Term 2, Week 3, Creative Writing

This is my writing for this week and what I tried basing it off…


The splash, splash of the waves knitted another tight knot in Mirabelle’s stomach. She still wasn’t used to the rocking of the boat even though the miserable girl had been travelling in it for eight weeks. She stood, bent over the rail of the balcony. Her long skirts flew around her, getting in the road. The salty wind blew her hair into her mouth and eyes just as Mirabelle’s lunch came out of her throat. 

“Oh, I hate this,” she whispered under her breath. 

“Are you feeling better, darling?” A voice called from inside the cabin behind Mirabelle. 

“Yes Mother!” Mirabelle called, making her voice sound cheerful. 

Her throat still burned and her stomach had once again begun making her tummy roll around inside. Mirrable looked up and gasped. Forgetting her sickness she called her mother. Out in the distance they could see the first smidge of land that anyone had seen for eight weeks. They were almost there.

“Land ahoy!” Came a yell from way above them. “We will be at our destination in roughly two days.”

“Oh, Mother,” was all Mirabelle could say. She had heard wonderful stories of this place they were about to explore. Caves that had little lights in them which people call glow worms. Mountains, forests, rivers and lakes covered the land. Houses stood in hills and connies, nothing stood straight in the open except nature. Birds sang all the time everywhere and beaches were simply beautiful. 

It sounded wonderful to Mirrabelle and her Mother who was used to the stinky air, clouds of smoke and rubbish everywhere. No one could believe they were almost in paradise.

The Scanadon

Today Miss Pinkerton made us create an animal/creature for the slideshow we have been learning about. We have been learning about triangles & circles. This is what I made and what shapes I used…

The Scanadon

Head: 1x Regular Octagon
Body: 1x Regular Rectangle + 1x Isosceles Triangle + 1x Right Angle Triangle
Tail: 1x Irregular Square
Legs: 1x Regular rectangle + 2x Irregular Hexagon
Ears: 2x Parallelogram

What animal do you think my creature looks like?

Term 2 – Week One – Creative Writing

This week my goal has been to use a theasurus to come up with interesting vocabulary…

My breath came in rugged gasps. I looked around the rubble and debris searching for something, anything that wasn’t black and gruesome and terrifying. A faint glow of hope bubbled within me when I saw a light or was it a shimmer? I couldn’t tell, but it wasn’t ruinous, so I scrambled over wreckage trying to reach the light. My legs, scratched and bleeding, only just managed to carry me over the sharp bricks, stones and slabs. A stone throw away, the light I had been following revealed itself as a lantern, although its flame was ready to die. It was hanging from a cliff high above my head. I looked around for a stick or something I could reach the flare with but it was impossible to find anything but stone. In despair I crouched down with my knees pulled up tight under my chin and let the salty tears fall freely down my face. At that moment the flame died and I was all alone in the pitch black. I gave up. Until I heard the whisper that changed my life.

What is your favourite topic to read?

Thanks for reading my writing!

Week 9 Writing

I hope you like my story…

This is the picture I based it off.

The bark crumbled off the twisted tree, like crumbs breaking off a biscuit. Its bowery branches sent a long shadow as the sun began to sink. Tussocks of golden coloured grass rustled gently in the wind as if a hushed conversation was passing along the prairie. A rustic chain, hung deadly, from its weather-worn posts. Clouds flew in the sky, like birds flying just above the ground. 

Alice in Westland!!!!!!!!

Hello,

For the past 5 weeks our class has been getting ready for a production called Alice in Westland. Instead of the movie Alice in Wonderland we changed the name to Alice in Westland. This was because of us living on the west coast (I think). Some of the things that have been changed in the script are falling down a mineshaft instead of a rabbit hole. Instead of there being a rabbit, there’s 2 possums. There is also a gumboot parade/competion and lot’s of class dance’s/songs.

 

We had to audition for the parts we wanted in the play, then once we were told our parts we had to learn our lines over the holidays. The character I am acting is the Queen of Hearts. She is dramatic and short tempered, and I really enjoy acting her. Meia is Alice, the person who the story follows. Indi is one of the possums, the one who wants to do good, and Finnian is the naughty possum. Tara and Peyton are narrators, the people who tell the story. There’s other characters as well like Alice’s sister, the Mad Hatter, judges and the Tweedles.

 

We got our costumes last week and we did a whole school run through yesterday. We are going to show everyone at the regent theater on the 4th of Decamber. I can’t wait!

Have you been in a production before?

Have you watched the movie, Alice in Wonderland?

This is what we are basing it off…

Touch in the rain

Hello,

Yesterday, the 30th of October I went to touch. Touch is like rugby, except instead of tackling you just touch the person who’s got the rugby ball. I was in a team with Tara, Max, Ollie, Brandon and Tane. We had 2 year 5/6 Kaniere teams, 2 year 3/4 and 1 year 1/2 teams. Our game started at 4, so we had to be there at 3:30 for a quick practice before the game. 

I was very excited! The first team my team vs, beat us by 2, and we tied the next team. The last team we vs was the other year 5/6 Kaniere team. We were all very excited to vs them! It was pouring down when we vs them and it had been raining during the other games. They beat us by 1, but it was still really close. I really enjoyed it! Dad stayed for the games, because he is the coach of the year 3/4 team, so he drove us home. It was so fun playing touch and I can’t wait for the next game on Thursday!

Do you play rugby or touch?

Rat Poisin in Smokes?!

Hello,

This week on Wednesday some of the year 6’s went t0 WHS (Westland Highschool) for a Science Expo. I was in a car with Meia, Tara, Indi and Ann was driving. We left during lunch and got there soon after. We had to walk past a heap of highschoolers who were listening to someone talking and it was really awkward, because they all stared at us. The room where the Expo was, was the highschool hall.

We sat down and the guy called Craig (who was telling us about it all) told us about Christopher Columbus, who founded America and who brought the plant tobaco – which has nicotine in it, to America. People liked the plant so they planted more and more. Next we watched a video and wandered around. They had a camera that showed what you would look like if you smoked or vaped when you took a photo of yourself. They also had a tube that showed you stuff that it had in smokes like rat poisin and stuff that goes in cars. They also had vapes that you could smell. They smelt good when you first smelt it, but after a few seconds it made me feel sick. There was a picture of somebody’s teeth who smoked, and they looked they did not look good.  They had other stuff to like real pig lungs and cabnets they people put there cigarets into. I do NOT want to vape or smoke.       It was really interesting and I enjoyed it.

Do you know any facts about smoking or vaping.

No Food, No Money, No Nothing

Hello,

This week Kereru has been learning about disputes/protests in our reading time. I am in a group with Meia and Tara, and we had to make a slide about our protest that Miss Lang gave us. Our protest was called Waterfront Dispute. I had never heard of it before so it was really interesting reading and researching about it. Here are some facts that I learnt about.

  • After the Dispute many men had trouble finding jobs because they had been involved in the protest.
  • The government sent Navy people to replace the waterfront workers.

Other groups were learning about the Womens Suffrage Petition and Depresion Riots. Today we have to present out slide infront of the class. We are finished our slide but, I think there might be some groups who haven’t finished yet. We are learning about these protest so, when we learn about the Springbok Tour as a whole class. I’m soooooo excited to learn about it!

Here is the slides that all the groups made… (My group made the one that says BY Meia, Tara, Sophie).

What protests do you know about?

Have you been in a protest before?