Roadrunner

Road Runner

The Roadrunner is a speedy little bird that tries getting away from a hungry wolf.

The hungry wolf does everything he can to catch the Roadrunner. She is blue, red and yellow and her eyes are big and bulgie.

The Roadrunner is a cool little bird.

Mystery person

Mystery person

This person has black hair and shiny brown eyes. His cheeks only shine a little bit pale red.

He likes doing sports and riding bikes. He likes playing video games, just like me. This person is ten years old and has lots of friends. I am one of his best friends.

I enjoy being Kaloni’s best friend.

The Big Dig

The big dig

1. In 2004  a storm led to lots of landslides and they closed the roads for 75 days.

2. But this latest slip was something else and work started straight away.

3. Diggers were used to dump rocks in big trucks but as they worked more rock and earth slid down.

4. The road couldn’t be reopened until the hillside was hard enough.

5. The team cut down trees and bushes to reach the top of the slip.

6. It was time to bring in the bandit. The bandit is a grunty bulldozer whose scoop had been replaced with a winch and heavy duty cables. Heavy diggers were then lowered down the very slippery slip while the bandit held them in place with its mighty cables.

7. A 20 tonne digger  scooped up great scoops of rock and earth.

8. The Manawatu gorge road was reopened to all  traffic in September.

Brendon McCullum

Me

ME

My name is William and I am 4th out of 6 children. I have rosey red cheeks and hazel eyes. My hair is an auburn colour. I am 10 years old and I’m more than 1 metre tall. My family has lots of animals. We have 12 smoochy cats, 4 chirpy birds, 1 speedy dog and 2 fat fish. I live at a nice warm house full of light. My two sisters and me go to the adventurous Otama School, where we have lots of friends. I like competing against others in athletics and sports. My favourite sport would be rugby because it is a great sport for running and ball skills.
I enjoy just being me.

sparks

For this reading activity I had write out the title, main characters, setting, the problem, the complications and how the story ended.

Title: Sparks

Main Characters: Mum, Dad, Dillon and Harley

Setting: The driveway, street, house and the park

Situation: Dillon got a new scooter for his birthday

Problem: Dillon wasn't willing to give Harley a turn which led the parents to fight if he should let him or not.

Complications: Dividing the family and not working together.

How the story ends: The family comes together as one and Harley thinks Dillons better without the scooter.

beautiful nature

The water bubbles. Also it waves across the whole place. Beautiful vines hang from the ceiling of the rocks. Leaves hang off the big bulgy rocks which have a white waterfall running roughly down the middle of them. The sun lights up the place so it makes it look just wonderful.

Not So Normal

NOT SO NORMAL

I stomped on his spacecraft, there was a lot of noise. It crushed into millions of tiny pieces, but Normal came out and said, “how dare you, why did you do this to my spacecraft?”. I ran for my life. Normal was chasing me as I was screaming to dad, Normal zapped me, I fell to my knees. I kicked his jelly looking  body and I ran to dad and told him everything that happened and he said, 
“ Where is he? I will get him and melt him so he can't hurt anyone”. I showed him where I last saw him, but he was gone. Then I said to dad
“Look he's up in the sky flying home”. But how? I wondered. Well at least he can't hurt anyone. I will not miss him. Hopefully he won't come back.

TE HOKOWHITU-A-TU

TE HOKOWHITU-A-TU

On the 4th of August war was declared. The government decided to send eight thousand men to fight.The main group of soldiers were called the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

While soldiers were meant to be twenty, boys that were younger enlisted for the Maori contingent.

They got into the army because some Maori didn't have birth certificates. The maori soldiers joined the army to help. Then everyone knew them as TE HOKOWHITU-A-TU. Then in 1915 the men were sent to Gallipoli. At first the maori soldiers were kept busy by digging trenches and building. The Maori came to fight so they  finally got a fight. Too many Maori had been killed at Gallipoli. Around the middle of 1917 the pioneer battalion was reorganised. The Otago men were replaced with around 470 soldiers. The battalion became known as the New Zealand Maori Pioneer Battalion. During the war 366 Maori were killed and more than seven hundred were wounded. They had seen their friends get killed and injured. Then at the end of the war the people of belgium put up a Memorial on Anzac day 1925.

William goes swimming

William goes swimming

Chatter, chatter, chatter everyone went at the Gore swimming pool on Friday the 24 of April. It was swimming sports. I was waiting for a long time just to do a couple of races which were freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. I saw people splashing and cheering on the exhausted swimmers. It was finally my race. I nervously got into the pool saying to my self "Its going to be ok". I didn't win any races but I was glad it was over. I tasted so much water in my mouth. The bad thing was I had to wait for like 1 and a half hours to go home.
I saw my Nana, jumped into the car and waved good bye.
I had a great time except for the wait.

Athletics

Athletics

I heard my heart pound as I was at the front of the line.
I heard everyone yelling my name.
If I didn't make it then I would be out.
I saw the big black bar in front of me.
I felt like I was going to faint and then,bang!, I hit the hard black bar.
I said, " Ahh, that hurt. I failed. "
I couldn't believe I failed high-jump.
I wonder how I could fail that simple jump.

Lunch time

Lunchtime

Ring ring ring.Its the middle of the day which means its time to eat. "Mmm" my food is delicious, I am just going to see if the teacher will let me go and have fun.
I love lunch time its my favourite time of the day.