Lily

The country was usual enough; it had A bumby dusty road, a giant green paddock, a big black berry bush and even a pointy red gate that I never opened. My Cousins, my friends and I did what kids do- drove the motorbikes, watched tv, played with the piglets, kicked the rugby ball like Dan Carter, hunted bunnys or deer, fed the lambs. Doing Nothing Important. Nice Shot

The ball wants to be the racket,

Hitting the ball,

The racket wants to be the net,

Stopping the ball,

The net wants to be the lines,

Telling if it’s in or out,

The lines want to be the player,

Winning the points,

The player wants to be the other playing,

Winning more points,

The player wants to be the umpire,

Judging it right,

The umpire wants to be the crowd,

Cheering on,

The crowd wants to be the ball man,

Collecting the balls,

The ball man wants to be the stadium,

Holding everyone in,

The stadium wants to be the ball,

The center of the game.

By Lily Dinneen Grandad His dark brown eyes reflect on the beam of sunlight. His shiny silver hair like the rays behind the stars. Although he is energetic and loves hunting, he still spends time drinking coffee and watches TV. He has dark army green velvet pants and a sapphire blue and icy white flannel shirt. He wears light brown leather shoes. His wrinkles on his face are like oceans rips. His yellowish teeth always smiling at me. Although he has really good eyesight he still reads with oval glasses. White fluffy sheep getting rounded up, Cookie’s (Grandad’s dog) grey fluffy fur, blowing in the wind while Grandad’s loud voice echoes across the mountains. Afterwards he sits on the long chair and smokes his long white cigarette. He gets a small piece of paper and stuffs some old brown tobacco onto it. He rolls the paper into a long stick, and then he pushes it into the cigarette. He gets out the tangerine orange lighter and once the raging red flame comes up he quickly puts it onto the cigarette. While he smokes he looks over the sky blue horizon. Grandad’s loud voice fills the playful dog’s ears. Their dirty soft fur, stands up on end as they see the lazy fluffy farm animals. Grandad is a great farmer and doesn’t want to give up his job. People always want to farm with him. He looks over the green hills while the golden sun goes down. He gets ready for another busy day on the farm. To finish his hard day he eats a big plate off juicy meat.

By Lily Dinneen

How does the water cycle work?

The water cycle the way water works. Water starts from the mountains, comes down into the sea, evaporates up into the sky then becomes clouds, then goes back into the sea when it rains.

Water has gasses such as water vapour, the water vapour rises up into the sky and forms clouds.

In the clouds rain drops are formed and so are snowflakes. Evaporation means it floats up into the sky. Condensation means the water vapour turns into cloud. Precipitation means it rains; Seventy percent of the world is water and only three percent of the seventy percent is fresh water.

There is no start or finish, it just keeps going round.

What’s happening around the ozone hole?

The difference between the ozone hole and the ozone layer is that the ozone hole is a hole in the ozone layer.

The ozone layer protects the earth from space and the sun. If there was no ozone layer the earth would eventually be dark.

The ozone layer is important to the earth because it protects it from the sun.

Thomas Midgley invented a chemical called CFCs; people thought it was a great idea because it stopped fridges from exploding (fridges were just invented and they exploded.)

The chemicals in the CFCs were floating up into the troposphere (that’s where the ozone layer is.) Scientists found out that the CFCs were hurting the ozone layer in the 1970s.

The scientists finally found out that a hole was forming in the ozone layer. So they banned CFCs around 1978. The hole started in Antarctica because Antarctica is a cold place and lots of chemicals were around there.

In the future I think there will be a bigger hole because there will probably be another thing like CFCs invented and they will probably have lots of chemicals in it.

This report shows how the ozone layer formed a hole.

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