Diary of a wimpy kid Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

Introduction

Rodrick Rules is based on fiction written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. Throughout the book there are cartoon comic strip pictures. The story follows a young boy and his family during their summer holiday. This holiday was a holiday they wanted to forget.

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Rodrick is the oldest then his brother Greg and the youngest Manny. The brothers are left home alone to learn how to get along. But the oldest brother had a party when he shouldn't have.  

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I sounded out the words I had trouble with. I read words aloud and ‘read on’ to help me find out the words I didn’t understand. The Author has illustrations throughout the book which help me  with comprehension. This also breaks up the text so every page isn’t covered in words. This makes it easier to read. 

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I enjoyed that it’s easy to read and understand. I liked the storyline because it’s always different and changing. This makes it more interesting and exciting. The characters in the book are a similar age to me. This helps me relate to the characters and the adventures they go on. 

I don’t like when the characters in the book write a note, and the illustrator writes in handwriting. This sometimes makes it hard to read. 

I think this is a good book for 10+ years old. The characters are relatable and the adventures they go on are funny and crazy. 

**** 4 out of 5 stars

Bitten by a Snake

 

Author unknown.

Bitten by a Snake is a true story about a nine-year-old boy called Hector who lives on a farm 14 miles from town. This story is set in the past, in 1921 to be exact! In the story, Hector gets bitten by a black snake. He knows he has to get the poison out straight away or he will die. Because he can't suck the poison out he uses his knife to cut it out of his leg. It was gross but cool.

We really liked this short story. It was interesting to see how different life was back in 1921. For example, if someone got bitten by a snake today you would just call an ambulance but in this story, there were no ambulances. Hector had to treat the wound himself and then ride a horse to the doctor. We couldn't believe someone would have to cut the poison out of their body and we would never try to suck the poison out either. It was also interesting to see how different kids were back then - Hector was only nine years old and he was allowed to have a knife. He was pretty tough and a very quick thinker!

We were wondering if this was really a true story. It also made us wonder about why people would ever treat snake bites this way and if it actually worked. We decided to look this up after we finished reading to see if it was true!

 ‘The Goat in the Room’ by Tim Lehnert

Aiden walks into the kitchen and he finds a goat in the house. But the weird thing was, that the goat could talk.  Aiden said, “What are you doing here?” The goat said, “Do you know how to use the coffee maker?” Aiden said, “No”. “Don’t you have a menu”, said the goat. “Yes we do, but I’m not making a cup of coffee for a goat,'' said Aiden. “Why not said the goat?” “Because animals don’t drink coffee”, said Aiden. Then Dad walked in and Aiden hid the goat under the table with a blanket.  Dad said, “Why is there a goat in the house? Aiden responded, “No there’s not”. “I can see the hooves under the table”.  The goat then tries to convince Aiden and his Dad at the end of the story to buy him a phone, so that the goat could tell them what was going on outside in the animal pen.

The writer captured our attention because they used a lot of humour in the story and one of the parts of the story that was funny was when the goat saw a coffee maker and asked, “What is that thing on the shelf?” Aiden replied, “It’s a coffee maker’’. “Give me a cup” the goat responded bossly and poor Aiden said, “I don’t even know how to make a cup of coffee from the coffee machine”.  Also the goat told them that he wanted a special kind of phone, that does talk to text, where you talk on the phone and it sends text messages straight away.

At the end of the day, the goat had to go back to his pen, but Aiden didn't want the goat to go because they were having so much fun together. One of the reasons why the goat needed to go back to his pen was because he had a routine that involved looking after the chickens because they were careless. Before the goat left, Aiden decided to give a little treat to the goat. Aiden gave the goat a carrot because Aiden loved spending time with him, well actually, his goat that was part human!

The writer also used some expressions like when the goat said, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”.  The goat says this because he wants to drink coffee like humans.  The other example that captured our attention is the use of an idiom.  Aiden’s father says, “But back to the elephant in the room”.  Aiden and his Dad needed to address the problem, which was the goat in the house and the fact that they had a talking goat that was cheeky and very demanding.

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Your's Troolie Alice Toolie

Your’s Troolie,Alice Toolie

Introduction:

This book Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie was made in 2018 and the person who illustrated this book was Grace West. There are a lot of images in this book because she likes to scribble and draw. Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie is a fiction book.

Characters:
Alice and Jimmy are frenemies. The problem is where Jimmy saw Alice's diary in the library and he thought that he could read it. Alice was so upset and now they aren't friends but they are forced to be friends. But then Ali went into the girls toilet and she heard a ghost so she keeped trying to trap the ghost and they were working together. 

What reading strategies? 
What were the most helpful strategies?
When I was reading this book some of the pictures helped me understand this book. This book was a diary so it didn't really help me with anything.
- The Book helped me because there are pictures talking about the same thing.

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Your’s Troolie Alice Toolie There’s a girl called Alice and a boy named Jimmy. Alice and Jimmy hate each other because when Alice went into the library she brought her diary with her and then she left her diary in the library and she accidentally left her diary in the library and when Jimmy went into the library and found Alicess diary and Jimmy read her diary.

Then the next day Jimmy didn't want to to tell Alice that he read her diary but she rang him and said do you know were my diary is and he said maybe but i'm very sorry for reading your diary then she was so angry and said to him well know you know all of my secrets so she said now i'm not talking to you forever now and she said give me my diary now. He gave her diary back And now he’s very sorry for reading her dairy.

I gave this book ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐stars because this book was entertaining but I don’t like how Jimmy doesn't put out images because the images make this book more fun.
 

'The Perfect Lawn'

Timothy Turner loved his lawn so much, that he was very mean when a ball landed on his lawn. Sometimes the neighbours thought he was mean and nasty. 

The next morning he looked out of his window and there were yellow patches on his lawn. He went straight in his car to go to the nursery. The nursery man gave Timothy some fertiliser but the fertiliser didn’t work. 

He went back to the nursery. The nursery man said “You might have to dig up some grass” Timothy said “ARE YOU SERIOUS,I'M NOT DOING THAT”. An old man came and said, "I have something that might help. I have a fertiliser".  The nursery man said “No, I’ve tried it before and killed my plant”.

By Joshua

Mr stink.

During class time we are reading a book called mr stink.

It is about a girl named Chole who meets a tramp. She talks to him. But her mum is very posh and doesn’t want chole to talk to a tramp. 

Mr stink is the tramp and I want to find out what happens in his life. 

The bfg

 This story is about a girl called Sophie who is in a foster home. One night as she is looking out of her window, a giant stretches his hand in the window and takes her to giant land. Giant land was a land full of giants. The giant that took Sophie is a nice one that’s why his name was the bfg it stood for the big friendly giant. He took her to a cave so that she could be safe from the other giants. All the other giants were bigger, stronger and meaner. In the bfgs cave he has a photo of the queen. Sophie came up with an idea to go to the queen's Palace and make her kick all the giants out of giant land. Find out what happens by reading 

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES Petal To The Metal

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This book is called Plants vs Zombies petal to the metal. It is really funny and Entertaining. It was illustrated by Ron Chan. It is in the Plants vs Zombies 2013 Series. 

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The characters in the story are Zomboss is the boss and the smartest zombie, Crazy Dave is the craziest character in the story, Nate the hungriest person in the game and Patrisher is the Girl  who is the niece of crazy Dave. In this story zombies and plants race because the loser has to leave neighborville. The problem was that when the plants were in lead the zombies back at neighborville attacking. I think this theme is comedy because it is really funny.

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When reading this book most of the words were pretty easy to say. But some of them were not easy to read. With those hard words I used to sound it out and I also broke them to bits so read the letters in the word. I Was also able to reread sentences in the book.

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I liked the part when they were racing for who leaves neighborville. In this book I would change some of the zombies' faces because it looks kinda creepy. I liked this book because it reminds me of the plants vs zombie games I used to play. If I were to recommend this book I would give it a ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆.I recon Years 2-6 would like this book.

 

Rugby League Reads

 This book is about rugby league and what the teams and the players and where it was found. Hopefully you will like it this is by Curtis Naylor.

intro

There are sixteen teams in the NRL footy. As ten Sydney teams, one New Zealand team, one Melbourne, four Queensland teams and one Canberra team. Sounds like a lot of teams doesn't it? I  wonder who you support in the NRL?

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 Where was rugby league found?

The word NRL stands for national rugby league. It was found in England l868 then around some parts of the world. The first Australia rugby league match was in Melbourne back in the 1800’s. Rugby league was invented in Northern England 1895. As New Holland [aka Australia N.S.W before it was discovered by captain cook.] In 1908 eight rugby league teams in the NRL came: Sydney Roosters, South Sydney,Balmain Tigers,Eastern suburbs,Sydney city which is part of the Sydney Roosters. Western suburbs magpies,Newtown jets and North sydney bears. Sport takes a part of history to its why to this day we will always pay respect in past, present and future.

 

2 paragraph  Being part of life 

Sport is about having a healthy life. Problems sometimes happen in footy like injuries or trying to make it to the finals footy or your retirement.1908 things that people didn’t know lots about. Remember 2020 from January to June and July was coming out of covid-19 lockdown, but now it's starting to ease down for Australia. But problems were rising for some like Jake's friend retired by getting hit hard.My problem is when l play footy l don’t want to have an injury and stop playing footy because when l grow up l want to play for Coogee dolphins A- grade and the A- reserve. And the NRL teams. The players are getting even more people injured to this day. Hopefully they won’t have to retire. 

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Some of the strategies l use while reading the text was …

1. Look all of the information in the text

2. Put it into a story in your own writing

3. Read the text over and over again 

4. Reading part of the text was hard

5. That was a good text but l loved to read it again

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What l loved about the book is that the NRL [rugby league]  is my favourite sport that l love playing and reading. The best thing l  love reading about this book is that it was interesting reading the book about footy players and the team and what about and when they came from.

what  would l change about the book is that they should get new players about them but get more information about the players. I do like the book because when people grow up and they are 18 they can get some information about footy and the rules about. l give this book 7 and 8 out of 10. 

Ella and Olivia. Sisters day out stories.

Ella and Olivia sisters day out stories.

By  Yvette  poshoglian. Written by Danielle McDonald.

Ella and Olivia In all -new six exiting adventures.   🌎

They visit a alpaca farm.👩🏻‍🌾

They go to their aunties wedding and get pick flower girls.👰🏻‍♀️🌺🌸🌼🌹🌷💐🌻🥀

What else exiting can happen?🤔 

The Shy piglet by Holly Webb

                                                                 The Shy Piglet 

     How can Molly help the poor piglet over his shyness. Read more to find out 🐷

Molly has a great way with animals,she lives next to a vet surgery that's called Larkfied vets. She can go visit when she has free time. 😎

Cupcake Catastrophe Golden Girl 3

 Cupcake Catastrophe by Yvette Poshoglian

Ella and Olivia are making cup cakes 

for Dad's birthday. But when cooking

disaster strikes  will the party continue?  /?

Anh Do Weirdo Spooky Weird 9

 Introduction 

WEIRDO 9 is a comedy because he has amazing ideas and some of the words are in different colours. It is written by ANH DO  

  Character

The characters in the book are Weirdo. He is the main person in the book he has mum,dad,sally he's sitter, little brother roger he has lots of friends like Bella’s,Henry,Toby,Hans some . It is comedy, has lots of buns, it is a spooky story, it is Halloween and they dress up.

Reading strategies

I am able  to  sound out words I don't know how to say. I went back and read it again. And read some puns to Scarlett and it made more sense.

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I enjoyed reading their books. It makes me laugh. I like puns and the description that they used on the characters. I like how  they have so many different series 1\21 weir do has  many friends and he makes me laugh  my favourite character is Toby you always see his bum.

I think that this book is perfect how it is nothing i word change it is fine i like how it is best book i word not change the buns all add some puns it has the right amount or puns.  

I think you should read this because it makes me laugh. I think this  is a good book to read. It is nice and easy to read. The words are in the colour of the front cover. I rate this a 10 out of 10. I think it is a good book. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

    

 

ANH DO WEIRDO 11 SPLASHY WEIRD

 ANH DO WEIRDO 11 SPLASHY WEIRD

Introduction: 

ANH DO WEIRDO  is a comedy because the book talks about funny things but in this book it is talking about splashy weird things. It's about where there's a school swimming carnival. Weirdo enters in a lot of things like the butterfly, backstroke, diving board and doggy paddler. I like the book because it's very interesting and funny.

Characters: 

The characters in this book are Weir and his family and friends like Bella, Henry,Toby roger and hansom but Weir is the main character in this book.

What reading strategies:

What were the most helpful strategies?

When I was reading this book the pictures helped me tell the text as well as the words were helping me tell this book because there were words that were helping me tell parts of the text. 

-The pictures so that I knew what they were talking about.

-also the pictures can help me with the text and its telling parts about the text

-The words that words are describing the pictures 

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The day had finally come. That day had come, Weirdo was dreading it for week’s. Everyone was so excited. Bella is good at freestyle. Roger can’t wait to cheer on the green team. Henry has been practising his backstrokes for week’s although Henry thought that backstrokes meant giving back scratches. Henry also thought that the butterfly meant who could race the fastest with wings. But now Henry knows how to do the real backstroke and the real butterfly. Toby is good at the diving board. But weirdo, he doesn't like any of it. 

But he’s been trying to come out of the swimming carnival. Weirdo said to his dad I have a terrible rash. There's no way that I can go to the swimming carnival tomorrow. His mum and dad sent me to bed early to rest but before having a bath my spots washed off. But mum caught him ‘’hey what happened to your spots.’’?

He took them, said Weirdo.  

This morning I tried something new. An ear infection, Mum somethings wrong with me, I'm really sick. But the granddad walked in. He came up to me and stuck his finger in my ear and pulled the gunk out and licked it! Gross, Ewe said his sister Delicious peppermint toothpaste said his granddad! The next day. Then Weir decided that he wasn't going to race but he still cheered on the green team. IT was so much fun everyone was dressed up in their team colours all of his friends were leading team colours. When weir was ready to go swimming in the races he got in and then he said it’s so cold. Then his friend Toby was going down the slide and then his pants fell down. Then Henry and weir were racing together because the others were already done so it was up to Henry and weir. They both leapt off the wall at the same time. But the others took off at the wrong time they went before the pistol went so they got disqualified.

After the school carnival Weir and his family went to their next door neighbours Bella and weir just wanted to walk because their house is right next door to them. But weir's dad wanted to drive because it was more Fancier but his next door neighbour saw them do u turns. And they thought it was so funny. They all had dinner together and then none of them wanted to do the dishwasher so they had to do a challenge where whoever dropped it first had to do the dishwasher.

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I give this book a ten out of ten because I wouldn't change anything about this book

This is a great book because it has a lot of pictures and funny jokes.

 

Golden Girls

 I like that Macca knows for next time if someone treats him the way his mother did he knows what to do.

I do not like how this boy Macca has bad life and how his mother and step mother treated him.

Toppling

 This book is named Toppling, Toppling is a great book inspired for little kids going through tough things in life. Toppling was illustrated by Sally Murphy, an artist who likes to write about interesting and creative things. This book is about a little boy with a big addiction to Dominos, his family thinks it’s weird but he thinks it is a great thing to have in life. John collects all different kinds of dominos and builds all different courses to knock down just to hear the clack of every block one by one falling down. John collects all different sizes and colours of dominos, he has a tun of tubs under his bed full of them. He has a hard time at school but makes a friend named Dom. Dom always talks about all the good things he has and how his footy team is going really well, but he has cancer. Read Toppling to find out what happens to Dom and how John copes. This book is recommended for students in Year 5 and above. 

Over the past months this course has helped me in all different ways. It helped me be more confident with myself when reading out loud. It has helped me read more complicated books than I did before.

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Scylla the Sea Monster

Scylla The Sea Monster is a myth from ancient Greece from thousands of years ago.  A myth is little bit like a fairy tale, however it explains why something happens. People often told myths because they didn't write their stories down, they passed them down through storytelling.

The story Scylla the sea monster is a story about a story based on a merman falling in love with a beautiful lady. So he went to Circe the sorceress and got a magic love potion. He poured the magic  potion in her bath and instead of loving her it turned her into an ugly sea monster and soon after Scylla turned to stone.