Fungi description

My writing was inspired by the picture at 1:37 seconds on the video bellow.

A cold night breeze travels throughout the forest. A dark brown Toadstool sits quietly in the forest. A Beetle climbs up the toadstool and munches on the soft top of the fungus. The white stalk glows as bright as the sun. The Toadstool has a dark brown underside with what looks like pink frills and a light brown top with little holes that were scattered all over the top from where the bugs had been munching on the fungus.

Conspiracy 365 : January summary

A young boy called Callum Ormand lived a strange life. 
He had a sister called Gabby and lived with his mum. His dad came down with a serious virus and it killed him. When we passed away Callum got sent lots of things from where his dad was in Ireland. Before he had died he had given Callum drawings of things like Ormand angels and other things that all related o each other. His uncle called Rafe was his dads identical twin brother. There was a time when Callum was very mad at his uncle and a few days later when he got home from school his uncle had been shot in the leg and his sister was in a critical state which was a coma! That is how it all started because then his uncle blamed it on Callum and that was his uncles plan all along. From then on Callum lived on the run with the cops always on his tail. 

Bantam summary

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The bantam and the soldier summary

Young Bantam getting picked on by the other Bantams and its war time.

When war came to the village he took the good animals with him and he left the bantams to fend for themselves.

The little bantam slept away from the others.

There was an explosion the bantams got blown up except for the little one he stayed in the bush and he was the only one that survived.

The soldiers headed into the village one was Arthur and he got picked on like the bantams by the other soldiers.

The farmer heard movement in the bushes and it was the bantam.

Arthur freed the bantam and put it in his coat pocket.

The soldiers tease Arthur about having the bantam.

The soldiers started to like the bantam.

They collected bugs for her and she rewarded them with a egg.

Bertha kept hope in the soldiers.

The battle moved past them.

They weren't allowed to take Bertha with them.

They took Bertha back to the farmer and said goodbye.

Arthur returned home and was friends with his fellow soldiers.

He said to his niece i want to tell you a story and told her about the bantam called Bertha.

Moral and message of the story:

• if you're nice to people you get good things back
• if you stay strong in your mind about something to achieve your goals.
• the chicken brought hope to the soldiers
• if you are really positive about something and others aren't stay strong about it and eventually they will come around to it.

WW1 Mascots ( Animals at war) Summary!

Animals went to war as well as humans. They all had a purpose and  a job to do. Also other animals went as mascots.

Mascots were used to represent a team. They also kept hope in the soldiers and helped them achieve success.

They had mascots because they kept the soldiers positive. Also they were a companion to have whilst living in terrible conditions in the war.

The soldiers were on their way to the ships. They were really happy as they were singing and marching along with their mascots.

The soldiers had a donkey as their mascot and they traveled with her so they even paid her fair to go with them.

Mascots weren't only in the war they were also in the navy. Their dog was named after a dolphin the followed the boat.

When the dog died in an accident they replaced him with a second dog and named it the same.
Nearly ten thousand men died but the dog survived.

Not all of the mascots survived though, one of the mascots even has his own grave stone in England. The soldiers couldn't leave their animal friends behind.

Camp inquiry fur seal

Holidays short story!

My eyes slowly start to adjust to the dark cold breeze of the night sky. As my feet slightly step into the murky brown water it sends a rush of shivers down my spine. I switch the button on my torch and hold it down in the cold water. I follow the bright light as it guides me through the low tide ocean. Little fish are zipping around my feet. They swarm around the light and they look like stunned possum's. The torch lights up my path all the way around the muddy lagoon whilst I look for flounder!

ANZAC day article for newspaper !

Apiti Village Comes Alive! 

The whole Apiti community and people from far and wide came together in the village to celebrate ANZAC day on the 25th of April!
Bagpipes start playing and everyone gathers for the march. The Apiti R.S.A lead the march with the soldiers close behind. Everyone closes in together to form a box shape. The sky starts to brighten up and we all wait patiently for the flyover to come.
It now was the time to lay the wreaths. Everyone was silent as they walk up, lay the wreath and we all pause to remember all our fallen soldiers that fought for our country.
Everyone then gathered inside the hall for the service. Apiti has so many people at the service, that we have to set up a speaker outside so that the people that can't squeeze into the hall can stand outside and still hear the whole service.
Apiti and Kimbolton have a ukulele group and they played 'In Flanders Fields' on the ukulele and I sang with a microphone.Then shortly after the whole of Apiti School sang three ANZAC songs. They were Daisy Daisy, Pack up your troubles and Maori Battalion. Then finally the Apiti School band performed. We played the drums, piano, guitar and we sang to 'It's a long way to Tipperary'.
After that we has a few speeches and that concluded the Apiti ANZAC service.
But that wasn't all as the Army let all the kids ride on the army vehicles. It was very interesting to see what the vehicles were like in the Army.