A fun filled day

One day a boy named Trevor started at his new school. When he went to his classroom people were teasing him. His teacher Mr.Bill told Mitch not to pay attention to the other people who were teasing him. After school Trevor thought that he would host a cool party. Trevor invited his friend franklin to the party. There were water slides and bouncy castles. Franklin invited his friend Lamar to come then Lamar brought some of his friends to the party. They were playing on the bouncy castles and didn’t ask Trevor to play. Trevor felt left out he went and sat under a big oak tree. Franklin saw Trevor sitting under the tree by himself and went to him. Franklin asked Trevor to come play with him.Franklin,Trevor and Lamar went to rainbows end and went on all the rides after they went back to Trevors house and ate lollies,chips and cookies.Franklin said “ I need to go home soon”. Lamar went with franklin And trevor went back inside.

Pumping pedals

“ Pumping Pedals” by Maggie Lilleby

SJ Part 4 Number 3 2004

1. Recall

Give a brief summary of the story. Her name is Sally Davies and she is a BMX biker.

2. Infer

What kind of a person is Sally Davies? Sally likes racing around the track and she likes competing in individual sports.Tell why you think this. It says in the book.

3. Evaluate

Explain why you think the author entitled the story as “Pumping Pedals” Because its about bike racing.

4. Think about it

Why do you think Sally would like to attract more girls to the sport of BMX racing? Because she is the only twelve year old girl racing bikes.

5. Recall

How are the bikes designed and what are they made of?

It’s made of aluminum,titanium or carbon fiber.

6. Think about it.

Why did Sally groan as she remembered her first racing bike? It was a freestyle bike and heavy and it had huge tires.

7. Please explain the racing technique called “pumping” and why it might be important?

"Pumping Pedals" It is when a rider uses gravity to help them go faster

8. Do you think BMX racing is a dangerous sport.It’s not Tell why or why not you think this. Because you wear safety gear.

9. Synthesize

Please tell what you liked most about the story and why or why not you would like to be a BMX racer. I liked the bit about the racing and the jumps.I would like to be a BMX rider because it sounds fun.

Transport Question

Dance lesson

Today room 10 had there first ever dance lesson.Our instructors came from Dance Fever The Instructors were Christina and Captin.It was fun,and exciting because we havn’t done anything like it before.We learnt hip hop moves.It was hard copying all the moves.