My Fairyfriend By Libby Offord

This is the first installment of Libby's story. She is a very talented writer who has started this story at home. We will add parts of the story to the blog as they are written. Please add a comment for Libby, at the bottom of this post, by clicking on 'comments'.

“My Fairyfriend”

Once on a sunny day I went outside to play when suddenly I looked down at the old Beautiful Oak Tree and saw a flash of golden stars whizz behind the Oak Tree.

I carefully and quietly tip toed through the short green grass. I snuck around the Oak tree and peered round and saw… A FAIRY!!!!

She was brown and she wore a beautiful blue silky gown with soft blue slippers and long, black, silky, curly hair. She had bright red nail polish and cherry red lipgloss. She was very, very beautiful.

Suddenly the fairy turned around and smiled at me in a very soft, gentle voice. She said, ‘Hello, pleased to meet you. My name is Rachel.’ My eyes widened. She was just as pretty as my mother and my mother’s name was Rachel!

“How old are you?” Rachel grinned. “I am 32,” she said. My mother is 32 as well, I thought. That is strange. I hadn’t seen my mum for the last few days.

Rachel had great big beautifully patterned, blue wings. I looked at my house and back at Rachel. I saw that her smile had faded into a frown. She looked back at the hills and a tear poured down her cheek.

“What’s wrong?” I asked. She leaned back on the tree. She looked at me. “My family is dying!” she said.

Tune in next time for the next part of the story.

Brainspot

This weeks maths homework is to have a look at the maths section of 'brainpop.com'.

It would be great if you could encourage your student to explore the site. It has lots of cool, interactive activities for all sorts of learning areas.

Have fun exploring!

Poll Results

Room 5 has had a poll running on our blog for a few weeks. We asked you to tell us how much homework they should have.

The the results were a resounding 80% for NO homework. As an incentive to interact on the blog at home I decided to follow up on the results - that means 'no homework' for next week, which we are all very excited about.

This weeks poll asks, 'What could we buy with our sneeks?' Sneeks are our class currency that we can earn (or be fined). Some of us are in credit and some in debt. I wonder what you will all vote for.

Look for the poll on the right hand side.

Remember - one vote a day!

Alan's Trebuchet

My Dad built this model of a Trebuchet. The Trebuchet was built for firing big loads of stones over walls. This model is made of wood with some string and some leather and a big lead weight sealed with wax. We threw chalk because stones will hurt people. The greatest distance we can throw the chalk was about 10 metres. It was pretty exciting and freaky when it fired because it was fast and creaky.

By Alan.