My Amazing New Sweet

One day, I went and visited my uncle. He is my favourite uncle because he works in a chocolate factory. His job is to make exciting new sweets with personality.

Each time I visit him he gives me a new sweet. All I have to do is to try them and say what I think.

This time, he gave me a new sweet, called a Floaty Fizzer. When he put it in my hand, I thought it looked like a normal sweet. It had a dark pink wrapper with the words Floaty Fizzer on it in yellow.

I carefully unwrapped it. It still looked like an ordinary sweet. It was a pale pink rectangular bar with little holes in it that looked like bubbles.

“What does it do?” I asked.

“You just have to wait and see,” he replied.

I put it up to my nose and smelt it. It smelt like sour strawberries. Still normal.

“Taste it, and see what happens,”my uncle said.

 I bit into the bar. At first it was quite hard, but then it became soft after chewing.

It was fizzy and sweet and it tasted like fresh strawberries. On my tongue, I could feel little bubbles.

When I finished the whole bar, I felt myself lifting off the ground.

My uncle said “Quickly! Go inside before you float away!”

But it was too late. I was already in midair!

I had to hold onto the roof to avoid floating away.

“Don’t worry; it will wear off in a minute.” Said my uncle.

“It better do!” I said in a weird high-pitched voice.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you that all of the Helium in your body makes you have a weird high pitched voice that makes you sound like a duck.”

“Aaaaaah!” I said again weirdly.

1 minute later…

Eventually, I drifted back down to the ground.

“What do you think?” asked my uncle.

“I loved it! It was amazing!”

“Do you want another one?”

“NO WAY!!! It was really fun, but I was also terrified.”

What a lovely uncle.

THE END

Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock

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Flat Anansi

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A story retold and illustrated by Gabrielle, Noémie, Annie and Alya.

Sloth sentences

Thinking about rainforests, 4G looked at this clip about a sloth:

In English we've been learning to write "2Ad" sentences:

We created some interesting, varied sentences with interesting, sloth-related observations!

Gerda's letter to her Grandmother

Gerda reaches the Wise Old Woman of Lapland in her search for Kay. She needs to write to her Grandmother to let her know that she's OK. There's no paper, so she uses fish skin instead.

Here's some of our letters:

A Hectic Day

Today a cousin in India called us and told me that he had a social test. He is my age and we went to the same school in Bangalore. I was just recollecting how my school day in Bangalore would've been.

My father would wake me up at 7 AM and give me a bath. My school van would come at 7:30 AM and within that time, I had to take a shower, get ready, drink milk and have my breakfast. I would reach school by 8 and until 8:30 was playtime for us. The assembly would begin at 8:30 for which we were all made to stand in a line and chant the prayer, after which we were taken to our respective classrooms.

During this time in the year, our tests would be going on. So as soon as we got to our classrooms, we were asked to get our pencil pouches out and ready to begin the test. The teacher would hand out to each of us a question paper with 20 questions in it along with a ruled sheet of paper to write our answers in. We were given exactly half an hour to finish the test.

After the test, we would have a snacks break of 15 minutes. My friends and I would finish our snacks as soon as we possibly could and then rushed out to the field to play. We would go back to our classes again once the bell rang. In a day, we would have 8 periods a day, 40 minutes each. Our main subjects included math, science, social science, English and Hindi. Physical education, computer science, mindspark and music were a few among the others. For each subject, we had a different teacher and a different textbook. I want to talk a little more about mindspark. It was a math tool similar to that of mymaths. It consisted of a lot of chapters and a variety of questions in each chapter. It would also give the solutions to the questions that we answered.

In a week, we had 2 worksheets for each subject and in one academic year, we had 5 tests. My day in school would end at 3 PM and I would come home at 3:40 with a lot of homework to do and a science test to prepare for the next day. When my day ended, I would come back home to my mother waiting at the door with a stick wanting to know how I did in my tests and what I should do for the next day's test. And to top it all off, I also had my table tennis coaching from 4:30 - 8:30! I would reach home at 9 from my coaching class, which was pretty far from where I lived. I would come home tired and exhausted, eat something and get back to finishing my homework again! Then my father would come, we would all have dinner. And then I would trouble my sister until she ran into her room and locked it. After all that, we would all finally sleep after a long, hectic day!

Did I like it? Yes, I liked my school, I liked my subjects except Hindi ( I hated Hindi and never understood how to make a proper sentence till the end!!), I liked the competition, I loved my math teacher who always gave me interesting problems, I liked cricket, I liked my friends, I loved playing under the shadow of huge trees in our school AND I loved my house in Bangalore.