Wild Things Reading Response

DRS ABCD Lesson

Jake Bailey Recount

On Wednesday the 31st of July Jake Bailey came to Karoro school to
talk to rooms 7, 1, and 8, about his battle with cancer and the life lessons
he learnt. 

Jake Bailey came to Greymouth with the life education trust. Jake talked
about his battle with cancer. He had Burkitt's Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,
which is the fastest growing cancer in the world, and he survived.
Then after telling the story about his battle with cancer he talked about the
life lessons he learned when going through cancer. He said that if you are
always resilient, kind respectful then you will know that you are a good person.
Then he said that you can fake being brave as long as you don’t show how
you feel on the inside and keep moving forward.

After he talked about being brave he talked about happiness.
Jake said that ‘happiness is a skill you have to learn’. He also talked about
worries. He said ‘don't worry about the small things in life focus on the bigger
issues’. As well as talking about the worries in life he also talked about the
fears he had before cancer and how he overcame them. 

His message to us was ‘we have a responsibility to live our lives not only for
us but for the children who can’t’. I think that Jake Bailey is an amazing person.
After his speech, it changed how I thought of worrying about the smaller things.  

Refugee Book Review

Refugee Review

Name: Grace 

Age 12: 

Class: Karoro school Room 8

Do you want to read an adventurous and anticipation story? This book is waiting for you!
Refugee is a non- fiction story written by Alan Gratz. Refugee is an adventurous and a
dramatic story. It is an engaging story and you will be sitting on the edge of your seat
waiting to see what happens next. 

Refugee is set Germany, Cuba and Syria. It also goes between America, Macedonia and
Serbia. 

The main characters in Refugee are Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud. All three amazing
characters are children and are having to leave their homes (and countries). They are
all looking for a home where they would be safe to live their lives. They are between
the ages of 11 and 12. 

Refugee has three stories in one. All three children connect together at the end of the
story. Refugee is mainly about three children who have to go on an adventurous but
dangerous trip trying to find a secure home for themselves to live in. They have to go
through dangerous seas and cross countries without suspicion. The three families have
to go on a horrendous journey hoping that they will make their destination.  

Refugee made me think how scared kids would be having to go through war, and hoping
that the next day would be a good one. Refugee also connects to me because the kids
are all around my age.

I think that this story would have definitely happened to a lot of kids. I think that it
would be an atrocious and scary place to be those three children. I really enjoyed
reading Refugee because it was a breathtaking book. 

I recommend this book 11+ because there is some violence like war and guns.

Analogy D.L.O

Hypothermia

      THE UMBELS

Snowflake Picture sourced from Fun Facts About Snowflakes.

The umbels are a simple sign of showing the symptoms of hypothermia.

* The Mumbles: the mumbles are when your speech is slurred and you
are stuttering.                             

              Picture sourced from anger tropes

* The Grumbles: the grumbles are where you start getting grumpy
very easily.

* The Stumbles: the stumbles are where you start to trip over things
easy and lose your balance. It also might be hard to stay up right.  

* The Fumbles:      picture sourced from Autism Mom

The fumbles are where you struggle to pick things up, or fumble with things.  

Mahatma Gandhi

My Selfie Poem

             MY SELFIE POEM

I am from a black coach, from a swaying hammock and dripping wet wet suits.

I am from the dark green bush, from the roaring motors.

I am from the slimy lake weed, from the Cobden Netball team.

The Bristly Rimu.

I am from the sounds of birds chirping, from Bains Bay.

I’m from riding motorbikes and white baiting, from a snorting dog and a
sporty brother.

I’m from being late and late nights and from is dinner ready and where’s Milly.

I’m from eat your breakfast and get to bed, from the pages of Pony Club
Secrets, and We Will Rock you.

I am from water skiing and slalom skiing.

I am from boating on lake Brunner.

I’m from Greymouth and, New Zealand. From sausage casserole and
Ice-cream, from great great granddad Dusty.

From a well known painter.

War medals safely hidden at my grandparents.

Welcome

Purerehua

Response To Ski Trip

On Tuesday we drove to the ski field. There wasn’t as much snow as I
thought there would be, but there still lots of people. We all got our skis,
boots, and goggles and helmets for some of us. We got different passes,
I got a all mountain pass and some other people got a beginners pass,
because they had not skied before.

I went down the chair lift twice and skied with my friends. I thought that the
trip was really fun and I really enjoyed it.    

In this photo we are in a lesson and are trying not to slide back into the
fence behind us.

Response On St John

On Monday in the afternoon Catherine from St John’s came to Karoro school.
Room 1 went to the tech centre to do a St Johns course. We learned what
DRSABCD means, the D stands for Danger, the R stands for response, the
S stands for send for help, the A stands for airway, the B stands for breathing,
the C stands for CPR or Commence, the D stands for Defibrillation.

We also learned how to do CPR and Defibrillation on a dummy. We were
put into groups of eight, all the girls were put together and there were two
groups of boys. There were eight dummies at the front of the room. The
first group of boys went to the front and done CPR on the dummies as well
as Defibrillation. Then the our group (girls) went up, and after that the other
boys group.  

I thought that learning to do CPR was good because if something happened
in real life it would be good to know what to do. I thought it was fun and I
enjoyed it.

Te Uru

Walt: participate in the learning of others.

Why: Building on our transition to high school.

Success Criteria: be active participants in a new cultural game.

:use our listening skills, watch, ask questions and practice.

On Tuesday 10CH from Grey High School, walked to our school. They were a
group of year ten students that came to teach us a cultural game called Te Uru.
I had never played Te Uru before but it was fun.

The rules were, you had to catch the ball with a flat palm, and basically netball
rules like no stepping with the ball and no knocking the ball out of other people's
hands. We did drills to practise catching the ball in our flat palm and also practised
intercepting the ball. I found it hard at first to catch the ball with a flat palm but then
I got use to it.

I would suggest for next time that there were more teams so that there was more space
on the field, also that there were two refs and at least one would be watching the game.  

Book Review

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Do you like science fiction? Well this book is waiting for you to read it!
The genre of this book is science fiction. It is a novel that is adventurous
and teaches us to never stop but to keep going forward.

The setting in The Giver is in a town where you only see black and white.
There is no pain, no hunger and no war in this town. The Giver is also set
in the country and through rough and uneven ground.

The main character is Jonas.Jonas is a kid that lives in a town that can
only see black and white. Jonas lives with his younger sister and his
mother and farther. As Jonas gets older he gets the job as the new receiver
of memory.

Jonas has lived his life not knowing the truth and is about to find out every
little secret and memory about his town. Jonas meets The Giver on his
first day at work, Jonas starts to understand why he was given this job.
He soon finds out that he has to go on a mission to share his secrets and
memories with his town.

I connect to this book because some of the characters are around my age.
When Jonas is on his mission he doesn’t stop he keeps going to protect
him and his friends.

My opinion of The Giver is that the story was great. The Giver captivated
me because there was a lot happening. I understood The Giver very well.

I recommend people who enjoy adventurous books and from the ages
10 and up.

Lois Lowry is a great author and has written lots of books. I particularly
enjoy her books because they are adventurous and interesting.  

 

PLANETS

PLANETS

Hermit Poem

Hermits

The itch from my unshaved beard

 As I read my book in boredom

    sand pouring down as hours go by

    wind howls and the chill creeps through

Deep, deep in the dark dark cave lurks a hermit

Limited accessories he sits and waits  

He hides away in his shell and eats of what he has   

Novel Study, Number The Stars

Orcas And Me Poem

                                                      Orcas And Me

When I splash the clear mirror-like water

I can see black shadows in the deep blue sea

Sun is setting

we lie down for a good sleep in soft golden sand,

we all lie down with blankets and sleeping bags to keep us warm through
the cold wintery night

I wake up

waves crashing against the floor of the shore

orcas and me lets

go swimming

in the deep blue sea

This is a picture that I drew with pastel

Sometimes when you look out to sea you might just see a girl and a
Orca swimming in the deep blue sea.

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