Children's Corner Ohakune Primary School

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 7, 14 July 1987, Page 17

Children's Corner Ohakune Primary School

Happiness Happiness is all around People screaming and shouting You're really happy to be around new friends Happiness is when you're happy or when you're glad and excited Happiness sometimes makes you feel good things inside of you. People know hen you're happy because they can see a smile on your face. Or when you're having a good time with your friends. So happiness is when your haDDV.

Felicity

Friends My friends are Michelle, Melanie, Bernice, Cindy, Jenny, Mirriam, Kate and Mandy. I like my friends because they care for me and they understand what I'm saying and they sometimes know what I want to do and when I feel sick and when I want to be alone. That's what friends are for.

Lee

A day's skiing One boring Tuesday in mid-July a few of my friends and I decided to go skiing. We got organised and were raring to go. When we first started we were very clumsy. As we went along we got much better. We had heaps of lessons. The instructor told

us to go up the second chair after we had a bit more practise to go up to the Jumbo. Rachael came crashing down and broke her neck. Then had to go to hospital so the rest of us just kept on gorng. When we skied down the second chair we went down to the cafe. Then we went back up, when we were getting off the chair Suzi didn't get off at the wrong time and went around the pole and the lift had to stop for her. When we had enough of it we decided to go home.

Bernice

The Day I Remember Most The day I will always remember would have been the day when my best friend Katrina and I saved a life. It all started when Katrina and I were walking across old Mr Singes farm. We weren't really supposed to because there was a notrespassing sign on his fence. But none of the other kids took any notice of it so we didn't. Katrina and I had decided to go and explore the dark creepy cave on top of the hill. None of the other kids dared go near it, they all thought it was haunted. But Katrina and I didn't believe in spooks and those sort of things. After the steep and tiring climb up the hill we had a

sit down before entering the cave. I think we had both lost a bit of courage about exploring the cave. But we knew that we couldn't come all this way and then turn back. There was no noise in the cave except for a hollow eerie scratching noise. The noise Was not very far away from us. We rounded a bend in the cave and there caught in a hunter's trap was a mother fox. We went nearer to her. She gave a deep growl. By the way she was growling I" knew she was only trying to protect her babies that were huddled behind her. Katrina put her hand in her pocket and brought out a biscuit which she fed to the mother fox. I quickly went around behind the fox and let the latch off the trap which released the fox. The mother fox seemed really friendly. She came up and just sniffed us. Then she trotted over to her pups and lay down exhausted from her big struggle in the cage. Katrina looked at her watch it was 5 o'clock. "Come on" she said "it's getting late we better start walking home." "Okay" I said. We quickly went down the hill and sprinted through the paddock with the no-trespassing sign on the fence. We didn't tell anyone about our secret and we went out and visited the mother fox and her pups often.

Rachel