The Little Blue Slipper - Book Review

Title: The Little Blue Slipper	Author: Jude Daly
Illustrator:
Characters: widower Fair Brown Trembling Old Henwife	Plot: This story is about three sisters. Two of the sister went to church every Sunday. They said to the sister that she must stay home and do the cooking, but the real reason was that they didn’t want her to get married before two sisters because she was so beautiful.
Problem: The problem was that the two sisters found out that the women was their sister and so the locked her away in a cupboard where the prince could not find her.	Solution: Trembling solved the problem by yelling out loud, so when the prince put the slipper on Tremblings foot if fitted perfectly so they got married and had fourteen children.
Your opinion of the story: My opinion of this story was that it was really interesting and I loved reading it. I also loved looking at the pictures and I thought that it was a really great book.	Illustration of a character doing something from the story.

TuiTui Shampoo

Ant Army

Under the schoolyard there lived female worker ants that lived underground. They had a job to do every morning which was they had to go to the school and look inside the children‘s school bags. They found things like some books and a few marbles, a ball and one sock with a muddy jumper.

Later they found a cream donut and it was wrapped in glad wrap. They all gathered up into a group and ripped the glad wrap off. They all went back to their home.

Fact About China

Percy's Song of Freedom

Percy’s Song of Freedom - Pt 2, No 2, 2005

1. Find the meanings of these words from the story.

canary - A small yellow bird. ✔

perch -A place where a bird stand at the edge of something. ✔

refuse - To say that you are unwilling  to do or give or accept something.✔

shriek - A shrill cry or scream. ✔

2. Draw Percy singing his song.

This picture is when percy was singing a song of freedom when he was free.✔

3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.

a) Where did Percy escape to? Percy flew to the top of the curtains to escape.✔

b) Why do you think Percy escaped from his cage? Carols mum didn’t mean to let Percy out, she did it by accident. x (he wanted to be free)

c) Who rescued Percy?

The person that saved Percy was Carol’s father.✔

d) What did it mean in the story when  it said ‘With the last strength of his wings’? That means that only the last power his wings to fly he was able to fly. ✔

Aim High

Aim High - Pt 2, No 3, 2003

1. Find the meanings of these words from the story.

observatory - A place where people go into space. ✔

astronomer -That study’s the stars and the planets. ✔

buried - To put a something in the ground ✔

expect - To think that something will happen ✔

yowl - When a cat cries. ✔

2. Draw what you think the Dog Star might look like.✔

3. Answer these comprehension questions to show your understanding of the text.

a) Where were the boys on the trip? The boys were at the Observatory. ✔

b) Why was Nik’s Mum sad? Nik’s mum was sad because their cat got run over by a car. ✔

c) What idea did Nik have at the end? His idea was to go and see the stars. ✔

d) What did it mean in the story when  it said ‘Nick’s face felt hot and heavy’? Sad and angry because his cat died. ✔

Bracket Fungi

Snake!

Did you know that yellow bellied sea snake could swim underwater for about three hours.?...also did you know why it is called a yellow bellied sea snake,it is because it belly is yellow and it can swim underwater.?

A yellow bellied snake eats eggs,fish and eels.Before the snake eats it food it paralyses it with venom and then eats it in one go.Did you know that yellow bellied has a white and black tail.?Also yellow bellied snake could be washed up onto land and it can also die.

On a beach a boy found a found a yellow bellied snake and he thought that there were no snakes at all in New Zealand. So he rang the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and he told them what he found.

So he took the snake to school and snakes can grow up to a metre long in length.

A Speech for Sina

Diggty

Diggity

Pt. 4 No. 1 , 2008

1) Put a word that means to same as the bolded word from the
   Thesaurus in the space.

I knelt beside/ next to Diggity.  He made no effort/move to get up.  His neck was a pulpy mass/pile of blood, and his rib cage rose and fell unevenly/not the same.  Dad scooped/ grabbed him into his arms and staggered/unsteadily walked up the beach.  Mum and Lucy were already in the car with the hatch/ boot up and engine running.  The vet said Diggity had lost heaps/lots of blood.  The outlook/future wasn’t good.  When the phone rang/ringing later that evening, nobody was in a hurry to answer/respond to it.  But Diggity did survive.