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Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

I am Daivd

This a picture of David looking for  the bundle

Friday, August 9, 2013

Amelia's Baby Brother


Amelia’s little baby brother was born. Amelia’ family came and the neighbours came to and they brang gift’s for Amelia’s little baby brother. After awhile they all went then it was only Amelia and her mum and the baby. The baby started to cry so Amelia went to cheer the baby up so it could not cry. Amelia said “it might be hungry” but her mum said that he had already eaten. The baby cried and Amelia said to her mum “it might need a new nappy”. Amelia’s mum went to change his nappy and after changing the baby’s nappy it started to again. They thought he needed a sleep and he stopped and he went to sleep. Amelia and her mum had a cup of tea and a biscuit and Amelia said to her mum “it’s a hard work to look after a baby”.

Friday, August 2, 2013

The Rainbow Bird

Once upon a time there was birds living in a forest and they were jealous of the flowers and the butterflies because they had no colours. When the Rainbow comes up thats when the birds wished they could be colourful. Then the Rainbow started to go away it wasn’t colourful, it was dark. Then a phoenix came and said to the birds that Roaches came to. Eating the rainbow and the phoenix said to the bird that he needs help to kill the roaches after that. The birds came to help the phoenix kill the roaches. They won and were so pleased that they flew through the rainbow and it changed the colours of their feathers.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

A Letter to Granny

This story is about a girl who had a friend that was a dragon. His name was crackles he ate pirates. On Wednesday and on Thursday he ate Burglary and on Friday he ate pancakes.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The Longest Story

The Longest Story - Junior Journal 20



1. Put in the punctuation into the sentences from the story.


a) “Stop!” yelled the people. “No more! No more!”. ✔
b) The young man was very happy, so was Abena. ✔
c) Her father said, “Many young men want to marry her”.✔


2. What does these types of punctuation mean
Speech marks - Speech marks mean someone is talking in a story. ✔
Full stop -  placed at the end of sentences
Capital letter -  Capital letter means like a start of a sentence and a name. ✔


3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.


a) Where is the story set? In Africa ✔
b) Why did they have a contest? To see who wants to marry the daughter✔
c) What was the story about the young man was trying tell? The man was telling them about a bird who went to get worms for their chicks. ✔
d) How did the people react to the young man’s story? The people react well and they listened to the young man's story.  x(The people reacted by telling the man to stop and letting him marry the girl because his story was so long).

Monday, June 24, 2013

No Lunch


No Lunch - Junior Journal 22


1. Find the meanings of these words from the story.

rumble - A loud lowing thundering noise. ✔
pikelet - A pikelet is a mini pancake.✔
lever - is a bar that you use to lift and object by placing one end under.✔
daydream - Daydream is like you are dreaming of something ✔
suddenly - Quickly and unexpectedly.


3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.

a) Why was Addison worrying while he was at school? Addison was worrying about his lunch because his mum forgot to do his lunch.

b) What did Addison forget at exercise time? Addison forgot his skipping rope back in his desk.

c) How did Addison trip over in the playground? He saw his dad on his motorbike then his skipping rope tripped him over.

d) What does it mean in the story ‘You’re daydreaming Addison”? It mean like you are thinking of something else.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Holes

This story is about a boy called Stanley. He lived with his Mum and Dad. He got into trouble so he went to the police and then the police told Stanley off and said he had to go to Camp Green Lake. He hopped out of the bus then and went to his cabin. He has to dig lots of holes.

I like story because it was really fun and exciting.

Hooker's sea lions


In the Auckland Island’s there are only a few thousand Sea Lions left.
The mother Sea Lion gives birth to their pup’s in mid December. When pup’s are hungry the mother Sea Lion teaches them  how to find food. When pup’s get older they leave their mothers.

Did you know that when some of the Sea Lions when they are pups get killed by sharks and whales, so the mothers need to get their pups to the beach as quickly as they can.


Tuesday, March 5, 2013

A speech for Sina

A Speech for Sina by Kim Meredith

This story is about a girl called sina who has to write a speech for school . She was very worried about it so her Dad offered to help her because he had to write a speech too. The mother cooked Chop Suey and the family ate it all together. It was so delicious Sina decided to write her speech about “Mum’s Chop Suey.” 

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Children of Nepal

people in Nepal         people in zealand
most families from    in new zealand
nepal can not go       children go to school
school because
it costs too much.      People in New
                                     Zealand get their
Most families in          food from the

Nepal grow their         Market.
food from the
ground. 
 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Lego story


started a long time ago back in 1932
and the father was a man called Oli. He had a son called Godfrey. Oli had a plan to make toys with wood.
One night and the garage got burned and Oli had an idea to go and sell the toys to the shops and after that they had heaps of food for christmas.
Oli passed away and Godfrey had to take over the business and started making plastic toys.  

Friday, September 21, 2012

River Rafting Fun

1. From the picture on page 2 what do you think the boys were thinking about going rafting? what the boys were thinking about was happy, fun thoughts ✔

2. Why were they going rafting?on the river for fun and then to a picnic ✔

3. On page 7 why do you think Tim turned his face so that Jeff could see it? he might be sacred x he knew what was going to happen.

4. Explain how you would feel if you saw a troll under the swing bridge. I would run away ✔

5. Using tux paint illustrate your own troll.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Story of hope from the bible 2

Exodus 16:4-5- The Manna and the Quails
The hope was that he never will leave them hungry.

Psalm 78:23-29 - God and his people
The hope is that God will not leave his people hungry.

Daniel 6:1-26 - Daniel in the pit of lions
The hope is that  God will forgive us.

Friday, June 29, 2012

Pigeon: Impossible


          Pigeon: Impossible
Plot: There once was a man named Walter he was walking  and then he saw  a bench and he sat down on the bench to eat his donut.  A pigeon came and he saw the donut and he wanted it.  Walter gave the pigeon a little piece of the donut but the pigeon wanted the whole donut.  The pigeon fell into Walter’s suitcase and then it closed and the pigeon started pressing all the buttons.  Walter used the donut to get the pigeon out of the suitcase.  Walter threw the donut up into the air but it fell down onto the button that let off the bomb.  Walter used the suitcase to fly up to the bomb to stop it.  The pigeon got the donut but a piece of the rocket fell down on him.

Problem: the dount fell onto the button

Solution:Walter used the suitcase to stop the rocket with the missile inside the suitcase.
the buttons inside the suitcase.

Illustration of a character doing something from the story:

Friday, June 1, 2012

Tom and the Dragon

Once a upon time there was a boy called Tom. One day Tom said “Can I go down to the pier to play?” His mum said “yes but do not play chess with the dragon because he is too good to play chess” and then Tom said “yes”.

When he got to the cave he saw a dragon. The dragon said “you want to play chess?” and Tom said “yes” and they became friends forever.