The Dreadful Phoenix

 A dreadful Phoenix

The Phoenix was such a good creature to the land. It was until it got banished to the dark lands. The Phoenix was mad and felt miserable. The Phoenix wanted to get its revenge on the village. The Phoenix had told his story to the rest of the abandoned creatures in the dark lands. They wanted to get revenge too. So they made a plan to set a curse onto the land. They scheduled the day they were going to escape and do their plan. They decided to do it on the 31st of October. Since it was halloween and they would blend in. 

31st of October 

It was finally the 31st and they stuck to the plan they made. First one of the creatures was to distract the guards while the others snuck up behind them and knocked them out. They were uncarable and didn’t care about anything until they got their revenge.

 The Eagle chose to distract the guards. While he was distracting them, as stuck to the plan the others went behind them and knocked them out. Alarms were set off but thankfully they had enough time to escape. And to the village they went. They arrived and no one suspected a thing. And as stuck to the plan the phoenix pulled out the curse book. And started enchanting the words. “Set a curse to the land, as I will repay you in return.” he repeated that over and over again. As a huge circle circulated in the sky the phoenix started to laugh and when the process was finished he fled the scene and was never heard of again….. 

The Stubborn Mechanic

 The Stubborn Mechanic !

It was a very boring day for the mechanic. All he did all day was be stuck in that little working shop, fixing cars for people. He wanted to do something that he never got to do. He tried dancing, but that was too tiring. He tried bungee jumping, which was too frightening. He then thought of something that would be so fun to him! He wanted to go scuba diving, on the beach near his shop. He finished off the car he was fixing and closed down his shop. He then went to a Scuba diving shop near him. He went into the shop and said “Good morning”to the shopkeeper. He then went on his way looking through the shop for some new swimming gear. He only had $25 so he had to spen it wisely.. He spotted a nice swimming suit all in one. It was for 15 bucks. “Well this’ll  be good.” he said in a very deep voice. He went up to the register and paid for his $15 swimsuit. He walked out the shop and then went to Kmart to look for a pair of scuba-diving goggles and a snorkel pack, and some fins. All together it was $20, but the kmart people let him get away with it. It was only 10 bucks away anyways. After he was done paying for his stuff, he then went back home and got ready for his big day. He first put on his swimsuit, The swim suit covered his whole body. After that he headed down to the beach near him. There were actually rumors going around saying there was a huge shipwreck underwater so he went to borrow a boat off his friend anyway. Once he got there he saw other people were scuba diving too! He got his boat and got some people to help him drag it onto the beach. Once it was on the water, he got it running and other people asked if they could go with him too. He agreed and they went. But first he went back to his car and got his scuba-diving gear out, then he locked the car. After that he went running back to his boat, and he got in it and it started going and they were on their way to find that shipwreck! They were at the location it was meant to be. They all put on their snorkeling gear and they dived into the water. They got in there and it was absolutely beautiful down there. They saw all kinds of fish. He even saw the fish he wanted to see. And that fish was the Big mouth fish. They also saw other kinds of amazing fish. They continued scuba diving till they saw a huge rusty looking shipwreck. THEY’D FOUND IT! THEY FOUND THE MISSING SHIPWRECK EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO FIND ALL YEAR! Just imagine the money they would get for this. Well the person who spotted the ship was the mechanic so he would be getting all the money. He was willing to share his money with all the people that went scuba diving with him since he was getting 120 MILLION BUCKS! He gave them all 1 million each. That was 5 million bucks gone. It wasnt a big deal for him. After all that money he got he decided he wanted to upgrade his mechanic shop. He didn’t want to quit his job just because of the money he got, he didnt want to leave all his loyal friends behind. It was a very good day for him. So fun.

Fiafia

 At FiaFia it was so fun and exciting. When I got there I was with my 2 sisters, cousin and myself !

When we walked through the entrance we thought we had to pay because they were holding up

buckets and there were 2 of them. Once we got in we walked around looking for my friend. While

we were walking around she looked for some food and bought some. My cousin got a marshmallow

stick and my sister got a milkshake. My other sister went to her dressing room and got changed. When I

couldn't look for my friend I went back to the entrance and waited for him. When he came he told me we

should go to our dressing rooms so we did. We were 10 minutes early and had to come back 10 minutes

later. When we decided to walk around we got bored so we went back to our dressing room and asked if

we could get changed early. We then went to the dressing room to ask. He then said yes might as well

and handed our clothes. We went to the bathrooms and got changed. While I was getting changed I put

on my jeans and realised someone had stretched it out. I was so mad so I went back and said if the

jeans were even mine. He then said "I'm so sure those were the jeans you handed me" so I just made up

an excuse and said never mind they were mine. I walked back to the toilets so mad and when I was

done getting changed I folded my school clothes and put them on a chair in the staff room. Once me and

my friends were done getting changed we wanted to go back out but was told we were not allowed. "Once

your in your dressing room you stay there" yeah yeah. So annoying. They were hungry and wanted to

buy food but weren't allowed to buy it. But it wasn't fair because other fiafia groups were out of there

dressing rooms buying food for themselves. After we were done we went back to our dressing room and

waited for the fiafia call. Once it was called we went out and sat and waited.

Wilson

Today in literacy class we read a story and on this presentation we had to describe what happened in the story!

Writing about our artwork (Week 1-3)

 

Writing about Tonga

 Alphabet Brainstorm

~Tonga~

(Pg101, Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey, The Writing Book)

Watch the tourism movie about Tonga.

For each letter of the alphabet, write a sentence about Tonga which includes 1 descriptive word which starts with that letter. A has been done for you.

A	Tonga has an ancient village which shows how the people of Tonga used to live many years ago.
B	They were held together by a belt, which were ropes that were braided out of coconut husks.
C	Tonga was then declared a constitutional monarchy.
D	Each island group makes them differently so it is easy to determine where someone is from by the look of your ta’ovala and kiekie.
E
F
G	Mats that are passed down from generation to generation often symbolized their social status, and often marked as signs of respect.
H	For thousands of years, Tongans have been making handicrafts.
I
J
K	Each island group makes them differently so it is easy to determine where someone is from by the look of your ta’ovala and kiekie.
L	The main island, Tongatapu, is protected by lagoons and limestone cliffs.
M	Women usually wear kiekie, which is a modified version of the males.
N	One of the most known islands would be Tongatapu, while the capital city is Nuku’alofa.
O	It is said that in earlier times, men who were coming from long trips overseas would cover themselves in these mats before visiting the chief of the village.
P	They are used for many purposes, such as bedding and flooring, births, deaths, and weddings.
Q
R	Mats that are passed down from generation to generation often symbolized their social status, and often marked as signs of respect.
S	Mats that are passed down from generation to generation often symbolized their social status, and often marked as signs of respect.
T	The story says that around 3000 years ago, Polynesians had settled in Tongatapu.
U	Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of more than 170 South Pacific islands, many uninhabited, most lined in white beaches and coral reefs and covered with tropical rainforest.
V
W	They are used for many purposes, such as bedding and flooring, births, deaths, and weddings.
X
Y
Z

Syllables Practice 2

 Syllables

Words are made up of parts called syllables. Each syllable has a vowel sound. A fun way to count syllables is to clap as you read each word. 

Examples:

Bat	1 clap	1 syllable
monkey	2 claps	2 syllables
forever	3 claps	3 syllables

Now it’s your turn:

Words that have 2 syllables	Words that have 3 syllables	Words that have 4 syllables or more
Monkey	Chocolate	Appreciate
Autumn	Emeline	Authority
Among	Beautiful	Application
Ugly	Addition	Capitalism
Pretty	Subtraction	Capacity
Willy	Family	Autonomy
Wonka	Adventure	Calculation
Golden	Hamilton	Communication
Ticket	Fabulous	Magnificent
Woolly	Wonderful	Anticipate

One or Two Syllables?

Look at the words below and sort them into the correct column below

work live very sentence old

place years again picture

little only sound help move

One Syllable	Two Syllables
Work   Live   Old   Years   Sound Place   Move   Help	Very   Sentence    Again   Little   Picture    Only

Syllable Zoo

Look at each of the words and write the correct number of syllables for each word. 

Word	# of Syllables	Word	# of Syllables
elephant	3 syllables	kangaroo	3 syllabes
zebra	2 syllables	walrus	2 syllables
lion	2 syllables	wolf	1 syllable
skunk	1 syllable	chimpanzee	3 syllables
pelican	3 syllables	hippo	2 syllables
monkey	2 syllables	bear	1 syllable
snake	1 syllable	alligator	4 syllables
ostrich	2 syllables	panda	2 syllables

Syllables

Choose some words from around the class or even students' names and write down how many syllables for each word. 

Pick at least 20 words.

Word	# of Syllables	Word	# of Syllables
Sally	2 syllables	Computer	3 syllables
Paula	2 syllables	IOS	3 syllables
Emeline	3 syllables	Android	2 syllables
Scrunchie	2 syllables	School	1 syllable
Hair	1 syllable	Jumper	2 syllables
Reading	2 syllables	Shorts	1 syllable
Golden	2 syllables	Sport	1 syllable
Creative	3 syllables	Athletics	3 syllables
Maker	2 syllables	Table	2 syllables
Space	1 syllable	Chair	1 syllable