Letter to Ken Catran

Dear Ken Catran,

Hi, My name is Joshua. As a class we have finished reading Dead Harry.  I was amazed with all of the great words you used. The book made our class want to read more when we finished the chapter and sometimes it went our way. The story was interesting and it told us about all of the characters feelings.

My favourite character in the book would have to be Harry because he is a ghost and he is very funny. I like how you have him humor. My next favourite character is Sam. My favourite part in the book is when sam is in the hospital bed and the man tries to inject something into Sam and another one is when the fire happens when they are locked in the cupboard.

After we read your book our class got into groups of 4 and 5 and we made trailers for people to read your book. On our class blog we have got a poll on the side to see what dead harry trailer you like. It would be awesome if you could vote.

If you get this letter it would be cool if you could reply.

Yours sincerely, Joshua

P.S the trailer that my group made is group A.

My Dragon

      
Description

The dragon has sharp claws and it was breathing out smoke. He has a scaly body and thin wings. He was sitting on my finger tips with a smirk on his face. He has sly eyes and a curly tail wrapping around my finger.

story

He lands on my finger with a suspicious look. I stare in his eyes and he smiles, I ask him “what have you been up to” He points outside with his pointy tail and my mouth drops. “You have burnt down the city, go to your room!”  He walks into his Kennel. He comes out an hour later. I tell him we are going up town. He turns into a big dragon and I jump on his back.

We arrive at Kmart and I tell him not to get lost. I put his leash on him and then tie the other end to the chair then I walk away. When I come back his leash has little teeth marks in it. I think to myself “Where has he gone” I see a little speck in the sky. There he is, he is performing tricks in the sky. A huge crowd gathers around. They say is it a bird? is it a plane? nope, it’s a dragon.

Here is a dragon I created.

Minecraft Playground

Last week we had a challenge to create a playground on Minecraft.

Here are some screen shots of my playground.

Favourite things in life

Here is a presentation of my favourite things in life.

Geo guessr

Here is a game that gives you a photo and then you need to try and guess the country.

Here is a screen shot of my highest game score.      Here is the link to the site.http://geoguessr.com/

The two wildebeests 2

Here is the sequel of the two wildebeests.                                            Here is the second part.
                                                                             

Whio report

People know that whio is a bird but not much people know that it Is endemic. whio are not birds that you will find in town and in your stream they are rare birds. Find out more facts further on in this report


Have you ever seen that bird on the ten dollar note? Or have you ever heard about it? Well now you will. That bird is a whio or a blue duck. It is endemic to New Zealand, that means that it is native but only can be found in New Zealand. A whio has webbed feet to help it sail down flowing water and also to help them perch on rocks. The whio likes to live in clean and clear flowing rough water. The name blue duck comes from its blue/grey feathers that help it to camouflage against the rocks. They are called whio because that is the sound the male makes. The whio has rubbery scrapers on their bill they are like rubbery lips to help them to scrape larvae and bugs off rocks.

A female whio does not quack, they make a low sounding growl. whio like to stay in the same part of the river for their whole life. The whio will mate and stay together for its whole life, if one of the pair dies the other will find another whio and will stay in the same part of the river. The male and female just about look the same but the male is slightly larger. The blue duck is smaller than the common mallard ducks that you have probably seen. Blue duck is an old species of duck. It has evolved in New Zealand by itself.

Blue duck feeds for the first few hours of the morning and again at night. The female lays her eggs at the beginning of September. She will lay her eggs in a hole in the river bank, caves and under plants. She will lay five to six eggs and will sit on them for a long time. The male protects the egg? He will wait on the river near the nest. The ducklings are born in October, they are white and grey and really fluffy. They have really big feet and they can swim straight away.

If the ducklings are alarmed they will flattern their self down onto the rocks. It helps them camouflage so the predator can't see them. The young chicks can't fly for up to eighty days. Once they leave the protection of their parents they will soon start flying. They will move up and down the river to find a home. The female blue duck is more at risk than the male because at nesting time wild cats, ferrits and stoats can attack them. The blue duck is an endangerd specie. Their numbers are very low compared to what they once were. They have disapeard from most places and there is about 2000 left in New Zealand. Scientists are trying their best to find a way to increase their numbers.

Thank you for reading this report. We need to respect the blue duck/ whio. It is a beautiful bird. I hope you enjoyed.

The two wildebeests

   

                                           
                                   

                                        Here is the second part of my story
                                         

                                   



                                                   Here is my story

      “Come on man, lets cross the river,” said the wildebeest.

“Nah, there’s a crocodile,” said the other wildebeest.

“No, it’s a log,” said the wildebeest.

“See it’s a crocodile, I bet you it will move when I punch it,” said the other wildebeest.

“Nope, it’s a log,” said the wildebeest.

“Listen to me man, it’s a crocodile!” said the other wildebeest.

“No, it’s a floating log,” said the first wildebeest.

“Look, I will poke it with this stick and then it will come and eat you.” said the other wildebeest.

“Haa, haa, I was right, It’s a log,” said the wildebeest.

“Look, I will jump on it and I bet that it is a crocodile,” The other wildebeest jumps.

“Maybe you were right it was a log,” said the other wildebeest.

CHOMP!!!

“You were right, it was a crocodile.” said the alive wildebeest.

“Hey dad,” said the wildebeest.

“Hi son, is that a log?”

To be continued...

Picture book creation

For the last four days the whole of year 5 and 6 have split into different class rooms to do different activities, I chose to create a picture book. We spent the first day drawing our characters, then the second day testing the different backgrounds, pencils and then the paints, on the third day we made our layout and on the forth day we wrote our text.
Thank you Mrs Roil for all of your help.
Here is my page.

Whiteboard pro on the iPad

On Friday after school I was playing around with whiteboard pro. I have upgraded a few photos from camp and from Rippa rugby. Here they are.

Rippa rugby

Report for Rippa rugby

Yesterday Parkvale school entered two Rippa rugby teams, I was in the A team. In our first game we faced Irongate and they were up 2-0 at the end of the first half then we picked our game up and drew four all. After that game we were off and we started to have big wins like 10-0 in tries. It all came down to the semi finals. We faced the Parkvale B team, that was a challenge. At full time we thought it was 3-2 to The A team but one of Sam's tries was dissallowed and that made it two all. We go into golden point so the first team to score wins. I could feel the tension building up and then Daniel makes a break through and scores that means that Parkvale A goes into the finals. We run out onto the field and start to play. Te Mata score a few tries but then the ball gets passed along the line and then to me. I dive over the line and put the ball down. That makes it 2-3. Time flies and Te Mata score a few more tries and then we do, the whistle blows and the finals are over. The score was 5-3.





Reflection for Rippa rugby
∙ Something I was pleased with was that I got lots of rips
...because I saved tries
∙ I really enjoyed learning not to run backwards
...because you can't see what's happening
∙ Something I found hard was keeping up with the fast people in my team
∙ Something that made me think was what way to run
...because there could be a gap that I missed
∙ Something I want to get better at is making sure of the rip.


Here is a photo of me

Camp reflection

Reflection for Camp
My goal for camp was to hold a weta.
... I achieved running up the pipe line.
Something I was pleased with was that I did the rope challenge in the last cave.

…because it was really fun.

I really enjoyed learning that a kiwi makes a clicking noise with its beak.

…because it is angry.

Something I found hard was turning one way in a double kayak.

Something that made me think was some of the questions in the quiz.

…because some of them I never would of heard of.

· My top 5 favourite things about camp were:
Favourite Things. Reason Why
1.Caving. because we got really muddy
2.Kayaking. because I got really wet
3.Pipe line. because it was challenging
4.confidence course. because it was fun and hard
5.rock hopping. because we got to climb up big rocks


This is my favourite photo