Summer Learning Journey Preparation - Country Research

Hi Bloggers!
Today we have a person named Emma with our class, and she is helping us prepare for our summer learning journey. Our first task was to choose a country to research (We had a list of countries to choose from), and we answer questions about this country we chose; We use google to do our research but we are not allowed to copy and paste.

The country I chose was Australia. Here are the questions I answered:
1. The capital city of Australia is: Canberra.
2. The population of the capital city is: 356,585 (Around the population of which city I live it, which is Christchurch)!
3. In January, the weather of the capital city is usually: 
In January, Canberra, the weather is usually a high of 29 degrees celsius, while at a low it usually sits at 14 degrees celsius. 
4. The capital city is located in: Canberra is located in the 'South East' of Australia. It is in the bottom right corner of the country.  
5. The languages spoken in the capital city are: English. The main languages other than English spoken are: Mandarin (915 people), Vietnamese (802 people) and Cantonese (609 people). The main language other than English spoken in Canberra was Mandarin. 

Sources: 
The answers automatically came up on google when I asked the questions. 
I didn't need go into any websites :)

Zipline - My Story

Kia Ora! For the past three days I have been working on a POST Test, writing a narrative.

My narrative is named 'Zipline', and it is about a girl going into Paris, France, and travelling through the city on a Zipline. I went through a process when writing this and followed steps.

1. I Planned my writing on a google doc to come up with some ideas for my story and lay it out
2. I drafted my writing to get an idea of the base of my story and come up with more ideas
3. I highlighted improvements I made to the story 
4. I found a website I could use to decorate my story (PiktoChart), and now I'm publishing it on my blog.

If this writing is too small to read then click on this link: 

https://create.piktochart.com/infographic/saved/32751462#

The Oceanmaker

🌊The Oceanmaker🌊
Our writing genre for this week is currently 'Narrative'. A narrative is a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. My narrative is written in 1st person; which means I am talking about the person in the story. 
The Process:
1) I had to watch part of the 'Oceanmaker video. (We only watched a little bit so we could choose the ending ourselves.) (Watch here)
2) Then, we discussed the video, and talked about what we saw, heard, and felt like.
3) After that, all of the class had to make a plan, so we could plan what the ending of our story. 
4) We started writing our story, and after we had written it, we re-read it to make sure it made sense.
5) Then, we all met on the mat and watched the whole video so we could see what the real ending was like. 

Please tell me on what I need to improve on, and give me feedback in the comments!

To see the ending of my story, read it! Here is my story:

Yara looked around the dry, lost place, worried while operating her plane, hope lost, and she was desperate. Desperate to find what she was looking for. No food. No water. She had to find it.

She soon realised that she was in the right place when she saw a lighthouse, to her left.

Yara looked down to the sheet in her lap, labeled: ‘The Oceanmaker’. The environment around her was dry, and scorching, causing her to feel dizzy. She picked up her binoculars, her hope still lost. Her eyes bulged. She looked over to see a cloud, not big, not small. The cloud was heading in her direction.

Adrenaline rushed through her body. The cloud seemed to be getting closer and closer, she could feel it. Her eyes focused on the misty cloud, so delicate, but so powerful. This cloud depended on her future. This cloud depended on everyone’s future.

The cloud was filling the dry land, shaped like a pothole, and turning it into an ocean. Yara’s eyes wetted. She soon wiped them to see another set of clouds coming toward her direction. But she had forgotten about one thing. She was in a plane.

The feeling of joy spread like a virus around Yara’s body. Her beam lit up the plane. She watched as the land got deeper, and more moist. The clouds flooded the sky, and the ground, and then Yara realised.

Her plane was getting lower, and lower, and lower, and lower. The water had taken over. Yara looked up to see the water forming a wave, about to drown her.

The wave crashed over the plane, and hit Yara so hard, that she went blind for a second. Yara screamed underwater. The plane door was locked, and Yara panicked. She was losing her breath. Was this it?

She didn’t have much power or force underwater, but she was a clever girl. She tried to smash the window and fortunately, it worked. Yara swam through the smashed window, going purple. She swam to the top, where there was air, as fast as she could.

Yara took a deep breath when she reached the top. Relief hit her. I’m alive.

The sun wrapped around her, and cooked her. She groaned and dunked herself back underwater. The cooling water surrounded her, and calmed her. She slowly popped her head out the top, and breathed. I don’t know how I’m going to get home. She thought. How am I so calm in this situation?

The more Yara tried to panic herself, the more calm she got. She didn’t know why.

A shark swam up to her. HOW? THE LAND WAS JUST A DESERT AND NOW THERE ARE SHARKS SNEAKING AROUND? Yara was so frustrated, but she didn’t have any time for anger, because right then, it was a life threatening decision she had to make.

She had to get away from a shark.

Novel Study: Prezi

From the start of the term, we have been doing novel study. I had to create something that presents my novel study. I chose to make a prezi to present what I've done. It is below, Please comment!

100 word challenge

Today I did my one hundred word challenge.

This time, I had to use these words: However   Yellow   Gingerly   Discovered   Remarkable

Here it is,

Hello? The voice echoed in my ears, before I could even understand the voice. I opened the arched door to see a girl with Yellow hair. Not blonde, but yellow. She stared at me in a gingerly way. Yes? I replied. “Uh, um, I saw your artwork and I thought it was remarkable, is it for sale?” “I discovered it 6 days ago when I rode past on my bike.” I took a glance at her bike that sat on the corner of my driveway. “It isn’t for sale!” I slammed the door, and was surprised at how I acted. However, I had to get back to painting.

Do you think that smoking should be illegal?

The past few weeks, we have been learning how to write persuasively, the topic is about how smoking should be illegal. I think that I did well looking up while talking but I think that I need to work on speaking a little more clearly. Also, I think I need to work on using gestures while reading. Do you think smoking should be illegal? Please let me know in the comments.
Here is my speech:

100 Word Challenge week two

This week I did the 100 word challenge. I had to write exactly 100 words. This time, We could write about whatever we want, but we have to use five specific words. The words are: Silence, Thunder, Pyjamas, Orange and Swam. I have put the words bold so you can see them.
Here is my story, It is called, What next?

I was watching t.v, I had just swam 4km.
I had to put up with the brutal sounds of thunder. It was so loud, but I eventually fell asleep...
My mum had put me to bed. In the morning, I only heard silence. I looked at the clock and it read, 5:58 a.m. It was sunrise, The clouds were orange and pink, and the sky was a soft light grey. I decided to get dressed out of my pyjamas and into my clothes. I had swimming at 7:00. Now It is 6:00. The alarm rang...

My poetry Anthology