metaphor poems

Over the past two weeks Room 7 have been learning how to write effective metaphors. A metaphor is a direct comparison to an object\thing. We made our own metaphor poem. We had to describe ourselves as a lolly, a tree, a vehicle, something in our community, a sandwich and a piece of clothing. 

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Emily's speech 2017

Mrs May has disappeared

“Now Grace are you doing for show and tell today” said Mrs May “magic” said Grace ”take it away” “rightio please watch carefully everyone i will start with an easy trick pick a card any card Mrs may” got it” she said. (a few hours later) “now for the finale trick I am going to attempt to make this stuffed bunny go over there” she said as she pointed to the window”boring can’t you do something big and exciting” i said “fine I’ll make Mrs may disappear” “WHAT!!!!!” shouted Mrs may “please stand right here” so she did she walked up and stood right there in the exact place and grace did what she had said she actually tried to do it it didn’t work of course but wait where did she go did grace actually do it? I did it I actually did” she wailed “Mrs may has gone and it’s all my fault” she cried and cried until there was a huge puddle on the floor “how are we going to find her now “ I know we can ask for her shoes and harry can smell he has a good sense of smell you know so off we went to find her shoes when we got to my house had the shoes and were chasing harry to get him to smell the shoes he wouldn’t come but  we finally got him he was in the middle of smelling the shoes when he suddenly started biting them to bits” what’s happening I’ve trained him especially for these sorts of things so why isn't he doing it now we finally found out it was because grace’s wand was playing up so she went to charge it up while she did that we got the shoe fixed up with duct tape suddenly there was a knock on the door and i was very surprised to see mrs may and the invisible spell had already weared off and we all lived happily ever after.THE END

fire Escape writing

Fire escape

Beep! Beep! Beep! I woke up to see red flames trying to get into  my room. My heart was thumping inside me. My face was burning and my mind was whizzing with worries. I had to do something and quick! Fire! Fire! Fire! I yelled. My sister woke up but we couldn’t see each other. We had to get everyone out of the house so we got out of bed and checked the door. It was fine so we opened it and woke everyone up then Dad took charge. He told us we had to touch the kitchen door and if it was hot we had to go out the back door and get to the mailbox. We ended up standing by the mailbox while Mum called the fire brigade. A few minutes later we were out the house the fire was out and we were all safe.

By Emily

Tree planting at Waitahuna

Tree planting at Waitahuna

Room 7 and Room 4, some parents, Mrs May and Marie all went to Waitahuna to help with tree planting and some electric fishing. There were also some people to help us; Glen and Matt came to help with the tree planting and Keiran and Angus helped with the fishing. We had to go into groups with three or two children and one adult. I was with Aria and Grant. I had to pull off most of the bags while Aria dug the holes. When you dug the holes you had to make a square so the plant would fit in the hole, then you had to crush up the dirt. Glen called that squashing potatoes. Then we had to dig all of the dirt out so it was deep enough for the plant to be underground so it wouldn’t blow away in the wind. We also did some electric fishing with Keiran and Angus. First, they showed us the nets they used to catch the fish then he showed us a GINORMOUS eel that he had caught overnight. He also showed us a brown trout and a lamprey eel (which just looks like a tiny worm if you were wondering). They are sometimes called a sucker eel because they don’t have a jaw so they have to suck. I had so much fun!

  

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