2014 Writing

The Painting

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The golden maned animal hung upon the old brick wall. The antique frame that wrapped around him exploded with crystal light. Suddenly a drum starts playing. As I look closely at the painting, the lion danced towards the face of the canvas. I meet him at the edge. His furry paw stretches out snatching a cornflake from my bowl. His crunching makes a piercing sound which echoes through my eardrums. His sticky paw returns, searching for more. A wet black nose came out next, sniffing cautiously. Before I knew it, he stood grandly in front of me. What was this exciting circumstance going to bring?

Zanna

Show, Don’t Tell

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5SK have worked on ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ this week from Seven Steps to Writing Success. They were challenged to ‘show’ a scene or character trait rather than telling the reader.

RAIN

Cold breeze hits me like smoke from a fire. I walk outside and everything is wet. Big dark clouds cover the sun like a dome trapping us. When will it end?
Connor

DESERT

“Please, HELP ME!” I yell. The hot, red, arid sand burning my feet. I’m hungry, hot, lonely and the only thing I can taste is the dirt ricocheting in and out of my teeth. I imagine I hear rushing water but I know I’m just daydreaming. I have flashbacks of my dear sister Layla, my beloved mother Bethany and my dear dad Tom. I faint face down in the dirt.
Jemma

FISHING

I’m out at the reef on a perfect day. Suddenly my rod bends right. I rush to pick it up. It is a big one. I wind it in as hard as I can. I see glimmers of silver. But the line snaps.
Mack

WORLD TEACHERS DAY

The smell of the freshly made coconut ice is wafting through the house “YUM” I think to myself. It’s all going away to my teacher, I’m regretting my decision now. I carefully wrap it up in nice clear cellophane and tie a beautiful, rose pink ribbon around it. I get into the car and we approach the school. I feel excitement running through my blood then I get shivers of fear running down my spine. “What if she doesn’t like it,” I think. I hop out of the car. I get to the school gate, turn and wave to my mum and then my shoelace gets caught around the wire. I fall, the coconut ice plummets to the ground. “Why me?”
Jemma

”Surprise!” as the class jumps out giving the teacher a fright. We all hand our presents to the teacher and it’s almost like an avalanche of flowers and chocolate. The teacher’s smile lifts up like a huge banana. She won’t be able to walk by tomorrow.
Grace

CHARLIE – PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY

The phone rings. It’s for me. I need to go to the principal. The sweat ran down my face as butterflies filled my stomach. The principal wasn’t there. I nervously sat down. The principal walks in, as soon as I see his face I know it’s Charlie. I let out such a scream it shatters the fish tank. I run as fast as I can. Charlie follows with his whip. Running was a big mistake.
Rhiannon

SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Splash went the chlorine filled water. I got ready for my race, I put my goggles on and BANG! I fly through the water doing butterfly. My class is cheering for me. I start to get lower and lower and thoughts filled my mind.

What’s going on?
Grace

Greg’s Adventure

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Splash! The waves are wild. We are boogie boarding and it is lots of fun. My friends dare me to swim out to the red flag, 200m out and there is all sorts of danger out there, more dangerous than you can ever imagine. I said, “No way” and they called me a wimp and swam out by themselves. I followed but suddenly a massive strong rip started pulling us slowly away. There was an injured turtle so we pulled it close and then as it shivered, more turtles came towards us, one was bleeding and that attracted lots of big, pointy teethed, grey fish.
Emma

The Mysterious Creatures

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The slimy, pink hairless creature wriggles. We all starred watching it like a predator stalking its prey. As it shivered away, they looked away with disgust. The creature started wiggling away leaving a trail of gooey, green slime behind. We followed its slimy trail until it was gone. But then several of its kind surrounded us. Their teeth stuck out like vampires and they grew as big as GODZILLA. Their huge olive green eyes watched over us. Crimson spat out of their mouths. The sky turned black and cackled like witches surrounding their cauldron. CRACK!! We screamed in fear then he lifted me. HELP!!!
Grace

The Dark Forest – Tristan

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The dark forest leaves wave around as glowing eyes surround me from all corners. I hear a loud scream. The sun disappears faster than my dinner which I haven’t eaten for a long time. My vision goes blurry when fog surrounds me. I see a dark figure in the distance and I start to head towards it. Trees start collapsing, suddenly something pokes me on the back.  I look  around in fear and see a dark ghostly figure behind me. I start running but seem to be going nowhere! There’s no point running, there’s no point running.  I’M DEAD!

Scary Cloak – Ally

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“Trick or Treat,” said my friend.We opened our bags to see a river of flowing lollies,we closed our bags and started to walk home. During the steps we took, the wind and fog  started to pick up. It bounced off my mouth and back into the forest. When we were walking a black cloak stood there waiting for the right moment to strike. Weslowly stepped forward and so did the cloak. When it stood forward it started to show some orange teeth and red sickerning eyes. I am speechless.I try to run but I’m stiff. Is this the last of US!

The Forest – Jemma

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I walk through what seems like an enchanted forest, the leaves whispering, the blue birds singing and the aroma of the new buds of flowers. I run my fingers along the long wall of trees, they’re tough but somewhat elegant the way their tops dance in the wind. I touch something scaly, REPTILE scaly. I look and see an Anaconda almost entwined within the tree. “AHHHH!” I scream and run, run as fast as my legs would take me. I take a closer look and notice there is  a dark figure approaching me.

The Ghost – Grace

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I walk through the woods with the stary night above me . The wind howls in my ear . A shadow appears out of the mist. I stumble back, my head hits the ground.  What is it I wonder. It’s thick black cloak wraps around him, his face is hidden. I try to scream but something covers my mouth. The arms of the cloak lift up, roots wrap around my arms. It goes to reveal itself, but then something cracks in the bushes. The creature hovers away. ”Are you okay,” a voice comes out of the bushes. ”I saw a ghost, I’m dead.”

The Statue – Rhiannon

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The dark green leaves floated to the ground as the statue came alive. Its dead wrinkled hands came out of the black cloak. The face appeared. Big black bags darkened the red eyes. The yellow decaying teeth smiled. The glowing eyes widened as the white wrinkle hands pulled out a blood stained knife. “Come hear little girl,” said the old voice. “Come here”. She started to walk. I screamed. I ran. AH! I screamed as I tripped over a head stone. The head stone moved. A small hole appeared. I frantically hobbled over to it and crawled inside. There was a……….

A Black Figure – Connor

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Awoooh! as a wolf howls at a big damp lake in the woods. Crunch!Crunch! Leaves crumbling not so far away from us. It goes again and a black figure flashes past me.”What was that!” we yell scared, in fear and terrified. We keep walking slowly until  something behind me grips onto my shoulders and pulls me back to it.”Agghhh,” I yell, “help.” “Don’t worry,” it whispers, “I’m here to help you get out of the woods.” Will I ever get out of the woods? HELP

The Mysterious Person – Emma

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Poof! Grey smoke fills the air. A man with a black cape stands in front of us. We could see the his face. He held out a freakishly ugly wand and pointed it at us. He said, “Leave or die” but nobody moved a muscle and you could hear a pin drop. I thought the wand would shoot out fire, lightning or something like that, instead it shot out rainbows and candy. It was hilarious. Suddenly, he unmasked himself and it was my best friend George. A dark figure in the same costume appeared behind George, cackling like an evil witch…