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Gavin Bishop

Gavin Bishop is an author that writes books for children to read. He is a illustrator as well. This man was born in 1946 in Invercargill NZ then he shifted to Christchurch NZ where he lives right now. Mr Bishop has a wife Vivien on the other hand he has 3 daughters and they are Cressida, Charlotte and Alexander although he has 2 grandchildren and they are Zoe and George.

The first school that Gavin Bishop started at was Kingston when he was about four and a half years old. Then he moved to Clifton School. At a sole charge school there were eleven pupils at his school but he was the only one in his class. At his school he loved art and he loved to draw. When he started teaching he taught art for twenty years in Linwood High School then he taught art for ten years in Christs College.

This man loves to write and illustrate books as well as gardening and growing things. When he went to college his art teacher inspired him to illustrate pictures with ‘The Hobbit’ book that he has read about three or four times.

Gavin Bishop’s favourite book is ‘Piano Rock’ because he thought that it turned out pretty good so he was proud of himself but did you know that he draws his pictures before he writes his story? This year Gavin Bishop’s illustrating a book collection of ‘Short Stories’ written by Joy Cowley as well as working on his own new book called ‘Bruise Earthmover Pathway’. His first ever picture books was ‘Mrs McGinty’ and the ‘Bizarre Plant’. His most treasured award is the ‘Margaret Mahy’ award because he thought that it was such a special award to win in 2000.

I think Gavin Bishop is a good man because he is kind and he came up with a good idea to illustrate and write children’s books.

By Kulaea

Earthquake In Christchurch-Pretending that you were there

Saturday the 4th came around. The clock hit 4.36 in Kaiapoi. At home me and my family were still asleep but we couldn't hear a thing yet. Along came a sound that went...

"Crack"! Suddenly my house started shaking. I woke up. "What is happening?" I gasp to myself. All I could see were cracks in the ground. My family woke up. They also saw the cracks in the ground.As I got outside the cracks opened wider on the road. I could see neighbours with terrified faces. Cups and plates were smashing on the floor.

"Smash smash!" Everything started falling and I could see buildings collapse. My heart pumps harder and faster. I try to run to the front door but the strength of the quake made me fall backwards. "Oh no. What is going on?" I started shaking with fear. Everyone else was trying to run to the front door consequently only one of them was injured and that was my sister. When we jumped out of the window the earthquake had finally stopped rumbling. "Finally!" I yelled.

I didn't feel good because we had lost everything we had. Everyone had no power. Our power was cut. Me and my family went to a makeshift camp. Our house was one of the houses that got damaged. Whenever we had to walk somewhere we had to leap over he cracks. Some people even stood in the cracks.

"Is it over?" I asked my family. Suddenly we hear a crackling sound. "Oh no!" Its not happening again"!

By Kulaea

Blizard hits Mt Hutt

Friday the 13th came around and a windy blizard struck Mt Hutt consequently 1200 skiers and school kids were trapped in the Alpine Cae.

The significantly wind blew up to 200km an hour therefore the insanely strong wind smashed the windows of cars and blew people uphill.

When people that were trapped had a decent dinner but some people had a difficult time to slee in the Alpine Cafe in the same way as a Christchurch woman called Alexandra Blair said that it was like being at a teenage sleepover. Eventually they spent the whole night sleeping on the hard cold concrete floor.

People said that it was a memorable experience and it was going to strike the rest of New Zealand. By Kulaea

One Saturday "Everybody wake up"! My parents yell out as we were still sleeping from the long journey on Friday (yesterday). They were saying whoever wants to go then get ready because they were going soon. As we heard them saying that they were going we jumped out of bed and started to get ready. "Finally, you have finally woken up"! Everyone was ready and in the van. Off we went. I was just listening to the music on my sisters phone. As we got to Auckland we were hungry. The reason why they went was to pay a bill that was supposed to be payed at a house. As we were coming back in the van we went to a shop with tools and my Dad hopped out to get some tools to fix our van. As we zoomed past my brother sees a shop with food. It made him realise that he was hungry. He kept telling my parents that he was hungry for some hot delicous chicken nibbles and hot yummy chips but my sisters didn't really care because some of them were not hungry because they woke up in the morning and had breakfast but some of my sisters said that they were on a diet. When my brother heard them saying that he started teasing both of them saying "why are you two on a diet"? My parents were hungry as well so we went to Manurewa to get us chicken and chips. My brother hopped out and got it. When he came back to the van we started eating and we gave some to my sister and my Mum while my other sister and my Dad walked to a bakery to get buns and hot bread. My other sister walked to the shops where we got our chips and chicken from and got us more chips. "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"! Off we go to Pukekohe. When we were in Pukekohe we went to pick up my sister to go to the shops but walking. We start walking to 'The Warehouse' to go and buy me, my brother,my Mum and Dad and our nieces some things. My 3 sisters put in $10 each to buy my brother a jumper that he wanted because they felt sorry for him. I just brought a 'boysenberry trumpet' and my oldest niece brought a ice block. As we got home I watched T.V and then I went on my wiki but my sister woke up and she had to come on it but I still had a long go on my wiki. Goodbye everyone.

By Kulaea

Tuesday The Second Day Of The Holidays. It was a bright sunny day. I woke up beacuse my sister had asked me if I wanted to go to my sisters house on Princes St so if I wanted to go then I had to wake up,get ready and have breakfast. I thought to myself that I will actually go to look after my youngest niece because she was sick. I jumped out of bed, got ready and had somrthing to eat. My sister was on the computer on Facebook so I decided to go and check out any updates on their. She was on my cousins page in USA looking at her photos that she had upoaded on her trip to NZ. One of the photos had a photo of her and all of us and one of the pictures was of my cousin and me.My sister had finally logged out. We went outside and we could see like a bunch of these kids walking in a line to the park. We thought that they had a sleep over party. We started walking. When we got up to the Westside Diary we went a nd bought some lollies. We carried on walking. As we were standing right in front of our cousins house one of our cousins looked out the window and said hi. When we were near my sisters house I ran off because I wanted to get there first. As I got inside the house they were eating and they were saying that we walked pretty fast. They were watching Indian movies. when we got bored we turned the Indian movies on and on the radio we put in some cool songs and started playing the songs on a really loud volume but it wasn't on the highest volume. My sister and my other sister walked into the Medical Centre and picked up my nieces medicine because she was sick. When they got back they bought bubblegum and we had one each. Me and my brother bored so we went and played a game of soccer unfortunately he won. We went inside and had some ice cream, ice drinks and ice blocks. It was so hot that my sister told us that it was such a good day to go to the beach and that if her husband had a day off work we would be able to go. I told them to come outside to play a game of volleyball and they agreed but I didn't play because I had to be the ball runner, the person that would have to run and get the ball when it goes out and plus they were playing on a deck. When my sisters husband came he got all changed but when he came outside he asked if anyone wanted to play dodgeball with the soft balls. Everyone said yes. The dodgeball that we were playing was like a piggy in the middle one like two people who throw the balls and everyone is in the middle trying to dodge the ball or catch it. We started playing and my brother and my sisters husband threw the balls first. I only won one of the games. During the time that we were playing my niece that was sick was asleep so we had a chance of having a long time to play our games. My parents had finished work and they came home, they were suprised to see us being happy and having fun. On our last game my Dad and my one and only brother were the ball throwers. Sadly we had to go home. My parents and one of my sister had to rush for a shower one at a time because they had to go to a church meeting in Auckland. As I got back I had my shower because my feet were all muddy. I got some chicken and pasta to eat. On the T.V I watched Neighbours with my sister, Shortland Street with my sister and My Kitchen Rules. After that I played rugby on the PS2 with my brother and me and my sister had a turn on the computer so when I was on the computer I would go on my wiki and she would be playing rugby on the PS2 with my brother but when she was on the computer she would go onto Facebook and I would have to be playing rugby on the PS2 with my brother. When I went into bed I thought so far today has been the best day of my holiday. It was such a fun and hot day today. Finally I was asleep.

Wednesday- Another Day Like Tuesday "Hey where are you two going"! I asked my brother and my sister. They said that they were just walking to my sisters house to get some movies because we had nothing to do because our house was already clean. My sisters kept asking if we could go as well so they said yes because they wanted to go their and play volleyball. "Hurry up and get ready"! They said. As we got ready we started walking and when we got to the Westside Supreme (diary) I bought a Cookie Crumble iceblock and lollies, my brother just bought lollies, my sister bought a ice cream, my other sister bought a Fruju iceblock and lollies and my other sister bought nothing. We just kept on walking. When we got to my sisters house we raced to their house because we wanted to get there first. As we went past inside sliding door they jumped around and they were happy because they knew we were coming to their house but the first thing my brother always does is looking cupboard for food or looking in the fridge for ice cream or iceblocks. Suddenly he saw a ice cream bowl and he went and got himself some ice cream. Everyone just got outside and started playing volleyball on the grass. My favourite bit of volleyball was whenever the ball got hit and it went flying my sisters or brother would have tried to run ad hit the ball back to someone. I had to go and make my niece her drink so I was standing on the deck and I saw Bailey, Dean and her Mum and I waved to her. My parents had finished work pretty early and we had to go home and get ready for church. We had to go with my niece because if we just went she would cry and cry. We finally went to church and hardly anyone was there witch was really weird. When we got back home I came and ate noodles then I went to sleep. Bye bye everybody.

=My Spelling Homework=

Write your word in syllables and record it in. Vocaroo || **Base Word** Write the base word || **Word building.** Record and write as many words as you can that are built from the base word. Vocaroo || **Word patterns- (Analogy)** Record and writeother words which have the same letter patterns. Vocaroo || **Sentences.** Record and write a sentence with the word in it. Vocaroo ||
 * ~ The words that I need to learn ||
 * My words || **Syllables**

=My Reading Log=

Write and/or record a few sentences about what the book is about Vocaroo || **Review** Write and/or record an opinion about the and reasons for that opinion Vocaroo || **Rating** Give it a star rating 1 to 5 (5 being the best) || My Questions Write 5 questions about the story. Your peers may answer these questions on your discussion page. ||
 * **Title** || **Autho**r || **Synopsis**