Slippery Sliddy Seals

‘Look!’ screamed Andie at the top of her lungs ‘TSUNAMI’, as the genormous waves crashed up along the rocky coast. It was Mum and Andie I driving to Christchurch right by the waves that looked like they would crush us ALIVE!

The weather was cloudy with slight drops of rain every minute. I knew the sun would come out eventually. And guess what the sun didn't come out the entire trip. The wind was rough, and so was the sea. My stomach gurgled as if I was getting sea sick in the CAR!

We stopped at a familiar café along by the sea. There was a nice warm fire that we all huddled around. We all decided to have a peek outside and the strong wind and the salty sea water brushed our faces as we left the building. As we walked down to the sea the huge foamy waves were swallowing everything in its path like wood, shells, boulders and even seals. Sometimes I wonder how they survive out there in the water.

After, we all moved on driving like we were being chased! ‘MUM’ ‘STOP’ I screamed ‘SEALS!’ Mum slammed on the brakes and we slid to a stop. It was a seal right next to the road. ’We could of hit it’ said Andie while she pulled out her ipad and stuck her head out the window. Then I stuck my head out the window too and then the smell of seal poo filled the car.

Mum and Andie both murmured ‘Let’s go!’ at the same time, so I knew they were serious, We sped down the road. I never knew seals stunk so bad!    

By Charlie

My Amazing Adventure

 

There I was standing at the front door ready to open it. I walked into my new house with excitement and ran straight to my room. I could not believe that I didn't come home quicker.

A couple of hours later I felt really bored and had nothing to do. So then I asked Mum if she needed any help “No thanks honey” Mum replied. So I walked to my room laid down on my bed then I heard a “BANG” “Aww” I yelled Mum ran into my room “What’s wrong Zae” Mum said, “I banged my head” I laughed then Mum walked out.

KNOCK, KNOCK I quickly ran to the door to see who it was. “Hi” it was my cousin and Aunty and Uncle who came over. We played a lot of games and had a lot of fun. But 20 minutes later had to go sadly!

The next morning Mum, Dad, Deijah and Honor –Jheyde and I went to my old house to collect the rest of our stuff. I wasn’t that happy about it, but I had to do it anyway but that was so, so, so BORING.

Well I know I didn’t do anything for my holiday but I had a amazing time moving into my new house.

 

By Azaelia

 

 

 

Bounce

“ Next session “ said a voice, I was at one of the most funniest places on earth, it was called bounce! I was really there with my family, you could go in any section that you wanted there was a dodge ball court, stunt section and even a free jump trampolines, it was substantial.

As I walked in the dodge ball court I saw my second cousins so we went on the same team and we kicked butt. As soon as we got off we went to the stunt section, while we were on there my youngest second cousin smashed his face on one of the pads and got a blood nose, my Uncle rushed to help him, after about five minutes he was back on like nothing happened.

After some good bouncing the parents said “it’s time to go.” My eldest second cousin and I asked “ where are we going,” the adults replied saying “ we are going to the carousel for lunch.” I was so excited because I had money I could spend and because this new video game had come called Halo Reach, and I was planning to buy it.

In conclusion, I loved hanging out with my family

By Riley

Go Karting

Thursday 23^rd of April. We were driving at 10:30 in Gold Coast when I looked left and I saw go karting. I was with Callum my brother and my good friend Butch they are both 18. I told them that go karting was next to us so we drove in and we bought 3 rounds I put my old race helmet and put my GoPro on top of my helmet. I started recording and we were off. You can get up to speeds of 50 kilometers an hour on a 1.3km track.

I was trying to catch up to them but the seatbelt was pushing on my neck and I was just tall enough to go on the senior karts. You hat to be 140cm tall and I was exactly 140cm.

By Tate 

Bow And Arrow

There I was my sister and I sitting in the car with my Mum waiting for us to arrive at my Aunty and Uncles house on the outskirts of Perth for our holiday. Then I noticed something awfully terrible… no not really it was the complete opposite we were on the last stretch of road so my sister and I shouted”YAY”! Then as soon as I knew it we were there, the car screeched to a halt, my sister and I both jolted forward. I jumped out of the car in excitement! My Mum opened the back doors which made a really bad click so I ran to the back of the car and pulled out a huge black bag full of clothes. Surely it wasn’t my bag it had too many clothes in it!

Just as I walked through the door I was greeted by my Aunty and Uncle, then I walked inside and I could hear the dogs going mental out the back but I kept on walking, I turned left. Then came to a long hallway and walked all the way down until I came to a door, I opened the door and went through. I slid my bag under the huge bed sitting in the middle of the room, then I walked out but when I turned the corner I noticed an old man sitting in the lounge room. Then my Uncle walked up to me and said, “This is my Dad, he’s here to help tune your bow and arrow” I nodded my head and said, “oh hi" as I shook his hand firmly.

Then my Mum walked in and started to get into a conversation so I thought it would be a good excuse to go and get some more bags when I walked outside the only thing that left was a case with my bow in it. So I carried it inside and as, soon as my Mum caught sight of me she said, “Why don’t you show your Uncle your bow and arrow?" So I laid down the box and opened it up my Uncle and his Dad studied it carefully then my Uncle said, “Do you want to take it outside to have a shoot of it?" I nodded my head and picked up by bow and a few arrows, then walked outside where my Uncle and my Uncles Dad were waiting for me.                                              

I stood in front of a target and pulled back the rope then…ZING the arrow didn’t even hit the target, so after hours of fine tuning and testing. I was shooting as straight as a ruler when I come back inside and dinner was ready, it was delicious and I get to shoot my bow tomorrow again YAY!

By Macca.

Graffiti

The Graffiti Mural

Dad said, "Come on buddy" as I jumped in the car. We were going to a graffiti project. This was the second night of doing it. Tonight was all about the painting.

I arrived too an awesome scenery of  games and spray painted canvases everywhere.
Nathan and Frances doing a sketch of the word 'Tom Price', which we would be filling in with amazing paint.

We were separated into groups who had roles, ours were to colour in the background on the first panel. We were called the Taipans [credit: Me] I don't know why I suggested that name.

Two teams had already finished painting the words, so it was our turn to paint the background.  Zach and Jerry coloured the background and I did all the details. It was a blast, I had so much fun doing it. 

All the other teams finished and then we had to hang it up on the fence and my parents arrived just in time to help. We all had a sausage a sizzle and drink for dinner, then we played pool before we went home.



By Toby

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Friends

On the 14^th of May 2014 I woke up in the morning. I woke up at 6:30am. I was too tired to ride to school but I had too because my Mum was still asleep and Dad was in Perth. 

I got to school at 7:20am and had left at 7:10am because I went to my fish friends house. Her name is Makalah she is my 3^rd best friend. She is 12 years old, her favourite colour is sky blue, she lives in Tom Price. 

Makalah always gets a smile on my face! I hang out with her every day but Tuesdays. I don’t hang out with her on Tuesday and Thursdays because I have to hang out with Ebony!

NAPLAN

On Tuesday morning year 3, 5 and 7’s did their first NAPLAN test for the year. The year 6 and 7’s did a NAPLAN test but the year 6’s just did a test similar. The first NAPLAN test that we had to do was Language Conventions. This had spelling and grammar and punctuation.

Mrs Rolton and Ms Gardiner gave everyone their test and a pencil and rubber. She told us the rules and gave us a set amount of time which was 45 minutes. So I opened my book with all the questions in there and started. Spelling was first up which I felt confident about. I think I am good at spelling so I knew I could do most of it. I flipped through the spelling section really fast then the next section was Grammar and Punctuation. Grammar and Punctuation was ok but felt like it had a million questions and didn't end at all! 

After the Language and Convention NAPLAN test it was the Writing test. We had to write an argument about what rule or law we should change to make things better. I did two pages and did a good job. Well I thought I did a good job!!! 

Keoni's Sporty Afternoon

At 3:30pm yesterday afternoon, Mum drove me to the Clem Thompson Oval to go to tee-ball practice. I am in seniors this year and my coach is a Canadian. His name is Al Lind…. But we have to call him coach.

At tee-ball, we did the star drill, throwing and catching and batting. This year I got a new bat. It is an Orange Easton bat that is 30inches. It is a really good bat! Then, at 4:30pm when we finished, I had to rush to the car because I had tap dancing.

When I arrived there, I put my tap shoes on and got into line for the warm up. Then we went into our positions for our first dance in our concert, Proud Mary. We have got three quarters of the way into that dance but we still have another dance with the song ‘Hound Dog’ that I have never heard in my life.

At 5:30pm we finally finished and my legs were aching from standing for 2 hours. When I got home, I fed Talei, my sister who is 2. I went on my ipad, had a shower, had dinner and then I went to bed.

It was a great afternoon of sport, but I think I would rather have a bit of a break in between. J

                                                                

JBy KeoniJ

NAPLAN Test

My NAPLAN Experience

On Wednesday the 14th of May 2014 my class room 5 was doing NAPLAN the reading test. 

It was good reading all the texts and completing the questions I didn't like the writing questions they were hard.

When I was up to the 39th question I forgot to read the text so I quickly read the text and changed my answer. The test was so long it went for 65 minutes but I finished in half a hour and had a sleep.

After I had my sleep it was 10:10am and that’s when the test ended so I was happy and hungry so I spent the rest of my day doing normal school day stuff until the next day when I did the numeracy  NAPLAN test.

The Naplan test was boring for me and many outhers.

So thank you for reading my NAPLAN test blog post I hope you liked it and have a good day or time on room 5's blog.

By Remy 

Journal Writing

On Monday 12 May 2014 I woke up, got out of bed and decided to get ready for school. It was hard for me to get ready because I was so tired. I left my house and arrived at school.

I walked into the class room and sat in my chair. The day was interesting because it was quiet when I got in the class.  I think yesterday was a good day.  

When I got home I started to do my awesome speech, I finished my speech and I  had a rest from my homework and I was resting on the couch for the rest of the night.  

By Macca                       

Journal Writing

Journal Writing

On Monday 12^th of May I woke up and got ready for school. When I got to school it started. I got out my writing book and started to write.

At Recess my friend and I didn't play at all, all we did was eat our lunch. When we got back to class we had to do a lot of work.

After lunch we had to make our homework book better and put work in it .After school I went home and did my homework and after diner I watched TV.  At 8:30pm I went to bed and this is what I did on Monday 12^th of May.

By Caleb

Picnic Day

Picnic Day

Hi I'm Remy and I'm telling you about my day at the picnic day at Tom Price.

When I first got to the picnic day it was very busy so I got some food from the roadies van it was very nice. After I ate I saw my friends and asked them if they want to play laser tag. When we played the laser tag it was hard so my team lost.

Second thing I did was play at the little arcade area it was fun with the pinball and racing games. Then I went to the Disney area and go on the bouncy castle it was fun.

The third thing I did was to go home and check on the dogs after that I grabbed my key and went back to picnic day. Then it was me and Bradley there so we just went to the photo booth and the twister area and did that for the rest of the night.

So that was my recount and I hope you enjoyed it, as it was the funniest day of this year so far!!!

By Remy

First Tee-Ball Game of the 2014 Season

First Tee-ball game not getting hit 2014.

On Saturday the 10^th I had my first Tee-ball game of the year I played at 9:45am of course we won 13 to 20.

Here is how it went well at my first training I got hit in the head by a ball that one of my team mates threw, it hurt but luckily my first game I didn't  get hit which is good.

The Tee-ball game was really fun it seemed like a very close game I got I think it was 2 or 3 out and I got out I think the same but we won I had heaps of fun so did everyone else.

The boys were away so my Mum was the only one watching me that was fine.  

By Imogen

Mothers Day Bash

I played in the Mothers Day Golf Bash it was fun, it raised more than $500 for Breast Cancer in Australia.

Everyone had a great day my Dad organised the program and I was the youngest to play. We played ambrose which is both players tee of and we choose the best drive out of them.

Secondly, then we played Canadian which is, I go then my partner goes and so on. We played 18 holes it was a big task but we made it just.

Thirdly, then we played best out of 2 both of us played the hole whoever got the highest score we put on the score card. That comp was hard but I got though it. 

By Noah

Picnic Day 2014

Picnic Day 2014

At 3pm, on Friday afternoon, I got dressed and prepared to go to my best friend Chloe’s house. After I went to Chloe’s house for a little we were going to go to Picnic Day together.

When we arrived at Picnic Day, we went to the arcade first. We went on the car racing game. First off I was coming first… but then I thought it said wrong way so then Chloe passed me and I lost. Just as we finished our game, Taylah came over to us so we went to the photo booth.

For most of the night, I spent the time at the photo booth with Chloe, Jenaya, Taylah, Toby, Macca, Freya, Abbey and a couple of others. I have around 10 of the photo strips from the night. At around 7pm, I walked home with my parents and two sisters. We arrived home at quarter past 7. Marley and I had showers while Talei, my youngest sister, went straight to bed. After showers, we got in to our pjs and waiting for the time to come of when we would go outside to wait for the fireworks.

At 8pm, my family, except for Talei, went to watch the fireworks. As the fireworks were going up on the hill down the street they were very close and loud. They were very colourful and lit up the sky. I had a great time with all my friends and I can’t wait until the Nameless festival.

By Keoni