Wearable Arts

A while ago I did a post about my work for our WOW work (WOW stands for World Of Wearable arts). I have now done some more on it and we have started making the outfit. So far we have only made the umbrella and we are painting little Christmas ornaments to look like planets so we can put them on our space-themed umbrella. We have also made the hat and we are waiting for the next time we can do it so that Bridget can bring in the top and skirt so we can do more. I don't have any photos because I haven't had a chance to take them and it is messy right now. Feel free to comment and tell me how I can improve.

My Reading work

This week for reading I have done a few more things and I want to show you what I have done so far. I have done the second part of the Story Map.

Next, I completed doing the synonyms activity. Synonyms are different words that mean the exact same thing.

After that, I rewrote the words in a paragraph that I highlighted in green to make the paragraph better.

Lastly, I did the activity on Antonyms. Antonyms are different words that mean the exact opposite of the other word.

That is all I have done so far in two sessions. Feel free to comment, and give me feedback on where I can improve, and what I have done well.

The cart

The Cart

Firstly, dad left me at grandpa’s house, with only a bag with a few things inside to play with.
Grandpa plonked me down on a box and then resumed mowing the lawn. That was the
exact moment I saw something out of the corner of my eye, it was a box, of old family
photos. I stacked lots of boxes on a cart so then I could grab the photos. CRASH,
everything fell including the photos. Then I noticed a picture of a man and a young boy
with the cart standing in front of a tree. The next thing that happened was that grandpa
told me about the escaped monkeys, then he took me on the bright red cart down the
street.

After that, We were walking down the street, when lots and lots of trees sprung up out of
the ground all around us forming a thick forest. It was then that we had to go faster and
faster because there were monkeys were chasing us and they were right on our tail. I was
so scared, I held on tight to the cart then there was a big THUMP. It was Grandpa
jumping into the cart next to me. We rushed through the forest until we fell into the lake.
The cart turned into a boat and We were going down a river at high speed, but we were
ok. We were rushing down the river then my teddy saw a waterfall!

Next, the cart suddenly turned into an airplane and we were high up in the sky.
We were soaring through the sky and I started to relax a bit and enjoyed the ride.
We soared past lots of different shaped clouds. Suddenly, we stopped soaring and we
had to jump because there was no more fuel in the tank. We all jumped, then we had to
pull the cord to make our parachutes go up so then we could float down. Once we got
down we stopped to eat some food and drink some water. I was glad that we got a break
because I was getting tired.

Soon, there was a strike coming from space it was an alien. Quickly, we jumped into our
cart that turned into a rocket! Then before I knew it, we were in space being attacked by
aliens. My job was to shoot them with my gun so then we would be safe. This went on for
a while till all we saw was the biggest alien ship we had ever seen. It was big and was a
range of colors from dark blue to lime green, and it was getting ready to shoot us then…

Lastly, Dad arrived, he quickly snapped us out of our daydream and asked why we were
filthy. Then he saw our cart. I was amazed dad had been on the cart before and had so
many adventures on it before me. It was then time for me to go home. So I guess I was
wrong Grandpa isn’t boring he is amazing and I want to see him again. To sum my
adventure up it was an amazing one, and it might have changed my mind about adults,
only a little bit. After this adventure, I always went to grandpa’s house once a week so
we could have our amazing adventures.

The End

Today we did some writing based on a short movie called taking flight. For the writing, we had to write down what happened in the movie then we had 40 minutes to add lots more detail. I hope you liked my story and w comment on it. 

Novel Study

This week we got a book for our Novel Study and I got the book enemy at the gate. So far I really like it and I'm up to chapter 21. I like it because it talks about what has happened in New Zealand and tells a story of someone who might of had an experience with it in their own way. The story is about a boy and his family who live in Wellington. There is this disease called Polio or Infantile Paralysis, eventually, one of his sisters get it and he is trying to outrun Polio and save his family.

The image below is of my author study about the author of the book, Her name is Philippa Werry. This disease has happened two times that I know that the book has told me one was in 1924 and the one they are experiencing is in 1936. I think the title matches the book because its like polio is the enemy and it's just waiting to come in and hurt them all.

The next Image is of the start of the story map that I'm making about the story and I have only gotten halfway through the book so the story map isn't finished yet but it is still really full. The boy in the story has a dream to run in the Olympics like the famous Jack Lovelock that he wants to run like.

Every night he went through a routine of wiggling his fingers and toes ten times the going through all the names of his family five times so then he could try to protect them from polio. I hope you liked my blog post and will look at my future posts. I think that if you like books about someone's story of what happened in the past that would have been made up but it might have happened. I really like the book so far so I hope it will get better.