Synthesis - Heather the Weather Girl

WALT Design some weather head gear that would protect you from a lighting strike.

So for synthesis this week, my group's reading a story called Heather the Weather Girl. And Heather is a girl who got struck by lighting, but she survived. Heather really liked storms. Anyways, so our task for synthesis was to create a head gear/armour that can protect you from lighting strikes so you don't get struck by lighting like Heather did. I added not just head gear but pants, a shirt and little objects that do stuff for emergency.

Here is my synthesis work!!

I liked putting all the little objects in that help if you get struck by lighting. I found it hard to take the photo to post it on my blog, since I did it on paper.

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel...

Hi, So on a Friday, last week. My school went to the Hansel and Gretel play. It was pretty fun! 

The day before the play, our teacher Mrs Lee had told us one of the story's of Hansel and Gretel. Since there's a lot of different story's. But the play wasn't the same as the story she told us, it turned out to be a different story. But anyways, a few days later after the play. We've been focusing on Narrative Writing. And since the play wasn't the same story as the story we got told. Mrs Lee gave us the idea to write our own story about Hansel and Gretel. And name it "The True Story of Hansel and Gretel"

So we had a big opportunity to be able to go to the Hansel and Gretel play. It would normally be $100 for a ticket, but we got it for $2 a ticket!! So the other thing that was lucky is that we only had to pay for a bit of the bus. We had 2 bussed, and it wasn't even expensive. So overall, we had a big opportunity to go to the play.

I think my favourite part of the story, is when the witch was pushed into the oven thingy. It was funny because a minute later they were Hansel, Gretel and his Dad were standing there, and her shoe came out. Something I didn't enjoy about the play, was that there was no talking. It would be more interesting if there were some people talking instead of just music.

If you wanna check out my story, here it is!

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Now, let’s skip back.. Hansel and Gretel were brother and sister. They were hungry little kids. They had a Mum and a Dad. The Mum wasn’t really a fan of these two kids. They ate all the food in the house.. One day they ate all the food in the cupboard . Yes, they were very hungry. But they knew they were gonna be in the biggest trouble.. So they ran away for the day, on their sparky blue and bikes. As they saw a forest, they hopped off their bikes. They thought they’d check it out. But as they were walking through the forest, there was a house! Not just any house, a house made of candy. Yes, candy. But really.. It was a witch's house. A house belonging to a witch that is evil. And what else? Oh right, a witch who likes to eat kid. Did that surprise you? Probably not, I mean what do you expect from witches that have a house made of candy. Anyways, that’s the story for now. Let’s get to the cut.

 The witch was sitting there. In her candy outfit, not looking like a witch. As she sat there. Hansel and Gretel peeked in the door, and walked in hoping she wouldn’t hear them. But there was a creek in the door. The witch had poshly walked to the door, and saw Hansel and Gretel covering their faces, thinking if we can’t see her she can’t see us. The witch took their hands of their faces, and smiled at them. But an evil smile, trying to make it look like a nice smile. The witch moved out of their way, and allowed them to come in. As Hansel and Gretel came in. The witch led them to a giant long table. It was long alright. The witch snapped and called her helpers to bring out the candy. As all these pink human things came out, Hansel and Gretel were thinking that this must be a dream. But no, this witch wants to eat them. They placed the giant plates of candy on the table. It was a huge pile of candy on one small plate. Hansel and Gretel were jumping up.. And down. They straight away put their little hands on the candy, and started eating.

 It was a few plates of candy being eaten later.. Gretel and Hansel had chocolate all over their face and hands, They were bloated. The witch had a plan to make them as fat as they can get. Then she thought she was just gonna put them in the oven, and then it was time to eat them up. Once all the plates were gone, they were passed out. The witch knew it was her go. She got her pink helpers to get them in a dark room. In this room, there were all these green chemicals in the air. It definitely was a bad idea going into this house.

 Gretel and Hansel had woken up, Hansel was in a weird round shaped witch pot. Gretel was on the ground, still half asleep.

 Gretel had finally fully woken up, she realised she had this pink dolly dress on. She was disgusted, she did not like dresses. She didn’t mind skirts and pink sparkly stuff. But she hated dresses. Hansel was smiling at her, like a 3 year old. Gretel was confused. She looked around, then realised where they were. Hansel was gripping his hands onto the giant pot, and lifted himself out. Hansel had tumbled out of the pot, luckily Gretel caught him. “Lucky save” Said Gretel. They both sniffed in the chemicals, and started to feel quite dizzy. Hansel randomly smacked himself in the face, Gretel looked at him weirdly. “Are you okay?” Said Gretel. “Yes!” Said Hansel in a funny mood. Gretel was thinking what these chemicals in the air are, she thought they were laughing chemical because Hansel was laughing. But it’s just chemicals to make you sleep.

A few days later.. The Mum had passed away. I mean she was pretty old. But suddenly, a little bird had lead Gretel and Hansel’s Dad to them, to the witch’s Candy House. Dad was so confused about what was going on, but he decided to follow the little bird. He arrived at the witch’s candy house. He looked threw a window, and saw Hansel and Gretel. Hansel jumped up and ran to the window. He said, “Come inside and save us now!! She might be coming”. Dad quickly ran inside, and saw a key on a table made out of candy. He grabbed this key, and tried to fit it in the key hole for the door to be unlocked. “I’m coming!!” Yelled Dad. The door unlocked, and he ran inside. Hugged the kids like he’s never hugged them before. The witch had came in. this was bad. Hansel had saw the pot was filled with chemicals. Hansel looked at Gretel, Gretel knew what he was thinking. Gretel didn’t think it was a good idea to push her in the chemicals to die. But if they want to be safe, they have to. Gretel ran up to the witch and pushed her in. They all stranded there. A few minutes later, a piece of candy had came out. They knew, she was gone.

 So it’s a few years later.. Hansel, Gretel and their Father live in this candy house. They’ve been munching on all the food and candy. They lived happily ever after...

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I think the thing I enjoyed most about writing this, was getting all my ideas.

I found it hard to get all my paragraphs together when I blogged it, but I got it sorted.

Q: What story's have you heard of Hansel and Gretel?

Turbo Lends an Ear | Synthesis

WALT think of another animal (or redesign one) that could be trained to help humans who have disabilities. Describe the disability and explain how your animal (or new creature) helps out.

I chose for some that is deaf or is blind. This was one of our tasks for Sharp Reading. I drew my animal as half dog and half cat, a Cog (Cat and a Dog). Then I added my explanation. And I made a google drawing and took a photo of it. Then our task was to post it to our blog, add a description and the WALT.

Here is my new animal!

Princess Jasmine | Descriptive Writing

For writing, we've been learning about descriptive writing! I enjoy descriptive writing because we get to describe and pick up all these ideas. 

So for writing, we had a task to be in pairs and write about a character. I was buddied up with Kylie (Her blog will be on our St. Bernadette's Room 5 class blog). We both agreed to do princess Jasmine. We started planning on a burger template. We had 3 topics, her personality, her looks and her problems in life. Our teacher added a word bank (A word bank is where you come up with heaps of describing words, or it can be 10 describing words), she added a word bank to everyone's burger template brain-stormer. We added up to at least 10 describing words in it.

Once we got all our ideas together. We started writing. We highlighted the detailed bits that were synonyms etc. did our introduction of Princess Jasmine, the 3 paragraphs about here and last, the conclusion. 

Here is my writing!

Princess Jasmine is a very fearless person. She has always been so confident about never giving up. She will always keep trying till she succeeds, Princess Jasmine always knows what is best for her and others. Princess Jasmine is as Brave as a whole Army of Soldiers.

 She has a creative personality. She is a caring person to everyone she loves and to people she might not even know. She’s such an adventurous person, and she is very proud even though she might mess up on something. She is so confident in everything she does and she doesn’t let anything get in her way. She encourages other people to stand up for themselves and do what is right to protect their land and family! If Princess Jasmine was not alive then her land would probably explode!

 Princess Jasmine is a wonderful person with wonderful brown eyes and her brown eyes make her unique. She has beautiful black hair. She wears a shiny gorgeous blue and gold necklace with a special heart on her necklace.

 Sometimes Princess Jasmine can have some problems in her life even though it looks like she can handle everything. She has a problem that her Dad wont let her rule Agrabah. She can only rule Agrabah if she marries someone. Another one of her problems is a bad one. She had to kiss a man called Jafar like Mwah! To distract him from trying to hurt Aladdin. She really does anything to protect someone or something. Princess Jasmine is a very brave and confident person because she never gives up and she always does her best. She loves to adventure, because she always likes to do stuff to help out even though it’s hard for her. Jasmine is very outgoing and fearless because she never is scared of anything and she’s always hyped and happy to do something. She would do anything to save her Family and Agrabah. The victory for her is in the bag!

Story Starters

In class we had a different teacher on Wednesday, aka Mrs Sutherland. She gave us some story starts. We were learning about the five WOW words/the w's.

So on this story starter doc we read these story starters, and we picked one of them to write about. I picked the first story starter because it seems interesting and it's be fun to write about. I still kept the same idea in my head that I wanted to do but made sure it was related to the story starter.

After I got my ideas, I started writing. I think my piece of writing turned out good and interesting.

Here are the story starters,

Story Starters.

This one is the story starter I picked!

• A girl is scooting down the street with her black Labrador. You smile pleasantly at her and continue down the road. The girl stops moving and shouts a warning to you. You can’t hear that well because of the traffic and you ask her to repeat it, what does she tell you? Continue the story….
• You opened a dreaded gift from Aunt Bertha, expecting to find the usual useless gift. You pull out a glowing ball of material you have never seen before. You inspect it for a moment and then tuck it away in the corner with your other useless gifts. That night, as you are drifting off to sleep, you hear a faint whirring sound coming from the corner of your room….
• Her face burned red as she recognized her diary sitting on his desk. How could he….
• When you were little, you could swear there was a monster under your bed—but no one believed you.
• You’re at your favorite bands concert when you receive a text from a friend that says, you’ll never believe what just happened to me!”
• You’ve just teacher your one millionth hit on your YouTube video. What is the video about?
• If you could live inside any video game, which would you choose? Why?

And here is my final story!

In the afternoon, at a dark time. When there weren't many street lights on. A little girl named Teah that was on a bike. There was also an old man biking around. He was on the streets, where there were street lights. As Teah was making her way on her pink sparkly bike to watch fireworks. She sees and old man biking. She was surprised that an old man like that is biking around this late. She sees that there’s a massive bump on the road that needed to be fixed. Teah says, “Watch out there’s a massive bump in the road coming!” As the old man continues biking he doesn’t hear her but he sees that she’s saying something. The old man said, “Say that again?” But he continued biking as he was saying that. All of a sudden he fell off his bike. Hit the bump on the road. And was rushed to hospital. Teah felt bad and stressed because she hates seeing people hurt. Especially someone that bikes.

A few months later.. Teah saw this same man on the road biking once again. She went up close to him and said, “Are you ok, form that last accident you had a few months ago? The old man said, “Yes, I could see you were trying to save me. Thanks for the heads up about the bump, I just wish I heard you”. He laughs. Teah says, “You’re so welcome. Keep safe on these roads and have fun biking sir” He replies “Oh yes I will. I am glad to still be able to ride at this old age, Bye now!” Teah stopped for a second. She said “Goodbye... “ With a smile on her face.

The Speaking Machine

One of our tasks for reading was to make a helpful machine for our passage. Our passage is Sniffer Dog. It's about a Beagle that is a sniffer dog. Most people don't expect Beagle's to be sniffer dogs. His name is Isaak and he loves his sniffing job. The workers say it's like working with a 3-year old because they have to enjoy what they're doing because if they don't, they won't do it.

So for my machine I kinda did a poster. I added my example/picture of the machine and a bit of writing to explain what it is. There is some wrong spelling on this poster, but I tried to fix it. I ended up changing one of the words that were right because I thought it was wrong.

My Poster: