Cross Country 2011

Boom! Boom! Boom! My chest was pounding as I got ready to have a race. I was scared to go and race.

I thought I was going to lose to the race, but I was wrong. I was in the front. We had to do two laps. I was so happy Iwas going to win.

My dad was at the end of the race to tell us where to go around the tree and Bens mum said to go through the cones and over the fence.

I was on my second lap and keegan was coming second in the race. But I was sprtting to win the race! It was over.

I told my dad that I came first in the race. He was proud of me and my borther.

By Te Poho

Cross Country 2011

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Cross country

“One more lap to go” I thought to myself as I convinced my body to push the limits and reach my goal. It was cross country and we were all super nervous.

It was the most blazing hot day ever and I felt like I was sizzling on a BBQ. The track was damp but the sun soon changed that.

“Ready, set, go!” commanded Miss Williams as we all rushed in a hurry. Another lap I thought as sweat trickled down my face.

I paced myself to the finish line and took another deep breath and collapsed on the tarpaulin. All of a sudden I felt a cold breeze as if Jack Frost ran past and left me to freeze. I quickly clutched onto my jersey and whipped it on. I was glad it was over!

By Diaz

On Friday we had our school Cross Country. We had to write an exciting recount about our cross country. We used our red thinking hat to write about how we felt. We had to keep our reader interested and make them enjoy our story. We tried to include some exciting adjectives.

My Adventure

Here I am I the middle of the Forest. I’ll tell you what happened.

I was on a huge fluffy cloud but then the cloud started to go black.

Suddenly I found myself tumbling from the sky and all my friends were screaming. We all landed on a soft leaf in the forest somewhere.

I tried finding my way home but I couldn’t find out the direction I landed. I was sitting on the bank next to a huge waterfall when it started to rain so I found some cover under a big green leaf.

In the morning there was a big slug in front of me and I started to run for my life. I finally got away from him and ran towards the river because I thought no one goes enemies would go there.

As I got closer I saw a bird and it swept me off my feet and then all of sudden he let go of me and I found myself beside my friends and I told them how I got there.

We all had a big sleep then and then I could feel the sun on me and then a big gust of wind grabbed us and took us up into the sky. We landed on a big fluffy cloud and our lives were much better.

By Alex

Water Droplets Adventure

Its was just 4 days ago when I was living a life in a white fluffy cloud, just laying back and looking at the sun until DARKNESS takes over “ AHHHHHHHH!”

People said this day would come, but I never thought it really would. Then suddenly I realised that night below my feet was a long lonely stream with many leaf carts racing each other.

Finally I landed on one of the carts. But something wasn’t right. It was more than a stream; it was more like a forest. I was in the dark green forest and floating on a leaf boat travelling through the stream with no idea where I was going.

Later on I suddenly came to a holt. We were at the end. Meanwhile I was in dream-land it was a miracle I had found a whole field of glistening water being lifted into the air and went flying across the sky to there home cloud.

So I went and joined them and it was like, it was airborne. Eventually that miracle was over and I was back home. But I have a feeling that this trip will happen many more times like it just did in this one but a different way I hope.

The next time came but this time was even worse I was slurped up by a bird and I slithered down its pink silvery throat. The rest is too horrible to talk about so it’s better not to. But one more thing before I go you should go and check out the museum if you want to know more.

By Rebecca

My Adventure

Here I am in the middle of the forest. I just wish I was back home. Ok I will tell you how it all started. I was playing when the school bullies came and I said, “what do you want?” “Nothing!” they said. Suddenly they charged at me I fell out of my cloud.

When I landed I saw Eli beside me, that’s it I thought to myself I’m in the middle of nowhere with my cousin Eli.

Suddenly people came they were soldiers, they picked me up and put me in their mouth. It was awful. You will not believe what it was like in there. It was horrible. There were bugs and slugs and crawly things. Before I knew it I was coming out of the place that you don’t want to know it was horrible!

Now I was in the river. I was floating to the sea, but a big gust of wind got me and I started to fly back up to the sky. Yah! I was home again.

By Ben

Falling Down

I was floating high in the sky minding my own business and suddenly a shiver ran up my spine. I realised the sun was slowly drifting away. It was replaced with a loud clap of the thunder and the clear blue sky turned grey as if it was angry or something. Next thing I knew I was falling out of the sky and away from my beloved home.

I turned out of the sky and when I reached earth I hit the hard rock ground in record time.

I stood up and looked around trying to make out what was where and what was what. Anyway I started to wonder off not knowing where to go. I reached a huge log and wondered how I could pass it. I decided to jump over it and the rest of the way I jumped, slid and took rides with all sorts of things.

I saw a speck of the dim sunlight gleaming through the tall unstable trees, so I let the sunlight guide me towards it.

When I got out of the forest I fell into deep ditch of water. The sun shone brightly over the crystal clear water and then my water droplet body rose up and up to the clouds where he first started.

When I got back the first thing I did was tell my raindrop friend about my amazing adventure I had just completed.

By Sinead

SPLASH!

I was dreaming away as the hot sunrays were prickling me. I was just about to fall asleep when a cloud quake struck. I fell through the clouds at high speed. Then splash!

I was just recovering from my fearful drop. I was as thin as paper. At that point I woke up to find myself in a tropical rainforest.

I was wondering where I was and all I wanted was to get back home, I thought for a while until a light bulb appeared above my head. I remembered that my parents had said “you need to listen because this will happen one day. You will fall far from home and you will need to begin a very dangerous journey. You will need to find some type of water source. But there will be enemies waiting to attack. So be careful and be ready!”

I was running proud for a moment until I saw a humongous creepy crawly. Ahhhhhhhhhh! I yelled as I sprinted through the forest. I’m safe for now I thought as a giant butterfly swooped down and swallowed me whole.

I was dangling on the slimy pink thing on the back of the butterfly’s throat. When a massive ball of saliva came and swept me off my slimy pink thing. The butterfly had been flying for a while now and I was beginning to rise. I was pretending to fly like superman until I was squeezing through the skin.

I closed my eyes as I was ready for another drop. But there was a different sound this time. PLOP! “I was safe,” I thought. As I checked around for other dangers. Suddenly I started feeling dizzy and there was a blur of a giant golden ball. I was flying higher and higher until I landed back on my white cuddly cloud. I couldn’t believe what I had been through.

I was drinking coconut milk dazing away and I was just about to fall asleep when a cloud quake struck. ‘Not again” I thought to myself.

By Diaz

Keegans Water Drop Story

Water Droplet Stories

We have been learning about the water cycle. We wrote stories about the day in the life of a water droplet. Our droplets went on exciting adventures through the water cycle, starting from up in the clouds through the jungle and back up to the clouds.

Pyramid Journey

WALT Paint a picture in the readers head.

The soft, grainy sand fell between my toes as Rebecca and I strode across the Egyptian Deserts towards the waiting camels.

One, two, three I sprang on the camel’s soft furry back between the camel’s two humps. Once I was in place I found it to be surprisingly comfy. I settled for the three-hour ride to the pyramids.

Rebecca and I were visiting Egypt to discover the mysteries of the world famous pyramids for a school project.

At last the three hour camel ride came to an end. I gently patted the camel’s noble face. It was different to the horse ridding I do because it was a lot higher to sit on a camel.

I was sad to see the camel’s go, but when I spun round, I quickly forgot my sadness because right there in front of me, towering hundreds of metres into the sky were the pyramids. “Wow!” I gasped excitedly, “Those pyramids are huge!” Next to me Rebecca was also star struck. We still had a few metres to walk to reach the pyramids, and under the harsh desert sun the task was grueling.

When we arrived at the foot of the pyramids we sank into the dusty, yellow sand to rest. Big mistake! “Ahhhh!” Rebecca’s scream was almost deafening as a small black scorpion scuttled across her feet. We cautiously edged backwards. Suddenly I felt something cool and smooth bump into my back. I turned my head slowly and saw a gleaming pyramid. ‘ Come on Rebecca!” I called, “lets go inside the pyramid.”

Clonk, clonk, clonk our footsteps echoed as we went inside the pyramid’s. Inside the pyramids it was dark and pleasantly cold, we were glad to get out of the sun.

“Whoa, look at this!” Rebecca exclaimed. I carefully hopped over to her and waited until my eyes adjusted to the dim light. Then I saw the most beautiful piece of art. I reached out to touch it when Rebecca stopped me. ‘ Don’t touch it, it could be cursed with an ancient evil curse or something” she shuddered. I began to shudder too so we left the colourful art behind and trooped further into the fascinating pyramids.

Six hours later we were very weary but overjoyed that we had adventured into the pyramids. It was an awesome experience but it’s time to move on. Maybe next time we can go to the Eiffel Tower, but for now I will just make do with New Zealand.

By Georgia