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The rain on the tin roof was like, blocks and blocks of ice blocks falling loudly.   The car was speeding past like a cheetah racing after it’ prey.    The sunset was peaceful and beautiful like I was having a wonderful dream.    The horse bolted out of the barn like a snake was chasing after a it.   The old wooden sailing ship creaked like we were slowly being pushed further and further out to sea as the ship battled against a four metre swell.    The cricket ball flew across the fence like it had been hit for a whopping six.    There faces were red and sweat was pouring down like the water trickling down onto the rocks at a water fountain.   The heat was searing down on their heads like the waves whirling into the sea.    The chocolate melted in his mouth like water trickling down his throat.   The bomb exploded in the old mine like a flock of birds squawking loudly all together.   The bush fire roared through the forest like a police car speeding past.   Sitting on Pa’s lap after the funeral was like letting all my emotions out and crying.    The fire warmed us up like it was as hot as the raging hot sun.

Hi, My name is Rachael, I am in grade 6, I am 12 years old, there are 6 people in my family, Mum, Dad two brothers and a sister,I live in Victoria my favourite colour is Orange, my favourite sport is Netball, my favourite animal is Elephant,my favourite song is High School Musical,my favourite D.V.D is High School Muscial,favourite number is 12, my favourite food is straberries. I go to school in Hawkesdale. I catch a bus to school, I get up around 7:30 and go to bed about 9:00 -9:30. I have seven different teachers teachme.We have lots of different subjects at school.

My grade had to write letters to different countries. This is my letter.

Dear student and teachers of Kadena Elementry School

Hi,

 My favourite sport is netball, but I like other sports like Basketball and Soccer. I have two brothers , a mum and dad and a sister. 

My dad is a shearer which means he makes his living by shearing sheep. I like all the different animals and I like to play with my brothers and sister. I live on a farm just out of  Hawkesdale. My parents own 150 acres. My family put a dorset ram over the ewes, the ram gets the ewe in lamb. Sometimes the mother doesn’t look after the lamb. So my dad picks up the lamb and brings it up to the house and we put them in a warm spot and feed them about every 5 hours.

We own one bull and seven cows. We sell the calves when they are about nine months old. We own four ducks, us kids have a duck each. There names are Browny, Troubles, Cuddles and Straunie.

I go to school at Hawkesdale P-12 College. School starts at 9:00 and finishes at 3:30. I get up at 7:30 and get home at 3:40. I catch the bus to school. I ride my bike to the corner of our road to catch the bus. I am on the bus for about 10 minutes. 

At school we have different subjects like art, humanities, science, library, sport, ICT, (information communication technology) writing and literacy. There are 22 people in my class.

We have about 250 people go to our school. Our school is just up from the swimming pool.  In the first term the teachers take us up to the pool. My teacher is Ms Murnane. In the first or second term we have a sports day. That is where we do lots of different sport activities like long jump, high jump and other events and races.

Hawkesdale is about 40 minutes away from Warrnambool.

There are lots of different things in Hawkesdale like the pool, Apex Park, the football club rooms, pub, post office, hall, kindergarten and three churches. The grass is mainly yellow around Hawkesdale at the moment, because we have recently had a drought. Normally, Hawkesdale is a very pretty little town with lots of well mown road sides and beautiful trees.

There are about 500 people that live around Hawkesdale. Most people around Hawkesdale live on farms. Mainly sheep, cattle, dairy and a couple of blue gum plantations.

Victoria’s capital city is Melbourne. Melbourne is the biggest city in Victoria.

 It is summer here in Victoria. The weather is mainly sunny, sometimes it rains and thunder storms. Some of Victoria’s best attractions are FlagStaff Hill in Warrnambool, Tower Hill, Lake Pertobe, Sovereign Hill, Grampians, Bendigo mine.

About 2 years ago there was a big fire in the Grampians. It was close to Hawkesdale. It was horrible seeing all the animals hurt and all the trees black and on the ground.

Australia is the smallest continent but the largest island in the world. Canberra is Australia’s capital city.

There are different animals in Australia such as the Koala, Snake, Possum, Kangaroo, Platypus, Emu, Cockatoo, Kookaburra, Wombats and other interesting animals. There are lots of different native grasses and trees as well.

You’re sincerely Rachael

Hi my name is Rachael. I am in year six.

My goals are:

• To show mum how to use things on the computer like, word, paint and the internet.
• To learn my 6, 7, 8 and 12 times tables.
• To learn how to do joint writing and do it neatly.
• To get faster at swimming and running.
• To get better at high jump and long jump.
• Learn how to use the emails