Transport - what is the best way to get from here to there?

Our new Inquiry Topic is all about moving from one place to another, and moving things from one place to another.  There are many, many different forms of transport, and it all depends where you are and where you want to go to, or what you need to transport from one place to another, what type of transport will be the best for a specific purpose.

We have done a Transport ABC:

A - Ambulance, Aeroplane
B: Bus, Boat, Bike
C: Canoe, Cruiser, Cargo Ship, Catamaran, Camel, Camper van
D: Dump Truck, Dinghy, Donkey
E: Elevator, Elephant, Electric Car
F: Fire Engine, Ferry, Feet, Ferrari
G: Glider, Gondola, Garbage Truck
H: Helicopter, House boat, Horse
I: Ice Breaker, Ice cream Truck
J: Jet, Jet-ski, Jaguar
K: Kayak,Kawasaki
L: Locomotive, Limousine
M: Motorcycle, Motorbike, Mustang
N: Navy Cruiser,Navy Destroyer
O: Ocean Liner, Oil tanker
P: Police Car, Punt, Parachute
Q: Quarter Horse, Quad bike
R: Rocket, Raft, Rollerblades
S: Sailboat, Sleigh, Speedboat
T: Taxi, Truck, Train
U: Unicycle, Ute
V: Van, Volvo,Vehehicle
W: Wagon, Waka, Westpac Helicopter
X: Railroad Crossing
Y: Yacht, Yellow car
Z: Zeplyn, Zephyr, Zoo van

Happy Travelling!

THE ADVENTURES OF JASON DICKINSON

THE ADVENTURES OF

Jason Dickinson!

Splat! Blood was squirting everywhere, as I, Jason Dickinson hacked through the arms of the dreaded Kracken. Everyone was screaming and jumping overboard, hoping they could make it to a nearby island. Pengu the penguin ran up one of the arms with an antique samurai sword, squealing “Charge!’’ And then, gulp! The Kracken grabbed him with his tongue and swallowed him whole.

Every story has two sides. This is Jason’s side: “Why! Why did the kracken have to kill him?” This is the Kracken’s side of the tragedy: “He just looked so tasty!”

Anyway, we carried on the big fight. The ship started to sink. Suddenly a helicopter flown by hamsters hovered violently above me. It had S.D.S.N.H. painted on the side. It was probably painted by babies, it was so sketchy. They threw down a grappling hook. It hooked me in the pants, giving me a super wedgie. It took all their strength to pull me up. When they finally got me up, I foolishly thought a self destruct rip cord was a hand strap and I pulled on it. A strange voice said “self destruct in three two one” KABOOM!!! Luckily we were flying over Chitti Chitti Bang Bang at the time, so we kicked the driver out. We flew to a huge, floating building that looked like an octagon. It also had S.D.S.N.H. painted on it. 

We entered the big building. “Who are you?” I asked.

 “We are the super, duper, stealthy ninja hamsters” the leader replied. “We have chosen you to be a double agent in Doctor Doodle Brain, the dumbest lab. Come with us so we can arm you with big stuff that shoots stuff and stuff like the stuff off movies and stuff like that stuff.

For two days they trained me to use a photocopier and printer.

For two days they trained me to use a photocopier and printer.

For two days they trained me to use a photocopier and printer.

For two days they trained me to use a photocopier and printer.

“Jason! Stop playing around!”

“Sorry” After my dumb but fun training, I parachuted over Doctor Doodle’s lab, on an island.  I fell strait into a trap. The super duper stealthy ninja hamsters tried to save me. BANG! Dora shot  their bums off and also shot the trap open and I ran away.

I entered a room. Doctor Doodle charged at me with a light sabre, but I chopped his head off with my nail clippers. I found an amphibious Lamborghini and I hotwired it and drove it to my floating house just to realise...

THE KRACKEN HAD ATTACKED...

A Fishy Story

A Fishy Life

I saw pirates coming our way. I heard screams and gun shooting. I smelt blood and the stormy, salty sea. I could feel pain in my wounds and taste the sweat from my head. I fell to the ground in pain.

“Bang!”

Someone on our ship was firing, but I couldn’t figure out who was firing and where they were. I ran down the stairs into a cabin where the noise was coming from. I opened the door and saw Old Man Doddle firing his old rusty cannon. I said: “What are you doing?”

He said: “I’m saving your bacon!”

“You’re going to kill it!“

But before I could say any more, the ship was sinking fast.

I told Old Man Doddle to get the diving gear. When he got back he was only holding one suit. I asked him what he was going to wear. He said Speedos because he used to be a champion swimmer. He dived in and went deep down to the deep, cold sea where I couldn’t see him. I dived down after him. I could breathe because I was wearing diving gear. I saw Old Man Doddle lying on the sea bed unconscious. His Speedos had disappeared along with his hair. I had a moment of silence. When 30 seconds had gone a huge great white shark came and ate him in one bite...

I swam along and looked at how much air I had left - it said 5 hours.  I started to hear drum beats. It got louder and louder. When it got so loud I could see an over-grown hermit crab playing the drums. I saw three octopuses in police suits; it was all most like reality but just fish. I saw a house made of coral. Then I looked at my hands.  Scales had started growing. I looked at my flippers, they were gone and I just had a big scaly tail. Suddenly I couldn’t breathe. I ripped my diving gear off and I strangely started to breathe again. I started to swim around and then I figured out that I was a huge fish with silver and yellow and black spots. All of the other fish just stared at me in amazement. Then they started to bow and one of them gave me a sort of coral crown and asked me if I would like to come to dinner. I said yes.

When I got to the place I saw lots of fish at a huge table. There was everything you would have at the queen’s birthday apart from food. The fish had knives and forks but there wasn’t any food. They were looking at me in a strange way. Then it doomed on me, I wasn’t going to dinner, I was the dinner!

I hopped out of my seat and swam away as fast as I could. When I knew I was far enough away from those beasts, I started to take a breath but I couldn’t breathe!

Bang! I was back on the deck of my boat.  The cannons from the pirate ships were still firing. I must have had a really bad dream!

Fantastic Fish Art

Fantastic Fish Art

Fantastic Fish Art

Art

Speeches!

Term Three is Speeches Term

Some people love speeches, and some hate them...

Here is how we feel about speeches:

BM: I love doing speeches!  I had fun writing it about a subject that I love and because I've done it before I'm more relaxed this year.

SC: I feel nervous and excited at the same time.  I enjoyed writing it.

CB: I'm excited about it, because I am usually shy and this gives me an opportunity to challenge myself!

CS: I'm freaked out, because when everyone looks at you you get the shivers!

ES: I'm worried because I don't like doing speeches, but I am going to give it my best shot.

FS: I'm nervous, but I'm going to do my best and learn it off by heart.

SS: I'm scared because I'm not sure if the people will like my speech.

Our school speech finals are scheduled for Friday 17 August.

Adventure at Sea

Adventure at sea

Bang! As I slammed the door, I raced to the beach with my boat tugging alongside. My name is Andy the adventurer. I have short, fluffy hair lying about like grass. My red shirt glowed as it was night and it was a bright red. My shorts on the other hand were a dark blue mixing with the sea. I always love going on new adventures and I can hold my breath for a long time.

With my sailing boat I was going for a late night fish on the island. A huge lighthouse towered over me. Muggy, dark fog blew loosely around like bubbles. The trees were flashing in the lighthouse light. Above me birds were chirping as they roosted peacefully. Waves crashed and boomed loudly like elephants stumbling to get a peanut from a pickle jar. As my boat tugged alongside of me, I leapt in the water and sped out to sea.  I took an oxygen helmet just in case. On my journey I could taste the salty sea water, giving a bad taste in my mouth. A lot of waves smashed dangerously against my boat. Lightning started flashing madly like flickering light bulbs. Clouds started glooming around with rain bulleting down hitting the ocean and making a sound like glass shattering into millions of pieces. I was heading into a terrifying storm.

To be continued...

Stormy Days

     Stormy days

BANG! THE COLOSSAL SQUID CAME DOWN RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. ITS SHARP TEETH WERE SHINING IN THE WATER. CHARLOTTE  AND I GOT EXTRA SCARED, BECAUSE WE WERE IN A DEAD END!  THERE WAS ONLY A CAVE FULL OF OCTOPI OR THE BIG PILE OF ROCKS IN FRONT OF ME. WE HAD NO OTHER PLACE TO GO! SO WE HID IN THE CAVE AND TRIED TO BLEND IN.

“ HEY, STOP THAT!  LEAVE ME ALONE!” CRIED CHARLOTTE.

 “THE OCTOPI ARE SQURTING INK IN MY FACE!”

“ WELL, YOU JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT.”  SAID GABBY. “SHHHHH!” SAID CHARLOTTE.

“ I THINK THE COLOSSAL SQUID IS GONE.”

“OH WELL, WE NEED TO CARRY ON AND FIND WHAT’S HAPPENING THAT’S CAUSING THE STORM.  I WONDER WHAT IT COULD BE.” SAID GABBY.

To be continued....