Ripper Rugby

Ripper Rugby

Today we had Ripper Rugby.  Coach Curtis came to teach us.  We played Octopus.  There were three taggers who tried to tag us.  When I got tagged I became a piece of seaweed.  I stretched out my arms and tried to tag other people.  Next we were in teams.  We did side stepping, spins and goosey.  We played these games to get better at playing rugby.  Eti, Kena, Roneeza, Kevin and George were in my team.  My favourtie part was playing zig zag in my team.

By Oliver

Book Review about 'Charlie', written by Richard Vaughan and illustrated by Bryan Pollard.

Book Review about 'Charlie', written by Richard Vaughan and illustrated by Bryan Pollard.

The main character in this book is Charlie.  Charlie is a cloud.  In the beginning of the story Charlie is trying to get people's attention.  He does this by performing lots of tricks in the sky such as turning himself into a rocket ship shape spiraling in the sky, and writing his name up high in the sky.  But nobody noticed him.  Even when the other clouds went by Charlie they did not notice him.  This made Charlie feel very sad.  Then one day the strong wind carried Charlie a long way out to sea.  While out at sea Charlie took a big drink of water.  The water made him get bigger.  Charlie kept on drinking and getting bigger.  

Charlie hoped that now he was bigger people would take notice of him, and they did.  He was so big that the people and the birds were afraid of him.  Charlie shouted to the people not to run away because it was him.  It was just that he had got bigger. 

Now that he was bigger Charlie's voice sounded loud like thunder, and his big belly made lightening as it touched the tops of the mountains.  He was cold and lonely, and he began to cry.  As he cried the water left his body in his tears and he got smaller.  

After that Charlie was tired and so he had a little sleep.  Then all of a sudden someone noticed him.  They told other people to look at the beautiful cloud, and they did.  The people,the birds, the animals, the mountains and the sun thought that he was so beautiful that they smiled at him.  They all liked Charlie the way he was.  He didn't have to do anything special because he was already beautiful being himself.  

We liked this story because it reminded us that God made Charlie and us.  Also, that just like Charlie, we are beautiful the way we are.

By Room 1 Students

My Family

My Family

In the holidays I mostly stayed at home.  One night my brother and his family came to stay for a sleepover.  My brother’s name is Sefo.  He came with his girlfriend.  She is called Seta.  Sefo brought my niece and nephew over too.  They are Sefo’s son and daughter.

My niece’s name is Nia.  She is named after my mum.  Nia is only little.  She is still a baby.  My nephew’s name is Isaac.  Isaac is only 2 years old.  He is still young.  He is younger than me. 

They all had a sleep over.  This was because it is going to be my brother’s birthday next week.   He is going to have a party.  It is going to be cool because all of my family are going to be there.

By Kena

The Smurf Movie

The Smurf Movie

In the holidays I watched a fantastic movie.  It was called The Smurfs.  I watched it at home with my mum, my dad and my sisters. 

The main character in the movie was a blue girl Smurf.  Her name was Smurfette.  There were lots of other Smurfs in the move too. 

In the beginning of the movie Smurfette got a new sister and a new brother.  Together they celebrated Smurfette’s birthday.  They sang happy birthday to Smurfette and they ate some birthday cake.

In the movie a bad man called Gargamal made some bad Smurfs.  In the middle of the movie a bad girl Smurf tried to capture Smurfette by taking her into the water.  Smurfette managed to get out of the water but Gargamal got her. 

At the end of the story the good people and the good Smurfs saved Smurfette by breaking the blue things that powered Gargamal’s wand.  Then they all celebrated Smurfettes birthday again.  It was a fun movie and it was a family movie.

By Summer

The Movies

The Movies

In the holidays I went to my cousin’s birthday party.  His name is Joey.  He turned 7 years old, so he is older than me.  Joey’s birthday party was in our church hall. 

A lot of people came to Joey’s birthday party.  There was my nana, my auntie Vanessa, and my mum.  My mum’s name is Natasha.   Lots of my family were at Joey’s birthday party. 

First we ate birthday cake.  It was a chocolate and strawberry cake.  It was decorated with strawberries and it had an angel on top of it.  It looked very pretty.  It tasted like strawberries and it was yum.

Next we watched a movie.  The movie was about a dragon.  The dragon was called Joey.  It had a sad ending because the dragon died at the end of the movie. 

After the movie I gave Joey his present.  I gave him a doll’s house.  It had dolls inside it.  They were little dolls.  Joey said, “Thank you”, to me.  Joey liked his present.

Later we went to McDonalds and ate and played.  After that we went to the park to play some more.  Then we went home.  It was a fantastic day.

By Eliza

My Family Feast

My Family Feast

In the holidays I went to my family’s feast.  It was at my nana and grandpa’s house.  My whole family was there.  It was cool going to visit my nana at her and grandpa’s house. 

I went with my mum and dad.  Some of my aunts, uncles and cousins were there.  There were just my dad’s brothers and sisters.  There was no one from my mum’s side of our family.

After we arrived I went and hugged my nana.  I love her a lot and she loves me.  Then I went outside to play hop scotch with my cousins.  Their names are Mario, Kava, Liston, Sione, Patricia, David and Dora. 

Later my cousin David lent me his toy gun.  I shot the gun up and I shot the gun down.  I aimed it at the tree.  It shot darts with sticky things on the end of them. 

Then we went inside to eat some food.  We ate barbequed chicken, sausages and fish.  It tasted really good.  Everyone was quiet as we ate.  After we had eaten I went home with my mum and dad.  I wasn’t tired and I wanted to stay with my nana, because I love my nana.

By Fulila

The Movies

The Movies

In the holidays dad and I went to the movies.  The movie that we saw was called ‘The House of Magic’.  We saw the movie at Hoyts Cinema, which is at the Sylvia Park Shopping Mall.

At the beginning of the movie a cat was thrown out of a big truck on the road by its’ owner.  The cat was a girl.  Her friend the dog came along and said, “Are you lonely?”  The cat said, “Yes I am lonely”.  Later the cat saw an old house.  It looked very spooky.  The cat saw two doves.  They flew into the top window of the old house.

In the middle of the movie the cat went into the window of the spooky house by climbing up the tree.  Then she heard a man in the house.  It was the Magic man and he was telling a story to some toys.  The toys were alive. The Magic man’s name was Mathew.  Next the man saw the cat and he named her Thunder.  He gave her that name because the cat was afraid of the thunder outside.

Later Mathew tried to destroy his house because he was allergic to cats.  He used a crane with a large ball at the end of it to break his house.  Thunder saved the house.  She did this by hanging onto the ball of the crane.  The house was only broken a little bit.

At the end of the movie Mathew fixed the house.   Mathew put up with his allergy to cats. The cat lived happily in the old spooky house with a mouse and a rabbit.  Mathew visited them sometimes.

By Elisha