Thea Stilton Book Review

Choose a word to describe your book.

Title: Thea Stilton and the Blue scarab Author: Thea Stilton

Date started: 1 October Date finished: 3 October

What was the book about?

Thea and her sisters/ close friends where invited to go to Egypt to find an ancient treasure of the sun.

What did you like about the book?

The Thea sisters haven’t been together for a long time and have been invited to help solve/find a mystery.

What was your favourite part of the book?

The Thea sisters found the treasure.

How many stars would you give this book?

I give this book a 5 Because its very adventurous and interesting.

(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

I give this book a 5 star because it is very adventurous and interesting.

Holidays

Today was the best day of my holidays so far. I woke up to some good news. “ Your sister is going out with her friends,” my mom says, “ So you have to stay home with your brother.” I just went from 10 to 5. I heard screaming and shouting from my sister, asking where her shoes and jacket is. She walked out of the bath room with her hair in a ponytail. She was so excited to leave the house and do some outdoor activity. She waited and waited for her ride to come. It was 8 going on to 10. She was getting impatient. Finally a white car pulls up in our driveway. Hono honk......... honk honk. Off she went and the house was quiet.

I had some breakfast and waited for a program to come on television. Well I was waiting I did some of my maths to get ready for schools test at the end of the year. Studying for the test is so much harder than the actual test. I don’t know what to study so I study any maths problem I get. But the other problem is that I get different things in the test. So I went back onto my class site and looked back on term 1 to 3. It was going onto 12 O’clock, I stopped to get a snack and saw I was home alone, but I was wrong, my brother was in the garage lifting weights.

After studying and reading my book I went put my books away and watched some T.V. I'm not lying but I miss my sister being home. She makes the whole house very loud and then when she’s not here its just quiet. I ran around the house with my brothers phone to make some noise but I just started trouble. My brother got so angry at me he just left the house and went for I walk, so I just went to sleep.

Hours and hours passed I got up and studied some more. I was told to go do some housework so I ran and cleaned my room and did the dishes. I finished everything and sat down to rest.

Lost and found

Lost and found 

“ Hey you, stop there,” Jake shouted. “ You think you are all cool, getting A’s in your test and coming out on a high level.” John continued. Jake marched over to James and started pushing him and making fun of him. Jake and his friend John are two bullies who wants everything. They shoved James onto the ground and dashed off. James rose up and shouted out to two boys, “ I don’t like how you treat me, you will regret messing with me, curse you.” Jack yelled back, 

“ Whatever.” The two boys went home from school and had a little rest, after a few minutes Jake woke up and found that all of his things had disappeared, even his clothes. Jake thought he was dreaming until John leaped through his window and shouted panicking, “ All my things have gone missing, even my shoes.” “ That explains the pink sandals,” Jake teased. “ My things have gone missing to.” John had a idea for the two of them. He suggested they go and find some help. Jake said, “ Why don’t we separate, you go that way.

”Jake went and asked his mom if she knew where all of his belong’s went, but she gave him a sad answer. Jake was hoping she would of said yes. He looked all over the place and still, they were nowhere to be found. John had asked his little sister because she keeps on going in and out of his room, but still she gave him the same answer as his mother. 

Jake was going to the last place he thought he left his stuff, and still nothing was there. He remember when we  they ran off, James said he’d curse us. Maybe that curse might be our stuff gone missing? He rang Jake and told him that they were cursed. Jake said he was coming over. 

Ding dong..... ding dong the doorbell rung. “ James..... James...... James.... please.... James, ” the boys shouted. James opened the door. He was surprised to see the two bullies at his front porch, James questioned them. “ Have you come for more or to say sorry?. ” They both replied, “ We know we've been pain in the attic, but we’ve come to say sorry. Our things have gone missing and we need help finding them. How do we get rid of the curse?” James replied, “ All you have to do is say sorry.” “ Sorry.... sorry James ” they shouted. “ Is the curse gone yet? “ they asked. “ Well, go and see.” James answered. They ran into their rooms and found their belongings where they were and swore to never bully people again.

Chanda's Wars

Title: Chanda's Wars  Author:  Allan Stratton

Date started: 20 September Date finished: 2 October

What was the book about?

Chanda’s mother passed away 6 months ago and she has to raise her brother and sister up. She had to stop going school, start working and get some money for her and the family. Chanda was told to go to Tiro where her mother was left to die. Chanda and her brother and sister got there and was greated from her grandma and was told that she was going to marry there next door neighbor's son.

What did you like about the book?

Chanda tries her hardest to find her brother and sister. Every time she goes somewhere dangerous a boy named Nelson will always track her down and follow her to make sure she’s safe but has a lot of excuses.

What was your favourite part of the book?

All of it.

How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.

(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

I give this book five stars. It is very interesting and a touching book. No one can read Chanda’s Wars and remain untouched by this girl and how she is going through life without a mother.

Narrative Writing

Lei and his problems

Lei was in the middle of a mid year exam and was struggling to sit still and concentrate. He finished in seconds and was out that door, he walked home alongside his brothers thinking how people can go through these things?. Lei’s brothers were asking how did he feel about his assessment. Lei still had two other test to sit the next day. He arrived home and went straight to  doing his house work. As for his brothers they went straight to sleep.  Lei was making food for his grandparents and other family members. Nightfall's down and Morning rises, Lei can hear his grandma calling from outside his room, “ Lei, Lei....... nofo I luna e alu i le aoga.” Lei got up when he remembers theres two more exams left so he just falls back and pulls the sheet over his head.

Lei woke up and saw his grandma praying and walked pass her when he heard her call, he stopped and faced her.  She asked suspiciously. “ Lei, ai se a na e le alu i le aoga?.” Lei didn’t answer, the two both sat in silence. Ruta asked again, “ Why didnt you go to school Lei? ” Silence and more silence. Ruta understands why Lei didn’t want to go to school but she wanted to hear it from Lei himself. Lei sat there and waited for Ruta to tell him to go wash up and have breakfast. But she stood up and left. Uncle Luka walked pass and saw him, asked him why isn’t he at school, but he didn't care. Luka demanded Lei to go with him to the plantation and work there since he wasn’t at school.

Lei worked from morning till noon, every single day he would wake up, make breakfast, go to the plantation and come back to make lunch. Lei’s grandma will always ask him to go back to school and leave her and Luka to do the food for the family. Lei says that school is too complicated and he can’t handle it so thats why he dropped out of school.

Lei went back to work in the plantation with his uncle when he cut his hand, he screamed in pain, Luka yelled out, “ WHAT HAPPENED THERE? ” Lei yelled in pain “MY HAND MY HAND, I CUT MY HAND ” Luka paused, and swore to him and said go back to school.

Grandma heard all of this and took Lei in to enroll him into a school in Apia, he enrolled and was taken back to school. Lei tried his hardest and couldn't handle it but did it for his grandma's sake. Lei joined a dancing club and there dancing group was sent to New Zealand.

Lei went to New Zealand for his dance group and stayed with his grandma’s side and every day he would do his normal housework but in New Zealand.  He did a slap dance at a huge hall. He went back home and it was two days away from going back to Samoa. He was packing and doing shopping for his family. He was putting clothes into his suitcase when his aunt came and told him to stay. Lei was very lost, he didn’t know what to do nor say. “ Wait, what do you mean I need to stay?,  then that would mean i’ll be a overstayer!” Lei said with confusion. The group went back to Samoa and Lei stayed behind with his aunt and did everything he could to make them happy.

Lei found a job as a painter and worked for a man of his church. After years of working as a painter, he gave up painting and went for other jobs. He then became a carpenter and was very close to his boss. Every time Lei doesn’t go to work, he will always check up on him and ask why isn’t he at work.  Lei had to go back to Samoa and was stuck there for 12 months. 5 months later his boss rang and said,  “ why havent you been coming to work lately? ” Lei replies with embarrassment, “ Im back in Samoa, I’ve been in New Zealand for too long. I have been stood down from going out of Samoa for 12 months. ” “ What’s the number to the Samoan Station? I’ll give them a call and then you’ll be back in no time.” “ I....I.... have no words to say..... but THANK YOU ” Lie replies.

Two days after that call, Lei’s name was mentioned on the radio with some other names. He had a interview to go back to New Zealand for good, but the problem was, he needed 4000 dollars to enter. He went to a village where his oldest brother lived. He asked him if he could use some money. Maleko asked, “ what do you need the money for? “ “ I need it to pay my entrance into the Samoan Station, I have to pay 4000 dollars but I don’t have that much money.” Maleko gave him the money and he was off with the money and thanked Maleko.

Lei payed and was asked one questions and one hit him hard, “ Why do you want to go to New Zealand? ” Lei thought and thought then he said that he wanted to go to New Zealand to make some money for his family so that they can have food, shelter and clothing. He passed the test and was on a flight back to New Zealand.

Maths Problems

I am learning to know and understand Ratios.
A ratio says how much of one thing there is compared to another thing.

For example :
There are 3 blue squares to 1 Yellow square. Using the " : " to separate the values : 3 : 1
Instead of the " : " you use the word " to " : 3 to 1 or write it like a fraction. 3/1, 3 : 1.
A ratio can be scaled up.
Here the ratio is also 3 blue squares to 1 yellow square, even though there are more squares.

Using Ratios
The trick with ratios is to always multiply or divide the numbers by the same value.
Example :
4 : 5 is the same as 4 x 2 : 5 x 2 - 8 : 10
  4 : 5
x2 : 2
  8 : 10

Birthday

On Saturday we celebrated a 90th birthday were the whole of Tamaki P.I.P.C  church were invited. The theme was Pink, my family and I arrived at the church car park and it was very packed. Loud music coming from the hall, you could feel the ground vibrate as soon as you walk into the hallway. Two young, beautiful girls were standing at the entrance with lays in their hands giving them to the elderly's that walked into the Pink dreamy hall. “ Let us begin with a prayer and carry on with the program ” a deep voice comes from the speaker.

“ May the Lord bless Petu Tulua with many more blessed years to come. Amen ” the minister said. The entertainer welcomed people and introduced a famous Samoan singer, Joe Failua. He sung two of his famous songs that people know well. While Joe was singing, people were videoing his performance and the family were seating up the food. Tables were pulled out for the pig and off people went.

A grace was said before we ate and off people went getting their food, plates and bowls were taken into the kitchen and desert's were coming and being put onto the tables. First of all the head table was served. Then after dessert was served the tables were taken away and kids from the family did a Siva Samoa and then ladies from church performed a dance to the Birthday girl. 

Being in the hall was just like having valentines all over again. But it was not cool because I had to go to Manukau for a family business. I was thankful to be at a 90th birthday in my whole ENTIRE life.