Abigail



=== Hi my name is Abigail. I have two brothers and one sister. I like horses, books, craft, sports and dolphins. My favourite food is strawberries. I don't like mince and cockroaches(especially not together!) My favourite subjects are reading and writing. I went to my Uncle David's Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karapiro. It is out-riggercanoe racing. ===

** In class work: **

 * LANGUAGE FEATURES:**


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Read the piece of text below and identify the different language features included. Using the text tool highlight the different types of words using the key below to help you.

(verbs – ** yellow, ** nouns – **green**, conjunctions – ** red **, adverbs – purple, adjectives – orange)

Though ** British fashion designer Alexander McQueen ** is no longer with us, his legacy ** continues ** to live on. It was quite apparent in ** Kate Middleton's ** elegant ivory and white satin wedding ** dress ** designed by his former assistant Sara Burton and now in this gummy bear dress that was crafted as a unique tribute to the designer for the inauguralcover of Twelv, a magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and culture, that ** made ** its debut in May 2012. The brainchild of the magazine's ** editor ** - fashion ** designer ** //Hissa Igarashi // and his ** assistant Sayuri Marakumi ** //, // the stunning ** gown ** was ** inspired ** by ** Alexander McQueen's 'Parrot Dress' **, a vibrantly colorful gown that ** met ** with the approval of even the most ruthless fashion critics when it was **unveiled** by the designer, as part of his Spring/Summer collection in 2008. As you can ** imagine creating ** this gummy ** bear replica ** was no easy task. The two designers began by ** building ** a ** dress frame ** using steel ** wire **, which they then ** covered ** with a ** sheet ** of ** vinyl. ** After that began the painstaking work of ** hand-gluing ** each and every one of the 50,000 pieces of ** candy ** in a perfect rainbow colored order, a task that took them about three weeks. As you can ** see, ** the end result was a stunning piece of art that ** weighed ** a whopping 220 pounds and ** took ** three ** men ** to ** lift **. While not quite ideal for a ** party **, it did look good enough to ** devour! **

**WRITING**
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__ TUESDAY __
=== On Tuesday we did orientering.My group did make your own orientering map. It was awesome! Then we did orientering wich we had to find these little snapper things and punch holes in them. We ran to find all the clues before the other groups did. It was so much fun but on the way back I was so tired! ===

On Wednesday we climed up Rangitoto! But before we did that we went and saw a house where somebody lived. It was so cool!
=== Then we did a rubbish clean. Finally we started to climb!!!!!We went up and up and up!! Then wahooooooo we got to the top yeay! I was so tired, but when I went to the lava caves I forgot my tiredness. It was awesome! ===

__THURSDAY__
=== On Thursday we first did garden to table and I did the bananas with brown sugar and chocolate! Then I did surf life saving. Some people came and taught us.Then we did first aid and we learnt to bandage. Next we did hut building in the gully it was great fun!!. ===

__THURSDAY NIGHT__
=== On Thursday night we camped in the hall with tents. First we chose our tents. I got my families tent. Yeay! Then we had dinner which was what we cooked earlier. Then we did orientering it the dark which was very thrilling. Next we went to bed! It was fun! ===

//** CHRISTMAS PROJECT: **//
=== Over Christmas Dad and I decided to build a window seat for my bedroom. We got out my old maths book and drew up plans after measuring the space. Next we worked out how much wood we needed. Then we got the wood from dad's favourite shop. After we got home we put on our ear muffs on and cut the wood to the measurements in my maths book.Then we glued and screwed it all together. Finally ,we got our paint and paint brushes and painted!!! ===

** This was the beginning of an incredible adventure, but Lee did not know that yet..... **
===** As she walked down the busy street the pavement burnt her feet like mad. She hopped down to the beach and stepped on to the golden, glistening sand. It slid through her toes like silk. Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye she saw......... **=== = CHAPTER 2 = =** A ** **tiny weny little // pink // jem. As she bent down too pick it up it sudenly changed to //blue// .** = = ** Lee bolted in her tracks. She ran back and watched **** from a safe distance ** = = ** It was vibrating slowly. She coutiously tip toed up to it and slowly bent down and it jumped right in to her hands then it jumped on to her neck and formed into a ** ........... = = **CHAPTER 3** = = Necklace!! As she waked home she barely noticed the pavement burning her feet because her mind was wizzing like mad. What happened? How did it happen? Was it magic?????? Lee was a true believer in magic. So was this magic? When Lee got home she flopped on to her bed letting her long, wavy,brown hair flop on to her face. Almost instantly one thought came in to her mind "England "she said out loud. Then everything went black**.............** = **CHAPTER 4** **CHAPTER 5** **A white dress with a little apron and white socks with black shoes! She looked around and all the girls were wearing the same as her. Then she realised she was in England in. Wow! She was in Elizabethan times when Queen Elizabeth the 1st was on the throne! But why was there a crowd? She decided to follow the crowd and find out.**
 * "Weeeeeeeeee" Lee said as she wizzed through the air, well the clouds, no maybe she was flying!?? Thump she fell to the ground. Must practice my landings she thought as she rubbed her bruises. She sat up and looked around. Where was she? Why was everybody wearing funny clothes and hats? Then she looked down at her own clothes. She was wearing................ **