Similies and Metaphors Basic Lessons For Writing

WALT use figurative language in a sentence to a mythical character.

Simile

Definition:

A simile compares an object to another using like or as.

Examples:

• Taniwha was as dark as a mysterious shadow.
• He was strong like a mighty god.

Metaphor

Definition:

A metaphor compares one object without using like or as.

Examples:

• Kahi was a gigantic giraffe.
• Te awai was tiny little ant.

Today we were going back to the basics and were just defining similies and metaphors so that we will understand them. Obviously we all knew what they were and to use them already but this task was just about us showing our knowledge towards them.

Pepeha

PĒPEHA Tena koutou Ko Timothy tōku pāpā My father is Timothy Ko Rangimarie tōku māmā My mother is Rangimarie No Panmure ahau I live in Panmure No Tamaki Makaurau tōku whānau My family is from Auckland Ko Maungarei te maunga Mount Wellington is my mountain Ko Kaiahiku te awa The Panmure Basin is my harbour (body of water) Ko Cypress tōku ingoa My name is Cypress No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

Cypress and Dominic - Leprechaun/ Ireland Myths and Legends

So this is the first piece of work based on our knew topic in school I have posted this term. I made this piece of information with my buddy Dominic who is a new well new last term student in the year 7 syndicate. I hope that this gives you a bit of a hint about our focus for this term.

Aroha's Typical Day

Aroha’s typical day

I usually get up at 6 o’clock and have a shower. Then, I go for an early morning jog in the park. After that, I have a big breakfast and I drive my car to work which usually takes me half an hour. I start work at 8am. I eat cheese and crackers at interval. I never have lunch. I finish work at 4 o’clock. I’m always tired when I get home. I usually cook a meal in the evening and then watch TV. I don’t usually go out at night. I go to bed at about 10:30. I always sleep well.

Yesterday was a typical day for Jenny. Write what she did or didn’t do yesterday.

Highlight the verbs in the paragraph above.

Remember to change the verbs in to the past simple tense to answer the questions..

1. She got up at 6 o’clock.
2. She went for an early morning jog.
3. She had a big breakfast.
4. She drove her car to work.
5. It takes her half and hour to get to work.
6. She starts work at 8am.
7. She ate cheese and crackers at interval.
8. She doesn’t have lunch.
9. She finishes work at 4 o’clock.
10. She was tired when she got  home.
11. She cooked a meal yesterday evening.
12. Then watched  TV.
13. She didn’t go out last night.
14. She slept well last night.

Aroha's typical day, I had to fill in the blanks on what happens in a typical day of Aroha's Life. By doing this activity I have been practising how to put past tense words into a summarised sentence from the text.

Joedzy's Story

this is a story that me and my room 9 buddy Joedzy did during class.

Suffix Detective

Suffixes Poster

Why should Keep Our Hall

Dear Ministry of Education,

I’m writing this letter to you to let you know that I think you should not take away our hall for a car park. Our hall is important to our school because it is a place where all of our school comes together and have a good time. We don’t really need another parking lot because we already have one, and if we get a parking lot where our hall is it will be dangerous for kids to cross and get to class. So know you can see it would be a really stupid idea to replace our hall for a car park. I hope by the time you have read this letter you have realise that you have made a mistake. From Cypress

This is a letter that explains why we would keep our hall over a car park if the ministry of education would bust it down.

6 Hats Current Events

John key visiting Australia. This explains who what when where and why using the 6 thinking hats.

After The Storm

The kids walk alone on the streets, everybody is crying and making shelters. It looks like a dump. People are protecting themselves from the rain with worn out umbrellas. The civilians beg for food, kids a robbing stuff.  The houses are all crushed like mashed potatoes and there is junk all over the fields. Babies are crying, kids are screaming as the rain splashes into their faces. No grass is in sight only one dead bush. People are waiting for food. Some look dehydrated. Animals are limping. Dead bodies are laid out on the floor. The water turns into mud. Most of the place is all grey, black and brown. People roam the streets in no shoes to cover their foots People are digging in the garbage to see what they could find. Properties are smashed and nothing was left.

I can feel the wind stroking my legs. The rain is splashing on me making my clothes wet. I see families begging for goods. My eyes spot people drinking dirty water. My nose smells the mud that is getting bigger. I can’t even breathe properly. I can touch the umbrella handle. My hand is getting tired of holding it. I feel sad and lonely. Its so boring. I taste the rain splashing into my mouth. Thats the only thing I can drink for now. I hear screams In the distance. Babies are sulking and crying. My mind tells me I can’t handle this. I feel so frustrated and mad inside because everything I had once is now all gone. Trash is dumped all over the place. People are staring at their feet as they walk. Kids are still playing but not smiling.

The Water Fall

Start here:

Greetings my name is Jordan and I am a photographer and I travel the world. I am 22, I have short hair black eyes and I am skinny. I come from New Zealand and now live in the UK. Today I am going to America to take photos. I am just packing up my stuff. My boss wants me to take some photos of the wild life in America. I have been living in the UK for 3 years. My friends Chris and Tom live with me in a Three bedroom apartment and they work at the mall. As I leave I say bye and then catch my flight to America.

On my way to America and I am starting to get nervous. My luggage and equipment is in suitcase. “6 more hours and we will land in New York.” the captain says so I close my eyes and fall asleep. 10 hours later and I’m in a cab to get to the New York water fall. when I turn around I see a light and then BOOM! we have been blown up. When I turn around I see a tank so I jump out and run away. The tank is trying to shoot me but I don’t give up so I hide in a alley and then I see a campsite. My mind tells me to run but it is no help I can’t run from a tank it will blow me up. I climb the fence and her a noise. “Its a waterfall.” I whisper I got to get closer to the sound. When I get there I hide in the trees. Its beautiful I say Take the shot and then tiptoe away. I halfway to the city. Why was the tank shooting at me? I question while I run I hear the tank trying to catch up with me as run a bullet goes right into the concrete next to me. I think I’m dreaming but i’m not. I just keep running and I don’t stop.

I make to the airport grab some money out of my pocket and give it to the lady “OH NO!” I say. I forgot about my suitcase. I don’t care I get on my flight and go back home. 2 days later. I’m back home I made it home the first thing I feel like doing is going to bed and have a good sleep. I just can’t believe I’m alive.

The Crash

The Crash

I’m Joe a 10 year old boy and I live in Auckland New Zealand.

I live with my mum and dad in a house on a farm.

We are going to move to Wellington tonight so we’re going to take an airplane there.

My mum has been talking about this for weeks and my dad finally agreed with her.

I’m going to miss all my friends as soon as we leave.

This is going to be my first flight and I am nervous because It turns out that I am scared of hights.

I just can’t wait to get in an actual airplane.

We sitting in the plane half way to Wellington when the captain of the plane announces that there is a storm up ahead.

“Mom are we nearly there yet?” I ask her.

“No!” she replies the third and final time.

When I look out the window I see lightning and then all of a sudden...

BANG!

lightning hits the plane. we all scream.

One of the wings has got smoke coming out of the propellers.

The lady in the plane tells us to put on a breathing bag as the plane dives down.

My heart beats as fast as a drum.

The old people are fainting and all the kids are screaming.

We all pray to god.

The captain is yelling that were losing altitude.

My dad is sleeping “I wonder what that old bag is dreaming about?” I whisper and then my mum yells at him to wake up.

Now when I look at the window I see that we’re going to land in a beach.

“Hold on!” the lady yells out.

“Ya think.” I say

CRASH!

I scream but then open my eyes everyone looks ok only one person got injured on his leg but other then that everyone was alright.

When we walked out of the plane the good news was that the captain actually landed the plane ain Wellington too.

My heart started to beep back to normal again.

People were relieved.

I just can’t believe that my first trip in a plane became a nightmare.

This was the worst day of my life.

The Dragon

Description Title: The Dragon

Author: Cypress

Start story here:

The dragon breathes fire through his mouth. He sets fire to the whole forest watching the flames as they melt trees down. There is no longer a forest all there is, is a junkyard. People crying and screaming for help. The heat is burning their skin. Smoke rises from the flames and travels all around the forest making a huge fog. The dragon is enjoying the view from where he is. Bodies are burnt and are lying flat on the ground. My a steering dragons face its almost as if he trying to hypnotise me. The dragons body has got spikes all over his back and tail. I smell the smell of death surrounding me. People were praying to god to live. I see the the flames getting higher and higher as they burn. People turn into stone as if lava touched them. I feel the ashes burning my skin making me scream for help.

The dragon is filled with evilness in his veins. It was like a nightmare coming to life. I was afraid that the dragon would kill me. I fought this would be the last day of my life. As I look around, everything is toasted. My heart beats like a drum solo. My ears are sore from the screaming. My lungs stop for a minute the start back up again. I am so empty inside. I can’t remember anything from the past. My blood turns a little bit dry. My hands start to shake, my body shivers and my teeth chatter. I feel like my insides are going to come out of my bodie. People are buried by the trees that fell on top of them. The dragon has left to attack another innocent forest. The dragon demolished the all of the forest and the people in it. It was a ghost place everything was silent and spooky.My brain just shuts down. I start to wonder how I survived and thank god to let me live.

The Storm of The Day

Title: The storm of the day

Author: Cypress

Description:

I stood on the porch looking at the large waves hoping that they don’t get bigger. The wind whistled through the trees then blew them down. The hole lawn was covered by the ocean I couldn’t even see the grass anymore. People were screaming. I saw lots of bodies being swept away by the water. My heart beeping one million times a second. My body started to shiver. You no longer could see the sun anymore it was covered by all of the dark and grey clouds. it was like a war between earth and the skies. I felt really scared that the ocean would drown me. Houses were carried away from the water. The ocean was like the main enemy of this war. Rain dropped to the ocean like a giant ancer got pushed down. Smoke came from some trees burnt by the lightning all I could hear was a big BOOM. I felt the ashes of the fire touching my arm like its trying to hurt me. The smoke tried to reach my mouth and kill me but I tried not to breath it in. Logs were traveling faster than a car it was as if they were having a race. The cars were drowned into the water and pulled back up but when they got back they were were damaged more than what a bulldozer would do to them. My mouth started to get raw it was frozen so hard couldn’t open it. I could smell the salt of the ocean going into the air. It was a scary experience it was like a nightmare coming to life that will haunt you for days. The animals made a huge racket ever since the storm started. Half of my house was falling off I couldn’t believe my eyes. Tears came down from my eyes. My mind told my body to be brave but my body didn’t listen. The sound made my ears hide in shame. The power lines changed colour every time the rain hit them. I was waiting to see what would happen next.

Author Study

Melu The Mule

Melu

There Once was a Mule named Melu. The other mules clipped-clopped but Melu would always clop-clipped. Melu was sad because when he clopped clipped the other mules would make fun of him and tell him to shut up.

One day while the mules were walking up the yellow hot hills Melu looked down to the Glittering Green Sea. Their also green fields at the bottom of it. Melu decided to turn around and travel to the Glittering Green Sea by himself. The other mules told him to turn back around but it was too late Melu already went.

On the way Melu found what looked like a landslide but he couldn’t get around until he met a goat who helped Melu get around it. The goat said to Melu “I’ll help you get across it only if you take me with you?” Melu agreed with the goat and took him along with him to the Glittering Green Sea. As they got further they got blocked by a big log as big as a truck. Melu was too little to move and the goat was too. Suddenly they heard a huge bump and another one then out of nowhere a bull arrived. The bull told Melu I’ll help you move the log only if you let me come with you?” Melu agreed with the bull so the bull bumped the log out of the way and off they went.

Soon they made it to the Glittering Green Sea they all dived into the sea a swam around they all had a glorious time. Then they saw a swan it was beautiful the swan was the most amazingest thing Melu, the goat and the bull have ever seen. At the end of the day Melu saw all the other mules on the hill and they looked board and after all that Melu was right.

My Essay On Voices In The Park

In my essay I am going to be talking about the book ‘Voices in the Park’ by Anthony Browne. I will be discussing what makes this book special and what special techniques Anthony Browne uses in his writing to describe his characters.

Anthony Browne hides clues inside the pictures of his stories. He does this to give the readers hints and clues about what's happening in the story. For example when someone is sad, the pictures look very lonely and dark, but when someone is happy the picture are beautiful and fun, with a happy spotlight on the main characters.

Anthony Browne also changes colours in his pictures to show the characters’ emotions. He does this to show how the character feels, but hides this in the pictures instead of writing it into the story. For example, on page 10 the picture shows that the character is lonely because the trees have no leaves and the buildings are dark and are hiding in the shadows. Another example is on page 20, where the characters are playing on the monkey bars. The colours in the picture are bright and they look like they are having fun. He made the picture like this to show that the characters are happy.

Anthony Browne uses different types of fonts to show you what the character is really like. He does this to show what personality the characters have. For example, the poor little girl ‘Smudge’ had messy handwriting to show she is poor and maybe doesn't go to school, and the rich boy ‘Charles’ had neat handwriting to show that he is rich and maybe goes to a rich school.

In this essay I have talked about what Anthony Browne does to make stories that help me use my inferencing skills. I love reading his books because they have pictures that have clues hidden in them. I think Anthony Browne is a very interesting author and illustrator.

How To Make Ice Cream

Turning Solids, Liquid To Solid Experiment

How to turn something from solid to liquid to solid.

With our experiment we were aiming to turn something from solid to liquid to solid.

Materials:

• Raro
• Jug
• Ice Block sticks
• Water
• Cups
• Wooden spoon

Method:

Step 1...

Open the raro packet.

Step 2...

Poor the raro packet Into the water jug.

Step 3...

Add the water into the water jug.

Step 4...

Stir the water with the wooden spoon until it dissolves.

Step 5...

Pour the liquid into the cups.

Step 6...

Add the ice block sticks into the cups.

Step 7...

Put the cups into the freezer.

Step 8...

Wait until it has turned into a solid and then you can eat you iceblock.

Conclusion:

When you put the liquid into the freezer the cold temperature turns it into a solid.