Alon's Blog

Similes   I really enjoyed writing this simerly poem because I like learning about figures of speech so I can expand my vocabulary. Both of these poems were inspired by nature, I reaserched pictures of nature and these two came up along with other beautiful pictures but I chose these.   Metaphor   This is my metaphor poem that I wrote, I preferred writing the similes poem because it was easier finding things to compare.

It was the morning after a very long night, I woke up wet from the annoyingly loud rain pouring through the leak above our now soaked bed. I had struggled to sleep that night because of the deafening rain against the zinc walls of my wet and unstable shack. I got up and banged my head on the low roof. I was wearing my only, now crumpled, clothes. I go outside in the rain to go to the bathroom. My clothes were wet from the storm. I was on my way to the bathroom when I reached the flooded lake. I took a step into the freezing lake, halfway through the lake, I tripped over a sharp stone and got a large cut on my knee. I got back up and walked on with a bleeding knee. I really wish that there was a hospital nearby. As I reach the bathroom I see that there is a long queue and that I would be late for school if I waited. I looked around to see if there was another bathroom nearby, but I soon realized I would never have the luxury of that. Once I reached the front of the line, I wished fo...

Hi, I’m Benny Adams, I had a dreadful day at school yesterday, probably the worst day I’ve ever had! A singing inspector came to hear us sing. He was an ugly young man, very strict, he wore large knickerbockers and had dark blue eyes like blueberries. His name was Mr. Raymond. When we entered the singing hall we all had to do the Doh Ray Me So Fah and tata tete things. Once we had done all our warm - ups, Mr. Raymond called Charles and I to stand in front and sing. I was petrified, I didn’t know about Charles but I could see he was shaking from the corner of my tearful eyes. Then Mr. Raymond called me “the long one” which I hated because that’s what everyone calls me, and then Charles was considered as “the short one” this made me angry but I tried to hide it. Mr. Raymond then asked us to sing, Charles looked at me as if to say “help!” We did not know a single song, I was getting even more terrified by now. Mr Raymond was now pointing his long oak wood stick at the modulato...

I am really enjoying grade 5 in the Louries class so far, I'm very happy with my class and teacher. I like the fact that we do more math than we did in grade 4 because math is my favourite subject other than drama. This term is going very quickly because I am really enjoying it. The work is easier than grade 4 but there is more work to finish. We have the hottest class but we are very privileged to have a pool at the school that we swim in every Wednesday and sometimes on Fridays if it is really hot. I prefer that the class test are shorter and easier than last year when we used to do Cycle Tests. There is not as much homework than the previous years, I know this because my sister who is 12 was in Grade 5 at Elkanah House and she had more homework than I'm getting. Last week we all (whole of grade 5) went on school camp at High Africa Adventures in Worcester, it was really fun, we did loads of activities including a climbing wall, swimming in the river, watching a movie, da...

I feel very happy the way the book is going now, it is very interesting. I really recommend it, my favorite part was when Bertie (the main character) got to keep the white lion I felt euphoric! The part that I felt sad about was when Bertie had to move to England and then he had to scare the lion with a gun shot so he could run away and the part when Bertie's father shot the white lion's mother. I love the fact that Bertie found his white lion again and he married Millie. (Bertie's friend) I'm very angry that Bertie's dad married another women and made Bertie go to school.

Two weeks ago we were at camp. first we went to Giraffe House and saw: meerkats, squirrels, alligators, giraffes, lamers, flamingos and a warthog. Then we had a we had a reptile show. After that we went to the campsite by bus, we got into groups and we did activities, for example - the obstacle course, the mud swing, Aladdin stepping stones and the blind fold walk.that night we went on a night hike. We got lots of free time to go and play in the forest or play with our friends. In the forest we had a fort building competition. I am allergic to their food so my mom packed me my own food. Then one day we were playing in one of the forts and me and Micaela were speaking then Aidan asked what was on my head and it was a scary green WASP! I told Micaela and both of us ran, while we were running we heard Aidan scream, the wasp had stung him! Then Kian ran down to help Aidan but stepped on the nest then he was stung everywhere! after that Tyla went to call the teacher but was also stung...