Narrative writing by Richie

 Richie chose to use the prompt from our class novel for his narrative writing. This is his entertaining narrative about the Vile prompt. 

Vile prompt

 

As my brother Vile ran from the house screaming for help, dad was chasing him with the salu (Samoan Broom) in his lavalava. 

I yelled “Just face your consequences like the gangster you think you are Vile”. 

Vile took a quick glance at me and yelled “NEVER” then bolted down the street like the flash as dad was screaming,

“I will KEEL YOU”. 

Vile didn’t come home that week.  

 

The next week, Vile knew dad was out at work so he came back to the house looking for some food. Mum got him inside and warmed up some leftovers. 

“Vile”, mum said “What have you done? Your dad is so angry with you”. 

As Vile was about to speak, he heard the sound of dad’s car pulling up in the driveway. He was home early. I quickly ran Vile up into my room and shut the door.

 

As dad entered the house I could hear him talking in Samoan to my mum. He was saying something about work being cancelled. He was then passing my room to go and take a shower. I never heard him coming past my room because I was trying to get Vile out the window. As he was about to climb out the window, dad stormed into the room and was shocked to see Vile. 

 

Dad then grabbed Vile by his ears and dragged him into the living room. Vile was screaming for help and was begging for mercy, but dad didn’t care. Vile was sat down and given a hiding for at least an hour. During the hour, we got at least two noise complaints. After one long excruciating hour, Vile walked out of the room alive but had bruises and belt marks on his body.

 

Vile then went to his room and was crying. I wanted to go cheer him up but I thought it would be too much for him right now. A couple of hours later it was dinner time and Vile had stopped crying. When he sat down at the dinner table he apologised to dad and said it would never happen again. Dad then took his eyes off his food, laid them on Vile and said, 

“It better not happen again boy, because if it does, I will KEEL YOU”. 

 

 

Impersonating characters from stories we read

 This week, Room 7 are reading a story called Badge of Honour. One of the activities was to impersonate the school principal in the story and to address a student character in the story who has not been wise in his decisions. The story is a great read. It is based in New Zealand and the Room 7 students can relate to this story in many ways. 

Here are the slides Room 7 have been working through. You can also access the text from the slides.

Here is Soane's impersonation of Miss Latu the school principal from the story Badge of Honour. Great work Soane. 

One of the activities for this week's reading tasks was to analyse the role of each character. This is Viliami T's analysis of characters in the story Badge of Honour

Viliami M created this comic page from our reading materials this week. Great use of dialogue Viliami.

This week we are reading a narrative called Badge of Honour. It is a great story with a lot of lessons for our students to learn from. One of the tasks was to create a comic page with images and add dialogue for the characters. Viliami M did a great job in capturing what the characters were feeling and saying in the story. 

Viliami T shares his work about Charles Darwin using screencastify

 

Blog commenting by Room 7

 This week our class have made 316 comments on the blogs of students not only in Room 7, Glenbrae school but also our Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu buddies in the South Island.

Commenting on blogs is a great opportunity to learn about what other students are learning and also their interests. 

Blogging in the long term is a record of each student's learning and growth. 

Well done Room 7 for your mahi this week. Kia kaha!

Thank you Richie for creating the gif to celebrate our success this week. 

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Hangout fitness session

This morning our class hangout was a little bit different. Our house leaders planned a workout for our hangout this morning. We did exercises like bear crawls, lunges, push ups, inch worms and sit ups. These are all exercises we can do while at home. It was great to see everyone participating and getting into the workout. 

Well done house leaders for today's session. 

Soane has created this screencastify to talk about the current lockdown.

Kue'a's lockdown flowchart.

Kue'a completed the lockdown flow chart our class have been working on. He then used screencastify to talk about his flow chart. 

In Room 7, we are focussing on adding sound and motion to our DLOs. Here is a screencastify Richie completed to share his learning about the Big Bang Theory

 

We have been looking at the origin of life and have been learning about The Big Bang. This is Pitara's work on the topic