What is it like to be poor?
by Zoe B
Hi, my name is Jacky and I am really rich. Once upon a time there was a girl named Jacky
who was very selfish. She would never
share with anyone else. SO one day a big
ferocious giant came down to teach Jacky a lesson. The giant roared and shouted “I will be back
to steal your gold”. The next morning
Jacky realised that they had no gold at all.
Jacky was furious. Jacky tried to
find the ferocious giant but she had no luck.
Jacky whispered to herself “Now I know what it is like to be poor”. She found the giant asn mumbled “ I have
learnt my lesson”. She woke up and
looked around. She went downstairs and
looked in the cupboard, the cupboard was as empty as her hungry stomach.
The Golden Goose by Tane
One day there was a greedy family.
They had gold and golden jewellery and stuff like that but one of the
dirtiest things was the cow. Jessie’s
mother said sell this cow! But, but, no
but Mum roared, sell it. He walked
around the neighbourhood for days and days.
One day a mysterious man said in a rumbly voice “I will trade this
golden egg for that cow”. “But it is
only one golden egg!” “This is no
ordinary golden egg boy” he rumbled. “OK
you got yourself a deal” Jessie said as the mysterious old man walked
away. But when the old man walked away
the boy was gone.
When he got home and opened the door and talked about it Mum was
furious. She threw the golden egg out of
the window. She sent Jessie to his
room. When it was morning there was a
golden goose walking around the grass.
Jessie said “I am going to meet my friend”. But he didn’t, he flew the golden goose to a
place called the forgotten world where the biggest tower. He heard a giant! He saw a hen lying there, he grabbed it. When he saw a harp lying there so he grabbed
it too and away he went but the giant threw the magic beans and slid down the
beanstalk as fast as he could. But the
giant was furious he smashed the door open and taught them a lesson, they were
never greedy again.
Sapphire and the Red,
Blue and Green Brick Path by Sophie
What’s big scary and lives down in the ground. Once up in a village there lived a girl
called Sapphire and her furious mother called Amber. They has no food and no water. They only had a very, very, very old cow and
that didn’t give any milk. One day they
had to sell the cow. Their cow was lazy
it didn’t budge. Sapphire normally goes
down the red brick path but today with the cow she went down the blue brick
path. She bumped into an old lady in the
forest. The lady said that she would
trade the cow for a magic yellow brick stair.
Sapphire went back to her cottage.
Her mother complained, she said “what is this ?”, “no time to explain”
Sapphire shouted from a distance.
Sapphire went down to the back garden and placed the magic yellow stair
on the ground. It became a staircase
down to a cave deep, deep, deep, deep in a volcano. Sapphire didn’t know that it lead to a
volcano. She walked down the stairs and
the big scary oger lived down in the ground…..aaaaaaagggggg. The oger looked like he was about to eat them
up. His eyes glared at Sapphire and her
mother’s eyes. Sapphire mumbled “we can
be friends if you let us have some of your gold because you stole all of our
gold. Please can we have some
gold?”. The furious oger muttered “I
will give you the gold only if you find me, my wife and my daughter a home on
the hillside”. So they find the oger a
home on the hillside. The happiest oger
in the world shared all his gold with the village. Sapphire and her mother had enough gold to
move to another country. They moved to
Lake Taupo.
Have you ever seen a magic door handle? One
morning Jack was playing with their only sheep. They were very poor because the King and Queen stole
all the gold. He said to the sheep, “You wait here. I’ll
go get some food for you and I.” He yelled to his mother, “Can you make some
lunch?” as he was sprinting as fast as a blink of an eye. Finally he reached in
the door. “Jack I’m afraid there is no food in the pantry,” said Jack’s mother.
“Take the sheep and go sell it for lots of food,” said Jack’s mother, so Jack
did…………… He went through the wet old town. Finally he reached the new market. “Any one want a sheep for money,” shouted Jack.
An old man said, “Here’s a package with food in it “. Jack sprinted home with
the package. He ripped the package open, there was a rusty old door handle. Jack’s
mother got a bit demented at Jack. “You sold our only sheep?” she said, in a
miserable heartbroken voice. Then Jack could hear a big pulsing thump. Jack
looked out the window. “Pass the handle,” cried Jack. He put the handle on the
ordinary wooden door. Jack opened the door, there was an elevator in there with
only 4 floors. Jack slammed number one, it had a TV and a screen. The screen
has a picture with a person holding the handle. Jack didn’t bother to do that,
he went down really extremely and at high speed. He went to the castle and
found the King and Queen. The next moment a dirty old smelly Oger came from the
roof. Jack tripped over a shiny sharp sword. He picked it up and ended up
fighting the Ogre. Jack got all the gold back. He ran to the elevator and there
was a builder in there, he made a home button and this time he listened to the
screen. He drifted home with a bruise on his thigh.
Once upon a
time lived a Mum called Amethyst and a boy named Dan. "Dan you have to sell the pig!!" said Amethyst. Dan ran to
the supermarket. Before Dan got there a
strong handsome man appeared. "Give
me that pig for these brown magic seeds" he said in a croaky voice. The man vanished with the pig. Dan sprinted home "Mum! Mum! I got
seeds." Amethyst slammed the seeds out from his hand and out the
window. "Go to bed!" shouted
Amethyst. In six hours Dan suddenly
awoke "What is that?" Dan whispered.
He looked out the window wiping his eyes. He saw a hole with stairs. I'm going to
search for anything in the hole. Crack,
crumble. "These stairs are
broken" said Dan. Finally Dan reached the bottom. Dan froze in amazement "A fiery diamond,
emerald, lava ruby Kingdom" said Dan.
He sneaked in the kingdom. Dan
heard a noise "You're in great danger" said a skeleton.. Dan heard
clip clop. Dan ran to the ruby room, he
hid behind some ruby stairs. He saw a
devil with blood red wings, blood red tail, and blood red everything. The devil got a water spell. "Blue as diamond, something sounded "Hokis
Pokis" said the devil in an evil sounding voice. It made a water ball and
one million diamonds, emeralds and rubies.
Dan swiftly went to grab the diamonds, emeralds and rubies. The devil whacked Dan with his tail and all
of the riches scattered on the ground except one. The devil was about to eat him but Dan threw
the ruby in the devils mouth. The devil
fell over. Dan jumped and grabbed the
jewelry and the spell book and ran up the stairs and the devil ran up the
stairs too. Dan was just faster than the
devil. The devil tripped on all of the
stairs. Crumble, Dan blocked the hole up.
"Dan it's good to see you" cried Amethyst. "I got a spell book and one million
jewels" exclaimed Dan. "Good
because I bought a gold, emerald, diamond, ruby and amethyst home." said Amethyst. What is happening the ground is shaking. The house shattered because of a giant devil
"Stop" shouted the devil.
"You shouldn't steal my things.
You should say please if you want to get something. So give me my stuff
back!" "We already sold it" said Dan. Dan gave the most he could back to the
devil. It went back to normal but Dan
had a Kingdom.
Jack and
Volcano
Jack and
the Big Egg
When Jack grew
up his Mum said "You have to sell our only cow." The cow was Jack's friend. "OK" said Jack sadly. When he got to the market an old lady mumbled
"I will give you an egg for the cow."
Jack didn't think that he could trust the old woman but he took the egg. When Jack got home he did not show the egg to
his Mum, he hid it under his bed. Then
Jack set out to find the materials for the nest for the egg. It was getting dark by the time he got
home. His Mum was relieved that he was
now home. "It's dinner time
Jack." called Jack's Mum. Jack was up in his dusty room. He had made the nest and had put the egg in
it. Then he went down for dinner. When he looked at the egg next, it looked a
very peculiar shape. In the morning
there was something quacking like mad!
The sound came from under his bed.
When he looked there was an adult goose.
Jack hopped on the goose. It was
clever. It opened the window and out it
shot with Jack on it's back! Jack's
mother poked her head out of the window.
She saw Jack on the giant goose and said "What in the world are you
doing?" When the goose landed, Jack
found himself on another land. He saw a
woman giant. Jack said he was poor so
she gave him 100 pounds. Jack said 'Thank
you" and swooped down on the goose.
Each day Jack went to the woman giants house and she gave him 100
pounds. One day Jack came to the giant's
house and the man giant was there. The
giant almost spotted Jack but he escaped.
Jack leapt on the goose and they flew away. Jack caught a glimpse of the man giant. He had boils on his nose, he looked
horrible! When Jack got home he saw the
window over flowing with money. Jack saw
his Mum pushing her was through the money.
She finally made it to the door and said "We can't have any more
money, we have not places to store it."
Jack had an idea. He could give 3
quarters of the money to the town and so he did. Every one said thank you.
Joseph and the Cart Ride by Cory
H
Jack and the Stormy Night by
Josina
“Mum where is the gold!” Here is a story about Jack and the stormy
night. Once there was a boy named Jack, he was rich and famous. They could even
buy a bus. He and his mother had a very happy life. The mother was so greedy
that she said, “Go sell that diamond for 100 dollars and make sure that you do
not bring back some seeds”. Jack went to the wet and crowed market. “Diamonds,
diamonds, come get some diamonds” called out Jack. Just then an old lady came
along and said “I’ll give you this golden flower for that diamond”. “OK I
guess”. Jack scrambled home. “Mum, mum guess what I got?” “What?” “It is a
flower - small, golden, strong and it makes money”. Jack’s mum was surprised,
now it looked like a rotten flower. Jack’s mum tore it out and threw it out the
window. “Do you call that golden, strong and a money maker?” “No” replied Jack
in an anxious voice. That night was stormy. There was flooding, thunder and a
horrific mess. The next day Jack woke up early to a golden flower. “What
happened?” He scrambled outside. “Where is the gold?” yelled Jack “and what is
that?” He went back inside. Jack searched high and low trying to find some glue
and rope. Finally he found some. Jack scrambled outside and climbed the sun
flower that he’d never seen before. There on the top of the cloud was a castle
and in the castle was a Queen, King and a giant. He took a look around and right
in front of Jack was his gold. He collected all the gold and scrambled down the
sun flower. When he reached the ground he chopped the flower down. Jack’s mum
woke up to a terrible fright. “Where is Jack?!!!” Jack’s mum ran around the
house screaming, “Jack, Jack, where are you?” Later that day Jack came down to
see his mother in distress. Just then his mother ran to him and whispered “Where
have you been? I was deadly worried about you”. He and his mother sat down to
talk about what he did. After a little while he and his mother felt right
asleep.
Jack and the Mysterious Sculpture by Lucas
Underwater Whale
Island By Ciara McLellan
“Oh no! There is nothing in the cupboard, what am I going to
do?” Jessica scrambled into the living room at her Mother’s complaint. “Mother,
mother what is all the fuss about?” Jessica’s mother told her about having to
sell the chicken, and Jessica screamed and said to her mother that she could
not make Jessica sell her beautiful snow white chicken that layed snow white
eggs. But she had to and the next day she set off to find someone to sell it
to.
Bang! Crash! Shocked, Jessica froze and slowly started to
turn around trying to find out where all the noise had come from. When she
turned to the East she saw an old man standing there with a black robe on. The
old man said “I will give you this magic toy whale in exchange for your
beautiful chicken”. “Oh yes please!” yelled Jessica. Jessica adored whales.
Jessica quickly took the whale off the old man’s hand and gave the man the
beautiful white chicken.
When Jessica got home her mother asked if she had got any
money and Jessica showed her mother the golden whale. “No, No, No!!!” shouted
Jessica’s mother “it may be made of gold but it is not money!” Jessica was sent
to her room without any supper and she nearly starved to death during the
night.
The next day Jessica got up and went to the kitchen to get a
crystal clear bowl of water for her golden whale! Amethysts and sapphires
filled her room along with diamonds, emeralds and rubies . A golden whale would
look good against all of her precious gems. Jessica’s mum screamed at her right
there and then while she was carrying the crystal clear water up the stairs to
her room. “Jessica, what are you doing?” Jessica didn’t answer her furious
mother and pulled the bowl up the stairs to her room.
The next day Jessica woke to a whistle like noise and she
realised that it was her golden whale! “Wow,” Jessica thought when she saw that
the whale was growing bigger and that it was making the whistle like noise. She
quickly slipped outside and staggered to the beach.
When she got to the beach she carefully tipped the whale out
of the bowl and into the sea. At that moment Jessica became under water with
the golden whale. There she saw loads of whales and then saw that they were
surrounding a bigger, much larger, whale. Then she realised that it looked like
a Queen whale! While she patted the whale she saw that there was a shark tooth
mark on the side. Quickly she swam to the Queen whale and examined the wound.
Back at home the last couple of hours worrying about the
golden whale disturbed Jessica while trying to get to sleep. She had left the
golden whale in the sea where she could visit him every day. She just couldn’t
stop worrying about him! Boy, Oh Boy! She needed some sleep.
The next morning it was pouring with rain. She didn’t even
sleep a wink! She was very tired but she still went out and walked towards the
beach in her togs, ready to swim out to sea, but nerves made bones in her body
crack and screech while she walked. She was furious with herself that she had got
out of the house without her mother knowing she was gone.
When she got to the beach she got into the ice cold sea. It
togs, she was freezing cold and thought that her feet might come off in a
clump. But luckily they didn’t! She swam into the deep part of the sea and
there she saw the path. She followed it knowing that this was the right way.
When Jessica got to the whale camp, she was exhausted and
needed a rest. Soon she was in a tip top condition and went to see how the
wounded Queen was. Jessica found the beautiful whale Queen in her coral palace.
Jessica settled into a chair and bowed to the Queen and then settled down in
the pearl chair again. After talking to the Queen she started to soothe the
wound with a piece of coral reef, then the wound finally began to close in
around her middle. When she was healed, Jessica swam up to the golden whale and
hugged him tight. Before leaving him she said her goodbyes and then swam back
to shore.
As she walked Jessica was wet, cold and tired. She just
wanted to go to sleep back in her warm and cosy bedroom.
When she got home, Jessica
quickly took off her togs, and then went running up the stairs to her room.
When Jessica got into her room,
she saw that her mother was coming up the stairs in the direction of Jessicas
room. Durn the night Jessica was dreaming happily of being a whale herself, and
they lived happily ever after.
Once there was a
boy named Jack. He lived in a cottage. Jacks mum called him over “There’s no
food” Jacks mum said “sell that cow immediately!!” So Jack went to the busy
market. On his way a wise old man stopped him and said “I’ll take the cow for
this bean” So Jack went sprinting home. He told his mum, his mum whacked the
bean out of his hand. Jacks mum complained and said “go to your bedroom”. The
next day Jacks bedroom was darker than usual. When he looked more closely a big
mysterious sculpture appeared. Somehow when his mum whacked the beans out of
his hand it must have turned the beans in to a mysterious sculpture. Jack tip
toed down the stairs. When Jack got outside he climbed but the sculpture just
shock him off. Jack said “look this mysterious sculpture is filled of different
things” When he was rubbing his eyes in terror, the mysterious sculpture said
“crack the code”. Before Jack knew it the crooked door opened so Jack carefully
walked in. Jack shot in the air like a volcano erupting. When Jack felt the
elevator stop, he got out and looked around. When Jacked looked down at the
surface he had a fear! Jack looked in front of him, there was an unusual
kingdom. Jack pounded on the door. After Jack pounded a few times someone came
out of the door and said “who’s there” in a rumbling voice. He was humongous.
Jack crept through the giants hairy legs. Jack was amazed at how rich this
giant was. The giant sat down and said “servants get me my hanglider” in a
demanding voice. The giant said “glide” the hanglider took off and had a
booming beat the made the giant go to sleep. Jack crept and crawled from his
hiding place in the hanglider. Jack got the hanglider and zoomed off the table
and down the mysterious sculpture to the surface. When Jack got back home he
scrambled to his mother. Jacks mother said “oh boy, we’re going to be rich! So
they sold the hanglider for $100 dollars and their problems were solved.
Jack and the Red and Yellow Brick Road
by Lucy
Once upon a time
there lived a mother and a son Jack. They lived in a little cottage on the hill
top. They were very poor. One day they were so poor that they had to sell their
one and only cow. So his mother sent him off. Jack usually went down the yellow
brick road but this time Jack went down the red one. Along the way he met this
mysterious old woman and she said “keep walking down this red brick road and
you will find the giants castle! In exchange give me the cow” and she vanished.
When Jack got home he said “I sold the cow” how much did you get for it?” asked
Jacks mum, “directions to the giants castle” said Jack. “What! Get to your
room!!!!!” Jack sadly stomped into his room. The next day when Jack woke up the
sun was shining on the red brick road. He leaped out of his window and skipped
all the way down the red brick road. When he got to the giants castle, Jack
pushed and pulled but the steel door just wouldn’t open. The next day the door
magically opened. BOOM!!! Went the giants footsteps “I smell the blood of
Englishman” roared the giant. Then the doors began to shut, Jack quickly
scurried in the gates. When he was in, he saw golden vases, silver sculptures
and chickens laying diamond eggs. “Wow” Jack said to himself. STOMP, STOMP, the
giant was stomping down the hall, Jack ran into the kitchen. Oops the giants wife
was in there. Jack ran into the oven, after a few hours he quickly leapt out.
“Boo” went the giant, “I’ve got ya now”. The next day Jack woke up in a pile of
rotten eggs, bananas and lots more (also known as the giant’s rubbish bin).
“Oooooowww,”Jack screamed in fear. He quickly jumped out of the rubbish bin and
ran right back to the entrance. He stole one of the golden vases, one of the
silver sculptures and one of the chickens laying diamond eggs. He quickly leapt
out of the steel gates and ran back down the red brick road. When Jack got back
home he saw his mother crying her eyes out in the window. “Mum, mum” shouted
Jack “I’m home from the giants castle and look what I bought back”. When Jack
got inside his mother fainted because of the things he had bought back from the
giants castle. They lived happily ever after.
Jason and the Poor By Ollie Gabites
Once there was a charming boy named Jason and his wicked and
despicable mother. They were so rich they owned 98 candy stores! One day
Jason’s mum (whose name was Rose) was counting money while Jason sadly thought about
the poor people. He went for a walk to cheer himself up. He hadn’t gone far
when an old man stopped him, “Hello Jason” said the crooked man. “How do you
know my name?” asked Jason surprised (but he didn’t say). Instead he gave Jason
a shiny red button and a shiny diamond ring. “Give this ring to your mother and
give this button to the poor but tell them to put it in something”. And with
those words, the old man vanished. A few days later Jason asked his mother if
he could visit the poor. “Nooooo” screeched his mother. But Jason had a plan.
“But I want to tease them” said Jason. “Sure then” said his mother because she
was cruel. Soon Jason was at the village. He gave them the button. One of the
poor people pushed the button and money poured down on the village. Yipee, the
village was so happy. When Jason got home he gave his mother the ring. She
snatched it out of Jason’s hand without saying thank you. When Jason’s mum put
the ring on she turned good.
Jack and the Golden
Beach By
Lincoln Wilson
Hey, my name is Jack. Have you ever had a beach full of gold
coins?
Once upon a time there was a boy called Jack. His mother
said, “Go sell that cow!” Then off Jack went. He saw a man in a black coat who
mumbled, “I’ll buy that cow for a magic sea shell.” “No,” said Jack, “My mum
needs a pot of sparkling gold”. “I can do better than that,” replied the man.
“This shell gives you a beach full of gold and the water is blue magic gems,”
whispered the man. “Why do I have a hard time believing you?” screamed Jack. “Weeell….. just because you should”. Jack
screamed, “I’ll take it”. So then he went home and showed his mother and she
screamed ferociously, “Where’s my gold?You fool”. She chucked it out the
window. The next morning Jack looked out the sparkly window and he saw a
crinkly beach full of gold and wonderful gems. Jack gasped, “Hoooooooooo Oh my
goodness. I love It”.
Then Jack went outside and played in the gold coins. Then he
lent 100 dollars to everyone in the village. They lived rich ever after.
