Information Report - Wild Horses

Wild Horses

By Alice Barry

I am learning to inform with an information report

Imagine you are walking, just walking and ZOOM!!!! You can see a huge four legged creature leading what looked like 50 other animals. You’re wondering what these amazing creatures are, when it hit you. That was a wild horse! And of course! That horse that happened to come so close to you, was a stallion leading a pack of wild horses! Now you may be thinking that nobody would see such an amazing sight, but you are wrong. If you are walking on the west of America, and there are many fields of grass, and streams full of water, than that could possibly happen to you.

Diet                                  

Any type of horse (which includes wild horses) are herbivores, which means that they only eat plants and grass and drink from rivers, streams or lakes. They also have a fondness for hay, which is dried up grass. One of the natural habits that horses have are that they can walk and eat at the same time! It is estimated that these horses graze up to 15 to 17 hours a day. They survive on big fields of grass, and live on shrubs, plants and grass.

Protection

Are wild horses predators or prey?  Well, the answer to this is easy.  Seeing as horses are herbivores, this means that any kind of meat of any sort is not on the wild horses menu. A few of a wild horses predators are humans, mountain lions, wolves,coyotes and even bears. When a wild horse happens to come across one of its predators, it’s first idea to protect itself, will be to run away as fast as it can. Its second idea would be to kick. These two ideas would be the main ways that these horses make their protection  

Appearance

Wild horses appearance include four legs, a tail, a main, a skull/head, and a coat. This is what pretty much all wild horses would look like. Also just like our thumb print, all wild horses coat is different. Also, a fully grown wild horse can weigh about 700-800 pounds, and are usually 14 hands tall!

In conclusion these amazing four legged creatures, that are found west of America and that are herbivores are definitely an amazing part of our country and anyone walking in west of America would certainly be lucky to see one!                  

           

    

            

Creative Writing - Just Pumpkin

Just Pumpkins                                          

By Alice Barry

I am learning to entertain my audience.  

It was exactly one year ago, when one of my best friends ended up in hospital, for all of her bones were broken. I still remember it, and when I do recall that fearful night, my heart starts to beat like a drum, increasing in speed, thud, thud, thud.  Louder and louder, the sound of my heart echoing through body.  My blood forced to race around my veins like a racecar, turning at every bend of my body.  The Halloween Pumpkin Curse, they call it. Everyone knows that once a year as halloween eve arrives, someone, somebody, just one person, receives the gift of the curse, all starting with one pumpkin, the haunted pumpkin.

At first, I didn’t believe in that rubbish, no one ever thinks it will be them or someone they know. But when I saw what happened to my friend with my own eyes, “Scarlet”.  I felt the sudden shiver down my spine, well I believed it, I believed it now, Oh how I believed it all.

The horrific day all started when Scarlet had called me, she had a bright idea that she wanted to get another pumpkin.  I complained as we had already carved our pumpkin, no one carves pumpkins the day of Halloween.  “But I need another one, it came to me in a dream.  I must get one more pumpkin.”  I gave into her pleading and went to meet her on the way to select a pumpkin.The best pumpkins would all be gone, there would be nothing but the rotting ones.  However we turned and judged each pumpkin till we found the one that mirrored her idea in her dream.   Carrying her pumpkin we said our goodbyes as we parted ways to head to our houses.  As I arrived home it was time for me to prepare my costume for the night.  

It was about 6.00 o’clock when I called Scarlet  to let her know that I was ready for the  fun to begin, trick and treat time.  But no sooner had she picked up the phone and I called, “Hello.”  I heard an ear splitting shriek, “Ahhhhh!” The next noise was the phone dropping hitting the floor “Smash!” Racing to her place as fast as I could.  Arriving there, I searched the house, looking for her, it was empty!  My heart leaping from my chest, I could barely concentrate from my own heart pulsating through me, feeling as if it could explode.  I ran down to the back off the house, and there she was, screaming in terror. Wrapped around her, were big, thick vines coming from… THE PUMPKIN!! Wrapped around her as it squeezed the life from her limp body.   I ran into the house looking around to find something to release her.   A carving knife I spot on the bench as I gripped it into my hand and raced outside again.  Charging at the vines I started to slash and chop at the vines away from her body. Scarlet, Falling from its grips, dropping to the floor, to weak to speak. I quickly dialed 111, and just a few seconds later, I heard a screeching noise turn into the driveway. “Whee ooh, whee ooh!!”

As I watched her and the ambulance disappear into the misty night,  I thought to myself, how did this happen? Was the Pumpkin haunted? Was the dream responsible for all this? We will only know one thing for sure. From then on, I have never touched a pumpkin ever again, and I never will.

Year 6 Camp 2015

Camp - MERC 

The second week of school the Year 6 students were off, all 35 of us, oh and the 7 adults we needed to supervise off.  We had so much fun team building and focusing on leadership.  Here is a snapshot of what our week was like.  We had so much fun and we are all excited for the year ahead.