Holiday Reading Challenge - Radical Reading

Radical Reading

Get someone to take a photo of yourself reading your book in a totally radical place.  

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Ghost of the Titanic

- Author - Julie Lawson

- Type of Book - Fiction

- Where you are reading - Feijoa Tree

Today I did one of the Holiday Reading Challenges/Activities. I did the radical reading challenge/activity where I had to get someone to take a picture of me reading a totally radical/weird place.

Holiday Reading Challenge - Character Portrait

Character Portrait

If you particularly like one of the characters in your story, draw a portrait of them.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Captain Underpants and the terrifying return of tippytinkletrousers

- Author - Dav Pilkey

- Type of Book - Fiction

- Who the character is and a description of them from the story - Character - Mr. Krupp - “I’m sick of this place”.

Today for the Holiday Reading Challenge I did the Character Portrait. I did this on the book Captain Underpants and the terrifying return of tippytinkletrousers.

Holiday Reading Challenge - New Cover

New Cover

If you could design a new cover for the book what would it look like?  Draw a picture.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Mighty Robot

- Author - Dav Pilkey

- Type of Book - Fiction

- Why your cover is better because the robot that I have drawn for the cover is more mighty than the robot that is drawn in the normal cover.

Normal Cover

My Cover

Today I did one of the Holiday Reading Challenges/Activities which was the New Cover. I drawed a new cover for the book Mighty Robot which is written by Dav Pilkey.

Holiday Reading Challenge - Retell

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - The Bad Guys - Episode 1

- Author - Aaron Blabey

- Type of Book - Fiction

- Retell - This book is about bad,scary,and dangerous guys who wants to be super hero's and they want to prove it by doing good things.

Today for the Holiday Reading Challenge I did the retelling activity. I had to read a book and retell in only 25 words. When retelling I had to keep it to the main point.

Holiday Reading Challenge - Character Potrait

Character Portrait

If you particularly like one of the characters in your story, draw a portrait of them.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - The Bad Guys

- Author - Aaron Blabey

- Type of Book - Fiction

- Who the character is and a description of them from the story - Mr Wolf : The Character - We need to be able to SMELL trouble.

Today I did one of the Holiday Reading Challenges/Activities which was the Character Portrait. I had to choose a character in a book that I particularly like and draw a portrait of them. I also had to write down a description of one of the lines he says in the story as well. It was fun drawing the character.

Holiday Reading Challenge - New Cover

New Cover

If you could design a new cover for the book what would it look like?  Draw a picture.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - 400 Minutes of Danger

- Author - Jack Heath

- Type of Book - Fiction

- Why your cover is better - My cover is better because it has a picture instead of just having words.

Normal Cover

My Cover

This is one of my Holiday Reading Challenges/Activities which is called New Cover. What I had to do was I had to design a new cover of a book. I also had to explain why my cover is better then the original cover.

Holiday Reading Challenge - Make a Recommendation

Make a Recommendation

Who would you recommend this book to and why?  Write out who you would recommend this book to and give 3 reasons why you think they would like the book.

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Goosebumps Most Wanted - Creature Teacher The Final Exam

- Author - R.L. STINE

- Type of Book - Fiction

- I would recommend this book to my cousin Christopher because he likes exciting books that hooks him to read more of the book and in this book the problem is very thrilling and exciting. He will also like the cover page which looks interesting and scary. He will also like the hook which will make him read more of the story.

During the short holiday break our Principal (Mrs Kirkpatrick) made us some Reading Challenges/Activities to do. I did one of the Challenges/Activities which was make a recommendation. I had to choose a book and recommend it to someone and give 3 reasons why I think they would like the book. 

Holiday Reading - (Local Landmarks)

Local Landmarks

Take a photo of the explanation at some local landmarks.  This might be a logo e.g. the rotary ‘wheel’ on the walkway, or a plaque at the top of Mt Wellington.

-Title - Geronimo Stilton - Geronimo And The Gold Medal Mystery

-illustrators - Cinzia Marrese, Vittoria Termini, and Silvia Bigolin

-Type of Book - This book is a fiction

-Where am I Reading - I am reading in the Palmerston North City Library

Photo

For this holiday reading challenge I had to read at a local landmark for example the basin, Library or the rotary walkway. The place I read my book was the Palmerston North City Library and the book I read was called Geronimo and the gold metal mystery.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Night Of The Homework Zombies

- Author - Scott Nickel

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction / Graphic Novel

- Retell - The new backup teacher is turning every student in school into a brain boggled zombie who loves homework.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. The book I have retold is called the Night Of The Homework Zombies. I think this is a very interesting book to read.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Alien Invaders

- Author - David Sinden

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell - This book is about a boy from planet Earth is on a mission to save the galaxy from the outlaw kaos and his deadly alien invader.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity which I had to retell the book I read using 25 words or less.

Holiday Reading - Role-model Reader

Role-model Reader

Take a photo of an adult reading.

Bonus points for someone in the community e.g. policeman

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Name of the person - Cindy

- Title - Alien Invaders

- Author David Sinden

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Why they like the book - Cindy likes this book because she likes how some information in the book were very detailed.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the Role-model Reader. For this  activity I had to take a picture of an adult reading a book.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - Heromice - The Invisible Thief

- illustrators - Luca Usai, Valeria Cairoli and Daniele

- Type of Book- This book is a fiction

- Retell - Muskrat City is in trouble because they have a thief that has been stealing precious diamonds. This thief is an invisible thief.

Today I did the holiday reading challenge and I did the retelling activity. The book a have retold is called the The Invisible Thief which is a Geronimo Stilton book. I had to retell the book using 25 words or less.

Holiday Readig - (Retelling Using 25 Words Or Less

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - Cave mice - The fast and the frozen

- illustrators - Giuseppe Facciotto and Daniele Verzini

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell -  A visiting rodents has arrived in Old Mouse City with magnificent news about his holiday to a far land, he spotted a mountain moving.

Today I did the holiday reading challenge and I did the retelling activity again. The book I retold was called the fast and the frozen.

Holiday Reading Challenge - Retelling (Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - The Race Across  America.

- illustrators - Danilo Barozzi and Francesco Castelli

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell - This book is about when Geronimo Stilton has been invited by Bruce to a bicycle race across America. Geronimo couldn’t resist.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. Again I had to retell the book I have read using 25 words or less.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - The Enormouse Pearl Heist

- illustrators - Elisabeth Dami

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell- Geronimo Stilton and his friends had made an amazing discovery. They had found a huge oyster with an enormous pearl inside in the ocean.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. I had to retell the book I have read using 25 words or less. The book I retell was called The Enormouse Pearl Heist one of Geronimo Stilton books.

Holiday Reading - Retell (Using 25 Words Or Less

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Time Hunters

- Author - Chris Blake

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction/Adventure

- Retell - When ten-year old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases lsis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been imprisoned for years.  

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. For this activity I had to retell the story I read using 25 words or less. The book I read was Time Hunters written by Chris Blake.

Holiday Reading - Radical Reading

Radical Reading

Get someone to take a photo of yourself reading your book in a totally radical place.  

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - The All New Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book O’ Fun 2

- Author - Dav Pilkey

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction 

Where you are reading - I am reading up my tree house roof.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the radical reading activity. Again I had to read in a weird or radical place. This is a picture of me reading up my tree house roof.

Holiday Reading - Food Glorious Food

Food Glorious Food

Food is often mentioned in stories, or you might like to read a recipe book.  Find something that you could cook for your family and make it.  Take a photo or write out the recipe and post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - The Children's Step By Step Cooking Book

- Author - Angela Wilkes

- Type of Book - This book is a Non - Fiction

- Recipe

Ingredients Needed To Make Lasagna:

1  cup all-purpose flour

2  teaspoon baking powder

3  1 teaspoon white sugar

4  ½ teaspoon salt

5  1 tablespoon margarine

6  ½ cup milk

Directions/Method

Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in medium size bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk to make a soft dough.

Drop by spoonfuls into boiling stew. Cover and simmer 15 minutes without lifting lid. Serve.

To make parsley dumplings, add 1 tablespoon parsley flakes to the dry ingredients.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the food glorious food activity. What I had to do with this activity was I had to read a recipe book find something I could cook with my family. Last night my mum decided to make dumplings for dinner. It tasted delicious!!!