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Te Puia Thank You Letter **Room 30**
 * Tauranga Intermediate**

**Te Puia** **Hemo Rd,** **Rotorua.** **Monday, 28 March 2011**
 * Dear Te Puia,**
 * Thank you for letting Rimu House use your facility’s for our amazing race.**
 * I enjoyed everything there and I hope I can come back soon.**
 * My favourite thing there was the Te Rito Weaving School.**
 * Thank-you and I will see you soon**

**Yours Sincerely,** Parent Thank You Letter    **Room 30**
 * Takarangi-Jade**
 * Tauranga Intermediate**

**Kiri Randall** **c\o Madison Randall** Dear Kiri, Thank-you for taking transport. With out your help this trip wouldn’t be possible. I enjoyed the Karangahake Gorge and going through the tunnel it was awesome. The thing I didn’t enjoy was doing the question because they were so frustrating but everything else was cool. Thank-you for the lollies and milkshake they were delicious. I had so much fun. Thank you for a wonderful day it was awesome!
 * Monday, 28 March 2011**
 * Yours Sincerely,**
 * T.J**

CHIEFS READING WORK WEEK 10

Walt: clarify, understand and summarize text. **School Journal 2000 Part Four Number Two**

**GET OUT OF MY HA** **IR**

Tamsin and Lashana seem to be quite different sorts of people. Contrast the two girls. Try to find five points of difference between them and write them in the table below


 * **Tamsin** ||  **Lashana**  ||
 *  Tamsin has long hair ||  Lashana has short hair  ||
 * Tamsin didn’t enjoy it when Lashana was Smart to her. ||  Lashana didn’t like Shay because she always told her what to do with her baby.  ||
 *  Dropped out of University early ||  Isn’t going to drop out of University like her sister  ||
 *  Always cheer full and kind. ||  Annoying and Smart.  ||
 * <span style="color: #ff2d8f; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Always tried to stop Shay from crying. || <span style="color: #ff2d8f; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Didn’t like Shay crying and didn’t try to stop him.  ||

**Stories often have a key point - the turning point of the story, when we can see what will happen in the end. Some possible key moments in this story are listed below. Choose the one you think is the most important moment. Then write a short explanation of why you think it is.**
 * 1)  Lashana makes a mess of streaking her hair
 * 2)  Shay makes a mess on Lashana’s t-shirt
 * 3)  Kids at school make smart cracks about Lashana’s hair
 * 4)  Lashana wakes the baby by playing her tapes loudly
 * 5)  Lashana hears Tamsin crying in the night
 * 6)  Shay grabs Lashana’s finger when she goes to poke him in the ribs
 * 7)  Tamsin says Shay must really like Lashana
 * 8)  Tamsin offers to do Lashana’s hair
 * 9)  Lashana offers to hold Shay

I think that the main key moment is when //Shay grabs Lashana’s finger as she went to poke him in the ribs. I think this because it is the part of the story when Lashana realised that Shay wasn’t bad after all. She was making a fuss over him for something that he didn’t mean to do like when he left a mess on Lashana’s top. This is when she realised that he is actually alright and cute//

**Say when in the story Lashana shows each of these attitudes:**
 * 1)  sympathy
 * 2)  disgust
 * 3)  anger
 * 4)  sullenness
 * 5)  helpfulness

**Complete the following sentences. Cross out any words which don’t apply.**
 * 1) <span style="color: #c23eea; font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 19.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //Lashana shows sympathy when Shay is crying and Lashana stops her from crying by holding out her finger to Shay and he grabs it so she picks him up.//
 * 2) <span style="color: #c23eea; font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 19.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //Lashana show disgust when her blonde streak turns into a blonde blob.//
 * 3) <span style="color: #c23eea; font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 19.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //Lashana shows anger when she Shay woke her up at night.//
 * 4) <span style="color: #c23eea; font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 19.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //Lashana showed sullenness when she had just woken Shay so she walked off and slammed the door shut behind her.//
 * 5) <span style="color: #c23eea; font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 19.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //Lashana showed helpfulness when she snapped and said ok to look after Shay.//

I do feel sorry for Tamsin because //Lashana is not being a nice sister and I think that Lashana has a attitude.// I like Lashana //least// when //she turned up her music loud and ignored Tamsin when Tamsin was trying to talk to her.// I like Lashana //most// when //she helped Tamsin by looking after Shay.//

The title of this story is an expression which means “Stop annoying me”. In fact Lashana’s hair - and particularly the blonde blob - is referred to several times and helps to show what her feelings are towards Tamsin. Complete the table below which shows the links.

//gets angry.// ||  Still resentful her feelings are not going away  ||
 * **When the reference is made** ||  **The reference itself**  ||  **What is shows about Lashana’s attitudes**  ||
 * When Lashana is trying to put a blonde streak in her hair ||  Lashana’s attempted blonde streak turns into a blonde blob  ||  Lashana is very hostile when she blames Tamsin and her baby  ||
 * The next day at school ||  //She isn’t made fun of//  ||  //Lashana is mad and gets angry at home.//  ||
 * Just before bed, after an earlier argument because Lashana woke the baby ||  //She turns the volume up and wakes the sleeping baby, so Tamsin comes in and//
 * After Lashana hears Tamsin crying in the night ||  //She feels sorry for Tamsin and what she is going through trying to raise i child on her own.//  || <span style="color: #ff9132; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //She can be quite nice,deep down, but she feels angry at her sister at first because of her moving in and taking her room.//  ||
 * <span style="color: #ff9132; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //When she is trying to add a blonde streak to her hair.// ||  The blonde bit of hair was sticking up at a weird angle  || <span style="color: #ff9132; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> **Lashana is frustrated because she cant get her hair right.**  ||
 * <span style="color: #ff9132; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //After she hears Tamsin cry.// || <span style="color: #ff9132; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> //She is nice to Tamsin//  ||  Most of her differences with Tamsin have been resolved  ||