Short Story from Ack

Hi, this week in writing I had to make up a short story based on a picture that they gave us. The picture was of a girl with plaits in a t-shirt and jeans holding up a trophy (like a big cup with one handle on each side). In the picture it looks like the cup is shaking. Anyway, here is my story!


BOOM BOOM

On a clear and wacky Wednesday I went to the BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM competition and every competitor had a 500 wide stick of dynamite. Eva went out to the front of the stage with her stick of dynamite, gasoline, lava and black powder. She held the magnifiying glass to the sun (which was coming in through the sky-light) and Ka-boooooooooooooooooom! Eva's boom was the loudest so she won the trophy. After the fire brigade left I went home.

THE END

Ack's Blog of Camp

From April 28 to April 30 the Grade 3’s at my school went on camp. We went to an island off Hong Kong (we had to catch the boat to get there). We had to take a HUGE backpack with lots of things (and we had to carry it ourselves!)
When we got to camp we met our camp instructors and we made up our team names. I was in the Golden Phoenix team (a girl made that name up, not me). Then we went to our dorms (this is the boys' dorm.)


We had loads and loads of activities. My personal favorite was the high ropes course. (Picture at the top because it was the best!) It was over 50 feet tall! We had to go right to the top. We did have to wear helmets and, to make sure it was safe, we were attached to safety wires. It was awesome! We were all a little bit scared to start with, but the teachers were more scared than us. Once we all got going it was perfectly fine.

Everything was great at camp. We did lots of different activities (we even had to build a raft – that floated!) and we didn’t get much sleep. When I got home I was glad to be here, but I had had a fantastic time. I hope I get to go on camp again!