Ruby S-S's Learning Journey

Hello everyone, This week as a class we made poems. The task was to make one about a forest. I felt that by looking at a few examples I was ready to go! This was a very fun task to do. I went into it trying to make my forest sound as sad and lonely as I could. Writing the poem I actually felt bad for poor forest I was writing about, it was also very creepy and gave me chills down my spine. Here is my poem! The Forest The forest creaks as it awakens, If you enter the forest you will be shaken. The twisty trees twist till you can not breathe, when the twisty trees stop it will make you heave. The leaves will cry for help, as their misery can not be helped when they yelp. The wolves will not howl any more, As their howls are tired out forevermore. When you enter this forest you will feel deep in sadness,   It used to be great but now it is badness. The sorrow of this forest lies forever in the darkness, deep in despair, the forest wait...

Hello everyone, On Friday as a school, we had a sports day. For the sports day, we got to dress up as our favourite sports person or in sport team colours. I dressed up in a crusaders top and some all blacks track pants. For the sports part of it, we did lots of different sport rotations. The sport rotations were hockey, netball, gaga dodge ball, and teball! My favourite sport we did was hockey, I liked hockey because the people running it showed us drills and we played a game of hockey also. Here are some photos of me playing some of the sports... Thanks for reading. - Ruby

Kia ora, Throughout lockdown school and in normal school we have been focusing on descriptive writing. I think I have definitely improved in metaphors and in hyperboles, smilies, personification and many more. Here is my newest descriptive writing piece..... “Slurp” was the sound of the giraffe placing his purple tongue on his mango ice-cream. When he dipped his tongue on to the luscious ice-cream his heart leapt around his lungs with so much joy! He had never been filled with so much happiness before. His tongue would not let go of the ice-cream as he never wanted this feeling to end, so his tongue looked stuck to the ice-cream like glue. The giraffe was mindfully thinking of what was in front of him.  The children were so glad that the “eternity long line” was worth the long wait to see the giraffe eating ice-cream! The icy feel of the ice-cream on a hot summers day was just melting the giraffe down to his knees thinking about it. The giraffe curled his purple tongue aro...