Global Warming

In Infobytes Room 5 was reading about Global Warming. We had to make a drawing about how it happens, what it's made up of, how it works and what will happen if global warming keeps going. Here is Solly's and my drawing about global warming.

Swimming

In Room 5 we are learning how to describe in present tense. We described what it was like when we swam against other people, in races at the school swimming pool. This is my piece of writing.

Swimming Race

Beeeeep! Splosh! I dive into the pool. I zoom through the cold water bobbing my head up and down. Energetic at the start, but now I’m puffed in the middle, I am trying to go my hardest to win, now nearly at the end here we go. ”Whack ow!” I just hit my head really badly on the wall. “Yay! I’m first.” The crowds are all calling my name, “ Sophie Sophie, you’re amazing!” In a kind of roaring sound.

I am really scared that in my next race,backstroke I will cut my foot on the sharp red and blue lane rope. I’m waiting in the queue to go and start backstroke. My group is in the pool, I am getting ready by clinging my arms to the wall and my knees nearly touching my chin.  “Ready!Set!Go!” The race is on, the chlorinated bitter water is getting all into my mouth. All of this transparent water is making me thirsty. I am splashing around in the pool determined to get first in the race.

The pool starts to get shallow and I can touch the bottom. “Why did somebody’s hand just touch my head?” When I  turn around there is a lady with golden short hair with a timer right in front of me. I climb out of the pool and sit on the wet, but warm bench with my fluffy pink towel around me.

Snowboarding

Room 5 is learning how to describe how a person was feeling and thinking but without it being you in writing. We are writing about Zoi Zadowski-Synott who was a Kiwi snowboarder in the Winter Olympics this year. My class had to write the description in present tense. This is my writing.

Snowboarding

Zoi is racing down the hill going as fast as a lightning bolt. The cold chunky snow is getting all in her mouth as she zooms down the huge hill. She feels very excited and scared because she might fail by falling onto the clean white snow. Here she goes! Up, up and away. Zoi is up in the clear crisp sky and she is flinging her head backwards to start her double somersault. She is getting a bit dizzy now and she has only finished her first somersault. Flinging her body backwards to start the second somersault, Zoi starts to worry about her landing again. She is about touch the snow, scared that she will fall over. “She made the landing! Woohoo!” The crowd shrieks.  Zoi slides down the hill and skids so that she gets snow on everyone. “ Zoi has won a bronze in the Winter Olympics,” calls the Judge. Zoi has a grand grin on her face as she jumps out of her foot holes from the snowboard and punches the air.

Cycling

On Thursday Room 5 and the year 4's had to bring our bikes to school because Constable Joss was coming. Constable Joss came to our school to tell us about safe cycling. Room 5 had to describe what we did in present tense. This my writing.

Cycling

It feels like I’ve been waiting forever, and finally this queue is moving. I’m going up the jump, will I make it or will I fall off the monster sized ramp? I am so scared. “Weee that is really fun.” I laugh as I make the jump.

There are lots of obstacles, some go up and down and some are really bumpy.  The brown rickety ladder is the most fun because I go up and down. It is really exciting going up the ramp because I go really fast.

The sound is banging into my ears, because both of the planks are slamming onto the hard rock concrete. Everybody is squeaking their bells, and all different sounds came out, it was like they are all in a band.

I think the cycling is really fun and helpful. The obstacles are the most fun and the queue is quite slow. I think the cycling is the most fun I’ve had at school.

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Summer Poem

In Room 5 we are learning how to write a poem. First we had to look at a summer poem by Marci Ridlon, after that we had to think about what we did in summer and put it in the poem. Here is my summer poem.

Summer Poem

Remember that time

when you lay down

on the hot, greasy sand

while everyone played in the water?

Remember how

you ate your

dripping brown chocolate ice cream

and it was getting all over your clothes

and it was delicious?

That was summer.

Remember that time

when you devoured

fish and chips outside the shop

and you tried to finish it all

but you just couldn’t?

Remember how

the rough blue sea water tasted

very salty but nice

and you had to try and cough it out?

That was summer

Remember that time

when you watched

the fast flowing light blue  

waterfall water crashed into the rocks

and it was beautiful? Remember how

the daisys in the backyard

swayed from to side to side

as you lay there on the soft grass?

That was summer

Successful Learner

In class everyone in Room 5 had to make a slideshow about how to be a successful learner. This is my slide.