Coming up at school is the book week parade on Thursday 1st September where you can dress up as your favourite book character!
For homework this week:
As always you should be reading each night for at least 15 minutes and working on your basic facts.
Lets get your creative literacy juices flowing!
1. Follow this link to get a story starter: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/ . Write a short story (one paragraph) in the comments below.
2. Enjoy someones story? Add your own paragraph on to theirs or comment on their work telling them why!
3. Create a Diorama: For those of you who love arts and crafts, this activity is for you. Create a diorama of your favourite scene from your favourite book. Make sure you include a description of what is happening in the scene and why you consider it your favourite.
4. Did you favourite book end too soon? Wish there was more? Why not write it yourself! write your own version of 'what happens next' to the characters in a book of your choice. Present this as a document, comic strip, picture book or scratch animation.
Good luck!
My story starter is Write a postcard to a powerful wildebeest who is the worst singer in the world.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Powerful Wildebeest
I'm afraid to say this since you might hurt me but we can hear your very bad singing from the other side of the desert! I have the Wildebeest Bad Singing Controller Association to go to you and get your mouth restrained. I have told them if you don't sing for the next week then they will not restrain you. They will be watching out for you. Please do not hurt me as I will be telling the Wildebeest Police about it.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Petrified Choir Wildebeest
Edward
I liked your name at the end - Mr. Petrified Choir Wildebeest - which was very funny! I also think that your inclusion of the Wildebeest Police made me laugh too. I liked it a lot.
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The story starter that i got is write a letter to a young carnival clown who gets lost in the Amazon.
DeleteDear Lia
Are you okay you've seem to be lost in the amazon.It's such a shame that you'll miss the carnival.if your hungry than there is a few bottles of water and some other foods in the back.if you need any thing i will send you some things and hopefully i'll find you soon.i'll send you another letter in a few days I love you so much xoxox love mom
Paula
Task 2
DeleteDear Mr Petrified Choir Trainer
I am sorry to make you feel that way. If you can, may please help me work on my singing so that I won't be bothering you any more. If you can't, I pledge to never sing any more unless you give me authority to. I won't hurt you, so please forgive me.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Powerful Wilderbeast
Edward, I was going to say what Stanley will say!
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ReplyDeleteWrite a story about a young inventor who wins the lottery.
ReplyDeleteOnce in a house there was a young inventor who likes to invent different sorts of things and one day he bought a lottery scratch card and realises that he has just won the lottery.His house is a 3 level house and he has lots of gadgets and little things that he uses to invent things.
Alicia
Once in a house there was a young inventor who likes to invent different sorts of things and one day he bought a lottery scratch card and realises that he has just won the lottery.His house is a 3 level house and he has lots of gadgets and little things that he uses to invent things.
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My story starter is describe the house of a nerdy rhinoceros who discovers she has superpowers.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time there was a rhino sitting in a 7 million dollar house. Can you believe that! Her name was Rino. Rino just finished eating lunch so she decided to exercise a bit. She moved this side so moved that side. Rino Stretched out her arms and she started elevating up to the top of her roof. She went right up to the top of her house going through the ceilings. Rino decided to see what her friends were doing for the day so she turned invisible by spinning around. She flew to her friends house and she watched what her friends were doing. Rino laughed and just couldn't stop. 10mins after laughing she was starting to turn back to normal so she decided to fly back home as fast as she could but she couldn't fly anymore. Rino was devastated so she stretched her arms out again and she could fly again. She flew like a breeze back home and thought of what she should do tomorrow.
Serena
My story starter is describe the house of a nerdy rhinoceros who discovers she has superpowers.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time there was a rhino sitting in a 7 million dollar house. Can you believe that! Her name was Rino. Rino just finished eating lunch so she decided to exercise a bit. She moved this side so moved that side. Rino Stretched out her arms and she started elevating up to the top of her roof. She went right up to the top of her house going through the ceilings. Rino decided to see what her friends were doing for the day so she turned invisible by spinning around. She flew to her friends house and she watched what her friends were doing. Rino laughed and just couldn't stop. 10mins after laughing she was starting to turn back to normal so she decided to fly back home as fast as she could but she couldn't fly anymore. Rino was devastated so she stretched her arms out again and she could fly again. She flew like a breeze back home and thought of what she should do tomorrow.
Serena
My Story Starter: Write a letter to a handsome inventor who wins the lottery.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Handsome Inventor,
Congratulations on winning the lottery! Here at iLotto, we congratulate you on winning the $13m award! Please give us your bank account number in store - not in a letter, or email! We will give you the $13m in 3-5 days. Please, come in store soon!
Sincerely,
Mr. Congratulations On Winning iLotto
iLotto Chairman
2 iLotto Road
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Story starter : Write a letter to a nervous detective who lives in a museum .
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To Paul
WWII Museum Newmarket
Auckland , New Zealand
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From : Shrikanth
Paul we have a case . Are you ready . We know you are nervous but last night , there was a burglary , stealing some of the miniature displays on show . As far as the security camera saw , it was a man with blond hair , white skin , non-black or brown eyes , (we couldn't recognise the colour but it is not those ) a lot of muscles and had sunburnt arms . That is all we know but there are only a few detectives up to the case . If you are willing to help come to the plane showroom of the museum , 21/5/16 , 2:30 . Come on Sherrif we need you !
Sincerely , Shrikanth
What I got : A narrative of a sophisticated hybrid car who lives in a museum
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Sheriff seen any marks ? Mate this car must be priceless . Ooh a call . "We have 3 police cars going to the outer city . Patrol the middle ok sheriff . We are relying on you to protect the middle." said the officer . Ok get in the car we're protecting the middle ! Car car , oh it is really quick ! Oh and it is going so fast , we need to set up barricades here . And spikes .
Wait it is going to run out of petrol . "No the car is sophisticated enough to last 70 hours at least until needing recharge and refuel you see ." said the other sheriff . There is one other way though , we can hit the car if we get a car with a nudge bar and ram it , it'll slow down yet since it is super strong we won't break it . "Genius" said the other sheriff .
Once they have got the car with bars ...
Oh and he is coming around a corner with surprise . Yes we caught him !!! Now he is going to jail .
My story starter is to write a story about an unpopular police officer who tries to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
ReplyDelete"Another day of world records!" Paul thought to himself as he ate his breakfast.
Paul was a newly recruited police officer who had always dreamed of breaking records. He had tried everything. Most grains of rice stuffed in mouth, biggest potato, he even attempted longest time riding a merry go round (14 seconds, in case you were wondering.)
He walked over to his bookshelf where he kept all his world record books. As he walked, he glanced at the pictures on his walls. He only had pictures of himself since he had no friends. In school, he was always that kid who sat in the shadows. He was too shy to put his hand up or introduce himself. The only time the teacher ever said his name was during roll call, but all he did was let out a quiet "Here."
"Today's the day!" Paul told himself "From this day onward, people will know me as the police officer who was in the Guinness Book of World Records!"
He could already picture it in his mind. The crowd cheering at him as he attempted to do who knows what. The announcer saying "We have a new world record holder!" The headlines of that weeks news "Paul East does the impossible."
He imagined all the fame he would get. No one would know him as the guy who did nothing in school, they would know him as "Paul East, World Record Holder of whatever record he broke."
He was excited about the future that lay ahead of him.
But first he had to choose a world record.
My story starter was ‘Describe a day in the life of a handsome flamingo who rides comets’:
ReplyDelete‘This was the most near-death day of my life.
I, Flamingo Thomas, was soaring through the skies, where asteroids were hailing down, causing the immediate threat of extinction. I was bruised by giant asteroid hitting my beautiful, pink neck because being so distracted by my beauty. I was spiraling down with my wings lazily flapping out. I thought I was going to die, until I noticed my father’s new invention: The Super Trampoline. It could bounce off an asteroid and me and merely flinch. In seconds, the trampoline bounced me off and sent me to Mars. (It was lucky that I quickly grabbed a space helmet lying on the trampoline, so I survived the harsh no-oxygen zone/Mars). I raced back, quicker than the dangerous, hailing asteroids that hit me earlier, using the incoming asteroids from the asteroid belt and my superhuman adrenaline. I warned everybody to evacuate the planet for the threat of asteroid extinction had arrived, and showed them the awful proof on my neck. I wasn’t looking glamorous now. We could do that because my father had also invented a different kind of rocket to yours today. We all ran to our nearest rocket station.
5 - People were running around, not caring about their valuables, only their lives.
4 - The first asteroid was 125 kilometers away, it would be 50 kilometers away after blasting off.
3 - Everyone stared in horror, at the unimaginable chaos about to happen.
2 - Our hearts were beating more than 150 beats per minute.
1 - We were all saved.’
I know it isn't a typical day in his life, but it's still a day in his life.
My story starter: Write a birthday party invitation to a know-it-all iguana who wins the lottery.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr iguana
you are invited to my birthday party! my birthday is actually tomorrow but since you are hear only today in NZ, I decided to move it today. The reason I invited you is because you won the lottery! The other reason I want you to come is because my parents are good friends and they forced me to invite you. Anyways, congratulations and how do you get the nick name 'know- it- all'?
From, Brainy orangutan
RSVP: Brainy
PHONE: 021 345 234
ADDRESS: 01 Monkey road, Epsom, Auckland 1364
P.S. Please give me a encyclopedia!
my story starter was : write a horror story for a handsome vampire who discovers a underground city
ReplyDeletethere once was a handsome vampire called max one night he was walking around a park it was very dark so some tomes he could not see where he was going then max accidentally fell into a sewer that lid was not closed and had took him to an underground city but not so long after that he had been found and took in as there prisoner by some unfriendly looking people as the unfriendly looking people took max into the dungeon max tried to escape but there were people behind him too as the days go on max did not get any food 24 years later when the unfriendly looking people were about to take max out of his cage they saw nothing but a dried and dusty skeleton in max's cage and that skeleton was max himself
-blannie
My Story Starter was:
ReplyDeleteWrite a myth about an old inventor who solves crime.
It was the middle of the night when the old inventor heard a knock at the door, "Who is it?" the old man said. "It's me" the voice sounded grumpy and annoyed, the inventor knew who that voice belonged to and wasn't happy either. "I thought you weren't coming for a month?" the inventor let the guest in, "Well, plans change"
Bianca
my story starter : Describe the house of a annoying private eye who had got ship wrecked in a desert
ReplyDeleteWhen I entered the annoying private eye's house it was cold and damp. the walls smelt faintly of sock and the walls were made up of several oak panels.It was like no one had been there for years. Ten I cautiously took a step on to the old rickety stairs , the floor creaked and groaned under my weight as I climbed the stair case. at the top I looked around, there were three rooms. One was a moldy bathroom, the others were a old musty bedroom and a humid kitchen. as I took a step into the kitchen the floor gave way.
My Starter story is about a avocado who collects stamps.
ReplyDeleteSo I remember the avocado on my street. I decide to write a postcard to him or her I can't tell. Anyway I write " why do you collect stamps?' And are you ever going to go overdue?
He writes back to me and says I'm not as old as you think I am pretty young, And he says I like to stick the all over me.
Yours sincerlerly young avocado. ( thank you very much)