The Magic Pencil, by Mitchell, Year 4
Prompt: it was heavier than I expected My friends, Jhyce, Jaylan and I, were playing tag when I found a pencil on the ground and picked it up. It was heavier than I expected. I got out my notebook and Read more…
Prompt: it was heavier than I expected My friends, Jhyce, Jaylan and I, were playing tag when I found a pencil on the ground and picked it up. It was heavier than I expected. I got out my notebook and Read more…
Prompt: it was heavier than I expected… I was at my Grandma’s palace exploring the 100,000 hectares of land that she owned. I was in the 56th art gallery when I found a weird glowing object in a glass cabinet. Read more…
Prompt: it was heavier than I expected I jumped into the car with Mum to go to Division Athletics. As Mum drove, I was shaking nervously! I was doing Hurdles, my favourite event. I mentioned to Mum that the clouds Read more…
Prompt: …it was heavier than I expected…. I was going to get stuff that was empty from the pantry; wrappers, food, scraps, containers and boxes. I was putting them all into sections when my sister called me and asked me Read more…
One step in the forest, no way back. My four paws are going as fast as they can. That’s what I said half an hour ago and I’m still saying it. As I keep on walking, I see a little Read more…
Prompt: it was heavier than I expected… My name is Thor and this is how I got my powers. It all started in Iceland during the summer of 1996 when it was my daughter, Susan’s, 16th birthday. We went exploring Read more…
Prompt: …it was heavier than I expected… I went to the shops one day and when I got there I saw a small bag of big colourful marbles on the shelf. I ran over and I picked it up and Read more…
Prompt: but it was heavier than he expected.. Once there was a boy who thought that he was the strongest because he could pick up anything or anyone, but he couldn’t because he could not pick up a real elephant. Read more…
The school bell rang and we were starting our Grade Six leadership project. We knew we wanted to build a statue out of foil but we couldn’t decide what it would be. Our teacher, Mr Hurst, said to build something Read more…
I strained my neck and pulled it all the way back to see past the trees and towards the sky, watching each and every star twinkle. Then I heard a loud crack to my left, out of view. Intrigued by Read more…
Long ago, there lived a primitive race, made of steel. Soon they began to get smarter. The beings began to split off from one another because of conflicting ideas and beliefs. During a time of unrest, the dog-like tribe Anubis Read more…
There is a massive asteroid heading to New South Wales. We are all going to die. Agggh! That’s what I heard, people screaming…. I’m Bigfoot. Sorry I didn’t introduce myself. Let’s get back to the story…. I looked up and Read more…
40 years ago, in 2062, there were many meteorites with alien lifeforms so Area 51 made something called the Sourcera that detects The Unknown. (Background theme music…go! Dun dun daaaaa….). The location of the Sourcera is unknown. 2102 New York Read more…
Day 48….. still stuck in this massive 10m foil sculpture. No-one knows where I am after that terrible incident at the foil factory (the best foil factory in the world…the ONLY foil factory in the world) where I fell into Read more…
It was like any other day; I went to school, felt bored, finished class and started a new subject. Over and over again, nothing changing. I grabbed some aluminium foil to play with so I wouldn’t go off with the Read more…
Prompt …then everything stopped and… There I was playing the biggest game in history. They needed one home run to win. One of their players was on third base, ready to run. The batsman hit the ball straight towards me. Read more…
Prompt….then everything stopped…. “Come on troops, let’s move out. Go! Go! Go!” yelled the commander, as they were jumping out of the plane but then unexpectedly, out of nowhere, boom, one of the enemy tanks blew up one of their Read more…
Prompt …then everything stopped and… Then everything stopped and the new substitute teacher entered the room. He was a Zombie!! “Argh”, screamed one person (which was weird). The rest were too horrified to scream. He was the most horrible teacher Read more…
Prompt….then everything stopped and…. One minute left and we were down by two points. The ball was passed to me and I shot for goal. Boom! Two points. The scores were tied. Thirty seconds left on the clock. The opposing Read more…
There once were two powerful leaders who fought side by side in many wars. They were good friends until they started to argue over a silk scarf given to one of them by a beautiful woman who they had both Read more…