Turtle

The murky water is a dark turtle's shell.

The vines are the colour of its lime green eyes,

The plankton are the victims it devours in the lake,

Its shell is as hard as steel.

Crawling on the beach like a crab out of reach,

It lays its eggs.

Broken shell like a snail that is down,

It moves along the beach.

Written By Matthew

A circle is round

it has no end

thats how long I

 want to be your friend

Unknown Author 

Topic-Collaboration

Recently In room 15...
We had to do a hard,  fun collaboration experiment, our group and others had to build a long tower, using only scissors, tape, and 3 cardboard pieces.
Currently, our group had the lead with the tallest, and stable tower.
The interesting fact about our tower, is that we did not cut our paper, a pretty easy thing we did was combine our 3 pieces of paper into one big tall tower.
Pretty interesting to me.
We also had to collaborate, meaning we show resilience, resourcefulness,
keep our roles, and stay awesome!
It was a super fun and collaborative activity!
In the photo: Chris, Matthew (me), and Alex! 
Make sure if you want to see other group's tower, go visit other blogs and stay awesome!

Thinglink Poetry

WALT: Write a cinquin poem. Today we had to collect a leaf and use the leaf to create a picture. Then we had to write a poem about what we turned the leaf into. Hover over my bullet point to read my poem.

Kiwi Kids News- Reading Comprehension

Taken from KiwiKidsNews.co.nz

The Pen Collector

Created on March 11, 2015

Do you ever have trouble finding a pen? Dennis Hamilton doesn’t – he has a collection of 50,000!

51 year old Dennis from Southland has been collecting pens since he was 5 and his garage walls are now lined with his impressive collection.

Dennis collects any and every type of pen, including regular ballpoint pens, themed pens and pens camouflaged as other objects such as lip gloss. His favourite is a carved lion pen.

No two pens are the same and many come from all around the world, collected from journeys or as souvenirs from travelling friends.

Dennis has been unable to find a record for the biggest pen collection in the Guinness Book of Records but he says that he hopes to one day hold the title.

Article written by D Mulhern

1.     What does Dennis Hamilton collect?
pPens that might be useful when he has mastered pen licence!

2.    How many years has he been collecting pens for?
o46 years that is a really long time!

3.    What is his favourite pen?
tCarved lion pen it might have fur on it!

4.    Why do you think friends might buy Dennis a pen when they go travelling?
bSo he doesn't spend so much money on pens.

5.    Would you like to go and see Dennis’ pen collection, why or why not?
yNo because its just pens nothing awesome like a rubber egg here!

6.    Is his garage a good place for his collection, why or why not?
nNot it is not so good because someone could just sneak into his garage and steal them all.

7.    If you started collecting something what would it be and why?
i I would start on badges because it makes me feel good and makes my family proud!

Soldier-Moment in Time

WALT: Use adjectives (describing words) to make our writing interesting to the reader.
We pretended we were a soldier in the war, using our senses to describe what it was like.

I saw...very bright gun flashes and a lot of bullets flying through the air. I saw blood dripping down from other allies.
I heard...blood dripping down from my arm and guns reloading.
I felt...pain all coming from the bullets stuck down deep in my arm.
I wondered...if I could survive this giant field of blood and escape safely.

Training for cross country

I rushed around the school field.When I was training for cross country my class ran  as well. Some of the class did 6 laps, 2 laps, 3 laps and 4. I did 2. It was warm up time we did fast feet. Some/most of the boys did push-ups plus we did invisible seats.Finally we ran.I was like a cheetah. Some other people were as fast as a lighting bolt.I did my best, but others were faster than me but I don't care I did my best thats why.
After our run our teacher asked us if we walked when we ran, if you walk you have to run  at lunch time.  
I noticed alot of grass flying all around me when we were running.
I felt like a burnt potato when I finished the run.
I thought I was a turtle but I was as fast as a lighting bolt.

FLIGHT

Lift makes the plane/aeroplane go up and take off.Works with thrust.
Gravity makes the plane/aeroplane land.
Drag makes the plan/aeroplane slow down to land.
Thrust makes our plane go forward and faster.
Control means you need to have control because control makes the plane move in different direstions. Planes can not move backwards in the air.