Kids Corner

The “Kids’ Corner” section of our school newsletter provides the opportunity for the children to showcase their talents or communicate something special. This week we have pieces from Aditi and Ivan who are both in Year 5:

A normal day at Tree Land Hills – by Aditi (Year 5) 

The air felt softer today. Everything was perfect I thought. I heard a crunch sound and then realised Cheetah was mounting onto one of my favourite branches. Cut it out, will you! I thought as I heard some more chirping above my trunk. Madam Hummingbird was laying her eggs on my favourite cluster of leaves. Will I ever have no interruptions? Probably not, I urged to open my mouth and tell these frustrating critters to leave me alone, but as usual, trees can’t talk.

I saw another tree waving at me and I waved back. It was my good friend Mr. Apple Box. He was the only tree who understood the annoyance of critters. He grew juicy apples which all the animals plucked off his branches. He had the same opinion as me which is that animals are a nuisance. Doves danced on his leafy head and he often scowled in his mind about them. He had about four anthills next to his roots, and they tickled him constantly.

At night time the owls hooted old lullabies as the cicadas chirped frantically. Mr. Apple Box and I obviously were disturbed by this and so we blocked our ears with our branches on each side. The owls perched on our elbows and that gave us both a big ache. The stars sparkled so brightly; that was the only great thing about this place. We trees love stars, because they light up the sky and it’s a dream to even touch them for us.

The next day, I waited for Mr Apple Box to wake up but he didn’t seem to be. I looked over to his area only to find a stump left. Squirrels were carving writing out of pebbles and placing them under the stump. I didn’t know what happened to him until I saw an axe lying nearby. Plump little tears ran down my cheek as Dr Wolf whispered that a Woodland Hunter had chopped him down to make into paper. I guess animals felt upset for him too. I felt horrible about how much I had judged the animals and not given them a chance to show that they were indeed beautiful creatures.

A Story about A Cake - by Ivan (Year 5)

One day, Yob’s parents Pa and Rent decided to buy a cake for their son. His parents went to the No More Cakes bakery to buy a fruit cake that cost $9,999 billion. They wanted to buy a cake because it was their son’s millionth birthday.

The cake looked awesome, it used 25,000 gold, mangoes grown in the sun, apples grown on the moon, strawberries grown on Mars, grapes grown on Neptune, and unknown plants form Pluto and one diamond weighing 9 million carats.

The cake was decorated and ready to be picked up. Pa and Rent travelled 999 mega trillion centuries to the bakery when they suddenly realised they didn’t bring anything to carry the tremendous cake.

So then, Pa and Rent travelled 1000 mega trillion centuries back home to collect a tremendous 4800k titanium alloy box to carry the cake. They went back to the No More Cakes bakery and used cash stacked up higher than the Earth to pay for the cake.

Pa and Rent carried the enormous cake and was ready to walk back home. They walked passed a black hole called ‘This Is a Black Hole’, which is a neutron star called, ‘I Think This Is a Neutron Star’ and a planet called, ‘This Is Definitely Not a Planet’.

They finally returned home and gave the cake to Yob but to their amazement he threw the cake at Pa’s face because the cake got spoilt as they walked for a very long time. Pa ate the cake and said “That was tasty,” but suddenly Pa had to run to the toilet and got stuck there until Yob’s next million year’s birthday ........ oh no!!!!!!!!