My Holidays!

Posted on July 27th, 2008 in holidays by lizzie3

During my holidays I went to the local library in town where they had a holiday programme. It was called Around the world at your library. Each day you would make a craft that they had and used in that particular country to take home. E.g. if the country was China we would make something like ”Tangrams” or decorate your own Chinese lantern. This is what I did in the holidays.

 

Day  1

Woke up at 8:30 and had breakfast. When mum was finally ready we all made our way down to the library. The first country was China. We started off with a story which I thought was a bit babyish seeing as the librarians said the programme was based ages 5-12. If your twelve you don’t really appreciate a story book being read to you! Anyway we made tangrams and lanterns like I mentioned in the first paragraph. The adults handed out big sheets of paper and told you to colour in the example tangrams. Once you had done this you had to fold the piece of paper in a certain way so when you had finished folding the piece of paper looked a bit like a box. After that we were given yet another piece of card with the colour of your choice. The piece of card had shapes on it and the children were told to cut along the lines and cut out the shapes. Last but not least we opened up our pieces of paper and put our cut out cards inside. Now we had a portable tangrams game. Secondly we cut bits of card into strips. But we only cut up to the line so we kept the piece of paper as one piece. Then we folded it around and stuck on a handle. I chose a green card with a blue handle. Very last we decorated our lanterns with stickers. That was day 1 of my holidays!

Day 2  

On the second day of my holidays we went to the library as usual but this time we did something a bit babyish for older students. Our country was Scotland and all we did was colour in a piece of paper with squares on it. We had to make it look like tartan! It was sooo boring. Saw Megan. Less said about it the better.

Day 3

For the third day of my holidays my mums friend took us to the library to make a mosaic. The country was Italy. I thought we were going to use real glass or china. But because there were little kids we couldn’t. We had to use coloured paper squares instead! It was quite good though. First the librarians handed out a plastic plate to everyone My picture contained a small girl with pigtails standing on grass with the sun and clouds up above her and a green background. It looked quite good.

 

Day 4

Today went to the library and our country was Japan. Our craft was a carp kite. First we were given two pieces of paper shaped as a fish. Then we all coloured in the head and the tail. I coloured them in with the rainbow colors. Once we had done that we decorated the body with scales. I chose rainbow coloured scales as well. Finally we made a hole in its mouth using a hole-punch. Then we put string through the hole in the mouth and put crepe on the tail. I also chose rainbow coloured crepe paper. Once everyone had finished we took them out side and flew them because it was quite a windy day. Then we all went home.

 

Day 5

Last day of the holiday programme and also the best! Our country was New Zealand, and we made pois. We started of with four pieces of bubble wrap and wool. First we started plaiting our wool into two separate plaits. It took ages! After that we wrapped the bubble wrap onto the end of the wool and added some glitter. My glitter colors were blue and purple. Next we put the other piece of bubble wrap around the first one and tied it together with a piece of wool. Now I had a pair of pois. Last of all the librarian showed us how to use them

Those were my holidays, I didn’t do much but I did enough to keep myself occupied!! 

Character Study About the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 in school by lizzie3

She looks out of her sparkling clean window of her cosy country cottage and sighs at her reflection. Her once beautiful heart shaped face now cracked with deep crinkles. She saw her once attractive big brown eyes now an ugly murky brown with short stubby lashes. Her hair was her best feature from a long glossy black to the shortest grey. A tear slid down her face as she thought of how beautiful she still could have been if she hadn’t had all the stress in the real world, helping Cinderella. At least she had been polite though slightly full-of –herself, she thought. Maybe I’d rather look like myself than the evil stepmother she said out loud to the empty kitchen, with the cuckoo clock ticking into the silence. The fairy godmother shuddered as she thought of how the stepmother treated Cinderella. You could never feel the cold grey eyes leave you once you felt them boring into your head. The fairy godmother’s eyes swivelled to her perfectly manicured lawn and she saw a small stick out of place. As she rushed outside to retrieve it she vowed she would never be like the evil stepmother in her lifetime.

High Ropes!

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 in camp by lizzie3

“Oh, god I can’t do this” I said to myself when I had been instructed to climb to the top of a nine metre pole and walk across a thin wire to the pole at the other side. “I just can’t”. I felt sick and scared but I wanted to show everyone I could do it. I knew I didn’t really have any other choice, so I started climbing…

 

Someone started shouting supportive remarks at me, but that didn’t stop me jumping out of my skin when I looked down. People looked like ants jumping around safely on the earth not a care in the world. My head started spinning; I was going to vomit any second now I wanted to get down but I knew I should try. So I lifted my shaky leg and took my first step…

 

I screamed as I stepped out onto the wire and gripped it like my life depended on it. My second step was just as bad as the first, the wire bounced and shook. I thought I was going to faint with anxiety until I remembered the third step towards death. Slowly I lifted my foot and put it in front of me as carefully and as gently as possible. I felt my heart go up to my throat as the wire shook and swayed with the wind. This went on and on. How many hours had I been up I thought, two, three. I wanted to cry but no tears came. I wanted to scream but no sound came. Turning around I saw I had come over the halfway point. Some colour rushed back into my cheeks and my heart sank back to my chest. My spirits lifted, I could see the finish!

 

I held my head high and walked confidently to the finish. I was so proud with myself, until my belayer asked me to lean back like I was sitting in an invisible armchair so that I could get down. All of a sudden I didn’t feel so proud and confident I started sweating uncontrollably and my head started throbbing so loud I couldn’t hear myself think. I took a deep breath and fell backwards…

 

I found my voice and screamed as I left my body up on the high ropes. I was falling! All of a sudden my feet hit the hard and painful landing. I was back on earth. Even though I was still feeling sick and dizzy, I gave a ginormous smile because I knew where I wanted to be and where I belonged…On the ground

Science Fair

Posted on July 1st, 2008 in school by lizzie3

For my 2008 Science Fair my topic question was, What strengths of water and detergent make the best bubbles? I was very curious about this question because at birthday parties there seemed to be different sizes and strengths with each bubble mix. So I did some research in Wikipedia and typed in, What is a bubble? It came up with something about how surfectants cause a layer of soap to trap air inside it. This is called a bubble. So at the weekend I started my hypothesis, introduction and my aim. By the end of the weekend I had them all finished. I was getting behind in work so I would have to get a bomb under me if I wanted to get this finished and handed in on time.

 

It was the last weekend until we had to hand in our science fair. I was so worried and angry with myself for leaving it so late. I woke up on Saturday and played my netball game. By the way we won 25-5 to us. But when the netball game finished mum invited my friend over without asking me. I was so peeved because I was meant to be doing my science fair. So I had to wait until my friend went home until I could start experimenting. When my friend finally went home I started experimenting. In my hypotheses I said that 50% water and 50% detergent would make the best bubbles. However I was wrong, 50-50 didn’t work best but 75% detergent and 25% water did.

 

So I finally found out what makes the best bubbles and why!