Our Room

I can see a big, brown, scratched, square table covered with books and pencils surrounded by seven, tall, soft, blue chairs in the corner of the kitchen, there is a cream, rectangular bench with a stove sitting on top, all this is in the middle of the kitchen. Along the right wall is another cream coloured bench covered with a white, dirty, toaster, a hot, black, slow cooker, a silver, shiny, sink with a dripping tap, a thermomix , three tall, white and blue yogurt buckets, an old, shiny kettle filled with steaming, hot water, a tall, steaming, shiny, water distiller with a clear jug filled with water sitting next to it,  bad tasting medicine, and some sour yellow kefir. Above the messy bench are four cupboards filled with white ceramic cups, bowls, small square plates, big square plates, and strange, shaped  thermomix  parts. Under the cream bench is even more cupboards and four draws filled with shiny, stainless steel, knifes, forks, spoons and tongs, there are old brown boxes, colourful, rubber gloves, and grey, plastic bags with lots of holes in them. Along the back wall sits a white and black oven filled with black, oily, trays next to this is a tall white fridge covered in old, ripped, fridge magnets and a calendar covered in scribble, inside the fridge is tasty fruit and crunchy vegetables. Along the left wall is another tall cupboard that go right up to the roof this is filled with smelly spices and sweet preserved food. Beside the tall cupboard is a small container holding old sweet-potatoes and dirty potatoes. Next to the potatoes is a tall, white doorway and through the doorway is a huge lounge-room with a long, brown, soft, comfy couch with four, old, worn-out, rough, blue cushions sitting on top, next to this is a cold, white and grey air-conditioner, behind this is a big, long, wide, bright, window with short, funny-looking, brown and white curtains along the top.

Adjectives
Our Room
I can see a brown, scratched, square, wooden, four-legged, table with seven, blue, tall, soft, chairs and on the wall behind it is a picture of the reef with colourful fish, bright coral, eight-legged octopus, red crabs, and fast sharks. On the bench there is the white, toaster, full of crumbs also next to it there is the black, shiny, slow cooker with half cooked meat. Over the stainless steel sink the metal tap goes drip, drop and dishes waiting to be dried and next to that is the thermomix witch does a range of different things. The black, metal distiller and when its on its noisy. Above that is the cream coloured cupboard filled with white, ceramic, square plates, round bowls and cups. Our fridge is white, covered in paper, our calendar, filled with delicious fruits and tasty vegetables. In the middle of our kitchen is the island, cream, covered in food and the stove on top. Looking out the criss-cross, dirty, glass, window is the bare, leafless, fun to climb frangipani tree. Surrounding our yard is the brown,
old, splintery fence also in our backyard is the six-legged, lots of springs, black, metal, trampoline.
     

Plagues and Federation

On the rocks in Sydney on the 1st January, 1900, Kitty Barns gets a diary from her teacher, Miss Collins and starts her story. Kitty lives with her family, all nine kids and two parents. The Bubonic Plague has spread to Sydney Town and the Barns family has to go to quarantine after the neighbours got  it. Kitty's older brother Bertie went to fight in the Boer war in South Africa. The Bubonic had spread to some places in Sydney and had to be closed and many people left making it hard for her parents to find work and to feed them all. Because Kitty's house was old and full of rats it had to be pulled down along with many other houses in Sydney but they were all promised that it would be rebuilt. After it rained for a couple of weeks, it washed everything and all the rats went away. Everything had to be rebuilt so Kitty's dad was paid to help. Their house was rebuilt and a few months later they got a federation for Australia.

House by the Water

James Reiby, thirteen years old and the son of Captain Thomas Reiby, lives in his fathers 'house by the water'- the warehouse that looks out over Sydney Harbour and the tall masts of Captain Reiby's sailing ships. One day James too would like to sail around the world, but meantime Sydney Town in the early 1800s is an exciting enough place, with it's busy quaysides and steep streets crowded with redcoats, convicts and free settlers. In the end James became a sailor and sailed around the world. 

                                                       Johnny Neptune
Johnny Neptune is the name given to a new-born orphan found abandoned in Sydney Cove by two marines. Neptune because the child's mother was a convict transported to Australia on the sailing ship Neptune. Adopted by a convict washerwomen, Johnny's subsequent career is set against the rapscallion, exciting background of early Sydney, with its winding streets and busy harbour and in the untamed bush along the banks of the Hawkesbury River and in the end Johnny's house is flooded and they had to move out.

Our Enemy My Friend

"Huns are traitors" said Rob, Johnny and Steve "Go back to Hun land"
Emma yelled back "Go away"
Emma thought to herself, it wasn't her that started the war and it wasn't Hannahlore either.

                              James attacked by bully boys

James Reiby was walking home from collecting oysters on Saturday the 6th of February 1800 when suddenly two bullies jumped out from behind a bush and attacked him. Stony punched him on the side of the head while Mick held him by the shoulder and punched him in the ear and on the cheek. Wildly James swang his bag of oysters which hit Stony and sent him to the ground, meanwhile two solders walked pass and the two bullies ran away. The solders helped James home and he gave the solders the bag of oysters in return.

Haiku Poem

Australia,
My sunburnt country,
A land of coppice and blue,
A home just for me.

Gracelyn

Free Verse Poem

Australia

Hot, red, deserts,
Cold, blue, mountains,
Dark, green, rainforests,
Deep, vast, oceans sprinkled with reefs,
Bright, clear, skies streaked with colours,
Dried up rivers,
Flooded, marshy, plains,
Hopping, cuddly, mammals,
Scuttling, metallic, insects,
Swooping, rainbow birds,
Darting, majestic, fish.

Gracelyn

Haiku of Australia

Dark  green rainforest,
Vast desert interior,
Blue oceans.

 

Free verse poem of Australia

Australia

Green trees,
Red desert,
Blue oceans,
Colourful reefs, bright coloured coral,
Soaring birds,
Dashing fish, orange clownfish, blue sharks,
Creeping bugs,
Sandy beaches,
Beautiful breezes,
Far stretching mountains,
Shining pearls, colour changing opals, sparkling gold, pink diamonds.

Chloe

                                                    Eureka stockade

Peter Lalor was a tall, thin bearded man with brown hair and brown eyes. He was calming, peaceful, wise and kind. He was also persuasive and intelligent.  

As a result of this widespread show of strength, the Governor was forced, within a few months of that December dawn, to abolish the monthly licence fees and give the diggers the right to vote. He also opened up some of the land to small farmers. The old corrupt rule of the gold commissioners was abolished, and diggers were allowed to elect the members of the courts that set conditions on the goldfields. By the end of 1855, Sir Charles Hotham had been forced to back down so far that he resigned as Governor. And on the last day of that year, he caught a chill and died.