Solomon

We have being learning how to write a narrative. I think this is a good story because it is long and there are technical words in it. It took me a long time and I need to do lots of editing to get it right. ANOTHER FAIRY TALE ADVENTURE Along time ago there were two friends. One was a peanut called Peanut and the other was a ginger bread man. One crystal clear morning, Peanut and Ginger bread man were walking down the narrow cobbled lain that ran outside Peanut’s little brick house. “I can’t wait to go on that adventure for my birthday,” said Ginger bread man. “It’ll be really fun,” agreed Peanut. They came to an intersection, were a rude driver sharply turned the corner splashing them with road water and mud. “Ew!” they both yelled. Being food they would spoil very quickly but, before they could do anything a cloud of mist came out of nowhere and completely submerged Ginger bread man. When Peanut looked up the sight horrified him. The evil pig gangsters (three little pigs) Cloud had got his best friend! As he watched, the cloud started away with Ginger Bread Man bouncing away inside....   Meanwhile Dan (the dead pig skeleton that is pretty much a zombie) was on guard outside a cottage of bricks, where his ancestors had held refuge against the big bad William the wolf a thousand years ago. At that very moment though, Wilber and Wendy wolves came along. It was the anniversary of big bad William’s death in the cooking pot. Wilbur and Wendy tried to blow down the cottage as a mark of respect for William. As Dan watched, a fuzzy shape with a dot in the middle appeared on the horizon. Cloud had accomplished his mission. Hopefully he had the peanut. When Cloud got to the cottage there of course he only had Ginger Bread Man. The evil pig gangsters had come outside and were so annoyed at their pet that they gave him a good spanking!! “Ouch, no, ouch” cried Cloud as he was managing being hit, but actually felt no pain at all because the pigs hooves went straight through him. Eventually the evil pig gangsters gave up and let him go on one condition that he brought back Peanut. “Yes” sob “I will” Cloud had agreed and went on his way dripping. CHAPTER 3 By now Peanut had gone home to his small brick house on the cobbled lane. He’d got dry and was wondering what to do about his lost friend. He had been thinking for a while when a plan started to form in his mind. It got bigger and better until he thought his brain would explode and he just had to write it down. Here is what it looked like The next day Peanut went out into the forest to set up his plan. It didn’t take long before Cloud came looking. Peanut quickly blew him into the jar and closed it. Unfortunately for cloud it got very hot in the jar and after a while he condensed and became a puddle in the bottom of the jar. Even though cloud was a miserable puddle on the bottom of the jar, Peanut could still talk to him. When Peanut woke up he looked at the jar and felt sorry for the puddle (Cloud). So he went into town and bought a fog machine. When he got home he persuaded Cloud to join him in his expedition to free Ginger Bread Man. That night was a cold one, and Peanut thought it was a good night to make Cloud into a cloud again. Peanut got the jar and poured the contents into the fog machine. He pushed the switch and out came the strangest thing!!! Not just one cloud came out but ten mini clouds. They joined together and made Cloud again. Peanut hopped on and off, they soared. They went over mountains, through forests and wound their way through geyser plains. When they were above the geyser plains, Cloud got bigger. “I notice you’re getting bigger “called Peanut over the hiss of the geysers. “ The steam is fuelling me” replied cloud. It was true. When they flew over an erupting geyser cloud swelled up. ‘Boy it feels good to be me again” Cloud exclaimed. “Not a puddle, not trapped in a jar, it feels great to be free”. “Stop day dreaming we’re almost there” said Peanut, “and be quiet” he added. As they got closer Peanut put some sleeping medicine into a syringe and closed the lid. They glided silently through the sky towards the brick cottage. By now Wilbur and Wendy wolves had gone home to Mama Wolf. CHAPTER 4 Outside the brick cottage, Daniel (Dan’s little brother) didn’t see it coming until it was too late. “Aaaaggghh” he screamed as the drug entered his system and in no time at all, he was helpless as a new born baby. Dan had heard the scream as the injection entered Daniel’s butt and came to see what was going on. An injection wouldn’t work on a skeleton, so Peanut punched Dan’s head off his shoulders and it bounced in to a rose bush while Dan’s body blundered into a tree and fell into pieces. “One left,” thought Peanut. You guessed it with all the noise Danny pig (oldest of three pigs at the time) came outside. Before his tiny pig-brain could work out what was going on there was a needle in his butt too! CHAPTER 5 Now the pigs were helpless and it would be easy to get Ginger Bread Man out of the dungeon in the basement of the cottage and away to safety. When they found him, it became a lot harder. Ginger Bread Man hadn’t had any food for over a week. He had eaten his own legs just to survive and that meant he couldn’t walk. Peanut picked him up, took him outside and lowered him carefully onto Cloud. “Ow, er, ow” Ginger Bread Man muttered during their flight. Suddenly “Hey” shouted Peanut “you just flew over my house, turn around”. “No you silly billy” laughed Cloud, “Ginger Bread Man ate his leg and needs a new one, so we’re going to visit the Muffin Man”. “Oh sorry,” murmured Peanut. “It’s ok”. When they got to the muffin man’s house they were quite surprised...”Hey you, no pets allowed’ a plump man with an afro said. CHAPTER 6 When they introduced themselves and assured Bill (that was the plump man’s name) that Cloud was not an animal that would eat the food, he took them to the Muffin Man. The Muffin Man was delighted to have guests and got to work right away creating set of magnificent legs for Ginger Bread Man. He sung nursery rhymes as he worked. His favorite seemed to be “Oh the grand old duke of York he had 10,000 men he walked them to the top of the hill and he walked them down again! When they were up they were up, when they were down they were down, when they were only half way up they were neither up nor down” he sang this one a lot until...”I’m done!’ he shouted. When he opened the oven, on the tray there were two of the most beautiful legs any of them had ever seen. “Now to join them on,” said the Muffin Man. He got some unused mixture and put it on top of the new legs. He put them on the Ginger Bread Man’s stumps and held them there until the mixture was set. When it was set he gave the Ginger Bread Man two candy canes to use as walking sticks as he had a walk around to test his legs. When he was used to walking normally again he gave the candy canes back to the Muffin Man, thanked him and walked outside. “Boy it feels good to be walking normally again,” he yelled with joy. They jumped onto cloud and off they flew to the brick house on the cobbled lane where this adventure had all begun. “Oh and I don’t want an adventure for my birthday anymore” he said. THE END

We have been learning how to write an explanation. I have wriiten one about switches. I am proud of it because I have used lots of technical terms and have followed our Success Criteria.

HOW A SWITCH WORKS!!!!!

In the following you will learn how to build a switch and how they operate.

How to build a switch. Firstly you will need: Two wires, a light bulb and a battery. After you have got these assemble them so that each wire is attached to the battery at either end. Then put other end of each wire on the light bulb. Now the light should switch on. If you take one end off the light will go out!

How a switch operates: When you a turn a switch on connects two metal wire pins witch connects the flow Energy and makes the light switch on. When you go to turn the switch off the two metal wire pins disconnect and the and the electricity is cut off. So the light will go out.

So now you should be able to build a switch and understand how they operate.

We have been learning to write a poem about summer, using our senses. We were also focusing on using poetic devices such as similes, metaphors and personification in our poem.

THAT WAS SUMMER

Coming home to the deafening noise of cicadas sounding like a herd of elephants stampeding through the forest. The ice block I was licking tasted like a peppermint dot.

That was summer.

The sun beat down on the sand making it as hot as a fire ball made completely of negative energy. I dashed into the water with my boogie board after getting of the wildest roller coaster ride ever. Walking back up the sand dunes I listen to the dying sounds of mammoth waves crashing on the beach.

That was summer

Walking through the forest listening to the sounds of birds and looking for bugs. Suddenly a really big one shell as shiny as a polished tomato as it moves I push the button click flash blinding light bright as the sun the beetle slowly coming back to struggling like a worm on concrete trying to get back into the ground.

That was summer

Waking up to the smell of bacon and eggs reaching to my nostrils. Getting up, dashing into the kitchen looking at my plate as I dig my fork into my egg it explodes like a volcano and my elephant wrinkly sausages are covered with soft yoke …

THAT WAS SUMMER