El Grego's Wonderful Magic Show

On Friday afternoon, our school went into the hall to watch El Grego, the magician, do magic. He also told us about anti-bullying.

My favourite was the magic wand.

First, El Grego picked someone from the audience. He picked Hunter Rose. Hunter Rose walked up the wooden stairs and over to where El Grego was standing.

El Grego said to her, “Do you want to meet a rare grey bird?”

“Yes please,” answered  Hunter Rose.

El Grego asked his assistant Sue, “Can you go get a wand for this lovely lady please?” so Sue went behind the pitch black curtain and came back with a black and white wand. She gave the wand to Hunter Rose. El Grego had an empty wooden bucket on a wooden table. He told Hunter Rose to wave the black and white wand above the bucket and say “It better work,” so Hunter Rose waved the wand above the  bucket and said, “It better work.”

El Grego picked up the bucket and showed it to the crowd. Everyone started to giggle and point because there was nothing in the bucket.

El Grego asked Sue to bring out a bigger wand. Sue went back behind the pitch black curtain and came back with a bigger black and white wand.

El Grego said to Hunter Rose, “Wave this wand above the bucket and say, “It better work,” so Hunter Rose did that over and over again, until El Grego’s assistant, Sue, came back with a gigantic wand almost the size of the stage, and Hunter Rose waved the wand above the bucket and said, “It better work.”

El Grego put his hand into the bucket and pulled a small grey bird out of the bucket. The crowd cheered and clapped. El Grego told us that the little grey bird was called Ruby. El Grego said to Ruby,

“Speak,” but Ruby said nothing. El Grego told us that she had already learnt how to say 40 words. He also said that kind of bird can learn up to 400 words.

The crowd said, “Wow.”   

I thought that the magic show was very interesting and mind tricking, I also really liked the little bird Ruby.

Poem - The Bully

I was once bullied
I hated it
She called me names
Then she started to pull faces
When ever I saw her, I'd scram before she saw me
I wish she would stop
It is so unfair
She snarls and tries to bite
Whenever I see her, I shiver with fright
I wish she would stop, I really do
I try to tell the teachers but they always just say nonsense
I cried and cried but that was no use
I wish I had a friend
But they all just laugh
Then she tried to kick and punch
When ever I went home, I was bruised all over with tear stains on my face
She would tease me and pin me to the ground
"My life is a misery," I thought to myself.

Easter

On Easter morning, I woke up all excited and tingly, so I quickly jumped out of bed onto the soft  carpet to check the time on my pretty pink love clock. It was extra early so I decided to read a chapter of my book. As soon as I started reading, I heard the loud engine of a car come up someone’s drive. I didn’t know it was coming up our drive because our next door neighbour always comes up her drive at lots of different times. 

When I heard a quiet knock at  our glass door, I was surprised because it was really early in the morning,  so I got out of my lovely warm bed into the cold air of the morning and thought, “I am glad I am wearing my nice warm black and white pyjamas,” and went to answer the door. 

When I reached the huge window that goes down to the ground and looks out into our drive, I saw a grey van, I thought to myself, “Who could that be?” 

I quietly tiptoed into the kitchen then into the lounge, then I saw a face I recognized, Samantha. I thought that I saw another face. This time, it was a boy’s face. “Is that Rogan?” I whispered quietly to myself, then I saw Casey. I ran to the glass door, unlocked the silver latch at the top of the door and quickly opened the door for them and hugged them all hard then I hugged my Aunty Julie and Uncle Aaron, and asked, “Why are you here?” 

Aunty Julie answered, “To enjoy Easter with you and have a holiday.” “Awesome,” I said quietly, because I did not want to wake anyone else up. They said to me, “We got you and your little brother a present each.”

“Yay,” I said quietly.

Sammy (Samantha) handed me a box and said in a quiet whisper, “Be careful and gentle with it,” so I slowly lifted the lid off the box and there, huddled in a corner, was the cutest little baby bunny. I squealed loudly, probably too loudly because Mum and Dad got out of bed and came into the lounge, and Dad hugged Uncle Arone  because they are brothers and Mum and Aunty Julie hugged each other then they said, “Happy Easter, kids,” and that is when I remembered.
I raced into my room and switched on my pretty flower lamp and there, at the end of my bed on my pink and white duvet, was a box of white chocolate. I quickly picked up my little brother, Ben, out of his white cot and carried him back out into the lounge carefully. I gave him to my mum and asked if we were allowed to start looking for Easter Eggs now. 
They said, "Of course," so we all charged outside onto the veranda where all the birds chirped sweet songs to each other, then I saw a bunny hutch, so I quickly went back inside and grabbed the box with the bunny inside it and put the bunny carefully into the hutch then I went to join the others again. My mum gave me a bucket to put all my Easter Eggs in then we started looking. We looked everywhere but we couldn't find any. I said to them, “Maybe the Easter Bunny hid them inside this year," so we all charged back into the house and started looking around wildly. 

I found two Easter Eggs in red and orange tinsel on my mum's light green work table and I found four on top of the toaster with lilac blue and dark purple tinsel, then I went outside onto the back deck and found five packets of Easter Eggs on a window sill. When I was going inside again, on a dark red table, sat three Easter Eggs all in a row. The colours of the tinsel were pink, yellow and green. I picked them up and  raced quickly  back into the lounge where everybody was waiting for me. We all shared out the Easter Eggs fairly. We each got ten, then I picked an extra orange carrot out of the fridge and ran outside and slipped it through the wired netting for my sweet little bunny. I thought, "What should I call her?" She was white and honey coloured and, because it was Easter, I decided to call her Easter. 
I picked Easter up and she nuzzled her dark black nose into my warm chest. I cuddled her close and thought, "I think I might take her inside with me to show Mum and Dad," so that is exactly what I did.  
When I got back inside with Easter in my arms, I asked them, “What did you get for Ben?” then I saw it. Ben was holding a jet black toy rabbit. 
“Cool!” I said. 
After that, we were all so tired, all the children sat on one couch and all the adults sat on the other. We all watched movies together then, at some point in the movie, Ben fell asleep. I held Easter tightly so she wouldn’t hop away. 
It started getting cold so my dad went and picked up two blankets. One was a  pretty pink and the other was a light green. I cuddled Easter with one hand and cuddled Sammy (Samantha) with the other. It probably was the best Easter ever.