Unicorn

Information about Unicorns: 
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a longhorn and cloven hooves (sometimes a goat's beard).

What do unicorns eat?Unicorns are herbivorous and are just the magical relative of the horse. They can eat what a horse eats like hay and oats as their normal meal. To get their full and magical nutrients they must eat powerful and exotic species of flora. 

What can unicorns do?The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a longhorn and cloven hooves (sometimes a goat's beard).

Unicorn Story

Sara was a unicorn.She was a very special unicorn, and her tribe considered her one of the greatest creatures in the world, for Sara had wings, and she could fly. Great big gossamer wings the colour of moonlight, could take her soaring into the air above, her white body gleaming in the sun at day, and sparkling in the moon-and star-light at night.

She was a happy and good-natured animal and made friends with everyone, even humans. She liked little children, who always stared at her in wonder and delight. One little girl was her special friend. She lived just outside of the forest that Sara lived in. Her name was Minnie and she loved Sara with all her heart.

One day when they were walking in the forest, Minnie asked Sara, “Dear Sara, would you please, please, take me up with you into the great big sky? I want to see the world from up there. Please, Sara? and Of course, I will, my little friend. Would you like to go now?” Sara asked, looking down at Minnie.

“Yes please,” Minnie shouted, jumping up and down in excitement.And so, with Minnie on her back, Sara flew off into the air, climbing higher and higher, with the little girl screaming in delight. She held on tightly to Sara and looked down at the ground that seemed so very far away. The houses and trees looked like toys. The river looked like a blue line drawn on one of her drawing pages. Birds flew past her chirping a friendly greeting and she waved at them in return. Soon it was time to return to the ground, and when she landed she hugged Sara tightly and said, “Thank you so much, dear friend. That was lovely.”

Edward Tulane ( ASB)

I recently read a book called Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo. She also wrote Because of

Winn Dixie. Edward Tulane is a toy rabbit with real rabbit ears and real whisker (the whisker are made some other animal.) In this book, Edward went through pain full love and losing his owner. Can you imagine losing your mom, dad or brother and sister?

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I think Kate Dicamillo tries to make us think we are in the book because she was using describing words. What do you think Kate Dicamillo is trying to do? In the book Edward Tulane

went through painful love  and lose his different owner as I said. At the end it turns out to go back to the same child as the first owner but,  the own  is grown up. It is an very emotional heart breaking story.

All of ways the owns lose Edward Tulane is said. For example, a small girl was sick and owned Edward Tulane but she died and then the brother Bruce, try to earn money by using string to make Edward Tulane dance. What would you do in this situation?

I think that this book is about how you love something that love you back. For example, family. How would you write the story if you had not read the book or  read my blog post?

Who We Are - 6 Word Visual Poems

Thought you might like to see our visual word poetry.  We are getting ready for Student Led Conferences and are doing lots of reflecting on Who We Are as learners.  We started with 6 words.

Toad Heaven

I’m reading a new book called Toad Heaven. It’s the second book in the series and I’ve read the book before it called Toad Rage. It has the same characters as the first book does. Limpy is the main character. He is a cane toad. His friend, another toad, is called Goliath. Both are trying not to be squashed by humans in their cars.

Where I’ve read up to, Limpy (the main character) has came up with a plan. He has just dipped his dead, squashed uncle in sticky tree sap and handed him over to Goliath.

A.S.B, 4A, Kerala Crookedstar’s Promise

I recently read, Warriors: Crookedstar’s promise.

It is about a little kit named Stormkit, born in Riverclan. One day, Stormkit, and his brother Oakkit go out exploring. They meet Thunderclan’s medicine cat, Goosefeather. Collecting herbs at sunningrocks. They attempt to chase him out, but the plan backfires, and they end up with Goosefeather chasing them. As they were escaping across the stepping stones, Stormkit falls into the water. He smashes his face on the bottom of a stepping stone. He survives, but his jaw is horribly twisted and sunken. That’s how he earned his new name, Crookedkit.                                                                                                                                                       The only reason Crookedkit survived, is that he was saved by a cat named Mapleshade.

She decides to train Crookedkit. She said that he would one day, lead all the Clans. Thunderclan, Windclan, Shadowclan, and his own home, Riverclan. His destiny was set by the stars long long ago. Mapleshade had nothing to do with it. Now she is tampering with the prophecy. What could she gain from it all?

I think that the author did a great job creating suspense, and thrill. My favourite part in the book is when they have battles with Thunderclan over Sunningrocks. Erin Hunter usually writes her books on a point of view from a cat in Thunderclan. It was interesting reading a book on a different clan cat’s point of view. Do you have any predictions about the book?

The Westing Game

A couple of weeks back I started reading the book The Westing Game. This book is about how Sam Westing a millionaire dies. In his will he says that somebody killed him and his 16 heirs have to find out who it is.

The author Ellen Raskin creates a lot of mysteries for example we do not know who the murderer, thief and bomber.

Ellen Raskin gives a lot of imagery in her writing take for example this part “ Upstairs  in 3D Angela Wexler stood on a hassock as still and blank faced pretty as a store faced window dummy. Her pale blue eyes stared unblinkingly at the lake.” I could get a picture in my mind could you.

This is a mysterious story have you ever stolen something or lied about something important if so let me know?

Marshfield Dreams

I recently read a book called Marshfield Dreams. This book is basically the autobiography of Ralph Fletcher when he was a kid. In this book he had 7 siblings, including him. The order for biggest to smallest was Ralph, Jimmy, Lainie, Tommy, Bobby, Johnny and the last was Joey. He had very specialized siblings.

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I think that Jimmy was a nature creature. For example, he was able to tell the difference between a beaver skull and a cat skull. Another example is that he is also able to tell the difference between a garden snake and a regular snake. So this means that he is a nature creature.

Tommy was a naughty boy. For example, he knocks everybody’s buildings and destroys all their toys. He can be the least sharpest knife in the drawer. For example, he found a discarded cigarette, broke it in half and then he gobbled it. He also ate dandelions, found some grass and ate it, he chewed sticks and even pried some used gum off the street and chewed it. Another example is that he said that he was hungry and Jimmy asked him, “Why did you not eat some regular food?” And Tommy gave the world’s most worst excuse. “I did not have any.”

Have you read Marshfield Dreams? It is a funny book and I would recommend this book to anyone seeking for the life of Ralph Fletcher when he was a kid.

Marshfield Dreams

Marshfield Dreams

This is a new book that I have read and I like it a lot. Although I have only read a few chapters of the book I already know that this is going to be great book.

This book is from Ralph Fletcher, and I really like the way that he writes, for example he tells the what feels like,he doesn’t just say about any other person he only says what he feels.

This is a life story book and this is the first one I have ever read, and I think this will give me a good idea about how to write life story, and I think that this will be a good example for a life story book.

Ralph Fletcher really describes what he says which makes it easier to create a picture in my of what is going on.

This doesn’t relate to much to my life and our lives don’t really connect, for example he was one out of 9 children and I am one out of 2 children.

This book is a true story about Ralph Fletcher and is a life story book.

Calvin and Hobbes

In the last two weeks I’ve been reading a new book called Calvin and Hobbes. It’s a comic book about a little boy called Calvin who pretends that his toy lion is alive. The book also has some funny parts in it like when Calvin read a book about palaeontologists, so he goes out into the garden and looks for dinosaur bones, but when he found some rubbish he thought they were dinosaur bones.

One of the good things about this book is that Calvin sometimes pretend to be an animal at the dinner table but his mum notices him and tells him not to be so rude at the dinner table. Where I’ve read up to he has went camping even though he doesn't like to. To get to the camp site they went in a canoe and when they got there his dad handed Calvin a bag but he dropped in the river so Calvin’s dad had to swim to the bottom of the river to get all the things.

Please tell me what books you are reading and if you liked my blog.

Calvin and Hobbes Asb- Week 5 or 6

I was reading a book called Calvin and hobbes it is a fun book,you can also understand the words. It is a comic strip. Calvin does all sort of stuff like play with hobbes, Prank a girl called Susie and ECT  .

It is easy to get absorbed in the book because it is interesting, and also it has humor in the for example..look. I chose to blog about this book because it is a popular and as I said interesting too. You too feel like you are in there watching. This by an author called Bill Watterson.

This book makes me think why did the author write this book? W

hat books did you like?

Dragon's Breath ASB

I am reading the same book as I did in my last blog. As you can see I have new wonderings and connections. The book is called Dragon's breath by E.D. Baker. So far Emma and Eadric are helping Grassina find her boyfriend Haywood how is a otter right now. Emma and Eadric are are looking for the ingredients for the potion to turn Haywood back to a human. They need to get : the hair of mother of Pearl , breath of the dragon green, a feather of an aged horse and the husk of a magic bean. Emma and Eadric already got the hair of mother of Pearl now they are trying to get magic beans at magic marketplace. They found out that the beans are out of season. I wonder how they are going to find the magic beans now? What do you think they are going to do?

I think that E.D. Baker is making you feel that you are in the book as if you are trying to find the magic beans. In chapter 15, page 163, says:

                                     A white haired old woman look up as we drew near.

What do you think E.D. Baker did to make the reader so interested?

One connection I made while reading this book is that I have, when I was younger, me and my best friend Kailyn would pretend that we are go through adventures. So many memories come back to me.

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As I thought about this paragraph, I read a little more of the book. The white hair old woman said she had no magic bean and it was out of season , when she heard something she wanted, she really  had old shriveled up magic bean. Emma and Eadric have also got the feather of an age horse. Now the only thing they need is the green dragon’s breath.  I haven't read that part yet. I wonder how they are going to find a green dragon? Emma and Eadric  went to see the dragon king but he say that green dragon don’t exist. What do you think?

I also think that this book show bravery and courage because Emma and Eadric are try to find a way to help Grassina and face so many things like the time they almost got their heads cut off or a enormous spider that try to eat them. I wonder what will happen next? What do you think??

treasure island

I’m reading a new book called Treasure Island. It’s a book about a boy called Jim, whose dad ran a pub. One of their guests was a pirate named Bill. Every month Bill paid Jim a silver coin for him to keep lookout for a pirate with one leg. One day, a blind pirate called Pew delivered a letter to Bill which caused him to die.

After Bill’s death Jim looked in his treasure chest, and found some coins which he owed for his rent. He also discovered a treasure map which he showed to the squire and the doctor. The squire and the doctor were excited the squire bought a ship to sail and find the treasure. Many strange things began to happen on the voyage.

Amos Lee's Beginning

In the book I was reading at school was a book called The Diary of Amos Lee this book is funny and interesting. The book is about a boy named Amos Lee who is writing a diary in his bathroom. This started by his mom because he spends a lot of time in the bathroom and his mom wanted him to do something in that time so she made him write. And that’s how the diary of Amos Lee began.

I wonder what crazy thing Amos Lee is going to do next? I like this book because it has that kick that makes you want to keep reading. This book is funny because he’s writing this in his bathroom and when he misspells a word when his mom reads over it she corrects it and yells at him after she’s done reading. I think that when he is done with his diary he finishes it off with a big surprise. I would like this because it will just have the reader want another book of The Diary of Amos Lee. They may even read more of this authors books.

 

Have you ever read a book where you just want another book of it?

If you read wimpy kid and you liked it then I bet you would like The Diary of Amos Lee.

The Serpent's Shadow (ASB)

Recently I started reading the book The Serpent’s Shadow by one of my favorite authors Rick Riordan . This book is about how Apophis (The giant snake of Chaos) is threatening that he will plunge the world in eternal darkness. So Carter and Sadie try to do something no magician has ever done - defeat Apophis. There is only one hope to defeat him it is to find an ancient spell. Will they find it or get killed?

It was easy to get sucked up into this book because the author builds lots of suspense. An example would be when the author writes that they have to go on a hunt to find an ancient spell.

The thing that made it suspenseful was if they were going to find it or not.

The author also creates lots detail.For example: “In the middle of the chamber, on a coffin shaped pedestal, stood a life-sized statue of the Apis Bull. It was made of dark stone - basalt, maybe - but painted so skillfully it looked alive. Its eyes seemed to follow me. Its hide glistened black except for a small white diamond on the front of its chest, and over its back was a gold blanket cut and embroidered to resemble hawk’s wings. Between its horns sat a frisbee of gold - a sun disc crown. Beneath that, sticking out of the bull’s forehead like a curly unicorn horn, was a rearing cobra”. When I read that I got a picture in my mind.

This is a powerful story which made me think about courage and overcoming challenges. When have you ever shown courage or have overcome challenges? Maybe you have read other books which have a similar theme. If so I would like to hear about them.

Ruby Redfort - Look into My Eyes - ASB

Ruby Redfort - Look into My Eyes

This book is by Lauren Child.  An author who wrote a series about a girl named Ruby Redfort. In this book Ruby is given a secret coded message telling her the right place at the right time. Ruby was almost best kid code-breaker ever in Twinford. Ruby finds out that she has been accepted at a secret agency called Spectrum.

When I started reading this book I thought it was going to be really boring because the start of the book was just the intro which is normal but it lasted really long and I thought there would no action at all. But then suddenly, when I was just about to abandon the book action, fun, and mystery came barreling in. That was one of the great things I thought Lauren Child did really well at. One of the things that I thought she should tweak a little was the length of the Intro. It was way too long and if it hadn’t been for my sister who was pushing me to keep on reading and wait, I would have abandon the book much earlier. But now I’m already have way through the last book of the series which is called Ruby Redfort - Feel the Fear.

This book is really interesting and I would recommend for anyone to read this book and the rest of the books in the series. This book is great except for the part I talked about in the paragraph above. If you have read any books that talk about secret agencies or have bursting action please tell me about the book by commenting on this post.

World of Norm

Recently I was reading a book called life of norm and I find the book very funny it also has funny pictures. I like this book because it really makes me want to read on although I did think that the author could have used chapter titles so that would make the reader want to read on more.

I like how the illustrator chose these pictures for this book, and that the pictures suit what is going on in the story.This book is for readers who have a really annoying brother or brothers.

This book has been a very interesting for me and I hope I keep finding books like this while I am book browsing.

I can relate to this book because even I have a little brother that always annoy’s me even when we are having dinner! For example the time when he would keep interrupting when I was trying to say something to my mom.

If you like realistic fiction I recommend that you should read this book and tell me if you liked the story?

Arjun (ASB)

Recently I read a book called Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. In this book Zeus, the god of the sky thinks that Percy stole his master lightning bolt. He also blamed Poseidon, the god of water because he is Percy’s son. His mother also died at the beginning. Hades, the brother of Zeus was trapped in a mansion. He trapped a girl and forced her to marry him. Percy also visits Hades in the book. He kills Hades also.

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I think that his father loved Percy so much. For example, he built a whole cabin on a lake with some of his weapons. Another example is that he really wanted to meet him because his brother, Zeus had banned all gods from making physical contact with their children. So this means that Percy’s father, Poseidon loved Percy.

I also think that his mother also loved him. For example, she sacrificed her life for Percy. Another example is that she let him drink a ton of coke and he got a monstrous soda burp. That burp was about 10 seconds long in my opinion. So this means that not only Percy’s father loves him, but his mom also loves him.

I think that Zeus thought that Percy stole his lightning master bolt. For example, Zeus and Poseidon have a link between them. Another example is that he is jealous that P.’s son is still alive and Z.’s daughter is a tree that guards the camp that Percy lives in. So this means that Zeus thinks that Percy stole Zeus's lightning master bolt.

Actually, Luke hid Zeus's lightning master bolt. In the end, he actually hid the master bolt in his shield which he made Percy take with him.

Do you think that someone has stolen something from you even though they didn’t?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Kerala: ASB

I recently read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The Dursleys and their son Dudley take in Harry Potter, after his parents were killed by Lord Voldemort. And the treat him as they would a prisoner. They make him sleep in a cupboard. That is, until Petunia Dursley receives a mysterious letter. They move him to Dudley’s old bedroom. But these things cannot be hidden for long! Soon, an enormous man named Hagrid informs him that he will be attending Hogwarts School for witches and wizards!

Hogwarts School

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I think that this story is a mix of many emotions. Happy, sad, and even frightened. Snape, the potions teacher at Hogwarts, despises Harry. Why does Snape hate him so much? My favourite character in the book is Hermione Granger. She is quick and resourceful.

I wonder what the philosophers stone is? What does it do? Will someone steal it? I think that Harry, Hermione, and Ron (Harry’s best friend), will have to do something connected to the philosopher's stone. What will it be? Do you have any predictions?

Diary of a wimpy kid ASB week 4

I recently read a book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School. In this book Greg goes to Hardscrabble Farms. He was staying there for a week and he had to be his enemy's bunk mate, Nothing more than Mr. Jefferson. Will he survive or die?

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In the first few chapters, he does not want to go to Hardscrabble farms. His mom really wants him to go on any school field trip. I think that he does not want to go for any school trips. For example, he did not sign the permission slip. This means that he does not to go for any school trips.

In the middle, he needs to get out of the house because he broke the bumper of his dad’s car. He made a last minute- decision that he was going to go. He forgot to chose his bunkmate so he had to go in the cabin with the leftovers. I think he chose that he would be with Rowley in the leftovers group. For example, he chose to be with Rowley because nobody wanted to be with him. So this means that he wanted to be with Rowley.

Unfortunately, he had to be Rowley’s dad’s bunkmate. He and R.’s dad had a bad connection. For example, he and rowley made up a secret code that R.’s dad could understand. So this means that he has a bad connection between him and R.’s dad.

Do you have a bad connection with someone?