Friday, 13 March 2015
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Nikau trees
Nikau
By Amy
Most palm trees grow in warm tropics, unlike the nikau tree. It grows in a cold climate. Nikau trees are the only native palm trees in New Zealand and the only palm that grow so far south.
The early settlers, the Maoris and Pakeha eat the round-shaped part of the nikau. When you want to get the food, you cut and destroy the whole tree. It is because the round-shaped part of the nikau is near to the top of the tree. The tree grows up to fifteen metres tall. If people keep doing this, the nikau tree will soon die out or become extinct.
Nikau trees have certain parts that is very useful. The fronds are used for building roofs and they use the leaves for making clothings and baskets.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
My Biopoem
3rd February 2015
Amy,
who has two siblings
whose favourite sport is swimming,
who is awesome, sporty and sleepy,
who lives with her mum and dad,
who likes to eat donuts,
who wants a giant-sized ice cream, an Xbox and a parrot,
who feels good when it is lunch time,
who loves to eat ice cream cakes on a hot, sunny day,
who hates the feelings of felines,
who hopes to go to America one day,
who is afraid of heights,
who enjoys playing on computer games, drawing cartoon and watch television,
who likes to wear cool shirts, Nike shoes and jandals,
who wonders why it is so hot today,
who knows for sure she have parents.
Monday, 2 March 2015
Book Review
The Terrible thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket
By Amy
This story is about a boy named Barnaby Brocket. He had a brother called Henry, a sister called Melanie and parents Alistair, the dad and Eleanor, the mum. The family wanted to live a normal life. When Eleanor gave birth to Barnaby, she was shocked. Barnaby floated into the ceiling and bumped his head into it. Having a baby that floated wasn’t normal. Eleanor gave him a very heavy rack sack to keep him on the ground. One day when he turned eight years old, his parents had a plan. The plan was to let him go. So the following day, Eleanor brought Barnaby to a random place and cut off his rack sack and soon he floated up and up and up.
In the story, he met lots of people and when he finally reached back home he went to the hospital. After a few days, he went loose from the hospital bed and floated up, up and up again.
My favourite character was Barnaby Brocket. He was very courageous because he knew he had to get back to his family even though they didn’t want him. The author described him as an extraordinary boy that floated and couldn’t stop floating.
There was a conflict when his parents argued whether to let him go or not. Eleanor wanted to let him go but, Alistair didn’t want to let him go. It didn’t take long till Alistair finally made up his mind to let Barnaby go.
The author wanted the readers to give the message of believing in self. If you don’t believe in yourself you won’t be able to do what do think you might be able to do.
I enjoyed this book very much. The author used fascinating adjectives to describe Barnaby Brocket. I recommend this to 10+. I also recommend this book to people that like fantasy books.
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