Bushie, by Caelie, Year 5
I was walking my dog, Maggie, along our dirt road when I heard a dog barking. I was confused because I didn’t know where it was coming from. All of a sudden, I saw a small, dirty dog tangled up Read more…
I was walking my dog, Maggie, along our dirt road when I heard a dog barking. I was confused because I didn’t know where it was coming from. All of a sudden, I saw a small, dirty dog tangled up Read more…
I wake to the lights flickering and the sound of troops rushing to get their equipment. I jump out of bed and head to my fighter jet, ready to escort the transports carrying troops down to the surface. Hundreds of Read more…
Buffy, the fighter dog, was playing tug-of-war with me in the backyard. I was tugging the orange rope with all my might, when suddenly, Buffy jumped up and accidentally landed in the dirty, gooey, leafy swimming pool. She clumsily swam Read more…
I danced my way around the bath as I washed my dogs, Stitch and Poppy. They played with their favourite bath toy, a squeaky orange ball. The dogs started to run and jump around in the bath and got very Read more…
In the morning, I went straight to the bathroom to have an orange bath using my orange bath bombs. I sat in it for a bit, then clumsily fell out, landing on my nose. Luckily, I didn’t break it. I Read more…
I was exhausted as I walked up a hill on my property, although the view of the sunrise was worth seeing. It was orange with a hint of pink and red. I loved being up here on my own. I Read more…
I have a fighting fish who is a sort of orange colour. My fighting fish lives in my bath, in secret. The reason no-one can see him is because I put loads of toys in there. He could have been Read more…
There I was, at school again, in the middle of a boring maths test! The problem was that I didn’t feel in a maths-testy mood, which meant that I was guessing all of the answers. A moment later, a girl Read more…
This morning, I chose to have a bath instead of my usual shower. I put an orange bath bomb in my bath. When I got out I realised my skin was orange like a carrot, but it wouldn’t come off. Read more…
I was with my friends at the cinema watching The Meg again because Bella hadn’t watched it before. It reminded me of a time when the most unusual thing happened to me. I was in the cinema watching The Meg, Read more…
I was in the bath when I fell asleep before going to my fight. I was versing an Irish fighter called Orange Dancer. He is the biggest fighter in the competition and I’m the smallest. I was going under the Read more…
Today it was a hot and sunny day. It reminded me of a time when I watched a YouTube video of a guy that was baking a cookie in the sun and, surprisingly, it actually cooked them. He showed it Read more…
It is a cold, frosty night, a full moon shines brightly over the lake. I get up, all four paws are brown from the mud on the forest floor. All of a sudden, I hear the howl of another wolf, Read more…
As I pulled another small rotted potato from the dry soil, it reminded me of a time when famine wasn’t a thing, where everyone had food on their table. I pulled myself up and tossed the potato aside and moved Read more…
Bang! I seem my dad’s steel arms explode to the surface of the earth’s crust. “Gold”, I heard someone say, surprised, “It’s just my dad”, I groaned, “he told me before that he is pulling apart his cassette player for Read more…
Dad came home the other day with a nutcracker in the shape of a crocodile. It’s made from metal and its colour is gun-metal grey. It reminded me of a time when we went Airley Beach for a family holiday. Read more…
I walked into my room and saw a yellow cylinder-shaped foam bullet on the floor and it reminded me of the time when I had a Nerf war with Dash. It was in the school holidays and I was bored Read more…
It was my first day of work at the dog shelter. It was pouring rain and I wished my first day was tomorrow as it will be sunny. It reminded me of a time when my mum, dad, Stitch and Read more…
I was walking to school when I heard a man telling his dog to stop pulling on the lead. It reminded me of the time when I got my dog, Lucy. It was on Christmas morning and I had opened Read more…
Today I am going to the Melbourne Zoo. I cannot wait to go there, so excitedly I get in the car and Mum drives me. Finally, we are here and just from the looks of it, I can tell it Read more…