Snow description by Kaia

Snowballs whizzing through the air and exploding on Oscar's rake.
Snowballs darting out of nowhere, slapping me on the back.
Snowballs flying back and forth, landing with a plop.
Grace hurling snowballs at Oscar in a frenzy.
Snowmen staring at me, cold and lifeless.
Snowmen falling apart, 
melting as it gets warmer.

Glacier Diamante

The Lamborghini Ride.

"Are you ready?''

I take a deep,deep breath and say yes. All I hear is just the powerful V12 engine at work moving us along at around 200 kilometres per hour!

"I didn't even get to see 100 kilometres per hour!"I thought to myself as we rush into the trees.

I look to my left and if the world suddenly had turned to slow motion, I saw three aliens and a ufo sitting on the hill in the corner of my eye. I chuckled to myself.

Soon we were going over the bridge and back down it in a flash! I was thrilled that I came out of that end bridge corner alive.

I kind of had a little flashback to when the Highlands 101 was happening. A person on a motorbike was doing a wheelie burnout where we were rushing past.

All I could imagine was just that it was over so quickly, but it was still a lot of fun!

Diamante Poem

Ice

Slippery,Cold

Melting,Shining,Dripping

Icicles,Snow,River,Mist

Shaking,Avalanches,Gleaming

Majestic,White

Glacier  

By Kayla

Glacier by Emma

  Glacier

                                                                 

Icy slippery

                                                        

Freezing pausing shaking

                                                   

Avalanches, reflection, fog, mist

                                                                   

Frozen white

                                                                          Glacier

Glacier

Glacier

Icy Slippery

Freezing Frozen Cold

Avalanches Reflection Fog Mist

Glimmering Shaking Sparkling

Still White

Glaciet

The Earthquake

The hall filled with terrified screams. My heart was going a mile a minute. I started to panic. Children ran around screaming and hiding under chairs. I looked at everyone's terrified faces and heard their shrill screams around me. My body froze in fear.

" EARTHQUAKE DROP COVER HOLD!" yelled Victoria.

A few girls did what she said but the others were frozen in fear, including me. I looked back at my guitar. We were in the hall and I had just finished my lesson as the earthquake struck. I was terrified as the ground shook under my feet. I kept my balance but it seemed like forever. It stopped finally. A few more children walked in.

"Did you feel that!?"

We yelled.

"Feel what?"

They asked.

I sighed as they tried to explain what happened. I guess not then.

Autumn poem by Emma

Dancing, floating leaves flittering to the grass,
the ground of many colours, 
orange, yellow and brown
leaves falling to the ground, 
like a ballerina twirling round and round.
red like blood,
yellow like sun,
brown like dirt
and orange like a carrot
never blue like sea 
or purple like a plum.

The Snow Day

"Hannah,! Wake up! It's an emergancy!!" 
I felt an icy chill through my spine as she grabbed me.
"No, it's a prank"
 I thought. Her icy fingers gripped my wrist tightly as I was dragged out of bed.
"It's a prank," I kept thinking " I know it is." 
At least that's what I thought, until she opened the curtain. I gasped. I cupped my hands over my mouth. I froze. I stared out into the endless white snow. It looked like a giant teddy bear had been ripped apart and the stuffing was spread everywhere, like a white abyss.

Emma's snow memoir

The snow was falling harder than ever, hitting my eyes making them sting. I could hear the motorbike pulling the wool bale bag I was sitting on. Snow was up my gloves making my hands freeze. "Are you still on Emma?" Dad yelled.
 I could barely get out a word because I was frozen. "Am I on?" I asked myself.
 I could still feel the bag so I decided that I was fighting the snow and holding on tightly so that means I'm still on. "Yep!" I exclaimed surprised to still be sitting on. The bag was slipping and sliding across the hill.

Later Dad drove me back up to the house. I took off my waterproof clothes and went inside. "Oh no," I thought "There's still a power cut."

Autumn leaves by Casey A

Leaves dancing to the ground.
Gently floating in the air.
Crunching, scrunching and breaking leaves.
Blending colours.
Red, green, brown and orange leaves everywhere.
Leaves rustling,
Trying to hold on.

Autumn Leaves Fall

By Ben McGechan

In Autumn the leaves fall,

swaying to the beat of the wind.

The flaming leaves in Arrowtown

will come out

in the middle of Winter

When Spring comes

the deciduous trees will smile

as the new coat of green leaves

will arrive.

The Earthquake

I gulped. I turned as white as a sheet. My legs were as wobbly as jelly.

"Get under the table everyone! yelled Mrs Lees. I darted under the nearest table and clung to the table leg like a limpet clings to a rock, but the earthquake kept on shaking the earth like an angry giant shakes his club. 

I could see everyone huddled together under tables, most of them looked as pale and as scared as me. I felt sick, nauseous and my heart was going "boom boom" as it thumped away in my

chest. I could hear a slight rumble and the frightened murmurs of the people around

me. 

The earthquake stopped suddenly and everyone allowed themselves a moment

to breathe. We slowly crawled out from under the tables. 

Even though the earthquake had stopped I still felt sick. 

By Kaia.

Laid Down

Laid Down       

By Ben McGechan

Soldiers falling like shot ducks

once alive now in a endless sleep many pray

but don’t get their wish

and are laid down to rest

now we remember them

for what they did for our country
.

We Will Remember them