Beach Cookout

Beach Cookout

Today Room 1 and 8 had a beach cookout along the Karoro beach by the Tasman sea.
The supervisors were Mrs Glue and Mis Kemp, (Teachers) Mrs Maclean and (Teacher Aid)
Matt, Tim Clark, Angus and Mrs Swinburn (Adults). Nathanael, Dakota, Charlie,
Nathanael and I were in a group. The adult supervisor was Tim, Dakota's dad.

First we dug a little pit for our fire to go in then we collected sticks to make a t-p.
Then we used matches to start our fire. To get our fire going we collected straw.
The fire went great, but it was sort of hard because the wind would change direction
and go everywhere.

For our main we cooked taty fry, which is potato, bacon, onion and rosemary herbs.
The Taty Fry was very yummy. Next time I would not put much onion in. The potato
was my favourite. the bacon quiet fatty and in big pieces so next time I would chop
it up a bit smaller and cut the fatty pieces off.  For our desert we made pancakes
with maple syrup.

We did the beach cookout for the William Pike Challenge, to develop new skills and to
have fun. We had team roles and we helping each other to cook and put the ingredients together. We each had to bring some ingredients. 

For the beach cookout  I brang a Whisk ¼ cup, ½ cup and 1 cup measurements
2 tsp vanilla ¼ cup sugar ½ cup maple syrup. Charlie brang 10  Plastic Plates, Tsp and
tbsp measurements and a Wooden board for chopping Lots of Fresh herbs Lots of Salt
and Pepper 6 tbsp oil 2 cups flour and 2 cups of milk. Dakota brang 2 spatulas, Knife,
Bowl, 8 bacon rashers and 2 eggs. Nathanael brang a Frying pan, five knives, five forks
6-8 potatoes, 4 cups water and onion.

My favourite parts were putting the fire out because it sounded like bombs exploding.
My other favourite part was eating the pancakes. I really enjoyed the beach cookout.

Stop Kissing My Sister

Stop Kissing my Sister     SJ 4.2.06

1. Make a list of all the characters in this story and all the facts you can find out about them

Josh= he is jealous of Amy having all the attention.Gets embarrassed easy.Mum=she is loving, soft(doesn't yell), Dad= proud of his son.Amy=gentill, funny

2. Why did Josh think that everybody likes his sister better than him?

Because Amy  always gets more attention than him and she gets special attention

3. Choose 5 words from the story that are new, difficult or interesting to you.  Write your own sentence for each one showing that you understand what the words means.  Write down why you think the author has used each of these words.

He was Pashing my sister, She was wearing skimpy clothes She was puckered ready to kiss.  I think the author used skimpy to let us know something about this skimpy girl, The used

4. You are Baggy Pants.  Tell your part in this story from  your point of view. Make sure that you come off as being a  hero and Amy and her family are shown to be very strange.

Hi my name is Tom and Im dating Amy, I went round to her house once and kissed her, but her annoying brother yelled, “ STOP KISSING MY SISTER!!!!”

He yelled it so loud I bet china heard it. I don't like going to her house anymore because her family is very strange.

5. Complete the Story Web
6. “Josh did the right thing stopping Baggy Pants from kissing his sister”

Complete the chart and list your reasons for agreeing and disagreeing with this statement

I agree with this statement because	I disagree with this statement because
	it's none of his business.
	She trying to find  romance
	It's rude,
	it might hurt her feelings

7. Give the story a rating out of 5 for each of the following criteria (1 = weak, 5 = excellent)

• CHARACTERS - has the author created interesting characters?  How?
• STORY STRUCTURE - Does the story have an interesting problem and a satisfying ending?
• LANGUAGE FEATURES - Has the author used words in an interesting way to tell the story?  Give examples
• THEME - does the story have something important to say about how people think and behave?  What is it?

Write a short review of this story based on the ratings you have given it. This book is a 2 ¾  stars out of 5. I think this because it doesn't make much sense and I dont think it's realistic. The characters are interesting. The language features could of been stronger and the author should have used more complicated words to make the story interesting. The theme was weak and could have used more explaining.  

Hi my name is Amy and I have a boyfriend called Tom. I have a brother called Josh. I  think he is jealous of Tom and I, because once Tom and I were kissing in our backyard, and then out of nowhere, Josh appeared and yelled, “STOP KISSING MY SISTER!” It freaked Tom out and he never came back to our house. But don’t worry, because I got my brother back when we were at the pool… I saw him about to kiss this girl and I wasn't letting that happened after what happened in our backyard, So I yelled, “ STOP KISSING MY BROTHER!!” Then he started yelling at me and chasing me around the pool.

 

Treaty of Waitangi

This year we were doing a recap on Waitangi these are some of the photos of what we did.
We learned about the 4 flags that New Zealand has had and the great fleet.