Bird mascot

Bird Mascots-The Fantail

Why did you choose this bird?
I chose this bird because it is a very small and friendly bird.They are very friendly with people and enjoy fluttering around and playing in the trees and bushes.I used to see them when I would walk through the wetlands at my grandparents house.

Where is your bird from?
My bird can be found in many different countries.Some of these countries include of course New Zealand and South east Asia.

How big is your bird?
My bird is about 11.5cm to 21cm long.Some species tails can be longer than the body but in most species the tail is longer than the wing.

Here is a google drawing I made of my bird:

Summarising-one of the FAB FOUR for improving literacy

BMEPNI

Accelerated Learning in Literacy Term 3

Our class in Year 9 are looking at four main skills we will be looking at this term
to improve our literacy.  The Fab Four skills are: 

Predicting

Questioning

Clarifying

Summarising

A skill that students use to improve their literacy is to be able to summarise
what they see, read, hear, view or watch.

At the start of the term, our teacher Mr McCartney got us to write about our
holidays under the heading BMEPNI - which is an acronym for beginning,
middle and end, positives, minuses and interesting.

BMEPNI

Beginning of the holidays 

At the beginning of the holidays,nothing too exciting happened.One of the positives was
getting to sleep in and not having to wake up to my alarm which usually goes off at 7:30
in the morning.Around the first couple of days of the holidays I slept in until about 10am,
which was nice.A positive was getting to draw more and work on my art skills.I got to
practice drawing in different styles and creating my own original characters.I also
remember watching a lot of YouTube and anime in the holidays.I started a series called
Hunter x Hunter and it is now one of my favourites.Although,it is a very long series and it
will probably take me a very long time to finish it.

A negative was not really doing much at home;I would pretty much just watch tv in my room
or draw something (As I enjoy art).Because my baby sister was going to be born soon,we didn’t
go out or do much.

Middle of the holidays

At 4am on Thursday,my baby sister Layla was born.She was born at the hospital while my
siblings and I were asleep at home.My stepdad came in to tell me at night when my mum
went into labour,which was very exciting.Since the new baby had just arrived,my siblings
and I went to go stay at our dad’s house for a couple of days.Having Layla born was definitely
a positive for me.She was and still is a very small baby and even the premature clothes
wouldn’t fit her properly,as they were way to big.

It was definitely interesting having a new baby in the house though as it was very different.
She liked to sleep a lot during the day so pretty much every time we would see her she would
be sleeping.I enjoyed getting to hold her and feed her her bottle though.I do feel kinda bad for
my brother because there is yet another girl in our household.He now has four sisters and no
brothers.

A negative was definitely the crying at night when she woke up.She liked to sleep all day and
be awake all night,which in turn made my Mum very tired.This was of course a negative.

End of the holidays

A positive was getting to spend so much time with the baby.I really enjoyed holding her and
giving her her bottle.it was a positive getting to watch anime and Netflix in my room from my
phone.I also got to spend more time with my dad,auntie and cousins,as we went to go stay
at my aunties house,as it was down the road from my dads house. My auntie has two children
(My cousins) named Ava and Rory.Rory is two and Ava is three.They are small but really
energetic and love to play.I absolutely loved playing with them.

Layla is quite a calm baby so she doesn't cry too often but when she does it is very loud.We also
ended up finding the chrome cast for the TV on my wall as it had gone missing around the
beginning of the holidays.it was a positive getting to watch anime and Netflix in my room
from my phone.I also got to spend more time with my dad,auntie and cousins,as we went to
go stay at my aunties house,as it was down the road from my dads house. 

My aunties house didn’t have wifi though so I had to watch the shows I had downloaded on my
computer,which pretty much just consisted of the my hero academia series and movies.

A negative though was definitely all of the times where I was bored out of my mind and had
nothing really to do.Another negative would be waking up very early and not being able to
go back to sleep.I also liked to stay up quite late until around 3 in the morning which wasn’t
very good for me.

My original story was 451 words

Then he asked us to choose TWO sentences from each paragraph that were
the main ones for beginning, middle, end, positives, minuses and interesting.

. 

At the beginning of the holidays,nothing too exciting happened.One of the positives was getting
to sleep in and not having to wake up to my alarm.A negative was not really doing much at
home;I would pretty much just watch tv in my room or draw something (As I enjoy art).
At 4am on Thursday,my baby sister Layla was born.It was definitely interesting having a new
baby in the house though as it was very different.A negative was definitely the crying at night
when she woke up.A positive was getting to spend so much time with the baby.

Then, he told us we only had 103 words to summarise the holidays

103 words on the holidays

At the beginning of the holidays,nothing too exciting happened.A positive was getting to sleep
in and not having to get up.A negative was not really doing much at home;I would pretty much
just watch tv in my room or draw something.On Thursday,my sister Layla was born.It was
interesting having a  baby in the house as it was very different.A negative was the crying at night
when she woke up.A positive was getting to spend so much time with the baby.
A negative was all  the times where I was bored out of my mind.