For the birds

Once upon a time, a little blue bird fluttered onto a long, grey and sort of strong power line. He was really short and was as plump as a big puffy marshmallow. He looked nervous and angry but when another bird of his cute type came along and sat next to him on the electric wire. Then he yawned and shoved his wing right in the others face!!!! The first bird did not like that and angrily squeaked at him. After a while lots and lots of those birdies fluttered on the power lines squeaking and squawking at one another making all of them angry at one another. Suddenly........

A big blue bird sat on a power lines pole and got all of the attention from the little blue and orange beaked marshmallow birds. This big bird had quite a funny accent to it's talking and for that reason all of the other birds made silly faces and laughed at the big blue bird that was innocent of doing anything!! Then he slipped but caught himself in the wind with his wings. The big blue bird made all the cute little birds split up so that he could sit in the middle of all of them. All of the little marshmallow birds became angry because he was very quite heavy! The electric line sank slowly down to the ground and all of the little birds slid down the line nicely bumping into one another and then all of a sudden coming to a halt.

Then a small blue bird poked the innocent big blue bird with his beak right in the stomach! The funny odd bird out swivelled around the wire and then hung upside down on the electricity wire. Then the bird that had pecked him in the stomach, pecked him on the toe. It let go and so him and the other marshmallow bird next to him started picking laser fast at all of the other toes and one by one they started letting go. The big bird thought they were playing and joined in with the cheering that all of the other marshmallow birds were also doing. All of a sudden a little blue bird stopped with the cheering and looked down, frightened. After that, she let out a cute and high pitched chilp. That stopped all of the other birds cheering them on. There was a problem though. But not just a problem it was quite a big problem. So all of the birds started to squeak at the birds that were pecking at the big blue bird so that they would stop. When those birds had already stopped, it was already too late. The big bird started to slip. The next second he slipped and fell to the ground. He had created a lot of weight though and once he had fallen off all of the other birds got flung into the air!!! Lots of feathers got left behind when they got shot up into the air like a rocket.

The big bird huffed some feathers out of his face before something pink dropped in front of him. He looked at it and burst out in laughter. It turned out that it was a nood bird without feathers!!!!!! At that moment all of the other nood birds came falling to the ground. With all of them embarrassed, he laughed and laughed as hard as he could. Then they all ran away behind him so that nobody and nothing would see them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

           

Matariki presentation

Hi,
Here is a Matariki presentation with facts about Matariki.

Term 3 reading goal

My term three reading goal is to look for clues to answer inference questions.
To succeed in this I will:
1. Skim and scan to find important information for the question
2. To rephrase the question
3. To use clues for the answer

ANZAC day poem

My ANZAC day poem!

A is for Australia NZ Army Corps

N is for NZ and Australia joined the war

Z is for zero silence in the air

A is for a war we will never forget

C is for courtesy is ignored in lots of wars

By Hannah

News Article, Your Dog Can Tell You If You Are Happy Or Angry!!!

Hi!

For reading we have an activity to go on Dogo News and we have to write about it on our blog. So here it is.

Recently, researchers from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria have some evidence that dogs can tell you if your happy or not. Corin Müller and his team chose some dogs to test. Some of them were Borin Collies, a Fox Terrier and a Sheltie. They started to show the dogs some photos of women and they were either happy or sad.  Half of the dogs were given or rewarded by touching the screen and then shown a happy face. The other half were rewarded with a angry face.

Some dogs got half a face and that was what surprised me the most. Researchers were trying to teach dogs to recognize little bits of our body to know what we feel like. Researchers also found that they do not like angry faces and so they back off much faster. In the end the dogs figured out they were getting rewarded and so liked to play the 'computer game' and the researchers had trouble getting the dogs away once the study had finished. When the dogs were trained and had gotten used to it, the people started to test the dogs in different ways. One of the different ways was to give the dogs different faces and the dogs even then got them right! This evidence shows that dogs can not only know the expressions of people\things that they already know, but can also tell the facial expressions of people\things they have NEVER seen before.
Here is the link to the article:http://www.dogonews.com/2015/3/7/surprise-your-dog-can-tell-if-you-are-happy-or-angry

My reading goal.

Hey, these days we are making our goals for every subject. Here are my reading goals.

I am learning to expand my vocab. That means to learn new words and use them in our writing. 

I can tune in to interesting words and use them in my speaking and writing. Otherwise we would have words stuck in us and never use them and our writing would have words in them like big and nice. That would be really BORING!!!!!!!!!!!! Share what you think down below in the commenting box.