Maisy Fights for her Egg - By Mele Latu

I was sitting on my nest waiting for someone to rescue me. Day after day, night after night, waiting and waiting until.......... one morning an elephant came by, it was Horton the elephant.
I said to him
"could you sit on my nest I'm awfully ready to take a good rest.
Horton answered
"yes".
So I flew off ready for my holiday. Laying down somewhere on the beach, I said,
"AAHH THIS IS ALL COULD EVER IMAGINED".
What a wonderful day I sang. I went over to the mall, I saw some of my friends and we went over to buy some ice-cream.
I flew off looking for some shade.
There I saw a little tent. There is some shade over there I said.
I dropped my ice-cream on someone’s head. PLOP! I looked into the tent and saw the elephant Horton and my white dotted egg. I said to him,
"I'm back from my rest now I'm ready to get back onto my nest.
Horton said
"no".
We were arguing over the egg. Just then we heard a cracking noise-it was my egg. It continued to crack and then........... out came an flying elephant [baby elephant]. Every body in the tent gasped. I shouted
"YOU STOLE MY EGG"
Everybody in the tent was starting to stare at us fighting. Horton said,
"this my egg now and I didn’t steal it-you left it."
I was beaming furious. The baby elephant flew to Horton and hugged him and called him mummy. They ran off together and I followed them everywhere they went, including the toilet.
One time I saw them playing hide and seek and I saw the baby elephant running away to its hiding place. I followed him and then I caught him just like that. I flew off with him far, far away and we were never to be seen ever again.

Horton Draft Writing

We have been learning about the Habits of Mind. Last week we looked at persistence through the story Horton Hatches the Egg.
We have identified that Horton was very persistent and Maisy was not.

We are now re-writing Horton from Maisy's Point of View. This is a good way to think about another Habit of Mind - Thinking Flexibly.

Our stories are not finished yet. Here is an example of how they sound:

LI: WALT draft a narrative from Maisy's Point of View. SC: The story must: be told from Maisy's point of view have a problem and a solution descriptive language.


Zanitha

On a very hot day in the jungle I laid my first egg. It was a beautiful white and red dotted egg. I felt very tired and I felt like I needed a good vacation. Suddenly the ground started to shake. I thought I was going to fall off the tree and then it stopped. It was an elephant. A pink one. It was Horton. When I saw him I had an idea. I said to him, "I'm standing on this nest and I need a good rest, may you please stand on my nest?"

He accepted. So I left for my vacation with happiness. First I went to the beach and had a very long rest. Then I bought a big scoop of ice-cream.

Persistence

By Nelson

By Rionne

By Jayden

Horton Hatches the Egg!

Horton is our symbol for persistence because:

When he was cold in the winter he stayed on the egg.
He stood up for himself when his friends teased him and he kept going
He looked after the egg and kept his promise
Even when he felt sea-sick he never gave up
He refused to run away even when he was feeling scared
He made it his mission to keep the egg warm
When he saw his egg hatch he felt proud, special and happy.



Maisy is our symbol for what is NOT persistent because

Said she needed a rest and she gave up
She played in the sun
She ate ice-cream instead of doing her job
She went to the circus
She wanted the egg back after someone else had done the hard work

What's happening this week...

This week we are going to investigate the story Horton Hatches The Egg! By Dr. Suess.

We are going to use this story to develop our comprehension skills and our Habits of Mind. This week we are focusing on Persistence.

In Maths we are continuing to focus on Times Tables and Telling the time.

For learning pathways we are heating up our water investigations.

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent..."