyms.  We had to reflect on this and make a slideshow to teach others, here is mine.

Wanting To Be Free

We have been working on descriptive writing. We could choose a picture and write about it. Here is a link to mine.

Lake

Little Blue Penguins Report

A couple of weeks ago we had Lucy from the penguin trust come in and talk to us about little blue penguins. after we had to make a report on Little Blue Penguins here is mine.

Little Blue Penguins

By Amelia

Did you know that little blue penguins  cover themselves in oil that comes out of their rear end to make their feathers waterproof! If you want to learn more interesting stuff  about little blue penguin like , why they are endangered, how you can help them and all the cool features they have. If you want to learn all this stuff then read on.

There are many reasons why little blue penguins are endangered most of them because of human destruction.These are some of the reasons little blue penguins are endangered the first one is because of humans destroying their home.  People are dropping rubbish everywhere rubbish is getting in our oceans and in the fish it is making little blue penguins sick and injured. Secondly people are walking on the sand dunes and stomping on their burrows which means that they have to make new ones and they are more visible to danger. And probably the biggest problem right now is dogs. People are letting them loose on and around our beaches it doesn't matter if a dog is trying to kill or just play with little blue penguins the outcome is the same death. Those are just some of the reasons little blue penguins are disappearing quickly.

Secondly little blue penguins need our help to survive. Here are some things you can do to help our little friends. First NZ need to stop littering don’t drop rubbish put it in the bin. If you find rubbish pick it up, you never know you might be saving a life of a little blue penguin and even other animals if you just pick up some rubbish. Secondly keep behind fences at the beach and do not let your dog or yourself walk on the sand dunes and most importantly do not let your dogs run loose when you are at the beach or if you are around the beach, especially at night or early in the morning. try to tell as many people as you can about these rules and NZ will have many more little blue penguins and other wildlife.

Now let’s get into the good stuff, you will be amazed at how many amazing features little blue penguins have here are some of the amazing features. little blue penguins have a layer of blubber to keep them warm then they have down feathers if these get wet they will sink. They cover themselves in oil that comes out of there rear end to make them waterproof. Little blue penguins can sneze out salt out of there nose.  Little blue penguins lose all their feathers at once. Little blue penguins have built in googles.

Hopefully you have learnt some things about little blue penguins why they are endangered, how you can help them and all the cool features they have. Please remember don’t let your dogs run wild along the beach we all need to work together help save this amazing little creature.

Descriptive Calf Writing

In room 5 we are learning to describe, we had to describe some Jersey calves. We would be successful when we have used the senses: see, hear, feel, touch, smell, used present tense, written a short introduction to introduce the description, and an ending, used a variety of precise, vivid adjectives, verbs and nouns used a variety of sentences - different beginnings, structures and lengths organised my writing into paragraphs. Here is my writing.

As I approach the wide grassy paddock, the milky brown  Jersey calves are staring at me. I am wondering if they want me to go in to see them or not. I make a decision, and creep into the paddock where the calves are staring at me like crazy. Suddenly there is a loud mroo! from one of the calves and I get a massive fright. As I recover I have a look at the calves, and I see that one on the left has a patch of white on its side. Another at the back is making an extremely funny face. It has its head pointing at the sky and I start to laugh.

Slowly the calves begin to move then they start to play around me. I think they realise I am not going to hurt them. They start sprinting around me like they want me to play, so I start to sprint around with them. I play with them for awhile until they start to get tired.

 Then the horrible smell of calf milk  sprints up my nose. Yuck! It reminds me what I came here to do. I pour a generous amount of warm calf milk into the trough. The calves immediately rush over and start slurping down the milk. Wow! Those calves must have been hungry.

I reach over and stroke one of the calves soft smooth fur as it is drinking.The raging sun is beating against my back so I stroll over to the branches of a big oak tree for shade. As I watch the calves run around and play the faint sound of tractor motors running fill my ears. I cannot wait to come back tomorrow and feed these cute Jersey calves.

Plastic Bin Liners Persuasive Letter

In Room five we are learning to write to persuade. We are also learning about the plastic in the ocean. So we did a persuasive letter for our principal to ban plastic bin liners. Our writing had to include an introduction, three main paragraphs, three reasons why, and a conclusion. Here is my writing.

10th September 2018

Dear Mrs Wallace,

All over the school we use plastic bags for bin liners. In my opinion we should not use them for bin liners. I have three good reasons why we should not use plastic bags for bin liners.

Firstly, I strongly believe we should not use plastic bags for bin liners because we usually only put dry paper and food packaging in most of the classroom bins. It is not wet materials or slimy contents going into the bin, so there is no reason for using plastic bags for bin liners.

Secondly, I think we should not use plastic bags for bin liners because it would save money. We could use the money for other things like school books or stationery. Guess what? We use two thousand plastic bags a year just at our school. THAT’S CRAZY! Think of the savings we could make. We could save at least one hundred dollars a year on plastic bags.

Thirdly, we should not use plastic bags for bin liners. Two thousand get thrown away every year. That's fifty a week and ten a day just at our school. It all goes into landfill ruining the environment. If we don’t stop plastic from polluting our earth,  the world might just be a big pile of plastic floating in space. You know that plastic is a problem and we can do something about it here at school.

In conclusion, I think we should not use plastic bags as bin liners at school because we don't need them, it would save money, and it's good for the environment. I hope that you will make some changes at this school to help the environment.

Yours sincerely,

Amelia

The Plastic Mountain

In room five we did some writing about picture of a plastic mountain. We had to include sights, sounds, feelings and sensations. Here is my writing.

                The Plastic Mountain
As I walk through what feels like a plastic rubbish dump I feel and hear the different coloured plastic bottles crinkling underneath my muddy feet. The  disgusting smell of garbage goes rushing up my nose.
 I pick up a green plastic bottle filled with  soggy mud. Mum  sorts out all the plastic bottles and puts them in giant woven baskets. Behind me there is a gigantic muddy pile of plastic bottles and bags. Dad and my brother are sorting out the clear plastic bottles.

 I am feeling sad for all the marine life that this horrid plastic is killing.  I turn around I see more plastic spilling from the bridge above us. I am wondering what will happen to all this plastic. Will it go into the ocean and ruin the fishes and the homes of other marine life?

 

Sid

In room 5 we decided to do some writing about Sid the cat because we are learning to describe, use present tense, linking words and group our writing in paragraphs. Here is my writing.

Sid

Who is Sid? Sid is the curious black and white cat that comes to school. We named him after the book Six Dinner Sid because he demands food from the teachers and we think he has another home.

Sid has patches of short strands of black and  white fur and he has a smudge of black shaped like Africa on his triangular nose. He has a long skinny  black tail and short soft silky fur with swampy green eyes and  white pointy whiskers.

Sid rubs against my legs in the bus line and eats his food that Mrs Whitmore consistently puts in his small food bowl.

Sid likes to be cuddled by students of the school. He purrs as I scratch him under the chin and above his ear. He jumps up onto the milk bins and he tries to get into the classrooms.

                              That is sneaky Sid.

Another Time, Another Place

in class we looked at a picture of some people on a cart with a castle in the distance from the mysteries of Harris Burdick, Another Place, Another Time. We had to make up a story about what happened and we had to include a problem.Here is my writing.

Another Place, Another Time

It was a misty and cloudy morning of an autumn day with a drizzle of rain, and the smell of fresh grass covered the landscape. 

Tom, James, Tim and Amy were riding along a railroad on  a rocky foundation in the sea on their small cart that was controlled by sails. The cart went clickity clack, clickity clack as it rode along the railroad. 

Tim, Tom, Amy and James were looking forward to going for a visit to the Queen’s magnificent castle in the hills across the sea. But when the the wind started to drop they start going slower and slower until they eventually stopped. It was getting dark and cold,  but Amy their mother had luckily come with warm blankets and some food.

They decided to sleep out in the open, so they walked to a clearing at the side of the track. Then James the father of the boys lit a fire and they settled down to eat.

The next morning it was windy so they hopped back onto the cart, and the cart flew towards the Queen’s castle as the sail bent back in the wind.

When they finally arrived at the Queen’s castle,  the Queen gave them some delicious  coffee and steaming  hot chocolate.

After they had warmed up they went to  join the party. They had a terrific time.

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