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Friday, 6 March 2015
Bug-Tastic Friday!
We were lucky enough to have an up-close and personal experience with Ruud Kleinpaste after an awesome assembly presentation-although for me it was almost too up-close as a writhing, wriggling bug landed in my lap.
.Today we had a visit from Ruud Kleinpaste, “The Bug Man”, in assembly. He taught us a lot of things and afterwards, we were chosen to have a special classroom visit that no other classrooms got from him. He brought and showed us a huhu bug, a cricket and a very excited beetle. Plus, his pet, Manti, the praying mantis. My favourite part was when I held the huhu bug. It was my favourite because I’m usually terrified of bugs and although the huhu bug is only very little and wouldn’t hurt me, it took up a lot of courage to hold him. I learnt that sloths are so slow because they eat the toxic leaves of a tree and if they eat more than two they kill themselves. So, basically they only eat a leaf a day which results in a lack of energy. Below are a few of bug-tastic photos from the experience.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Congratulations Connie and Max!
Room 4’s OCEAN ATHLETES
Keely interviewed Max and Connie about their attendance at the recent ‘Ocean Athletes’ event last week:
Q: Where was the competition?
A: Mt. Manganui
Q:What were some of the things you did at the competition?
A: Lots of small competitions e.g. swim, board, Diamond Lady (sort of triathlon, but without the bike and a board race instead), flag race.
Q: What was your favourite competition?
A: Max - Playing in the waves
Connie - Diamond Lady
Q: Which beach do you do your lifesaving on?
A: Max - OBK (Ocean Beach Kiwi)
Connie - Waimarama
Q: What was a highlight for you?
A: Max - Coming 4th in NZ in the tube rescue
Connie - The ocean swim semi-finals. I came 9th.
Describing a setting-Room 4's sensational sentences. (Check out our individual blogs for more.......)
A picture is worth a thousand words....
WALT:Use effective vocabulary to add detail and paint a picture in the mind of the reader:
Trees are swaying from side to side there are brown crumbly leaves on the ends of the branches and the sounds are spooky ( EMMA )
Disgusting smelly rubbish litters the town it looks like a zombie apocalypse just finished. The sky was full of blue you could only just see the petrifying radiation flying through the air looking for its next predator (josh)
The buildings peeling with paint, shadowing the cracked roads.(Chloe)
The dust slowly piles up on the shelves.(christie w)
Cough. Splutter. The dust whips cruelly around you, when you draw in breath it causes the sneezing and coughing to start their performance. (Keely M. Schmidt) :)
Cough. Splutter. The dust whips cruelly around you, when you draw in breath it causes the sneezing and coughing to start their performance. (Keely M. Schmidt) :)
The sandy dust whipped his face as he strolled around the abandoned city, the roads all tor n up and uneven{Toby}
Two restricting, miserable, curtained off bedrooms provide accommodation for bunker's inhabitants. An old, full, shelf hangs haphazardly above the bench. (Joe)
-The old rundown town all broken no one around and it’s all polluted and not breathable at all. [Phelix bargh]
It’s like a desert here. A living furnace full of creepy ghosts that haunt you in the night (Lucy)
Death reeks the barren wasteland of a desert town. (Jack Tait)
The barren land is dotted with wiry, prehistoric plants that used to be green. If there are any trees they’re clothless and threadbare ( Lily)
The tiny bits of painful glass shattered right by the paperplane.[Zahn]
Nothing more to it, forever lost in time. (Suzanna)
The rugged old buildings were crying for help .(Alfie)
(JED) The school was so evacuated not even a dust ball was rolling round the city.
The area was still,soundless and blank it was dead silent with the air so polluted Theo only had his sister and the voice on the tape.[Jack.T.J)
Mammoth beige buildings tower over the town. (kaitlyn)
The rusty school gates creaked in the dry desert wind (Annie)
What used to be a lush long peppermint green meadow now just a cracked, worn out, dry and ghostly cemetery for the way it used to be.[maddie]
The landscape was now a flat piece of land lying on the dry, orange landscape that went on for miles and miles. [Jai West]
Plastic bags, tin foil and plastic are blown through the air suffocating the ground.- Olivia
Its an old rundown town with NOBODY around, anybody that could live here that would totally hate it. (Rylee S)
The misty air filled my lungs with dirty thick air. The buildings were dead not a person in sight and the air is thick and misty… [connie]
As I walked down the old , cracked , dusty road on the way to the worn down school I kept on playing the tape recorder imagining the birds flying , the river flowing , people walking all around. (JAMES)
The musty smell haunted my nose and I could still hear the
raging wind roaming the lost desert outside.(Ella)
The ancient village, abandoned and left to die in the vast desert surrounding it. (Molly)
The deserted streets were grey and the drains had dried up and were littered with rubbish. (max)
Monday, 2 March 2015
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