My Haiku Poem

Sally And The Blood-Sucking Witch

One day, one lovely day on mars, Sally the alien was out for a walk. She was walking until she came to the pet store. You see, Sally always wanted a pet, but she never had one or had known how fun it was to have one. But she went in anyway. All that was in the pet store was a moon rock, a red one. It did nothing for a while. Sally got bored and when she was just going to leave, she heard a noise. She turned back. The moon rock was bouncing. Up and down up and down. Sally really wanted to buy it. She reached into her pocket and grabbed three dollars. Moon rocks didn't cost that much money on mars. So once Sally payed she went home to go tell her parents.'' NO! You didn't even ask us. It's a big responsibility.'' Growled her dad. '' Anyone can look after a rock.'' Sally stomped to her room. She took the moon rock with her. When she slammed the door and locked it, the moon rock started to bounce again. Then it disappeared in a puff of smoke. '' So much for a pet.'' said Sally. Just then, a witch was standing right in front of her.'' HE! HE! HE! Your mine now!'' Screeched the witch. '' Your that m-m-moon r-rock-k.'' Sally said scared. '' Yup I can do some pretty good magic. Now come with me!'' '' Ahhhhhhhhhh!!! Mum mum! Dad dad!'' screamed Sally. Her parents went to see what was wrong but it was to late. The little alien was in a sack hanging off the edge of the witch's broom stick. ''Go away!'' Said Sally's Dad. '' I'll go away, with this ugly alien.'' The witch opened the window and flew out, Sally was going to planet earth. It was so cold up in the sky. It was so cold, that Sally turned BLUE. Finally they were in the witch's castle. The witch opened the sack and threw it on the ground.'' Consider yourself a little rude,'' Said Sally. '' and anyway what do you want from me.'' Sally said bravely. '' I want a SLAVE.'' Said the witch. '' By the way my name is Olka. Olka Big-teeth'' '' Who is your slave I don't see a slave.'' Sally asked. '' I'm laughing right a her. Ha.'' Olka said, annoyed. She opened her mouth. Sally saw big teeth hang down. She now knew why Olka sir-name was big teeth.'' Y-y-your a vamp-p-pire.'' '' Yup.'' said Olka '' I'll be your slave,'' said Sally quikly. '' just don't hurt me or, go back to Mars and hurt my parents.'' '' Ok ,here is list of things I need you to do.'' Olka was holding a huge long list, a MEGER long list. Sally began to say: '' How am I soposed to do all of...'' '' Shhhhh! You still want your live, than do it ALL!!!'' scremed Olka '' Okay.'''said Sally. So Sally did her work like scrubbing and brushing and cleaning Olka's room, she also made friends with the birds and one morning, the birds had a plan, a plan to get Sally out of the castle. The birds told Sally that they could fly out the window and go around the other side of the castle, through the window that had a room with the key in it, and come back and give the key to Sally. '' Brilliant!!! Now I can go and see my Mum & Dad again. But I will miss you guys, you are my best friends.'' Sally said sadly. '' Don't worry. We will come and visit.'' '' Okay then, lets get on with the plan.'' Said Sally. So the birds flew out and did what they said they would do. About ten seconds latter she heard a scream, a scream from a witch. But then she noticed that it was only the t.v. The All Blacks lost their game. Then she heard a jingle noise, a jingle noise of a key. '' THE BIRDS!!! '' Screamed Sally.

Fantail came swooping down with the keys and the birds. '' Thank you so much.'' Said Sally as she hugged Fantail. '' We also got the broom stick too. Your going to need it.'' Then Sally was on her way.

Cassidy's Pegasus 2!

Cassidy's Pegasus.

Learning about Adverbs

Today Mrs Pram taught us about adverbs. We can use an adverb to change a verb, adjective or another adverb and it gives us more information about the way something is done or happens.

This was a yummy lesson because we all got given donuts to eat! First we had to tell Mrs Pram some different things we could do with the donuts like nibble, eat, chomp etc. Then we had to tell some adverbs that would explain the way we did these things like nibble politely or chomp loudly.

Check out some of the adverbs we use in this video:

Cassidy's Drama Show!

Every Tuesday I go to Corbans art center for drama lessons. We do stuff like acting, miming and stuff like but one day, my teachers Hannah and Wendy, had some very good news.'' On Sunday we are having the first rehearsal for the show in October.''
All of my friends were so excited about the show! We have all been waiting for a really long time.'' Where is the first rehearsal?''
I said. '' Block-House Bay. Does every one know that is?'' Asked Hannah. We all shook our heads. '' Well maybe your parents will know.'' So me and my mum went down to Block-House Bay. We spent a long time on the opening song. We came back every Sunday. We did some dress-rehearsals and some normal ones. The worst thing was that we had to do the show with bigger kids.
On Saturday, we had our first show. We were all excited. Finally the show started. It was so cool, but then we got bored when we were waiting in the green room. I'd tell you how all of it went but it would take to long. All the shows where FANTASTIC. Then we had the after party.

That was the best part. All of my family were so proud!!!

Pirate Cassidy

Cassidy's Holiday Video

Telescopic Text #1

This week we used telescopic text to add ideas, describing words and edit our writing. Unfortunately we couldn't save our work but we took screen shots to show our first and final holiday writing examples. We are really proud of the work that we did!


Angel
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Cassidy
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Dean
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Note... The words are in grey because with telescopic text you can click on them and it shows you the change that we made to that word or part of our writing.

Haiti Donations

Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.
On January the 12th, 2010 a massive earthquake struck Haiti, making most of it's capital rubble. Over 250,000 people have been killed and 200,000 lost their homes.

In class we have been discussing about what happened and we also looked at some photos of all the rubble. We have been making pictures to give to the children in Haiti
and that made us think...That we could also give other items to Haiti.

So then we decided that we would like everyone to help.
So we are going to do a project in which we will be donating
toys, clothes, soap, toothpaste, and letters to Haiti in packs for them.

So if you have any of these items bring them to us in Room 12 any morning in Week 1 & 2 to help us out. Also keep an eye out on Karekare pod to see some other fantastic fundraising ideas that will support the people of Haiti.

** A note from Miss S: This is part of Home Learning challenges for Karekare students and they are undertaking this challenge as part of the 'giving' category.
This article was written by the girls and published in the school newsletter.

Certificates - Week 8

Our Week 8 Summerland Certificates went to:
Paul & Dan-Bi for fantastic teamwork during Visual Arts
Cassidy for showing respect to her classmates in all areas.
Jackie for excellent effort in Visual Arts.

Congratulations on your amazing efforts!