A Hippopotamus in our Classroom Eating Cake

Watch out there's a hippo about and its been stealing cake! In week 6 Rua students practised their measuring skills by making a delicious chocolate cake with the help of Cassandra's mum, Tomoyo. We all enjoyed a piece at the end of the day and left the rest on the table for Mrs Arnold to take home. But then something strange happened... 

Over the next few days we speculated about why the hippo had come to Pukerua Bay, how it had got into our classroom and why there was no damage. (We know hippos are pretty big and clumsy). The children drew a sequence of pictures to show their ideas. They then wrote about what happened and some of the children published their work using Google docs or Google Slides. Here is a sample of their wonderful writing

Last week a hippo came to school and he smelled chocolate cake from Rua. He went on the roof and up like a ninja and down through the burnu trap and the mucee trap. There is the cake. At last I can eat all of it. But Mrs A came and the hippo was scared and he ran and ran until he bumped into Mr Lees. By Cassandra

Last week a hippopotamus escaped from the zoo. He is a naughty, naughty, naughty hippopotamus. Then he ate the cake. He used his superpowers to fix the door. By Orion

Slide show pictures and writing by Libby.

On friday a spider MAN hippo escaped from the zoo. He broke the door and the alarm went off but he got out somehow and took sum cake. And then he used his powers to make the door again. Then he got away. By Harry

Super hippo

Last week a hippo escaped from the  zoo. He was a super hippo. The hippo sniffed with his big nose from far away. The super hippo has a super sonic smell. The super hippo creeped from the roof. He used the secret trap door. The super hippo could make webs. The super hippo went close to the table and the cake was on the table the super hippo grabbed  the cake creeped under the table  used  his cape for a cloth and started to eat the cake. Yes the super hippo ate the cake but he left a piece for Mrs arnold and Finn. By Leo

Planning sequence, by Henry

Last week a hippo escaped from the zoo and he went through the window and ate a cake and then went back to the zoo and bent the bars back in place. By Dylan

Slide show pictures and words by Ellie

In the week a hippopotamus came in to eat the cake. It escaped from the zoo to eat cake at the school. It came in a trap door in the ceiling. It found some cake. It didn't make any damage to the classroom. It did go back to the zoo in Hamilton to see the apes. It did go back to Africa. By Nina

Slide show pictures and words by Ellie

One day a hippopotamus slid through the window. He got on his web and he swinged to get the cake. Then he ran away because Mrs Arnold saw him. He ran away as fast as a speeding bullet.  By Reuben

Planning sequence and story by Frank.