My Quickwrite 2021 - Story Starters:

 Kia Ora, today by blog is about my second Quickwrite from my priorities. I used the story starter, 'The girl raced to the other side of her yard'. I hope you enjoy reading my Quickwrite and the awesome adventure I wrote about! This Quickwrite also had inspiration from the animated film, 'Raya And The Last Dragon'.

The girl raced to the other side of her yard. It was as if something was scaring her away, like a cat chasing a mouse, reading to pounce onto its prey. Her name was Raya, at least that's what her friends used to call her. Used to. Now, she's known as 'The Protector of The Mythics'. 

An ancient myth, known to say that the Mythics were a group of five powerful forces, with powers unmentioned until a certain point of time. When they all worked together as a team, they were the most dominant living beings in the land. Their land was called Estrania. Estrainia was filled to the brim with life, from tigers to spiders, and cats to bats; but the only thing keeping all living creatures alive on Estrainia, was the legendary Moonstone. The Moonstone was the only thing keeping them alive, and if the gemstone was even the littlest bit chipped, there would be nothing left in the land of Estrainia, nothing except The Protector of The Mythics.

Raya jumped onto her spotted feline friend, as she zoomed to the next drained-out lake, it was like someone had dived to the bottom and pulled the plug, all the water rushing away, nowhere to be seen. She pulled out her scroll, jumped off her cheetah which she called Lana, and read aloud.

The gem lies beneath stone,

The gem lies their alone.

Nothing protecting it, nothing in sight,

But a powerful force, capable of great might.

A  warrior, both powerful and brave,

must take this challenge, to save the day.

Raya steps into the dry lake and in her hand, appears the Moonstone. Finally! But, there's a problem. She drops the stone unexpectedly, and it shatters. Raya feels something in her left arm immediately, and as she turns her head, she has only a left shoulder, and that is also slowly disappearing. 

Thank you for reading my Blog about my Quickwrite!

-Kale'a ♡

Quick Write - Story Starters: Can Anyone Hear...

Kia Ora! Today I will be sharing my Quickwrite with you. I used the Story Starter, "Can Anyone Hear..." for my Quickwrite. This Quickwrite is also based of of the series: Wings of fire: The Dragonet Prophecy. I hope you enjoy it, and happy reading!

“Can anyone hear that?” Sunny shivered as Starflight walked by. “It’s OK, Sunny, It’s just Tsunami rummaging for some scrolls.” “Some interesting scrolls!” Tsunami added. “Anyway,” Starflight continued, “We should study some more tonight. I feel that you guys haven’t been reading as much as me.” “Well, obviously! I’ve been eating leftover cows from dinner all night!” Clay spat raw chewed - up mince all around the room while trying to speak. “Yuck, Clay!” Sunny laughed. “Fine. As long as I get to choose. OK?” Tsunami snapped. “Yes, yes. Just not the SandWing princesses.” Glory whispered, apparently not quiet enough. “Oooooooh! Great idea, Glory!” Tsunami yelled. “Oh, Splendid.” Glory mumbled.

“I would obviously be the best queen, but since you are a real SandWing Sunny, you can be Queen Oasis.” Tsunami said. “Yay!” Sunny exclaimed while Tsunami carried on. “Glory, you can be Blister, the smart one. I’ll be Burn, the strong one, and Starflight, you can be Blaze. The prettiest one.” Tsunami chuckled. “But, I was Blaze last time!” Starflight yelped. “Stop complaining! Oh, and Clay, you’re the angry Scavenger.

The Acting Out

“La, De, Da, De, Da. I’m Queen Oasis and I do Queeny things and stuff.” Sunny said.

“Don’t forget the treasure!” Tsunami whispered

“Oh, yea. I have lots of treasure, and that’s what makes me so Queeny!” Sunny added.

“Did someone say treasure?” Clay said.

“EEEAAAKKK!” Sunny cried in fear.

“You’re not supposed to be scared!” Tsunami interfered.

“R-Right. Rar! What is this scavenger doing in my kingdom of sand? I will eat him in one bite!”

“Squeak, squeak, and other annoying scavenger noises!” Clay squealed. “Take that, I mean, SQUEAK!”

“Impossible! How could a lousy scavenger like this defeat me! Oh, my kingdom will fall, oh, my treasure!” Sunny complained.

“Squeak, squeak! All this treasure is mine now! Ha!” Clay announced.

“Oh, no! Our mother is dead!” Tsunami yelped.

“And none of us killed her, oh what shall we do?” Glory questioned.

“I, Blister was about to challenge her, I should be queen!” 

“I, Burn am the biggest and strongest, I should be queen!” Tsunami said

I, Blaze am the youngest and will live the longest reign, I should be queen!” Starflight commanded.

“Aaannnddd…” Tsunami confessed.

“I am also by far the prettiest.”

“Ha, ha, ha!”

Thank you for reading my Blog, I hope you enjoyed it!

-Kale'a 🐈

Cross Country 2021 - 2nd Place!

 I dropped my water bottle and my just - washed sweatshirt. I really wish I could wear it, it is freezing! "Year 6 girls, line up, quickly!" I chase myself to the starting line, girls pushing, girls shoving, trying to get to the front of the line. I got there just in time, then girls came impelling through the crowd, like there was a pack of velociraptors chasing them. Arrggghhhh! "On your marks, get set, GO!" I prance off the wet grass, catching up to my speedy friend, Charlotte Alexander. Catch me if you can, my friend! I ran my heart out as I passed Charlotte, Lola, and Klara. Yesss! Now, I only have to catch the most rapid - fast, high - speed, energetic girl in the school. 

Charlotte McDiarmid.

I try to keep my pace up, and I succeed. I lean back, remembering last year how steep it is when you're running down a hill. It's steep. I say a quick 'hello!' to one of the FOW (Friends of Wainui) Cross Country helpers, Kate as she hits me with a 'good luck!' back. 

The Crowd

As I catch up to Charlotte M, I start to breathe heavily. The crowd cheers, then I hear my friend Te Atawhai yelling, "You can do it, GO Charlotte, OH YEAH, IT'S KALE'A! GOOO KALE'A!" She would definitely win the award for "Best Cheerleader". And like it was nothing, I was back at the starting line, on my second lap. By keeping track of Charlotte M, I tilt my head up every now and then to find her bright yellow t-shirt, and then I jolt my head around once or twice to see who's behind me. I know that doing this isn't always ideal, but I only did it once or twice. 

The End

I get back to Kate, on my second lap, and she takes a speedy photo of me (I think it was hard since I was going down a small hill at top speed), and then I catch my eye on Charlotte M. Then, like it was yesterday, or a couple minutes ago, I could see the two neon yellow poles sticking out of the ground marking the finish line. Yessss! I sprint as fast as I can, which is pretty hard since I am just about to puke and faint at the same time, but then everything goes silent. It is just like putting both of your fingers in your ears, and all you can hear is a quiet hymn of clapping and cheering, then, I am back in the present. I feel my feet jump and then I am flat on the ground, past the yellow poles. I am so happy.

Second place.

Thank you for reading my blog, Kale'a :-)

My Quickwrite - Get Ready To Read An Epic Quickwrite!

 Ata Marie blog readers, today I will be showing you my Quickwrite. My Quickwrite includes...

• Fun and creative words using the amazing site, Thesaurus.com
• Action - packed paragraphs that will make you slide of your seat
• Relating Images/Illustrations that you can take a look at while you read

Down below is what I wrote:

I jump up and down on the pavement, waiting for my friends to arrive. "Wait, i'm early. I need to set up! Oh - N... " Honk, honk, beeeeep! Goes the horn of one of my bestie’s cars. I race inside, surprised that someone was actually here so early. I sprint right into a door, rubbing my head as I pick myself up from the ground. I jog the rest of the way to the celebration cupboard, trying my best not to run into anymore doors. That is how silly I can be. 

Finally, I take a U - turn, since I had just realised that I had been walking for about  minute, in the wrong direction. I do not know where my brain is today, cause it sure isn’t in my head. 

I hear a car parking.

Oh - no. 

I find the door to the celebration cupboard, open it, I do not run into it, because even how hard you try, it will not open that way. Trust me. I grab the balloons, the last thing needed to hang up for the party, and rush to my bedroom. I start to blow Co2 into each and every balloon, until…

Knock, knock, knock…

That is the sound of knocking on a door. She’s here.

This better work out well. Without any door banging competitions involved. But I know for one thing, that if there was, I  would definitely be the winner.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog. :)

Happy days, Kale'a 🐱

6 Word Sentence - Explain Your Life With Just 6 Words

 Kia Ora, welcome to my blog. My name is Kale'a and today, I am going to write about what I did in my Writing Workshop Google Meet. If you hadn't read my last blog, I wrote about how New Zealand is back in Lockdown, Lockdown 2.0 we call it. My class, MLH (Moana Learning Hub) is now doing Google Meets for our Reading, Writing, and Math Workshops. In me and my friends Writing Workshop, Koka Pip, one of my teachers, showed us a video of this man explaining about a 6 word sentence. Basically, you explain your life in 6 words, adding pictures on the sides of it. My one is:

A Life Without Love Is Miserable.

Below is my Google Slide that I did it on:

                       

Thank you so much for reading!

-Kale'a ☆♡☆ 

🏠 Lockdown 2.0! Staying Home Once Again...

 Good Morning my fellow blog readers! Today, I will be talking about, drumroll please...  ...  another lockdown! As you all know (hopefully you all know), that there is a Covid - 19 pandemic around the globe. Since the time when it first started in May 2020, New Zealand has been keeping the ice in the freezer. Until Delta opened the freezer and put all the ice in the microwave, set it to 30 seconds, and then opening the microwave door, so that all the water starts to spill all over the 5 million people of New Zealand. 

Now that Delta has had an outbreak, the schools of Aotearoa are back in the pit of digital learning. My class, MLH  (Moana Learning Hub), have been doing Google Meets for our learning groups called Workshops. Our Workshops include Reading, Writing, Math, and Strand Math; I am in L3+ Reading, L3 Writing, L3+ Maths, and L3 Strand Math. Our whole class also do set of arrangements called 'Priorities'. These include:

• 2 Quickwrites (A story of about 3 paragraphs)
• 4 Math Whizz progressions/gems (Math Whizz is a site made by Whizz Education)
• 1 Blog (This is my blog for the week!

And... 

• 1 Blog Comment to your Blogging Buddy (Your Blogging Buddy is a randomly chosen student in the class that comment on each other's blog)

In Lockdown, we do one more Priority, StepsWeb (StepsWeb is a word work site used to help kids with their vocabulary). Usually, I get my Priorities done to a high standard at the end of the week on Thursday; I have a LOT of workshops. 

Working at home with my family is really fun, well, most of the time. My brother has a Google Meet everyday at the same exact time, in the morning, so when somebody is trying to do their work, hint hint, me, I can barely get anything done because my brother is yapping away at his friends. Yaaaay.

This Lockdown we have a schedule for when our workshop meets are. On Monday, it's Math, on Tuesday, it's Writing, on Wednesday, it's Reading, on Thursday, it's Math again, then Writing again on Friday. Each block is a different workshop, and there is a lunch break, and a couple of priority breaks. Lots of kids work after school hours, which is pretty good choice, saying that there is a lot going on during the day. 

That is all I have to say about our new Lockdown 2.0, I hope you enjoyed it, and have a great rest of your day, without any family members annoying you during this distressed Lockdown.

Your weekly Blogger, Kale'a🐱

A - Ha! Samantha Found What She Had Been Looking For.

Good Morning! My name is Kale'a and I would like to tell you about what I have done today. At school, I complete a set of activities every week called 'priorities'. For one of my priorities, I wrote a quick write (where you write a quick, short story), and I used something called a sentence starter. A sentence starter is where I choose a sentence then use it at the beginning of my quick write. Below is what I wrote:

A - ha! Samantha finally found what she had been looking for. Well, that was just now, we have to go back in time 10 minutes ago in Samantha’s room…

“Wake, Up, Samantha! Wake, Up, Samantha!” The alarm clock beeped, over and over again. Samantha reaches her hand out, feeling for her chiming alarm clock. Her hand finally touches it. She turns it off, pulling her warm duvets off her freezing legs.

Forcing herself out of bed, she opens her closet door, looking for her favorite T Shirt. “Where is it!” She crawls under her bed. Nowhere. She opens and closes every dresser drawer. Creak, slam, creak, slam. Nowhere. Her alarm clock read ‘8:50’. She would be late for school, if only she would be able to find her favorite T Shirt.

She creeps downstairs to find her mother making breakfast. “You’re gonna be late for school, and I won’t be apart of it!” Samantha heard as she walked into the kitchen saying, “I can’t find my favorite Tie - Dye T Shirt!” Her mother replied as if nothing was wrong, “Don’t be silly, you’re wearing it.” And that is how Samantha said, A-ha! Because she had found what she was looking for. Well, her mother had.

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope that you enjoyed it. Mahalo (Thank you), Kale'a 🐈