Shy the platypus

Shy lived with her mother and brother Spur in their burrow. Shy and Spur had no fur, they were pink and they had fun rolling about. One day their mother said, “We will go to see your father who will teach you diving lessons so you can catch your own food.” Their father lived upstream, he taught them how to dive.

One day their father was sitting on a rock digesting a big meal and ‘Snap!” up, up he went by a big flying eagle, up they soared.

Shy and Spur’s mother said, “It time you were making a home of your own.” It was summer and they water was drying up. There was not enough food and Shy was very greedy. “Shy you will travel downstream, past the rock that looks like a platypus, Spur, you will travel past the rock that looks like a shrimp.”

They both set off, Shy found a rotten log, oh and eel, she went on. She found a hole in the river bank, she went inside and found a lovely girl platypus, she stayed the night and the next morning she set off again. Then she found a hole, ‘yes!’ there was nobody in she made that their home.




One day she decided it was time to go back and visit her mother. Her mother was pleased to see her. Shy asked her mother if she had seen Spur, her mother had not seen him since he had left. Her mother warned her that was going to be a flood. When she left the burrow it was raining, she started to swim. It was fine at first but then the water got rougher and it was harder for her to swim.. She was trapped past her hole and then she tried to get out, a log fell in, she climbed onto a tree’s branch and struggled out. A fine male platypus helped her out of the water. He said, “Fun isn’t it.”

Spur was caught be a human, and taken in a bag to his house. Lots of people were staring at her. A woman tried to pick her up, Snap’. The man picked her up and placed her in a box with worms. Shy was very unhappy, one day she decided to eat the worms to build up her strength to escape back to Boonda.

One night she escaped, she was running for the river. She stopped at a marsh and dived in searching for food. She slept and then next morning she took of again like a bolt of lightening. She sniffed the air a while later, it was familiar, she kept going, she saw the river, “yes” home at last. She found Boonda he had been so worried he thought she was lost forever.

One day a male platypus tried to get her to go to his house. She didn’t want to. Boonda attacked the stranger and they had a big fight, Boonda nd the stranger fought each other. Boonda won, the victory was to have Shy as his mate.

Russ the Tree Kangaroo

Russ was a tree kangaroo who lived in the rainforest. Some aboriginals came to where Russ lived with some spears and nulla nullas and two trained dingos. Three aboriginals climbed the trees and two stayed on the ground. One climbed up the tree Russ was in, another climbed a tree nearby, another climbed another tree nearby. Russ told the other tree kangaroos to go to the top branch and escape. Russ’ father Zig-Zag was so old that he fell behind and the aboriginals caught up to him and whacked him with a nulla nulla, he fell to the ground to the waiting dingoes.

Then the aboriginal kept climbing, he was on the branch where the rest of the tree kangaroos were, then Scamper, Russ’s best friend, decided to jump. What Scamper didn’t know was another aboriginal was waiting in the tree he was jumping too. Scamper was speared and killed.

Then Russ jumped to another tree making a sign to tell the others to follow. He was forty feet away on an open branch when the aboriginal saw him, he hurled his nulla nulla at Russ and it struck him. Russ fell to a lower branch and then another and then he jumped to the ground and raced away with the dingoes chasing him. Russ dived underneath a Stinging Tree the dingoes went through the Tree and were blinded. The aboriginals and got the dingoes out. Russ escaped.

The tree kangaroos migrated to another home and Russ had many more joeys.

Pompeii

In Pompeii there was a mountain called Vesuvius. Nobody knew it was a volcano.


It was a fine day, when black smoke started to come out of the mountain, half an hour later ash fell. People started to collect their belongings and possessions, some people had almost escaped and then they came back to get their possessions. Many people were buried alive under the ash, some died from the poisonous gases.


A family in a big boat sailed to another island. A boy on the island saw what happened, his name was Pliny, he wrote about Pompeii, which is why we know about it today.


A few thousands years later people went back to live on Pompeii. People read Pliny’s letters, then people started to dig for water, soon they found a stone saying Pompeii, Was this the town Pliny wrote about? ‘Yes! It was.” Then archaeologists came and found fossilized people, dogs, jewelry, pottery and many other artifacts. Today Pompeii is like a muesuem without a roof. The archaeologists need more money to stop Pompeii from being destroyed by the weather and vandals.

Aroora the Kangaroo - Leslie Rees

Aroora the Kangaroo was an orphan. He was washed away in a flood and a missionary got him out of the flood and took him back to the mission. The missionary lived with some Aborigines, when he got back there all the children said, “ Ara, good to eat. Good dinner.”
The missionary said, “No let’s keep him as a pet.”
But one of the boys really wanted to eat the kangaroo.

One night the boy took Aroora out of the pen, tied him up and took him where somebody could not see him. He wanted to kill and eat him. Aroora escaped and went back to Merloo, his wife.

The next year there was no rain, Merloo died because she didn’t have enough food.

Fish Alive

One two three four five, once I caught a fish alive
Six seven eight nine ten, then I let him go again
Why did you let him go? Because he bit my finger so
Which finger did he bit? This little one on my right

Vermins Fight Warriors

Vermins from the deep, scavenging from the land above, sacking homes and burning towns, murdering innocent people, capturing lands. Warriors came to fight the vermins, it was a bloody battle, the vermins had more men but the warriors fought fiercely the warriors drove them back to the fiery depths, the warriors won.

The Secrets of the Beach

I walked along the beach
The waves were crashing wildly on the rocks
The sand whipped through my hair
The shells whispered secrets
The wind made music to my ears
And I began to laugh

Knights Knights and Knights

knights are here
knights are there
knights are nearly everywhere
knights are tall
knights are small
knights are big
knights are skinny
knights fight for us
knights fight for the king
knights are brave
knights are bold
knights kill vermin by the hundred

The Rainy Day

Today it rained. The dam was filled, the raingauge had 17 millimeters, we thought that lightning hit. There was a down pour we got soaked. We had to turn off the computers.

Camp

We went to camp,it was lots of fun. We played tips, we went to the beach and we played soccer. We had lots of fun. And my sister made her First Holy Communion.

The Wedding

We went to my grandmothers wedding it was a great event.
Afterwards we went to a bowling club.

The Gorge

Yesterday we went to the Gorge. We left at 9.00am, we got to the Langfords in time to leave for the Gorge. We drove for half an hour then we stopped for fuel and the shop keeper was not there. We waited for a hour finally the man came then Dad filled the car up

We had to go on a rotten bridge and dirt roads and cattle grids, we saw a snake. Finally we arrived. Then the owner of the property told us he would pick us up in a boat and take us near the waterfall. Then we had to walk the rest of the way.

Types of Kangaroos

The Eastern Gray Kangaroo.
The Western Gray.
The Red Kangaroo.
The Wallaroo and the Antilopihe Wallaroo.
Tree Kangaroo.

My Life in the Country

I love the country. There is more space to play than in town. You can climb trees, build cubbies and play hidy go seek in the dark.

I have a trampoline, I play duck hunters with my brothers and sisters. We have lots of fun.