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Book Review- Room 22 Saves the Day

Book Review:

Title: Room 22 Saves the Day	Author: Mackenzie Adams
Illustrator: Mackenzie Adams
Characters: Room 22 Panmure Bridge, Miss Spence’s, Ben Henry, Jim and Kitty.	Plot: Room 22 go to Mt Smart stadium and no Warriors were there. They were waiting and suddenly they got a phone call from one of the Warriors member’s, Ben Henry. The Warriors weren’t there because they were stuck in the broken bus.
Problem: The Vodafone Warriors were stuck in the broken bus.	Solution: The Warriors arrived at the stadium and had a game against the Visitors. Ben Henry scored that match winning try to win 18 points to 12 the Warriors and Students were very happy.
Your opinion of the story: I liked the story because the Warriors arrived at the Stadium and didn’t disappoint the Room 22 Students.	Illustration of a character doing something from the story

What a disaster!!!

The Rena is a big ship owned by a country called Greece. The Rena was on a beach near Mount Maunganui and Motiti Island. There was a terrible disaster where the captain took a shortcut and the Rena ran over a bunch of rocks and the rocks made a hole in the Rena. The Rena was carrying loads of containers and when the Rena got a hole almost 1700 tonnes of oil started dripping out and 1300 containers were falling off the Rena.

When the oil spilled out of The Rena the oil went all the way back to the surface and sand and thousands of birds died, that was very sad.

The Rena oil spill happened on October 5th 2011. It was a big disaster for Tauranga.  The captain of the Rena took a shortcut instead of going the way they were supposed to go. After the clean up the cleaners announced that there was still some oil left in the water. The Captain of the Rena went to jail with another men. The Rena was a bad disaster.

Tuitui Shampoo

The Ant Army

There were ants that were on a schoolyard that were waiting for their food. The Female workers were sent out to find food for the ants to have to eat because they were very hungry and there were heaps of ants so it had to be a big thing for the ants to eat. Suddenly they saw a bag with something in it and it was a big doughnut. When they were in there they saw heaps of school equipment, school uniform and rows of school bags. The female ants marched up to the bag like an Army but they were all woman. The ants looked and acted human like. They were told to get the doughnut and take it back for the ants to eat. They heard a person walking so they took the doughnut back to the schoolyard quickly .. Some of the ants got stood on but they still survived thankfully.

The Rainbow Bird

Parrot                           White Bearded

                                             Manakin

Years ago in South America there was a story that was set in a forest there were birds that were wanting to be colourful. Some of them were grey, black and white. They were jealous of nature because nature was very colourful and they weren’t.

The Birds were trying everything to get colour on themselves, they splashed berries on themselves, they rubbed flower petals on them and also rubbed leaves on themselves as well.

Every afternoon when it rained a Rainbow would show up in the sky. They loved the Rainbow so much that they wanted to be like the Rainbow. They wished and wished and wished that they would be colourful. Then one afternoon when the Rainbow showed in the sky it was all dirty and dark.

Suddenly they saw a bright light coming from the sky and it was a bird called a Phoenix, The Phoenix told some of the birds to follow him because the Rainbow was dying so the birds followed the Phoenix.When they were near the Rainbow they saw Roaches eating it. The Birds and Roaches were having a fight and they were struggling because they were flying to much.  There were thousands of Roaches and maybe 50 or 100 birds. The Bird’s won so the Rainbow went back to normal and the Bird’s flew through the rainbow and turned into colourful birds and were very happy.

When they went back down to the tree the other birds were very jealous about them having colour on them. The black and white birds were so jealous and wished they had gone with the Phoenix and the other birds.

The thing that the person was trying to tell us is to always help people in need and help others and support others all the time. My Favourite part of the Rainbow Bird Story was when the bird’s flew through the Rainbow and were colorful

Reading Activity

In Reading this week my group Successful Spiders was reading a story called Born in the year of the Rabbit it is a Chinese story and China people are named as animal names by the year that they were born. I am a monkey because I was born in 2004.

Southern Lights

Southern Lights - Pt 3, No 1, 2005

1. Find the meanings of these words from the story.

fascinate - Fascinate is to attract and delight. ✔

karakia - A Karakia is a prayer. ✔

seize - Seize is to grasp suddenly and forcibly. ✔

2. Find out 3 pieces of information about the Southern Lights - you might find some information and images on the internet.

1. Southern lights is another name for Aurora Australis.

2. Southern Lights are also Earth Sciences.

3. Southern Lights are also Physical Geography. ✔

3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.

a) What lets you know in the story that the story is told by the Maori? Because in the Story they had Maori words.✔

b) Where do you think the men were when they saw the large islands of ice in the south? I think the men were near the snow.✔

c) Why did the people burn the waka? Because the 70 chiefs spirits went into heaven. ✔

Percy's Song of Freedom

Percy’s Song of Freedom - Pt 2, No 2, 2005

1. Find the meanings of these words from the story.

canary - A canary is a yellow bird.✔

perch - A place where a bird stands✔

refuse  Refuse is to say you will not do something✔

shriek - Shriek is a loud sharp and  shrill cry.✔

2. Draw Percy singing his song.

 

This is Percy singing the Song of Freedom

3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.

a) Where did Percy escape to? Percy flew on the top of the curtains when he escaped.✔

b) Why do you think Percy escaped from his cage?

c) Who rescued Percy? Carols Father Rescued Percy.✔

d) What did it mean in the story when  it said ‘With the last strength of his wings’? In one go he half swooped and fell near the window✔

Aim High

Aim High - Pt 2, No 3, 2003

1. Find the meanings of these words from the story.

observatory - A building containing telescopes and other scientific instruments for studying the sky and the stars.✔

astronomer - The study of stars, space and planets.✔

buried - Someone who gets buried in a graveyard.✔

expect - Knowing what is going to happen.✔

2. Draw what you think the Dog Star might look like.

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3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.

a) Where were the boys on the trip? They were in the classroom ✔

b) Why was Nik’s Mum so sad when he got home? Because their pet died✔

c) What idea did Nik have at the end? To bury their pet cat. x (to name the star after his pet cat)

d) What did it mean in the story when  it said ‘Nick’s face felt hot and heavy’? He was very sad.✔

Patumania

Patumania is a Maori weapon that people use in Maori plays and Movies and has heaps of patterns on it and there are all sorts of patterns on the  Patumania that people design and decorate.

Dragon Fruit

In Vietnam there were heaps of Dragon fruit in the trees. The Dragon fruit grows in the farm until  it is ready. You can by the Dragon fruit  in the markets or just pick them out of the tree. Dragon fruit were sometimes grown for the royal family and wealthy people. When plants are young new buds sprout along the thick fleshy stems. The Dragon fruit has to be picked out the right time because  it will go off and the bird will eat them. A girl went every day to pick out the Dragon Fruit but it wasn’t ripe. The last day she went to pick out the Dragon fruit it nice and ripe then she went eating at home.

Bracket Fungi

Flying fungi are like mushrooms but they are harder. They grow in rotten trees and roots and sometimes grow in the grass. They are here because when trees break they support it. The shell fungi is as hard as wood.

They are called bracket fungi because it supports like a shelf. When you hunt for Fungi you will find heaps around rotten trees.