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29/04/09 We had a terrific day at the zoo this week. The weather was good and we enjoyed seeing all of the animals. We have been inspired and are busily working on our writing. While you are waiting for us to publish our work we would like to share some of the photos that we took on the day.

05/05/09 We have started on our descriptive writing. While we were at the zoo me made notes about what we saw according to our five senses. We are hoping to publish some of these on Friday. In the meantime here is a taste of the adventure stories to come- [|Christmas at the Zoo.doc] by TC of 7B.

07/09 It has been a busy semester. Enjoy reading some of the writing that we have been working on.

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By Tamieka 7B

My life at the zoo……………Jalia G **Tuesday 28th of April 2008** “yawn”. I wish I didn’t have to get up… being a meerkat is such hard work, standing up all day. Hmph they expect us to do everything!! Some days I wish I wasn’t a meerkat maybe I could be a sloth!! Lazing around all day without a care in the world! Not really. “sniff sniff” I smell “sniff sniff” breakfast… mmmmm… yummy… ant larvae I think! I quickly scampered to the feeding area and… yep I was right scrumptious, delicious aaanddd nutritious ant larvae. People here?? __** A huge rush of pink ugly things rushed towards us,“ahhhhhh!” yelled another meerkat. I think they are animals… one looked like a hippopotamus crossed with an elephant!! Then brainy (as we like to call him) told us that they were humans… they evolved from apes apparently. Quite weird creatures. Anyway as I was saying they all started rushing towards us…”flash, flash, flash”. What is that bright heavy light that is flashing in every direction? It is like a million little suns. Brainy said that they were flashes from the camera lights! So we kind of got used to the fact that we were loved and the humans(??!) Loved taking pictures of us. What’s for lunch?? __** Just after our fabulous show at the centre we went back to our kind of small enclosure where our lunch was ready! HOORAY!! Mmm…scrumptious wonderful delicious ant larvae! We all rushed to the feeding area to get our lunch. I quickly slurped up all mine and went back to the glass and showed off my wonderful standing to the humans! Play time? __** This is my favourite part of the day… play time! This is the part of day that we can run a muck, play around with our toys and have… A LOT OF FUN! I always play with the tough meerkat I always forget his name… any way play time is the funnest part of our day!!! Sleep NOW? __** Now this is the not fun part of our day. We all hate going to bed. It is very annoying… sleeping for 12 hours is such a struggle. Why was sleep invented?… Ahwell I don’t mind sleep that much… who am I kidding of course I hate sleep, it’s boring one dream after the other and the only good part about sleep is well… NOTHING!! Well I am signing out and not going to… zzzzzzzz (snoring)!
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<span style="font-size: 48pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi', 'sans-serif';">My Life at the Zoo <span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi', 'sans-serif';">Penguins Every Morning I wake up to go for a swim in my enclosure. When I look around I see people already looking at me so I decide to put a little show on for them. I did a few little flips under water and the people looked fascinated but I got a bit tired. Me and my mates were swimming around together and just waiting for breakfast to come. Last night was really cold so, colder than usual night so I wanted an extra long swim so I’m warm and ready to go. I was waiting patiently for my breakfast when I noticed it was someone different. It was usually a man but this time it was a lady (don’t tell anyone this but I like her better because she smells nice). We all got fed a piece of fish each. I was first to finish so I stole another penguin’s fish and it got angry. The lady wasn’t happy either so she gave him another fish.

It was almost time for our first show of the day. My mate and I always impress everyone that watches our show and when I say our show I mean it! I am the favourite of course because I am the cutest (everyone agrees) and I think it’s because I’m the only girl. I waddle in front of the crowd and they just think I’m adorable. I jump in the water and do some rolls to fill the time up. Hehe. By the time the show was over, I was very tired that I couldn’t possibly give another crowd another waddle dance. As you may know the other penguins have to do a lot more to be noticed o a lot of them were flat on the cold ground, looking almost dead. I didn’t know about the other penguins but I was going to sleep!!!

I got woken up about 5 minutes later from a loud roar. I was almost certain it would have been from the tiger enclosure. That stupid tigger can’t behave himself, ever! Twinkle is good though.

My stomach started rumbling, I thought to myself, hmmm… must be dinner time. (And time for those humans to go home, hurray!!! We got a treat. We got salmon instead of tuna and it was extra delicious than usual. I love Fridays because the zoo closes earlier and I can do what I want without some ugly thing looking at me all the time its annoying.

By Nitika

__ My most Memorable Moment at the Melbourne Zoo __ “STOMP, STOMP” go the great big creatures. With two massive, floppy ears, and a long grey trunk. Smelling fresh but sweaty and I could taste dryness in my mouth from looking at them. Those large wrinkly animals are known as the elephant.

It was then when I looked at them, I fell in love with the beautiful and smart elephants. Tamieka and I then walked over to the Elephant Village, feeling joyful like never before. We saw three gorgeous elephants. Two of them were happily standing around in the bright, warm sunshine, feeding on fresh grasses and nutritious plants, while the other one was a perfect model. Standing in the cage, and posing so quietly for all the visitor’s photos. After taking lots and lots of amazing photos, we headed over to the Elephant Village Gift Shop, where we had a little browse and brought some truly awesome souvenirs, including a crystal with penguins and a badge saying I MZ. That was definitely my most memorable moment at the fantastic excursion to the Melbourne Zoo which occurred on the 28/04/09, and what a great day it was… I can’t wait to go back to see the elephants again!!! By Nelly xx

<span style="font-size: 36pt; background: #d9d9d9; color: yellow; line-height: 115%; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: gray-15 auto;">My day at the Melbourne Zoo <span style="font-size: 14pt; background: #d9d9d9; color: yellow; line-height: 115%; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: gray-15 auto;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; background: #d9d9d9; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: gray-15 auto; msoshading: white; msopattern: gray-15 auto;">Julian On the 28th of April the whole of year seven went to the Melbourne Zoo. Our form shared a bus with 7A on the way there and on the way back. When we got to the zoo we all got in groups to walk around with. I got in a group with James, Michael, and Tim.

My favourite animal was probably the tiger even though I did not see much of it because it kept on hiding. It roamed around the enclosure, hiding behind the green trees. Its stripes were amazing and really made him hard to see behind the bushes. I also really enjoy the elephants and the giraffes but they were really stinky.

My least favourite animal was the big fish. They were really boring to watch and looked retarded. They were all scaly and slimy and yuk. All they did was swim around all the time. The best thing about the whole enclosure was the duck walking around.

At the gift shop James bought a friend a surfing penguin and I bought a stuffed penguin that I later named Flipper. Flipper did not last to long because I later changed it to Terrance. On the bus ride home I sat next to Michael. It was very fun on the bus and I laughed most of the way back. In the end it was a very good day.

My Life at the Zoo By Michael

‘Ah’ I said as I woke up on my 83rd day at the zoo. I am the tiger cub of the Sumatran tiger at the Melbourne zoo. It is a good place. You can hear all kinds of things. You can hear elephants trumpeting lions roaring, you can hear gorillas and much more. In my sleeping enclosure it is pretty boring, I don’t have much to do. It is the least favourite part of my life. It was then that I could smell a smell, it was a good smell. I heard a foot step, I jumped around and there was my keeper. This was my most favourite part of the day when my keeper lets me in with my mum. She is a great big Sumatran tiger. I then saw the food that my keeper left for me and my sibling. These are some of my relatives.

They are the family. I know this week is good; it is the day that I meet the people. My family says it is boring. People take a lot of pictures’ and pointing. I think it will be fun. I heard the door of the zoo opened and the people came in. It was great they were saying weird stuff I had never heard of but it was good. That’s my life so far at the zoo.

<span style="display: block; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; text-align: center;">My life at the Zoo Tuesday 28TH of April <span style="display: block; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black', 'sans-serif'; text-align: center;">BENGAL TIGER <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Cambria', 'serif';">Waking Up! ‘Wakey wakey’ says the zoo keeper, nudging us as we slowly open our eyes. I open my eyes slowly after a sleepless night and then I smell the meat, the meat we have every morning. I got up quickly and snatched the tender meat from the zoo keepers hand and sped away hiding in the shrub I always hide in. I thought to myself “They will never find me in here, they never do”. I hear my name, “Tigger Tigger were are you? I need that meat back, you need to share”.

People are here now!

I hear the sound of people “Must be all the zoo keepers coming to get me, ha they can’t get me”. I peeked around a branch and to my surprise it wasn’t the zoo keeper at all it was all those weird looking things called humans. I walk out of my hiding place slowly, I stretch my legs after sitting in that bush for a long time. As I walk out of the bush I hear the muffled sound of cheers. I look up and see the humans cheering at Twinkle, she was standing on zoo podium ready to jump through a circle of leaves. I jump up as quickly as I can and run over to the podium and bound into Twinkle knocking her down. I hear the zoo keepers shouting at me and apologising to the crowd. The rest of the day I was sad because I was told off so I felt really lazy.

Lunch Time!

When I hear “ Tigger lunch time come on lunch time” I walk over at a snails pace to the feeding ground where the zoo keepers were feeding Twinkle, Twilight and Scar in a different area. One of the younger zoo keepers led me over to a small enclosed area. I hear whispering from the zoo keepers “We will need to keep Tigger from the other tigers he just can’t control himself” “Yes”. I have my afternoon lunch meat and a soup kind of drink. I hear the growls of the other tigers as they play outside.

Bed Time!

Luckily I was let off for my bad behaviour and I was allowed to play outside for the rest of the afternoon. It is bed time now and I slumped to the floor tired with sleep. I dreamt of being let out into the wild and being able to do what ever I wanted to and run in the wind. I wake to the same voice and words again “Wakey Wakey” and do exactly the same thing as I did yesterday.

By Harriette