The Four Days I had to Look After an Egg

Last week Mrs Cameron gave each person in my class an egg. We had to name our egg, build a house for the egg and put a face on the egg. I named my egg Mr Eggcellent. We also had to make an egg diary but I forgot to do the last day. Here is some pictures and the diary of  my egg.

Tuesday	Today I got my new baby egg. His name is Mr Eggcellent. I have made him a house, inside his house is a shower, a pom-pom bed, a chair, a rug and a couch. Tomorrow I’m going to have to take him to soccer.
Wednesday	Today I brung Mr Eggcellence house to school. I had soccer today so I had to bring it with me.
Thursday	Today My Egg is going to do Jump Rope with us.

Foul Shot-Soccer

Last week my class wrote a poem about any sport we wanted. I did my poem on scoring a goal. We had to use verbs and have 2 stanzas. We also had to put each action on a new line. Writing these types of poems was quite hard. I hope you can follow my class.

Here is my poem!

My Foul Shot

She shouts for the ball,

It zips about 2 meters from her,

She sprints for it

“Stomp”

Her foot on the spiraling ball,

She peers around,

Eyes concentrated,

No ones there,

Focus

Breathe

Bang

The ball takes flight,

Flies over two people

Bounces off the pole,

Spins,

Swirls,

Lands,

She can hear her coach saying “good try”

And then

                           And then                        

                                                    And then,

She boots the ball,

And… scores.

Writing to the Unknown Soldier

As part of our ANZAC day inquiry we were asked to write to the Unknown Soldier.
We had to think about the soldier and how it was at war we were also told to use complex sentences, short powerful sentences and paragraphs.
Try and see if I used any of those things!


To the soldier that I never knew,

As I write this letter to you, I feel safe and away from war. These tears in my eyes are made for you. I cannot imagine what it’s like at war but I’m guessing that you have to know what you're doing.

How did you feel when you were told to kill people or when you were given a gun? We've heard that you and your friends thought that you were going to have an adventure but when you got handed the guns you might have thought something different.

Did you ever get really hot so that you had to pour water on your head. We learned that some soldiers cut their clothes because it was hot. Did you do that?

How did you feel to see your  friends die? You must have thought it was going to happen to you.

How did it feel with rats and lice in the trenches? It must have seemed like they were  taking over.

What went through your mind when bullets flew past your head or when bombs exploded? We now know that war was a very terrible place. What was it like with blood everywhere? No man's land must have looked pretty creepy.

I want you to know that you are not forgotten. Thank you for being at war not just to save me but to save the world, to make it a better place.

From someone that will always remember you.

Yours sincerely Annalise.

ANZAC Biscuits

This week Isabella and I created a document about Anzac biscuits. Isabella came over and that when we started creating.

Below the recipe is some facts and questions.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Plain Flour
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• 3/4 cup Rolled Oats
• ⅔ cup coconut (desiccated)        
• 50g Butter
• 1 Tbsp Golden Syrup
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 2 Tbsp Boiling Water

Directions

*Mix together flour, sugar, coconut, and rolled oats.

*Melt butter and golden syrup.

*Dissolve baking soda in the boiling water and add to butter and golden syrup.

*Stir butter mixture into the dry ingredients. Place level tablespoonful of mixture onto cold greased trays. Bake at 180'C for about 15min or until golden.

Makes 20.

Facts about ANZAC day:

• ANZAC stands for

       Australia

       New

       Zealand

       Army

       Corps.

• At first the biscuits were called Soldiers’ biscuits, but after the landing on Gallipoli, they were renamed ANZAC biscuits.

• The original ANZAC biscuit was known as an Anzac wafer or tile.
• Many soldiers ground these biscuits into a type of porridge to make them more palatable. 

Questions:

• Why were there ANZAC biscuits in the first place?
• How many people in the world make biscuits a celebrate ANZAC day?  
• How many people at war liked ANZAC biscuits?

By Annalise and Isabella

River Study

         A few weeks ago my class went to the Pohangina river. We tested the river by using the turbidity tube. The turbidity tube is a tube with magnets.I have algae and macroinvertebrates in my river. Followed by some facts and why we should have them.

This is mine.

My Mihimihi

In week three we created our mihimihis. A mihi is a maori way of showing who you are. This is mine.

Tena koutou katoa

Ko Annalise ahau

No Havelock North ahau

Ko Te Mata te maunga

Ko Tukituki te awa

Ko Havelock North Primary te kura

Kei Tamaki Makaurau

                    Kei te mihi

Tena Koutou, Tena Koutou katoa

A Journey Through The Mind of Annalise

A few weeks ago our class started writing a story about ourselves. The stories we made a really good here is mine.

A journey through the mind of Annalise.

Take a trip inside my mind, were all things are wacky and all things kind.

At times my mind shuts down and I don’t know what to do but then it turns back on and I’m fine with what I do,

I have a dog and her name is Daisy. She sits on the cushions and that makes mum crazy but I think it’s funny.

I dream of a land called candy land full of chocolate and lollies and all things grand. I think I would build a gingerbread house  full of marshmallows and then every day of the year I would chomp a bit off my house.

I wonder if in the future there will be a lolly shop down every street, it would be a nightmare for my brother.

My hope is that everyone lived in peace and that in the future t.v’s would give you chocolate.

I can often be found  saying “I’m bored” to my mum and that makes her really annoyed.

When no one is watching I steal some cookies from the cookie box and then run into my bedroom and then munch them down until there,s nothing left.

This year will be the best year at Havelock North Primary because I have the teachers that I wanted and as a year 6 I hope to be happy.