Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Room 15 is full of amazing authors and recently some of them have featured in the Extra. Extra is an educational resource published by the Otago Daily Times and showcases current events as well as children's writing. Here are some of our published authors:

"Seeing my story in the Extra was really exciting knowing that it will be read all around New Zealand. My story was called: Billy’s adventure, I had sent it to the extra in March and they put it in for the June extra! I was also hoping they would put it in! First I had to write it, then I self edited by doing, COPS, highlighting my goals were I have done them. Next I added some things in.Then it was time for peer editing! I got my peer (Anika) and she read it and left 2 stars and a wish! When Ms Kerr called out “Jemmas story is in the extra” I came up and saw it in there. I was so proud of myself for achieving my goal, but I’m not stopping there!" Jemma.

"Previously in the last two months I made it into the Extra. My piece was a book review on Gangster Granny. When I saw it in the Extra I was stunned, I felt so proud of myself.
P.S. If you don't know what Extra is it is a kids news paper." Jordan.

"Last month I wrote a poem about figurative language. I sent my poem into the Extra and I was hoping I would get in. When the new Extra arrived I flicked through the poem section to find my poem. I felt amazed and proud of myself." Tiara.

"I've been trying to send a story into the Extra for a while. When I was finished typing my story I gave it to Ms Kerr to send. When the Extra came out I found my story, I was so excited!" Emily DL

"I wrote a recipe about chocolate mousse. When I sent it to the Extra I was really nervous and thought I wouldn't get in. But, when I saw it in the Extra my teacher Ms Kerr said that I won a recipe book. I was really happy that I got in and won something." Amaya.

MY HEART WAS POUNDING - By Brylie

This story is the sole work of Brylie, Room15.

My heart was pounding in my ears I was gasping for breath then suddenly splash I had fallen in to a pond. Then all my boot camp friends ran back to me they said who’s lunch now. What do you mean help me out but they just stood there and read the sign. Muddy pond you will get wet stuck and you will become lunch for the ells it was to late I was out.  Claudia my boss ran to her car and drove it to the pond the girls lifted me in to the car and Claudia drove me to the hospital. The doctor told me that I would have to get an operation then he left the room. Claudia said I better tell the girls what’s happening. So she left. Then a handsome prince walked in. Need a hand with that ell no. I nearly fainted. He ripped the ell of my leg and then he kissed me I did not fell a thing and when he stood back I looked at my leg and it looked like nothing had happened. I stood up and thanked him and we walked out and lived happily ever after.     

TOM CAT FINDS A NEW HOME - By Samantha

This is the sole work of Samantha, Room 15.

A big, fat round cat walked silently through his cat flap. This cat was so fat he looked just like a grey, black and white stripy ball. He walked across the road to a tall, old, wooden fence painted yellow, he squeezed through a broken piece of wood. The rather small fat boy Harry, He was wearing his dirty orange t-shirt with black shorts that went down to his knees and his old muddy sneakers. He stood out side aiming to kick the football. Tom cat knew that Harry was a great football kicker. Harry had hit the football so hard it had gone round the side of their new house. The house was decorated with blue and white paint. Harry raced round the side. Tom cat followed along just about touching Harry’s heels. Harry had found his ball and quickly turned and kicked it back. ”BANG”. The ball hit tom cat and made him go flying into the air. “THUMP”

He landed face first in the mud puddle. Tom cat strolled away meowing “I hate my neighbourhood.”

He began leading himself across the road avoiding traffic. Tom cat scratched at the door then walked once again silently walked through the cat flap. Something felt different he just didn’t understand nothing ever felt different before. Tom cat sat down and thought for a moment. “Ah-ha “ meowed Tom cat. He saw a small brown thing out of the corner of his eye. It was the grossest thing in the world of cats. It was a puppy! The puppy came running towards him. The beastly creature slid out his long, pink and licked right up the side of Tom cats face. Tom cat ran out the room and through the cat flap, he ran through the towns across the city in the buildings and over the hills. He ran as fast as he could into an old woman’s house. “I am lost and scared what to do, what to do? Meowed Tom cat. “Maybe I can just stay here for a few days. He slept under an old wooden bed, the wall was surrounded by pictures of puppies those small, beastly creatures. But soon enough he set out into the big dangerous world again and found his favourite family and his favourite cat flap. Finally he settled back in and quickly that was because they had got rid of that mean creature, the puppy!

GOING TO ENGLAND - By Thomas

This is the sole work of Thomas from Room 15.

Just half an hour away from landing we were all so excited. When we were coming down we were looking over the whole of London, the m25 motorway, and the place where they did the Olympic rowing. We got some English sweets before landing. Yey we have landed at Heathrow airport.

 We were waiting ages to get off this plane, finally we got off and got our bags, and dad and Adam were so happy to be back they even kissed the ground. The taxi driver was holding dads name on a big bit of cardboard, that’s our cab dad ‘I said’ we got down to the taxi and put our heavy suit cases in the back. Adam just dozed off cause he was so tired. When we turned down nanas road I was so excited. We pulled up and nana came rushing out, grandad and Paul took our bags in I said hello to Jordan. I couldn’t believe I was actually taller than auntie Claire and nana.

We were going to leave for our hotel in Essex we went past a premier inn hotel and we all thought that looked like a prison we thought our hotel that we were going to stay in was really good but when we got there nana just wanted t get our bags and rush in. but dad said lets have a look first, we went in and the lights were turned off and no one was in the keys were left on the bench for us to let ourselves in we went to our room and the bed smelt like pee.

So back to the premier inn what we all thought was a prison. But after all I wasn’t so bad, it was quite cool, we could have breakfast and dinner. We went up to our room and put our bags in. we went down to the bar to get a drink and some dinner.

In the morning we had to get ready for the wedding, when we left the hotel we got to the place where the wedding was. We saw lots of people and family we haven’t seen in such a long time. Finally I got to go to sleep at two o clock in the morning.

DQ'd in Invercargill - By Jack.

This is the sole work of Jack, Room 15.
In Invercargill I was racing go karts. It was fun. The night before the race I had Burger King for tea and after tea Grandad and me went bowling. After bowling we went back to the hotel then we went to bed. In the morning it was freezing cold. We went to the track and we were the first ones there and we didn't have a key so we went to the beach and did donuts! We went back to the track and drove through the gate =`then`- we parked the car. We got the kart out of the car. We went through srutineering and went to drivers' briefing. We put my kart on the grid and Grandad started it for me. I was in second and my motor got checked for cheating and I got disqualified because I had too much carbon on my piston.