Mystery Taste

When Miss Taylor said that we had to get something to use as a blindfold We all felt curious. I felt my skin shake and then everything went black as the blindfold went on.

 I took a giant sniff and gulped as a ball of curiosity hit my skin. Nothing could replace that evil smell. I took one more sniff and I immediately wanted to take off the blindfold, the suspense was killing me. Was it banoffee Pie? Was it an orange? Was it a mandarin? Nobody knew.

I could sense my hand shaking in anxiety as I reached out to touch it. It felt slimy, wet and bumpy I knew exactly what it was or so I thought…

I could tell some other people knew what it was as they were shaking around in their desks with excitement. It felt like there was a mini earthquake going on.

I could hear the skin of the mystery food squish as the juice came out. I tried to resist tasting it, but I wanted to know what it was so badly, like a lion has found its prey but not wanting to pounce. Suddenly I took a bite.

I knew what it was immediately. Nothing could replace that taste. I tried to take another bite but I couldn’t. The sour grape like taste made my throat sting like a bee stings a human. I hated the taste so much that I couldn’t take another bite it was disgusting.

The sight was terrible nothing like what I imagined. When I took the blindfold off I thought I would see something more like an orange but no it was nothing like that. It was a LEMON!!!!!

Real Life Superheroes Alfred Shout

This term for inquiry we had to find someone who we think is a real life superhero. We had to think of three questions to research and then we had to answer the questions in paragraphs. Next we had to make a either a slide, a poster, a double door or a powtoon. I did mine on Alfred Shout who was a soldier in world war one and I did a slide. We had to present it in front of the whole class and some people brought in their parents. I really enjoyed doing this.

Metaphor Poem

Over the past two weeks Room 7 have been learning how to write effective metaphors. A metaphor is a direct comparison to an object/thing. One of our activities was we had to  describe ourselves as a lolly, tree, vehicle, something in our community, a sandwich and a piece of clothing. 

My favourite one that I made was Katie is a pohutakawa tree, lovely and bright.  

Katie's Speech 2017

where in the world is Mrs May

Splish splash I think Mrs May is at a beach at Hawaii  or in fantastic hotel with a great view of the entire  beach. She’s getting changed into a purple scuba outfit to go scuba diving with her friends. Finally we’re in the water

“Hey look it's an enormous fish and it's about to get eaten by an enormous rainbow squid”said Mrs May

“Wait a minute” shouted Lily

(Lily is Mrs Mays friend)I think it’s coming for us” AHHHHHHHHH RUN FOR YOUR LIFE”

One hour later they had lost the squid “few so do you want to go back up now “ asked Mrs May   

“Um excuse me of course I do “Lily said tiredly

“Oh good “ said Mrs May

When they got up there they had no idea what to do so they decided to go back to the hotel but to their surprise the key to their room was lost so Lily told Mrs May that she had family here so they went there. Since they didn’t have a car they took the taxi and had a wonderful night except for a possum on the roof. They planned to go hunt down the squid in the morning.In the morning they went back down to the beach to find the squid but they found out that the squid was already killed and on the beach lying there “we should take it to the Museum”Lily said excitedly

Lily had always been excited about  these sort of things “I think we should let people that found it take it to the Museum “ said Mrs May

So instead of going in the water they had lots of fun on land like making sandcastles and sand angels.After that they went back to the hotel to tell their story to everyone else. The next day they had to go home so they went down to the beach to take photos for friends. They took a photo of the squid and then went to a tropical place for lunch. A few hours later they had to board the ferry to get home they spent their time outside because it was boiling outside. Soon they were home and finished telling the story. Mrs May invited lily for a night and they slept happily ever after.  

wild fire writing

Wild Fire

Boom crash. I’ve just woken up by a crashing and crackling sound. I get up and open the door to Mum and Dad's room. I shout as loud as I can “ FIRE”! Good they have gotten up. Dad says  “Darling, go outside and wait and we’ll get the others” “Okay “ I say. I run to the lounge and open up the dog's cage and pick him up. I go out but I’ve got to be careful because it's icy on the ground. Suddenly I hear a noise. It makes me jump and I slip. I sit there on the ground crying. It's been a few minutes. I’m not crying now. I quickly remember that I brought my Mum's  phone. I pick it up and ring 1, 1 ,1. I tell them that I live 7 Iona street. Finally they come out. I ‘m still in pain but I’m happy. Very happy.

By Katie Harrex

Tree planting at Waitahuna

Tree planting at Waitahuna

On Tuesday Room 4 and Room 7 and a few parents and teachers went to Waitahuna to do some electric fishing and tree planting. We left at 9:30am.We met some people there, their names were Craig Simpson from Landcare, Keiran and Angus(the electric fisherman), Matt from the Department Conservation, Glenn from the Sinclair Wetlands and two ladies from the Otago Regional Council. We did the tree planting because we wanted to help the fish and the eels that live in the river. We planted flaxes along the river because it is where the eels hide. We had to dig a hole, then we took the plant out of the black bag, and we put it into the hole. Then we covered the hole with mashed up dirt. We stepped on the dirt so that the wind wouldn't blow the plants out. We got into a group of three children and one adult. The two classes planted about 200 flaxes!!!!!!
While we were there, Keiran showed us an eel that he had caught in a net he had set overnight. He also showed us electric fishing, which is where you use an electric current to stun the fish, so that they can catch them and look at them more closely. He told us that the bigger the fish, the more effect the electric shock would have on them. He showed us a brown trout and a lamprey eel that he had caught earlier. Lamprey eels are very rare, and it was the first one he had ever seen. Sometimes they are called sucker eel because they don’t have jaw and they just suck.