SLJ, Teaser Week, day 2

1. I am as fast as a cheetah
2. The giraffe is as tall as a building
3. A tadpole is as small as a ant
4. Her dress is as beautiful as the sunset

SLJ, Teaser week day 1

My Memory Book

Salva

A long walk to water By Linda sue park A character I found interesting was a young 11 year old boy called Salva. Salva showed through out the Novel that he was Brave, Determined and a Leader .

Salva is brave because he had to leave his family and his home behind because of the war. Another reason why Salva is brave because he was forced to cross the river with heaps of crocodiles in it. Salva survived but hundreds of other kids didn't. I think that if I was put that in that situation I would probably freak out and get shot.

Salva showed throughout the story that he was very determined. Salva showed that he was determined when he thought that his family was dead but he still kept looking for them. Another reason why Salva is determined is because when he wanted to give up when time's were getting tough, he just kept going. Salva is determined because when he puts his mind into things he doesn't let them go. If I was put in any of these situations, I would probably do what Salva did and just keep going when times were getting tough.

Salva showed that he was a great leader because he lead 1500 to a refugee camp in Kenya so they can be safe . but on their way to Kenya heaps of kids had died from dehydration or they got eaten by lions. Salva is also a leader because when Nya's tribe was building the well, Salva was the leader of the crew building it.

In conclusion I think Salva was brave, determined and a leader. Salva showed these things throughout the story. He was brave when he had to leave his family and his home behind. He was determined when he wanted to give up but he just kept going. And he is a leader because he lead 1500 people to Kenya.


I am writing a essay about Salva from a Long walk to Water.  We have been doing this for the past few weeks.  I have written about three character traits about him. He is brave, detrmined and a leader. We had to write a introduction, 3 paragraphs and a conclusion. 

summer is the best season

If I could get rid of one problem in the world it would be climate change. I want to fix this problem because it is wrecking our earth. All the ice is melting and the polar bears have no home or food to eat. It has polluted our waterways. Sea animals are eating the plastic and dying. If we can’t fix what we have created we have nowhere to live.

I really want to fix climate change because I don’t want to be living with rubbish piles everywhere. I don’t want to be drinking dirty water out of the tap. I don’t want to be swimming in the sea with rubbish all in the water. I don’t want to hear the polar bears have been extinct by having nowhere to live or having no food to eat. I want to live in a healthy clean planet.

Climate change

If I could get rid of one problem in the world it would be climate change. I want to fix this problem because it is wrecking our earth. All the ice is melting and the polar bears have no home or food to eat. It has polluted our waterways. Sea animals are eating the plastic and dying. If we can’t fix what we have created we have nowhere to live.

I really want to fix climate change because I don’t want to be living with rubbish piles everywhere. I don’t want to be drinking dirty water out of the tap. I don’t want to be swimming in the sea with rubbish all in the water. I don’t want to hear the polar bears have been extinct by having nowhere to live or having no food to eat. I want to live in a healthy clean planet.

this week we have been learning how to write paragraphs. I wrote about climate change

1. I think Salva would share because he doesn't want anyone to die but at the same time he wants to keep the water for himself because he wants to stay alive as well.

2. I think Salav's uncle want to fight in the war because he thinks salva is more mature now to defend for himself and he wants to help his people to win the war.

3. When uncle jewiir got murded, Salva had no more protection. So the group wanted him to leave. I think Salva is change there minds by proving them that Salva can find his own food and water.

4. When Salva realised his family was gone he thought of all the good memories he had with them. He thought of playing with his siblings and working with his dad.

Music

What Have we been doing in music? 
We have been learning how to do smelly cat on guitar and keyboard

What have I learn't so far?
I have learnt A major , E major and D Major. I have also learnt some notes on the keyboard.

What am I looking forward to learning?
I am looking forward to learn more about guitar and keyboard. I am also looking forward to finishing smelly cat and performing it.

1.  When Marial got eaten by the lion ,Salva was to scared to sleep. His uncle reassured him that he's got a gun, and he will keep watch all night. Salva got over his fears by trusting his uncle ,and understanding if a lion did come his uncle will shoot it. I haven't experienced a fear.

2. Salva had faced so many challenges ,i'm surprised he's not dead yet. I think the worst one is when the shooting happened at salva's school and all he could do was run. The desert is also a bad one because salva and the tribe has to love long periods of time without food. And because boiling hot in the desert.

3. Uncle Jewiir helped Salva by keeping him assured that he could rest soon. I think without uncle Jewiir Salva would've given up and probably would've died. Uncle jewiir would've helped me life by assuring me everything will be ok.

4. Salva just has to keep going and not giving up. The best sentence that says all of this is when uncle jewiir says " your almst there Salva"

1. The group doesn't want Salva to come along because it's another mouth to feed and he is to young to come with them. I kinda agree with the group because Salva is another mouth to feed. but I also disagree with them because Salva should have a chance to live.

2. Water dictates Nya's by having to wake up every morning and has to walk for ages to get water for her and her family. Something the dictates my life is having good education.

3. Getting honey from the tree, walking for a month with out food and not knowing if he will ever see his family again. I think Salva is doing a good job trying to survive. 

4. Nya is really close to the lake so she doesn't have to walk far. She doesn't have to wake up as early anymore. It is more safe for her now because she doesn't need to walk as far. 

A long walk to water .1

  1. we learn't that Salva's life and culture from the first chapter was that he had 3 brothers and 2 sisters                          and he went to school everyday and he had to learn Arabic . Salvas's life is nothing like mine.                

2. If I was selva circumstance. I feel alone and I wouldn't know were I would be going. I would feel worried that my family would've been killed. And If they are alive where would they be

3. If I was Nya I would feel annoyed that i couldn't go to school. I feel tired and sore. I would feel stressed that if I don't get the right enough water.

4. The tribes are able to tell eachother apart by seeing symbols on their head.                                    

The shed on the lake

Sitting in my little fishing boat, I looked over to my old rusty house. I saw someone's car pull up on my rocky driveway. I wondered who would be at my house at 9:00 in the morning. I paddled back to land and I put the fishing boat back in it’s shed. I walked up the steps to my house and I saw a guy coming out of his car. I didn’t recognise him. I watched him for a little bit. Suddenly, he smashed a window and climbed into my house. I quickly got out my phone to call 111 but there was no cell reception. I quickly had to make a plan b. I ran to my gardening shed and got a spade. I quietly walked into my house, and started to look for the man. Then, I saw the man taking stuff off the shelves. I yelled out to him “ leave my stuff alone!!”. He dropped the stuff that was carrying. But then, he pulled out a gun. I begged him for mercy but he shot anyway. The bullet went right through my shoulder. He quickly grabbed my stuff and ran away. Lying on the ground, I heard his car driving away. I looked at were the bullet had hit me. It had gone all the way through. I walked to my bathroom were I would find the first aid kit. I wrapped a bandage around the were the bullet had hit me. 

This animation is based on my narrative. It was fun but is really boring. I didn't get to finish it so don't judge me.  I will do the voice over when I've finished my animation.

HRM 2019

Hi, my name Is Macy and I'm from Otaki College. I am a year 8 and I'm 12 years old. I like playing sports. I like hanging out with friends & family. I've got a dog and 2 younger siblings.  I enjoy going to the beach. I'm kinda good at surfing. My favourite food is sushi.

Practice Animation

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This is my practice animation. I've learnt that when you press one of your slides and do Ctrl d it duplicates it. making the slide takes a lot of time to do it. I've learn't alt by making the animation.

                                                               Secret  Love
It was the first day of school and I heard  there was a new girl in my class. I was excited to see the who ever this new girl was. I was walking to class and then Spencer came round the corner with his best friend Harvey. He told me about the new girl in our class. He talked about how pretty she was,  and how she was gonna be his girlfriend. When he was about to walk to class he warned me if I touch that girl I'll be dead meat.

I walked into class and there was the new girl. Spencer was right she really is beautiful. She has long brown hair with bright blue eyes. She was the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in my life. Spencer came into the class and put his hands around the girl. She looked at him weirdly and walked to her seat. The teacher came into class and we all sat down in our seats. Mrs Richardson was taking the roll and she said the new girls name, her name was Hannah.

The bell rang for lunch and I decided to talk to Hannah. I walked up to her and said “ Hi my name Toms, nice to meet you”. The girl almost talked to me but Spencer saw us talking. He pushed me away from Hannah and gave me an evil stare and walked away with his arms around her. “ Why can’t he just leave me alone, I just wanted to say hi !”

It’s last period and I saw an opportunity to talk to Hannah again. “Hi Tom, sorry about before”. “ Al good Hannah”. “He’s just a jerk, I don’t even like him”. “Oh you don’t, I thought you did”. “No I never did”. I walked away with a big smile on my face.

The next day I was walking to school, and I saw Hannah and that jerk Spencer on the other side of the road. Spencer put his arm around Hannah but she wants him to do that. She punched him in the face and ran to school crying. I sprinted after her. I got to school I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find her. Then I saw Hannah crying in a corner.  I walked up to her and asked her if she’s alright. “ Why is he such a jerk to me” she said. I sat down and hugged her.

After school I saw Hannah walking out the gate and I didn’t see Spencer anywhere. I ran up to her and said “ Hey….. you know how we’ve become really good friends over the past two days. I was wondering if you would go out with me?”  “Ummmm….. sure” .  “ Great, Friday night at the movies”. I was walking away with a big grin on my face.

It was finally Friday and was so excited to go out with Hannah. I got in the shower and got dressed. I turned up at the movie theatre and I saw Hannah waiting outside for me. I hugged her and we walked into the movie theatre. We got some popcorn and went through the doors to movie. We sat down in our chairs and got ready to watch the movie. We went to see a horror movie because horror's are Hannah's favourite kind of movie . She started to snuggle into me when it got scary. The movie finished and we walked outside to get some fresh air. We walked to an ice-cream parlour and ate some  delicious ice-cream.

We started to walk to Hannah's house but then we saw Spencer and his friend kicking some rubbish bins across the road. He saw me and Hannah hanging out. But while he was crossing the road he couldn’t see the car coming his way. And then he got hit. We quickly called the police
And told them to hurry up. The police came and announced that Spencer was dead.

Spencer’s funeral was on a Saturday. All his family and friends were there . No one had a dry eye in the church that day. It’s been 2 weeks since Spencer’s death, and everyone is still sad about what happened to him that terrible night.

Me and Hannah are still dating and falling more and more in love every time we look at each other. We’re still sad about Spencer's death but it was kinda good he was gone. No one was getting in the way of our relationship.


It’s 30 years later, and now and Hannah and I have got 2 kids now. And we hope to live together forever.

The end

The Island

Shocked, the girl saw and Island in the distance. She was so relieved that she finally found land. Quickly, the girl jumped out of her boat. She laid down on the hot golden sand looking up at the burning hot sun.

That night the girl was laying down in her shelter wondering if she'll ever get home. Suddenly, she heard a noise in the bushes. A young boy suddenly walked out of them. The girl screamed and then the boy screamed! They stopped screaming and stared at each other with curiosity. They sat down and said "Hi, nice to meet you" the young boy said with a smile. The girl as well said "nice to meet you to". The girl offered him to sleep under her shelter for that night. The boy agreed with delight.

The next morning The girl woke up, she looked to her right and the boy was gone! She looked everywhere for him but he was no where to be found. The girl walked up and down the beach wanting to find that boy again. Suddenly,  she found a boat on the beach. She ran up to it and got into it and started paddling.

She finally made it home and all is well, but she was still thinking about that young boy she found that night.

The run away villages

It was mid afternoon in Canada and everyone was getting ready for a big celebration.There were people hanging up decorations and lighting a big bomb fire. But that night things didn’t go as planned. People were dancing around the bomb fire and that was when the wolfs arrived. People quickly jumped to there feet, grabbed their kids and started to run. Desperately, the wolf’s chased after the village people wanting something to eat. The chief ,his wife and the new born baby lead everyone to the canoes. Everyone got into a canoe and started paddling to the other side of the lake were they would be safe. The wolves jumped into the water and quickly swam after the village’s. The chief and his wife lead everyone to safety.

But then. The wolves caught the villages up. The People started to sprint to safety were the wolves can’t go. Luckily they lost the wolves in the dense forest. Everyone stopped in a hurry.  The people were relieved that the  wolves had left them alone. The villages started to build little shelters and will stay there for that night.

The next morning The chief got some strong men and went to hunt for the wolves. The looked everywhere but couldn't find them. Then they heard some howling. They rushed to where the howling was, and they saw the wolves. They got out there spears and killed them. That night they had a big celebration. And the wolves were never seen again.

The end   

Hedgehog needs a hug

Lying down, the hedgehog looked up at the dark rainy sky wishing he could have a friend. Everywhere, the lonely hedgehog looked there was still no one to talk to. That night the sky cleared and stars appeared. The hedgehog couldn’t get to sleep that night, he was hoping one day he could get a friend. The next morning the hedgehog got up and started to look for a new best friend. Eagerly the hedgehog looked for hours to find a new best friend but still he had no luck.

Wishfully, the hedgehog hoped for a new best friend that night and the next morning that wish came true! The hedgehog woke up to a rustling in the bushes and then a second later there was a baby deer looking straight at the hedgehog's face…... 

Science Roadshow

On Tuesday the 25th we went to the Science Roadshow in the school hall. We learnt about space and Chemistry. They talked for a while and then they let us go and do some science activities around the hall. My favourite activity was you had to lie down onto nails. They called us back over and did some chemistry experiments. They got different kind of chemicals and lit them on fire. There was one chemical that exploded and made a bright light. And at the end of the show they mixed chemicals together and made elephant toothpaste. 

Get NZ writing - Write your own story

• We were doing poems and sending them to an Auckland school.
• We had to do a class survey and put some of the ideas onto the class poems.
• we got put into pairs and got given a object.
• we had to describe the object using adjectives and wow words  
• we put our ideas on note.ly and copied the ideas on to a post card. 
• We put 32 post cards together at the end 

                                        

Our class poster

My object

Postcard

                                         

postcards put together

Makey Makey workshop

                 Makey Makey workshop

We went to the Makey Makey workshop  on Thursday 28th of February. Makey Makey is making music with vegetables, the vegetable we used were carrots. First we got a kit with wires and a Makey Makey keyboard. we pulled out the different coloured wires and started putting them into random places. we put wires into the Makey Makey keyboard and put the other end of wires into the carrots. We had another plug that we put in the Makey Makey keyboard and the Chromebook. We started to tap on the carrots and it made some music.

Next activity we had to do was to go on scratch and record our voices saying what we had made. you could anything you wanted to make. And the materials were, tin foil and card board. We decided to make a present with a bow on top. afterwards we had to get the Makey Makey kit out and put wires on the present we made. We couldn't figure out how to do it. after a while we had to go on the stage to present what we had done. It was our turn to go up and we achieved  nothing, the only thing we did was record our voices and make a object.

The thing I learned out of the experience was to work together and how to figure out how things work. 

My poems

Kitchen:
I love the smell of freshly baked muffins.
It feels nice to play with cookie dough.
I can hear the timer going off, the cookies are golden.
I can see the cake rising in the oven.
I can taste the chocolate in the muffins.

beach:
I can smell the salty sea water.
I taste the salty sea water when I come out of the water.
I hear the waves crashing onto the beach.
I see seagulls circling for some fish n chips.
I can feel the grainy sand on the bottom of my feet.

room:
I love the feeling of my soft pink rug on my feet.
I taste the stash of my lollies in my draw.
I smell the flavour grape fruit burst in my room.
I can hear you tube playing on my computer.
I can see my reflection in the mirror.

A place that is precious to you:
I feel the hot concrete on my feet, when I touch the Australian land.
I taste the melting ice-block.
I smell the burning fire in the hills.
I hear the birds chirping in the tree's.
I see the kangaroo's jumping in the countryside.