A day in the life and home of a child in an informal settlement

I just woke up and found that there was a hole in my wall.This is normal for me.I now have to go to school with my sloppy school clothes and a slit jacket.I’m just thinking how frosty my feet will be. I feel like it is snowing. I’m on my way to school with my head held high.I have two friends John and Wick. They call me machine gun although my real name is Micheal. Our desks are really cramped and about five people at one desk and we are all kneeling.I just wish we had some proper desks and chairs.my teacher was particularly grouchy today.I don’t blame her she has to teach sixty children.

Try as I will I get nowhere.I want a job one day in the big city. I just can’t wait till then if it happens.At school we have to read this book with tiny writing with a thick spine.That we have to finish by the end of the week.I think I’m going to spend all day and night this week reading this book I’ll never finish it but i’m going too ,because I want a job.

I get to my shack and I find my whole shack is blown apart.Are my parents Ok

looks like I’m sleeping out in the open tonight.That is a normal day for me.It would be a dream for me to have a job one day

Being Charles, I don’t like to sing ,but it all happened yesterday. When that mean, cruel and plain rude singing inspector told me to. I was in a singing room praying not to go first. Thats when it happened I ended up going first along with Benny.I can’t sing. I don’t even know more than one song and the song I do know is Pretty Poly I thought. Then the awful man started to point at a noise making thing and told us to sing.So I sang.”Pretty Polly pretty poly whats whats o’clock whats o’clock” I sang. Then Benny started to sing it was horrible. So we were sent out.I did’t care because 

I don’t like singing anyway.I didn’t like the man either.Especially when he is trying to make his jacket strait every second, fiddling with his clothes half the time.

News in Grade 5

We had to do research on a soil creature and we had partners. We call this an ILT.ILT stands for Intergrated Learning Task.My partner and I did our ILT on a meerkat,.We had to get pictures and
we had to search for their diet,habitat,appearance and some interesting facts.Then put the research on a poster and decorate it.So we had all our information and the pictures in flaps but we hadn’t  decorated yet so we decided to draw a meerkat face we thought that wasn’t enough for how big the poster was.So the next day I I brought sand to put on the poster that didn’t work and made the poster look really bad. Oh yeah! did I mention it was over three days.Although it was really fun doing the part.

This week we are going to camp. Camp is always fun.I’m really hoping that my tent buddies are
Declan or Nic. I am looking forward to camp very much.We always do lots of activities their.
I heard that there is a river there so that will be fun.

Stranded on a island

When l realized l was stranded l felt sad
My biggest fear was how to survive
My aim was to get shelter
The first thing I saw was trees and lots
I would not like to be a leader because I don't have the skills

Simonsberg Camp

Normally when you go somewhere new, and now that is the place you sleep for the next 3 days. you would be exited to know what it looks like. But not for me I've been to this place already. We played many fun games like ,stalk the lantern ,s.t.o.p.stop and made a whirlpool in the pool. we also did a hike up Kanonkop. But I came back pretty bruised.