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

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