Winter

Winter

It's hands, stealing the verdant green leaves from the trees. A scornful glare, covering the grass in a frost curse. Angrily, it bites your toes, taking the warmth from them. Its menacing laugh, is the ever-lasting winter wind.

It snatches away happiness, abhorrent, hating it. The nightmares it creates, poisoning children's minds. Winter has arrived. 

Learning Conference Term 3 2017

My Learning Conference Term 3 2017

Earlier this week, I had my learning conference. My mum and my brother came to my conference. I was a little nervous, but it was ok. 

Here is the hyper-link to my slide show:

Learning Conference Term 3 2017

My Speech

My Speech by Isabella

 Are we doing enough to look after our oceans?

You’ve just pulled up at the beach. The water’s completely black. In the distance is a gull, with plastic strangling its neck. There’s hundreds of dead fish stranded on the sand. The only other thing you see is a dolphin, stuck in a fishing net.

Every year over 100,000 marine mammals are killed just from plastic in the sea. Plastic bags are often eaten because they’re mistaken for jellyfish. When an animal eats the plastic, it makes their stomach full. But when they feel hungry they can’t eat anything because they’re full. So eventually, they starve to death. If that’s not bad enough, there is actually 13,000 pieces of litter per square kilometre of the sea, and it’s us who put it there.

Another major thing that kills marine life is oil spills. Oil spills or even oil leakages can be caused when boats carrying oil capsized or when oil rigs are leaking. Oil spills are the worst environmental disaster that can happen. They contaminate the water and are unsafe for all living things. When an oil spill occurs, the water will turn black and smell like petrol or gas.

Hundreds of dolphins are getting killed just from fishing nets. Why? It takes 3-4 hours for the fishing nets to get back to the boat. A dolphin can hold its breath for 8-10 minutes. Unfortunately, when a dolphin gets caught in a net, it drowns because it’s been underwater for too long.

If you want more sea life, I think we should be doing more to look after our oceans and seas. If you don’t litter, there could be 100,000 more marine creatures. Or maybe try to catch your own fish, to stop killing the dolphins. So, are you going to think twice before you drop your litter?

By Isabella, 23/6/17

Clouds

Clouds

A blanket that covers the sky

Keeping it warm in winter

A kingdom above the ground

impossible to get to

A secret place

that is unknown

Storm

Storm

Lighting zapping, thunder crashing

You hear the storm coming

Wind whistling, rain tapping

You hear the storm,

it's here

Hamilton Gardens Weather by Isabella

Hamilton Gardens Weather

Advancing down from the clouds is the rain.

I groan in misery.

There is no place for rain in the gardens, I murmured darkly to myself.

 I sigh as I trudge along the path.
I watch Lily shove some rosemary into her pocket,
Then I sigh deeply.
The rain keeps falling and continues to terrorise us. 
I wanted the sunshine, not the rain. 
I like the gardens, but not when it rains.

Dissection by Isabella

Dissection

I cringe. Cold, clotted blood pours out the heart. I shiver. My hand jolts as it journeys towards the muculent heart. I closed my eyes.

*

I watched the others poking their fingers inside the nauseating organ. I couldn’t believe they were doing it. I didn’t want to say I hated the blood. So I kept it to myself.

A voice inside my brain whispers: you should touch it! Go on, touch it! My back tingled, as my hand travels forward to the vile object lying in front of me. My hand grasps the heart…

Treaty of Waitangi Slide

During Term 1,  we were learning about our local history and the Treaty of Waitangi. We had to create a slide presentation with our group. My group was Lily, Lylah and me. Hope you like the slide show. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sNVz0xQT53v-vtOi30KV9SfXFn5nficrgUN1DKOVe7k/edit#slide=id.p

My Learning Conference Term 1 2017

My Learning Conference Term 1 2017

During Term 1, we had our first learning conferences of this year. My mum attended my conference with me. I enjoyed my conference, even though I was a little scared. My mum was very proud of me. Here is a link so you can see my learning conference slide show. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Zs7O_9HcTVodKOrcUMs-wirvdg8S2hDi90Wi1guEqy0/edit#slide=id.p

Night Walk (year 4 camp) by Isabella

Night Walk  by Isabella

Staring hard at the bush, I shivered. I knew I hated the dark, and the hated me too. Dreading the thoughts of being lost, I advanced towards the stone track. Darkness.

Cringing, I entered the bush. I could feel it eating me up. Piece by piece. It had swallowed me. Mocking me, the darkness cackled at me, making me provoked.

Plodding along the shambolic track, we journey further into the darkness. Sniggering, demons of the forest pulverised me. Surrounding me, they play puerile pranks and start obnoxious noises. I hated the dark.