A Brethren's Halloween

Usually Halloween is one of the funnest nights of the year, ghouls walking round, kids
with scary masks, adults running to catch up with their children,
Halloween decorations
hanging from the walls of the houses.

But for Maddie Bloom it isn’t. Being a brethren Maddie doesn’t celebrate
Halloween
and is always jealous when kids come knocking on the door saying
“Trick or Treat”.

Mother always says “I don’t celebrate Halloween,”
and shuts the door on their face.

Father is always telling her to put a sign up saying
NO TRICK OR TREATERS
but I don’t ’think Mother can be bothered writing signs,
besides she is busy everyday,
shuffling round the house in her slippers
with either the laundry basket, the dog, Me, dirty washing, dishes,
or newspaper in her hands.

Everytime I ask her if we can go to the park she says “No I’m busy,” and walks off.

But this time i’m prepared to ask her. I’ll go up to her in 2 minutes tonight and say.
“Mother, I would wish to go trick or treating this year. Just once please”.

I can’t wait to ask.

She’s walking up the stairs now as I write this.

There she is walking past my door. “You alright Maddie dear?” she asks casually.

I look at her for a second or two. I stutter,
“Mother, would I be able to go trick or treating tonight?” I finally said.

She stared at me. Then she dropped the laundry basket and screamed.

I blocked my ears
“How could you ask that Maddison Bloom!” She yelled pointing at me,
her fingers trembling…”You, you, you monster!” She yelled running out of my room.

I sat there on my bed staring down at the front page of my book
The Night begins to shine .

I looked at it, I felt bad.

What was the point of asking. The answer was pretty obvious.
Tomorrow was Halloween and I knew I wasn’t going to go.

I sat there reading the blurb on my book

Belle Seymour is out of luck..no trick or treating for her.
This year she is moving out of her house just as Halloween starts,
and that's a big problem. Will she be able to go trick or treating or not

I had an idea.

My mind lit up.  I would escape out of the house enough time to trick or treat.
Easy I’d just splosh some makeup on and put my black tights
and a purple skirt on along with my denim coat. It was possible.

The night came and I was ready,
I grabbed a basket and put black eyeshadow around my eyes and got changed.
I could hear the loud snores of Mother and Father.
 The snores were as loud as a gorilla, and for a second
I actually thought a Gorilla had crept into our house.

I climbed out my window into the backyard. The grass was so soft and had dew in it.

I tiptoed over to the gate and stared up at the sky.

The sun had  almost set. It was getting dark, it was already 6:17pm.
I slowly and carefully opened the  gate and crept out.
There were few trick or treaters left and the curtains were closing and fast.

I quickly ran up my neighbours driveway and rang the doorbell.
I heard shuffling and then Mr Bucket appeared,
he was wearing brown leather slippers with fluff out the end
and a dark grey dressing gown
and he had the glasses Father brought for him for his birthday.
“Trick or Treat!” I said smiling. He froze.

I forgot Mr Bucket knew I was Brethren!

“Miss, I don’t think you should be out here. Where are your parents?
And why are you trick or treating anyway?” He said with a frightened look on his face.

“My parents are sleeping
they said I could only come to your house and get lollies, but strictly ONLY this year,”
I lied.

He frowned.

“One small candy and that’s it.
I’ll be taking you back home and talking to your parents
whether they are sleeping or not. Strictly NO excuses,” He spat in my face.

I thought hard of an excuse.

“Well, you see. Mother said no talking to strangers or walking with anyone.
I have to be back now.”

He frowned again. “Don’t be silly, I’m walking you home!” he said arguing with me.

I sighed. I should just let him. I nodded my head and accepted the fact I was in trouble,
I mustn't argue with an adult anyway.

“Can I have my candy?”

He chucked a piece of candy in my basket and grabbed my hand and walked over to my
house.

I opened the front door slowly and there was Father standing right in front of the door,
looking at both of us. His arms crossed and his eyebrows raised.

“Want to explain Maddison Bloom?” He said angrily.

There was Mother walking up the hall in her pink and white striped dressing gown.

Mother looked at me and screamed. “Monster she yelled and backed away.”

Father turned around to look at Mother. “Calm down, Priscilla,” he said quietly.

Mr Bucket looked at me.

“Maddie was just coming to borrow some makeup from my Wife so she could practice
and see what she looked like.
“Well then what’s with the goth style and the basket,” frowned Mother.

Mr Bucket thought hard.

“The basket was to carry the makeup of course and the goth style!
What on earth do you mean goth style?
These are her old pyjamas, although why are you wearing the skirt?” He lied.

I couldn’t believe Mr Bucket, the one who always shooed me away
whenever I came close to his yard,
the one who told me to stop throwing toys over the fence,
the one who always tells on me! He was sticking up for me.

I needed to think of something good.

“The skirt is for the touch. I wasn’t really going to sleep in it,” I lied.

Father stared at me and put his hands on his hips.
“Maddison, I can’t have you lying to me,” He said his face close to mine.

I could feel him breathing on me. I stepped back.

I didn’t know what to say. I could just say nothing or I could lie again.

Lying isn’t good
 The words crossed my mind a thousand times spinning tiredly around
my mind. I felt a rush of pain through my head. I stared helplessly up at the sky,
making it obvious I was lying.“Maddie, I need you to tell me now dear,” Said Father
putting his tough hand on my shoulder making me shudder. I felt unable to speak or
move. My mind was blank. Everything was falling to pieces. What’d I’d done wasn’t
right. If it wasn’t for Mr Bucket, I would have been out trick or treating still. I can’t
believe how much of an imbecile I’d been. Sneaking out of the house, trying to get
treats at what- I stared down at my watch, 8:15 PM!

I felt red in the face I couldn’t believe, why had I done this. I felt terribly embarrassed
and bad. I swallowed hard. “I just wanted to..
See what it’d be like wearing a skirt. I’m not lying truly.
I praise the lord and I will never do it again. I just wanted to borrow makeup. Sorry,”
I stuttered. Feeling ashamed.

Mother looked at me, she had that
I’m never going to believe you, and I will never like you again.
“I’m not a downright fool, why on earth would you need to borrow makeup from
Mrs Bucket if you are already wearing makeup.

“I wanted a change,” I yawned. “I’m tired. I need to go to bed now anyway. Goodbye,”
I said and rushed past them to my room.

I saw a note on my bed

STEAM Fair

Our STEAM Fair was so fun. Lots of parents came in to see the projects and were very proud of them.
We worked very hard to make our projects and set them up.
Some people made display boards with information on it about the experiments they did and some people made projects using Makey Makey kit's and Spheros.

   

This is our project, a golf course. My Mum is looking at us controlling the sphero, the sphero was very hard to control an kept going off the side, but we got it finally after a while.
We liked how our golf course turned out.

What do you think of our golf course?
Do you think the STEAM Fair went well?

Picture Collage

This is my picture collage with pictures taken from when we were making our playdough objects and using LED lights and a battery pack to make the LED lights, light up.

I enjoyed making the Earth.

Reading Week 5

This is my Reading Work for Week 5, it is about conductivity and playdough

Math Week 6

This is my Math for week 6. I used a new template for my vocab, so it's more understandable.

Learn, Create, Share, Topic

This is my learn create share I made, The topic is rescue, so I based mine on the 12 boys who got stuck in the caves in Thailand.

My Math Tasks

These are all my individual math tasks I've worked on over the week.

My least favorite task to do was the Warm Up Game, it was quite challenging because I'm not good at angles.

My favorite task to do was the vocab, because I love finding out what different words mean, and putting them in my own sentence. 

3 Way Conference

We have 3 way conferences at our school where we have our parents come in and we show them our slides and the teacher talks about our learning and we discuss it.
This is the slide I showed to my parent.

P.M.I Reflection

We had our Variety concert on Thursday and Wednesday. We did a reflection on it

Doctor Pottage-Character

This is my character Doctor Pottage. I made it for a book my teacher's literacy group is doing. It was based on Harry Potter as you can see. We had to make a rhyme to go with it. So you can see in the top right corner.

Math Tasks

These are the tasks that we had set for math.

Reading Week 5/6

On this slide are some of the things we had to do for reading, I loved doing the author study even though I didn't finish most of it.

Maths Tasks Week 3

These are the maths task set for the hub, I completed them.
Take a look

Maths Word Problem in Sign Language

I learnt how to sign a word problem my group came up with.
Some words we couldn't find the sign for it, so we finger spelled it instead.
My favorite part was the finger spelling, my least favorite part was the talking, and messing it up.

Sign Language Maths!

This was the maths tasks set for us this week.
It was sign language week so we had some tasks around sign language like
Counting in sign language.
My favorite part of this was counting in 5's.
Here is the slideshow I made on google slides to present my learning.

Anzac Soundscape

This is the Soundscape me and my group did of the battle noise of WW1. We used multiple objects to create the sounds like, a bucket, leaves, our mouths, sticks, stones, acorns, and shoes.
We created a button that will lead you to the soundscape.  I hope you enjoy it.

Valerie Adams Profile

This is a profile of Valerie Adams who competed in the Commonwealth games.
I used Piktochart to make the profile. I really recommend Piktochart to show your learning. 

My Best Friend and I.

We are loving friends.

My Best Friend and I.

Embarrassing ourselves

By laughing too hard and falling to the ground.

Crazy-like

On the court

When everyone was staring at us.

We are artistic friends

My best friend and I.

Teaching each other how to draw

Terrible drawings

Bad- like.

At home

When we were chatting.

We are mean friends

My Best Friend and I.

Sitting together

Lazy- like

In class

Then we’d argue over something little

The whole class would stare.

When were crying.

We were talkative friends

My best friend and I.

Chatting on facetime

Gossipy-like

Slumped on our bed

When we were bored.

We were loving friends.

We were artistic friends

We were mean friends

We were talkative friends

My Best Friend and I,

When she was at my school.

We used a model for our story this time,
I really like this model,
Anyways have a great day.

Ruby & Loveleen Volcano Inquiry

This is our completed Volcano inquiry we worked on.
Me and Loveleen worked on our volcano inquiry all about volcanoes for a week.
It's all about volcanoes and how volcanoes erupt and stuff like that.

Maths Learning Strategy

This is more of my Maths Learning Strategy.
We are still working on find a fraction of a number.
I gave you a problem to solve.
See if you can solve it!

Maths Strategy

This is my learning strategy for maths.

The strategy is called find a fraction of a number.

 See if you can solve this on your own.

Week 4/5 Maths Group Work

This is my math's task for week 4 and 5.
First we had to go onto our hub and check what our maths work was.
We had to follow all our tasks, and our clinic work.
I hope you enjoy my maths learning.

Powtoon about Volcanoes

This is my powtoon I made about Volcanoes.

The app Powtoon that I used is a really recommended app, it's a good app to use to present your work

It's really easy and good to use. 

I hope you enjoy have a great day. :)

Wither Blackbell and the Car crash.

Car Crash “Hello..... Is anyone here, Grandfather?” asked Wither Blackball walking into a old barn. She walked around pressing her fingers against every box, looking around amazed. “I love this barn”. “It’s historical” she added. “I’d love this as a home” she sighed. _If only Mother didn’t live in a city penthouse in the middle of a gigantic city with cars tooting past as you looked down at the road._ Wither thought. “Come on Wither!” her Mother said beeping her horn of her Ford Pinto. “ Give up Wither your Grandfather went missing when he was said to be attacked by a bunch of raging goats” she said handing me a yellow piece of paper that read “Missing in action”. “He’ll be alive you just wait and see” Wither huffed as she hopped in the car. As they drove off towards the sunset Wither peered back at the old red barn that sat on the large green hill that took up the farm.“Kid, why you always got to be so mysterious, mischievous. You’re always looking for trouble, wanna be a detective.... well to bad you won’t be I want you to be a doctor my girl, not a curious detective. You will never be a detective.... ever. You will be a doctor- “Watch out!” I said moving my head down. Mum skidded the car into the curb dodging another car that was heading there way. My head felt sore. I touched my head and felt a big bump, I looked in the wing mirror that hung onto our car. I could see the bump, it was huge. I put my hands to my head. A tear fell out of my eye as I looked over at Mum. She had her head against the wheel. Her head was on the horn and it was beeping non stop. People we’re running over to my window with shopping bags in their hands. I shook her. “Mum!” I said looking at her with tears rolling down my eyes. She didn’t move . As I was looking at her, my nose all snotty my face red tears down my eyes someone reached their hand in through the window to lift up my Mum’s head. There was blood trickling down her face. “No! Mother why, why!” I said howling attracting more people. It’s okay sweet Wither. Your Mother will be able to visit me, Your Grandpa. I heard.

This is yet another story I wrote. It's more of a horror I guess.
The purpose was to Scare and Narrate.
The audience is My friends and people who like horror stories.
This is a very short story.

Below Earth 2

                                                           Below Earth 2
 The voice from behind was a Man. He tried to grab hold of Gemini before she jumped off to follow Libra down to death. Gemini and Libra were still falling, down and down and down. Deeper into the earth, as they fell the lava transformed slowly into water. “Oh Greatness!” said Gemini hitting the water. “Cool right” said Libra submerging into the water. But as they were swimming off further Gemini noticed the Man. “Libra, who’s that” said Gemini bobbing up and down in the water and pointing to a Man standing on the edge crying. “Oh my Greatness!” cried Libra looking at the man. “Dad!” she cried swimming back to the rocks. “Libra, Libra” cried who seemed to be Libra’s dad. “Jump” said Gemini happily. “I can’t” said Libra’s father looking down at the water in fear. “Do it!” said Libra, “for me” she added. “No!” he said furious. “Calm down, calm down” said Gemini looking up at him sadly. Libra’s father knew he should jump but with a fear of heights he wasn’t up for it. So he walked off sadly leaving Libra and Gemini stranded in the water. “Your Dad” said Gemini looking at Libra worriedly. “ I know he has a- but before Libra could finish her Dad came running up the dirt path. “Dad!” said Libra looking surprised. He jumped off the ravine. His face was red and he was screaming. “I’m going to be extinct from this world” he said landing under the water and hitting the bottom. As he rose up from being under water the Earth started to shake. “Libra!” screamed Gemini clinging to her. “It’s OK Gemini” said Libra stroking her hair. “ Before we-we get- ah- ex-tinct, i’m Taurus said Libra’s father shaking Gemini’s hand. “Hello, I’m Gemini” said Gemini with fear. “I miss my Father, his name was Leo and Mum’s name was…. Pisces” howled Gemini. “It’s fine!” shouted Libra and Taurus over the loud rumbling of the Earth falling apart. “I love you!” shouted Libra. “ I love- started Taurus and Gemini but before they could finish, the Earth came crashing down onto them. “Ah!” screamed Gemini waking up from her sleep. “Dad?.... Mum?” Gemini said. This isn’t home thought Gemini looking around the empty building. A man and a girl came rushing over to me. “Libra! Taurus” shouted Gemini surprised. “This is the Earth” said Libra. “Now” said Taurus looking at Gemini.

"Ah!"

Below the Earth

                                                                  Below Earth 1
Deep down in the earth, all is quiet, all is dark, nothing moves until a little girl unhurriedly peeped around the corner of a rock. “Mum?” she said softly peering around the dark damp empty space which was once Earth. “Mum!” she howled sucking her thumb. She heard a loud sound coming from further down. She screamed loudly scared of the noise. But just as she did she felt a hand wrap around her face and cover her mouth. The grip was so strong, so painful. “Quiet!” yelled someone pulling her back against the grubby dirt . She tried to scream for help but she knew there was no one else deep down in the earth. The person holding her tightly let go of her sharply making sure she wasn’t armed. “Please don’t harm me I did nothing” said 8 year old Gemini Zalback looking at the young girl who had almost killed her.

 “Nonsense, there’s someone else down here we have to make a move” The young girl said tugging at Gemini’s hand. “ How old are you? What’s Your Name? What year is it again? Gemini kept on questioning taking of off the girl’s fingers off her wrist one by one. “I’m Libra, i’m 12 years old, and it’s year 2089” said Libra irked and grasped tight of Gemini’s hand and pulled her further on down deeper into the Earth. “Why are we going towards the noise?” Gemini questioned nervously. But Libra didn’t reply instead she just continued sprinting . “ Please slow down” puffed Gemini tiredly. They came to a ravine. Lava was sitting at the bottom. “Jump!” shouted Libra jumping off the edge. So Gemini jumped. “No!” screamed a voice from behind!”

For our writing our teacher gave us an interesting story stater. The story starter was Deep down in earth, all is quiet, all is dark, nothing moves until.....
The purpose was to narrate.
The audience I recommend would be people interested in adventure.
I hope you enjoy my Book. Below Earth.

3 States of Matter

Did you know that the particles in gases are further apart than the particles in liquid? That is what we learnt. The animation that me and my friend Loveleen did. The animation represents the 3 common states of matter, Liquid, Gas, and solid. I hope after watching this animation you learnt something out of it. I'm glad if you did.

Whanaungtanga Korawai

This is the front and back of my Whanaungtanga Korawai. On the front is a picture I drew and colored in, it represents where I come from and a picture of me stuck on the Korawai to make it look like i'm in it and then we glue on our pepeha ( which is  basically a Maori all about me. On the back it has feathers I wrote on, dyed and then glued them on my Korawai. On the feathers I wrote my skills, what I care most about, one thing from last year I'd like to change, I feel good when someone says I'm.... and so on. We also drew Maori patterns around our border and then we cut out 3 strips of brown paper and plaited the paper, we then glued the plaited brown paper on our Korawai's and that was the back done.
The Korawai's took a few days to finish.

Ruby All About Me

It's the start of school for 2018 and we were told to create an all about me to let other people know some more about us. This All about me tells everyone all about me, and what I like to do and all those sorts of things. This was really fun to do. I hope you enjoy my first post of 2018.