kiwi kids news H.D and R.F

Wednesday 15 October
WALT read articles in order to write interesting articles ourselves

3 captivating headlines are:

1. McCaw breaks All Black record.

2. 4 kg hairball removed from girl’s stomach.

3. The 7 year sneeze diary.

5 sentence starters are:

• All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has become the most capped All Black following his sides recent game in South Africa.
• A teenage girl has undergone surgery to remove a hairball weighing almost 4kgs from her stomach!
• How often do you sneeze?
• Paul Fletcher knows because for the last 7 years he has kept a sneeze diary.
• Meet Nigel the parrot! 4 years ago he disappeared but now he’s found his way home…speaking Spanish!

4 riveting topics are:

• 4 kg hairballs living in stomachs
• A 7 year sneeze diary
• Leeches living in noses
• 130 feet deep swimming pools 

After reading this article about the 4 kg hairball we have learnt:

• Don't eat hair and hairy stuff
• Hairballs can weigh up to 4kgs
• Only go swimming where the water doesn't have any little creatures
• Hairballs look revolting 

Articles on odd stuff NS and WC

 WALT read articles in order to write interesting articles ourselves.

3 captivating headlines are...

• Leech found living in woman's nose.
• 4'KG hairball removed from girls stomach.
• Prankster Handbook.

3 interesting sentence starters are...

• A 24 year old backpacker from Edinburgh, Daniela Liverani, found an unwelcome hitchhiker in her nose!
• 18 year old, Ayperi Alekseeva, from Kyrgyzstan, spent many years picking up hair off carpets and eating it, as well as chewing on the tips of her own hair.
• With Halloween around the corner, the pranksters are out to play with lots of ideas from some nasty tricks.

4 riveting topics are...........

• Leeches
• Pranks on Halloween
• Hairballs
• Typhoons

After reading an article about leeches, we learnt

• Never go swimming in a slimy leech infested lake!
• Leeches can live in noses.
• Leeches can be found in Cambodia and Vietnam
• Leeches in your nose will cause them to bleed.

WALT infer M.H L.S

Ignore No More

Created on August 21, 2014

Tired of her children ignoring her calls and messages, this mother has designed a new phone app called Ignore No More!

When a call is ignored, this new app allows the parent to lock their child’s phone so that their only options are to either call their parents back or reach emergency services in case of emergency.

When locked, the only person the phone can reach is the phone that locked it – this means no texting friends, no facebook, no photos…nothing until the parent decides to unlock the phone again.

The mother behind this app is Sharon Standifird from Texas, who designed the app after becoming sick of her teenage son refusing to answer any of her calls.

Since she started using the app, Sharon says her son now answers her calls and messages much faster than ever before!

What do you think though? A genius invention or a bit over the top?

WALT: infer 

We can infer that Sharon (inventor of app) might or could be a single mother with lots of responsibilities so that is probably why Sharon created the application to stop her son from ignoring her phone calls. We can also infer that teenage son does not get away with much because his mother, sick and tired of being ignored, invented an app so that he would have to call her back.

Inferring:Car crash survivor gains new talent C.Y. & A.A.

Car crash survivor gains new talent

A 22 year old Australian man woke up from a week-long coma with an unexpected new talent – he can now speak fluent Mandarin!

Ben McMahon was put into the coma after a serious car accident and his new language skills were triggered after he saw an Asian nurse at the hospital.

Ben told the nurse “Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here,” in perfect Mandarin. He says he wasn't instantly aware that he wasn't speaking English, and explained that he simply began speaking what felt natural to him.

Ben had learned Mandarin at school but had never reached the level where he could speak the language fluently.

Ben also found he could write in Mandarin and continued to speak the language for a few days while he was recovering and then had to relearn English!

After Ben had recovered he enrolled in a Mandarin class at University, began Mandarin walking tours, entered an international Chinese language competition and even co-hosted a Chinese TV show.

One of his friends says that Ben can speak Mandarin better than some Chinese, Japanese and Korean people he knows.

Doctors are not sure how the accident allowed Ben to gain the Mandarin skills but one theory is that the part of the brain that knew English was damaged and the part that deals with Mandarin woke up and took over.

Some crazy stuff, right?!

WALT Infer

From this article we can infer that he learnt Mandarin before the car crash 

and couldn't speak fluently. The serious shock he got by the crash,

changed his circuitry in his brain that swapped  languages.

We can infer this because in the text it says that he was in

 a week-long coma so the injuries would be pretty serious.

We have made these Inferences because the article says Ben McMahon speaks fluent Mandarin after the crash,it also talks about Ben relearning English. 

man gains new talent in a car crash!!!!! by G.S and R.P

A 22 year old Australian man woke up from a week-long coma with an unexpected new talent – he can now speak fluent Mandarin!

Ben McMahon was put into the coma after a serious car accident and his new language skills were triggered after he saw an Asian nurse at the hospital.

Ben told the nurse “Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here,” in perfect Mandarin. He says he wasn't instantly aware that he wasn't speaking English, and explained that he simply began speaking what felt natural to him.

Ben had learned Mandarin at school but had never reached the level where he could speak the language fluently.

Ben also found he could write in Mandarin and continued to speak the language for a few days while he was recovering and then had to relearn English!

After Ben had recovered he enrolled in a Mandarin class at University, began Mandarin walking tours, entered an international Chinese language competition and even co-hosted a Chinese TV show.

One of his friends says that Ben can speak Mandarin better than some Chinese, Japanese and Korean people he knows.

Doctors are not sure how the accident allowed Ben to gain the Mandarin skills but one theory is that the part of the brain that knew English was damaged and the part that deals with Mandarin woke up and took over.

Some crazy stuff, right?!

WALT infer          Wednesday 10th September



R.P's inferring
I can infer that Ben is very popular at school because he has many fellow class mates that think he has got quite a load of talent, speaking two languages fluently. I can also infer that the car crash was very dangerous for him to wake up from a coma  in hospital speaking a different language. 

Gold bars buried on UK beach by: J.V & S.B

Gold bars buried on UK beach

A German artist has hidden£10,000 (nearly $20,000 NZD)  worth of gold bars on a beach in the UK.

Michael Sailstofer said he had hidden them on a beach in Folkestone.

hundreds of people have started digging for gold which is part of a three month art festival. The organisers say diggers can keep any gold they find.

So far around 3 bars have been found.

But it’s not going to be very easy to find the gold. The artist has buried hundreds of small metal rings called washers to throw gold hunters off the scent.

There are only 30 bars of gold hidden on the beach.

The organisers will never know if the gold has been found or not as they have no way of tracking the 

small bars

                                                            WALT-Infer

We can infer that the German artist is very rich. I know this because he has hidden 30 gold bars that are worth $20,000 NZD

I can infer that he also is a clever man I know this because he has made it very hard to find the gold because he also buried hundreds of small metal watches to throw gold hunters off the scent 

Grand theft toddler!!! CD JC AE

Grand Theft Toddler

It was a case of grand theft auto, but what the Police weren't expecting, was for the driver to be a toddler!

A 3 year old boy, wearing only a diaper, decided to cure his boredom by climbing into a Jeep and managed to knock it out of gear, sending him and the vehicle rolling down the street, through an intersection and into the side of a house.

Unfazed by the adventure, the boy then toddled back home to watch cartoons while residents and Police cleared up the minor damage and looked into the incident.

An officer found the boy back at his home, happily watching cartoons as if nothing had ever happened.

The toddler’s parents were not home at the time and the relative left in charge of the boy was sleeping. The 22 year old was reprimanded by Police for failing to watch the child in his care.

Thankfully no one was hurt, and damaged to the car and house was relatively minor, but the incident could have ended much worse and is a warning that children must be supervised at all times.

WALT:infer

We can infer that the parent's of the toddler were not conscientious parents because the car was left unlocked and the baby sitter they chose was not doing his job properly. The evidence that proves this is the parents were not at home and the babysitter was asleep.

We can infer that the toddler was very mischievous and adventurous. We know this because he is able to open a door and  knock the gear out of place.  Also we can infer that the police man was very surprised and we know this because he saw a 3 year old toddler driving!!! That is not normal.The toddler is very bright and we know this because when the baby came back home he was sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons and acting like nothing happen.