LIMERICKS

LIMERICKS

There was a young fellow called Nick,
Met a good looking chick,
She looked like a dog
Ate like a hog
And made him violently sick. -Michaela and Zara

There once was a very old fellow,
Dyed his hair bright yellow,
Took a cab
To the professors lab
And ended as a marshmallow. -Michaela

There was a young women called Anne,
Lover of collecting cans,
She stole a few,
Thinking no one knew
Ended in a policeman's van. -Michaela

There was a young girl called Lilly,
Her attitude was awfully silly,
Blew up the town,
Given class clown,
And changed her name to Milly. -Michaela

I once knew a girl called Kai,
She looked in her ear with her eye,
I'll never know why,
She might have lied,
Well, you'll never know till you try! -Michaela












From me,

Ciara's limericks

There once was a woman called Sue
Who bought a new pair of shoe's
They sparkled like moons
Sang a nice little tune
And carried her off to the Moon

By Ciara and Zara


There once was a lady called Anne
Who met a handsome man
She had her first kiss
To bad that he hissed
Then off when Anne's man

Limericks Zara

There was a young man called Nick
Found a very good looking chick
Looked like a dog
And ate like a hog
And made him violently sick

By Michaela and Zara

There once was a lady called Anne
Who bumped into a dirty old man
He looked like a sloth
And owned a pet moth
So that was the end of the plan

By Zara

Senior Swimming on PhotoPeach

King Midas

Once there was an old king. He'd heard that there was a god that could grant him his only wish. 

I washobbling to where the god is supposed to live. Up a very steep hill. "Olympus" I cried out. " Yes?" Replied Olympus. " what do you require?" I stared into the deep dark black eyes. " I want the power to turn everything I want into gold." It turned out that the god was a trickster kind of like a genie. But I had no idea at the time. " I will give you this power." A whoosh of gold sparks filled me making my fingers tingle violently. 

I was filled with joy at my new power. 

I went to my castle and went up to my room not touching anything. But I pulled my silver ring out and touched it. It instantly turned to gold. 

I was so happy. Before I thought about it I hugged her hard.  Before I had realized my mistake I'd turned my wife gold forever unless I could reverse the spell...

Keep Calm and Carry on.

Zara's world. 

First swimming lesson

First swimming lesson.

It was at Mosgiel pool. There was 3 groups. They were testing us to see who was going to be in which group. We went through some of the simpler strokes. It was good first time at the pool.
My goals to achieve before the end of the swimming week are:
* swimming a bit faster
* making sure that I have my chin tucked down on my chest.
* going much much faster


Keep Calm and Carry on.
Zara's world.

Part 4

Part 4

Finally it's my turn. First the host Frederick Marshall comes and talks to me about how I'm feeling. "Nervous I guess."

"On your marks, get set, GO!"

I slide down the slide. And race to the hurdles. I leap over them tripping over the last one. I've got a huge scratch from the rocky ground. But it's not deep I skid to the rock wall and grab the rope and climb up it in a flat 8.3 seconds. WOW. Fastest time so far. I jumped into the water and swam to the sucker punch. Bam. A puncher from the wall hits me hard in the stomach. I topple off and now I'm covered in smelly mud. I battle on to the end. With a time of 5.23. The second fastest time! I'm through to the final 10. Yay! 

Part 2 and 3 Zara

Part 2

"You are the lucky 20 who will have a chance. Your first task, obstacle course. Yes a dangerous daredevil course. The 10 people that have the fastest times will continue to the next round.

I look around at my competition. Around 10 people look about the same age as me. But the rest are about 30 and over. Some with bulging muscles. Eek.

Part 3

They've taken us all around the course. Showing us what we have to do and face. First 25 hurdles about 90cm high. Then run to a 50 metre climbing wall. A sucker punch off the wipeout and loads more.

Zara 100WC updated

100Wc added. More parts updated.

Part 1

An announcement flashes up on the T.V. "Chocolate is banned!" As he says this our chocolate supply suddenly disappears. "There is one last piece of chocolate in the world. Would you like to be this lucky person? If so come battle for it in our amazingly tricky bone braking challenges. You can put your name into a container ONCE and then if you get drawn out go and compete. Now for the weather. Goodnight."

"Olivia Green" I look around in surprise. "Me?" I walk up to the person who is drawing the names. "Congratulations he says with his big cheesy grin. If you could just walk over there and wait for the rest."

I'm on a train with my  family and the rest of the people whose name got drawn. Mum will be watching me. I want to make her proud.

The fantasies of ‘The Clock Tower’

Once upon a time was a little girl in a little village living in a tall clock tower.  Day and night she danced gracefully to a smooth beat.

One day she glanced out the window. Multi coloured balloons floated up in the air. She wanted to explore the big wide world. She’d never set foot outside her tower before.

She stopped dancing and skipped out the front door in excitement. As she stepped out everything appeared to be frozen. The life and colour had been sucked out of the world.

She was scared and anxious. What had caused this abrupt turn?

She walked around the village. Everything and everyone was frozen, their profiles a dull, dull grey.

She brushed her hand lightly against the balloon thinking all was lost. To her amazement the colour and movement flooded into the balloon. “Strange” She thought to herself. As soon as she took her hand off the balloon it froze again and returned to grey.

She sighed deeply and trudged back to her clock tower not trying in the slightest to hold herself upright. Like she always did when depressed she slowly revolved on the spot. As soon as she started to dance in her tower the village and world came back to life. 

How wet is too wet?

How wet is too wet?

This morning we went around the block to see the damage that the rain had caused on Sunday. It had rained heavily on Sunday and had started to creep into the shops. Luckily most of the owners stopped it before it penetrated the items they were selling. During our walk we saw lots of dehumidifiers sucking the moisture out of the carpet.
Investigation CLOSED.


Keep Calm and Carry on.
Zara's world.

Athletics day.

Athletics day.
Yesterday at Peter Johnson park we had our annual athletics day. First up was the long distance runners. We had great runners and even managed a second place by Laura. The. We were straight into it. First up we had High jump. I'm not sure what height it started at but I cleared it on my first go. And then the second and then it was nearly taller than me so I didn't have a chance. After we went to 75 meters. My dad came and watched me run. I got into the finals and came 4th just. Then we went to shot put which I was never very good at so didn't mind my one. Long jump. I didn't jump very long though. Yay, 100 meters. I got into the semi finals and abut ten meters from the finish line my leg started playing up. I battled on and came 3rd and had to race again which was agony. I'm not sure where I came maybe 4th or 5th. Discus went okay. After that I realized that I wouldn't be able to run in relays. So Alex took my place. Athletics was really fun and I had Great time.

Keep Calm and Carry on.
Zara's world.

100 Wc Zara

An announcement flashes up on the T.V. "Chocolate is banned!" As he says this our chocolate supply suddenly disappears. "There is one last piece of chocolate in the world. Would you like to be this lucky person? If so come battle for it in our amazingly tricky bone braking challenges. The last piece FOREVER! Goodnight.

19 other kids are lined up.

" You are the lucky 20 who will have a chance. Your first task, obstacle course. Yes a dangerous daredevil course. The three people that have the fastest times will compete again to see who will win the chocolate.

Zara's photo - Due to flooding...

How wet is too wet?

How wet is too wet?
This morning we went around the block to see the damage that the rain had caused on Sunday. It had rained heavily on Sunday and had started to creep into the shops. Luckily most of the owners stopped it before it penetrated the items they were selling. During our walk we saw lots of dehumidifiers sucking the moisture out of the carpet.
Investigation CLOSED!
Keep Calm and Carry on.
Zara's world.

Zaras P.L.E

I learn online on the computer and my iPod. I use chrome and google. The apps that I use are impossible test and Evernote. TV helps me when I watch man vs. wild. He always has something interesting to say.

My grandparents...

My Grandparents are important because they're part of our family and they will love me forever. Time spent with Grandparents is precious because two of them live in Melbourne. They take me shopping and spoil me rotten while at it! They turn up to special celebrations and celebrate with us. Maybe they’ll take me out to the beach or somewhere different. My Nan teaches me to bake delicious cakes or slices. Sometimes it goes wrong though.  My Nanny teaches me funny Australian sayings; my Granddad teaches me to do crosswords and sudokus in the daily newspapers. I am extremely lucky to have amazing Grandparents. 

Valerie Adams surprise signing.

On Wednesday we went to meet Valerie Adams at the Warehouse for her book
signing. It was a surprise. We waited for her to come and boy was she
tall. We lined up and got a photo taken. Some lucky people got to go up to
Valerie and get something signed and also got to hold the gold medal. It
was a great surprise and we all found out something new about Valerie.

All Black Entry

All Black Entry
30th of October 2012
Today with room 7 we met up with the All Blacks at the Peter Johnson Park. Loads of other schools were there to met with Tamati Ellison, Ben Smith, Andrew Hore and Ben Franks. We didn't know it was happening so we had nothing to sign but paper and arms. When we got there we waited for a bit and then they came out. For a while they talked about themselves and where they grew up and stuff like that. We got a photo with then and went to line up for autographs. There were four lines and they all were long. But it was worth it. Everyone got the four autographs. I think. It was a great surprise going to see the All Blacks.

The 2012 fair

Sunday morning at 11:00 all the stalls at the fair opened. Some of the stalls were new and some of them old favourites. I got my nails done highlighter pink. Everyone's favourite game seemed to be soak a senior, a new stall, and another one, triage. They design fake wounds for you. Mia, Georgia, Ciara and I all got a wound of some kind. I got a slash on my leg that appeared to have a blue bruise, red gooey blood, just trickling slowly from my leg. The people who have done these amazing wounds could be makeup artists in horror movies. This is my last fair while I'm a pupil at St Mary's but I'll probably come next year.