Reading

The Black Book of Colours

This is the book I recommended as Duffy in the school assembly.
Author: Menena Cottin

It’s about how a blind child perceive colours. Instead of seeing, he can feel, touch and smell them. This book is entirely made of black, except for the writing. It also includes Braille letters, which is a language made by using raised dots to represent each letter of the alphabet.

You can find this book in the library under sophisticated picture books in the fiction section.

Thanks for listening.

And remember it’s cool to read!

The Legend of Matariki

Meariki: the Quest for Truth

This is a panel from Meariki: the Quest for Truth.
It is my favourite panel because it shows the spider's point of view.

Holiday Reading #2

Title: Secret Letters
Author: Leah Scheier
Genre: Mystery, Romance
 I would recommend the book to Anthony, because he likes mystery books as well.  But I don't think he will like it too much because it have a bit of romance, and it doesn't require you to guess the culprit.  There isn't any big plot twists either, so it is kind of boring.

Coraline

My favourite part of Coraline is the dark feeling of the movie.   It just makes everything different, or spooky, in a way that I like.  It is made for children around 10, or even teens.  Adults tend to like it too, but as a horror story while children think of it as an adventure.  Coraline is one of my favourite movie’s of all time.

It all started when Coraline Jones moved into a creepy new house.  She is always bored, since her parents are always busy and when they’re not, they ignore her.  So she explored around the new house which is split into three parts.  Coraline visited the two retired actress’ who are living in the same part and a man who is training a mouse circus, which is all very weird.  Anyways, she is still bored and her dad who is doing nothing told her to count all the doors in the house.  It is then she came across a door with a brick wall behind it.  She experimented with the door a bit, and went to bed after eating dinner.

Coraline woke up in the middle of the night, woken up by the squeaking sounds the mice under her bed are making.  She followed the mouse, because she thought she would not go back to sleep anyway or just random curiosity to the bricked door earlier.  Strangely, the mouse can pass through the door.  Coraline opened the door, and the brick wall disappeared.  Instead of the brick wall, there is a peculiar tunnel.  She climbed through the tunnel, and ended up in her house where she just was.  But something’s different.  The house is decorated nicely, and her parents have buttons instead of eyes.

The Coraline movie is based on the book by Neil Gaiman, which is also named Coraline.  The movie is made by using stop motion, and as you all know stop motion films are very hard to make.  I watched the movie 2 times, one time when I was about six and I thought of the movie as a horror movie.  Now that I’m year 7, it just looks like an adventure story.

The Fence

She stands over there every evening, gazing over the fence, staring into the horizon. The girl took a deep breath of the salty seaside wind. The cool breeze is blowing over her expressionless face. The ocean waves are moving with the wind, and sometimes suddenly forms a wave that splashes onto the coast. She changed position and laid her hand on the moss-covered fence. It must have felt like touching a mix of cotton and grass. The sun started setting over the sea, which made a beautiful scene. The clouds gathered, the birds warbled and flew towards the setting sun in small groups. She continued standing there, focusing on the shimmering sea now reflecting the sun’s colors. A few fish splashed around not so far off the beach, and the wind picked up again. The girl turned, glanced back for a few seconds and went back to the little wooden lodge where she lived with her mother.

Presents

A big pile of presents was stacked carelessly at the bottom of the Christmas tree, after the Christmas party.  I stumbled to the pile, and picked up the most unusual present that had my name tag on it.  The present is a perfect circle, with a stand at one side.  I wondered what it was.  I shook the round present in my hand, but it made no noise except a ‘DING’ sound probably created by the stand.

The wrapping was made out of diagonal stripes with the color of Christmas.  I ripped the paper open, and inside was a globe, with the theme of Christmas.  No wonder it made no noise.  A Christmas tree, a reindeer and a bunch of pine trees sat neatly in the globe.  Small flakes flew around the black sky inside the globe.  The stand was colored red, tied with some bells.  So that was what made the tingling sound earlier.  BANG!  Someone threw the door open.  “What are you doing here?” She asked.  “We’re not suppose to open the presents until tomorrow! Leave that there, and go clean up the lounge.”  I left the globe where I found it, and followed her to the lounge.

Dihydrogen Monoxide Poster

In April 2013, two presenters at Gator Country 101.9, a radio station in Lee County, Florida, told listeners dihydrogen monoxide was coming out of their water taps as part of an April Fool's Day hoax and were suspended for a few days by the station's general manager, Tony Renda. Renda later told NewsPress: "It is one thing when radio stations change their format or other crazy things they do. But you are messing with one of the big three, food, water or shelter. They just went too far; I just knew I didn't like that." The prank resulted in several calls by consumers to the local utility company, which sent out a release stating that the water was safe.

Make your own warning poster about this substance to put above the tap in the classroom.

Venn Diagram- Difference about Fiction and Non-Fiction