Catwings

We have been reading the story Catwings about four cats that have wings and escape from the hard city streets to the country.

We talked about the pros and cons of being a cat with wings.

	Yellow hat	Black Hat
Harrison	The Catwings can fly up in the air high.	The cats can get lost in the clouds and they can’t fly in the rain
Daniella	I think that flying cats are very soft because when you pat them they are very soft	The worst thing about cat are scratching their selves
Bella	If I was a catwing I would fly to a rainbow	The bad thing is I flew into a rock
Haylin	The good thing that was that you can’t crash if you don’t have your eyes open
Adam	The good thing is you can fly to school	The bad thing is that you can fly away
Samantha	The cat can fly to its nest	The bad thing is you could bump into your nest
Charlotte	If I were a cat with wings it would be very good to fly	If I would shut my eyes I would crash
Jimmy	If I was a cat with wings it is a good thing that I can fly home from school	If I was a cat with wings and I got captured I would be a bad cat for them
Coben	The good things are when I go home	I will stay in school for ever
Madison	The good thing would be if I could fly and get my food and drinks	The bad thing would be I might get trouble and somebody might put me in a cage and keep me
Emily	I am a cat and I have wings that have points and a delicate body that has ginger fur on my body	I don’t like licking myself
Kaiden	The cat is normal and it flies	I won’t be the king
Toby	The good thing is I can fly	The bad thing is I could get caught
Lucas	The good thing is I have wings to fly	The bad thing is I could crash into a rock
Jacob Y	You could see things on the ground	The bad thing is you could crash into another bird
Sophia	The good thing about being a cat with wings is that you can fly all you want	The worst thing of being a cat with wings would be that there would be too many other birds that you couldn’t see
Ginny	I would like to be a flying cat because I would fly high	I would not like to be a flying cat because I could fly into a tree
Alexey	The good thing tis he cat is not flying far away	Don’t fly far away from your parents
Jacob M	It will be a good thing because I can fly anywhere	It will be a bad thing because a bat will bite me.

Color of his own

This week we read the story of A Color of His Own, where a chameleon didn't want to keep changing his colour wherever he went and wanted a colour of his own.  The story ends with the chameleon meeting another chameleon and realising that it friendship is more important.

We drew our own chameleons on acetate and put them around the classroom to see how he would change colour.

We then went around the chameleons with black glue paint ready to fill with the colours of where our chameleons will sit. 

No Goat Zone

We read the story The No Goat Zone

What plan would you suggest to the townsfolk to keep the goats out of their food supplies?

T - put hay bales down … for the goats to eat

A – I would have the food and then the bricks for the road for the city – they would be the bricks so they don’t come and eat the vegetables in the world.

J I would put fences around them (the goats) so they wouldn’t go out into the city

J I would put a wall -  build bricks and put them over the bridge and lock them in a house (them = the goats)

H – we could use scary voices and put fire around them.

S – we could just pick grass in our hands, put it all around the goats and they can eat it.

M they could put food on the path to get them distracted

C to build a tall brick wall for the big goats and a little one for the baby goats

C we put a ‘no goat’ sign on the city so they don’t come back

L put bricks around … ( the goats)

H they can put bricks … at the end where the door is.

E – we could put a brick fence and some barrels to stop them from going to the city

G I would put grass around them – a big barrel of grass so they can eat that.

D they can put bricks over the city so the goats can never go to the city again they can stay in their (own) city.

B they can build a gate and a fence so that they can’t get out and they can lock it so they can’t get out and go to the village

S we can lock them out of the village and put them into a farm

J we could put a wall behind so they can’t jump it.

A can’t jump over the fence and they have some big stones