Wonders of Kindness

Hi my name is Declan.This year in grade 6 we were reading a book called Wonder.Wonder is an amazing book that you will truly fall in love with, this book is about a boy that has a genetic facial deformity. His name is August Pullman and what his life becomes like when he goes to school for the first time and meets three of people that change his life forever.

What stood out for me was how much can be changed if you just choose kind and how just being kind can change someone's perspective of everything. One of the people in this book that I can identify with the most is Olivia. I feel that everyone is changing and I'm left in same old rubble and all my friends are always busy with what they want to do but never have time for me. All in all this is a good book and I think that everyone should read it sometime or another.X

My Science Expo

The task that the grade five's were tasked with was to find an original method of creating a good renewable energy source to power an object.My science experiment was on the power of wind energy. My experiment was decided when all my other ideas failed in disaster because we did not have enough materials to make them so we decided to make a less complicated project which was wind energy. Of course I also did the project alone because I had no partner but I liked working alone it gave me space to do what I wanted when I wanted it to be done.Everything went smoothly well doing my project although we did have a problem with the LED because one of them burnt out.So when the big day came I was so nervous my hands could not stop moving. When the judge came my body just went into shock and my word came out all broken up and I was stuttering. After he had moved on it looked like I did well and then when the parents and the grade fours came I was so relaxed it felt as if the weight of the world was lifted of my shoulders

My life in a township

Hello I am Izizwa. I live in DuNoon. I live with my mom and three brothers. My mom is a widow and works as a maid. My dad died while driving our only car, he was drunk and drove off of a bridge. I am eleven years old and my mom is twenty five.

This morning I got out of bed, and I got my school top on, I got my bag and then I went outside. Outside a maze awaited me, a maze of shacks and sheds. When I got to school I went to the hall with everyone else. Then I got to work,we all sat on the ground in a circle, we had to share one book for every fourteen children. Soon school end, I did not want to leave because I could not see anything. There are no lights or lampposts and there is glass, metal, nails and rubbish everywhere.

Sometimes I wish people would care enough to clean or thou away their rubbish. It would life a bit better for everyone. It is hard having a life in these conditions for a child like me. The only thing I can do now is go with it and ask for a proper home and school.


By:Declan McCarthy