Miss T's Classroom.

Daniel’s Speech  Listen in to Daniel’s Speech.  Joseph and Daniel go up before the parents and judges on Thursday evening at 7pm.  All the best boys, and congratulations on having been chosen for the evening.

Emma’s Speech  And the lovely Emma shares her speech.  Way to go Emma.

Tessa’s Speech   Today we listen into Tessa’s speech.  She was one of the seven who went on to the next round when we went up against Year 6, who are experienced speakers!  However while all the Year 5′s were more nervous than when they were in the classroom I was really proud of them all.

I can’t wait until Dad takes me hunting with his friend, Jamie again.  It takes a long time to get to the place where Jamie hunts but it’s worth the wait!  Because when we get there we have a very big walk around the old tracks in the forest, and stay up late in the tiny little Hut.  The next day we shot a rock for target practice with his 22 shotgun. I don’t mean to brag but last time, I hit the rock too.  After that Jamie looked in the forest for a wild pig or deer.   [Dad and I stayed in the Hut for this] when he came back we thought he might have  found some, but this time he didn’t.  On the last day we left and I miss hunting.

By Jordan

Every November 5th  heaps of people do fireworks. There were some in Wellington that my 18 year old sister went to.  My family and I did fireworks at home and the box was called the big boom box.
One of the fireworks base flew in mid air and fell on my Dad’s back when he was coming up the stairs so he took of his jumper and thew it on the ground, it was funny and scary at the same time!.
There was this firework called fuzzy and you would think how boring but wait….
CRASH POP BOOM BANG! you hear what I said what was that?  Mum said it was just the firework I replied oh, and my little sister said “was that a gun?” Isaid no silly it was the firework.  “Right” she said.  Fireworks are really colourful they come in red,blue,silver,yellow and so on.  There were fireworks called missiles and they were so high that  my family all ran up stairs and  Iwent on the trapoline and I was just lying down.

By Emma

I have just been visiting these blogs and both of them have some really interesting things to share.  Stella shares about her trip up to Mackay and introduces us to Squirt. Read her blog to find out who that is.  No, it’s not her young sister Chelsea!  Breellen has lots of news and shares a couple of videos.  I loved watching them.  What are they showing about life at school?

Joseph’s speech  Joseph spoke next.  He too explores Fear!  I will share a couple of speeches a day, until we have seen all seven.  Did any of  them get chosen to speak in the finals on Thursday evening?  I was busy writing reports so I missed out on that part.

Sonia’s speech  We finished our class speeches last week and today the top seven speakers shared them with the syndicate.  Sonia was first up, she shares her speech . Listen in.

Hi MB4
Australia is so hot.  I’m in Brisbane at the moment dad has bought a car and we are going to get it tomorrow,  from what I have heard it is a silver commodore.  We are driving up to Mckay on Wednsday or Thursday, and it takes about 2 days if we stop to stay at Agnes Waters.  Chelsea is having a wonderful time swimming and at the moment catching geckos is my hobby, but I have not had much luck.  My cuz Clare is going to Canberra the capital of Australia and is staying in a three and a half star hotel not at all  like our camp but I think ours is better I would like to know your opinions. I really miss you see you all in college unless I visit the school bye for now.

P.S
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“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold …”

This is the first line of the poem “The Destruction of Sennacherib” that was written by George Gordon Byron, about the war between the Assyrians and the kingdom of Judah in 705 B.C.  I learnt and memorised the six stanza poem this year.  The Assyrian king Sennacherib had wiped out every single nation  that had come  in his  way. Now it was the people of  the kingdom of Judah’s turn. The king of  Jerusalem Hezekiah told his people to rely on their God.  Sennacherib sent a cup bearer to tell the people of Judah, that they had no chance of  victory. Jerusalem was like a bird in a cage, surrounded by the Assyrians. But the Assyrians never entered Jerusalem “For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their heats but onced heaved and forever grew still”  185,000 Assyrian soldiers died in their tents…”and the tents were silent the banners alone, the lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.” Sennacherib went back to Assryia where he was killed by his two sons.

By Joseph