The 8th Fabo Story Competition - Writing

Over lockdown we wrote stories for a story competition known as the 8th Fabo story competition where we were given a story starter and then had to finish the story using 550 words or less. This was really fun because the story starter was based around magic abilities. At the start they get kits and get to have either a witch or wizard starter kit (read the rest below). I found this challenging because personally in fictional stories I like to have a whole plot but in this competition it was 550 and under so I had to work with it. If you have done anything similar or basically the same tell me in the comments and I will try to reply.

Here it is:

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Mark and Maeve skipped along the dark corridors of McMinty Towers, and into the dining hall. They expected to see their mother sitting at the head of the table. Instead, they found a letter pinned to the top of a large, black chest.

My Dear Twins,

First of all, Happy Birthday!

This chest contains two magical things:

1 x Witch-Starter-Kit   &

1 x Wizard- Starter-Kit

Please choose one kit. Choose carefully as you cannot swap your kit once you have chosen. However, Mark may choose the Witch-Starter-Kit, while Maeve might choose the Wizard-Starter-Kit. It doesn’t matter.

Please write down each spell you test, and the results. A few words of warning. When starting out, I advise all young witches and wizards to use their new powers wisely. Because spells, when not followed correctly can go terribly wrong. Terribly wrong!

Good luck. Good luck, I repeat. You will need it.

Yours in witchcraft

Mother Witch McMinty

Mark shrugged his shoulders. Maeve opened the chest …

Now you finish the story…

Inside the chest there are two kits laid out. Mark picked up one kit and around him, the wizard's robes floated, suddenly the robes wrapped around him. Maeve is immensely surprised and jumps back, then suddenly without knowing it was there Mark pulled out a small wand made out of curved and polished wood. Maeve grabbed the remaining kit and suddenly witch robes weaved themselves around her. Maeve and Mark look down at themselves with their magnificent robes. Without thinking, Maeve pulls out a spell book  lined with layers of dust. Maeve blows all of the dust off the cover and says to Mark “so what do we do with these new items”? 

“I guess we do what the letter says and try to cast some spells,” replies Mark.

They both grab their tools and walk down to the garden through the dark corridors. When they arrive at the garden they sit down and try to figure out what to do with their tools. Maeve tries to read the text on the first page of her book but it all just looks like scrambled letters. Mark has absolutely no idea what he’s supposed to do but is waving his wand in random directions and making up words. When suddenly out of Mark's wand flies a small bolt of lightning hitting a shrub and making it burst into flames. Maeve suddenly notices a word that she understands. 

“Aqua pluvia”, yells Maeve at the top of her lungs, and from the sky rains an extreme amount of water, splashing the burning shrub. 

Mark was astounded at what Maeve had just figured out how to do. Maeve then says “I think all my spells are written in latin because puluvia means rain and aqua means water”.

Mark replies by saying “well that was interesting afterall I almost burnt the whole garden”. Maeve and Mark then start looking through Maeve’s spellbook looking for spells they can try out. Mark eventually gets bored and starts yelling random made up words again but this time nothing happens. Maeve then notices a spell named spiritus potator. She says it and out of her book flies a small little pixie-like creature heading straight towards Mark. It’s about to hit him when he yells “exitium laser”, which sends a stream of red light straight at the creature obliterating it and also pushing everything away in a small radius. Maeve looks terrified as Mark holds his wand. Mark then says “you said that the spells were in latin so I said destruction laser but in latin, it's about the only thing I know how to say”. Maeve replies with “I can’t believe that you just shot a red laser out of a wand you barely know how to use,” Maeve then says ``I have no idea what that means but it sounded cool so I said it”. 

Mark then says “I think I know another spell but I'm willing to guess it's not going to work”. 

Maeve replies with “should at least try because what if it works, just make sure it doesn’t have destruction in it”. 

Mark then says in his most confident voice “invisibilitatem”, which makes him disappear. “It worked, I'm invisible! Now I just need to work out how to say visible, and find a Latin dictionary”.

Folk Dance D.L.O - Inquiry

Before lockdown began we were learning about dance and at the time we were doing folk dance. This was an interesting topic but was side tracked by it turning to level 4. It is an interesting dance because it shows off your culture, this means that each different dance is a different type of culture. It was slightly challenging to finish off my D.L.O after 3 weeks of not learning anything about it. If you have done anything similar or basically the same tell me in the comments and I will try to reply.

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Te Reo Maori Classroom Objects - Screencastify/ Te Reo Maori

Today for Te Reo Maori we recorded a video about classroom objects. In this activity we had to show each other objects and ask what it is in Te Reo Maori, then the other person would reply what it actually is. We were each supposed to ask 3 questions and answer 3 questions. I did this activity working with Bailey R. If you have done anything similar or even basically the same thing tell me in the comments and I will try to reply.

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Lockdown Algebra 5 - Maths

 Today for maths we did our fifth algebra lesson. This time we learnt about balance equations so that they equal the same. This meant we had a table which was like this kinda. _ + 5 = _ - 7. This table was used to try and make the equations on either side equal the same numbers. This was slightly challenging because at times we had to add and subtract hundreds numbers to equal the same thing. Also this will probably be the last lockdown algebra I post on my blog because we are going back to level 2!! If you have done anything similar or basically the same thing tell me below in the comments an I will try to reply.

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Lockdown Algebra 4 - Maths

 Today for maths we did our fourth algebra task during lockdown. This one was to do with patterns and basically we had to find out the top rule e.g. 1, 2, 3 and then work out that 1 of the top rule equals 3 of the bottom rule making the answer 3, 4, 5. This activity was fun because it really got me thinking because of the rule for example this was one rule c=2s+2. I found this quite enjoyable because I personally like things that make me think hard because it means that I have to figure it out. If you have done anything similar or even basically the same thing tell me in the comments and I will try to reply.

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Lockdown Algebra Patterns - Maths

 Today for maths we did algebra patterns. We did a fun slideshow where we got to write what changed in each stage of the pattern and even draw/ make our own version of the next shape that was going to come. This was really fun mainly because I got to make my own version (even if they weren't as tidily made as the real deal). I found this slightly challenging because on some of them it took me a while to describe what was changing in the patterns. If you have done anything similar or even done basically the same thing tell me in the comments and I will try to reply.

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