Kereru have been writing descriptions during Term 2, 2012. First we got into groups and wrote about some very strange buildings around the world. We made a slideshow presentation and presented this at Assembly. Next we formed new groups and wrote descriptions about cartoon characters. Finally we wrote individual descriptions about leaves. We found our leaves around the school grounds and pressed them between paper and some very heavy books for several weeks. Here are our leaf descriptions.
My surface on my leaf is dirty. It has holes and it is dotty. The shape is oval, pointy, little and short. It’s size is medium, fat, skinny and bumpy. The colour is red, purple, black and gold. It feels rough and prickly like card and it tickles my face. The stem is thin, long, curved and light brown. It sounds like birds’ wings flapping and is crackly like bubble wrapping or static on a radio. It smells like an energy drink, cat poo, and musty and rotten food.
By Billie
The leaf is crunchy and dirty with some rips on it. The colour of my leaf is golden brown with a sprinkle of black dots. The size of my leaf is wide, big and uneven. The stem on my leaf is short, stubby, thin, broken and brown. The shape of my leaf is an oval with pointy spikes on the top. My leaf smells like an old oak tree with some resin on it, and some energy drink has been poured on the tree instead of water. If you touch it, it feels like a crunchy bar or a tickling feather, and it is bumpy and light. My leaf sounds like lots of birds flapping by your ears or some new bubble wrapping.
By Brianna
My leaf is bumpy and flat, with holes and rips, and stained with black splodges. The shape of this leaf is long and wide, with little missing bits and some narrow specks too. The size of the leaf is big and wide, but one side of the leaf is smaller than the other. Its colour is orangey and brown, with gold dots of purple in it. My leaf feels crispy, like card with thin skin. It also feels crunchy with prickly edges. This leaf has a long, dry, black stem which is very hard and curved at the end. My leaf rattles. It is crackly and sounds like radio static or birds’ wings flapping. It smells like an oak tree. It is also musty and stinks of sap too.
By Bridget
The dirty surface of my leaf is bumpy like a pothole with yellow dots. Its stumpy shape is unusual with pointy edges. Narrow and short, the leaf is medium-sized. It sounds like crackly old bubble wrapping. My leaf smells like nasty cat poo and stinky rubbish. It’s got specks of colour and a hint of red. My leaf has a short stem and it’s thin. My leaf feels crunchy, light and bumpy.
By Dylan
The surface on my leaf has got holes all over the place and it is folded in all directions. My skinny leaf is extra pointy on the top. This leaf is a big and very unusual shape. There is a short brown really dark steam on the leaf. It’s speckled with spots and touches of colour everywhere. It feels prickly and crunchy and it even tickles me! When you hold my leaf to your ear it sounds old and when you rub it the leaf sounds like bubble wrap popping. The leaf smells like an oak tree in autumn and wet recycling on a hot summer day.
By Felicity
By Isla
There are holes and a bumpy surface on the leaf. It’s a fat and kind of spiked shaped leaf. The size is medium and wide. It feels smooth like a set of thin soft paper. My stem is dry, long and thin. It sounds dry like radio static when you rub it. They smell is like an oak tree’s sap.
By Jack
Bumps travel all over the leaf with holes scattered everywhere. Curved corners and jagged edges roam across the beautiful leaf. A regular width, there are uneven bends on both sides of the leaf. Scratchy points scattered on the tip of the leaf scratch arms that go past. It has a dry snappy stem sticking out of the leaf. When you rub my leaf it sounds like bubble wrapping. I smell stinky sap on the leaf from the smelly oak tree. Spots of brown surrounded by oak green roam all over my leaf.
By J. J.
The leaf has holes in it and it is bumpy. It is
crunchy and dirty. Its shape is fat and long and it is spiky. It is a wide
middle and it is big. It has a touch of gold and a dot of brown. I have a leaf
that is crunchy and tickly. It’s short and thin. My leaf sounds crackly like
wings, and old and dry. My leaf smells like rotten cheese or stinky feet.
By Lochlan
The leaf feels like dirty holes and is wrinkly and as crunchy as a bug. My leaf looks long and is like a little pointy and curly worm. My leaf is wide in the middle and unusual in size. The colour of my leaf is dark red and amazing brown with a touch of light yellow. It feels like card but it is also light and bumpy. The stem is curled like a book and is as bent as a broken round container. It sounds like bubble wrapping and birds’ wings flapping their wings in the sun. It smells like nasty rotten cheese and stinky rubbish that’s just been tipped in.
By Logan
My leaf
has crunchy ripped veins with dirty lumpy holes. Spiky and blunt, my leaf has
curled-up pointy ends. It is an unusual-sized leaf with uneven thin touches.
There are tints of brown raging between speckles of different colours. It feels
like rough, crispy, wrinkly bark. The stem sprints right out in all different
directions in a very stubby way. It sounds like an old crackly bubble wrapping
that’s been hidden away for years.
It smells like an old musty oak tree or when you’ve just taken the lid
off champagne.
By Lydia
The leaf
is wrinkly with bumps, speckled with dots, and has some rips. The size is
unusual because the leaf is narrow and thin. My leaf is curly but round, skinny
and blunt. It feels crispy and rough and it’s really light. The leaf is a touch
of brown and speckled orange. It sounds like a quiet rattle or bubble wrapping
being furiously rustled. It smells like nasty cat poo and smelly rotten food.
By Nico
My
leaf has some mould on its side. It also has lots of dots that give it some
detail in the leaf. The shape is spiky like a snowflake’s end. Some points are
bent. When you look right at the top, it’s curved. The size of my unusual and
uneven leaf is small. The leaf’s colour has a hint of purple with touch of red
on the surface. Motley colour surrounds the purple and red. A different yellow,
with a shade of orange mixed in, is on the edges. When I rub it on my face,
it’s smooth on my cheek. The thin skin helps it to float down. The stem has
been snapped off short. It is dry like some cardboard and it is curved and thin
right down to the trunk of the leaf. It sounds like bubble wrapping popping. It
is crackly in the wind like birds’ wings flapping in the breeze, or the sound
of someone eating potato chips. The smell is of resin from an oak tree, or
champagne and an energy drink.
By Sarah
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