Crash

 

I have made an acoustic poem based on the book Crash. I then added a picture of a car crash and the cover of the book.

Letter to the author William Taylor

 Maia Collins                                                                                                                                                  22 Google Ave                                                                                                                                                  Belfeast                                                                                                                                                              Christchurch                                                                                                                                                      N.Z

Dear Mr Taylor,

I have just finished reading your book Crash as part of our group literacy circle. I really enjoyed it and I give it a 5 out of 5 star rating.

I like the way that each chapter flickers by one chapter being about the crash and one being about what life is like at home.

This made me wonder what part of NZ this book is made from. It also made me wonder how long it took you to complete the whole book.

Maybe next time you could describe what the car and the characters looked like. 

What was your message you want people to think or know about reading this book?

Yours sincerely 

Maia Collins

3 Brothers & The Polar Bear Retell

 Once in a cold icy land, where seals hunted fish, polar bears hunted seals and man hunted polar bears. Sometimes it was the other way around and the polar bears hunted the humans. They can hear the ice cracking.

 On this land there also lived three brothers. The first brother called Bob was a super skinny guy with short black hair, long gross black beard, a blue top and some sweatpants.

The second brother called Nick was a chubby guy with long ginger hair, a short ginger beard, a pink top and some black shorts.

The Third and final brother called John was a good size, had short blond hair, a long blonde beard, a Gray top and some oversized pants.

Once they had finished school they decide on a job.

Bob chose to learn about skeletons, bones and how to piece them back together, he is called a bone expert. Nick chose to study about how to conjure blood, flesh and fur. He became a corpse maker.

John chose to study how to bring life back to the dead. He became a life giver. 

Soon when they had finished they were walking back to their ice palace and came across a pile of bones. Bob decided to piece the skeleton together piece by piece. He then discovered it was a polar bear. He went back to where his brothers were standing and said, “it is a polar bear.” Then Nick went out on the ice and gave it flesh by pouring a magical mixture on it. He then yelled, “IT IS JERRY!”

 Then Bob and John came running on the ice. All they could hear was crying, all they could see was Nick hugging a dead polar bear. Bob and John looked at each other and nodded their heads. 

John then walks over to the dead polar bear and told Nick to go back to Bob. He then bought the polar bear back to life. Nick walked up to John still sobbing and said, “thank you.” Bob then gives Nick a leash for Jerry and they walk home together.

When they arrive back in the village they get straight to work they have to make an igloo as big as an elephant for Jerry. Jerry soon settled in.  Jerry had forgotten how to be a pet so training came along.

 This first thing they taught him was how to play games like fetch and catch. They then taught him some things fun like dancing and talking and singing. Once he was fully tamed and very friendly they took him into the village. Everyone was screaming as loud as thunder and running as fast as cheetahs. 

They then went home and went to sleep in their nice big igloo house. They then lived happily ever after. The end

Long Division Questions

For Maths we are learning long division. We had to complete 15 and then make 5 by yourself. Do you know how to do long division? Let me know what answers you got and I will reply the correct answers.

Have fun answering and always love MATHS!

 

Literacy Circle Week 4

 At school I am reading the book Crash. It is about a down syndrome boy called Poddy. The book flicks through chapters, what I mean by that is it starts at a scene of the crash and then is a scene about home and keeps changing.

About the crash, in the crash scenes Poddy, his older brother Jack and his dad are going to a sports event or something like that. Then they hit a cow and go sliding down a hill. Jack is semiconscious and his father is completely unconscious. Poddy then goes to find help and make friends with some cows. Help finally arrives in chapter 13 but Poddy does not want to leave his family and the people trying to help do not fully understand Poddy.

About at home, at home Poddy wants to be like his brother Jack but Jack does not want to turn 50 and have Poddy 49 years old still in his shadow. They do fight a lot and then Jack talks to his mum about his girlfriend and how they want to have a kid but do not want it to be like Poddy with down syndrome. Jacks girlfriends name is Jacqui.

Have you ever read the story Crash if so let me know what you think of it and give me feedback on how to improve and what I did well in this blog post please.

Literacy Circle week 3

For reading at the moment we are doing something called a literacy circle. A literacy circle is were we get assigned a job and we have to complete it as well as read up to a certain chapter The jobs you can be are: Passage Picker (My one this week), Summariser, Word Master, Discussion Director, Connector, Illustrator. 

This is what I did.

  

Passage 1 

Page - 48/49

Paragraph 4 line 27 / 32

Why did you pick this passage? 

Because it shows how brave Poddy is and he is using things around him to calm himself down.

Passage 2 

Page 53

 Paragraph 1 / 3  line 3 / 21

Why did you pick this passage? 

Because it reminds us that we do not need to smoke and that it is bad for us. It also makes me wonder why we even need to smoke.

Passage 3 

Page 57

Paragraph 1 line 3/8

 Why did you pick this passage? 

Because he is remembering things that Jack and his dad say that may make him happy or sad.

A Blank Canvas

One particularly sunny day I went to the art museum. As I slowly walk into the art museum. I can see nothing but people it was like a pool of people. I walk around the corner to see millions of people I wondered what was going on. As I jump as high as a bird flying in the sky and bend down as low as the dirt deep beneath the solid ground. I soon realise what was going on. 

When I finally get in the art museum I stand in the museum listening to two great artists deciding what their next master piece will be, a parrot, a unicorn, an elephant, a giraffe? As they decide that I wander around the corner. I can smell the fresh paint. I can see artists painting or telling the other people in the art museum about their painting or drawing and why they decided to make it. 

When I finally get back to the 2 artists who were fighting about the art piece who had decided to included it all in one. In the bottom right corner there is a pirate ship with the parrot on the captains shoulder. On the bottom left corner there is a giraffe in a forest poking its head through the trees to look at the elephant which was on in the top left corner jumping in some water puddles. Last but certainly not least a cute little unicorn jumping from cloud to cloud.

I keep walking and see there is a spot that has my name on the bottom. It meant that it was reserved for my artwork. I went with a flower without colour. Instead of colour I used shading. 

Can you finish my story for me?

Let me know of some more ideas to finish my story.

Thank you for reading.