Dai Henwood's story

Runaway Robot Rampage – Complete story animated video from Ministry of Education on Vimeo.

Goal :

• Retell a story in my own words.

• Use poetic language to add description(simile,alliteration,  exaggeration,personification).
  

     Hemi hated doing the lawns,his dad asked him every weekend, every weekend to mow the lawns. One weekend Hemi walked outside looking glum. His dad had just said that if the lawns weren’t mowed by the end of the week Hemi wouldn’t get any pocket money. Hemi pulled out his wallet and opened it, all that came out was three red fly’s. Hemi looked down at the long, green grass that was as wet as a swimming pool that was up to his knees. He felt really annoyed. He kicked the grass and it waved back and forth for a few minutes. All Hemi felt like doing right now was making one of his latest robot inventions. Suddenly Hemi had a bright idea. What if he made a robot lawnmower? Hemi walked off to the shed. He looked in boxes, cupboards and old sacks lying here and there. He found, a pair of old scissors, a blender, some old steak knives, dad’s nose trimmer, a laser pointer and some old guitar strings to tie it together. “Now I will make my own lawnmower invention to mow the lawns” Hemi happily danced  around the place. That night Hemi stayed up late to make his robot. He had just finished when there was a lightning streak and Hemi yelled “ he’s alive!” The next thing he knows is that the robot has blown up “oh no, false alarm” was Hemi’s next statement.It was going to be longgggg night.

The next morning Hemi wheeled his mysterious invention onto the lawn where his dad had asked him to mow.  Hemi took the purple blanket off the mysterious machine and without looking threw it behind him. He pulled out a pitched black remote that was in his pocket. “On,start, mower, set” Hemi mumbled to himself. The robot lawnmower jumped out of the trolley and raced to the start of the lawn. The steak knives going round and round as fast as a rocket hurtling into space.  In no time the lawn mower had finished mowing the front lawn. The next day was the same. While the lawn mower was mowing the lawns at the back of Hemi’s house Hemi fell asleep to the hum of the mower. Hemi woke with a start,what had woken him? In a distance Hemi heard a crowd yelling and his mysterious robot was nowhere to be seen. He raced out of his back yard and sprinted towards the village. To his surprise he was running through his neighbor's back yard. He looked back and saw that all the fences were lying on the ground except for there stumps. As Hemi got to the village it was even more bizarre. There was cats and dogs running every with half leashes on. What had his robot lawnmower done? Out of the corner of his eye Hemi saw a large crowd gathering around and there was the humming of his robot lawnmower. When Hemi reached the crowd he was out of breath there in the middle of the crowd was the lawnmower in a deep hole. There were people looking very mad everywhere. Hemi noticed that his Mum and Dad’s car was parked outside a hotel room and they were coming out looking very mad. Suddenly the noise died down and Hemi couldn’t hear the humming of his robot lawnmower. Hemi pushed through the crowd and made his way towards the hole that the robot had made. To his surprise the robot just lay there doing nothing. It was dead. Now Hemi does the lawns by hand.