Showing posts with label Sumsijah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sumsijah. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

More Acrostic Poems

Magnificent at running
Helpful at turning the lights on and off.
Awesome at jumping
Rapid at racing people
Super at spelling
Amazing at sports
Lovely like a lemur.

Super at working
Useful for playing
Marvelous at swimming
Sparkles like a star
Intelligent like the queen
Joyful as a friend
Awesome at running
Happy and healthy.

Rare friend
Obedient boy
Honest student
Awesome writer
Nice and kind

Absorbed worker
Natural at hip hop
Aglow as a smiley face

Adventurous as a mountain climber
Determined reader
Amazing athlete
Magnificent writer
Steady swimmer

Delightful manners
Awesome at athletics
Nice, neat writing
Intelligent at soccer
Excellent at art
Lively at being a wiggly worm.


Super at working
Useful for playing
Marvelous at swimming
Sparkles like a star
Intelligent like a queen
Joyful as a friend
Awesome at running
Happy and healthy

Marvelous swimmer
Excellent runner in races
Helpful person
Awesome ukulele player
Realistic person who thinks a lot.

Magnificent at long jump
Excellent at running
Rocks like a superstar
Elated like a clown
Amazing like the queen
Nice like a koala
Intelligent like the king of the jungle.

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Outdoor Sleepover

My sister Kabi and I got our sleeping bags, blankets and our teddy bears. My cousin Kajani fixed up the pink tent outside. ⛺️ We all went inside the tent, it was really cozy and warm. Just in case if we get scared of the dark or hear scary noises, Kajani got the flash light. She tied it on top of the tent inside, so we can turn it on and off. It was almost 10 o'clock. We were not sleepy at all. Our parents were sleeping inside the house.

We planned a little secret. The secret was to get some food out of the cupboard. Kajani carefully creeped to the door like a spy. Oh no! The door was locked! Luckily she had the keys. Quietly she unlocked the door and sneaked to the cupboard and got some marshmallow, crackers and lemonade to drink if we were thirsty.


Then slowly the door opened, Kabi and I got really frightened we hugged each other like sardines in a tin.

Oh we were such a scaredy cat, it was Kajani. She brought the food inside the tent. We were really hungry, so we ate some marshmallows and crackers. When we got thirsty we drank lemonade.

After that Kajani also brought the Rock Club Book. In that book we earn badges and medals and trophies. She also took some photos and sticked it on the Rock Club Book. We wrote on a piece of paper about when we were camping, and Kajani sticked that on. We drew some pictures on pieces of papers. Kajani drew a picture of when we were camping, and I drew a picture of when we were eating in the tent, and Kabi drew a picture of everyone in the tent. We also coloured then in. Kajani sticked them too.

After all that camping we were really sleepy, so Kajani turned the flash light off and we all slept.

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

More excerps from early NZ immigrant letters

Dear Cousin,
                  ...When it was stormy, we had to stay under the deck. Everyone had to squish under while the water was pouring in. Everyone was vomiting. It was stinky. 1 out of 5 babies died. also 65 chidren died during the voyage.
             We had to live in steerage with no windows. We all had to sleep on bunks. We couldn't shower and got quite smelly. The men showered down with salt water. This was how life was during the voyage.
              New Zealand is beautiful. It is filled with forests and mountains. I miss you all in England.

Love from
Sumsijah


Dear Grandfather,
                    ... Now for the exciting part, when I arrived in New Zealand. When I first arrived, I was very glad to get off the ship. New Zealand looked like a very gigantic forest. It had millions and millions of trees and bushes and swamps. Once we got into it we hunted birds and cooked them on a campfire. We are living in a tent. To build the tent we used lots of sticks, branches and a tarpaulin and some rocks to hold the tarp down on a windy night. ...
           
Love from 
Levi


Friday, 15 August 2014

Limerick

There was a very lively lamb
Who wanted to sing to a man
He had purple fur
And sold it to her
Then sat on a furry, brown can.


There once was a girl called Anna.
She used to like black banana.
She got a small pat,
by a big fat cat.
So the girl turned into Hanna.

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Alma - the story of an orphan

One snowy, freezing cold day a little girl trudged through the heavy snow. “What a deserted town”, she said to herself.

As she walked through the alley, she saw a blackboard covered in names. She wrote her name. Alma to be exact.

Up rose a doll that looked exactly like her. Rose vest, woollen, blue beanie and green eyes. Alma rubbed her cozy glove over the foggy window.

“Cold, cold, cold!!” Alma yelled. Tick, the door went as Alma struggled to open it. With an unhappy face Alma threw a white snowball at the front door. Suddenly the door creeeeeeeeaked open.  Alma nervously walked in.


“Huh? My dolls gone!” She peaked around. “Aha!” She climbed onto the couch. Two creepy twin dolls slowly turned their heads and stared. A boy on a black bicycle crashed into the door as he tried to escape. 


Alma reached up and touched her dolls nose. VOOSH!!!!!!!  Pictures of scary dolls whooshed through Alma’s mind. She had turned into her own doll!

A dark shadow cranked up the next doll that looked exactly like Undo. “MUA HA HA HA!!!!” yelled the dark shadow.”1,999,999,999 down 1 to go”!

Undo was a wonderful little girl. She had red hair, a blue warm vest and a pink beanie.

Undo wrote her name on the same blackboard. Undo skipped into the doll shop. She touched everyone else’s dolls. Everyone came out of their own doll.

10 Years later Alma got married to that same boy on the bicycle. The dark shadow said his very last words. “I shall rise again you orphans.”


Eventually, everyone in the village smashed the shop down. But since the dark shadow could not control the dolls anymore, everyone finally had their own doll.  

By Alistair

One chilly, freezing day, a young girl was trudging through the snowy street.

The young girl wrote her name, Alma on the blackboard. Suddenly a doll rose up. It was exactly like her. Alma wore a beanie, a cosy scarf and warm winter clothes.

Next she saw an old, rusty shop. She went to the door and tried opening it. She was really struggling to open the door. She was very disappointed. So she made a snowball and threw it on the door and left. But then the door just opened by itself!

She quietly sneaked inside the old rusty shop and saw the doll of herself. She tried to touch the doll, but she nearly tripped on a doll on a bicycle. The boy on the bicycle wanted to get out of the shop. Then she let the boy on the bicycle go, but then the door closed.  The bicycle was bumping on the door. Bump! Bump! went the bicycle.

After that when she turned around, her doll was GONE! She tried looking everywhere on the table but the doll was on the shelf. She tried reaching the doll. She climbed up the couch and gently touched the doll's face. Just then the doll's eye moved. Pictures of the life of Alma flashed. All of a sudden Alma was trapped inside the doll. She stared around the shop while her heart was beating fast for breath.

Later on a girl wrote her name, Jade on the blackboard.  A doll exactly like her came up. So Jade went inside, touched the doll like her and got sucked in too.

 The next week all the dolls just automatically went down and opened the door and went outside everywhere. Just then an invisible person came. He was the god of dolls. He knew that everybody was inside their doll. So he used his powers and grabbed all the people that were trapped in the dolls. When he grabbed everyone out of the dolls, all the dolls and him just disappeared!


Then Alma and everyone lived happily ever after.

By Sumsijah

Once upon a time on a breezy, snowy, winters day, near the town square, a little girl was venturing down a dark alley. The girl took notice of a blackboard covered with thousands of names. The little girl wrote her own name Alma, on the blackboard.

Suddenly Alma looked back and gasped. Her own doll was standing right before her eyes. Immediately she dashed to the creaky door and tried to open it. After she struggled for a while she got extremely mad. She made a snow ball then chucked it at the door with all her tiny strength. Alma ran off.

Unfortunately the door creaked open slowly. Alma ran back to the deserted shop. Alma peaked through a large gap and pushed the door. Alma took a quick look around the shop. In a corner a person was blending into the dark, misty shadows. Just as she took one step she tripped over a doll. Suddenly that doll woke up and rode his bicycle.

Alma searched for her ghostly doll. There it was! The doll was on a stable shelf. Alma climbed the shadowy shelf and touched the doll. Suddenly Alma transferred to the doll. Alma was breathing heavily and looking around. All she saw was dolls blinking. She was trapped!

Six months later a little girl came along to touch all the dolls. Magically all the people came out of their dolls.


By Brendon