White Water Rafting

Splash! My raft is now in the water. “Here comes some rapids!” Our helper Bones said. “Forward paddle” he said. Heaps of water flew at my face. Finally it was over. I was glad I didn't fall of. “Stop!” Bones yelled. We could here the Chinchillas yelling “one two , one two.”Then we saw a group stop. We tried to compute why they stopped. So we stopped.One of the instructors called Dion got a group to river cross. He said “Biggest person at the front smallest at the back.”Then it was our turn.I was at the back because I was the smallest. “Forward” Bones said. He kept on repeating it until he said “back”. After that, we got back in the raft and started rafting. Then we saw a group crash into Carnage Corner. “Forward paddle!” Bones yelled. We were heading straight into Carnage Corner. “Hold on!” Bones shouted. I griped on as fast as I could. BANG! I was flung in the air. A couple of hours later we saw a team stop for lunch. The instructor of that team said “ For lunch we are having sandwiches and water melon.” After lunch we saw a waterfall. “Wow,” everyone in my group said. “Here comes some rapids” bones bellowed. “I’m going to make more fun,” Bones exclaimed “left forward right back!”. That made us start to spin. “Woooooooh!” everyone shouted. “Hey look its a whirlpool,”Bones said. “weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,” That was fun I said to myself. A couple of minutes later we were in this pond thingy. We saw other groups doing some wheelys. Then after that we stopped our journey.

Ryan Taylor

Here is my homework on Ryan Taylor.

Ending for The Great White Man-Eating Shark

 Today we have been making our own ending for Margaret Mahy's The Great White Man-Eating Shark. Here is mine.
  “Help shark, shark!” Mrs Scorpio yelled.
Then under water the rare sticky grey ink squid came and squirted grey sticky ink all over Norvin.
“Yuck!” he said as the ink went all over him.
Above the water Mr Leo passed Mrs Scorpio a frying pan and Mrs Scorpio banged Norvin in the head.

Back at Mrs Scorpio’s bakery Mr Leo asked Mrs Scorpio if she had any new pie flavours.
“Yes!” She replied “It’s called shark pie!”.

The end.

In memory of Margaret Mahy 1936-2012.

Letter to Vicky Jones

Dear Vicky Jones,

I love your story! My favourite parts are the two scary chapters and they are The Boy In The Mirror and The Dream because I like scary things.

Are you going to make a sequel? Can you please come to Parkvale School, Howard street, Hastings, New Zealand?

My favourite character is Chantal because she loves music and I love music. Do you play any instruments, I play violin?

Yours sincerely Kharn, Year 5 Parkvale School, Hastings.

Term 2 Reflection

Reading

My favourite in Reading has been storybird writing.

Something I have learnt is to use the question dice.
My next step is to think of harder questions.

Writing

This is my favourite writing is my Power World writing.

I am proud of my summer writing.

I have learnt persuasive writing.

• emotive writing.
• make nouns do a action

My next step is to write funnier stories.

I like my blog because you can do lots of stuff on it.
This is my favourite post 5 things my teacher needs to know about me because I egt to talk about myself.

I like commenting on blogs because you can start a conversation.
This is my favourite comment is on Stefan's blog.

Maths

My favourite maths is Maths with Miss Hill.

I am proud of helping people with their division.

I have learnt about decimals

• Area, perimiter and volume
• ratio.

Something I find challenging is remembering all the easy questions.

My next step is to finish my garden.

Art
This is my favourite art for our jungle mural.

Topic
Something I have liked in our topic learning is making a board game for rubbish.

P.E. / Fitness
What I like about this is having fun.
I like playing these games:

• Corner ball
• Soccer

I learn and develop the skills of dodging, passing and running by playing these games.
Fitness helps me keep fit.
My favourite game is Blob

Something I was pleased with in the interview that I got to share stuff with my mum.

The Butterfly Effect

On 6/6/2012 my reading group read the butterfly effect.

Then we had to roll the question dice, these are my questions and answers.

Q. What will Anderson do?
A. Turn into a butterfly.

Q. What should the children do to get Miss Anderson away?
A. Trick her into thinking that the parents are coming back early.

Q. When would Henry and Emily tell Miss Anderson that they don’t like her?
A. Never.

Q. How would Miss Anderson get out?
A. By cracking the cocoon.

Q. Where would Miss Anderson grow her wings?
A. Her back.

Noun List

Noun List

Electricity-being used all the time and zapping people

Girls - bossy all the time and getting very annoying

  Earth- slowly spinning trying to make us dizzy          

Nature- slowly growing, waiting and waiting

Wind- rustling all the trees around making leaves fall          

Humans-chattering away, all noisy

Netbooks- very technical things to set up

Pen- clicking away writing

Art- very colourful and beautiful

Book- waiting to be read, thinking hurry up, read me

Shoes- stomping as people walk

Bird- fluttering in the trees making their nest

Food-waiting to be eaten before they rot

Clouds- all fill with water and slowly moving

Friends-helping me along the way

Fish-trying to kiss me while swimming

Sand-towering up making sand castles

Whiteboards- Standing there, all messy

By Kharn Andersen 9 years