Chantelle

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__ Reading/trash 27/10/11 __ __ Prediction __ I think trash is going to be about some ether Italian, Spanish or Mexican homeless boys taht find a secret while sorting trash then their lives change, after finding this secret their lives are in danger. Also I think the boys are getting chased by people who know about the secret and they know the boys know or they could be getting chased by people who want to know the secret and know the boys know it. I think the boys are getting chased from gutters into avenues because there not safe in the gutters. The reason I think this is because it says in the blurb that they find a deadly secret, there getting chased from gutters to avenues and they can't run forever. That tells me that there life in the dumpsite has changed to running around in avenues getting chased by people who want to know or know the secret. I also think the are Spanish, Mexican or Italian because of two of the boys names Raphael Fernandez and Gardo.

__ Descriptive writing __ __ Term 3 writing sampl e __ Boing, I flew through the air with my best friend Simone near by, then made my way back down to the colourful jumping pillow. It was the holidays and I was at Miranda Hot Pools running back and fourth from the pool to the pillow with the strong scent of sunscreen making its way up my nostrils. The water is scorching hot although I soon forgot about that I was already trying to get back onto the huge jumping pillow, then all of a sudden I was a rabbit leaping through the air making its way towards the hard ground.

Opening my eyes I saw that everything looked blury, the rubber pillow towered above me I was like an ant compared to it. I could taste dirt in my mouth and felt little scrathes on my foot from the roughness of the ground. Getting up slowly I started walking back to the pillow, thump I crashed back to the ground again with unbearable pain shooting up my leg I started panicking. Lying in a clump on the dirt I desperately looked around for help seeing nobody but the little heads bobbing up and down on the pillow, I was on my own.

Hearing laughter from the children I tried to stand up again only ending up with the same result. Soon I felt tears rapidly running down my face, by this time I was terrified and didn't know what to do next. I lay there on the ground with the trees branches swaying in the wind above me wondering what Simone was doing,Suddenly I heard her voice call my name Chantelle I weakly sat up and managed to say I'm here luckily she had heard and started sprinting towards me like an elephant in a stampede, Simone put her arm around me and helped me up, I hopped and limped my way to a seat, I felt so releived I was found. Soon after I had explained everything i thanked Simone many times, I would have to get my leg checked as it was still throbbing painfully but I was saved thanks to the bestest friend in the whole wide world! __ Reading Activity __ __ Focus questions __ In the book Lydia has just refused the offer from the man called Jabu who is also working for Lydia's grandmother. The offer was for Jabu who has money to look after Lydia, Joe and Kesi. Jabu must be feeling a little shocked as he made a great offer to look after Lydia and her siblings.

Well done Chantelle, does this mean you think that Jabu feels amazed that someone would pay that much money for his services?

__ My response to the book 08/09/11 __ I think this book is sad because there are three orphaned children that are looking after them selfs, I havn't lost interest in this book because there's so much going on like Lydia and her siblings are looking after themselfs and there friends mother has died of the same disese that there mother had also there's there grandmother that's doing there best to make Lydia's life miserable. I think there are some characters that don't need to be in there like the football players, I read about them and then the book goes onto a whole different thing because I think the writer dosn't know how to bring in the next thing. I also think that the author could add a little bit more about Lydia's grandmas life as it said she lost her son as it's Lydia's father, she's blaming it on her Lydia and her siblings. But as I've been reading on I think there is alot more to Lydia's grandma not liking them.

__ Response after finishing the book - Torn Pages __ I liked how the book keep your mind busy with all the things that were happening, one thing I didn't like about the book was how it lost me in a few places(to get back on track I had to really think about it and use my prior knowledge Synthesising, yah!! ). Something else I liked was the diary entry of her mums, Lydia read it throughout the book to give her confidence, it was sort of like guidence as well. Great to see you used this theme as your ballad theme.

There were a lot of language features used, there were adjectives throughout the book although I think there could have been more adjectives in places where they were lacking. I think there were in a few places too many adjectives in the sentence. As well as adjectives there were a few similes, the thing I liked about the similes was the book wasn't over loaded with them there must have been about three or four, they weren't close together.

The vocab used in most places of the book, were great, they didn't lose my attention, but to be honest there were a few bits in there that the book did lose my focus and that might be one of the reasons that I did get lost in the book. Great honesty

The plot in the book was quite good the idea is great and it all works out in the end well mostly it said that they will always be stuggling for food but they have heaps of friends and they will ALL go to school. Something also good about the plot was how it never went off track, it stuck with the problem and it was all to do with the problem. So it was concise

The theme was to keep believing and you will get through it, Lydia showed this well thats what got her through the whole drama of her mother dying also if she didn't follow the theme she could have just given up and felt sorry for herself, she kept fighting no matter what happened. I liked the theme it's a good thing for us children to keep believing and to not give up,this book shows a great example of these two things. Very true Chantelle and positive

The characters fit in great, having three children was great because it brought more excitement into the book and also some sadness. There were some good characters and bad even one of the characters were both good and bad. Having good and bad characters make the book more exciting and brings a great problem into the book, it will keep the readers attention. I liked the characters personalities they suited the book great and brought with them a few laughs, I just couldn't help laughing out loud I must have done it three or four times. A book that makes you laugh out loud is always a good sign

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Date-04/08/11 || Torn Pages -By Sally Grindley || Lydia is looking after her two siblings(Kesi and Joe) as her mother and father has died, theyare staying with there grandmother but she has lost a child and is taking it out onthe three children, she won't provide much food and won't let them go to school. The children have to look after themselfs. || Date-11/08/11 || Torn Pages -By Sally Grindley || The children's grandma who is ment to be looking after them came over and said she would speak to the school principal and would provide food for them if Lydia worked for her, that means she won't be able to go to school but her siblings can. || Date-06/09/11 || Torn Pages -By Sally Gindley || Lydia quite working for her grandmother as she was very unfair, then she went and talked to the school principal and she said she would talk to someone that would help them, also she said that they could all attend the school without paying. Lydia said that her siblings would but she wouldn't as there is to much to do at home. || Date- || Torn Pages -By Sally Grindley ||  || Date- || Torn Pages -By Sally Grindley ||  || Date- || Torn Pages -By Sally Grindley ||  ||
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__ Homework Balance-Forces __ Our topic at school is balance and right now we are learning about forces and heres one of them, friction. The force friction is made by two things rubbing together, try this rub your to hands together to make friction and what do you feel, yes thats right heat when there is friction there is heat, always! Also friction slows things down so when you slide down a slide what slows you down is friction interesting isn't it, ohh and I almost forgot all forces always come in pairs so if something is getting pushed then there is something pulling it aswell also forces always go in the direction its applied.Friction is normally used in your everyday life a lot of forces are just remember you don't just walk because you walk and you don't just stop after going down something there are forces all around you!

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Trade

Trade is when you buy something from someone or sell something to someone, you can earn things also exchange things and in other words swap things.

Fair trade is when some countries help other countries that live in poverty or are poor,they give donations and buy certain products.Without fair trade countries wouldn't know what to do fair trade only just keeps people alive.

Countries involved in fair trade are NZ, St Lucia, North America, Ireland, United States, Canada and Guatemala also there is The EFTA team that involves Europe, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Australia Thats alot of countries and theres also more.

Countries involved in unfairtrade are China,India,Bangladesh,Hidii,South Africa,Aisa and Carabein That is also alot of countries with still more remaining.There are fourty six nations involved in unfair trade wow.

People involved in untrade For example China,They have poor payment, someone picks some coffee bean for two cents a kilogram and people in fairtrade countries get three dollars a kilogram thats a big difference also people that pay for the coffee beans pay two dollars in unfair trade countries and in fairtrade countries they also pay two dollars do you think thats fair?

More interesting things about fairtrade is that there are over three thousand products involved in unfairtrade thats alot! Also unfair trade countries have seven point five million people benefiting from fairtrade which is good because obvously people want to make a difference.After reading what I have told you do you agree with fairtrade or not think about this.

By Chantelle

My best day ever

The sun was just rising and I was in the living room waiting for my present. I felt like my head would blow I couldn't wait any longer what would I get!

My mum seemed to be taking forever but then suddenly,surprise my eyes widened and I had a broad smile appeared on my face, a little pure fluffy black figure started to walk towards me bump,it was still a bit wobbly,I didn't know what it was at first but then I clicked.

I had got a cute kitten,it stopped in front of me with its adorable blue eyes looking at me.It was love at first sight we belonged together,it was so thrilling that I couldn't wipe the smile off my face.

<span style="color: #9f00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">I couldn't believe my eyes I have my own kitten I squeked with tears welling <span style="color: #9f00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">up in my eyes,''thank you so much it is exacly what I wanted,a cute,black fluffy <span style="color: #9f00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">kitten'',it is the best present ever!!!