Personification

My scissors snapped at me during art class.

Life cycle of a spider

Life cycle of a spider

1. The egg sac - Different spiders make different kinds of unique egg sacs. The female spider lays the eggs on a silken sheet. She will then cover them with layers of silk to protect them.
2. The female Black and Yellow Garden Spider makes a pear shaped egg sac in the fall of the year near her web.     
3. Spiderling -  The baby spiders or spiderlings hatch within the egg sac and molt at least once before emerging. When the weather is warm, a hole or tear is a made in a egg sac and spiderling disperse by crawling away for each other.  
4. The Wolf Spider mother assists with the hatching of the spiderlings. She tears the egg sac open and the babies quickly crawl onto her back. They will ride on it for about a week or two before they drop off and go on there own way.
5. Molting - Spiders have an outside skeleton called an exoskeleton. In order to grow larger, the spider must molt its exoskeleton. The final molt brings sexual maturity and molting stops.  
6. Molting is a dangerous process for the spider. It is defenceless during this time and can become prey to various predators.
7. Maturity - At maturity, the female Garden Spider is larger than the male. The female spider has a large abdomen in order to store eggs. The smaller abdomen, and often brighter colours than a female.
8. All other spiders species show this size differences.   
9. Courtship/Mating  - The male spider spins a small web, then he will wander in search of a female.
10. The male spider may pluck the spider web to signal his presence or do a courtship dance to attract the females interest.

Alliteration

The lazy leaping lizard like licking luscious lollipops.

Alliteration

The slimy snake slithered swiftly across the road.

Metaphor

A metaphor is a word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description.

Life is like a roller coaster.

Jackson's high jump

The Man Has Springs For Feet

Personification

The car coughed and spluttered when it started in the blizzard

Football Tournament

Yesterday on the 25 June we headed off to West Melton for the Lincoln Zone Hockey Football Tournament.
 The A Team for football was Macaulay, Ethan, George, Emily, Jackson, Jarred and Cameron.
We played lots of hard games but managed to win two. We all worked as a team and had great fun.

Our Tree Hut

As you walk into our tree hut

As I drive down the road, with the trailer behind jumping all over the place from those bumps, I see the opening in the trees that leads to a rickety old bridge that gets you over the creek. Just down from the bridge is a little hut up in the tree still to be finished then you go along to a little rugged track. You keep walking along the track until you come to another little hut that needs to be finished to put a flying fox on it.

If you go along the track a bit more you’ll find another opening in the hedge. Go through the opening and you will see  a tree hut way up in the tree. As you climb up to the hatch you stop, open the hatch and climb in. A whole new world of platforms appear.You shut the hatch behind you. The first platform you see has a bench to work on and a good view across the creek. Then to the side is another platform. It’s falling apart but is under construction to make it bigger.

The last and biggest hut in this tree, has a crumbly old floor that you  look through and see the creek. Out one side is a wall just hanging there. The other side has a look out that you can see far and wide across the farm country. There is a few little places to put drinks in. It also has a crane and a storage department in the roof.

On the ground there is a wharf, garden and path to another tree that will have a big hut in it one day.

To be continued

Amazing alliteration

The sleek slippery snake slid its way through the thick green grass.

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

The snail slithered over the salty sand to reach the sparkling sea  

The Year 6 Night

On June 24, we held a parent evening for the Year 6 parents. We got to choose if we wanted to speak to the parents about how our classroom works and I said I wanted to. We had to write some notes and practice.
When it was the night, we assembled at school and had another short practice. Soon enough, the parents and some students started piling in through the door. Once everyone was seated, we made a good start. The learning section started first. Alice and I explained to the parents about how the learning works. I got to explain Pathways which was great! Alice seemed really confident and she did really well. I felt a bit shaky, but confident at the same time.
The night sped through and at the end, Liz and the teachers spoke. It was a great speaking experience, and I hope to do it again next year.

How to Make a CO2 Fire extinguisher

How to make a CO2 Fire Extinguisher

What you will need: 

1 ice cream container
1 tea light
1 small candle
1 large candle
Vinegar
Baking Soda

What to do:

1.  Place the 2 candles and the tea light in the ice cream container using blue tak.
2.  Pour enough vinegar to make a 1cm deep pool in the ice cream container.
3.  Light the candles.
4.  Sprinkle 1 tsp worth of baking soda into the vinegar and stir.

What should happen:

When the vinegar and baking soda has been stirred the candles should go out after about 5 secs-20 secs.
This is because the baking soda and vinegar are creating CO2 getting rid of the oxygen (fire needs oxygen to burn) and smothering the flame.       

The Basics Of Minecraft

1. To start you need to create your new world. When you appear in the world (spawn) you should be able to find a tree. If not go searching in other places. If you do spawn close to a tree collect the logs by holding left click while while punching at the tree.

2. Turn the wood into planks by placing it into your crafting interface. Wood is the main source of nearly everything in the game. If you can’t find the interface press E and it will open up your inventory. The interface will be on the top right.

3. Make a crafting table by placing 4 planks in the square on your crafting interface.

4. With the crafting table you can make better things. First you should make a sword and a pickaxe because they will be helpful for killing monsters and mining underground. The recipes will be in the link on the bottom of the page.

5. With all the wood you collect try and make a house before night time because there is lots of scary creatures that come out at night. Those creatures are a Zombie, a Skeleton, a Creeper and the most scariest an Enderman.

6. When you are finished making your house make a mine and collect lots of stone and ores or if you are to lazy to make your own mine you will be able to find one on the surface of the earth.

7. If you go deep enough in the ground you are able to find gold or diamonds.

8. Diamonds are the most strongest gem in the game and would be really useful.

9. If you are scared of night time kill 3 sheep and make a bed out of the wool that they drop. When you sleep in the bed for a little bit it skips to morning.

10. As you will find out, your food bar will go down as you run around the world. If you want to fill it back up try killing cows and pigs and they will drop their meat.

11. If you have finished all the steps and want to learn more search it up on www.minecraftwiki.net

Book Review

Popular

by Maya Van Wagenen

Star rating ⅘

Doesn’t every 13 year old girl want to be popular? What does popularity even mean? 

Well that is exactly what Maya Van Wagenen wanted to know. But when her Dad finds a popularity guide from the 1900s she embarks on a really cool and strange adventure.

I really enjoyed Popular because it was written really well. It hooked you in and kept going with interesting words and what Maya was doing. When I found out that it was a true story I was spell bound. 

How can anyone have such good luck? I would like to read more of Maya Van Wagenen's books.

Simile

We have been looking at text features and have been asked to demonstrate what they look like. Mine is a simile.

The Fault in our Stars - John Green

Book: The Fault in our Stars

Author: John Green

Rating: ****
Age: 12+

I really enjoyed this book because you never knew what would happen next. I could never say, “This will happen next,” because something dramatic always happened and that excited me and made me not want to put the book down.

Hazel had lung cancer for about 5 years and is free of any cancer for 18 months. Hazel goes to a cancer support group to help her with cancer depression, when she meets a handsome teenage boy, Augustus Waters.

I have found some humour and some sadness in this book and my favourite parts were the phrases ( encouragements ) they used, to express how they felt at times. For example, "Good friends are hard to find but impossible to forget."

I would recommended this book for 12+ and adults would also enjoy it. I give this book 4 stars out of a 5 star rating because I really enjoyed reading this book and I am now interested in all the rest of John Green's books.

Awakening

Awakening by Natalie King

My star rating 3/5

Mya Plotkin

Awakening is a very slow moving story about a girl called Zelie Taylor. Zelie is a new resident in a small town called Tekapo. She meets a lot of people in this small town but the most interesting ones are a hot boy called Otis, a very strange girl called Kate, and the whole point of the story, a guy called Tamas. 

I personally thought that Awakening was a rather interesting book but with a slow moving middle it got really boring and weird. Natalie King is an interesting author that I think will move on to great things. Every author has a bad book, right. This story is aimed at young adults but I don't know wether they will like it so much.      

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Stars: ****½

Age: 13+

From what I heard the movie was terrible compared to the book - which is always the problem. I read the book in two days which is faster than I did with the other books because it was something that was more my genre type of books and even though it had a few swear words on every seventh page, the book was great!

I had never thought of having different types (bloodlines) of vampires. The moroi  (royal vampires) having guardians (protectors of the Royal vampires), which was the dhampirs (half human, half vampire), was something that I never thought of writing about. All the emotion that goes through this book was sometimes not needed but otherwise you could see what was going to be the outcome of that.

There were a couple of things that I didn’t exactly like about the book.The first thing I didn’t like was that there was some adult themes in the book so I suggest that the book should not be passed around in intermediate and primary schools. Secondary schools and over. The other was that it was all about the royals. Royals this, royals that! I found that it got quite boring with it only one subject around them - I get that they are important but there should be something just on the damphirs but maybe that comes in the next books.  

Overall I thought that book was interesting and would recommend to mainly girls over the age of thirteen because it comes from a girls point of view but the age limit is because of the adult themes in the book (it is a young adults book anyway). I give it five stars. Three stars for the actual story, one star for the characters and another star for the detail. However I am looking forward to reading what comes in the rest of the series.  

By Anja

Moment in time

Moment in time  

On a cold and windy day I was heading out to help feed the lambs at the farm with Nana. I am only three so I’m very excited to be helping.

I walk into the paddock and the frost is clinging to the ends of the grass. The pine trees sway in the background. The lambs have smelt the milk and start to run towards us. I hold on to my bottle tightly as the lambs barge at me. They had been waiting for their warm frothy milk to fill their tummies. I can smell the wet wool and hear their noisy baas.

My lamb pushes hard with her head trying to force the milk faster from the bottle. As she drinks the milk froth comes out of her mouth, falls onto my gumboot and it slides down the sides. The milk slurps as the bottle and feeders runs out. Nana is in background taking photos of me. I watch lambs enjoying their milk. I hope I get to help feed lambs again.

 

That was the best moment of my life!