Te Reo

We have been learning Maori responses and how to say "Where are you from", to one person or to two people, so on. This is my table on what the Questions should be and what the Answers should be.

Q: No whea Koutou- ( Where are you (3+) from?) A: Nō Heretaunga mātou- (We (3+) are from Hastings)	Q:  Nō whea kōrua- (Where are you (2) from?) A: Nō Heretaunga māua- (We (two) are from Hastings)	Q:   Nō whea koe?-        (Where are you (1) from?) A:Nō Heretaunga ahau- (I am from Hastings)	Q:  Nō whea ia?-             (Where is he/she from?) A:  Nō Heretaunga ia-        (He/she is from Hastings)	Q:   Nō whea a Kiera?-   (Where is Kiera from?) A: Nō Heretaunga a Kiera- (Kiera is from Hastings)

Top Spot Competition

We have been taking interest in the competitions on the HNI Website and chose the "Top spot" competition. We had to describe our favourite place to go to.

Unison Stadium

Stylish cars whizzing down the dark busy road searching for that one special parking space which they can squeeze into without a fight. Determined rugby teams actively stretching ready for the big game against all different suburbs. Tired, sweaty soccer players sprinting everywhere showing off their awesome ball skills to the loud and cheerful crowd. Racing around on the wet blue turf are passionate hockey players waiting for the next big score to eventually strike. The sound of high pitched cheering and whistling flies through the air from pumped parents proud of their hardworking children. Focused referees and coaches keeping their distance from the battle, their eyes peering closely for the next wrong move.

Reading outside of the box- Biography or Non-Fiction

Title: Alice’s Food A-Z, edible adventures

Author: Alice Zaslavsky

Opinion: This book is very exciting and full of fun recipes that you can try at home. I tried her banana smoothie recipe and it was delicious.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to everyone and especially to people who like to bake and cook.

Blurb: This book is about Alice’s healthy and fun recipes and tips, and there is a lot if fun facts that you can learn, here are a few…..

Did you know:

• Bananas are actually berries
• Strawberries are the only fruit with their seeds on the outside
• There are more than 300 varieties of honey in the world because the flavor depends on the type of flower that bees harvest from their nectar
• Honey is the only natural food that never goes off, people have even found jars of honey in ancient Egypt and they are still edible
• Before the 1930’s iceberg lettuce was caled crisphead lettuce
• According to Indian Tantric Tradition lemons can be used to ward off bad spirits
• Milk is made up of around 87% of water, and 13% is a combination of enzymes and fat proteins
• Milk is white because of the lack of colour fat proteins gives it
• If you drop mushrooms into any liquid it will soak up all the moisture like a sponge
• Nuts are actually a fruit, but with a hard shell and a soft seed in the centre
• Peanuts are in fact not a nut they are a legume like a bean or a pea
• There are more than 1200 varieties of watermelon in the world

This book made for a very busy weekend trying all different recipes out.

Reading outside of the Box- Science Fiction

Title: Maximum Boy starring in the day everything tasted like broccoli.

Author: Dan Greenburg

Opinion: I found this book exciting because it’s very adventurous and very unpredictable in the crime fighting chapters because you don't know if the superhero will win or the villain.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 7-11yrs. I recommend reading this book if you like superheroes and crime fighting.

Blurb: This book is about meteors that give humans super powers! Like this one boy Max Silver, he woke up and he was Maximum Boy! The only people that know about Max’s secret identity are his family, Mum, Dad and his sister Tiffany, his best friend, Charlie, the President of the United States of America, and Max’s teacher, Mrs Mulvahill. Mrs Mulvehill gets frustrated when the President calls and says Max has to go on a mission because he never gets any work done on time. Trevor Fartmeiser the big bully at school basically tortures Max and Max wants to use his super strength and punch Trevor as hard as he can be he can't blow his cover. When Max finds out that someone called the “Tastemaker” is making everything tastes like broccoli, Max goes after him with his mate Tortoise Man, The Tastemaker is pretty tough and Max is allergic to maths and he weakens when he hears a math problem, will the tastemaker find out max’s allergy and use it against him? Read the book and find out!!!!

Reading outside of the box- 2nd Chance

Title: Lola Rose

Author: Jacqueline Wilson

Opinion: I found this book scary because it has a little bit of violence, it’s also happy and exciting in the chapters when she was starting school. Getting the picture in my mind of what the shaggy school looked like hooked me in.

Recommendation: I recommend this to 9-15yrs because it is quite mature.

Blurb: This book is about a girl called Jayni whose father is always stressed and gets into a little bit of a fight, Jayni hates her father for doing this and she feels sad for her mum, Nikki, every time her Dad hurts her. On the other hand Jayni's little brother Kenny doesn't understand what is going on so he loves his father. One day Jayni's father starts on Jayni and Nikki gets more frightened so Jayni, Nikki and Kenny make a run for it. They arrive in London and stay in this beautiful hotel but decided they have to find a place to live so they find a flat and clean it up a bit. Of course Kenny starts freaking out and misses his father but has his stuffed toy, George with him which keeps him happy. The new family all change their names, Nikki, Victoria Luck, Kenny, Kendall Luck and Jayni, Lola Rose Luck. I bet you're wondering how they are paying for this well Victoria "Nikki" won $10,000 in the lottery but the money is running out. Lola Rose and her family start a new life and even have started school and made new friends. Will their Dad find them?????

My Colour Wheel

This is my piece of artwork called the colour wheel. I used lots of different mixtures of colours to make a new colour.

Reading outside of the box- Loved by others

Title: Mr Stink

Author: David Walliams

Opinion: I think this book is very funny especially with the awesome connection between Chloe and her Dad because they're always making jokes, it has lots of sad bits as well mainly when Mr Stink is talking about his past life and how he lost his wife and money.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 8-12yrs, I also recommend reading this book if you like jokes.

Blurb: This book is about a man who lives on a bench. His name is Mr Stink because he absolutely does stink. Everybody hates the smell of him.  Nobody ever comes and talks to him until one day, a 12 year old girl called Chloe decides to gain the courage and speak to Mr Stink. When Chloe finds out the truth about Mr Stink, she realises he isn’t so bad after all.  

Chloe is lonely too and her and Mr Stink become very good friends. Chloe wants to keep him in her house so he won't have to sleep outside any more, so Chloe quietly sneaks him into the shed. Everything was going as planned until one day Chloe forgets his sausages for breakfast and Mr Stink comes knocking on the window when the times journalist is there interviewing Chloe's mum because she wants to be prime minister. Then everything went wrong.

Reading outside of the box- Poem

Title: Birthday

Opinion: I think this poem is good because it motivates you. You're still strong even though you're getting older.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to everyone, I recommend clicking on the link and checking out all the other motivational poems.

Blurb: This poem is about that it shouldn’t matter that you're getting older because other people are in worse situations and even if you’re getting older you’re still strong and everyone around knows it and you should just enjoy the present.

Reading outside of the box- Mystery

Title: Thea Stilton and the Spanish Dance Mission

Author: Elisabetta Dami is a ghost author.

Opinion: I think this book is very mysterious and I enjoyed it because it was unpredictable and it was all one big discovery.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 7-11yrs. Also if you love a mystery.

Blurb: The book is about the Thea Sisters going on a trip to to Seville, Spain to see some friends and experience the famous Feria De Abril a festival in spain. During the festival Juelita mum’s precious fan gets stolen and the Theas Sisters are on a big mission to find it. Julieta is a very popular dancer in Seville and she gets it from her grandmother Rosita. Julieta’s mum, Blanca had a sister, Beatriz, Beatriz had two children, Lola and Pedro. Beatriz and Blanca did not get on well so their has been a feud for years.

Suddenly everyone seems to remember what the familiar suspect of stealing the fan looked like and realized it was a old guitarist of Julieta's, Carlos was his name. The Thea Sisters and Joaquin and Anita followed Carlos and caught him, Carlos said he only stole it to surprised Julieta with a beautiful carving on it and when he went to prove that he had just carved the fan the fan was gone and the Thea Sister were on another mission to find the fan.

Reading outside of the box- READ BY EAR

Title: Gangsta Granny

Author: David Walliams

Opinion: I find this book very adventurous and mysterious.

Recommendation: I recommend reading this book if your 8-11yrs.

Blurb: This book is about a boy called Ben whose parents are absolutely in love with ballroom dancing, Ben doesn't like ballroom dancing, he wants to grow up and be a plumber and he was in fact very good at it, Ben feels his parents don’t love him because he hated their hobbie. Every Friday Ben would go to his boring granny’s house, Ben hates his granny because she’s boring and has a horrible smell of cabbage, granny would have cabbage all day everyday, she would eat cabbage pie, cabbage soup and even cabbage mints. Ben was suspicious when his eyes zoomed across all of granny’s magazines and books because they we all about diamonds and jewels, and he wondered why his boring old granny had all these exciting spy books. When Ben finds out that his boring granny was a jewel thief he thought she wasn’t so boring after all. Granny told ben all these amazing stories about her times she stole diamonds and rings, one of the stories was….  It was granny’s first time she had ever stolen something and she was very poor so she went to Lord Davenports mansion and stole his wife's diamond ring and she even survived after being chased by man eating dogs and gunshots firing everywhere. Ben wanted to spend time with his granny and steal the crowns jewels but they didn't know how to get into the castle so Ben used his plumbing skills and found a way in through the pipes, Ben and his granny were already so of they went on there amazing journey to steal the crowns jewels.

Reading outside the box- One of the series

Title: Demon Dentist

Author: David Walliams

Opinion: I found this story very creepy but also hilarious and lots of the story is unpredictable so it hooks you in to read more and find out what happens.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 7-14yrs, I recommend this book if you like horror and humor.

Blurb: This book is about 12 year-old boy called Alfie whose teeth are horrible because ever since the dentist pulled out the wrong tooth he never went to the dentist again, the only way Alfie could hide this from his terribly sick Dad was to hide all the letters from the dentist saying he had to visit them. The old dentist in town was murdered in the dental clinic and when a strange new dentist comes to town and visits his school Alfie is suspicious and thinks something might be wrong. With his new friend Gabz he looks further into why the dentist, Miss Root, is giving out free sweets and acidic toothpaste with the brand MUMMY’S, this toothpaste can burn holes through anything. Alfie realizes he is in big trouble when she straps him into the dentist's chair and starts pulling out all of his teeth!!!

Metaphor- Poem

This is my piece of writing about me in figurative language.

• Bonnie is a motorbike, small but can zoom along the road faster than you can imagine.
• Bonnie is a house, a place with many different spaces and special to her family.
• Bonnie is bag of fruit bursts, sweet but with a lot of different colours.
• Bonnie is a pair of sport socks, short but ready for the game.
• Bonnie is a hotel, sometimes at the top, but sometimes at the bottom.

Reading outside the box-Review

Category: Relive the magic (Re-read a book you loved)
Title: Billionaire boy
Author: David Walliams

Blurb: Billionaire Boy is about a boy called Joe Spud, he only lives with his Dad, Joe is 12 and is getting teased at his posh school, so his dad sends him to a different school. Joe makes a new friend called Bob during X-Country and they become good friends, Joe also meets a girl called Lauren and they seem to like each other. Joe and Bob have a fight and Joe only plays with lauren so they become very close. Joe took Lauren home one night and there was a party because Sapphire had just got engaged to Joe's dad,  but what Joe didn't know was that Lauren was getting paid by Joe's dad to be friends with him, Joe finds out and is furious and had to spend the night with his favourite new agent (Raj). The next day he went to Bob's house because he was lonely and apologised to him and they were re-united. Joe's dad made all his money off his toilet paper so when he found out it made people's bum's purple he cried because all his money was gone and he was fired. Since Joe and his dad lost their house they went to stay with Bob and his Mum. Joe's Dad and Bob's Mum became very close and even married each other. So Joe got to live a happy ending with his new stepbrother.

Recommendation: I recommend this to 7-14yrs.
Opinion: I think this book is exciting and mysterious and unpredictable in various chapters.

Reading outside the box- review

Category: Picture book
Title: Wacky Wednesday
Author: Theo Lesieg





Blurb: Wacky Wednesday is about a day where everything is going crazy. It's crazy at home, such as a palm tree in the toilet a rat chasing a cat. It's wacky in town, the drivers are sitting in the back seats, and there's a green sun. it's wacky at school, teachers on rollerblades and tigers in classes. It's crazy at the park, chimneys in trees and even at lady pushing one hundred babies. But only one person thinks it's wacky but everyone else thinks it's normal so that one person went home for a nap and was hoping when he wakes up it will be back to normal.

Opinion: This is a motivating book to try something different because it looks so exciting.

Recommendation: I recommend reading this book if you love a bit of craziness and I think it's great for 5-9yrs.

Reading outside the box- Review

Category: Read a Chunkster (read a book with at least 450 pages in it)
Title: The Midnight Gang
Author: David Walliams

Blurb: This book is about a boy called Tom. Tom's family lives very far away and he never see's them, so his rich parents sent him to a posh boarding school. At his boarding school there was a little accident and Tom got rushed to Lord Funt Hospital. Tom stays one night at the children's ward and doesn't want to leave. Tom was awake all of the first night because he was spying on Robin, George and Amber (the other patients in the ward),  and discovered dreams really can come true. ''The midnight gang", was what the four of them called themselves is planning George's dream to fly but an old lady called Nelly who thinks she is a little girl steals George's thunder and the Midnight gang get's caught. Sally on the other hand is the illest child in the ward and is suffering from heart weakness and has to miss out on all the fun at midnight because everyone thinks she will slow them down but she doesn't know that.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 8-14 year olds, boy and girl and also if you enjoy mystery.

Opinion: This book is sad but happy, and has great adventures that hooks you in because you can imagine everything happening like it was real.

Reading outside the box- Review

Reading outside the box a year long challenge in our class, we read 16 books, all different varieties so we experience other people's interests that we might enjoy.

Category: Accidentally watched the movie first.

Charlie and the chocolate factory

This book is written by Roald Dahl.

This book is about a poor boy called Charlie that discovers a golden ticket and gets to go on an amazing adventure to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory with his very old Grandpa. Charlie is waiting for the end prize but everyone seems to be getting in a little bit of trouble along the way. Will Charlie survive?

This book is very good for people who like to predict as I found you could predict lots in this book, this book made me feel that your luck can change.

I recommend this book to people who love a mystery and adventure because this whole book is one big journey, I really recommend reading this book if you love chocolate!!