Here are a few of our amazing activities over the Lockdown in Term 3 week 5/6
Holly's Family Crest design
Sol made a bird feeder
Griffin's having fun with kitchen science - milk and food-colouring - as well as experimenting with temperature.
Tane has been growing up a storm in the UK during his lockdown - those veggies look absolutely delicious!
Lillia has been going to Holiday programme in Belgium with her sisters as well as creating her own cake in a Patisserie
Jake has rescued a hedgehog from his brothers net!
Brodie's Percy Jackson Wordsearch
A few people have sent some photos of their favourite things too:
Here's two of Brodie's
And here's two of Hope's
and here's two of Ezras
and here's two of Savvy's favourite things
a few of Ashmash's favourite things?
The Beautiful Pearl!
by Holly Swainson
“Dinner’s ready!” called Milly’s mum. Milly was an octopus and so was her mum.
They lived in the deep-sea catching fish, crabs, and starfish. Milly was eight years old and she always had a cute little smile on her face except when something really bad happened. It was salmon for dinner tonight, Milly’s least favourite. “Yuck,” grumbled Milly as she swam into the cave where they lived and smelled the rotten smell of salmon.
“Salmon again mum! It’s not fair because we had salmon last night and the night before and the night before and I know that you know that I don’t like it one bit!” shouted Milly, getting angrier by the second.
“Oh Milly darling, I’m sorry, it’s just I can’t find any other type of fish,” said Milly’s mum.
“Ok, come with me,” gestured Milly. “Come with me and we will find a different type of fish,” she said.
* * *
After two hours of looking, Milly got really tired. She got so tired she fell asleep and her mum had to carry her home. On the way Milly’s mum spotted a few enormous starfish so she picked them up, one in each tentacle, except the two tentacles she was carrying Milly with. Then they went home. Milly’s mum put the starfish in a hole in the cave and then put Milly into bed.
* * *
In the morning, it was Milly’s birthday and she got to have the starfish, one for each meal, since they were her favourite food. Her dad had been out all night looking for something to give Milly for her birthday and he had found something so perfect he wanted it himself! It was a beautiful orange shell. He hadn’t opened it yet, he was going to let Milly open it when she was ready.
* * *
Milly woke up and swam into the kitchen, happy to see all of the decorations out and then she remembered it was her birthday and she went to find her parents. She swam into the main lounge room and her parents jumped out and scared Milly so much she shot up in the water and banged her head on the ceiling.
“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Milly, happy birthday to you!” sang Milly’s mum and dad.
Milly floated back down again. “Thank you,” she said. Her parents handed her the shell and Milly opened it. Inside there was a beautiful white pearl. “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!” shouted Milly happily. She put the shell down and hugged her mum and dad, but when Milly turned back to get her pearl, it was gone.
“Where’s my pearl?” questioned Milly.
“I don’t know, I thought you put it on the table?” asked Milly’s dad.
“Yes, I did, but now it’s gone,” said Milly puzzledly.
“We have to find it!” said Milly’s mum.
“Look! A shark tail in our cave!” shouted Milly. “I think the shark took it!”
“Let’s get that shark!” cried Milly’s mother.
“Before it’s too late!” shouted Milly’s father, annoyed that it was gone.
“Let’s swim!” they all shouted.
* * *
After a long time of chasing the shark, some seaweed wooshed at the shark and he flipped over onto his back making him drop the shell. Milly swam over and picked it up and it was perfectly fine, so they swam home and enjoyed the rest of Milly’s birthday fun!
THE END
Holly wrote this amazing story and remembered to include direct speech.
Christian wrote a poem based on Harry Potter
Christian also made some cookies! They look delicious.
A few of Bonnie's favourite things
