Freak the Mighty book review

In reading my group has been reading a book called Freak the Mighty for most of the term and I've just finished the book. We were told to do a book review on the book.

Here's mine:

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick is basically about a son of Killer Kane called Max and his best friend called Kevin but his friends call him Freak. Also their whole adventure of before and after they became freak the mighty. People called Freak a midget or midget man, and they called Max stupid, but when they got older they didn't really care anymore.

Freak and Max went on a few adventures before but the most interesting part of the book was what happened when Max's dad got out of jail. He made the police believe he didn't kill anyone, so he got out and when Max saw his dad he was pretty scared.  He knew that Freak was there so he wasn't as nervous anymore. Max was with his dad and saw something really bad then remembered what his dad did to get him in jail. Freak came and tricked Max's dad and saved the day. Something happened to Freak at the end of the book what was pretty sad.

I think this book was really good and a lot of people will like it. Personally I think people year 6 and up but I know there are people younger than that who read books like these. The story was kind of sad but it was also good. I think people might be able to relate to some of the story because it talks a little bit about bullying and some people get bullied a lot. Overall I think the book was really good and the book got made into a movie and I might watch the movie.

Summer Learning Journey

Hi my name is Dani and I go to Hornby High School and I'm also a year 8. I learned about the Summer Learning Journey when I was year 5 or 6 and now I'm year 8. I really like to do PE and sport at school, I just love doing sports and being competitive. I'm not the best at reading and writing but I'm pretty good for my age I think, but I like sports way better. 

The activity that sound the most fun to me is the week 1 activity all about sports and physical stuff. Honestly I think the other ones don't sound as fun but I guess their fine. I think the Summer Learning Journey sound cool because you can still do blogging but it's not about one specific thing. Just to me but I think the week 4 activity is the least interesting to me because I'm, not really into art and stuff like that.

For me I don't know if I'll have time because I normally do a lot of stuff with my siblings and cousins but if I do I'll try and do a activity if I have time. I think if I do have time to do it, that it would be really cool because you can do the activity however you want.

Cookies

IN food tech we made cookies in a group of around 4. We had a recipe we had to follow but some of the cookies didn't turn out perfect. The ingredients we used were butter, vanilla essence, condensed milk, white sugar, flour, baking powder, chocolate chips.

We put the sugar and butter first then beat it together. Then sift the baking powder and sugar together, then put it in the sugar, butte mixture. Then we put the chocolate chips and condensed milk then we pushed it together. After we were done all that we put it on a tray then in the oven. It took 15 minutes to bake.

When we finished making then we did a taste test. Personally I think they were really good but my group was meant to switch the oven over so ours looked different than everyone else's. I think that's the only thing my group didn't do right but it's fine.

That's how we made the cookies in food tech today.

Freak the Mighty Summary

We had to write a summary and explain what has happened from chapter 4 to chapter 15 in a paragraph. A lot has happened in these chapters so here is my summary.

The big things that has happened to Freak and Max were that they were chased by guys that didn't like them, into the mud and they turned into Freak the Mighty together because they did get rescued but they were halfway out I think on their own. Also Max's dad is Killer Kane and he has been in prison for years but he is getting let out soon and everyone is nervous about it. Max is trying to calm down because he is scared of his dad quite a lot and he doesn't really want to see him. Freak is making him feel better and he is staying pretty calm.

CIP

In CIP this week we were just carrying on with our kindness posters from last week. Before my group was ready to paint we just needed to sketch a little bit more on the poster and outline the letters that we wrote. Since we had a bit to do it took us like 30 minutes and we had to get all the stuff ready to paint and that took like 5 minutes. We didn't have that long to paint if we tidied up before the bell went, but we were allowed to paint during morning tea so that's what my group did.

If you wanted to choose a passion to do on Wednesdays during CIP time I can't remember all the passions right now but I do gym sports. So I really wasn't here for a hour when I think my group finished but it looked so cool, my group did amazing.

I think doing the posters with a group we don't normally work in was pretty cool and the poster was really awesome at the end.

CIP

In CIP this week we were making a kindness poster to hang up around our school. We were put into teams at the start of the day and we were working in those teams for this week and next week. The girl in my team were Chloe, Rieya, and Lhysette. We were thinking of ideas we could do on the poster, when we thought of the ideas we drew a draft on a piece of paper. I went to gym sports for a hour so I don't know what my group did while I was gone but all I know is when I came back, we got the big piece of paper and we were halfway done. Since I'm not the best at art I just listened to what my group said.

I think so far my groups going pretty good so far. Here's our draft of our little piece of paper.

Reading

In reading we had to choose 10 words from freaks dictionary or the back of the book that we are reading. Also put one work in a sentence.

1. Some people get a bionic body parts after having a surgery.
2. I think that my friend is really fealty.
3. A knight wears some armour when they battle
4. When you don't know a word you look it up in a dictionary.
5. People should stop smoking cigarettes
6. I have little critter brothers
7. I feel like some food right now
8. You look like your a goon right now
9. I just had a really good idea
10. I just liftoff - ed a book

All the works are in the back of the book, Freak the Mighty.