Week 8 Homework

Well the weeks are flying by and things are humming in 3/4G.  They did a test on 2D shapes today and the results are mixed.  I was surprised so few of them remembered a 5 sided shape is called a pentagon! I guess it's just one of those things you have to do over and over again so it sticks in.

Here is Week 8 homework.  I forgot to put my email address at the bottom so here it is

jo.glazebrook@det.nsw.edu.au

Week 7 Homework

Something I hope will make you think for homework in Week 7

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The Piglet

A story by Ella and Jonah

Once there was a dragon that loved eating giant castles.  His best friend snow leopard loved playing ipad and eating princes.

One day prince Jonathan had a baby named Simon who was a pig that would always throw food. His sister Amanda would always clean up after the boys and she was only 4.

One day the snow leopard stole baby Simon. Amanda was shocked so she called her Daddy and said, “Daddy, a snowlepard took Simon and he was really hungry.”

Dad said, “Don’t worry he is my friend and he just likes baby boys to play ipad with him and he loves kids and his dad works with me.”

So once they finished playing he was returned to his village and lived happily ever after.

The Piggy Bag Pigs

A story by Lily, Keri and Amy

Once in a shiny castle there lived two little boys called Justin and Beiber and an older sister called Katy. Their last name was Perry. Katy had a beautiful boyfriend called Bob, his last name was Builder.

One day Justin and Beiber went to play out side. Just then a dragon came and smashed the beautiful, clean castle.  The dragon took Beiber and Bob.  Katy started to cry.  She hates to cry because when she cries it is like a pig and because it is VERY LOUD. Justin was brave and looked after Katy and he said to Katy, “Stay here and I will go after the dragon.”

“NO! I am coming,” said Katy.

“NO it’s too dangerous because you have to be careful your baby might come out.”

Katy was going to cry but she bit her lip and held back the tears. So Justin went to find his younger brother and his sister’s boyfriend.

Justin went of to find the mystery dragon no body knew if it was a dragon or a bull people allwas thought it was a half bull and half dragon. Justin easily found the way because the mystery dragon left footprints so Justin walked on.

Finally Justin got to the lair where he saw Bob an7d Beiber but he also saw the mystery dragon. Just then Justin had an idea!

“Hey, mystery dragon I bet you can’t fit into a paper bag and look like a pig.”

“Can to,” shouted the dragon in an evil voice.

So the dragon did.

“Ok now get out of it” said Justin in a happy voice.

The dragon did manage to get out of the paper bag and he did look like a pig. So Justin had another idea.  “Can you dig until you see lava?”

“Yes!” said the mystery dragon. so he did.

Just then Justin pushed the dragon into the lava and he died. Justin quickly ran into the lair and got Bob and Beiber.

So they got to the castle and built a new castle and Katy and Bob got married and all was well and lived happy ever after.

The Paper bag Pig

A story by Emma and Sampson

Elizabeth was a beautiful pig. She lived in a clean pigsty and she was going to marry a pig prince called Ronald. The dragon destroyed their house, the princess was not happy, in fact she was very angry. The more she looked at the mess the worst she felt. She got madder and madder as she felt her stomach get tighter and tighter.

Then she saw the footsteps of the dragon. Then OINK! She was eaten by the dragon. The prince ran down stairs “Oh oink” he said. “The princess is trapped.”

Prince Ronald got his sword blade and stabbed the dragon, “ HIYA” he said. “Princess are you ok?” he said.

“Yes I am,” said the princess.

Then Ronald said something he never said before, “Will you marry me Elizabeth”?  

“Yes I will” said Elizabeth.

They lived happily ever after.  

The Piggy Dragon

A story by Daniel and Quintin

Once upon a time there was a messy dragon called Pigget. He liked to eat beautiful princesses. One day he decided to eat a massive castle and carry away a handsome prince. He thought that this would lure in a princess. But instead he saw the princess and carried her away too.

When Pigget got back to the cave he chucked the prince into a cage.

Pigget said to the princess, “If you do not work for me I will eat your prince.”

“Ok” said the princess.

But one night while the dragon was sleeping the princess unlocked the cage door and ran away with the prince. She left a note saying, You are a pig!

“NO!” exclaimed Pigget .

When the princess got back to a cottage, she felt sorry for Pigget so she ordered a dragon maid for Pigget. The next day Pigget came to the cottage and said to the princess,

“Thank you, for the maid”.

“Its ok,” said the princess.

The next day the princess and the prince got married and lived happily ever after.       

3 more stories

The piggy bag princess

A story by Ned and Dylan

Once upon a time, in a golden castle, there lived a king and a princess.  One day a mutant dragon came and turned the king’s flock of sheep into pigs .The king got mad and went to slay the mutant dragon. He was easy to follow because he left a trail of pork.

Soon the king came to the dragon’s lair. He knocked on the door but there was no one there. He opened the door and he went inside to kill the dragon. The dragon was mad and turned him into a pig.

The mutant dragon went back to the castle to attack the princess. He shot a fireball at her but she deflected it back at the dragon and the dragon was killed.

The princess got an antidote for her father and she turned him back into the king. She also turned the sheep back to normal.

They lived happily ever after but……the dragon had laid eggs that were silently hatching in his lair.

The Evil Mud Pig

A story by Heidi and Tess

Once upon a time there was a mother called Elizabeth who had two sons named Jorge and William. One night they were having a dance in their fancy ballroom. All of a sudden a huge, big, fat, evil pig came smashing into their castle

and captured the two sons.

Elizabeth cried and cried. She was so sad she had to go and find where the evil pig was keeping her sons hostage. The pig was quite easy to follow because he left big huge pig droppings. The trail lead her by two straight lines made out of pig shaped stones. On the way through there was a dead end.  At the dead end there was a pig shaped mud pile. The mud pig was kneeling down.

Elizabeth searched all over the kneeling pig.  After minutes of searching for the entrance she finally found the secret passageway to where the pig was keeping her sons hostage.  

The passageway went through the pig’s snout.  Elizabeth climbed up the hoofs and crawled into the slimy, muddy snout.

Elizabeth found her two sons in a pigpen eating beef and pork. Elizabeth said “YOU TRAITORS! “I thought you loved me. I iron your suits, make you breakfast, I clean up after you and I make your king sized beds. You can stay here if you want but I’m not coming back!”

The boys loved the pork and beef so much that they decided to stay and never returned home again.  Mum was sad she didn’t have her boys but glad that she didn’t have to do so much work!

Evil Pigasaurus

A story by Melody, Jessie and Lucas

Once upon a time three pigs, mamma, dada and baby prince piggy lived in a castle shaped as a pig head.  One horrible day a pigasouras came and destroyed the castle and took baby prince piggy.

Mamma and dada got out their pig plane to look for baby prince piggy.  When they got to the pigousouras’s castle they looked down into it and saw boiled pigs for the pigousouras’s dinner. They saw baby piggy, that precious thing.

DARN darn darn !!!

They broke in and dared the pigousouras to eat a thousand sheep in ten seconds. That’s what the pigousouras did.

“Amazing!” said dada pig. The pigousouras got up and ate one hundred sheep in twenty seconds.

“Wonderful!” said mamma pig. The pigousouras got up once again and ate fifty sheep in fifty seconds.

“Superb! Jinx,“ they said together. The pigousouras didn’t hear a thing. They stepped over the pigousouras and rescued all the pigs.

The pigousouras was dead and every piggy lived a happy pig life. 

Some Piggy little princess stories!

Well what a creative week we've had.  Half the class have been reading and studying the book "The Paper bag Princess" by Robert Munsch and the other half have been reading "Piggybook" by Anthony Browne.  These two fabulous stories have stimulated a lot of discussion and lead to interesting interpretations when we changed scenarios.

Yesterday students were paired with one person from each book and they read their stories to each other and then had to write a story together that combined the themes of both books.  The results are very clever and quite funny.

Enjoy

The Piggy Princess by Lachlan and Felix

The pig was captured by a snake and taken to the snake’s lair.

“Save the pig,” said the princess.

“I will save the pig,” said the mystery voice.

Then the mystery voice came out from hiding he was wearing a cape and chain armour

“Help me,” said the pig.

“I’m trying and where are you,” said the mystery voice.

When he came out of the bush he was a knight from another castle, unfortunately the pig was stuck in the snakes lair.

“No,” yelled the knight.

The pig was going to be cooked for the snake’s dinner, suddenly a whole group of knights came and broke in the snake’s lair to save the pig. Suddenly the snake appeared out of nowhere with her babies. The snakes were venomous so they had to be careful. Later they beat the snake in a hard battle, but they saved the pig and the pig was safe.

The Paper Bag Piglets

A story by Isabella and Luke

Once there were four piglets. The dad pig’s name was Ronald and the mum pig’s name was Elizabeth. The children were Simon and Patrick .

The children were so greedy that their mum could not stand it. She rang a dragon and asked it to adopt them. One hour later the dragon knocked on the door and said, “GIVE ME THE CHILDREN NOW OR I WILL BLOW FIRE ON YOU.”

The dragon flew away with the children.  Then the parents cried, “Why did we give the dragon our children?”

Dad came up with a plan. The plan was to get dressed up in a piggy costume and sneak past the dragon to get the children back.  So mum distracted the dragon while dad climbed up the tower. The tower was very high and Dad nearly slipped off the edge.

Then dad went in the tower and sent the children, one by one, down the rope to safety.

Before he left the tower he put a big bomb in the dragon’s bed. Then he ran home with the children. That night the bomb exploded and the dragon was never seen again.

The Paper bag Pigs

By Isaac and Andrew 

Once upon a time there was a family of pigs with two slack children who liked to play with paper bags all day and they used it for clothing while their parents played tennis. They lived in a wonderful house with a spa and a beach chair.

One day a dragon stole the whole family and pulled them by the hair. The dragon took the children and the parents to his evil lair at McDonalds. The dragon put the family in a massive burning fryer.

Meanwhile, the dragon went to an auction and bought a granny flat that cost $34,500.  It had a Ferrari, a Hot tub, a throne and a personal butler but at the dragons evil lair the family had an escape plan.

The family used spare paper bags to get out of the evil lair. The dragon went back to his evil lair. He was laughing with a dirty smile.  When he got there he said, “WHAT? Where are they?”

He looked to his left.

“Those dirty children used paper bags to escape! No!”

“Yes! We escaped,” said the family and they lived happily as pigs ever after.

A little visitor

Not long after I uploaded the last post I thought I saw a rat coming into the classroom.  We had eaten inside, then invited primary in for a movie if they didn't want to stay outside, so there were lots of crumbs on the floor.  Thankfully it was not a rat (although it scared me half to death!!) but this lovely little bird. The trouble was, he didn't want to leave!!

I opened all the windows and tried to shooo him out but he either kept flying in circles or banging into the fixed windows.  I went find the cleaner to let her know that I was going to leave the windows open in the hope that he would find his own way out eventually.  He left a little 'present' on my chair :-( while I was gone but still hadn't found his way out by the time I left!  

Hopefully there will be no little surprises on Monday!  And thankfully it was NOT a rat!!!