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Scary Girl by Karl

Today I saw a girl. This monster had red hair that looked like a pile of rusty junk, so was she a killer robot? No.

She has skin  that has turned white with fury, is she a zombie? No.

Her mouth is unnaturally wide so is she a mutant bullfrog? No.

She is wearing funny clothes , red tights, pointy black shoes, a polka-dot skirt and a blue stripy jumper, is she a mad scientist? No

Well her pointy frustrated eyebrows don’t meet in the middle so she’s not a werewolf.

Her eyes are blue not red so she’s not a supernatural freak. So she must be worst of all ‘a girl.’

The Big Bully by Jessica

Today I saw a person bullying a girl she had wide black scary eyes, a small stubby nose, a wide open mouth, she looks scary from her head to her toes. She is wearing black pointy shoes on her feet, she is the one everyone fears.

She has a spotty yellow skirt, a stripy blue jumper and long red tights let’s hope she doesn’t pick more fights. She has two boiling red cheeks and rusty red hair, I hope she’ll soon play fair.

The Furious Monster by Isobel

Today I saw a furious monster. She had wild red hair sprouting out in every direction. Her eyes were big blue and bulging. Her cheeks were as red as fire. She had little round yellow earrings. Her head was as round as a potato. Her mouth was wide open.

She had a blue striped jumper and a yellow spotted skirt. Her tights were as red as a fire engine. Her arms were bent and her hands were stubby. Her legs were crocked and her knees were knobbly. Her shoes were as black as midnight.

Each day we will follow the progress of our team and record the highlights as comments on this post.

Keep checking the comments to see how well Australia is going. 

Check out this interactive world map that changes as  each country wins a medal. It is amazing. You can find out how many medals Australia won at each of the games it participated in since 1896. 

Chenaya’s letter

Dear Sir

I strongly believe we should plant more trees around our community and I will now explain to you the reasons why I feel like this.

Firstly, trees are very important because they take in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. This is very important because if we didn’t have carbon dioxide and oxygen we wouldn’t be able to breathe at all.

Trees also stop erosion and provide food, shelter and great hiding places for animals and insects. They also provide us with paper, wood, school products, furniture and firewood.

Trees are also very attractive and you can go exploring and play many games in them. You can go exploring and make interesting toys out of wood from trees.

Please make people plant more trees around our environment so we can breathe, not have much pollution and save the world.

Yours sincerely

Chenaya

Jay’s letter

Dear sir,

Firstly trees provide us with oxygen. Trees reduce pollution along highways and roads. They take in carbon doioxcide and put out oxygen. If we don’t have oxygenwe could die from the lack of it.

Secondly by cutting down trees we are making more pollution and less clean air. If this pollution keeps increasing then the whole world will become hotter causing the ice to melt and making a global flood.

Thirdly they provide shade and and homes for animals. Its like someone cutting down your house. Where will all the animals find more trees if there are no trees.

Lastly they provide us with fun. Children love to climb and build tree houses in them or make them into tree forts.

The council is cutting down more trees than necessary. We should only cut down the minimum of trees.

So I strongly beleive that we should stop cutting down trees and start planting them.

Your sincerely

Jay

Wakakiri and dance Ensoumble peformed to entertain everyone. The band played songs too. The library had a bookstall and was selling books for kids. The SRC was also selling the Gymea Lily ( the school newspaper ).

Everybody had a great time at Grandparents day, but everything was a little crowded!

Have a look at this powerpoint made by a teacher in Christchurch so her primary school students could get a clear understanding of what makes a good speech. See if it helps you. Click on the link below and then select run. Once the powerpoint isup and running you can use the mouse to move from slide to slide, information will enter on each click. You can read all the examples if you like but there is no need to do the little writing task as this will be done in class.

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Timetable for presentation of prepared speeches will be up soon.

The prepared speech for Stage 2 will need to be 3 minutes.

The prepared speech for Stage 3 will need to be 4 minutes.