Flatting Assignment

Novel Study

This is one of the activities that I choose to do for my novel study.

Questioning and predicting

How long did it take for you to create the rocket? I think it would have taken a while because when he got to SHARF he was still glueing together the last pieces of his rocket.

How many attempts did it take to get the idea right? I predict that it would have taken a while because he would need a lot of power for his rocket to never come down.

Did you ever think twice about going to SHARF alone? I think it would be a yes because when he got to the train station he kept on thinking about his Mum and what she would be doing at that moment.

How did you feel when your rocket failed to go even 100 metres?I think he would have felt quite sad because he spent ages trying to get it right.

Pick a path

Cross Country

On Tuesday we had our school Cross Country. We had to run 2.7km as fast as we could. Crossing bridges, running by a creak and cutting roads was what made the run more enjoyable for me because at primary school I was used to just running around a field. After a few minutes, people started finishing. I bet my goal, which was to come in the top 3, by coming 2nd. I loved running the course and I can't wait for next year! Here are some pictures of me in action!!

Narative

The Figure

By Sofia Lumbreras

7:30am, “time to get ready for school,” I mumbled to myself. Carefully I rolled out of bed, drew the curtains and peered out the window. “Where am I?” I was sure I didn’t fall asleep here. Curious and scared to find out where I was, I stumbled down the unexpected stairs that were in my path. “Hello,” my voice echoed as I carried on heading towards what I thought was the kitchen. No reply. “Hello” I said again, hoping for an answer. Again, no reply. I wandered into a room, it was pitch black, the door was ajar but, I could just make out the figure of a human.

“Who’s in there?” My voice echoed in the room. Thoughts spun around in my head, and I felt as though I was on a ferris wheel.

“Gosh, children these days, they just don’t knock” I heard the figure mumble.

“Who are you, and why am I here?” I was still inquiring the fact that this is not my home.

“This is your new home.”

“What happened? Where are my parents?”

The figure didn't say anything but I think I saw a smile emerge on their face.  

“What did you do?” I exclaimed “ I know you did something”

As soon as the figure revealed his face I turned around and ran. Banging my fists hard on the rotted wood, that made the door, didn’t do anything . I was locked inside.

“Haha, you thought you could escape, but that is not how I roll.” “I kidnap kids and them lock them up inside my attic, which is where you will be going right now.”

Giving me no time to escape, the man then grabbed me by the collar and dragged me up the stairs into the attic. Inside the attic it was damp, dusty and you could barely see what was meant to be the floor. Within a second I found myself locked up in a room with a girl who goes by the name Lucy.

She says that she has had no food whatsoever for the last two days and I believe her because it looks like she is just made out of skin and bones, no meat at all. “ How long have you been down here for?” I asked her.

“A week” she said with her squeaky voice.

“Poor you, I only got here today, just before to be exact.”

“There are heaps of other kids down there,” Lucy said pointing at a set of doors. “ Lucifer has kept them for half a year now and they are starving.   

“Who’s Lucifer?” I questioned.

“Lucifer is the guy who lives here, they guy who kidnapped you in the first……..”

“Help!!” A scream from one of the doors stopped Lucy from finishing her sentence.  We rush over to the door. It is locked. “We need a key,” I say to Lucy.

“Look, over there” Lucy squealed in her high pitched voice. “ I think that’s a key.”

“Let’s get it before Lucifer catches us again”.
We grabbed the key and tried using it for the door we that we heard the shout from. It didn’t budge. “I think we got the wrong key” I exclaim. “There is another door over there, maybe the key unlocks that door.”

“It’s worth a try” Lucy pleaded. “I hope this works”

It did. The key fit perfectly inside the keyhole and as soon as I turned it, the door squeaked open. You wouldn’t believe what we saw inside. Inside the room 1000 keys shimmered in the sunlight. “ I’m sure one of these will unlock the door,” Lucy says, happy to have found a solution.

We started to walk down the long, dark hallway to get to the doors.

“Over there” I say, running towards a huge brown  door. “This is the one”

The door jolted open and there were the children that had been screaming for who knows how long. I noticed a window that Lucifer must have opened and we all rushed towards it. One by one we clambered out and onto the dry, bare grass below us. “Run” I screamed as I saw Lucifer appear at the window. Glass shattered behind us as Lucifer smashed through it, but that didn’t stop us. We kept running until he was out of sight. “ That was a close one” I said with a sigh of relief.

Game invention

By Sofia V, Sofia L , Hannah, Giselle  

Equipment

• Cones
• 10x small balls.

Teams:

• There should be 3 teams of approximately 10 people each.
• Each team should involved about 5 girls and 5 boys.

Diagram:

Instructions:

There are 3 teams of around 10 people. 2 teams are attackers and 1 team is a defence team. Each attacker team has a small ball on their side of the field.  If an attacker team gets the opposite small ball of the other attacker team they win. If an attacker gets tagged by a defender the attacker becomes a defender and the defender becomes an attacker.  

Bermuda Triangle