The Bellbird

At school, Miro and Solly brought a Bellbird to school. We had to describe about it even though it was dead. We had to flip it onto it's sides so we can describe about it. Here is my writing!


The Bellbird
Today Miro and Solly brought a bellbird to school that got caught in a radiator on the front of their parents car and it sadly died. The Maori name for the bellbird is Korimako. 

The whole school got to see the bellbird. We got to feel the soft deep yellow, green feathers and  underneath the feathers were light grey and they also had a charcoal tail and wings. The bellbirds claws were not as sharp as I thought, but they were pointed. The beak of the bellbird is long and curved and the nostrils are at the end of the beak. Bellbird beaks are curved because the bellbirds drink nectar. The length of the bellbird is roughly 17-18 centimetres long.


I was sad to see that the bellbird had died from the radiator. Question: What is the Maori name for a bellbird? Look for the name up the top and comment on my blog post what the name is.

Wasp Nest

In class, Miro and Solly, two of the students from our class, brought a wasp nest to school and we had to write what it looked,felt and what we thought about it. Here is my description of the wasp nest! 


Wasp Nest
Today, Miro brought a wasp nest to class. He got his dad to pour diesel to poison the nest because wasps are pests. He had been picking raspberries, and had spotted it sitting inside a tyre in the back garden.

The wasps have been chewing up wood to make their wasp nest. The outside of the wasp nest has patterns. When we opened the wasps nest up we only saw three columns, but we only opened it up halfway. Only two wasps survived the diesel attack, while the rest died.

When I felt the wasp nest it felt like old shriveled up leaves. The cells in the wasps nest were shaped hexagonal. Surrounding the wasps nest were roots. 
I saw a wasp grub come out of one of the cells.

In conclusion, I really like how they brought the wasp nest to school for everyone to see.

Swimming Sports

In class we had to write what happened in Midland Line swimming sports in present tense and tried not to put past tense. Here is my Swimming sports writing!

Waiting ,waiting, waiting. Oh no, it’s time to swim, although I am a pretty good swimmer. Number 6 is on the board now, “Let’s go Sophie.”

I feel the rough concrete as I walk over to the queue.“ Jess, Autumn, Areah, Leah and Sophie, all here!” yells the lady. I think everyone is here. I’m in lane three and as I hop on the diving place, I feel like I am at the Olympic Games.

Is it one length of freestyle?  “ON YOUR MARKS, BANG!” I have to go. SPLASH! 1 2 3! Breathe 1 2 3! Breathe! Now I’m getting into the rhythm of freestyle. Suddenly, there’s a lot of confusion, everyone is in front. I need to get my arm more into the water and push it back to get faster. The little waves are pushing me from side to side near the red and white lane ropes and I try to go the other way. As I get closer and closer to the end I touch the wall. Yay! I came first! I really feel like I am in the Olympic games now.

My next race is coming up close, number 14, I have to wait eight races for my next race, but at least the races go by quite fast.  I look over to the whiteboard. Is she writing number 14? As I go back to the queue it feels like lining up at my swimming lessons for my instructor to see what strokes I can do. As I look around there is a variety of coloured swimming togs. Hopefully I  will win this race. As I jump up on the edge of the pool all I hear is cheering and clapping. 1 2 3 GO! As I look to the side I see the racers zoom ahead to the end. As I touch the end I turn around to go back to the other end of the pool to finish two lengths of freestyle, all I have to do is to get to the end and touch. I try to push myself to the limit. As  the level of the water gets deeper and deeper I touch the end. All I can hear is people cheering. Second is fine, at least there is still a heap of races to go through to the end. I wonder if anyone thinks our school pool is big or not?

As the lady bangs the light pieces of wood, there are splashes of water everywhere. This is race number... oh it’s Olivia’s race! “ GO Olivia GO”.  She gets her rhythm of her freestyle and she comes first place. Now my race number is on the whiteboard. I need to get ready for my race and it’s underwater swim. As I get up from my seat I squeeze past everyone to get in line. As I get up onto the diving position all I hear is shouting from metres away. Bang! As my fingertips hit the water I know I am going to lose the race. After halfway through the pool I feel like I can’t get to the end, but with only just centimetres away my breath starts to run out and as I touch the end all I hear is cheering. I start to get a headache from holding my breath for a long time. What? I am at the end and I’ve won! This is the first time I actually got to the end and it was so fun. It’s time to get dressed, but at least I had a good time swimming.

About Me

Mrs Idle shared us a slideshow and she picked us an individual slide to work on for our about me. We had to put all our favourite things we do. Then once we were finished we took a screenshot and then we had to put it on our blog. Here is mine!

Summer Poem

In class we have been learning to do a Poem. We had to write a poem about our summer. We had to start with "Remember that time" and at the second to last sentence we had to put "remember how". Here is my Summer Poem!

Summer
Remember that time

When you went to the beach

And saw the waves hit the rocks and splash everywhere

And you smelt the ocean’s salt water

And as you looked over the sea
you saw the sun’s reflection in the calm water?

Remember how you tasted the KFC
that you ate on the beach
after licking the ice cream first
(because it would’ve melted in the sun).

That was summer.

Remember that time

When you did gymnastics on the warm lawn

And you smelt the soft silky grass

As you did a back walkover?

Remember how you were gazing
at the glistening sun

and listening to wind whistling

while sitting in the sand pit

pushing your tired feet through the warm relaxing sand?

That was summer.

Remember that time

When you sat on the motorbike going down the farm

And when you went to the paddock,
the calves would chase you down the fence line?

Remember how one time your mum sped

over the bump round the corner

on the motorbike

in the hot sun

and you nearly fell off

That was summer.

How to be a Successful Learner

In Room 5 we had to make a slide of how to be a successful learner. Here are some ideas of how to be successful with learning. Here is my slide!