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Stand Up is the name of the book my class and I recently read. Stand Up is about Politics and elections.
The task we had to do for this book was make a billboard, so that is what I have decided to share with you today. For our billboard we could choose any election or walk that had been manchined in the book. I chose to do my billboard about the Waterfront dispute, that happened in 1951!
Here’s my Billboard
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We’ve recently read a story called Bright Find Gold. This story was about when many prospectors (people who find gold) headed to Gabrels Gally and other places to search for gold. We learnt about places they went and some of who went. I really enjoyed this story and maybe you will to…
If you would like to read it here’s a photo of the school journal it’s in
Breaking news task
This week for reading my class has been reading a book called Red Ball. This Story is about 2 sisters who are extremely different. Ida the oldest of the 2 is quiet, shy and sometimes clumsy. However May, the younger one is quite the opposite. May was loud, silly and very active. But May and Ida did not see eye to eye although they were so close in age they were not close in friendship at all.
I would talk about this more but that isn’t what I’m posting about. The task we had to do for this book was a wanted poster or a missing poster and that is what I am sharing. I did my wanted poster on Canva and it was based on the green eyed fairy. The green eyed fairy was the bad one in the story, she tricked Ida into saying a fairy spell. The spell was to allow her to take May away to her land. Which if you ask me was very clever but not kind at all. Thanks to Canva for helping me with this design!
This is my wanted poster!
Here is a link for canva Canva
If you would like to read the book for a better idea of it here’s the link Red Ball
Last Week we read Little Red Riding Hood. We got the task of rewriting the tale but doing somebody else’s perspective. I chose to do the Granny’s perspective. I have also made a word search. Let me know what words you found in the comments! Also include ones that weren’t even on the list if you find any.
Little old Granny and the very hungry wolf!
Once upon a time, there lived a little old granny. One day her beloved daughter called her,
“Morning Mum, Little Red Riding Hood was very eager to visit you today. I have given her a basket of goodies so she is good to go. She will set off in half an hour,” Lilly told her in a shaky voice. “I am looking forward to it. Remember to remind Little Red Riding Hood to stay on the path and to talk to nobody. There is a wolf hanging around here and I would hate for anything to happen to her.” Granny replied. Lilly heeded her mothers advice and told Little Red Riding Hood exactly that.
Later that morning Granny waited patiently for her favourite (and only) granddaughter. She sat in her leather bucket chair while reading the story ‘Where the Heart Sits.’
Knock, knock, knock. “It’s me, Granny,” a familiar voice said from the wooden cottage door. Unable to get up from feeling so sick she says “Come in my dear.” The door opens but it wasn’t Little Red Riding Hood who came through that door. It was a wolf, and oh how hungry he looked, Granny thought he would take one big chomp and I would be gone, but instead he said “Do you have food you could spare, I haven’t had food in weeks and I am starving,” he says, his tummy growling. This was very unexpected “Sure, there’s biscuits in the green and pink tin, the fruit is in the bowl on the bench and there’s cooked meat in the fridge,” Granny tells him.
A few hours later Little Red Riding Hood arrives. The door starts to open, “Hi Granny, it’s … Oh my gosh, Granny. I knew you were sick but I thought you would at least know whether there’s a Wolf in you kitchen!” Little Red Riding Hood exclaims.
“Hello Dear, there’s no need to worry, this poor wolf just came in because he was hungry. I showed him where all the food was and the poor things still hungry,” Responded Granny. “Help yourself to cookies, you know where they are.” Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t believe what she was hearing. This made no sense. Why was the wolf not eating them and why was there still so much meat in the fridge? She had to investigate. “So Wolf, do you want some chicken? it’s crumbed and delicious.” Wolf looked at her and then frowned, “I would have loved some,” He says. “But unfortunately I’m vegetarian. Thanks for the offer though!” Everything started to make sense, of course he was hungry. Most wolves kill their prey for food. However this one does not. No wonder they were still alive.
3 years later Granny got a new neighbour, his name is Wolf. Not only did she get a new neighbour, she also got a hot new boyfriend. Wolf got a new home and a flash new girlfriend. Granny’s in charge of food and shopping and Wolf is in charge of cooking it. Little Red Riding Hood loves Wolf now even though they do have some differences. In other words, they all lived happily ever after.
Yo Bloggies,
Today I decided I am a genius. I thought of the perfect way to help my teacher encourage my class to read more books. You are probably wondering what my spectacular, utterly awesome idea Is. well here it is – PukaPuka Paraire. I know it sounds a little weird now, but here me out. PukaPuka Paraire would be every Friday. PukaPuka means books in English and Paraire means Friday in English. So in a way it would be perfect! I’d say my class is… meh at reading pukapuka. The average amount of people in our class that read would be about 3 quarters to half (BTW – we have 29 pupils in our class).
I love reading recently I did the book battle. That’s where you go to Levin Intermediate (it doesn’t have to be there, that’s just what school hall we used) and answer questions about books. The people running the Book battle choose the books you read. The ones we read this year were about NZ history it was great fun.
Back to my fabulous idea, I think it worked. Most Fridays we now go to our school library and look at books and also issue them. I can’t wait to go back. Feel free to tell your teacher about this idea.
What’s your favourite pukapuka to read?
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P.S. Keep an eye out for my blog post next week. It will be something to do with books as next week it based on books!
Hey there blog readers,
Last term and the first few weeks of this term my pod has been reading a book called Wonder. Wonder is a book about a boy named August who has a weird looking face, but don’t judge somebody by the way they look because you may miss out on finding how nice and caring that person is. If you want to read Wonder here’s the link – WONDER
My favourite characters in Wonder are Via (August’s older sister), Jack and summer (2 of August’s friends). My Favourite task I did this week was my graduation speech, but my least favourite task was making Summer’s creative writing medal.
Try out one of the tasks from this week’s wonder assignments…
Ni Hao Blog Readers
In Reading at the moment we have been doing tasks based on the book Wonder. Wonder is a book about a boy called August that has a weird face, but you shouldn’t judge a person because of the way they look, if you do then you may be missing out on hanging out with a really nice, caring person. August may look really odd but trust me, when you read the book you will know that he’s a nice person. August has 5 friends but only 3 of them are super close to him (Summer, Jack and Christofer), the other 2 aren’t as close as they used to be. August also has a sister called Via, who is really nice. August get’s a lot more attention from his parents because of his face and Via doesn’t make a big deal about like tons of other people would. Would you make a big deal if you got less attention than your sibling?
My favourite character in Wonder is Summer, She doesn’t care what people think of her when she hangs out with August. She got offered to be in the cool kid group and she turned it down because she knew that would mean not hanging out with August anymore.
The task I will be talking about is my Assignment 3, write a time in your life when you had to be brave and something good came out of it. I enjoyed this task because it was a true experience. This task was based in 2019 and done in 2024. My favourite thing about doing this activity was getting to share an adventure from my life.
This is what I wrote…
Comment a scary time in your life that you want to share!!!
(If you want to read Wonder, here’s the link)
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