How a man's dream came true by Leon

                                                               

                    

A long time ago, there was a man living in a desert. The man was getting bored and went for a nap. He had a special dream. In this dream he dug a waterhole and met the seven sisters.Then he went for a walk. On the way he climbed over four sand hills. He saw some kangaroo and emu tracks, two rock pools and a river. Then he saw some tracks from other aboriginal people. He followed the track and arrived at a village. He became good friends with them. Then a voice in his head said, "if you want to have this, dream as hard as you can, and then it is there."First he was thinking, "that's impossible!" But then he tried and he dreamed as hard as he could. He also dreamed that there was some tree tucker to have a nap under. When he finished dreaming everything was there.

This guy was very happy.

How The Turtle Solved The Problem And Found Her New Home by Nicole and Hikaru

 

Part 1
Once upon a time there was a turtle and her seven sisters who had just been born in the nice golden sand.
The seagulls nearby were ready to grab the little turtles. She was fast and got to the water but sadly her seven sisters did not survive. She went into the water and she explored for a while. She climbed out of the water and found some land with a watering hole. Around the watering hole was an emu, a bush turkey and a kangaroo fighting over the water.

Part 2

She ran up to the watering hole and started to break them up but they kept on fighting and fighting. Finally when it was night time, they got really tired so they went back to their home.At midnight they all went towards the watering hole again. They ran to the watering hole as quiet as they could but then they saw each other at the same time so they ran to get there as fast as they could. But the water was gone because the turtle drank it all.

Part 3

The kangaroo, emu and bush turkey decided to not be upset about it. The turtle found her new home in the watering hole with all her friends. The kangaroo, emu and bush turkey decided that every time they were thirsty they would come to the turtle's home to get a drink.

Part 4
At night in the turtle's new home the turtle would look up at the sky and see the seven stars. She called them the seven sisters because she had seven sisters but they all died.

And that's how the turtle solved the problem and found her new home. 

A HUNTING TRIP GONE WRONG by Sebastian

Bad men with spears where chasing bush turkey.The bush turkey ran to the three watering holes trying to hide.The men gave up but then they saw a few kangaroos on a sand hill.The men stalked the kangaroos and speared them. They ate them for dinner and used the kangaroo skins for rugs and bags.Meanwhile seven sisters were gathering water for their families at a nearby river and then they saw a man on the other side of the river. They immediately fell in love.When they got home they all had a fight about who would marry the man. His name was Lester.They decided that the youngest of the seven sisters, Mary, would marry Lester .They lived happily ever after until......the bad men with spears went on another hunting trip. They saw Mary and thought she was beautiful. They decided to kidnap Mary and put her in a kangaroo skin bag. When Lester found out his wife got kidnapped, he got his plasma spear and sliced the men in half. He pushed them off the cliff and yelled out,
"Hasta la vista baby"!

A Sad Tale by Zoe

Once upon a time there was a little boy who was mean to his tribe. He was lonely because his only friend died in a hunting accident.

One day he went to pick on some boys who we're going on a camp.So he got his sack with his weapons which included his spear and his boomerang. He followed them for an hour or so. They had set up camp and were happy sitting by the fire they had proudly made. When they all went to sleep a pack of hungry dingos could smell the boys and attacked all of the boys in a vicious way. The boy could here the screaming of the boys in pain and he ran away as fast as he could. He managed to hide behind a rock which had a little cave so he had a power nap. Early in the morning he decided that he needed to head for home because he had little food and he would starve if he did not do anything about it. He got his sack and he walked back to the camp site of the boys and he saw about twenty dingos walking around the abandoned camp. He was seen by one dingo and that dingo was watching him the entire time he was there. The boy left crying after seeing the innocent boys had died. He ran and ran and ran until he could not breath. He sat down and fiddled with his spear and his boomerang. He rubbed his thumb over the carvings in the boomerang that his great grand father had carved when the boy was little. Meanwhile the dingo was following the boy. He was behind a bush then he saw the boy and got ready to pounce on him when the boy looked around for the last time and then the dingo killed the boy.
One day ten years later the boys mother was walking outback and found the boomerang. She picked the boomerang up and cried.

How The Catfish Got It's Whiskers by Kieran

One day Mr Catfish  noticed he was growing some whiskers and wished for them to go away. Later that night he left his village and went hunting. He got lots of krill and didn't share. So therefore the wish didn't come true. He shaved and shaved but the whiskers didn't go away. The next morning he went to the ancient rock, a sacred site and he said to himself, " whiskers aren't that bad after all!" He realised that he should have shared his food with others.
And that is how the catfish got it's whiskers.

Extension Reading Girls Group - Wolf Children Edition

Over the past few weeks the extension group has been reading a book called 'Wolf Children, the Real Feral Children by Sue Isle.  This book included stories about children that have either been raised by animals or have had minimal human contact throughout their lives.  Here is a clip and description of some of the children.

Links:  http://youtu.be/gkRNQ3NMKZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STn3bpTTU6c&feature=share&list=PLC7B9BCB9830041BC


Here is some additional information:

Jeffery was found November 30,2002 in Toronto Canada,Grandparents confined for years. Their sentence was life imprisonment. He died a few day short of six. Weighing only 21 pounds.

Oxana Malaya was found in 1991 Ukraine raised by dogs. She is now around 25 and lives at a home for the handicapped. Baraboy Clinic, Odessa 

Room 7 Extension Reading Group Research

Janie Seddon

Anyone visiting Motueka New Zealand will see this shipwreck. The Janie Seddon was built in the UK for the NZ government in 1901 and spent most of her life in Wellington. In 1949 she was sold to Talleys Fisheries for use as a trawler. Here is a fact about the Janie Seddon.

She was reported to have fired the first shot of the Second World War.

Talleys still have the dingy from the ship in the factory.

When it was sold to Talleys they wanted to make some changes so they took a few pieces off. But they took too many pieces off and said it was too much work. So they ran it to ground and left it there to rust.

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