The Little Bird by Leonard Tumble

by Leonard Tumble (pen name), 11yo.

While I sit down and debate with a friend,

I quietly notice a bird around the bend,

It circles; flaps, and then it would hide,

Reappearing on the other side.

He’ll do it again, and then land on a tree

How could one ever look so free?

No matter the cause, I am extremely curious of it,

This I notice while I sit.

This mysterious bird is tiny and quaint,

The sun shadowed his details till it’s faint,

Is it sparrow, swallow, sunbird, or robin?

Somehow I know that it observes something,

Then I realised that it is watching us,

But why watch us so late in the dusk?

No matter the cause, I am extremely curious of it,

This I notice while I sit.

Then I realised that one is always by my side,

As if its only mission is to with me, bide.

From the sandy beaches to roads up and over,

Wherever I go, it always seems to hover,

As if it was a God-sent guardian,

Or just a bird flying like dandelion?

No matter the cause, I will always be curious of it,

This I notice as I sit.

How the Stick Insect was Made by Jodie T

Recently, Jodie read  Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling. Based on these stories, she wrote her own. She also wanted some of the fonts colourful. Jodie will turn 8 soon, and is still crazy about mermaids.

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A long time ago, there was a beetle that was round, green and furry. He was about the size of an acorn, and he had six thorny legs and sharp fangs. He was a predator who loved meat. 

One day he saw an elephant and thought to himself, “Mmmm, what a juicy looking animal to eat.” 

So he crept towards the elephant planning to sink his fangs into the elephant’s knee, and eat him whole. 

When he was about to bite the elephant, then “THUMP!,” the elephant stepped on him and he became flat like a squashed furry capati! The beetle became so angry, he began planning a revenge! 

That night, when the elephant was sleeping, the flat, furry beetle crept onto the elephant. He wanted to pull and bite the elephant’s long, juicy, fat ears.

While he was climbing, his thorny legs pricked the elephant’s back. The elephant woke and felt itchy and began scratching his back with his trunk. As he rolled his trunk on the itch, he was actually rolling the beetle!

“My revenge is ruined! Stop rolling me about! It’s ticklish!” screamed the beetle.

When the elephant stopped scratching with his trunk, the beetle got up and saw that now he looked thin like a stick, almost like a stick bug. So angrily he planned another revenge. 

The next day, the beetle crawled into the elephant’s trunk. He wanted to go inside the elephant’s body to control the elephant. As he crawled into the trunk he got stuck in stinky, slimy, yellow mucus! He pulled and pulled and suddenly the elephant sneezed! 

The insect shot out free, but he left his fur behind! Then he said to himself, “I am now so thin, I don’t think I can eat meat anymore. I should try leaves from now on.” And that was how the stick insect was made.

 The End. 

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Minion and Banana by Darryl Quah

Darryl, 6+ years old, who's slightly dyslexic, loves drawing. He thinks in pictures. Whenever he learns something new, he takes notes in  the form of pictures, and his stories are always told in pictures. Apart from drawing, his other hobbies include nature walks and Lego.
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Well here's a very short story by Darryl, inspired by his love of Minions and bananas, and  the book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff  - a cause and effect story, a story circle.

Hope you enjoy his story circle!