hippo diary

The hippo diary was a very fun piece to write. I enjoyed writing it.

1 Feb 

Today I found a hippo! My parents said I could keep him for 3 days to see how I cope with him. If I cope with him really well maybe we could keep him. I decided to name him Jerry. Tonight Jerry is going to sleep in our dog's old kennel. This is going to be great!

2 Feb 

Good news or bad news first?

Okay, I'll start with the good news. Jerry is really really cute and I've taught him how to roll over and play dead.

Now for the bad news: He ate half of the garden, destroyed the couch, and because of all this, Mom's stomping around the kitchen in a mood. Oh bother.

3 Feb

We an keep Jerry! Yay! This was how it he convinced my parents to keep him...

At about three o'clock in the morning we heard a sound coming from the kitchen. It sounded like glass breaking. So my parents and I came running to the kitchen and found out the reason it sounded like glass breaking because it was glass breaking. Someone had smashed the window and broke into our house! Eek! We could see a trail of muddy footprints leading too...

"JERRY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Mom screeched at the top of her lungs. "Mum! Look!" I said. Jerry was lying across the floor but underneath him came a strange muffled sound. "Jerry! Roll over!" I commanded. He rolled over to reveal a squashed burglar. After that Mom and Dad decided to let me keep Jerry because he was such a great watch dog. Well, watch hippo maybe. Whatever, that doesn't matter! I have a pet hippo! Yipee!

Ek wil myself onthou

My naam is Lauren. Ek wil jou or myself vertel. Ek speel hokkie an ek hou van blanderplankry. My gunsteling musiek is 'rock'. My gunsteling kleur is blou en oranje. My beste maats is Jodi, Courtney and Jessica. Ek hou van sushi. Dit is my gunsteling kos. My gunsteling TV program is 'Trace Urban'. Die lekkerste boek wat ek nog gesels het is 'St. Clare's', want dit is 'n baie oud boek.  Die werk wat ek nog geseels het is 'n vlieneer. 

Ek het baie doelwitte. Ek wil die A-span doelwagter vir hokkie wees. Ek wil oefen en werk baie hard. Ek wil lekker die piano speel want ek hou van musiek. Eendag ek sal Frankryk besoek en ek sal Franse te praat. Ek wil 'n 'YouTube' kanaal maar ek wil vliek gemaak. 

Powerful Verb Poem Comments

I chose this topic because it is a very thrilling topic. It was hard coming up with powerful verbs. I enjoyed writing this poem.

 

Monday Morning.

Lauren, grade 5





It was a Monday morning. The teacher was droning on about something that felt too complicated for me to understand. Luckily I had a secret hoard of food under my desk. I quietly reached for a sweet and popped one in my mouth. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a paper jet. Some kids in my row had started to fly them around the classroom. One soared right past Mrs. Eagley's nose. Luckily she didn't notice. I started to crunch on a packet of chips. Suddenly Mrs Eagley looked up. "WHO IS EATING IN MY CLASS?!" She screamed. Then she looked right at me. "KAREN!" Oh dear.

A Day in my Life

My name is Bean and I live in an informal settlement. Today I woke up really early to go to school. It was very dark and very gloomy that morning. And to add to that, I had to walk three kilometers in the rain on an empty stomach. So I trudged along the usual route I take, cutting my feet on litter.


Eventually I got to school. I was late, but I'm always late, so it made no difference. I slipped into the back of the class and sat down. The teacher was explaining something, but I couldn't hear her over the rain which was hammering down on the tin roof. So my mind began to wonder. I pictured my mom, dad and I in a house with running water, a warm bed and food. That would be WAY better than the shack we live in now. Our shack is made out of iron, which can either be scorching hot or freezing cold. It is a rather small and cramped shack with only a single bed. Another thing I don't like about being poor is that I'm hungry almost every day of my life.


Maybe one day I could get a job to earn money so that I won't have to live in an informal settlement anymore. I will not give up hope.

The Great Wall

The Recently, three people on tour met in China. They wanted to go to the Great Wall of China, but just didn't know how to get there. "I know!" said the man from India. "We could take the bus." "No, no!" said the British man. "They're way too dirty!" "How about a donkey?" Suggested the Pakistani man. "Oh deary me! Definitely not!" yelped the British man. "Might fall off and break a nail!" "Oh well, we'll have to walk then." said the Pakistani man. "Well you two have fun." "I'm going to go back to the hotel to drink tea." The others went to the Great Wall while he drank tea.

100WC Challenge 1-Pizza Man

The deathly silence was interrupted by the loud grumbling of my friend's stomach. We were having a sleepover. We were anxiously waiting for the knock on the door. We looked at the clock. 7:10. Five minutes to go. Ages later, we checked it again. 7:11. A minute had passed. I stared down the dark hallway. Suddenly there was a knock. So I ran down the hallway to the front door. The door opened and there it was... My friends cheered! On the doorstep was a rather confused pizza man. So I collected the pizza and we all enjoyed our dinner.

Lauren
Grade 5