5,7,10 - The Bright Light

Today our task for writing was to chose a picture from this website I chose a picture called "The Bright Light" Click here to see the photo. First we have five minutes of writing after the five minutes we have seven minutes of talking to someone about our writing piece. Then 10 minutes of drafting and more writing. 

The Highwayman-Summary

For my reading group we have been focusing on a poem from the 18th century. This poem is called "The Highwayman" We read this poem individually then worked in partners to write a summary about this poem. Some words in the text was very old some words were new to us. We learnt the meaning of the words that we did not understand.

As the moon shaded the purple moor, the highwayman came riding to the inn-door. His cocked hat was placed on his forehead and the bunch of white lace wrapped around his neck with a red velvet coat, breeches made of deerskin. His boots were thigh high and he rode to the dark inn-yard. The dark inn-yard was closed and barred so their he rode to the landlord's black eyed daughter Bess. She stood plaiting her hair in a dark red love knot. She then took her hair down and the highwayman told Bess his plan for that night. Her long black hair let off a strong perfume scent. The highwayman kissed her hair as he then galloped to the west. Tim the ostler had heard their conversation and had felt jealous of this. He had warned the king and his men about the highwayman’s plan. So king george’s men marched up to the old inn-door and hid by the landlord daughter’s window. Then they had tied her up awaiting the highwayman’s arrival. She tried to wiggle her way out but King George’s men had placed a gun under her breast. They had awaited the highwayman’s arrival and until then Bess still had tried to get out. She found a way and placed her fingers on the rim of the trigger. She had a choice. Live or Die. She had hoped the highwayman would never came for his safety. But… Klip- Klop- Klip- Klop… The noise of the highwayman’s horse came riding to the landlord’s daughter. She had no choice. She loved him so much, she decided to shoot herself to warn her love…. Blood dripped from the landlord’s daughter… Their the highwayman went riding off with his horse far away from the noise. Then when the highwayman heard the news he rode all the way back for revenge. But on his way he got shot down…

    

Community Service

To help the community us school leaders (Tiava, Jeremiah, Mataio, Ofa, Sanujan and I) , Mrs Paige and Jordan (Social Worker) walked from our school, Panmure Bridge School to Pt England. While walking we were picking up rubbish. We went through Dunkirk where we picked up a lot of rubbish. Most of the rubbish that we picked up was recycled rubbish. When we had arrived in Pt England we meet some students from Tamaki primary, Glen Brae and Glen Tyler. We all sat down then we prayed after this we each lined up to get some sausage sizzles. After eating we played some sports. Then we all played some sports after these activity's we walked back to school. I would like to thank our sponsor Lion for giving us the food that was provided. I would also like to thank Mrs Paige and Jordan for supervising me and the fellow leaders.    

ShakeOut!

Today is New Zealand International Shake Out day. Shake Out day is a day where we get to learn about earthquakes and what to do when a earthquake happens. This will help us to be prepared if a earthquake happens. Joshua V and I worked collaboratively to finish off this task. We both learnt a lot about how earthquakes start and what to do when a earthquake happens. We used our smart searching skills to also find out about the big earthquake that happened in Christchurch and Napier.

Duffy Assemble ( Michel Mulipola )

Today we had a Duffy Assemble. The special guest was Michel Mulipola he comic illiterates. Which means he draws animation characters for school journals and comic books. Michel loved reading because of reading comic books. He's favorite superhero was Green Lantern because he was different from the other superheros. Michel is also a semi-professional gamer. He was so lucky that he got asked from WWE to illustrate a comic book for them. Michel likes wrestling he trained professionally he started wrestling 12 years ago. This made him close to famous people around the world.

Why do People Build Bridges?

In writing my groups task was write a explanation on why people build bridges. I have used some information from Inquiry as our topic is bridges. If we wanted bonus points we would add a sentence with a colon or semi colon and added a sentence with a sense verb. I had only put in a semi colon. I found it hard to add a sense verb into one of my sentences. I learnt how to use a semi colon and a sense verb. But I also learnt some interesting facts like the first car was built in 1885.  

Vector Wero Park

Today was exciting and fun because 29 students from my class including me was so lucky that we got to go to Vector Wero Park. Vector Wero Park is a water park that has river and water courses for rafting. When we first got there we all went into a theater where we watched a video about the legend of Maui then we watched a safety video this made me more confident to get started. After this we got changed into our togs then we all put on our wet suits, jackets, life jackets, helmets and water boots. We each checked our gear with the instructors then we got our paddles. We were ask to get into groups of five, four our six. In my group was Mele, Nyjah, Joel, Viva and our instructor (Joe).