Thursday, June 30, 2016

Hansel and Gretel

We are learning to retell a story but in our own words otherwise that will be stealing there ideas. Next time I think I would add some more paragraphs to split it up into bits so the reader can read it peace piece by piece . Something that changed me was completing all my feed back and reaching my goals
to strive to keep my learning to it's personal best. I am proud of the vocabulary I have used. Something else that challenged me was punting my full stops in the right places and using my punctuation so the reader can take breaths while reading.               

Here is my writing 


Hansel
and Gretel


Long long ago on a tiny lost island there was a little cottage with mushrooms surrounding it and native flowers outside the door with a forest next door. A pair of twins lived in the cottage with there nice kind hearted  father the twins names were Hansel and Gretel. Sadly they had a evil stepmother with a large wart on the end of her nose her nose was also a  bundle of hair that looked like a bird nest. A pin going frew her hair to curl it around. There father was a woodcutter he tried to sell wood so he called get money because there family was very poor they only had little to eat all day hansel and gretel got bossed around by their dreadful mother they HAD to do jobs all day as for the mother as you can guess just sat around watching THEM do all the work well she ate all the food they had. One day they only had one speak of bread left  so the the next night when the children went to bed the mother grabbed the father by the shirt and for the first time she QUIETLY told the father “tomorrow we get a picnic set up and take our children for a walk in the haunted  spoke forest next door.

                               
Because we only have little of food left then we will leave them there
And sneak back home without them knowing.” Hansel and where sitting in the doorway of there bedroom Gretel started to sob “well that's the end of us she sobbed Hansel had a clever bran and a great idea he snuck on to the back lawn there in front of him was tons of glistening pebbles he shoved the pebbles in his pockets and ran back inside early in the morning there mother came in and tugged them out of bed well yelling “Get up you lazy eggs we are going on a FUN picnic so get outside with your father ready to walk,”


Well waiting for the mother the father gave his children a big squez. Finally the mother skipped out the door laughing an evil laugh well they were walking on the path they sore holo(hollow) trees looming over their heads. Every step the branches creaked open the forest was a place no child should be left they kept walking until the children fell to the ground because they were so tied they rested by a tree and got given a piece of bread each once they had drifted off to sleep their parents slipped into the bushes and disappeared. When the children awok they found them selfe(themselves) alone in the middle of a deep dark forest  Hansel sprung to his feet and bravely said I have a plane(plan) as they walked down the path he whispered what he had done they happily ran down the path skipping over the pebbles one by one. Once they reached the cottage sneakily they crawled around the back of the cottage and into the their bedroom window. The next morning their mother came into the room wearing a ragged cleaning clock(cloak) straed about to move around the room where she keeps all the spear wood


When she sore(saw) the children she got so frustrated steam puffed out of her ears as she screamed “I THOURT I LEFT YOU ALONE IN THE FOREST TO STARVE TO DEF(DEATH),” The very next morning there mum dragged them by the are outside ready for another walk but deeper into the forest this time clever Hansel didn’t have a enough time to grab pebbles so he used the ones from the day before and well they were walking he picked some up from the other day this time the mother discovered there secret plane(plan) and kicked the pebbles away.


Once again their parents slipped away into the bushes Hansel and Gretel did not notice they had gone awhile after they came upon the most amazing thing they had ever seen. A GINORMOUS GINGERBREAD HOUSE. That had sweets all over it. For flowers it had lollipops and candy canes for the walls there were
piklets and waffles the grass was made with cakes the windows were icing and the roof was smores the entire house was edible strate(straight) away they were munching on the walls the widows and the flowers suddenly they heard an old croaky voice say “How's(who's) munching on my house” and out came a wrinkly old lady she invited them in gave the some tea and ice cream once they had finished they thanked the witch and started to walk out of the cottage but the witch flew past on her magic broomstick and yelled you're not going anywhere she scooped them up and wizzed them back inside she shoved Hansel in a cage and said you're nothing but a pile of skinny bones time to fatten you up and eat you little brats that eats someone's house gets eaten and as for you little mrs pink you're going to do all my chorus.


The witch had very bad eyesight and each day when the she came to see how fat Hansel was getting he was told to stick out his finger so the witch could see how fat he was getting but he was getting pretty fat indeed but when the witch asked him to poked out his finger he poked out a chicken bone from one of his melas the witch finally said I have had enough we're going to have roasted boy for dinner no matter how fat he is she asked Gretal to light the fire ready for the feast as Gretale lit the fire she started to sob.


The witch bent down to see if the fire was settling in as she did Gretel gave her a huge push and slammed the door to the oven now they were having roasted witch for dinner she found the key to the cage on the bench          
And rushed over to her brother she fiddled around trying to undo it then eventually managed before they left they ate her house and robbed all her gold and they ran in the forest all week finding the right path home they chose wisely wich path they took finally they arrived home they saw their father sitting on the stairs into there house they ran up to him and gave him a big hug the dad happily said your back I got rid of that cruel mum of yours and now we can shear the little of food we have. Hansel and Gretel grinned at each other and chucked the money and gold into the air they moved into a bigger house and have lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives.           


                                                 


                    

Matariki Week

 MATARIKI
                                                         

We are learning about Matariki. Matariki is a time for family, fun and happiness.
What Matariki means is the seven sisters the seven sisters are seven stars that only come out at
this time of year. Together all the stars in the sky are called a constellation.
The sisters are easy to spot just before dawn. Matariki is the celebration of the Maori new year. There are seven stars there names are Uru-a-rangi,   Tupu-a-nuku,   Mataiki,   Tupu-a-rangi , Waipuna-a-rangi,  Waia and  Waita. The youngest is Uru-a-rangi. Maori sailors use the stars to direct them the right way.

For Matariki week a group of kids from our hub painted a  mural. I got to paint the mural I designed for Matariki. One of the learning muscle I used was my planing muscle to plan the way my composition looked. The mural had to have something in it that represented Parkvale school. In my design there is the seven stars in the sky  tmata-peak(Te Mata) with the giant lying on top then there are 5 trees for the 5 house Kea  green Pukeko red Hoiho yellow Tui blake Takake blue. Next there is s waka with lots of children on it and a river with kuros in it.   

   This is my plan  

Thursday, June 2, 2016

HOW TO FIND A GEOCACHE

HOW TO FIND A GEOCACHE


Are you bored and have to play outside with nothing to do? Well I know exactly what to do find your first geocache it’s fun and easy!
Equipment
  • Phone or gps (A gps is like a phone that tells you coordinates.
  • Maybe some trads for swapping toys (trads are toys)
  • maybe you might chose to have a bag with lots of spare equipment like a pair of tweezers, or if you have found over 100 then you might want to have some spare geocaches in case you find a good hiding place.
1.  Go to your app store and writ in geocaching and there will be an geocaching app or you can type geocaching
on your device and there will be lots of apps click the top one there will be a video you can watch and under that there is a box called geocaching premium write everything in there it tells you to.        


2. Click your phone and a map should appear on your screen and you can click on one of the dot's and follow the compass and set off to go find your first geocache.
3. Steps to find your first geocache
Find where it says hint that will give you a clue to where the geocache is some times it will say look at tittel.(a shorter word for geocache is cache) they can be any shapes and sizes some might be in a tree branch or a piece of bark sometimes you can find one that's bigger than you. A rule about caching is if you take a toy from a cache you have to swop one. If you're hiding one you're not allowed to bury them because we don’t want people
going digging holes everywhere! Cachs can even be a fake post or screw. Cachs can take you to amazing places you have never been before like exciting bush walks or an outstanding parks it can take you on magnificent holiday some cachs have fun things that you
need to dig your hands through. Most cachs tell you in the description how big it is. So stop dozing and start caching.       


Map of geocaches on the Geocaching iPhone appthis is similar picture what your phone will look like

with the map on it.  







We are learning to write a story about something that were good at that we can shear (share) with others mine is how to find a geocache. Give it a go! I put lots of detale(detail) into it so more people can start caching. Next time 
I think I'm going to start more sentences with verbs because I found this tricky.