Clock tower writing - prequel

Once there lived a little girl who`s name was Emma. She lived in a village called Ever Happy where everything was happy and bright. Emma went to Ever school and had lots of friends.

One day a girl called Olive came up to her in class and asked whether she wanted to be buddies for the activity that they had to do for school, everyone had to make a poster about why the village is so nice. Emma was a kind girl and said "Yes, of course." Even though Olive hated her. Olive sneakily smiled. The next day Emma skipped to school and bumped into Olive at the front gate. " Hi," Olive said "I thought we could go and find some of the colours of Ever Happy for our poster."
"OK." replied Emma. After school that day they began their walk. They walked over to the big clock tower that protected the whole village. Olive climbed up, ignoring the calls from Emma telling her to turn back. Olive climbed all the way up and pulled out a cog. Emma ran up the ladder and instantly Olive shot out her hand, spraying sparkly dust all over Emma. " Now you will have to stay in the clock tower for ever!" cackled Olive.
" You tricked me!" squealed Emma, who was being dragged into the tower. She started dancing and twirling round and round. "You will remain like this forever!" snarled Olive and zoomed away.

Now Emma dances and dances and if she leaves the clock tower all colour will fade from Ever Happy.


                                                       THE END

The Holiday

In the holidays Eve went to the Australia royal easter show with her grandma, grandpa, little sister Eila and her cousin Cooper.

The bus journey was so hard for everyone because they all wanted to get to the easter show. When they finally got there Eve asked whether they had to wait in the long line to get tickets. Luckily they had already got their tickets so they walked straight up to get some ride coupons.

The first ride only Eve and Cooper could go on, a monster truck ride. They gave 5 coupons to the man and jumped on a green truck called Big Foot. It must have been a really bumpy ride because they kept jiggling up and down. Next they all went on the merry go round and went up and down and round and round. Everyone then got ice cream, Eila really enjoyed hers.

The animals were next. They went to see the pigs, the baby animals, and of course the horses. Eve collected stamps for all the different stations including wash your hands and natural fibre. They went to get show bags and Eve got one with tricks and jokes and a netball one. Then they went to a circus place and there were balls to juggle, diablo`s to play with, plates to spin, hoola hoops to swirl and a low tightrope to balance on. After that Eve went to sunrise weather and told the weather.

Then they went on some more rides and Eve loved the rocket one were you swung around and up and down. Eve and Eila also got balloons.

Finally it was time to go home and the bus ride home had a lot of happy people on it, all ready to go back home.

Week 8, my baby brother Ike

This is my baby brother Ike (which is short for Isaac). He is special to me because he is my little brother and he is very cute.

Some people say that he looks like me! (but I have more hair !!)

He laughs and smiles a lot and gives me nose goobes.

News article - Animal lover adopts 1,500 dogs and 200 cats.

Hi,


This is an awesome news article about a lady who started an animal shelter. Hai Wenjin started off looking after a few dogs in her spare time but more and more kept coming in so she had to quit. After that she spent her whole day looking after dogs and cats that need it. She then started an animal shelter with ten volunteers. Luckily most of the food is donated by people. Things were just starting to look good when the government wanted the land back. So Hai Wejin had to relocate to Honyu village, far away from other people so they couldn`t complain about the noise.

Here`s the link.
http://www.dogonews.com/2010/12/16/animal-lover-adopts-1500-dogs-and-200-cats

EOTC week-garden to table

It was so much fun on Thursday because we got to go to garden to table and make the things to deliver to the Waimarie hospital the next day.

We got our hats and lined up outside in the hot sun,then walked to the garden to table room and got our green apples/red tomato nametags. Everyone got told what they were doing and scrambled to get there.

My group went into our cool quiet classroom with Mrs Masters and Mrs Elmore to make nice and smelly lemon verbena bags with white or yellow ribbons. First I made one with a yellow ribbon, then I 

went out with Mrs Elmore and my friend Emily to pick half an ice cream container full of lemon verbena.

Me and Emily had a competition of who could find the biggest lemon verbena leaf. Every time I found one that looked humongous Emily just ruffled through the container and pulled out one even bigger! On the neighbours side of the fence there were tomatoes and we didn't realise they were the neighbours until Mrs Elmore told us, so we picked three from our side of the fence and hid them in the lemon verbena so you couldn't even see a tiny patch of red. Walking back, me and Emily picked a bit of rosemary and hid that in the container too. When we got back Charlotte pulled out one of the tomatoes and said "Why is there a tomato in here? What else have you hidden?" "Just three tomatoes and a bit of rosemary!" Me and Emily giggled. After that I made another lemon verbena bag with a white ribbon.

Next we went inside the garden to table room and made lemon barley water for the Waimarie hospital. We had to read the recipe and get everything we needed : measuring cups. Also all the ingredients: boiling water, six lemons and two cups of sugar. We mixed all the ingredients together and divided the lemon barley water between two jugs,we would water the mixture down and pour it into all the bottles later.

Now it was the end of garden to table and we all had to tidy up. I helped to wipe down the tables and take things to the dishwasher to be cleaned.

That garden to table day was so much fun, especially hiding tomatoes and rosemary in the lemon verbena!

My key competency goals

My key competency goal is managing myself. 

I will do this by keeping my writing tidy. I chose this goal because sometimes my writing goes all over the place. 

I will also do this by setting higher goals for myself. I chose this goal because sometimes my goals are not high enough for me.

My writing goal

Hi, 

my writing goal is to use language features.

 I will do this by using metaphors,alliteration and similes.