Ballet - Clare

I am learning ballet. Last week we had a new teacher. She was a bit more strict. She taught us a whole dance! Usually we only learn half a dance. Sometimes we even do less than half. We just just got our costumes. Mine is black and shines. I also got some ballet socks there. I really, really like ballet.

Swimming - Clare

On Saturday went to a camp site at Charters Towers. It was one hour to get there . At the camp site there is a swimming pool.It is very cold. We met some new friends and we saw Jayden. He is a friend of Abbey's. We went to the pool with him. It was fun. We went swimming around it. After that we went to the jumping pillow. We went to a hill with lots of bunkers where people were going to hide from bombs but luckily no bombs came. We went looking around at a broken down tower. I looked for some gold but I didn't find any. I did find a sparkly stone on a brick but I think it was just quartz.

Charters Towers - Abbey

This weekend we went to Charters Towers (an old gold mining town with ghosties) and drove around blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Then we went to a SUPER cool campsite that had a jumping pillow and a pool. We played chases on it and it was really fun and hard because you were not allowed to touch the sand or else you became It. See anyone familiar in the pic? (Apart from us!) For any one who doesn't know it's Jayden Bass, a kid from my class at school who is exactly the same age as me with the same birthday. We were setting up our tent when a kid walked over and said "G'day Mr Maynard, how are ya?" it was Jayden! It was so funny! A kid exactly my age, from Tassie in my class at school, in Charters Towers, at the same campsite, at the same time! We went swimming and Jayden and I had swimming races and we kept tying. I made a friend called Keeley. Keeley, Jayden and I all tried to trick a girl called Michelle into thinking that my name is Renee (pronounced: re-nay). It didn't work.

Movie - Abbey

On the 3 of July we went camping with our friends the Fishers and the Morgans. We made a movie and I was a king but I switched to a guard. It was freezing but we decided to go swimming anyway. Then we got into our costumes and I was wearing two shirts and a jacket. Rachel (My friend) made her sister marry Reuben! Only in the script, not in real life! It was sooooooooooo fun. In the background of picture the skateboarding angel you can see part of Sultana's... No, wait it's Natarnya's wedding dress.

La Luna Youth Arts - Abbey

On the 1st of July we went to La Luna Youth Arts to an open day. I stood on a ball. Warning: Do Not Try this on you exercise balls at home. This ball is solid and hard unlike the exercise ball.
I rolled a hoop down a hill, raced down to catch up to it and jumped through.
It was really fun.

Amazing Animals - Clare

On Monday I went to billabong sanctuary with my friend Christos . I saw a big crocodile being fed. It jumped out of the water. It was amazing. After that we went to feed the wallabies they were lovely. I fed an injured wallaby. We went to the koalas and I got to hold it.

the Chainsaw!










Last weekend we went to Ingham with the McClintocks. We went swimming in a river and that river was full of bullrout (Freshwater stonefish) and we didn't get stung. We built a rock wall in the middle of the river to make the rapids more rapid! Then we lay on our backs to relax in the rapids but the rapids were so rapid that they pulled us down the rapidly rapid rapids with shouts of "Ouch!" "Who put that rock there!?" and "OW OUCH OH OW OW OW OW OUCH!". I am now black and blue because it was so fun and painful that we did it another thirty thousand times (or maybe it was thirty) It is still warm enough to go swimming! We went on a bush walk and we saw lots of cool things such as toadstool staircases. Then we tried to get the kookaburas to eat my new rubber snake but they didn't. So Calum decided to start throwing it to the kookaburas and it got stuck in a tree that was 4 and a half metres high then started to have branches. That meant we couldn't climb up to get it. Jeff decided to throw his best hammer but then that got stuck too! We all threw rocks and sticks at the hammmer but it got as wedged as a hammer could be. We were throwing rocks and sticks at the hammer and snake for about an hour. Finally we got both the hammer and the snake down. The next day we went to the Ingham show. I went on the big slide (and became airborne twice on the same ride!) the Gee Whizzer and the bumper cars. I also got a showbag. Meg and Bridie went on the spinning elephant merry-go-round. Dad and Jeff were crazy and went on the Zipper. We called the Zipper the Chainsaw instead because that is what it looked like and you had to be as crazy as a chainsaw murderer to go on it. Dad and Jeff went jumping on cane trains.