Shelford Victoria Buns Instructional Writing

The petting zoo

At first Johnson thought it was a joke. Speeding down the country road the crude sign was only a blur. But it was that one word. Slowing down, he swung the Lexus onto the paved shoulder. In the rearview mirror, he could see it clearly. The sign was tacked to a stick that was stuck in the ground just beyond the paved shoulder. Shifting the powerful car into reverse, Johnson jammed the accelerator down. The tires squealed and loose gravel flew as he tore back up the road. Screeching to a halt, Johnson stared at the faded handwriting: ELSWORTH'S FAMOUS SPIDER PETTING ZOO 5Ms Next RT Spiders fascinated Johnson. One summer, when he was eight, a large gold and black spider had taken up residence underneath the shingles by the back door. Every morning, Johnson would gather up ants in a jar from a nest in the scrubby woods behind his house. One by one, he would drop the wriggling insects into the web. With lightning speed, the spider would spring from her hiding place and race towards the victim. Sinking her fangs into the ant, she would retreat, waiting for the poison to take effect. When the ant slowly stopped struggling, she would climb back down and delicately wrap her prey in a white shroud. This continued until, one day, his mother caught him. "What a cruel little boy you are," she scolded between clenched teeth as she pummeled his backside. He could still feel the shame of being spanked. Years later, in a rare moment of remorse, Johnson wondered what it was like for the ant. Trapped…helpless…waiting for the spider to return. Did they know fear or horror? Or was that something only humans experienced? The insect brain was too small he told himself. Or so he hoped. Five miles, thought Johnson, This side trip might only add another half hour or so to his journey. He would still have time once he got to his motel to have a shower. The dinner meeting with the buyer from the supermarket chain wasn't until 6 o'clock and it was only 4 now. Coasting forward, Johnson scanned the road looking for the turnoff. About one hundred yards ahead, he saw a lane that intersected with the highway. Flicking on his turn signal, he shot a quick glance at his watch. If I don't find it in fifteen minutes, he promised himself, I'll turn back. Accelerating smoothly, he turned onto a well-paved secondary road with deep ditches on either side. Punching the buttons on the CD player, he stretched his arms, settling back into the soft leather seat. As the throbbing beat of Queen filled the Lexus, his mood lightened - an unexpected adventure in an otherwise boring day. Johnson hated his job. Endless meetings with bad food and balding buyers. Too many drinks and too many hangovers. He was packing on the pounds, too. I have to get back to the gym, he reminded himself. The only redeeming feature of his job was that he was good at it. Top sales rep for the last three years. I should have been an actor, he told himself. Instead I'm selling toilet paper and tampons to these turkeys. As the needle on the speedometer crept higher and higher, the neatly kept fields and freshly painted houses became a blur. Mile after mile slipped by. Johnson felt that he and the car had become one, soaring along like a hawk on a summer breeze. But his mood soon soured. The condition of the road deteriorated. Asphalt gave way to chip-seal, which gave way to gravel; and, finally ended up as dirt. Johnson jumped on the brakes when a huge pothole emerged in the center of the road. Cursing the delay, he checked his watch again. It was almost 5. The long drive down the country road had dulled his sense of time. I better turn around, he cautioned himself. As he studied the road ahead looking for a safe place to make a U-turn, he saw it. An old farm house set back from the road. If it hadn't been for the pothole, he would have missed it completely. By the mailbox, a freshly painted sign read:

Who to solve problem

1. Read the problem.
2. Work out the problem .
3. look to see if your answer is there.
4. If your answer isn't there try again, until your answer is there in one of the options.  

Amazing Race

We ran as fast as we could to snatch the ribbon off the billboard.  In the holidays I took part in an amazing race.

Olly came and picked us up to go to the Warehouse  to buy prizes.  When we got to the Warehouse we asked to go to the  toy department. I was playing on the long board, this is a skateboard.  My brother found 100 dollars on the ground. He came and showed me the 100 dollars. I was excited that we had $100. We had to show Olly because it was the right thing to do.

When we got to Totara park we saw Jules. We waited for a while before the race was going to begin. Then we started the race, we had to paint our faces green because that was our groups color .  The first activity was bobbing for apples I got the apple in my teeth and then   

we went to get the next clue. We ran and ran and ran I was so tired. Finally I got the ribbon but we had to run back to the entrance it took forever to get there .

For the next activity our team ran up the steep hill. We had to grab a ribbon from off a pole. I had the ribbon in my hand and headed back to the entrance. I had to put a bandana on over my eyes so I couldn't see where I was going, Olly was my guide, when we reached our goal it was my turn to guide Olly.

Our final active was called Fear Factor. We had to put our hand in a box, I was nervous because I didn't know what was going to be in it. I put my hand in, it felt really slimy and yuck. There were plastic spiders and centipedes in the box. They felt like fish bones. I knew it was hair gel but I did not like it. Olly tried and got the card out because I couldn't do it.

At every activity we collected these cards. When we had all 3 cards we had to find out what the secret word was. I was in charge of doing this. It wasn't that hard to work it out. Our word was Kakapo. “YES!!!!!” I yelled we had won the game. I had so much fun I was really excited. The prize for winning was 20 dollars.

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SKATE BOARDING

MUSEUM

On Thursday class 6,7 and 8 went to the museum on the school bus.I find out about the body part about the murder did you know that class 6 and 7 went to find food but they had to find tools our trap’s.

It was so cool we got to do a Maori haka called  ke my Maori to our visitor did you know that if you do the pukana it means I will kill you I will get you and eat you for dinner If there is going to be. An earthquake came and shook the house the table hit me in the spin and the lights turn off  we all watch the news everybody got scared and we saw steam coming out the water the volcano erupted and we got killed

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CYBER SMART

Use my brain Use my heart I am going to be cyber smart was made up by Mr Burt.He did it for  the korero at assembly on friday.It is to help us do the rigth thing on our netbooks.

Use My Brain means to  think about what I am doing on my netbook .Think to myself am i do the right thing ? if i think I'm not  then I need to stop!!

Use my heart means If my brain is telling me to do something wrong my heart will be telling me not to. like for example if you are looking at game when you're not supposed to your heart will start beating faster because are scared you will get caught and have your netbook taken off you