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Making Toast (onomatopoeia poem)

Making Toast (Poem)

Chhh, goes the fridge as I opened it to get out some margarine and jam out for my toast.

Next I get the bread, crumple, crumple, goes the bread bag.

I then put the bread in the toaster, chingg.

Tick, tock, tick, tock is the sound the toaster makes as it cooks.

When I open the margarine and jam their lid’s go plop!!

While I wait for my toast, I hear a POP, that means it’s ready!!!

As I spread the margarine and jam on the bread, I can hear a ,Crrrr, sound.

Crunch, Crunch, that’s the sound of of me eating my delectable breakfast!!!

By Tanisha.A.Prasad

My Wild Self

Red spitting cobra hood - Your red spitting cobra hood is spread open because that makes you look bigger and more threatening. That'll help you scare off other bully animals. Hornbill beak - Your hornbill beak (also called a casque) is used to amplify your nasal calls. It's like talking through your nose. And it won't weigh you down since it's made with hollow cells and bones. Gibbon arms - Your Gibbon arms are designed especially for swinging in trees. With these arms you can jump distances of over 20 feet from branch to branch. Chilean flamingo legs - you'd think flamingos stand on one leg by locking their knees. But those are actually their ankles. They stand like that to conserve energy. How long can you stand on one leg? Monarch butterfly wings - Your monarch butterfly wings can beat five times per second. Can you flap your arms five times in one second?

My Wild Self

In front of me was a mesmerising and super unnatural creature unlike anything I had seen before. She had a grey hornbill beak with a yellow and black casque on the top of its beak. She has a mix of brown and orange hair that almost reached her waist.  Her eyes and ears were really human like and looked out of place with all the other huge features that really stood out. Sticking out from the back of her head was a large red spitting cobra hood that looked almost like the collar on the top of maleficent's cape from ‘Disney Descendants’ the movie. She had skin the colour of a soft peach.

She had a neck, but it could barely be seen. She wore a pretty purple polo shirt with cute little hearts. Her enormous gibbon monkey arms were so huge that she would have to bend her arms to reach her toes. Her arms where hairy and a mix of orange and yellow whereas her palms were pitch black. Sticking out from her back, were a pair of elegant and gorgeous monarch butterfly wings. She had a cushioned flamingo bottom and legs. The top of her looked so soft that I thought if you were to sit on it, it would be like sitting on a really comfortable pillow. Her legs looked like bamboo sticks.

As I was leaving . . . . . I heard someone speak. It wasn’t an animal like sound, it sounded like a human. I was pretty sure I was the only human in that forest at that time. It was obvious that no one else could’ve spoke except for the creature so I looked behind me….. It was the creature.  She was a really nice creature. She had an elegant and sweet voice. “My name is Amy but everyone in my family calls me Crazy Amy.” Then just as I was going to ask her where her family was, she spoke again. “My family and I came for a trip but as we were walking through the forest, I asked my little sister ,Ella, a question but since I didn't get a reply, I turned around....Then I noticed they were gone.” I felt really bad for her. But there were two things that were making me ponder, how could she read my mind and were there more of her kind?

Overall, when I had left the forest I felt sad that I had to go and I couldn’t help Amy. She was like my friend now. I felt proud that I was the first ever person to ever meet one of Amy’s kind.

Recount- My Spectacular day at Blockhouse Bay Beach

My Spectacular Day at Hamilton Gardens

It was a sweltering hot day in late December when I went to the Hamilton Gardens. I went with my mum, brother and dad. Before  we entered I thought it would be really boring but soon after being there I thought it was mesmerising and a really enjoyable place to visit.  

Firstly we had to pick the starting  destination. At the entrance, there was a big map with every place in the ginormous garden. While we were waiting for our parents to choose the place we were going to go first, my brother was complaining “ It’s too hot, I want an ice block.”  My brother is really annoying and troublesome. Then my dad said, “Be patient, Aryan,” in a really annoyed way. Finally, my parents had picked the first spot we were going to. We were going to start by visiting all the cultural flowers and plants of each country or continent.

On the way to the garden, we took photos by the fountain that took center stage to the small open hall. I wasn’t in the mood for photos as all I wanted to do was eat.  Even though I had just had KFC before coming, I was still hungry.

The first garden we visited was the Indian garden. There were really gorgeous flowers like marigolds and daisies.   My favourite flowers were all the flowers as I couldn’t choose which one was most gorgeous. There were water pools in between all the sections of flowers.  I think that all the four flower sections represented the flowers you can find in the four parts of India. I wish we could have walked in the tiny water pools.

The next greenhouse we went to was the Chinese one. It was full of plants that you would mostly only find in China.  In my opinion, it was not as beautiful and cool as the Char Bagh garden.

We went and visited the Italian garden, French Garden and quite a few other gardens that I forgot the names of.   

Next we went to a really fascinating garden with lots of different fruits and vegetables and we got another photo taken with a funny looking scarecrow. He looked just like the scarecrow from, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.’

The last place we went to was the playground and it was amazing and entertaining. Sadly, the swings were really low and we couldn’t swing that hard or high, but it was still really entertaining. My favourite thing on the playground was the really enormous part of it.  It had a really high bridge and the bottom of the bridge reached my head. When I was on the bridge I almost slipped.

By the end of the trip I was starting to feel drowsy and so dizzy that I could faint because of the heat. Australia’s heatwave was affecting New Zealand so it was hotter than it would usually be in summer here. I thought that the Hamilton Gardens were the best gardens that I had ever visited. My dad said we might go there again.