Extension Reading Girls Group - Wolf Children Edition

Over the past few weeks the extension group has been reading a book called 'Wolf Children, the Real Feral Children by Sue Isle.  This book included stories about children that have either been raised by animals or have had minimal human contact throughout their lives.  Here is a clip and description of some of the children.

Links:  http://youtu.be/gkRNQ3NMKZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STn3bpTTU6c&feature=share&list=PLC7B9BCB9830041BC


Here is some additional information:

Jeffery was found November 30,2002 in Toronto Canada,Grandparents confined for years. Their sentence was life imprisonment. He died a few day short of six. Weighing only 21 pounds.

Oxana Malaya was found in 1991 Ukraine raised by dogs. She is now around 25 and lives at a home for the handicapped. Baraboy Clinic, Odessa 

Room 7 Extension Reading Group Research

Janie Seddon

Anyone visiting Motueka New Zealand will see this shipwreck. The Janie Seddon was built in the UK for the NZ government in 1901 and spent most of her life in Wellington. In 1949 she was sold to Talleys Fisheries for use as a trawler. Here is a fact about the Janie Seddon.

She was reported to have fired the first shot of the Second World War.

Talleys still have the dingy from the ship in the factory.

When it was sold to Talleys they wanted to make some changes so they took a few pieces off. But they took too many pieces off and said it was too much work. So they ran it to ground and left it there to rust.

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Hi I'm Emma
My hobbies are horseriding,motorbiking,skiing and swimming. I guess I get my love for horses from my mum.  She broke horses in with a friend so I basically grew up with horses. Motorbiking, skiing and swimming I got from my dad.  James and I have mini motorbikes ourselves because we've got a big orchard to ride around on them. With skiing and swimming dad was the one who took us out in  the boat or to the beach the most.

One of my strengths is my determination.  I got this strength a couple of years ago. I had this stubburn pony called Ellie. She would never do as I said. I would try to make her go but she just wouldn't. She was so bad until one day I got on this bigger pony called Bugsy and then went back to Ellie and she felt so small. I felt powerful so I made her do what I wanted and that was the end of her bossing me around.

My other strength is I have a friendly personality. It's good because my dad owns cherry stall in the summer so I get to work in it to earn money. The fun bit is that most of the time I get to serve the customers so I get to chat to them and be polite. This one particular customer told Mum and Dad said, "what a sweet little girl you have!"  I got my friendly personality from Dad and my cheeky personality from Mum (just in Mums case I got her looks) :)

Hello my name is Sam. 

My strengths are:

playing rugby because I am a good tackler and I work hard on my rugby skills so that I can be an All Black hopefully. I am also good at riding my BMX because I am good at balancing on the starting gates 

Blake

Blake Inglis 

Hi I'm Blake. I'm 12 years old
My family includes my mum, my dad, my youngest brother, my middle brother, my dog, my dad's dog and my younger brother's two rabbits.

My hobbies include playing with my dogs, playing on my Ipad, doing flips on my trampline, going to the skate park, swimming in my pool, shooting my bow and arrow and hanging out with my friends.

My strengths are playing rugby, fishing, building, drawing and shooting.

Pacey

Pacey Grooby

Hi I'm Pacey. I am 11 years old. 

I have 2 brothers and my doggy.

My hobbies and strengths are cooking and using electronics. I like cooking because when I was little my family always cooked with me and I found it fun and now I want to be a cook. I like using electronics because there are many different things that you can do on the internet for example, writing a Blog post :-) 

Joel VanKatwijk

I'm Joel. I am 11 years old.

My hobbies are motorbiking and playing rugby. They are also my Strengths.  

I am always willing to help others

I am always willing to help others if they are hurt or they are 

stuck on a word.

I have good sportmanship 

I  play by the rules in a game and I do not hurt others. 

I always try my best at work. 

I work hard on home work so I can get a good job. 

I have respect for others and myself. 

I use my strengths by helping others and respect others. I do this by helping others if they are sad.