Pet portrait

Body/face

This long brown and black nose sniffs everything curiously. Her circle shaped brown eyes investigate all the people. She has a circle around the bottom of her tail. Its tail is short and sticky up. Their breed has short floppy ears that hear everything. On her paws there are 4 on each claws that are transparent. It has sharp teeth that hurt if it bites you. Pitet head alway

Fur

My animal has a jet black face with two sandy brown eyebrows. A matching sandy brown chin sits pointy. Its has Golden streaks running through her fur like sun rays in the sky. Her soft white fur feels like candy floss between my fingers. She has a midnight spot around her short tail and a raven one around her neck. Her tummy is a flamingo colour. Rough peach pads protect the bottom of her feet. A wet nose tickles me like long grass as she sniffs my legs. She has a prickly, slobbery pink tongue.

Noises

When she lock in the cage in the car on the way to a show my pet creates a high pitched whimpering noise. At the show when she see other dog she lets out a Deep, ruff bark wanting to get close to them. As she drinks water she usually gets some up her nose then she does a low pitched sneeze. Also when she gets feed I hear her teeth chewing loudly. While she sleeps softly she squeaks and ear splitting squeak.

Personality

She is a little dog but is really athletic. My pet has always been a really jumpy dog. When were at shows and most of the other time she is really well behaved. Also she licks all the time if you let her. I love her cuddles because she snuggles into you and is warm. Where ever she sleeps most of the time she sleeps with her legs straight up in the air.

The Palomino Pony Wins Through

This week room 4 had to do a novel study. I did mine on the palomino pony wins through. We had to get 80-100. In this presentation is what I’ve completed. Hope you like this!

Nana cathy

This week we did a description about someone. We had to write about their face, hair, skin, voice and personality. It could be a person we look up to or a family member except it couldn’t be someone that lived with us. I did mine on my Nana and some other people did their nana or grandpa. This is mine and I hope you like it.

My Nana is a lovely lady who knits and makes me feel better. Her skin has brown freckles all over it like a cheetah. She has wrinkles on her cheeks and forehead.  She has soft, smooth, thin skin that makes her snuggly and warm to cuddle.

Her hair is spiky when I touch it. It is short and sticks out in lots of directions. It is grey, white and the dark colour that it was in her earlier years, a real mixture of three colours. It’s soft especially when she has just had a shower.

Her bright blue eyes look down at me when she is talking to me. Her little smile makes me feel better when i’m not feeling well. Her little wrinkles move as her smile gets bigger. She has some brown freckles on her 70 year old face.

snow

I am learning to create an image in my mind, with a noun ( frost)  depicting the weather at this time of year in Southland.

I am then learning to write a description for this image,  using strong, appropriate and effective verbs to activate the nouns and one or two similes.

My breath goes out of my mouth clearly like a dragon's breath.

Ball of sparkling white snow are falling covering my head in snow. Cold Camouflaged cats sneak slowly into the house thinking their not being watched.  Hungry chickens looking for any kind of food. Little snowman growing to be big snowman overnight. Big blobs of snow are sliding off the roof of the chicken house. The house roof top is getting smothered with snow like mite on toast.

My breath goes out of my mouth clearly like a dragon's breath.

Hannah

The other day we had to write a prose about someone in our life. We had to use an A.N.V plan. we were learning to activate the nouns and describe their features. If there anything I need to improve tell me. Hope you like it.

Her long, sandy blonde hair is swaying from side to side as she runs along. Hannahs warming smile is always lighting up my day.  Her intelligent brain working away impresses me. She has a great personality that is the  bouncy type. She has pretty blue eyes that are flickering in the sun. Hannahs rosy red cheeks wiggle as she laughs. Her pink lips look nice as she smiles. Her hard head is protecting her brain. Brown eyebrows lie above her eyes. Helpful Hannah is always helping people.

the war horse

Yesterday we had to do a Memoir poem about a character in our novel study story. we had to do three feeling at the end to tell what the thing was feeling. If there is something I need to do better tell me. Hope you like it. 

The farm was fun enough,

It had a strong Zoey  plowing in the field,

damp fields drying, as well as

wooden fences enclosing the horses

Hardworking man directing the horse,

old animals tugging ropes,

drunk dad screaming at the horses to go faster

Exhausted, angry, sad

Doing everything in my power to try my best

War horse

For the Novel Study Room 4 is doing, we had to do a 100 word challenge about the first 3 chapters in a characters perspective. I chose Joey the horse that the book's about.

The year is 1914.  Today I left my mother and reluctantly went with a strange man.  He pulled me and put me into a farm cart. The weathers pleasant and sometimes frosty. My home is a large farm in the country. I live with  Albert, his parents and Zoey another  horse. My name is Joey.  My life at the farm has been hard work called ploughing but I’m fine as long as Zoey is beside me.  One day Albert's  Dad came running screaming “It’s the war”.  One day Albert’s Dad came, took me away, and sold me to the cavalry.

My Holiday

This morning we wrote 5 basic sentences about our holidays. We looked at a range of different connectives that will improve my writing. A connective is a word that joins 2 simple sentences together e.g. such as, nevertheless, in spite of, but etc. Next we spent time improving our 5 basic sentences by using connectives. Does your school use connective?

On Thursday  the second week of the Holidays Mum, Sophie, Rebecca and I went to the movies and watched Spider man Homecoming while we had melted ice-creams, after that we had Domino's Pizza for tea. It was raining while the little white Dog ran away however I had to chase after Him. On Saturday the 22nd Me and Auntie took Sox, her Dog, to the amazing Dog Wash at animates, Also we went a couple of days ago when there was a learning thing. In the cool Holiday we went to Burger King a lot, Also we bought a Vacuum for Nana Cathy because the other one She has is too heavy for Her.  On Sunday the 23rd I was in a awesome dog show with Auntie Paula’s dog Belle, (it was hard) however I still did it also she had bought two other Dogs to show, Cliff and Eva, They were all Fox Terriers.

Danni's Novel Study

The Big Quest

This weeks prompt was ¨now what do I need¨. I was focusing on changing the opening of a sentence and using level 4 punctuation. . ? , ! ... ´ ¨ ¨ ; : ( )

Danielle and Cooper were sprinting to save their parents. Their parents had been stolen by a wicked witch called Gizelda. They were on there way to the witches castle… “Don’t come any closer” screamed their Mum. Faster than a cheetah, the witch flew down on her broomstick. “Now what do I need?” said Gizelda If you want your parents to live get me these things: Merlin´s wand and a tooth from a fire breathing Dragon.” “You can’t!” yelled their Mum. “We have to; bye.” Longing to save their parents they set out on a dangerous journey and never came back...

My Kahoot Quiz

After we learnt about First Aid some of us did a Kahoot and some did a movie as a way to show what we learnt. We got to choose how to share it. I did a Kahoot and down below are the questions about what we learnt when the lady came. I think the class enjoyed my quiz - they said they learnt a lot. I would use Kahoot because it's a fun way to learn.

Here is my Kahoot quiz.

1.What is the number you ring if an accident happens in New Zealand?

1.111

2.911

3.119

4.991

2. What place do you put your hands when you're doing CPR ?

1. Left side.
2. Right side
3. Middle chest
4. Tummy

3. What does DRS ABCD mean?

1. Danger, Response, Seek help 111, Airway, breathing, Circulation, Defib
2. Detect, Responsible,  Speak, Annoy, Breathing, CP, Danger
3. DCA, Respect, Special, Airway, Breathing, CPR, Doctor
4. Distress, resilience, SPCA, anything you want, boring, corgi, dalmatian

4. Finish the sentence: “If it wet and sticky and not yours____________?”

1. You don’t touch it
2. You touch it
3. You clean it
4. You bandage it

5. What do you do when you or your friend has a cut that’s bleeding?

1. Bandage it
2. Play with it
3. Put pressure
4. Watch it

6. How tight does the bandage have to be to have put it on properly?

1. Firm
2. Loose
3. Medium
4. Really tight

7. Do you touch other people’s blood?

1. No
2. Yes
3. Sometimes
4. Never

8. What do you do if the person is breathing but unconscious?

1. `CPR
2. Side position
3. Nothing
4. Ring an ambulance

9. If you call 111 who do you say you need if someone is hurt?

1. Police
2. Ambulance
3. Fire fighters
4. lawyer

10. What do you do if an adult is choking?

1. Smack them on the back
2. Punch them on the back
3. Put them on a chair and smack them with the heel of your palm
4. Hit them on the throat

11. Before you approach the person that’s hurt you check for _____ ?

1. Danger
2. People
3. Dangerous animals
4. The road

12. If someone is breathing but unconscious you put them on their __?

1. Side
2. Back
3. Tummy
4. Other side

13. How many compressions do you have to do before you do 2 breaths?

1. 30
2. 100
3. 40
4. 1

14. What do you do if someone's gets burnt ?

1. Put it under cold water for 20mins
2. Put a plaster on it
3. Just leave it
4. Burn yourself so you know what it feels like

15. How long do you put a burn under water for?

1. 2 minutes
2. 4 hours
3. 20 minutes
4. 2 days

The storm.

This weeks prompt for the 100WC was ....but then the weather changed dramatically... here is my story about it. I was trying to use interesting vocabulary and trying to use a semi colon.


It’s a sunny day. Sophie and Carly, her dog were going to school. Sophie was at the gate of the school but then the weather changed dramatically. In 5mins snow was coming down and fast. In an hour it changed to lightning and thunder. Sophie and Carly were stuck outside in a lightning storm covered in snow. Now they could hardly breath. “Help!” She screamed for the last time. The morning rain had made the snow slushy;  was easy to get out. Sophie and Carly escaped from the snow. Sophie limped with her sore leg to the school; Then suddenly...

Speech Board

Every year we do Speech board. For speech board we do a presentation, recite a poem and part of a book.

This year I did my presentation on the Hummingbird. My book was Magic Kitten (Picture Perfect) by Sue Bentley and my poem was ‘That Was The Easter Holidays’. The person that was assessing the Room 4s was a nice lady called Annette. The person assessing the rest of the school was Miss Spittle, (our principal).

When we got our results I found out I got Highly Commended.

The things that you can get while doing speech board are fail, pass, commended, Highly commenced and Distinction. I don’t think anyone got Fail or Pass. I hope not anyway.

We do Speech board because it helps us learn about the thing we're doing it about. For example I learned that there is more than 325 species of hummingbird just by searching up cool facts about the hummingbird. Also it taught us how to speak in front of a big crowd.

For speech board we had to practise for like 6-7 weeks. We had to practise in front of the class lots and lots of times. In the room with the assessor two other people my age were in there as well. When I was doing my poem I partly forgot my poem but I was fine. My thoughts were it was scary doing it in front of someone I didn’t know and I was nervous.

I think speech board went well but was hard work. I’m not looking forward to next year’s Speech board because I had to work hard and I find that difficult.

The Gigantic Cream Egg

This weeks prompt was about a cream egg. Do you think my Story's good? I was trying to think carefully about using better words. Here is the picture of it.

The gigantic egg fell crash on the concrete. The tiny people ran as fast as they could to safety. The road workers got called and came immediately.  The creamy filling was flooding out really fast! Cones started to come out of the big, black truck. Three of the red and white cones when around the big blob of creamy mixture. It started coming out faster and faster. They put a wall around it and connected it to 8 horse and the horses pulled the wall. The started to pull it away then… Suddenly the egg slid out of the wall.

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