BTB Auction!!! :-D

Painting is fun but even more fun when you can eat it!
Hello, I am Bridget and today we did the BTB auction. The BTB auction is when us, rm 6, brings in stuff we want to auction off. We earn BTB points by working, finishing of tasks, and even if we tag a certain person in a game. At the end of the term, we do the auction! I had gotten 28 BTB points, this is what I got, an edible paint brush. ( it's actually chocolate!)

AsTTle writing

Today I am going to describe my special place…   The master bedroom of messiness!! I have spent a total of 7 years there and there are still more to come. Last time we had to write about friendship, that was hard, but with the skills I have learnt through the year I am going to make this BTB! Read to the end and your socks will be blown off!  { I hope… }

The bedroom. A place where disasters may occur. A place to relax. The only room in the house that I feel lost in a different world, if we weren’t here, I could not tell you this. The curtains have teddy bears on them, each one of them have a unique expression like everybody should. When I open the window, a soft breeze flows in like a cloud lost at sea. My owl is filled with a herb called lavender, and that gives the room a nice sense of freedom, I like to flop down on my bed and enter my own little world, I feel for my radio and turn that on, it’s like the war is over and everyone is free of danger, even though we are not.

If it is raining and cold, and the fire is going, I can wander over to the room with the chimney and close the doors trap heat in. It always feels like a warm tiny cottage where it is safe to hide. There is another little door in my room, that leads to a low roof and long 8 meters, once I had friends over and we were playing with the door and then I jammed my finger in it. It is also where is store all my junk and old toy that I don’t need anymore. The only thing is I don’t like leaving the door open for too long, because of those little rodents called mice. Yes, if one gets out we have to run the whole house down to just get it.

Just recently we got a nice cat named tucker, and he keeps down the numbers of mice. He comes up to my room sometimes and then dad shoves him down. Back to the story… The room of messiness is kept messy, if it is cleaned I cannot find anything, that means I can roar the house down like a lion. I can also listen to my weird voice if I want, but I choose not to. I have made many huts that have lasted for about a week, each one is different. The are many more different combinations that I can do, so until we move houses I am going to keep making those devilish huts, that hide me from my friends. When I am in them I need a torch otherwise I can’t see a thing like a bat, in other words, I am as blind as a bat in there.

That pretty much wraps it up, I have talked a little bit about some of what is looks like, what I do in there, where some doors lead to, and my huts that I made. I hope I have blown your socks off otherwise I still hope you enjoyed!!

By Bridget

HUNTING ARGUMENT

Hunting isn’t a nice sport to play. In fact I don’t even call it a sport, I call it a game of slaughter. When you go hunting you are trying to kill an animal, And if you don’t clean the animal, you shot, it will start stinking and other animals have to suffer the horrible death, and stench. I think you should be the one who cleans the animal up!

Hunting is bad for the environment & endangered species. Sometime inexperienced hunter mistake a species that is ok to hunt with a endangered species. An example of this in NZ is the takahe, which are endangered, being mistaken for pukeko and accidentally murdered.

Trophy hunting is also a big problem.Trophy hunting is when you go to places like Africa and hunt big game animals  like, lions , tigers , giraffes and elephants, ete.

This is a problem because soon the endangered species could become extinct! An example of this is the white Rhino, it was hunted to almost extinction by trophy hunters  who just wanted tuskes for ivey. This is why hunting has a negative impact for many living things.

You may not think this, but when you go through the bush you might  stand on a native plant. When you go out you don’t look down to see what you are treading on, that means the plants can be driven to extinction and will die out. If you make a path to a hunting area, and cut down a native tree, then you are destroying the bush. If you do that in the wrong place, like a national park, you can be fined for it.

Hunting has some good things about it too. First of all you can get free meat and if you're trained it takes only minutes to find an animal. The hormones in the animal change to frightened when they can see you clearly, this means the meat at the supermarket has those hormones. While when you kill the animal without it seeing you, means the meat is fine. So therefore hunting is cheaper then the meat at the supermarket you buy.

Hunting keeps the population of lots of animal down. Lots of animals breed quickly and cause destruction to our natural environment. This will affect native animals that need the food the pests take for themselves. For example the humble stoat, he will sneak away into native bird borrows and take the eggs for himself like a kiwi’s, he can also climb up trees so he can catch his prey. Goats keep the prickles down but can take a native plant for a

different plant and eat it, and animals in the wild can eat our native plants too, they could wipe out the native plants. So even if it is sad to kill an animal, the hunters keep pests populations down.

A thing to think about is do you want to hunt? It is a decision every hunter has thought about, think carefully. The last thing you want is to make a wrong turn in your life and take the wrong path. I know I don’t want to hunt and kill the poor animals, they deserve to live and so do you. What I mean by that is some hunters kill their partner by accident or the hunter is so focused on the animal they nearly walk off a cliff. So why hunt, why take this risk of your life? Some say it is for fun, some say it is good exercise, yes that is true but think…   do poor animals like elephants need to be killed just for the tusks? I don’t think they have to die, this is why I am standing up and saying animals have a right to LIVE!

Again??!!?

OMG! It happened again!! the B T B auction of fortune!! If you follow my blog you will have seen the BTB auction before so to save me explaining it you can find it down on my blog or well here is a Link to it! Again I got a moro bar the last item there... I got it for all my BTB points which was 27, so here is a picture of the bar, a little smaller than before...

The Arthur's pass camp

            Arthur's pass camp

“Gah, no, don’t, please…” when I sit up, the room came into focus. It was the day of the almighty Arthur’s Pass camp!

I scorched my toast and spread some honey onto it of course I ate it, I didn’t mind if it was a bit burnt. When I arrived at school my friends were already there, Everyone's bags were on the floor, so I hung mine up and wandered into the classroom just as the bus turned up, it was a crazy fiasco. Everyone ran outside like a wild tornado when Mr M gave us the heads up… we chucked our bags onto the bus and climbed in, It was about a 1 hour 30 minute trip toArthur's pass.

When we got to Arthur’s Pass everyone got out and carried a couple of bags on to the front porch. We went in took our boots off and stood there, gobsmacked dumbfounded even.

The room was sooooooo big! When I was on the bus I thought it would be small and like the place we went to last time, but instead it is big and roomy, there were big long wood tables and two doors to the kitchen. So we sat down had  morning tea, then Logan, the owner of the lodge, came in to greet us.

After that we went out for orienteering, my group was Rhea, Mark, Sonny, Sahara’s Dad, Carolyn and Dayna. We were looking for white posts with words engraved in them, we came last by 5 minutes though it was still fun!

Next we came back for lunch after lunch we went to the bunk rooms and sorted our stuff out. The bunks were 3 high so of course I was going for top bunk, though Rhea got it, she climbed up and then couldn't get down luckily her mum was on camp and got her down. That meant I got the top bunk!! >;-) , So I chucked my sleeping bag up and went back to the lounge / dining room.

We the went for a hike up devil's punchbowl, and believe me there were a lot of steps we played a couple of  games then went up. When we were going up Logan stopped a couple of times to show us a dung plant and mosses. When we got to the top they split us into two groups I was in the first group and we went up to see the waterfall, the other group stayed and learnt how to play a new game, then we switched around. Kitchin group one was taken back in a van to prepare dinner, and I was in it. That night we had nachos and for dessert we had chocolate cake and fruit, I think the fruit was nicer than the cake because the cake was BURNT…

In the morning we woke to a  big thick blanket of snow. We all ran to the window in the lounge. White white and more white was all we could see - except for the trees - Some ran outside but didn’t get far, for Mr M stopped them. After breakfast we were allowed to go outside, but the boys blew it and kept throwing snowballs at people's faces then Mr M banned snowball throwing. We had a snowman building competition our team came second.

After that we went for a walk in two groups, One group stayed at the lodge and had  lunch the other went for the walk with Logan. The trees were still covered in snow we tried to throw snowballs at each other though Logan caught us, then he made up a game that you are allowed to shake the trees or throw a snowball at it to try get snow on someone. I got a few people but got a lot of snow on myself.

That night we had spaghetti bolognese and for pudding we had apple crumble though I missed out on it because Dad had to take me home, the road wasn't opened till 5.00pm from the snow. I also missed out on camp concert, the bonus was I didn’t have to pack up on Friday.

That was the end of my camp and I enjoyed it!! Thanks for reading.. Hope you enjoyed!!!!  \[~.~]/ ← smiley face

Here is part 1 below is part 2

Hide and seek

Hide and seek...

The water is as cold as ice, but I don’t care I am with my friend making a huge sand castle and I like that.

Other adults, in colourful swimsuits, are chatting though I do not understand their gossip.

A couple of people came down. They must not see what they are looking for, they look desperate, then leave in about 30 seconds.

The smell of the river is refreshing, and the wind is just right; A nice warm breeze not too cold.

My friend’s dad comes over, saying they have to go.

Then someone comes running down the hill, They are is such a rush OH NO, it's dad I go up and hide in the bush. The bush is bright green like a highlighter, the wonderful smell floats up my nose, like a powerful perfume. Dad goes back just in time the bush is starting to scratch me like a cat clawing at a mouse.

I run up the hill and run back to the tent as fast as a bird that has a jet pack!

But dad caught me making my escape I mean I am only three, I’m not too fast.

“Alright you little… COME HERE!” Dad yells.

Now I have to take in the shouting from dad.

He has become his thunderous side again, and wants me to go straight home, though I can’t. When the horrible shouting noise stops mum comes calmly over and says, the whole of tui was looking for me…


By Bridget

My Monday Morning

‘And then I fall off the… ‘ it was a dream, I lie in bed half awake half asleep. My eyes are groggy with sleep dust and my lips are dry from last night with no water,(radio alarm) “remember, today is Monday, the first day of the school and work term so children will be going back to…” the radio doesn’t get to finish the sentence off because I turn it off and groan, “...school”. It must be 6.45am, the time I set my alarm though it feels like I have been woken up by a storm at 3.52am. The dueves get pushed off with the sheets, and I feel for my green monster slippers and blue and grey dressing gown.

I grab a bowl out of the cupboard, with a very empty box of nutty crunch. As soon as the packets gone I realise that I’m having a small breakfast and gobble it all up like a racing car. I then have a shower it is so warm I don’t want to get out but I know I have to. After a good ten minute shower, I do my hair get  dressed grab my chrome

-book and bag then  jump in the car beeping and tooting the horn like an angry bird. Mum finally gets annoyed enough and comes out of the house, I can see she is grumpy and doesn’t want to drive me to school because she has to drive to Christchurch. I sit down and wait till I get to the warm room 6, in this icy cold car…

The great adventure part 1,2,3

Part 1 the gymnastics on the stairs

I am rolling down the stairs in my sleeping bag like a rolling rock, actually that's not quite right.I am slipping now roly-poling down the stairs in my sleeping bag at high speed bumping into walls on the way down.I am in a fancy hotel in France with my friends, Sinead and Bridget. it has been so good so far but I still can’t believe Sinead brought her annoying brother with her( she even regretted it but her Mum made her).But what I didn’t know was something alot more unexpeted is going to happen but I can’t tell you what they  are yet, it’s a secret for now.Anyway back to the story I am doing part of my gymnastics routine on the stairs and My head hurts because on the way down the stairs I  grazed it on my way down.And to make matters worse some of the blood on my forehead went onto the stairs.Suddenly I see blood on the stairs.

look around I didn’t see that before but the I feel my head.“Ahhhh” I’m Bleeding on top of My head Suddenly I bumped  into my friend Sinead littelery I bumped into her not on purpose of course.But soon she knocked over the line for the toilet Bridget was first so it sent Bridget head-first into the toilet bowl. But while I was getting up I lost sight of Sinead.

Thanks for reading part 1, please read part 2 next.

Part 2 the toilet!

I am running into the toilets at speed now,[the toilets are automatic] my head goes into the toilet bowl and just at that moment the automatic toilet FLUSHES!!!!!!!!How did this happen you may ask well, we all went to France (me, Natasha and Sinead, Sineads brother and our parents)and we came to this fancy hotel and now we are staying here for a holiday. Oh and did I mention Shaymus came too ( Sinead’s older brother, she regretted it a lot )so the toilets here are automatic and I have a fear of automatic toilets. All I remember is that Natasha was roly polying towards the line, then knocking Sinead down, which knocked 3 strangers down, and the last stranger that was behind me pushed me which sent me running at high speed and I couldn’t stop, and then the doors open, someone walks out I am coming in at high speed.Next thing I find my head stuck in the toilet bowl. I could smell chlorine and water went into my mouth, then it FLUSHED it felt gruesome and i think what is happening what is happening and that kept on going on in my mind. So that's what happened!

thanks for reading parts 2 and part 1 before

Please read part 3  now.

PART- 3 The monster under my bed.

Ahh!!!! You're probably wondering why I’m screaming, well I’ll tell you now. Hi I’m Sinead, Natasha and bridget’s friend and we are on a holiday in France in a hotel with our parents and my older brother Shaymus [ I regret it a lot ], I should get on with the story now. I was walking past my bed to get the first aid kit for Natasha because she grazed head while she was rolling down the stairs. I had just grabbed it when suddenly something grabbed my ankle. I was frozen with fear. I was so scared that I couldn’t scream or even move! About 3 seconds later I fell face first into the bed and I bit my lip really hard and it started bleeding. I finally managed to move so I gathered all my strength and courage (because i was so scared) and I looked under my bed and there I saw my annoying Brother Shaymus pulling a scary face. “ you are the most annoying person in the world!’’I Yelled “I know I am” he said. He got out from under my bed and then I grabbed the first aid kit (still with goose bumps all over  me because I got such a fright when he grabbed my leg) ,ran down the stairs and gave the kit to Natasha then she put a plaster on the top of her head!I didn’t tell her but it looked kind of funny. I grabbed a cloth from the kit and cleaned the blood from my lip because it was still bleeding. “ Was it fun rolling down the stairs like a boulder?’’ I asked Natasha. “yep “ she said “but now Bridgets head is stuck in the toilet and I have a bleeding forehead!”. We rushed to the toilet [ luckily the door was not locked ]and there we met Bridget with her head stuck in the toilet so we pulled her out. “Thanks guys!” She says. ”The taste of toilet water is disgusting and it doesn't smell too nice when someone just done their business in it!”

THE END

THANKS FOR READING!!!!!!

Written by your  favourite student’s you have ever had, Sinead, Bridget and Natasha.

Credits

Part 1            Natasha

Part 2            Bridget

Part 3            Sinead

Punctuation editing            Sinead

Sentence editing            Bridget

Editing words            Natasha

spell check            Natasha

spell check assistant            Bridget

Maker of the storey ( who joined all the stories together) Sinead

            

Thank you so much

for reading this

we put our good time

and effort into this

we really hope you liked it!

More things done by Natasha Sinead and Bridget

• Jasmine's interview

• The monster mash
• Mr Madguts
• The iron giant

The auction of craziness and missforchune

Today we did our

BTB auction, for those who do not know what the BTB auction is it is auction when us kids get to spend our BTB points on stuff. A BTB point means Better Than Before that you earn when you behave in class, at the end of the term the auction happens so all term you add up your BTB points. I had earned  29 BTB points and spent them on a moro-bar. There were lots of things and most of the class got something. We did the same thing last term and there was more stuff then this time!!!

Global warming save the world

Global warming \ how to help

Today we need to make a change we need to help global warming there will be more on global warming but we need to start NOW!
Three quick things to slow global warming...

1.  Bike to work. When you use your car it pollutes the air and the world it slowly ending because of bad running cars and all the other cars. As a bonus you get fit!
2. Plant your own crops you can help the world and you don't have to use money. In the old days, you had to plant your crops and the wife would cook a meal.
3. Switch off some power, when we use power  it uses up our special fuel like fossil fuel. just switch off some power and play with your friends, go outside instead of being on a laptop or computer.

The white bread recipie

White Bread

“This delicious bread is best served hot with a bit of butter. It is very simple to make in just 10  steps!This bread can be served with soup,and is just a fraction of the cost then your normal supermarket bread.”

Health Star Rating

Ingredients

• Two Teaspoons of yeast
• Two cups warm water
• Two cups of flour
• Two teaspoons of regular salt
• Four to five cups of flour
• Oil

Tools

• A bowl
• A teaspoon
• A metric cup
• A wooden spoon (to stir with)
• A wet towel
• A bread pan
• An oven

Recipe to make the bread in ten easy steps

                    Method

Step 1. First, put your yeast in the bowl, to activate the yeast you need to put the warm Water in.

Step 2. If the yeast doesn’t froth up start all over again

Ten minutes later…

Remember if the bowl does not have a scummy foam on the top you have to start all over again

Step 3. Put the salt in your bowl then put two cups of flour ( half of the flour ) in it.

Step 4. Give it a good stir then add one cup of flour and stir it again, then add another cup of flour in, and stir, add the last cup of flour in, then stir really well.

Tip: If it gets tougher to turn with the spoon that’s good

You can get your hands in there, remember they need to be clean.

Step 5. Push down on the mixture when it is drier and knead it a bit. Pick it up and knead it in the air to get air into it too. Bring it over the bowl and give it a test to see if it holds together (hold it in mid air by the top) if half of it drops in the bowl, knead it a bit more till it seems a bit more stiff.

Step 6. Lay it down on the bench and get rid of the leftover flour in the bowl ( or get another bowl if you are ok with more dishes ) then add a bit of cooking oil in.

Step 7.  Put the ball in the bowl and flip it over so both sides get oil on them. Then put the damp towel over it and let

it stay like that for an hour .

Step 8. When you come back lift the towel off, the ball should BE bigger otherwise you need to start again.After that, you literally punch it down  then pick it up and mess with it a bit.

Step 9. Put a little bit of oil in your bread pan rub it around then put the ball in it, the ball should just fill the pan. Leave it for an hour and put the damp towel on.

An hour later...

Step 10!! Almost done lift the towel off again should have risen quite a bit, now it is ready to go in the oven. Set the oven to 400c let it heat up and then leave the bread in there for 30m or until it looks nice and brown. When bread comes out it should have a nice brown tan (though if it is like a brick start again)now you can cut it up and...

         ENJOY!!!

how to make complex sentences

Winno and Minner

Winno

I plan my writing using a variety of methods depending on purpose       e.g., flow charts, graphic organisers or brainstorms.

Minner

I am going to use a storyboard

    Winno and Minner

Hello my name is Winno and this in my annoying, silly, way too smart, little brother Minner he knows everything. We are from linger plamet if you thinking I made a spelling mistake I didn’t I’m really from linger plamet. So our parents are on vaccine in a country called New Zealand I have no idea what kind of place it is so don’t ask...

“BROTHER WHEN IS TEA I NEED IT NOW!”shouts Minner [that’s my brother he’s a big eater] “REMEMBER WE ARE GOING OUT FOR TEA” I shout back

“WELL LET’S GET IN BETTY NOW!”he shouts again

“OK THEN GET IN HER”I shout back, do you know how hard it is to shout for a while it’s not great for your throat. You won’t know who betty is will you, I thought so well Betty is our hover car, fits two people, it’s a she, and she’s a bright orange. So we get in and drive to Holocaust eaters it's a great place and it’s SUPER CHEAP believe me I chose it just because my brother is a huge eater. So yeah we ate until it was ten o’clock at night and then I said to Minner

“look we better go home now bro ok or we will never get up in the morning” and then the big BANG! “Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww please my tummy is only half full”he whines

“no, come on we need sleep now get into betty or else” I snap angrily.

So we get in and hover home then we go straight to bed. When I wake up, I go down stairs, on my way past the table I see a paper plane coming towards the house, so I go outside and grab the note it says: Please help me I went out to grab some more food and got kidnapped by lord interrater and now I’ll be locked up please rescue me I only have thirty-second to write it so please rescue me Minner  

“ Oh dear I hope he is still ok well I better set off in betty.” I mutter.

I gear up in armor and grab a sword and jump in betty. So far so good.soon I reach lord Interrateres  bass and put betty in park mode I hop on to the landing board. I see a door so I approach it. It is of course locked, so I bang on the door BANG BANG BANG

“ WHO GOES THERE?? Booms a loud deep voice. I remain silent, then...

“ you don’t know me but I want to talk to your leader” I finally replied.

Then the door opens very very very very very very very very very very slowly Once it opens I rush in. I run up the hallway then there are two paths “ahh”I scream I quickly do a random hand gesture, my hand lands on the left hall so I run into it. What I didn’t know was I took the wrong path and I was going to have to go through a heap of traps to get to minner and rescue him!

Part two will come soon so hang on tight for the next part two saving minner!!

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