Wednesday 27 August 2014

Marshmallows bare bones

WALT: create a bare bone plan

1: boy at campfire cooking marshmallows
2: a monster creeps up behind him
3: boy gets scared
4: campfire goes out
5: the monster gets closer
6: boy gets more scared
7: monster takes off mask and it's his friend
8: boy and his friend laugh

Friday 22 August 2014

Big day out By Mackenzie H

WALT: describe a moment in time

I went up the steps as i wanted to get to the top. the others where racing as well for the same reason. I can here the water as it went whoosh down. i went down and once i got down i feel good and wet. it was so cool. this is the best 5 mins of my life.

Friday 15 August 2014

Man to the past part 1 by Mackenzie

The adventure begins.

Hi. My name is Mackenzie and this is my EPIC story. Today I got a letter saying that my time machine is ready. Five years ago i built a time machine but i did not finish it. So I asked the guy who sent me the letir to finish it for me. Now it is finished and time to test it out. Fifty sakins later i got to my time machine and got ready to test the time mashing. I opened my time machine door I wanted to go back 5 minutes ago for a test. As it was going it lite up and went back 5 minutes ago and I took the town of life. BUT I forgot to read the instructions. OH NO! So now i am trapped 5 minutes in the past. but i know that my past self can not see me. so that is good. Then i read the instructions a little bit. It said that if i go back 5 minutes ago i went back 5 years ago. DOUBLE OH NO! Back at my normal time, an evil, evil man found my time machine and went back the same time as me and wanted to kill me. Before he spotted me i was in a house and was safe. some robots blow up the door. what good luck, there was a door on the roof. “I think i’m safe and clere. Five seconds later he got me in his site. “Frece, i am a bad cop and all i want is the stone of life.” said the bad cop with his big army of cops. “I would rather die than give it to you!” I said to the bad cop. “Look everybody, we can do this the easy way or the…” said the bad cop. then i started to run. “He took the hard way, FIRE YOUR GUNS!” said the bad cop. then everything started to blow up. “I got to get out of here.” I said to myself. Then i saw a plane with no roof and i jumped into it and flew away “I don’t know what i’m doing.” I said to myself. then the bad cop came with a big gun on top of his car. “Goodbye, Boom.” As he fired the big gun at the plane. The bullet almost hit me BUT it blow up the plane. “AAAAA!” I said to myself. As soon as i hit the ground, I started to run again. then i saw a car and i jumped in to it and drove away. then the escape from the army of cops began. Just as i needed help, my buddy jumped from the sky. “Need a hand?” my buddy said to me. “I shore do need a hand in defeating these robots.” I said to him. “You may remember me, i am oliver, I was the guy who sent you the letter when the time machine was finished.” oliver said. “Ok, I got a plan, you drive the car, and i will throw this box of dynamite at the robots, ok?” I said to oliver. “Ok.” said oliver. “Lets do this!” oliver and me said together. Just as I throw my first dinamite at the robots, they started to shout at us. then the well fell into the car.  “NO, THE WELl!” I yelled. “We need to atash the well to something that spins around.” oliver said. then I heard the same voice echoing in my head. Just as the voice stopped, i had an idar. to attach the well to the well hole. and it worked. we turned and the robots went bey, bey down the cliff. the end. WHAT! I still need to get back home. “The time machine, I can use it to go forward instead of back.” I said. so that is what I did. I went back to my normal time with oliver and everything went back to normal. Well I would not say everything. “come on mackenzie, Lets celebrate my birthday.” said oliver.HA HA HA HA HA HA! To be continued!!!
featuring:
oliver muncs

Wednesday 13 August 2014

Main Star Science Experiment

 
Mackenzie's Science Experiment
 
You will need:
 
3 clear glasses (fill 2 with water)
2 different lots of food colouring
2 paper towels folded in half and then in half again longways
 
 
Step 1.
Put one lot of food colouring into one cup of water and the other lot of food colouring into the 2nd cup of water. Leave one cup empty.

 


Step 2.
Put one of the paper towels into the first cup and then bend it into the empty cup. The other paper towel goes into the 2nd cup of coloured water and then bends into the empty cup too.






My Predictions are:

The water will get evenly added to the empty glass and mix the colours. I thought that could happen by pouring the water from the blue glass and the yellow glass evenly into the empty glass.

We took a photo after 2 minutes.




Next Prediction:

The colours are moving. I think they are going to meet in the empty cup and they will change colours.
The middle cup will fill up with a mixture of blue and yellow - I wasn't sure what colour that would make and guessed red.

We started checking on this every 10 minutes to see what was happening.




Next Prediction:

The water will turn green and the paper towels will too.






DID THAT HAPPEN?????



The next morning this is what I found ...


 
 
The water had walked along the paper towels into the empty glass.
The middle glass now has about the same amount of water as the two other glasses
...
and
...
the water in the middle cup is now
GREEN!!
 
The paper towels on the ends that were sitting in the middle cup are now green but the rest of them is the colour that they were originally.
 
COOL HUH??
 
This is called
WALKING WATER.
 







message in a bottle narrative by Mackenzie H

WALT: Use the correct tense in my writing
WALT: Use strong verbs in my writing
WALT: I will use 1-3 paragraphs in my writing
NSL: To use more verbs and have 1 idea with lots of detail

One day I was walking at the beach and 5 minutes later I saw a bottle with a message in it. “What is that bottle doing here?, the sign said no littering.” I said. Just a few seconds later I realized there was a message in the bottle.

“I think I should take it home and see what the message is.” I said. Then i turned around and went back home. when i got home i opened the bottle. The message read “Good luck is coming your way tomorrow!”

“whatever i mean i am already lucky.” i said. does it mean i get more luck and be SO lucky, yes. The next day i woke up and i did all my jobs in 5 minutes. “WOW!” I said.

THE END!

Thursday 7 August 2014

Wicked Writing: Session - 3 Cold by Mackenzie H

Wicked Writing: Session - 3 Cold by Mackenzie H: WALT: personify cold The wind shoved me back so far. The rain was so heavy that it got into my eys. By Mackenzie H

Monday 4 August 2014

javelin throw narrative by Mackenzie H


javelin throw narrative by Mackenzie H
WALT: use adjectives and to complete a piece of writing QUICKLY 

Today i got up at 8:00 am and said, “Today is the most important day because it is the final event for the commonwealth games.” I said. “The event is javelin throw, great because I am really good at throwing.” My peaceful mum and busy dad wished me good luck in the javelin throw event. 4 hours later I got where they held the event in Christchurch and found out who i was against. “OMG!” I said as i was against the tallest the strongest man I have ever seen in my life, Angus Oliver, but it was a good thing that I was fully trained for this even though I was smaller then him but I was a little bit nervous. “Let the event BEGIN!” the event starter said. I went first, then I got the javelin ready to throw, I ran, I threw and i got to the 60 meter mark. Then it was his turn and he got the 60 meter mark so we had to do it again, this time we both got 70 meters. “The final attempt to win.” said the event starter. I did it and got 80 meters. He did it and got… We were waiting for the score. It was 79.99 meters. “OMG YES!!!” I said. “MACKENZIE WINS!” said the event starter. It felt great to stand in 1st place. When I returned home with my gold mettle my mum and dad were so proud of me!


The end!