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Hi, My name is Scarlett. I am in Year 6 studint at Kaniere School. My favorite subject is writing. My hobbies are climbing trees and I like to play in the fort. One fun fact about me is I am great at making huts. I love to tall the trees and my slime about my day. 

When my family has parties Mum always says that we have to wait for every won to get here. But like I would listen to that, a big bowl of sweats sat on the table. I  snuck into the narrow crack between the sofa and the wall. I tried to slide behind the coffee table, But I guess Mum was watching me because when I came out the other side Mum was looking at me. My cousin Evelyn came first and I asked Mum if I could have one lolly but she still said NO. So after that, I just won’t stop I sounded like a broken record. She said I could have one, So I definitely had one year just ciding I boride a handful. In the end, I hade most of the things.

Evelyn opened the gate to the school it shook as I pushed the gate to the side. The air felt damp ran was coming we walked across the field to the fort. Even though the ran was ner it was reasonably hot and the fort was dry. We ran over to our favorite tree which we called Tuka. Last year Tuka was a tall old spot tree. But he had to get chopped down. Becos he was dangerous. I took the first step up, Tuka. Evelyn followed close behind. We saw a family with their bikes biking around the bike track.

Do you think it’s for when trees get chopped down?        

Last Friday we had a game night with a big group of our South African friends. Me and Jasper brought our chrome books, there were movies on for the kids too and the adults all played board games. Mum’s favorite was ‘articulate’. Every family brought a platter to share and we stayed until one o’clock in the morning.

On Saturday we all slept in, Mum and Pappa milked cows then Pappa and his friend David worked on Pappa’s monster truck and we had a braai (which is a South African barbecue) for dinner at home with friends.

On Sunday we were going to go to another friend’s house in Greymouth for a birthday party but they got stuck at a work party and so we just rested.

Last week we read about Tomtits the book was called Getting Closer. In the book there was a man, he had a special whistle that he could use to draw other birds to him. With it he could get birds from all over the forest to come to him.

I learned that to be a good photographer in nature you have to have some field craft. This means that you first need to find the animal you want to take photos of and then keep going back to visit them so you figure out what their habits are. This photographer was lucky because the tomtits he found were babies that had just left their nest which meant they weren’t scared of people like their parents and were nosey.

Tomtits usually fly around in a circle coming back to the same spot about every 15 minutes which means if you know where a tomtit usually lands you can be waiting there with your camera ready for when it comes back.

On Monday we went to swimming sports I entered in half-length brushstroke, half a length over arm half a length backstroke, and one length backstroke. I won one length backstroke, half a length over arm and I got 4 place in breaststroke. I’m going to the swimming pool again on Wednesday I’m racing against half of my class and if I get first or second then I go to Greymouth and if I get past that then I go to Christchurch. I won one length backstroke I got to go to the next level up.

Do you think swimming is fun?

On Monday we’re doing swimming sports at the Hokitika swimming pool I’m doing half a length overarm one length backstroke and one-length breaststroke