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Fireworks

Boom! Pow! Colourful fireworks exploding in the night sky,

Curly, whirling, straight and short,

Fireworks shooting high like a star in the midnight sky,

People screaming with joy in their eyes,

Children jumping up and down with excitement waiting for the firework to blow,

Sparkles sizzling down the stick then disappearing slowly,

          Flabbergasting colours for everyone to enjoy,

   Booming and crackling sounds coming from above,

Bright lights in different unexplainable shapes and sizes,

Pets being terrified by banging sounds,

Guy Fawkes is indeed a night of beautiful and colourful magic whizzing by!!!

By Katie - 2016



My Reflection
WALT: use 5 language features in our firework poem.
I was able to use , onomatopoeia, punctuation and interesting words.
Next time I will use similes and other language features

Holiday Postcard

My Reflection

This week for writing I had to write a postcard to Mrs P about my holiday.

This is mine I hope u enjoy.

Letter to Mrs Plowright

Wednesday 27th July 2016

Mrs Plowright

Elm Park Primary School

46 Gossamer Drive

Pakuranga

AUCKLAND

Dear Mrs Plowright

I am writing to you because I think holidays are necessary and that they should stay.  If children and teachers work for most of the year they would get stressed because their brains would be too full of knowledge, don't you agree?

My first opinion is that if you have families in other countries you would never be able to visit them because some countries are too far away for you to travel in just a weekend. Surely if you had family in another country you like to visit them, am I right?

Secondly, I think we need holidays too let our tiny brains have a rest from learning. If they didn't students might get really stressed because they have missed out on a longer holiday.

Last but not least, I think we should have holidays because if you were going away for a while you wouldn't be able to stay long.  If it was far away you would want to stay for a few days but as soon as you got there you would have to to pack up and go back home.

I hope I have persuaded you to keep the 2 weeks holidays going for our school!!!!

Yours faithfully

My Reflection

WALT: Write a letter to persuade Mrs Plowright to keep school holidays

I found it difficult fo think if three ideas to write for the reasons of why we should keep school holidays.

I found it easy to think of some persuasive words to add to my letter.

Hawaii #2

100 Word Challenge

“We´re nearly there!” screamed Qing Qing. I couldn’t hear her because I was distracted by the beautiful view from the plane window. I felt a slight rattle as we landed softly. We were all so excited, we stood up and started jumping wildly. “Yay!” we all screamed excitedly. The doors opened slowly, everyone bounced off the plane.

After walking a while we decided to have lunch. A foot long subway would full our tummies followed by a M&M cookie for dessert. “Crunch!” I heard the cookie getting eaten quickly by Schapelle. At last our journey came to an end!

The End

100 Word Challenge #2

100 Word Challenge

It was a stormy night and I was sitting in my favourite chair in the lounge with a hot cup of coco. I heard the thunder roar every second and saw the flashes of lighting every minute.

I decided to get ready for bed because tomorrow I was going to the olympic swimming competition. I got into bed, turned off my lamp and fell fast asleep.

Next morning I woke up at the crack of dawn, and got ready for the race. I got there just in time the whistle blew and  EVERYONE DISAPPEARED. The race was officially ruined...

The End

100 Word Challenge #1

100 Word Challenge

It all started with me searching for a seat because my legs were moaning, saying they were tired after a long day of walking.  Finally found a bench, but someone was sitting on it reading.

(30 minutes later) OMG! The man was still sitting there.

Hang on... I saw someone else on it, he was bronze and looked really fake,he wore a top hat and looked very smart. I was guessing someone made a statue and put it there.

I was over waiting, my moaning legs were now screaming at me. I decided it was time to go home!

The End!

Autumn Poem

My Reflection

Walt : use a range of language features like personification and onomatopoeia to enhance my writing.

I was able to use personification in my writing.  I chose some animals or objects related to autumn and then I gave the human qualities.

Next time  I will try to think of more ideas instead of doing leaves in most sentences.  I will also try to include personification in other writing not just poems.

Letter To Mrs Borcher

Dear  Mrs Borcher

I have been fitting in to room 19 really well.  We have learnt so many amazing things.

First , we wrote All About Me poems. We had to write words that describe  ourselves so the poem is just about us for example a clever ( fantasy ) reader.  Then we had to add pictures that relate to the poem.  I really enjoyed doing these because I have learnt more about the people in my class.

We also did maths.  We were learning how to read numbers up to one million. We had to read numbers like 135 701 I can  read them really well now.  I’m glad we did this because now I know how to read numbers up to one million.

For art we are making zentangle animals. We have to draw an animal then do lots of different patterns to make it look unique.   I love art .

I hope  you enjoyed learning about my class.

Thanks

Katie

My Reflection

We have been learning to write letters about what

we have been learning in room 19.

I was able to use words that described what we were writing about.

Next time I will use more describing words so that the people i'm writing to understand what I was learning more.

Three little woves

My reflection
I was learning about narratives.
I had to write my own story.
I found it easy to think of the characters.
I found it tricky to think of the problems
My next step is to learn more about narratives.

Term 4 Week 5

Four day weekend!!!

On Thursday I woke up really early crying because my ear was so so so sore and when I say it was so so so sore I mean it. I kept crying and sitting up in my bed. It was about 5.45 in the morning when I went in to my Mum and Dads bedroom. I woke up my Mum and she said "what is wrong" I said "my ear is really saw". So she went on to the Botany Junction Medical website and booked me in to a doctors appointment for my ear. My dad was dropping off Shannon to school so Mum, Macy and I could go to the doctors together for me.   We had to get some ear drops we have to put them in three times a day so my ear gets better.  Then we went to my grandmas house. We put my first lot of ear drops in when we got there. I had to lie on my side for five minutes then I had to put some cotton wool in my ear to hold in the drops and so they didn't fun out. My mum had to go to her work so Macy and me had to stay at my grandmas house until she had finished. When we went home I lay on my bed and nearly fell asleep. And then  we had to go pick up my sister from school. There was a lot of traffic so it took a while to get home. I lay down again with the cat in my room as soon as we got home. Eventually it was dinner time but I can't remember what we had. 


The next day my mum let me have another day of school so I got more resting time but it wasn't  a resting day. Macy was at kindergarten so it was just my Mum , Grandma and me. We all went shopping and I bought a makeup set. It has eye liner, 4 lipsticks, 20 eye-shadow  and 5 blusher it is so cool.
We had lunch at holly wood but I actually only got a little bottle of Fanta. Then it was just the normal weekend but I sort of forgot what I did then as well!!!

Fractured Fairy tale writing

My Reflection
I was learning to fracture a fairy tale.
I found it easy to think of how to change my fairy tale I had thought of.
I found it tricky to think of a fairy tale to change.

Narrative

My reflection

We were learning how to structure narrative writing.

I found it easy to find the characters, problem and solution.

I found it tricky to put the story back in order.

My next step is to learn more about structuring a narrative

Term 4 Week 4

Rugby World Cup

Ok first things first WE WON THE RUGBY WORLD CUP.
I was so happy I think every new Zealander was.
I especially was. One of the tries was awesome when the man kicked the ball, it bounced of the grass and he caught it just in time to make the try.

The game went on for eighty minutes the points were 34-17.
We won by 17 points that is quite a lot. I was at Emma's house when I was watching it we sat on the couch together with a blanket because it was cold  we were so tired because we couldn't fall asleep last night it was to hot.

Then on Sunday at 10.30 we went to church. There is a room were the kids go and play games and color in. We played a game when you have to keep walking and when the person up the front turns around you have to freeze but if the person up the front sees someone move they have to go to the beginning again.When we went back to her house we went to a field and played rugby .I am getting really good at passes and kicks I am starting to like  rugby  and touch more than I used too they are so fun.

Then I had to go home!

Term 4 Week 3

MY WEEKEND

I had an awesome weekend.

First at 12.30 Schapelle came to my house for a sleepover. First we went outside to do some gymnastics but it was still kinda wet so we only stayed out there for a few minutes.So anyway when we came back inside we had some lunch then we played mine craft on our tablets for a little while.

Then it was dinner time we had lasagna my favorite! My mum is the best at making it. We went back in my room and danced to our favorite songs Trap queen,711,watch me whip,what do you mean and last but  not least wildest dreams. We went to my next door neighbors house and played on the trampoline with her.

After that we came back home and had some chocolate ice-cream. We had to have an early night because we were watching the rugby in the morning. I was so excited.When we went to get ready for bed we talked for a little while.We were asleep after a really long time we can never get to sleep when we have had so much fun.

In the morning I woke up and saw my mum sitting of my bed she woke me up at 3.00 for the rugby semi final. We had chocolate mint biscuits they are yum Schapelle and I also had a hot chocolate. It was not that interesting just to admit it was actually quite boring. In the middle of the game Macy my little sister ran in to the lounge. The dogs were still in there cages sleeping and the funny thing is we let the cats in and cuddled them poor dogs LOL!!! But the good part was we WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My whole family and Schapelle  were SOOOOOO happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Sunday I went to Schapelles house for the night but the best day of the weekend was Monday it was laybour day and Schapelles Mum was taking us to JUMP! we had so much fun we did so many flips into the foam pit. We had so much fun I wish it never ended.

My nana

Haiku Poem about spring

I was learning to make a haiku poem.

I had to Go on to a site and brainstorm my haiku then create it.

I thought it was fun because you can make your own poem and you can chose a pretty background.

I chose to share my learning by creating a haiku poem of my choice of season.

I thought it was a bit tricky to think of three sentences about Spring the season I chose.

My next step is to try a different season.

Cross Country

CROSS COUNTRY

On Tuesdays and Thursdays the year four, five and sixes go to cross country. If you don't know what cross country is I will explain it to you. Cross Country is when you run. You run to the finish line unless you are practicing. We all are practicing so far and we have to for a bit longer until it is time for the race.

To practice we have to run from the shade area out of the school down the ally way all the way down a couple of streets and then back to the ally way into school and sit back down in the shade area.

It gets tiring when you do a few laps. I did two laps last Thursday and tomorrow I'm going to try doing three to four laps.

We need to bring our P.E gear every Tuesday and Thursday so it is easier to run and so our school uniform doesn't get all YUCKY AND SWEATY.

I'm excited to do cross country at the time as not being excited because I like running but it makes me feel like me neck is closing up and that i'm going to faint.

I hoped you learnt something about cross country and you liked my recount!!!!!!!

EXPLANATION QUIZ

This is a video of the explanation quiz.

  

I was learning about the features of an explanation . 

I learnt by reading information on a slideshow and then doing a quiz.

I got 8 out of 10 right.

I thought the quiz was easy sometimes and hard the other times because there were some questions that I 

never heard before.

My next step is to use what ive learnt when I write explanations.

Colour Poem

This is my colour poem!

It was easy to think of the order that the colours would go in.

It was tricky to think of what the colours made us think and of a feel.

Next time I will make the draft before i make the colour poem in slides.